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Economic surge lifts Dow over 18K Gross domestic product

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WASHINGTON — A surge in U.S. economic growth lifted stocks Tuesday to record highs and showed that the United States is putting distance between itself and struggling economies around the world.

Fueled by hiring gains, cheaper gas and rising confidence, consumers and businesses drove growth to a sizzling 5 percent annual rate last quarter. Though the economy is likely cooling a bit, its solid pace is brightening hopes for 2015.

The economic strength could also shape the Federal Reserve’s timetable for raising interest rates

from record lows.

The government’s third and final estimate of growth for the July-September period was the strongest for any quarter in 11 years. The result cheered investors. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day up about 64 points to 18,024, the first time it’s surpassed 18,000.

In its report Tuesday, the government sharply upgraded third-quarter growth from its previous 3.9 percent estimate. Much of the increase came from consumer spending on health care and business spending on structures and software.

The economy has been ben-

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For America’s middle class, a distant recovery

Educators say charges needed to fund programs

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While serving on the Rio Rancho school board, Republican state Sen. Craig Brandt noticed the district was charging students — including Brandt’s own child — various fees for activities and academic programs.

The 2012-13 Rio Rancho school budget included about $1.3 million for these student fees, including $10,000 for summer school.

Last week, Brandt pre-filed Senate Bill 47, which would Craig Brandt prohibit districts, individual schools and charter schools from charging fees for in-school programs, classes, activities and materials that students need to earn credit toward gradelevel promotion or a diploma. Under the bill, students would only be charged for instructional materials and supplies if they lost or damaged the items.

“Our constitution is pretty clear that we have to provide a free public education, meaning we can’t charge students to attend school. If you have to take a class for credit, I don’t see how we can charge for that,” Brandt said by phone Monday. He said his research indicates that such fees vary from district to district, but “before long, you’re out $100 a student in some districts.”

Educators counter that the school fees are necessary to keep programs going, since New Mexico’s State Equalization Guarantee, which funds public schools, does not provide enough money to cover all the programs.

A worker removes a poster for The Interview last week in Atlanta.

Sony has announced it will release the film in 200 smaller theaters on Christmas Day, including the Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe.

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Downey, like many cities across the country, has a median income that has declined over the last 15 years. For a nationwide analysis of median incomes, see Page A-4. BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST

The stock market is soaring and unemployment is down, but the typical American worker remains behind, and has been for decades Editor’s note: This is the first in a series. his mouth beneath a white beard and talked about the bar that fell to

By Jim Tankersley make way for a freeway, the spaceThe Washington Post age factory that closed down and the town that is still waiting for DOWNEY, Calif. its next great economic rocket, its ne day in 1967, Bob new starship to the middle class.

Thompson sprayed foam They’ve waited more than a decade on a hunk of metal in a in Downey. They’ve tried all the cavernous factory south usual tricks to bring good-paying of Los Angeles. And then another jobs back to the 77-acre plot of day, not too long after, he sat at a dirt where once stood a factory long wood bar with a black-andthat made moon landers and, later, white television hanging over it, space shuttles. Nothing brought and he watched that hunk of metal back the good jobs. land a man on the moon. On July Those jobs aren’t coming back.

20, 1969 — the day of the landing — Not at the old North American Thompson sipped his Budweiser Rockwell plant, and not in thouand thought about all the people sands of similarly socked towns. who had ever stared at that moon.

Yes, the stock market is soaring, Kings and queens and Jesus Christ the unemployment rate is finally himself. He marveled at how when retreating after the Great Recession it came time to reach it, the job started in Downey. The bartender and the economy added 321,000 wept. jobs last month. But all that growth has done nothing to boost pay On a warm day, almost a halfcentury later, Thompson curled for the typical American worker.

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Average wages haven’t risen over the last year, after adjusting for inflation. Real household median income is still lower than it was when the recession ended.

Make no mistake: The American middle class is in trouble.

That trouble started decades ago, well before the 2008 financial crisis, and it is rooted in shifts far more complicated than the simple tax-and-spend debates that dominate economic policymaking in Washington.

It used to be that when the U.S. economy grew, workers up and down the economic ladder saw their incomes increase, too. But over the past 25 years, the economy

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The Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe is one of a small number of theaters that will be screening The Interview, a comedy about the assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, on Christmas Day, the theater announced Tuesday.

The Jean Cocteau joined other members of the independent theater network Art House Convergence last week in urging Sony Pictures Entertainment to allow them to screen The Interview following Sony’s decision to pull the film from theaters after a threatening cyberattack. The FBI late last week said it had linked the hacking to the North Korean government, and President Barack Obama said Sony’s decision shelve the film was a “mistake.”

At this point, Jean Cocteau manager Jon Bowman said, many details on the hacking of Sony and the rationale for the attack are still unknown, but the actions suggest more cyberterrorism in the future involving “fringe groups, terrorists, criminals and lunatics who insist they have the right to control what we say, do or see.

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Group: City water exchange with feds will affect Rio Grande flows

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ALBUQUERQUE — Environmentalists are crying foul over a water exchange between the federal government and the city of Santa Fe, saying the deal could compromise flows along the middle Rio Grande next spring.

The group WildEarth Guardians sent a letter to the U.S. Interior Department on Friday, saying such transactions should be transparent and that policies need to be changed to allow for the river’s flows to be better protected.

The dispute stems from an agreement reached this fall between the Bureau of Reclamation and Santa Fe. They traded water stored in Elephant Butte Reservoir in Southern New Mexico for

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The exchange on paper meant no water would physically flow down the river, and the amount secured by the bureau isn’t enough to provide for a peak flow in the spring, the group said in its letter.

“It is not likely that Reclamation will have enough water to generate even a modest peak flow in the spring of 2015,” the group wrote.

“This upcoming spring will be the sixth year without a peak flow in the middle valley, pushing endangered species further toward the brink of extinction.”

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Roberto Castellanos, 12, repairs the wheel of a bicycle ice cream cart at a bicycle repair shop in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Roberto’s calloused hands are the result of his previous job in construction. ESTEBAN FELIX/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Children at work Poverty, violence force Honduran kids into jobs

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras oberto Castellanos has the hands of a construction worker and the homework of a sixth grader.

Roberto, who just turned 12, spends eight hours a day at a repair shop, sanding and painting ice cream carts for the daily pay of $2.50 in Honduran lempiras.

When classes resume after the Christmas holidays, he says, he will cut back to five hours at the shop so that he can go to school in the afternoon and, hopefully, still have time to play soccer on the weekend.

“My life is organized. I work in the day and study at night,” Roberto says.

Wise beyond his years, Roberto says he knows that many people consider child labor to be exploitation, but he sees it as opportunity — a means to survive the gangcontrolled capital of a country with the world’s highest homicide rate.

“Here, every day that passes is another day I am alive,” Roberto says.

His view is shaped by experience, having already seen five people murdered, and is shared by friends who wish they had Roberto’s job to help support their families. The alternative, they say, is less food at home and an idleness that makes them easy prey for street gangs that control much of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.

Despite international laws prohibiting child labor child, about 144 million children between the ages of 5 and 15 go to work around the world, a majority of them in agriculture, says the International Labor Organization. In Honduras, an estimated 500,000 kids hold jobs — about 15 percent of the youth population, according to the National Institute of Statistics.

Children can be seen around Tegucigalpa picking through garbage for anything of value, filling bags of sand to sell, unloading trucks in the central market, peddling gum and cigarettes. Still others make their money by selling drugs and collecting extortion money for the gangs. Like Roberto, nearly all working children earn less than the legal minimum wage of $380 a month, as do about 40 percent of adults. Yet Roberto considers himself lucky, because he earns more than most kids he knows.

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“Children need to support their families and themselves, and escape from the gangs,” said Hector Espinal, the spokesman for UNICEF in Honduras. “You can prohibit child labor, but if the state does not take care of families, there is no option for the children but to work.”

And when a child has to choose between work and school, Espinal said, “the reality is, they pick work.”

Roberto is among the few who manage both. His friend and soccer mate, Marvin Silva, 14, passes by the shop to watch him sand the sides of the carts, without a mask against the grainy dust, and paint pieces of wood. Marvin hopes that he, too, will get hired.

“There are a lot of kids and little work,” says Marvin, who sells his mother’s tamales outside of city’s biggest high school. “I would work here if I could.”

The dusty Country Gardens neighborhood where Roberto lives and labors is neither in the country nor in sight of a public garden. It is, however, adjacent to a private golf course, and Roberto collects the hard white balls that punch through the aluminum roof of his family’s clapboard house.

Unlike many of his friends, Roberto lives with both parents — a father who works as a bricklayer’s assistant, and a mother who sells tortillas.

His parents didn’t ask Roberto to get a job, but they are proud of his hard work and appreciate his contribution to the family.

Roberto’s curved biceps and calloused hands are the result of his previous job in construction. About six months ago, Fernando Saravia gave in to Roberto’s persistent appeals and offered him a job in the workshop. After his mother checked out the shop and met the boss, Roberto accepted.

“It’s better to be here working, learning what things cost in life, than out roaming the streets with nothing to do,” Saravia says as Roberto nods in assent.

Roberto’s soccer coach, Luis Perez, understands this logic, but laments the reality facing all of the kids drawn to his soccer program from impoverished neighborhoods.

“Rich or poor, Honduran or American, life has its stages and childhood is not the time for work,” said Perez.

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NEW YORK — Rep. Michael G. Grimm, a Republican from Staten Island who was easily re-elected to his third term in Congress last month despite a pending federal indictment, pleaded guilty to tax fraud Tuesday.

A former Marine and FBI agent who first ran for office as a law-and-order corruption fighter, Grimm, 44, appeared in federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday to change his plea in the case.

“Guilty,” he told Judge Pamela Chen.

Grimm was charged in a 20-count indictment in April after an investigation by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, the Internal Revenue Service and the FBI focused on accusations of campaign finance fraud and other improprieties. The indictment charged him with underreporting wages and revenue while he ran a fast-food restaurant called Healthalicious in Manhattan. He ran the business after the FBI and before serving in Congress.

Belfast leaders strike deal DUBLIN — Northern Ireland leaders reached agreement to sustain their troubled Catholic-Protestant government Tuesday following all-night Belfast talks that reduced some negotiators to bleary-eyed exhaustion.

British Prime Minister David Cameron in London heralded a deal that became possible when his government offered an extra $3.2 billion over the coming decade to Northern Ireland.

Cameron said the financial boost, largely loans from the British Treasury, “opens the way for more prosperity, stability and economic security for Northern Ireland.”

It will allow Northern Ireland to avoid cutting welfare payments as sharply as in the rest of the United Kingdom.

France increases street security PARIS — After a string of attacks across France that have heightened concerns about Islamic militancy, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday that hundreds of additional military personnel would be ordered onto the streets to reinforce a routine deployment of security forces.

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FDA lifts ban on gay blood donors WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it would scrap a decades-old lifetime prohibition on blood donation by gay and bisexual men, a change that experts said was long overdue and could lift the annual blood supply by as much as 4 percent.

The FDA enacted the ban in 1983, early in the AIDS epidemic.

At the time, little was known about the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes the disease, and there was no quick test to determine whether somebody had it. But science — and the understanding of HIV in particular — has advanced in the intervening decades, and Tuesday the FDA acknowledged as much, lifting the lifetime ban but keeping in place a more modest block on donations by men who have had sex with other men in the past 12 months.

In a statement, the agency said it had “carefully examined and considered the scientific evidence” before changing the policy. It said it intended to issue a draft guidance detailing the change in 2015.

The shift puts the United States on par with European countries, which adjusted its lifetime ban in favor of a 12-month restriction in 2011. Men’s health advocates welcomed the move, saying that the ban was not based on the latest science.

Legal experts said the change brings an important national health policy in line with other legal and political rights, such as permitting gay individuals to marry and to serve openly in the military.

“This is a major victory for gay civil rights,” said I. Glenn Cohen, a law professor at Harvard University who specializes in bioethics and health. He said, however, that the policy was “still not rational enough.”

The Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, has calculated that the change could add about 317,000 pints of blood to the nation’s supply annually, an increase of 2 percent to 4 percent.

About 8.5 percent of U.S. men — or about 10 million people — report having had sex at least once with a man since turning 18, according to the Institute. The new policy will exclude the 3.8 percent of U.S. men who report having had a male sexual partner in the past year, a group that could double the potential new supply, the institute said.

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Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014 CANYON ROAD FAROLITO WALK: Canyon Road and neighboring streets. Annual Christmas Eve community event; featuring carolers and luminarias, begins at dusk.

AFTER THE CANYON ROAD WALK: From 6:30 to 10 p.m., after the Canyon Road walk, visit Angel’s Canyon road studio, 1035 Canyon Road for hot chocolate, cider and a bowl of chili. BYOB for stronger libations. All are welcome. Parking available one block up on Camino Delora St. PERFORMANCE SANTA FE ORCHESTRA: At The Lensic, 211 W. San Francisco St. Led by Joseph Illick; featuring young pianist and composer Emily Bear; music of Tchaikovsky and Gershwin, family concert 2 p.m., $10 per person for families with children; adults without children $25; 5 p.m. concert $27-$100, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

SANTA FE PRO MUSICA BAROQUE ENSEMBLE: Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail. Music of Telemann and Handel, and traditional carols, 6 and 8 p.m., $35 to $70, check for availability at santafepromusica.com or ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234.

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undoubtedly the main challenge of our time.”

But, seeking to reassure a jittery nation unsettled by fears of militancy linked to the jihadi campaign in Syria and Iraq, Valls said that between 200 and 300 more military personnel would be deployed.

Ukraine ups bid to join NATO KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s parliament dropped the nation’s nonaligned status Tuesday, possibly paving the way for a bid to join NATO in defiance of the Kremlin’s wishes. Russia, meanwhile, finalized a new economic alliance with other former Soviet nations it had vainly hoped Ukraine would join.

The parallel moves reflected new divisions in Europe as Russia-West ties have plummeted to their lowest point since Cold War times over the Ukrainian crisis.

The parliament in Kiev passed the bill to drop the nonaligned status in a 303-9 vote, with supporters saying it was justified by Russian aggression toward Ukraine, including the annexation of its Crimean Peninsula in March and Russian support for a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, where some 4,700 people have been killed since the spring.

The move doesn’t mean that Ukraine will apply to join NATO. But Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin told the parliament the law opens up new mechanisms “in the conditions of the current aggression against Ukraine.”

Rebels in India kill at least 34 NEW DELHI — Separatist rebels gunned down at least 34 people and wounded a dozen more in India’s remote northeast Tuesday in a series of coordinated attacks, police said.

At least 30 tribal settlers were killed in north Assam’s Sonitpur district, said S.N. Singh, a top local police officer. All those killed were Adivasis who largely work in tea gardens in the region. Four others were shot dead in the western Kokrajhar district.

Assam’s Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said rebels of a faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland were behind the massacre.

Adivasis have been targeted

by Bodo rebels in the past along with Muslim settlers in the state. The rebels accuse the federal government of exploiting the region’s rich mineral resources.

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CLAN TYNKER — THE DREAM TRAIN: Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail. Local vaudevillian circus troupe, 2 p.m., $10 to $12 in advance at brownpapertickets.com, encores Dec. 27-28.

SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE — COMMUNITY HOLIDAY SHOW: 142 E. DeVargas St., 988-4262. Music, dance, poetr, and storytelling, 4 p.m., pay-what-you-wish fundraiser.

Nightlife Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014 COWGIRL BBQ: Singer/songwriter Trevor Bahnson, 8 p.m.; no cover. 319 S. Guadalupe St., 982-2565.

LA FIESTA LOUNGE AT LA FONDA: Savor, Cuban street music, 7:30 to 11 p.m., no cover. 100 E. San Francisco St., 982-5511.

LA POSADA DE SANTA FE RESORT AND SPA: Country singer Wiley Jim, 7 p.m., call for cover. 330 E. Palace Ave., 954-9668.

PALACE RESTAURANT AND SALOON: Rocker Anthony Leon’s Christmas show, 9 p.m.

to close, call for cover. 142 W. Palace Ave., 428-0690.

TERRACOTTA WINE BISTRO: Guitarist Ramon Bermudez Jr., 6 to 9 p.m., no cover.

304 Johnson St., 989-1166.

TINY’S: Electric-jam night with Nick Wymett, 8 to 11 p.m., no cover. 1015 Pen Road, 983-9817.

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

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

FOOD FOR SANTA FE: The nonprofit needs help packing and distributing groceries at 6 and 8 a.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 471-1187 or 603-6600.

FLOWER ANGELS: Help out weekly as a Flower Angel for Presbyterian Medical Services Hospice Center; call Mary Ann Andrews at 988-2211.

ST. ELIZABETH SHELTER: Help with meal preparation at residential facilities and emergency shelters, call Rosario, 982-6611, ext. 108.

FIGHT ILLITERACY: Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe will

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train individuals willing to help adults learn to read, write and speak English; call 428-1353.

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Still, NYPD officials conceded that there also is room for improvement in how police

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Currently, if two agencies NEW YORK — After are in the same proximity, Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot his exgirlfriend and posted an online they frequently have the ability to communicate over an death threat against police, investigators in Maryland used intercom system that connects dispatch centers, said Jim modern cellphone tracking Bueermann, president of the technology to follow his jourPolice Foundation. Agencies ney to New York City in real that are farther apart or across time. state lines typically communiBut when it came to giving cate via phone, email and fax, the New York Police Department specifics about Brinsley, depending on the urgency of the situation. the means were markedly “If it’s a critical incident, it low-tech: a phone call and a all starts with a phone call,” wanted flier sent by fax.

Bueermann said. “You just That warning came too pick up the phone and you call late, sent a mere two minutes before Brinsley walked up to a someone.”

The Police Foundation patrol car and shot two officers report called for regional agendead without warning. cies to immediately upgrade Police on both ends say they took immediate and their communication systems proper measures to try to alert so officers in different departofficers about an armed and ments can talk to one another. dangerous fugitive bent on vioAccording to an official lence against law enforcement. timeline in the Brinsley epiBut the seemingly antiquated sode, Baltimore County police way they did it has raised began tracking him early Satquestions about the potential urday with precision thanks for communication lapses to to the GPS transmitter on a hamper urgent manhunts. cellphone he had stolen from Though refusing to fault his ex-girlfriend. The transhow the warning was handled, missions, or “pings,” showed Police Commissioner Wilhe was traveling northbound liam Bratton has called it “an on a bus on Interstate 95 that irony” the ambush occurred arrived in Manhattan at at a time when the NYPD has 10:49 a.m. launched a $160 million proHe then took the subway to gram to equip each member Brooklyn, where he used the of the 35,000-officer force with stolen phone to make posts a department-issued comto Instagram. One showed puter tablet or smartphone to his bloodied green shoe. The improve information-sharing. other showed his pistol. “I’m Police departments in New Putting Wings On Pigs Today York, Los Angeles, Denver and They Take 1 Of Ours…… Let’s elsewhere mostly rely on disTake 2 of Theirs #ShootThepatchers to make radio transPolice,” he wrote. missions giving descriptions At 12:07 p.m., Brinsley of suspects or fliers — copied ditched the phone near the and faxed — with mug shots Barclays Center arena and passed out at roll calls. disappeared. Baltimore County With the new system, if the police say they became aware nation’s largest police departof the Instagram postings at ment were to receive a mug about 1:30 p.m. They first tried shot of a suspect, “we could instantly send that picture and calling a precinct in Coney Island but were told to call the information to every cop on precinct in the Flatbush neightheir post no matter where borhood, and had a conversathey were,” Bratton said this tion with police there around week.

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Even if that information had Police say the flier with been received earlier, all an Brinsley’s photo was then officer sitting in a radio car faxed, at the NYPD’s request, would have received, Bratto a Brooklyn command at ton said, “was an alert on the 2:46 p.m. It warned that he description of a black male, mid-20s, that basically is mak- was in Brooklyn, armed with a semi-automatic handgun and ing threats against police offiwas saying online that “he will cers.” shoot a police officer today.”

Chief Robert Boyce, head Two minutes later, Brinsley of NYPD detectives, insisted opened fire. at the same news conference, Moments later, he commit“All things were done exactly ted suicide — likely around the the way they were supposed to do. … There was no lapse on same time the Teletype was sent to NYPD headquarters in anybody’s part.” A Baltimore Manhattan.

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Fugitives in Cuba dicey issue in U.S. Castro gave asylum to many radicals, but now their status could change with detente

By Michael Weissenstein and Curt Anderson The Associated Press

HAVANA — For decades, some of America’s most-wanted fugitives made new lives for themselves in Cuba, marrying, having children and becoming fixtures of their modest Havana neighborhoods as their cases went mostly forgotten at home.

Granted political asylum by former President Fidel Castro, they became players in his government’s outreach to American minorities and leftists, giving talks about Cuba’s merits to sympathetic visitors, medical students and reporters from the U.S. Last week’s stunning reconciliation between the U.S. and Cuba has returned these graying relics of the Cold War to the headlines, transforming them into a potential source of tension in the new era of detente between the two nations.

The dozens of men and woman wanted by the U.S. range from quotidian Medicaid fraud suspects to black militants and Puerto Rican nationalists with major bounties on their heads. They include Joanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. Now known as Assata Shakur, she was convicted in 1977 of killing a New Jersey state trooper and was sentenced to life in prison. She escaped, and wound up in Cuba in the 1980s. Like other fugitives with political asylum here, she was living so openly in Havana that her number was listed in the phone book.

“I came and it was like a whole new world,” she told the director of a 1997 documentary. “This is one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen in my life. Everything is so lush, so green, so ripe.”

Life for Shakur changed as U.S. authorities raised the price on her head. The reward offered by the FBI and the New Jersey State Police for information leading to her capture now stands at $2 million and members of the once close-knit community of black militants living in Cuba say their only contact with Shakur these days is an occasional unexpected phone call.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, is urging President Barack Obama to demand Shakur’s return before restoring full relations with Cuba, saying, “These thugs in Cuba have given her political asylum for 30 years. It’s unacceptable.”

Joanne Chesimard, now known as Assata Shakur, was convicted in 1977 of killing a New Jersey state trooper four years earlier. She was sentenced to life in prison but escaped. She wound up in Cuba. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

U.S. citizen William Potts Jr. walks with his wife, Aime Quesada, in 2013 in Cuba.

He hijacked a plane en route from New York to Miami, then served 13 years in Combinado del Este Prison near Havana.

The Obama administration says it will push for return of the fugitives, but Cuba made clear Monday that extraditing Shakur and others with political asylum was off the table. “Every nation has sovereign and legitimate rights to grant political asylum to people it considers to have been persecuted,” the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s head of North American affairs, Josefina Vidal, said. She noted that the U.S. has repeatedly refused to return suspects wanted in Cuba for crimes including murder, kidnapping and terrorism.

The most infuriating for Cubans is the case of Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted

by Venezuela and Cuba for alleged involvement in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, one of the worst terror attacks in the Western Hemisphere prior to Sept. 11, 2001.

Posada Carriles has been living in the United States since 2005, and U.S. officials have steadfastly refused to turn him over.

Another FBI most-wanted fugitive, Victor Manuel Gerena, has been on the Top 10 list since 1984 and long suspected of living in Cuba. Gerena is accused of playing the key role in a 1983 Connecticut armored car depot robbery that netted about $7 million, at the time the largest cash heist in U.S. history. Other fugitives included culprits in a wave of air hijackings in the 1970s and ’80s.

Many were jailed but allowed to remain in Cuba after serving their time.

Among them was William Potts Jr., a self-styled black militant who hijacked a Piedmont Airlines flight en route from New York to Miami and said he thought he’d be welcomed as a hero. Instead, he served 13 years in prison.

After his release, Potts married a Cuban university professor, had two children and lived in a modest apartment east of Havana until he sent his children to the U.S., declared himself homesick for the U.S. and returned home voluntarily.

He was sentenced in July to 20 years in U.S. prison but will be eligible for early release in acknowledgement of the years he spent behind bars in Cuba.

Cuba has recently returned more people accused of committing crimes in the U.S. without political overtones.

Last year, the Cubans refused asylum to a Florida couple accused of kidnapping their children from their grandparents and sailing to Havana. In 2008, Cuba deported Leonard Auerbach to face charges in California that he had sexually abused a young Costa Rican girl.

David S. Weinstein, a former Miami federal prosecutor now in private practice, said that without an extradition treaty, U.S. authorities must depend on Cuba to simply refuse entry to fugitives or kick them out.

“Right now it’s more of an expulsion,” Weinstein said. “The Cubans say, ‘You’re persona non grata. Get out of our country.’ ”

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Most Americans’best days are behind them Median household income peaked at least 15 years ago in 81 percent of U.S. counties.

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Middle: In new reality, smaller share prosper Continued from Page A-1 has grown 83 percent, after adjusting for inflation — and the typical family’s income hasn’t budged. In that time, corporate profits doubled as a share of the economy. Workers today produce nearly twice as many goods and services per hour on the job as they did in 1989, but as a group, they get less of the nation’s economic pie. In 81 percent of America’s counties, the median income is lower today than it was 15 years ago.

In this new reality, a smaller share of Americans enjoy the fruits of an expanding economy. This isn’t a fluke of the past few years — it’s woven into the very structure of the economy. And even though Republicans and Democrats keep promising to help the middle class reclaim the prosperity it grew accustomed to after World War II, their prescriptions aren’t working.

From the Great Depression through the 1980s, American recessions and recoveries followed a pattern: Employers shed jobs when the economy turned south but added them back quickly once it recovered. That changed in the early 1990s and worsened through the 2000s. Jobs came back more slowly, if at all. Even before the 2008 crisis, the 2000s were on track to be the weakest decade for job creation since the Labor Department started tracking the statistics.

The great mystery: What happened? Why did the economy stop boosting ordinary Americans in the way it once did?

The answer is complicated, and it’s the reason why tax cuts, stimulus spending and rock-bottom interest rates haven’t jolted the middle class back to its postwar prosperity.

Downey illustrates the nation’s struggle to resurrect that shared prosperity, and it reminds us what the economy has lost.

Today, Bob Thompson’s rise to the middle class sounds like something from an old movie.

He graduated from Downey High School, served a tour in the Army and returned to his hometown to work odd jobs. The Rockwell plant loomed nearby, on a former orchard plot where town leaders once hoped to build Dodger Stadium.

Thompson remembers the day the plant hired him — Aug. 4, 1965 — and his starting pay at his union job — $2.59 an hour — which was nearly double the minimum wage in California at the time. The week he got the job, Thompson drove down to Bill’s TV Shop and bought a new Quasar console, the first color set of his life, for $300. He was filling out the credit application when the salesclerk in the store asked where he worked. The plant, Thompson told him. The clerk waved away the paperwork. He knew he’d be good for the money.

“I thought I was a king,” Thompson said.

He started off running blueprints from one end of the factory to the other. Then he worked his way up to plastics fabricator, foam sprayer, shipper of replacement parts between plants. Sometimes when the economy dipped or contracts dried up, he lost his job; the company always found him maintenance work or something else to help him get by until times improved and he got back to the plant. When he retired from the company in 2007, Thompson was making $24.95 an hour. He draws a sweeter pension than almost any worker starting out today could hope to receive.

Thompson’s rise mirrored the plant’s, which mirrored Downey’s, which mirrored Southern California’s, which mirrored America’s. North American won the Apollo contract in 1961 and ramped up to 25,000 workers, including production grunts, accountants and engineers. A lot of them bought houses in Downey, big adobe split-levels with lush green lawns. The easiest way to tell an assembly worker’s house from the top manager’s was to watch how often the Cadillac in the driveway gave

Bob Thompson, president of the Downey Historical Society in Downey, Calif., recalls the changes during his career.

Thompson says the employment opportunities he experienced no longer exist in Downey. BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST

way to a new one. When Rockwell won another huge contract, for the space shuttle in 1972, one of the top engineers handed the keys to his pickup truck to a younger worker. He told him to fill the bed with ice and Champagne. Then he told another man to call a local restaurant and inform them that Rockwell would be taking the place over for at least the next 24 hours.

By 1990, there were nearly 200,000 aerospace workers in Los Angeles County alone, and the local median income had risen almost 20 percent since 1970, after adjusting for inflation. Then things cratered. The Cold War ended, and defense cuts starved the industry. More than half the county’s aerospace workers lost their jobs over the next decade, and when they found new ones, they weren’t nearly as good. The county’s median income fell more than 10 percent — and stayed there.

The Rockwell plant shed workers steadily, was bought by Boeing and eventually closed in 1999. Thompson was lucky to find work at a different Rockwell site in Southern California; Downey was unluckily left with several hundred thousand square feet of factory space and a 25,000-job hole in its economy. The city manager vowed that not just anything would take its place. Downey would hold out for companies that paid people well enough to buy houses in town.

While Downey waited, the U.S. economy hurtled into a new and unwelcome frontier of its own. Jobs were slow to appear after the 1990 recession ended, even when growth sped up. The late-’90s tech bubble brought a shower of jobs and wealth, but when the bubble burst, all the gains were wiped out — except the ones for the wealthiest people in the country. The same was true for the housing bubble of the 2000s.

The first decade of the 21st century produced two recessions and two “jobless recoveries,” and when it was over, the vast majority of Americans found themselves no better off than they were a quarter-century ago. Median income kept falling for

several years, even after the Great Recession ended.

That was especially true in Downey, where city leaders tried and failed, again and again, to lure good-paying jobs to the cavernous old Rockwell plant. They were going to make electric golf carts, and they were going to build houses and shops, but both fell through. They briefly filmed some blockbuster movies, but the studio went bust and never employed many locals anyway. By 2010, the only people working in the former plant were a pair of historians, cataloguing its aerospace past.

Finally, the wait appeared to be over. On May 20, 2010, Downey’s leaders huddled before a special afternoon city council meeting. They were set to approve a deal with Tesla, the pioneering electric car company, to manufacture its roadsters in the old Rockwell plant. They’d secured a multimillion-dollar federal loan to overhaul the equipment and become the lowest-emission car factory in the world.

They’d drafted a lease. They’d reached what they believed was an oral agreement with Tesla Chairman Elon Musk. They would announce the deal in a news conference the next day. The new plant would move in next to a shopping center with a Best Buy, a space museum and a new stateof-the-art Kaiser hospital. It was going to bring a couple of thousand jobs.

Then the phone rang.

A wire service reporter in Sacramento said Tesla was planning a news conference that afternoon in Northern California. It was going to build its cars there instead.

The company promised wages would start at $16 an hour, plus benefits.

Downey would need to wait some more.

This is America’s story, too: It has waited decades for middle-class jobs to come back, through a loop cycle of political bickering, to no avail.

In Downey, city officials had finally waited long enough. They bulldozed their old economic engine. A developer crushed the Rockwell factory and left it in piles.

Construction has begun on a second shopping mall. The mall will create a thousand or so jobs, but they almost certainly won’t pay anything close to what Bob Thompson made starting out at Rockwell.

In Downey today, “we have a lot of restaurants,” Thompson said. “There’s a lot of minimum wage. People take those jobs.”

Thompson now runs the Downey Historical Society, a dimly lit relic stuffed with space memorabilia. He sat in his office, amid model rockets and black-and-white posters of prop planes, next to a playground called Apollo Park. His wistfulness faded, and he turned, instead, to hope — hope that his country would reclaim its past glory, if not economically then at least astronomically.

I believe, he said, that Americans will walk on Mars someday.

He’s just not sure how they’ll get there.

This Library of Congress photo shows the former Rockwell International NASA Industrial Facility in Downey, Calif. The town has never recovered from the jobs lost when the factory closed.

efiting from sinking energy prices, which have helped keep overall inflation ultralow. Gas prices have fallen for 88 straight days, according to AAA, the longest consecutive decline on record.

Cheaper gas has acted like a tax cut to free up money for Americans to spend on other items, including cars, clothes and appliances.

Last quarter’s growth was the fastest since summer 2003, and it followed a 4.6 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter. The government separately reported Tuesday that in November, consumer spending rose the most in three months and income by the most in five months. Both figures brightened hopes for the 2015 economy.

“After four years of rocky recovery the U.S. economy is now hitting its stride with a notable acceleration in growth,” said Gus Faucher, senior economist at PNC Financial Services Group.

“Growth should remain good next year, with lower gasoline prices a big plus for consumers.”

Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said he now expects healthy consumer spending to fuel economic growth of 2.6 percent in the current October-December period.

And Guatieri foresees solid growth of 3.1 percent next year. That would be the best performance since the economy grew 3.3 percent in 2005, two years before the Great Recession began.

Since the recession officially ended in June 2009, the economy has struggled to regain full health. Five years of growth have averaged an anemic 2.2 percent.

Tuesday’s figures are sure to be closely studied by the Fed. Last week, the Fed ended a policy meeting by saying it would be “patient” in deciding when to raise rates because the economy wasn’t yet fully healthy.

Many investors concluded that no rate hike was likely before mid-2015 at the earliest, and they drove stocks to record highs.

Unexpectedly strong expansion, though, could escalate pressure on the Fed to raise rates, even though inflation remains well below its 2 percent target. One reason the Fed has kept its benchmark short-term rate near zero since 2008 has been to try to lift inflation from excessively low levels.

The government’s figures Tuesday showed that the

inflation gauge the Fed most closely watches has risen just 1.2 percent over the past 12 months. Partly as a result, few analysts think Tuesday’s figures will prompt the Fed to raise rates in early 2015.

“We don’t see the Fed moving before June,” said Dough Handler, chief economist at IHS Global Insight.

And when the Fed does begin raising rates, Handler and others think the increases will be gradual and have only a slight effect on growth.

Also on Tuesday, the University of Michigan said its index of consumer sentiment found that U.S. consumers were more optimistic about the economy than at any other point in the past eight years, buoyed by more jobs and falling gas prices.

Two other reports Tuesday were more cautionary: The government said sales of new homes fell in November, evidence that job gains have yet to boost the housing sector. And it said factory orders for longlasting manufactured goods slumped last month.

Still, the overall U.S. economy is showing resurgent strength and separating itself from others around the world. Europe is struggling to grow. So is Brazil. Japan has slid into recession. China is straining to manage a slowdown. Russia envisions a recession next year.

Many economists think U.S. growth will continue to strengthen as more businesses grow confident enough to hire. The country is on track to have its healthiest year for job growth since 1999. In November, employers added 321,000 jobs, the sharpest one-month increase in three years.

With more people working and having money to spend, solid gains are expected in consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy.

For the third quarter, consumer spending grew at a 3.2 percent annual rate, the best showing this year and a full percentage point above the government’s estimate a month ago. The upward revision was driven by higher spending on health care.

Business investment spending rose at a 7.2 percent annual rate, 2.1 percentage points above the government’s previous estimate.

Much of the new strength came from investment in structures and computer software.

Fees: Charter schools may take hit Continued from Page A-1 “There’s no alternative funding source for many of these fees,” said Joe Guillen, executive director of the New Mexico School Boards Association. “That means many of these programs — including summer school, fine arts and physical education, would have to be cut back if this bill is enacted.”

In some districts, the bill would have little impact on programs. For instance, Guillen said, the Española public school system only included about $560 in such fees in its 2012-13 budget and wouldn’t be severely affected. But for Los Alamos Public Schools, that figure is closer to about $18,000.

The hit would be even tougher for larger districts, including Albuquerque and Rio Rancho, both of which have more than $1 million in such fees in their budgets.

TJ Parks, superintendent of Hobbs Municipal Schools and head of the New Mexico School Superintendents’ Association, said by phone Tuesday that districts do not want to push activity fees on families. “In most cases, those fees are imposed for

the survival of those specific programs, whatever they may be,” he said. “Most of us agree that we don’t enjoy charging fees, but the other side of the coin is, if you don’t charge some of those fees, you may have to cut some of those programs.”

Charter schools could be impacted, too. In Santa Fe, the Academy for Technology and the Classics, a charter middle and high school, charges an annual flat activity fee of $150 that covers an array of programs, including the cost of prom and the graduation ceremony, according to Principal Susan Lumley. Though Lumley had not read Brandt’s bill, she said it’s possible it could impact some of ATC’s inschool programs, including music education. She said the activity money covers the costs of music uniforms and travel for competitions and performances.

Several states, including California and Idaho, have found themselves embroiled in court cases over fees for public school students.

Contact Robert Nott at 9863021 or rnott@sfnewmexican. com.

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than 200 independent and smallchain theaters Thursday, the “As a movie theater, we are day it was originally set for wide not just involved in the enterrelease. Sony officials aren’t comtainment business. We are menting on whether the film will involved in the First Amendbe released to video on demand. ment business, protecting our Obama, one of the loudest freedoms,” Bowman said. critics of the film’s shelving, Moreover, Bowman said, hailed Sony’s reversal. author George R.R. Martin, who “The president applauds bought the theater last year, Sony’s decision to authorize “feels strongly about the First screenings of the film,” said Amendment and the idea of art- Obama spokesman Eric Schultz. ists having the ability to speak “As the president made clear, we their minds and not having to are a country that believes in free worry about being targets.” speech, and the right of artistic Bowman said he began talking expression. The decision made to Sony a week or so ago after

by Sony and participating thethe large chains decided against aters allows people to make their showing the movie, which stars own choices about the film, and Seth Rogen and James Franco. we welcome that outcome.”

“We’re filling the breach,” BowRogen, who stars in the man said Tuesday, minutes after film he co-directed with Evan learning that the Jean Cocteau Goldberg, made his first public would be among the theaters to comments Tuesday in a surreal screen The Interview. ordeal that began with hackers He said the FBI has been noti- leaking Sony executives’ emails fied about which theaters will be and culminated in an ongoing showing the film, but he doesn’t confrontation between the U.S. expect any problems at the and North Korea.

Santa Fe venue. The cinema will “The people have spoken! be taking precautions, however. Freedom has prevailed! Sony For example, it will not allow didn’t give up!” Rogen said on moviegoers to bring backpacks Twitter. and large bags into the theater.

“VICTORY!!!!!!!” said Franco, The local theater will show the who co-stars in the film. “The movie four times on Christmas PEOPLE and THE PRESIDENT Day — at 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m. have spoken.”

After that, it will continue to play North Korea’s Internet was the film for a week or two, Bow- shut down in an apparent attack man said. He expects the theater Monday, and continued to be to offer a matinee and 10 p.m. roiled by intermittent outages showings of the film around pre- Tuesday. That followed Obama’s viously scheduled movie times. vow of a response to what he But moviegoers should check called North Korea’s “cyber with the theater or its website vandalism” of Sony. The White (www.jeancocteaucinema.com) House and State Department when making plans. have declined to say whether the “We are not dropping anyU.S. government was responsible thing. We will honor our comfor North Korea’s outages. mitments to other distributors,” Releasing The Interview could Bowman said. potentially cause a response The ticket prices will be the from the hackers, who called same as for regular showings: themselves the Guardians of $10 in the evening for adults; Peace. There have been none of $8 for students and seniors. the embarrassing data leaks of For Sony, the decision to Sony emails since the movie’s release the film was the culmina- release was delayed. In a mestion of a gradual about-face: After sage last week to the studio, the initially saying it had no plans to hackers said Sony’s data would release the movie, the company be safe so long as the film was began softening its position after never distributed. it was broadly criticized.

The Associated Press contribThe film is set to open in more uted to this report.

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Exchange: Group seeks transparency Continued from Page A-1 ing management options for meeting the needs of all water users and species, but operations are bound by federal and state law, including reservoir authorizations and interstate water compacts.

“Reclamation is highly dependent upon the cooperation of multiple partners in the middle Rio Grande and cannot provide flows for environmental purposes without substantial coordination,” the agency said in a statement.

Mountain ranges across Northern New Mexico and southern Colorado — the headwaters of the Rio Grande — have received little meaningful snow in recent years. That dismal snowpack combined with warmer temperatures have resulted in less spring runoff and less water finding its way to the Rio Grande.

Environmentalists have been fighting to keep the river flowing to benefit the endangered silvery minnow and other species.

In 2013, the bureau brokered a deal with the AlbuquerqueBernalillo County Water Utility Authority to exchange and carry over water that was stored in El Vado. Rather than releasing the water in December like usual, officials saved it and released it in the spring to help mimic the river’s peak flows. Officials were unable to reach a similar agreement this year.

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By Justin Gillis that scientists believe is more The New York Times rapid now than in any similar period of geologic history.

LA VIRGEN, Costa Rica Though the higher tem— Over just a few decades peratures are causing extensive in the mid-20th century, this problems, including heat waves small country chopped down a and rising seas, the increasing majority of its ancient forests. carbon dioxide also acts as a But after a huge conservasort of plant fertilizer. The gas tion push and a wave of forest is the primary source of the regrowth, trees now blanket carbon that plants, using the more than half of Costa Rica.

A monkey scrambles across a rope bridge over the Puerto energy of sunlight, turn into Far to the south, the Amazon Viejo river in the La Selva Biological Station, a research outsugars and woody tissue. forest was once being quickly post some 60 miles north of San Jose, Costa Rica. Part of this Scientific reports suggest cleared to make way for farmland was cattle pasture land less than 45 years ago, and the that 20 to 25 percent of the return of the forest is part of a growing push to halt and evening, but Brazil has slowed the carbon dioxide that people are tually reverse deforestation. ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS/THE NEW YORK TIMES loss so much that it has done pumping into the air is being more than any other country to absorbed by trees and other limit the emissions leading to wake up to this issue, and to Nelson, work for an American plants, which keep taking up global warming. apply real solutions.” scientist, Robin Chazdon, help- more and more even as human And on the other side of the Still, Greenpeace and other ing her chronicle a comeback. emissions keep rising. world, in Indonesia, bold new groups expect years of hard Cuatro Rios, the forest they But when people damage or promises have been made in work as they try to hold business were standing in, looked, to a destroy forests, that puts carthe past few months to halt the leaders and politicians account- casual eye, as if it must have bon dioxide into the air, worsrampant cutting of that counable for the torrent of promises been there forever. In fact, the ening the warming problem. try’s forests, backed by business they have made. The momenland was a cattle pasture only 45 Scientists concluded decades interests with the clout to make tum to slow or halt deforestayears ago. When the market for ago that deforestation must be it happen. tion is fragile, for many reasons. beef fell, the owners let the forstopped, both to limit climate In the battle to limit the risks Around the world, trees are est reclaim it. Now the Cuatro change and to conserve the of climate change, it has been often cut down to make room Rios forest, near the tiny village world’s biological diversity. clear for decades that focusing for farming, and so the single These days, they are also comon the world’s immense tropical biggest threat to forests remains of La Virgen, is a study plot for Chazdon, an ecologist from the ing to understand the huge forests — saving the ones that the need to feed growing popuUniversity of Connecticut, who potential of new or recovering are left, and perhaps letting new lations, particularly an expandhas become a leading voice in forests to help pull dangerous ones grow — is the single most ing global middle class with arguing that large-scale foremissions out of the air. promising near-term strategy. the means to eat better. Saving est regrowth can help to solve “Every time I hear about a That is because of the large forests, if it can be done, will some of the world’s problems. government program that is role that forests play in what require producing food much For the entire geologic hisgoing to spend billions of dollars is called the carbon cycle of more intensively, on less land. tory of the Earth, carbon in on some carbon capture and the planet. Trees pull the main various forms has flowed storage program, I just laugh greenhouse gas, carbon dioxA remarkable rally between the ground, the air and think, what is wrong with a ide, out of the air and lock the Deep inside a Costa Rican and the ocean. A large body of tree?” said Nigel Sizer, director carbon away in their wood rain forest, white-faced capuscientific evidence shows that of forest programs at the World and in the soil beneath them. chin monkeys leapt through the amount of carbon in the air Resources Institute, a think tank Destroying them, typically by the tree tops. Nunbirds and at any given time, in the form of in Washington. “All you have to burning, pumps much of the toucans flew overhead, and a carbon dioxide, largely deterdo is look out the window, and carbon back into the air, conhuge butterfly, flashing wings mines the planet’s temperature. the answer is there.” tributing to climate change. of an iridescent blue, fluttered Over time, humans have through the air. cut down or damaged at least Ignoring the profusion of life three-quarters of the world’s around him, Bernal Paniagua forests, and that destruction Authorized Dealer for And Introducing Guerrero focused his gaze on has accounted for much of the a single 20-foot tree, placing a excess carbon that is warming tape measure around the trunk the planet.

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From AccuWeather, we send you this greeting: Happy Holidays to all and we hope it is not sleeting! We trust that jolly old St. Nick will plan the best route that he can pick.

Denver or New York City average Q: Does more precipitation each year?

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MIAMI BEACH rgentine developer Alan Faena recently listed the most expensive condo in this city’s history at $55 million. The Mid Beach penthouse features a private elevator, an infinity pool, an uninterrupted view of the Atlantic.

The catch: The tower stands on what scientists call one of America’s most vulnerable floodplains.

But Miami Beach needs this penthouse — and many more like it. The more developers build here, the more taxes and fees the city collects to fund a $300 million stormwater project to defend the shore against the rising sea. Approval of these luxury homes on what environmentalists warn is global warming quicksand amounts to a high-stakes bet that Miami Beach can, essentially, out-build climate change and protect its $27 billion worth of real estate.

The move makes budgetary sense in a state with no income tax: Much of South Florida’s public infrastructure is supported by property taxes.

The penthouse and the 46 other luxury condos in “Faena House” have sold out, months before the building is scheduled to open, the developer’s team said. Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine declared Faena, who designed shirts before towers, “a genius and a visionary.”

Critics question the wisdom of turning high-end properties into climate armor. Existing development already overstresses Miami Beach’s infrastructure, built decades before sea level worried researchers, Florida State University climatologist David Zierden said.

“When you consider current hurricane threats, and the sea level rise that could erode these properties … common sense says no, you shouldn’t do it.”

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City is building condos to pay for protection against the rising sea

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The following water statistics of December 19 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 0.000 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 5.817 City Wells: 0.000 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 5.817 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.083 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 12.3 percent of capacity; daily inflow 1.03 million gallons.

A partial list of the City of Santa Fe’s Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: • Irrigation water leaving the intended area is not permitted. Wasting water is not allowed.

• Using water to clean hard surfaces with a hose or power washer is prohibited.

• Hoses used in manual car washing MUST be equipped with a positive shut-off nozzle.

• Swimming pools and spas must be covered when not in use.

For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/waterconservation

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Miami’s South Beach has massive developments in progress. Environmentalists warn about global warming, while Miami Beach makes a high-stakes bet that it can out-build climate change. CHARLES OMMANNEY/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

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Severe weather could snarl holiday travel

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6 p.m. on TBS and TNT Movie: A Christmas Story Peter Billingsley stars in this 1983 comedy as the little boy who yearns to find a Red Ryder BB gun under the Christmas tree. Jean Shepherd’s writing captures the workings of a youthful mind perfectly. Darren McGavin also stars in this holiday favorite.

7 p.m. on CW Movie: Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol Mr. Magoo is the nearsighted star of this hourlong, animated 1962 adaptation of the Dickens holiday classic, which boasts a Broadway-caliber score by Funny Girl team Jule Styne and Bob Merrill. Songs include “Ringle Ringle,” “Winter Was Warm,” “I’m All Alone in the World” and “(We’ll Have) The Lord’s Bright Blessing.” Voice talent includes Jim Backus, Jack Cassidy, Royal Dano, Morey Amsterdam and Jane Kean.

7:30 p.m. on ABC The Goldbergs Murray (Jeff Garlin) is dreading a Thanksgiving visit from Marvin (Dan Fogler), his brother, who always stresses the family out on holidays in “Stop Arguing and Start Thanking.” Wendi

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Lakes region on Christmas Eve, including up to 3 inches in the Chicago area. Officials at both CHICAGO — A wintry mix airport hubs in the nation’s of Gulf Coast thunderstorms third-largest city readied for expected to travel north, prethe potential of holiday delays dicted snowfall in the Great and cancellations. “I’d be nerLakes and blustery conditions vous about the possibility of in the nation’s midsection not being able to get out,” said threatened Tuesday to snag Chicago area meteorologist holiday travel plans nationwide. Charles Mott.

While snow fell in some About 4.2 million passengers Midwestern states Tuesday — are expected through O’Hare nearly 2 feet in South Dakota’s and Midway international airBlack Hills — a strong storm ports during an 18-day holiday system expected to drop rain travel period ending Jan. 6, said along the East Coast and snow Chicago Aviation Department from Missouri to Michigan spokeswoman Karen Pride. developed in Mississippi, Elsewhere, a blast of cold Georgia and Louisiana, among and snowy conditions affected other southern states. The travel Tuesday.

National Weather Service, In eastern Colorado, Interwhich issued tornado and flash state 70 was shut down into flood watches for portions of Kansas because of strong the Gulf region, said there was winds and blowing snow. a potential for hail and tornaParts of western South does.

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McLendon-Covey, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile and Hayley Orrantia also star.

8 p.m. on PBS NOVA In “Building the Great Cathedrals,” filmmakers take viewers on a breathtaking journey inside some of these jewels of Gothic architecture, pictured, and reveal how builders in the Middle Ages were able to construct edifices of such dizzying heights using only simple hand tools.

8:31 p.m. on ABC blackish Rainbow and Dre (Tracee Ellis Ross, Anthony Anderson) agree that they no longer will spank their children, but when Jack (Miles Brown) disobeys his parents, the kids all wonder whether their folks will reverse that decision in “Crime and Punishment.”

Laurence Fishburne also stars. Two other episodes follow immediately.

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By 2020, Miami Beach plans to complete 80 new storm pumps that will collect and banish up to 14,000 gallons of seawater per minute back into Biscayne Bay. Construction started in February. The goal is to reduce sunny day flooding — which frequently invades streets at high tide whether or not it is raining — and prepare the community for future ocean swell.

“We’re showing the world, the investment community — what we do works,” Levine said. “That brings calm, comfort and security to everyone.”

The $300 million project is ambitious for a city with a $502 million annual budget.

A new stormwater utility fee on homeowners, hotels and stores helped Miami Beach save enough money to borrow the first $100 million.

President Barack Obama’s National Climate Assessment report, released earlier this year, identified Miami as especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Beaches are already receding. To compound the problem: Hurricanes may gain strength, researchers predict, and strike more often as aver-

age annual temperatures in the southeast heat as much as nine degrees.

Meanwhile, Miami Beach keeps growing. Last year, the city collected $128 million in property taxes, an increase from $117 million in 2013 and $114 million in 2012. Thirtytwo new condo towers have been proposed since 2011, said Peter Zalewski, founder of condo consulting site CraneSpotters.com. Twelve are currently under construction.

The average asking price for resale condos, he said, is about $1.1 million.

Foreign investors fueled nearly one-third of real estate transactions last year in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, according to a National Association of Realtors report. Eighty-one percent paid cash, the report found, and 72 percent bought a condo or townhouse.

Next March, Miami Beach turns 100. The city will throw a concert on the beach called The Miami Beach Centennial Climate Change Concert.

Land for sale As the city works to save the land, real estate broker Darin Tansey has no problem selling it. He juggles 50 clients at a time. He wears a $25,000 Audemars Piguet watch. He drives a black Porsche Carrera.

“We’re in a strong economy now because we have cash coming into South Florida,” said Tansey, a vice president of Douglas Elliman, a real estate firm. “There’s capital coming in from all over the world.

Construction costs are way up. New buildings are coming in. People are looking for the homes of their dreams.”

Most of Tansey’s clients are foreign buyers who pay with cash, up to 80 percent.

They’ve noticed the sunny day flooding on Miami Beach.

They’re heard warnings of catastrophe. Some ask him: Will it cause harm?

“Is this something that could happen in the next 100 years?” said Tansey. “It could happen. But it could not happen.”

Saltwater Across the island, saltwater swells up street grates. High tide pools below the tires of a silver Audi. Construction workers step over it without glancing down. A seven-story banner drapes down the old Versailles Hotel, announcing plans by Faena, the Argentine developer, to work architectural magic: Urban Alchemy.

Faena purchased this fading tower and six blocks of Collins Avenue for more than a $1 billion to create a new neighborhood called Faena District Miami Beach. He hired Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann to design oceanfront penthouses. Faena considers the rose his symbol, a promise to grow something beautiful. He works in a nearby office, overseeing construction between flights to Buenos Aires, where his first luxury community opened 10 years ago.

Climate change, Faena said, “is a concern of mine.” The parking garage under Faena House was engineered specifically to keep the water out.

Absorbent green space will connect the hotels, condo towers, shops and arts center. A garden will bloom.

And Miami Beach will keep adding storm pumps, supported by the island’s urban alchemy.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

OPINIONS

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

COMMENTARY: COLBERT I. KING

Santa: Who’s been naughty or nice?

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e’s making a list, checking it twice, going to find out who’s naughty or nice …”

Santa Claus does not, of course, need any help in deciding among the deserving and undeserving this holiday season. But with Christmas only days away and the North Pole toy shop backed up with orders, here are, in the spirit of the season, a few suggestions to help St. Nick complete his lists so he and his reindeer can get on their way, and on time.

Naughty: Elizabeth Lauten, the Republican congressional communications director who dissed Sasha and Malia Obama for their clothes and facial expressions during the president’s pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey.

Nice: The nation’s beautiful first daughters, who handle their unsought duties with grace, dignity and a maturity found lacking in many twice their ages.

Naughty: The 63.6 percent of Americans in our democracy who didn’t vote in 2014.

Nice: The 36.4 percent who chose to exercise that precious and fundamental right.

Naughty (worse than that): Police officers in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island whose actions made sure a Missouri teenager, a 12-year-old Ohio boy with an air pistol and a New York father won’t be home — or anywhere else on this Earth — on Christmas Day. Nice: My multiracial neighbors and hundreds like them who lined Washington’s 16th Street NW from the White House to Silver Spring, Md., in a candlelight vigil for justice for all people, including the victims who were united — as were the cops — by the color of their skin.

Naughty: The Ferguson protesters who resorted to vandalism and looting.

Nice: The Ferguson demonstrators who exercised their First Amendment rights within the law.

Naughty: The Beta Sigma chapter of the Delta Gamma sorority at the University of Maryland, which posted

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Ray Rivera Editor

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To a safer, well-lit walk

D a photo featuring a sorority member posing with an alcohol-bottle and cupcakeladen 21st-birthday cake that, according to local WTTG-TV (Channel 5), included the “N” word and “a sexual act that is performed on an African American man.” Ouch.

Naughty is not the word for the behavior of these flowers of America’s future.

Nice: The Howard University students who staged a powerful protest, which included their hands outstretched in a “Don’t Shoot” pose.

Naughty: The black offenders who make crime a serious problem in African American communities.

Nice: The African American cops, prosecutors, judges and black-dominated juries that are arresting, trying, convicting and sending to jail these offenders, hence putting a lie to the myth that “blackon-black” crime is tolerated or excused. Just as it is nonsense to bewail “white-on-white” crime because most white folks killed are done in by other white folks. Santa ought to reward the black, white, brown, etc., people, including police officers, who risk their lives to protect us and who

refuse to buy into the myth.

Naughty: Congressional Republicans, instigated by Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, who are trampling all over the D.C. Home Rule Act to block the city from implementing a democratically passed referendum to legalize marijuana.

They deserve coal in their stockings.

Nice: The citizens who recognize when principle is at stake and are willing to step forward and stand up to the bullies on Capitol Hill. Those fine Americans deserve sugar plums or some such thing dancing above their heads.

If that weren’t enough, Santa’s got a little more to add on his lists.

Naughty: Those unreconstructed demagogues on the right who slander President Obama as a radical leftist out to destroy capitalism, even though he saved the auto industry, rescued Wall Street and has taken the lead in undermining Vladimir Putin and the Russian economy.

Those Obama enemies deserve nothing if for no other reason than their ingratitude.

Naughty: Sony Pictures Entertainment executives who showed their true colors when it comes to race, and the hack-

ers who are waging a cyberattack against the company.

This is more of a thought than recognition of the deserving: Put the Sony Pictures execs and the hackers together in a cage and let them have at each other.

Nice: Objective and fearless journalists who bring truth and light to all who would draw near and listen or — as the case may be — read.

Shower them fulsomely with your gifts, dear Santa.

Naughty: That Mr. Hyde, allegedly free of conscience, filled with darker impulses, depraved and a defiler of drugged women, known in some quarters as Bill Cosby.

Nice: The sociable, respectable and morally decent Dr. Jekyll, aka Bill Cosby, said by Camille, his wife of 50 years, to be “a kind man, a generous man, a funny man and a wonderful husband, father and friend.”

(Sorry, but your call, big fella.)

Merry Christmas, happy holidays and to all a good night.

Colbert I. “Colby” King is a weekly columnist for The Washington Post, specializing in urban and national affairs.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Pet owners need to control dogs on trails

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have been jogging on the Spur Trail or hiking up Atalaya Mountain every day for around six years now. In that time I have been attacked and bitten by dogs seven times. I have been terrorized by loose dogs charging at me hundreds of times.

If that weren’t bad enough, the first mile or so of these trails are now lined with hundreds of piles of dog feces. Why shouldn’t those of us who use our city’s parks and trails in a responsible manner be allowed to enjoy these natural spaces in their pristine state?

Why shouldn’t we all be allowed to enjoy our city’s parks and trails without being terrorized by the dogs of irresponsible, self-centered pet owners?

Brett Rosenberg

Santa Fe

Try torturers Torture not only doesn’t work, it also harms the U.S. “image,” and it’s a human rights violation. Waterboarding, forced rectal “feedings,” hanging a prisoner on a wall for days, depriving someone of sleep for days, threatening to kill their families,

and freezing someone to death are all crimes. Anyone who tortured a prisoner should be tried and convicted.

Betty Katz Sperlich

Santa Fe

Wireless danger A carefully replicated study published in Nature [www.nature.com/nature/ journal/v509/n7500/full/nature13290. html] this year showed radio waves can cause birds to head off in random directions at migration season. The effect was first discovered accidentally, caused by the devices used on a university campus.

Recently, the Santa Fe City Council approved new wireless water meters that emit signals of higher peak power than cellphones.

The 1996 Telecommunications Act declares transmitters to be environmentally harmless if they comply with FCC power limits. But bird migration is disrupted by signals that are hundreds of times weaker. The decision — by the expert panel assembled by the World Health Organization — to list radio waves as carcinogenic was based on cancer

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studies also using waves far weaker than the FCC limit.

The chryptochrome gene critical for animals’ magnetic compass also is involved in the human sleep cycle. We should reassess the risks of wireless devices. Inform your councilor if you oppose installing them at every city address.

William J. Bruno, Ph.D.

Santa Fe

espite the excess of Christmas commercials and holiday decorations, the true Christmas season — those 12 days mentioned in song and celebration — traditionally did not start until Christmas Day. The season of Advent is completed, and the Christmas frivolity now begins.

In Santa Fe, the traditional Canyon Road Farolito Walk on the east side once gain will take place under pitch-black skies. The tiny lights of candles will illuminate the way forward, their brightness shining through brown paper sacks.

In Northern New Mexico, we know these bags are called farolitos. The term luminarias properly refers to bonfires despite the insistence of Southern New Mexicans to confuse the terms. Tonight, carolers and walkers will see both the little lights in the bags and the bonfires burning brightly in this celebration of light. (Remember, from 6 to 9 p.m., the area is closed to vehicle traffic, with barricades going up around 5:30 p.m. There will be a portable restroom in the city parking lot, 761 Canyon Road.)

With darkness and possibly icy patches on the sidewalks and road, spectators should take care. It’s easy to trip and fall, whether because of a sidewalk that is breaking apart or because of an unexpected slippery spot. Imagine this walk, with the decrepit sidewalks made more uniform. No jutting concrete or crumbling curbs. The streets, too, could be made smoother, so that a pedestrian can ramble up the road without putting a foot wrong in the dark.

The wrong kind of street lights distract from the night skies. Imagine the walk underneath state-of-the-art light fixtures equipped with full cutoff capabilities. That means the light shines out to the sides and not in walkers’ eyes. The light intensity is more limited, as well, having less glare to pollute the darkness. Unshielded light fights with the soft glow of farolitos and the sparkling of the Christmas star(s).

Santa Fe’s neighborhood walk, held come snow or bitter cold, is a time to welcome back the light. It is a beloved tradition that would only be improved with better lighting and safer sidewalks. Until that day, keep a small flashlight ready to shine through the darkness when needed. Step carefully. And enjoy welcoming Christmas, Santa Fe-style.

Just don’t trip.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 24, 1914: Tucson, Ariz. — The Santa Cruz River is on its worst rampage of a generation. Ordinarily the bed of the Santa Cruz is dry. The San Pedro River west of Bisbee is a stream nearly a mile wide. Other streams are swollen in proportion, railroad tracks have been washed out, buildings flooded or carried away and property damage to the extent of thousands of dollars as a result of seven days of rain throughout southern Arizona.

Dec. 24, 1964: Santa Fe’s first all-out effort to light the city with native farolitos from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday night was almost all out by 6:30. Gusty winds soon snuffed out fragile flames and chilly weather discouraged residents from relighting them.

The Casa Solana neighborhood was probably the most extensively lighted and tended of any in town, with whole families out working to light and relight farolitos as they went out.

Dec. 24, 1989: Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have officially confirmed the production of tritium in experiments with a cold fusion process developed at the University of Utah, a researcher says. Tritium production up to almost 100 times the starting concentration has been recorded by scientists Edmund Storms and Carol Talcott. Tritium is a gaseous, radioactive byproduct of nuclear fusion.

Relentless obstruction I am not good at predictions (especially the stock market), but I think in 10 or 20 years, President Barack Obama, the first black president, also will be remembered for trying to: bring home our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan; fix our immigration system; get every American health insurance and open up relations with Cuba.

Probably, the relentless obstruction from Republicans will be long forgotten, just as it has been on Social Security and Medicare. And maybe, just maybe, there will be some remembrance of success!

Herman I. Morris

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014: This year you will be true to yourself. You will demonstrate unusual financial savvy. Curb a tendency to invest or spend when feeling frustrated.

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36 Tropicana Field site, informally 37 Factor in club selection 38 Canon offering 39 Nestlé ___ Caps 41 Stephen of “Citizen X” 42 Lower one’s A.P.R., perhaps 43 “Heads ___, tails …”

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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: “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” — NO. 2 (e.g., Who was the second of the three spirits foretold? Answer: Ghost of Christmas Present.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. What were the first words spoken by the spirit?

Answer________ 2. They visited the Cratchit family’s house. What was the crippled son’s name?

Answer________ 3. The older boy was referred to as Master ____.

Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 4. Name either of the two Cratchit daughters.

Answer________ 5. What was the main course for dinner and what was the dessert?

Answer________ 6. Name a nonurban site where Scrooge was next taken by the spirit.

Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. They visited Scrooge’s nephew’s house. What was the nephew’s name?

Answer________ 8. What were the names of the two emaciated children shown to Scrooge?

Answer________ 9. Whose children were they?

Answer________

ANSWERS: 1. “Come in! Come in! And know me better, man!”

2. Tiny Tim. 3. Peter Cratchit. 4. Belinda and Martha. 5. Goose and pudding. 6. A miner’s hut, a lighthouse, a ship. 7. Fred. 8. Ignorance and Want.

9. Man’s (“They are Man’s”).

Jumble

ANSWERS:

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 Wednesday, Dec. 24, the 358th day of 2014. There are seven days left in the year. This is Christmas Eve. Today’s highlight in history: On Dec. 24, 1914, during World War I, impromptu Christmas truces began to take hold along parts of the Western Front between British and German soldiers who, in some cases, exchanged gifts and even played soccer with each other. Conservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, died in Los Angeles at age 76.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHHH You will act in a most unexpected way with a friend. You might not be totally cognizant of your behavior. Tonight: Where you want to be.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Others will be waiting for you to take the lead.

Someone older could be very temperamental.

Tonight: A must appearance.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Your mind seems to drift to distant places and people. A conflict could occur around travel. Tonight: Help others get into the holiday spirit.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Reach out to a loved one.

This person loves your attention. Tonight: Light the tree, and enjoy this once-a-year happening.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Others seem only too happy to please. No matter what you do, you’ll feel valued and as if you can do no wrong. Tonight: Go along with plans.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You might be overworked and tired. What a time to get cranky! Try to take a nap — not only for you, but also for others.

Tonight: Enjoy every last minute of tonight.

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Nephew is fine living at home Dear Annie: I am a concerned uncle at an impasse. I have a young adult nephew who seems perfectly content not to go anywhere in life. “Peter” wasn’t the smartest kid in school, but he managed to graduate. He now moves from job to job, never keeping one for more than six months. He seems perfectly fine with living at home and visiting my elderly father in senior housing.

When I talk to Peter about his behavior, he pays no attention. He only wants to hang around and play video games and see friends who don’t help. He doesn’t think very highly of himself, though I tell him he is capable of being anything he wants. He seems to be immature for his age and still in the self-gratification stage. He has no interest in becoming an adult, earning a paycheck and moving out.

I worry he sometimes takes advantage of my dad, who is reluctant to see Peter’s faults. The kid really needs a hard dose of reality, but I can’t get through to him. I don’t want him to be like this and live in his mother’s house for the rest of his life or, worse, end up in trouble and be a burden on society. Is there any way to enlighten him? — Run Out of Ideas Dear Run Out: You sound like a caring uncle, but Peter has to want this for himself, and he’s not there yet. It also doesn’t help when others around him enable his freeloading, irresponsible behavior. This includes his parents, who should be the first in line to handle this. We recommend you stop trying to “enlighten” Peter and simply be a good role model for him.

Demonstrate adult male behavior and the respect it engenders. Be someone he can turn to for help, and not another person in his life who is chastising him for coming up short.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Indy,” the 62-year-old woman who was forced to retire, and who is lonely and struggles to make ends meet. I, too, am from Indiana, and I thought, “You don’t

have to feel that way!”

As you suggested, getting involved is the answer. I am a 61-year-old former schoolteacher, and my husband travels a lot. I was getting into the same rut, and it’s not a nice place to be. I thought about the things I really like doing.

I was an art teacher, and I love to sew. So last winter, I formed a group of neighborhood women who would come to my house once a week to sew items for our children’s hospitals. It was a huge success and a lot of fun, and it made my home a happy place.

I also worked at a large fabric store that offers several rooms for local use, so I moved our little group to the store and opened it up to the entire community. We tell people to just come and sew with us — everything is provided.

If you don’t sew, we can show you how, or you can do other things, like iron seams, pin pieces together or cut out patterns.

We are currently working on Christmas pillowcases for the children’s hospitals. We also make hero capes for the kids, and with the scraps, we make fun scrub hats for the doctors and nurses.

We also make lap quilts and dining cover-ups for nursing homes, as well as little knit caps for newborns.

There is so much to do that we run out of time, but what a great time it is. It breaks my heart to think of someone feeling the way I used to. We would love “Indy” to join us, not only to do something purposeful, but to connect with others. — Carmel, Ind. Dear Carmel: What a lovely community project! We hope others (men, as well as women) will look into these opportunities as a way of feeling good while doing good. After all, ‘tis the season.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column.

Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH Your imagination seems to find a solution for every last-minute hassle you have to deal with. Tonight: Let the fun begin!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Make your focus your family and those around you.

You might want to take your time. Tonight: Invite a friend and/or neighbor over for some eggnog.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You might be taking a situation a little too seriously.

Lighten up, and know this, too, will pass. Tonight: Enjoy your out-of-town company.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You’ll get past a problem with ease. Be careful with spending and last-minute details; otherwise, you might have regrets.

Tonight: Make it easy.

Cryptoquip

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH You might be taken aback by the general spontaneity and unpredictability of others. Tonight: Beam in what you want.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Curb a tendency to go overboard when expressing your feelings. A friend could do a sudden reversal and surprise you. Go with the flow. Tonight: Make it a low-key evening.

Jacqueline Bigar

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.

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S.F. woman killed in N.M. 599 crash Family says Catanach likely was headed to work with disabled

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

The family of Mary Catanach said the Santa Fe woman was likely driving to her job where she worked with disabled adults when a van smashed into her sedan on N.M. 599 and Santa Fe

County Road 70 on Saturday morning.

Paramedics rushed Catanach, 55, to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, and she was then transported by air to University of New Mexico Hospital, where she died.

“I did get to be with her,” said her brother Brian Adams. “She knew family was with her.”

State police said Catanach was attempting to cross N.M. 599 at the intersection with County

Road 70, when she pulled out in front of Manuel Peña, 51 of Santa Fe. Peña was unable to avoid the crash and collided with Catanach, according to a statement.

Peña also was transported from the scene to Christus St. Vincent for treatment.

No other information about the crash was available Tuesday night, and the accident was still under investigation, according to state police.

Adams said his older sister

was born Mary Frances Garrity on Oct. 10, 1959, and she grew up in Evanston, Ill. From an early age, she proved a gifted swimmer, Adams said, and she even held a state record for the butterfly stroke. She also excelled at tennis, all on her own volition, Adams said. Their parents never forced her into anything.

Catanach then attended Kalamazoo College, where she

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Barbara Gonzalez, public information officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, gave a tour earlier this year of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, where 1,200 immigrants were held. RUDY GUTIERREZ/EL PASO TIMES

Majority Health officials urge inoculation of migrants New Mexico sees at Artesia uptick in cases as flu season released gets underway

By Bruce Krasnow

ACLU officials said many of the immigrants will seek asylum

The New Mexican

N

ew Mexico is not seeing as many flu diagnoses as other states, but state health officials warn that since it’s early in the season, people should still take precautions and get vaccinated.

And one state official disputed reports that this year’s vaccine doesn’t protect against the virus.

Dr. Joan Baumbach of the New Mexico Department of Health said one flu strain — called H3N2 — has drifted from expectations, but the flu vaccine can still help mitigate its severity and can help prevent deaths from the strain.

“It sounds ironic,” Dr. Baumbach said of vaccinating against strains like H3N2 that weren’t anticipated when the vaccine was developed before flu season hit.

“But it’s even more important that people get vaccinated. There is still a lot of benefit, making [symptoms] less severe with fewer deaths.”

With milder weather this winter, people have been more active and venturing outdoors.

But during the holidays over the next couple of weeks, the flu will likely spread faster as families gather for indoor activities, Baumbach and other health officials warned, and they’re already seeing a rise in cases.

“The number of people going to see doctors has picked up and the number of confirmed cases have picked up, so we’re definitely seeing an uptick,” Baumbach said. “With the different strains that are circulating,

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Michael Ortiz from Albuquerque gets a flu shot at the New Mexico Department of Health. The department recommends that everyone over the age of 6 get vaccinated as the flu season gets underway. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

we expect in the coming weeks it will increase more.”

“We are starting to hit the busy part of flu season once winter actually sets in,” said David Morgan, a state Health Department spokesman.

So far this flu season, the state has tested 337 respiratory specimens for influenza and 22, or 6.5 percent, were positive, according to the Health Department. Though seven infants have died nationwide from flu, there have been no fatalities in New Mexico.

The Department of Health also monitors outpatient visits.

During the week ending Dec. 13, there were 11,000 patient visits to medical providers, with 2.3 percent being treated for flulike conditions, which was an increase from the prior week.

FLU SHOT CLINICS

Road, Las Vegas, N.M., 505-425-9368, 8 to 11:30 The state Department of a.m. and 1 to 4:30 p.m.

Health has ongoing walk-in Monday through Friday. flu clinics at the following u Los Alamos Public offices: Health Office, 1183 Diau Santa Fe Public Health mond Drive, Los Alamos, Office, 605 Letrado Street, 505-662-4038, 1:30 to Santa Fe, 505-476-2600, 4:30 p.m. every Monday.

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m u Taos Public Health every Friday, (closed 12 to Office, 1400 Weimer Road, 1 p.m.).

Taos, 575-758-4719, 8 a.m. u Rio Arriba Public Health Office, 2010 Indus- to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday (closed noon to trial Park Road, Española, 505-753-2794, every 8:30 1 p.m.).

There is no charge to a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4 those attending the clinp.m. Friday. ics, but patients should u San Miguel Public Health Office, 18 Gallegos bring their insurance card,

Contact Bruce Krasnow at

brucek@sfnewmexican.com.

Doses of influenza vaccine are prepared for patients at the New Mexico Department of Health, which offers walk-in flu shot clinics from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every Friday at the Santa Fe Public Health Office, 605 Letrado Street.

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including Medicaid or Medicare.

WHO SHOULD GO Everyone 6 months of age and older should get a flu vaccine each flu season, especially people in the following groups because they are at high risk of having serious flurelated complications or because they live with or care for people at high risk for developing flu-related complications: u Children 6 months through 4 years of age. u Pregnant women (any

trimester). u People age 50 and older. u People of any age with certain chronic medical conditions like asthma, diabetes, lung or heart disease, and those who are immunocompromised. u People who live in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. u People who live with or care for those at high risk for complications from flu. u American Indians and Alaska Natives. u People who are obese.

Community to gather for Farolito Walk Farolitos line Canyon Road on Christmas Eve 2013.

Thousands of residents and visitors will gather Wednesday for the neighborhood’s annual Farolito Walk.

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The traditional Christmas Eve Farolito Walk will take place from 6 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday night in the historic neighborhood of Canyon Road and Acequia Madre.

The neighborhood will be closed to vehicle traffic from 6 to 9 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Barricades will be set up beginning at 5:30 p.m., and streets will officially close at 6 p.m. For those who cannot walk and must tour the neighborhood by car, the streets will reopen after 9 p.m. for regular operation.

In preparation for the Farolito Walk, beginning at 5:30 p.m. police will allow vehicle access to residents and business owners only. Passes will not be issued

u Health care and early

childhood personnel.

People in these groups should also consider seeing their health care provider to be evaluated for antiviral medication if they develop flu symptoms.

MORE INFO For more information on flu, its symptoms and how to prevent spreading it, visit the New Mexico Department of Health’s flu information page at http:// nmhealth.org/about/phd/ idb/imp/fluv.

ARTESIA — The majority of an estimated 1,200 Central American immigrants held at a southeastern New Mexico detention center over the last six months have been released, authorities said Monday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said more than two-thirds of the immigrants were released before the Artesia facility closed last week, the Albuquerque Journal reported.

Those more than 800 people face follow-up court appointments before an immigration judge. An additional 370 immigrants were deported, and 15 remaining people will be relocated to a new family detention center in Karnes, Texas, ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said.

American Civil Liberties Union officials in New Mexico say most of the immigrants plan to seek asylum, while some want to argue their cases in court.

Immigration advocates say immigrant families are often fleeing drug or gang violence in Central America and should be released to relatives already in the U.S. rather than being locked up. To qualify for asylum, immigrants must prove “credible fear of persecution” in an interview and before a judge.

The Obama administration commissioned two new facilities in Texas amid the recent influx of children pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border. A center in Dilley can house up to 2,400 women and children, while the facility in Karnes has room for 1,200.

The administration has said it wants to send the message that immigrants who cross into the U.S. illegally will be deported. The number of families caught at the south Texas border this year spiked to more than 52,000. That is a 600 percent increase, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Stephen Manning, a Portland, Ore.-based attorney, organized more than 330 lawyers to represent detained families pro bono in Artesia last July.

Mayor wants City Council to disclose talks Group accuses panel of violating state law in shelter discussions

By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

to residents, and the city urges residents and business owners to plan ahead and have guests and employees arrive before the 6 p.m. road closings.

A portable restroom will be available at the city of Santa Fe parking lot, 761 Canyon Road.

Santa Fe Trails will provide free bus service for the event.

Passengers can pick up the free bus service from Santa Fe Place mall and the South Capitol Rail Runner Station and be transported to Canyon Road at Paseo de Peralta.

Hours of free service are from 5 to 9:45 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Buses marked “special” will pick up and drop off passengers continuously during this period. All transit routes are free of charge after 5 p.m.

Amid accusations that the City Council violated the state Open Meetings Act earlier this month, Mayor Javier Gonzales plans to ask councilors to waive attorney-client privilege and disclose what they talked about behind closed doors during a legal session.

The mayor’s intentions were revealed in a letter from City Attorney Kelley Brennan to Susan Boe, executive director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, which had accused the council of violating the law during a closed session Javier Dec. 10 by discussing the possible Gonzales relocation of a homeless shelter.

The closed-door discussion came on the heels of a November council vote before a standing-room-only crowd at City Hall to renew a lease for the Interfaith Community Shelter on Cerrillos Road for “not less than two years.” The large crowd had gathered in opposition to an initial resolution introduced by Councilor Chris Rivera that called for looking for a new location for the shelter due to neighbors’ complaints about the facility.

“Not only was this topic not properly listed on the meeting agenda, it also was not permissible under any exception to the Open Meetings Act,” Boe said in a

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Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department took the following reports: u Someone broke into a home in the 100 block of W. Booth St. sometime Monday and stole undisclosed property from the resident. u City officers arrested Yaritza Ugarte Fierro, 20, of Santa Fe on a charge of battery against a household member at about 11:30 a.m. Monday in the 2000 block of Hopewell Street Her two children were left in the father’s care, according to a police report.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office took the following reports: u County deputies arrested Nathan Dozier, 42, of Santa Fe on

Taos Pueblo to present Deer Dance a charge of aggravated battery on La Luz Lane in Arroyo Hondo after deputies accused him of battering a person with a wooden shovel handle. A report said the victim suffered “minor” injuries. u Someone entered a home on Peaceful Drive in Edgewood between sometime in October and Monday and stole property while the resident was out of state. u County deputies arrested Geronimo Roybal, 49, of Clovis on charges of domestic and misdemeanor battery at about 1 a.m. Tuesday. Roybal is accused of hitting his girlfriend during an argument on Calle Po Ae Pi. u Someone stole a motor vehicle from a residence on La Barbe-

ria Road sometime Monday.

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Help lines Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families hotline: 800473-5220 St. Elizabeth Shelter for men, women and children: 982-6611 Interfaith Community Shelter: 795-7494 Youth Emergency Shelter/ Youth Shelters: 438-0502 New Mexico suicide prevention hotline: 866-435-7166 Solace Crisis Treatment Center: 986-9111, 800-721-7273 or TTY 471-1624 Police and fire emergency: 911 Graffiti hotline: 955-CALL 55)

arrested on Sept. 23 on a criminal complaint charging him with assault with a deadly weapon ALBUQUERQUE — A Taos Pueblo man is fac- and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.

According to the complaint, Mondragon ing up to a 10-year sentence in federal prison after stabbed another tribal member multiple times pleading guilty in an assault case.

Sept. 14 on land owned by the Taos Pueblo tribe.

Prosecutors said Tuesday that 28-year-old Nathan Mondragon reached a plea agreement The Associated Press with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Mondragon was

Taos Pueblo man pleads guilty

Christmas closings Hours of operation at various city and county government offices will be affected by observance of the Christmas holiday Wednesday and Thursday, including: u City and county government offices and Municipal Court will close at noon Wednesday and will be closed all day Thursday. u Santa Fe Trails and Santa Fe Ride bus services will operate from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday but will not operate Thursday. u Parking facilities and on-street parking meters will be free Thursday. u The city of Santa Fe’s trash and recycling col-

lection service will follow the regular schedule. u Santa Fe public libraries will close at 1 p.m.

Wednesday and will be closed all day Thursday. u The city’s recreation centers will close at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday and will be closed all day Thursday. u The Buckman Road Recycling and Transfer Station and Caja del Rio Landfill will be closed Thursday.

Santa Fe County solid waste transfer stations will be closed Thursday.

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Funeral services and memorials DIANE S. PEARSON Diane S. Pearson passed away peacefully at her home in Santa Fe on December 14, 2014, ten days shy of her seventy-seventh birthday.

Diane’s parents moved to Albuquerque from Boston in 1936 for her father to begin practicing law after graduating from Harvard law school. She was born and raised in Albuquerque. She graduated from Highland High School and remained close to many childhood friends.

She attended the University of Oklahoma, where she was a member of Delta Gamma sorority and met her husband, William G. Pearson, on a blind date. Bill and Diane were married for 43 years until Bill passed away in 2003. Diane remained fiercely loyal to the Sooners and her sorority sisters.

Bill’s oil business career took Diane and their family to many places in the southwest and Europe, the highlights being Houston, Los Angeles, London and Santa Fe. Diane enjoyed the nine-year stint in London, England, poking fun at British customs, antiquing and attending Wimbledon.

In Santa Fe, Diane was a member of the Santa Fe Garden Club and a devoted volunteer, most recently at the PMS hospice thrift store and the Christus St. Vincent Regional Cancer Center infusion center. She was also an active member of the Christ Church of Santa Fe. She has gone on annual retreats with her sorority sisters of 57 years. In 2012 she achieved a lifelong ambition of returning to the Sloan family home in Ireland by attending a family reunion in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her sassy personality and pointed opinions were a source of great humor for friends and family.

She was preceded in death by her husband, William G. Pearson, and her brother, Geoffrey W. Sloan. She is survived by her son, Mark W. Pearson, daughters, Jennifer Pearson and Laura P. Hurley, her brother, Robert G. Sloan, her sisters-in-law, Karen Hubbard and Susan Pearson, her niece, Olivia Sloan, nephew, David Sloan, and seven grandchildren: Guillermo Cordero Pearson, Andrea Cordero Pearson, Isabelle Margaret Hurley, Sloan Patrice Hurley, Miles Archer Hurley, Ema Diane Pearson and Peter Mark Pearson. To celebrate her life, donations can be made to Youth Shelters and Family Services (www.youthshelters.org) or the Cancer Foundation of New Mexico (www.santafe.com/directory/thecancer-foundation-for-new-mexico). A memorial will be planned.

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This Christmas, Taos Pueblo tribal members will be enacting the Deer Dance, a ceremonial that is deeply tied to its ancient Native religion.

It will be conducted on Christmas Day, beginning in early to midafternoon. This is a dance that is meant to be experienced without speculation, scrutiny or explanation. It is exactly what one sees, which is why tribal members discourage visitors from asking impolite questions about what’s going on. They ask that visitors regard this with the same reverence as one might afford their own church services.

To ensure proper behavior, the sacred clowns will be around to keep people in line.

Those who misbehave risk getting thrown in the river, ice notwithstanding.

Because this dance is part of the Native religion, all photography and recording is strictly prohibited, and that includes the Christmas Eve Procession of the Virgin.

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By J.R. Logan The Taos News

TAOS — The expansion of the Taos Regional Airport is cleared for takeoff.

Acting Taos County Planning Director Edward Vigíl approved the town’s permit application Tuesday for the $24 million project, which will include the construction of a second runway at the facility northwest of town.

The controversial project has been the source of debate in the community in recent months,

Santa Fe police are searching for a suspect who they believe let natural gas fill a duplex apartment in the 200 block of Staab Street on Dec. 18. No one was injured, and the gas didn’t ignite.

Lt. Andrea Dobyns, a spokeswoman with the city police department, said the

a cellphone, the violator risks confiscation without recourse.

Persons observing a violation are also asked to report it to tribal officials.

On another note, due to roadwork near the village entrance, visitors are asked to obey traffic officials who will be directing visitors to designated areas.

This story first appeared in the The Taos News, a sister paper of The Santa Fe New Mexican.

but the battle over whether the expansion is needed or wanted goes back decades.

Supporters of the expansion say the second runway will improve safety at the airport and encourage investment and economic development in Taos.

Nearly all of the cost of the project is being covered by the state and federal governments.

The airport is owned and operated by the town of Taos.

Detractors have made various arguments against the expansion, including worries that it will increase pollution, affect homeowner rents out the property and stopped by to inspect it Dec. 18. She opened the door and immediately smelled an “overwhelming odor of gas,” Dobyns said.

The property owner then ventured inside and discovered someone had left the gas stove burners on without a flame and had done the same with the furnace system, filling the house with combus-

property values in the surrounding area, lead to an increased military presence in Taos, and worsen the economic gap between the wealthy and poor.

Vigil’s approval means the town can technically break ground on the project now.

Town Manager Rick Bellis could not be immediately reached Tuesday on when construction would begin.

This story first appeared in The Taos News, a sister paper of The Santa Fe New Mexican.

tible gas.

Dobyns said the homeowner didn’t immediately call police, and instead took care of the problem herself. She then reported the incident several days later. Dobyns said police do have a suspect, but she couldn’t offer any further information about the crime because of the ongoing investigation.

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Year’s Day and the Buffalo Dance on Jan. 6.

Last Christmas, the tribe performed Los Matachines Dance, a very old ritual performance introduced by Spaniard priests during the early colonial era in New Mexico, but one which is considered in a secular vein by tribal members, hence, the proliferation of cameras.

This year, if tribal officials observe anyone using a camera or recording device including

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For those who believe as Lydia believed, she left her earthly body on December 22, 2014 and is now present with our Lord. A viewing is being held at Berardinelli Mortuary on Friday, December 26th from 10am to 11am. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on December 26th at 1:00 pm at St. Anne’s Catholic Church, followed by burial at the Santa Fe National Cemetery at 2:15pm. Thank you to all who loved and cared for her.

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Crash: ‘She just loved helping others’ Continued from Page B-1 earned an art history degree. In 1994, she relocated to Santa Fe to be closer to her mother, and she worked various odd jobs, including stints in retail and school positions. She later secured her teaching certificate while working in Española.

Most recently, Catanach worked for Easter Seals El Mirador, where she served as direct counselor for intellectually disabled adults.

“She loved working with them,” said Lisa Bronowicz, the human resources director for El Mirador. “She will be missed. We’re all really sad to hear this.”

Bronowicz said Catanach had worked with the organization for five and a half years. Adams said his sister possessed the patience and perseverance to work in the sometimes challenging field. He recalled one time she took four of her wards to the New Mexico State Fair by herself.

Adams said his sister also adored the church and went to services daily. He said she had a close connection with the Carmelite Nuns, and often visited the monastery on Mount Caramel Road.

Catanach recently started sewing, Adams said, and focused on creating colorful and sturdy tote bags for excursions to the farmers market. She pursued pottery, painting and most art forms in between. Adams recalled she learned how to craft retablos and bultos, and she gave him an elegant carving of St. Michael the Archangel. Adams joked that someone once told him he should return the artwork to the church where he stole it because it looked so elegant.

But his sister would have deflected that attention. Adams said she always changed the subject when someone praised her athletic prowess, artistic talents or patient nature.

“She was thoroughly unimpressed with herself,” he said. “She just loved helping others.”

Catanach is survived by her mother and two sisters, Adams said. She was preceded in death by a brother. A funeral Mass and ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Anne Parish, 511 Alicia St.

Talks: City claims no wrongdoing Continued from Page B-1 Dec. 16 letter to Gonzales in regard to the closed-door session. “Where and how services and shelter for the homeless are available in the Santa Fe community is of concern to all citizens as shown by the large attendance at the City Council meeting on November 12, 2014, when the Council discussed the Homeless Shelter and approved a renewal of the shelter lease in a public session.”

The city has denied wrongdoing, saying it was in full compliance of the law.

“We cannot know the source from which you gained these understandings, as you have not disclosed that source to us,” Brennan wrote in a letter to Boe on Dec. 18. “However, we can state unequivocally that you have been seriously misled. The understandings on which you premise a violation of the [Open Meetings Act] by the City are erroneous.”

The agenda for the council’s Dec. 10 executive session stated that councilors would discuss “the purchase, acquisition or disposal of real property.” At least two councilors told The New Mexican that the councilors held discussions about the Interfaith Community Shelter, which leases a city-owned building at 2801 Cerrillos Road.

“If the homeless shelter were discussed in any way, be it about the lease, about relocation, whatever, that should’ve, at a minimum, been properly on the agenda, which it was not,” Boe said in an interview.

In the letter to Boe, Brennan said information provided to the council in executive session is subject to the attorneyclient privilege and cannot be disclosed unless a majority of the nine-member council votes to waive the privilege.

“Thus, disclosing privileged information discussed in executive session without waiver of the privilege by the Governing Body by vote in an open meeting is not permitted and may violate the City’s Code of Ethics,” Brennan wrote. “As a result, we cannot at this moment provide to you the information that we are aware would alleviate your expressed concerns.”

But Brennan said Gonzales will ask his colleagues to waive that privilege.

In a statement to The New Mexican, Gonzales said, “I’ve always said we should limit how much is done in executive session and make sure the public knows what is discussed every time.

That’s exactly what happened here, no rules were broken.”

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By Mark Sherman The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Gay marriage cases are on the Supreme Court’s agenda with enough time for the issue to be argued and decided by late June. The justices could decide as early as Jan. 9 to add same-sex marriage to their calendar this term, according to an update Tuesday on the court’s docket. That date is the first time the justices will meet in private in the new year to consider adding new cases.

Most, if not all, of the cases they accept for review by mid-January will be argued in late April. The court would then have two months or so to come to a decision.

Lawyers for same-sex couples

in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee rushed to get their legal papers filed in time for that early January conference.

The couples are appealing a decision by a panel of federal judges in November to uphold anti-gay marriage laws in those states. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati is so far the only federal appeals court that has sided with states that are seeking to preserve bans on same-sex marriage since a Supreme Court decision in June 2013 struck down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law.

Four other appeals courts — in Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and Richmond, Virginia — have ruled in favor of gay and lesbian couples.

Between those rulings and the

Supreme Court’s decision in October to turn away state appeals, the number of states allowing same-sex couples to marry has risen to 35.

Now, though, the existence of a split among the appellate courts has made Supreme Court intervention very likely.

Interviewed on Radio Television Suisse recently, Justice Antonin Scalia declined to answer a reporter’s questions on same-sex marriage. “I should not speak to that because we will doubtless have that case in front of us fairly shortly,” Scalia said.

People on both sides of the gay marriage divide had expected the court to agree to resolve the debate in October. The justices had before them appeals from five states that sought to uphold their bans. Same-

sex plaintiffs who won in the lower courts also pressed the Supreme Court to intervene.

The justices did not explain their surprising refusal to get involved then, although Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said publicly that there was no urgency to the court’s involvement as long as lower courts were ruling uniformly. The 6th circuit’s ruling changed that equation.

Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio also are calling for the court to hear and decide the issue soon, while Tennessee is urging the justices to let the appeals court ruling stand.

Louisiana’s same-sex marriage ban also is on the Jan. 9 conference agenda, but that case is unusual in that it has yet to be heard by a federal appeals court.

Experts: Black-eye year for disease From Ebola outbreaks to lab mishaps, contagions caused tumult worldwide in 2014

By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Health officials are celebrating some important victories in 2014, and Time magazine even named Ebola fighters the persons of the year. Nevertheless, this was a black-eye year for public health.

Some vital vaccines did not work well. Federal laboratories were careless with dangerous pathogens. And international health officials failed to stop a West Africa outbreak from exploding into the worst Ebola epidemic ever.

Such failings occurred during one of the busiest 12 months of contagions in at least a decade.

In the United States, infectious disease menaces seemingly whizzed at us from every direction, from Ebola and enterovirus to measles and MERS. Mumps plagued Ohio. California saw its worst whooping cough outbreak in 70 years. And a mosquito-borne disease called chikungunya burned through the Caribbean and took root in the United States.

The last time U.S. health officials were this frantic was 2009, when a flu pandemic swept the globe. “But that was one disease,” while 2014 had more of a variety of fires to put out, said Dr. Marci Layton of New York City’s health department.

Experts say this year’s tumult was caused by a combination of things. Many cite the impact of international travel, which can bring an exotic disease from the jungles of Africa or the desserts of the Middle East to a U.S. airport in a matter of hours.

“If anyone still needed convincing, 2014 really showed that a disease threat anywhere is a disease threat everywhere,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But experts say others factors this year were shortcomings and errors at the CDC and in other public health organizations.

The leading example was the Ebola epidemic.

Previous outbreaks numbered in the hundreds.

As of mid-December, health officials were reporting this year’s epidemic had sickened more than 18,600 people, the vast majority in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Of those, more than 6,900 died.

Those three nations were not prepared when Ebola visited them for the first time. Health systems were very weak after more than a decade of war in the region. Doctors were scarce in many areas. Ebola was sometimes mistaken for malaria, especially in the early stages, and care and infection control were poor.

An aid effort was led by the World Health Organization — the United Nations’ health agency. But the WHO staff let bureaucratic bungles delay important work, and was hampered by budget cuts and responsibilities elsewhere, a WHO internal report later concluded.

For months, the WHO got only limited help from various nations, and it wasn’t until the late summer — after the epidemic was out of control — that the United States and other countries pledged more substantial assistance.

The CDC was in charge of the U.S. Ebola response, and initially everything seemed well under control. CDC sent teams to help in West Africa. Frieden repeatedly assured Americans they were safe from an Ebola outbreak here, and that U.S. hospitals were able to isolate and handle any cases that should arrive from West Africa.

But public confidence was shaken after a Liberian visitor named Thomas Eric Duncan came down with the infectious disease in late September, days after he arrived in Dallas. He died October 8, and two nurses who treated him at a Dallas hospital were infected.

How the nurses caught Ebola was unclear, but Frieden later said he should have sent a much larger team to Dallas initially to help hospital workers prevent any spread of the virus.

No one besides Duncan died of Ebola in the

6.4M covered in federal marketplace WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Tuesday that 6.4 million people had selected health insurance plans or had been automatically re-enrolled in coverage through the federal insurance marketplace.

New customers accounted for 30 percent of the total, or 1.9 million.

Health workers in protective suits transport Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon working in Sierra Leone who had been diagnosed with Ebola, from a jet to a waiting ambulance in Omaha, Neb, in November. As of early December, health officials were reporting this years epidemic had sickened more than 18,100 people. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

United States, and no other transmission of the disease was ever reported, and yet Frieden came under heavy criticism for the CDC’s handling of Ebola. Some politicians called for his dismissal.

President Barack Obama stuck with Frieden, but appointed an ‘Ebola czar’ to help coordinate the government’s response.

Some other lowlights from 2014: • In January, a CDC lab scientist in Atlanta accidentally mixed a deadly strain of bird flu with a tamer strain, and the mix was later sent to unaware workers at two other labs. In June, another CDC lab failed to kill anthrax samples before sending them to two labs with fewer safeguards for containing dangerous germs. No one got sick from either incident, fortunately. The anthrax lab director resigned and administrative action was taken against “a few” other employees, a CDC spokesman said.

• Another startling lab failing was discovered at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Md. A scientist cleaning out an old storage room discovered forgotten, 60-year-old vials of smallpox virus, one of the most lethal infectious agents in human history. No one got sick from that incident, either. But government lab practices became both a point of concern and something of a joke.

•In May, health officials identified a doctor who traveled from Saudi Arabia to Indiana as the first U.S. case of Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS. They also said the doctor apparently had spread MERS to an Illinois man he’d met in a business meeting. But what initially seemed to be the first transmission of MERS in this country wasn’t. CDC officials backtracked when additional testing showed the virus had not, in fact, spread to the second man.

•Researchers have come to believe the vaccine that’s been used since the 1990s against whooping cough does a poor job of preventing spread of the disease. Health officials believe that failing was an important contributor to an epidemic this year in California, where nearly 10,000 cases were reported through the end of November. Only 10 percent of children sickened in the epidemic had not been vaccinated against pertussis, according to a review of available records.

•This was the worst year for measles since 1994. About 600 cases were reported in Americans through the first week of December — more than the combined total from the previous five years. The measles vaccine seemed to work fine.

The vast majority were unvaccinated people who fell sick in outbreaks sparked by a traveler who picked up the disease in another country and then spread it in the United States.

For 2014 enrollees who took no action by Dec. 15, coverage was automatically renewed for 2015 by the federal government.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the secretary of health and human services, who is in charge of the federal marketplace, said she did not know how many people had been automatically re-enrolled by her department.

But she and her aides suggested that the number was in the range from

•Enterovirus 68, a respiratory virus that traditionally kept a low profile, became a national health concern in the late summer as some pediatric hospitals were flooded with wheezing children. Worries hit a new level when doctors noted some children with the virus also developed weakness or paralysis in their arms or legs. By early December, more than 1,100 infected people in 48 states had respiratory illness, including 12 who died. CDC also had reports of paralysis in 94 children in 33 states, though investigators are still trying to establish whether enterovirus 68 was the cause.

Infectious diseases are a continuing threat, and no one should think of 2014 as an aberration, said Michael Osterholm, a University of Minnesota infectious disease expert.

“I think what we really hit is a new normal,” he said.

Indeed, it could get worse. Osterholm noted that Ebola and MERS barely touched the U.S. this year, and worrisome forms of influenza in Asia and elsewhere may be on the horizon. Arrivals of people from overseas — and whatever germs they’re carrying — are forecast to keep growing. And adding to the threat of new bugs is the revived menace from old ones, as once-treatable germs are increasingly becoming resistant to antibiotics, experts said.

To be sure, there were public health success stories in 2014. There were not large U.S. outbreaks of MERS or Ebola. In Africa, though Ebola appeared in Nigeria, Senegal and Mali, it petered out during intense public health responses. The disease is still raging elsewhere, particularly in Sierra Leone, but the U.S. Congress acted to bolster the fight with approval this month of a $5.4 billion emergency appropriation. And some experts say Frieden deserves points for his forthright disclosures about — and attempts to correct — failings as they were discovered.

Also, the health care and public health workers who went to West Africa did show uncommon heroism, as Time magazine noted. “The response to Ebola has been extraordinary” in both its scope and valor, Frieden said.

Some experts say the mistakes of 2014 were constructive. They led, for example, to an intensive review of safety practices at CDC labs and better preparations at U.S. hospitals for handling Ebola and other new infectious diseases that may appear, they said.

“I think finding problems is sometimes a good thing,” said Dr. Jeff Duchin, a Seattle public health official and national vaccines experts. “I think all of this helped us” get ready for what may come next.

2.7 million to 3 million.

Dec. 15 was the deadline to sign up for coverage that would start on Jan. 1. The automatic or passive reenrollments, combined with a surge of interest among consumers just before the deadline, produced a big increase in activity in the federal marketplace. People could sign up a first time, switch to new plans, choose to extend coverage in their current plans for a year, or do nothing and

be re-enrolled in the same or similar plans. Officials said that about 35 percent to 40 percent of people already enrolled had returned to the online marketplace, allowing them to shop for new health plans as the administration had recommended. “This is an encouraging start,” Burwell said, but she added, “We still have a lot of work to do.”

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Nevada site, feds to study burying nuclear waste mile secure federal reservation is almost the size of Long Island, N.Y. It’s now called the Nevada National Security Site.

A top priority remains resolving a dispute over

By Ken Ritter whether 403 baseball bat-sized The Associated Press canisters of solid radioactive waste should be buried in LAS VEGAS, Nev. — 40-plus foot trenches and then Nevada and the U.S. Energy topped by shipping containers Department announced Tues- full of uranium-contaminated day they’ve formalized a panel worker uniforms, machine to study contentious issues parts and other waste overincluding whether radioactive topped by 8 feet of dirt about material from a World War 65 miles from Las Vegas.

II-era plant in Tennessee will “We are still in talks with the be buried at a former nuclear state on what the next steps weapons proving ground on shipments will be,” said north of Las Vegas.

Darwin Morgan, a security Gov. Brian Sandoval and site spokesman in North Las Energy Secretary Ernest Vegas, said Tuesday.

“We are Moniz announced that more optimistic that we will be able than a year of negotiations yielded a signed agreement to to ship in early 2015.”

The materials, about 100 continue “senior-level” talks by a group of state and federal shipments, have been desigemployees dubbed the Nevada nated by the Energy DepartNational Security Site Working ment as low-level radioactive waste.

Group.

Trucks were ready to roll Sandoval called the agreein mid-2013 when the state ment a milestone achievement, balked at the plan, opponents and aides said a conversation called for a full-scale National that began about shipments from Oak Ridge, Tenn., broad- Environmental Policy Act review, working group parened into a commitment to ticipants began meeting, and address a range of state conthe Energy Department began cerns about what the federal hosting town hall-style public government does at the vast meetings to describe the burial former Nevada Test Site. plan.

“Because that got us The six-page Sandovaltogether, we were able to reach an understanding on key Moniz agreement, signed Monday, notes that no new issues that have been imporfull-scale National Environtant to the state for decades,” mental Policy Act review said Leo Drozdoff, director will be required, and that the of the Nevada Department 2,000-mile shipments would of Conservation and Natural be handled by armed guards Resources and a member of from the Office of Secure the working group.

“We finally have a meaning- Transport.

Moniz noted in August ful dialogue.”

Drozdoff and other Sandoval 2013 that the state doesn’t have jurisdiction over the administration officials said shipments. But the energy the agreement to keep talking didn’t represent a softening of secretary said his agency was reshaping plans in response the state’s staunch opposition to the Yucca Mountain nuclear to state concerns, including questions about the safety of waste repository at the western edge of the former Nevada transporting the waste in and around Las Vegas.

Test Site. The 1,360-square-

About 100 low-level shipments have been designated

Prosecutor: Guns were smuggled aboard airliners airliners this year as they traveled from Atlanta to both New York City airports.

NEW YORK — A brazen The prosecutor said Henry scheme in which guns — was given the guns, someeven an AK-47 rifle — were times in airport restrooms, by taken onto passenger jets Eugene Harvey, 31, an Atlanta for years in carry-on luggage baggage handler who worked was described by a Brooklyn for Delta before he was fired as prosecutor Tuesday as a tera result of the investigation. rorism threat that should cause Three others were arrested the airline industry to end the on gun charges in the probe. practice of letting some workHenry’s lawyer, Terence ers enter airports without Sweeney, said his client, held security screening. without bail, “maintains his “I hope this is a wake-up innocence and he’s looking forcall for the nation,” Brooklyn ward to his day in court.”

District Attorney Kenneth Henry was arrested Dec. 10.

Thompson said at a news conference. “This was an egre- Investigators videotaped him gious breach of our nation’s air in the Atlanta airport prior to a morning flight to Kennedy traffic security.”

Thompson’s comment came International Airport in New as he described a case brought York, where he was videotaped leaving the airport and was against five people, including an airline baggage handler who followed to his residence in Brooklyn. was charged a day earlier by Thompson said when Henry federal authorities in Atlanta. was confronted by investigaThompson said he was not tors, he said there were guns in trying to scare anyone. But he said it’s “truly frightening” what a knapsack in his apartment.

“He said: ‘I just brought investigators learned after a them from Atlanta on the probe that started as a way to plane. He made that admisreduce gun violence in Brooksion,” Thompson said. lyn. He said Mark Quentin The prosecutor said invesHenry, 45, who was fired by tigators discovered that guns Delta Air Lines in 2010 after were individually wrapped and three years for abusing its that ammunition was in the buddy pass system, took guns aboard at least 17 commercial bag next to them.

By Larry Neumeister The Associated Press

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Gun permits for pot users?

Colorado may put a resolution on the ballot in 2016

By Ivan Moreno The Associated Press

DENVER — Colorado was the first state to legalize recreational marijuana sales. Now the state’s voters may consider a ballot measure to allow pot smokers to carry a concealed firearm.

The “Colorado Campaign for Equal Gun Rights” is working to put a question on the November 2016 ballot to have Colorado ignore guidelines from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about firearms and pot.

The measure would change state law to prevent sheriffs from denying concealed carry permits because of marijuana use. It’s a new frontier in the marijuana wars, and one that has divided gun-rights activists.

“It’s just ridiculous,” said Edgar Antillon, one of the campaign organizers, who argues that firearms aren’t kept from alcohol drinkers. “Somebody can get extremely drunk — Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and all week if they want — and they can still get a concealed carry permit.”

He said he and his campaign partner, Isaac Chase, who run a firearm training business called Guns For Everyone, are reaching out to gun rights groups for support, including those involved in last year’s recall of two state senators who supported stricter firearm laws.

Colorado organizers need more than 86,100 signatures to send the question to voters, and it’s unclear whether Antillon’s campaign will get enough support to launch.

The campaign would put Colorado again in direct conflict with federal guidelines about the drug.

In 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sent states a directive to keep guns away from marijuana users.

Earlier this year, Democratic Sen. John Walsh of Montana tried to change that, suggesting an amendment to bar federal prosecution of medical marijuana patients who own firearms. The amendment failed.

The matter divides gun enthusiasts. The president of the Colorado State Shooting Association said his members would oppose letting pot users carry guns.

“Federal law prohibits the possession and use of mari-

Edgar Antillon, one of the organizers of an effort to have a ballot measure placed before Colorado voters in the 2016 November election to allow marijuana users to carry concealed firearms, stands outside the state capitol in Denver. DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

juana and its derivatives, and therefore its possession and use is incompatible with legal, responsible firearms ownership,” said Tony Fabian, president of the Colorado State Shooting Association.

The County Sheriffs of Colorado are lining up against the idea, too.

But it’s an open debate whether marijuana-using gun owners are more dangerous than others — or even how

many people lose gun rights over pot. Colorado keeps no data on the question. And the Colorado Bureau of Investigation doesn’t track how many are denied concealed carry permits because of pot.

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NBA roundup: Love, Cavs roll to 125-104 win over Timberwolves. Page B-8

MEN’S BASKETBALL GRAND CANYON 68, NEW MEXICO 65

New Mexico guard Tim Jacobs drives as Grand Canyon guard DeWayne Russell defends in the first half of Tuesday’s game in Phoenix.

The Lobos lost to the Antelopes, 68-65.

Lobos come up short vs. GCU Staff and wire reports

At long last, the Lobos’ defense failed when it mattered most.

After a stellar December in which The University of New Mexico men’s basketball team cultivated a reputation for suffocating opponents with solid D, unheralded Grand Canyon figured things out in a surprising 68-65 victory over the visiting Lobos on Tuesday night at GCU

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The Antelopes (7-7), a Western Athletic Conference member in just their second year at the Division I level, shot 50 percent from the field in the second half, then got a key steal off a Hugh Greenwood inbounds pass in the closing seconds to seal the win.

The Lobos (8-4) had won five straight games, holding four of the previous five opponents to 55 or fewer points. All but

one of those teams was held below 36 percent shooting.

Grand Canyon simply came to life in the second half after the teams reached the midway point tied at 30. The ’Lopes hit nine 3-pointers in the game, five of them in the second half.

Joshua Braun had a team-high 18 for GCU, connecting on four 3s while making four steals; three of them in the

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COLLEGE BOWL ROUNDUP

BOYS BASKETBALL ST. MICHAEL’S 50, CAPITAL 45

Horsemen prevail in OT St. Michael’s takes advantage of second chance to beat Capital

Grebe kicks Navy to 17-16 Poinsettia Bowl victory

By James Barron The Associated Press

The New Mexican

SAN DIEGO — Austin Grebe kicked a 24-yard field goal with 1 minute, 27 seconds left and Navy beat San Diego State 17-16 in the sloppy Poinsettia Bowl on Tuesday night after Donny Hageman was wide right on a 34-yard field goal attempt with 20 seconds left.

Hageman had made his first three field goal attempts for the Aztecs.

The winning drive was set up when Navy’s Chris Johnson forced and recovered a fumble by Donnel Pumphrey, who earlier set San Diego State’s singleseason rushing record.

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ittle things can become big things. It just depends on the timing.

The final minutes of boys basketball games are where the teams that do those little things — hit free throws, take care of the basketball and execute plays — more often than not walk away victorious.

The Capital Jaguars and the St. Michael’s Horsemen showed Tuesday night that both have a little ways to go in that department.

The difference was that the Horsemen made good on a second chance to seal the win, and that allowed them to walk out of Edward A. Ortiz Memorial Gymnasium with the best Christmas gift of all — a 50-45 overtime victory.

Both teams have struggled through the first half of the season to execute at crucial moments, and that was plain to see in the final few minutes. St. Michael’s (4-4) couldn’t hold on to a 39-33 lead it built midway through the fourth quarter, and it could thank poor free-throw shooting and turnovers for that.

Given a second chance in overtime, the Horsemen finally got it right, going 4-for-6 from the line and committing just one turnover in the extra period. They also held Capital to 0-for-4 shooting from the field.

St. Michael’s head coach Ron Geyer said the struggles his team has had in holding on to leads — it held fourth-quarter advantages against Española Valley and Santa Fe High last week, but lost both — is typical with a team that is inexperienced in certain areas, especially in the post.

“We’re still a young team, varsity experience-wise,” Geyer said. “It’s going to take some time for them to develop, to feel confident. We’re still growing up a lot, and tonight was a big step in that direction.”

The Jaguars rallied to tie it at 41 on Jeremy Anaya’s three-point play with 53.8 seconds left in regulation, but they could not hit a basket and made just 4 of 8 free throws the rest of the night. They also struggled to find someone to take some of the pressure off of junior guard Eric Coca, who had 20 points despite the attention he received from the Horsemen.

St. Michael’s threw a box-and-one at the Jaguars, with several defenders taking turns at guarding Coca. It worked in spades, as the Horsemen held leads of 32-27 after three quarters and 39-33 when Conrad Conway hit a 3-pointer with 5:02 left in the game.

But Capital (4-5) managed to get enough production from the rest of its team to cut the margin. Augie Larranaga hit a 3, Kevin Brown nailed a pair of free throws and Anaya had his drive and free throw cap an 8-2 spurt

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Broncos coach defends Manning after tough night Fox says ‘meaningful statistics’ show Denver QB is still among best

By Arnie Stapleton The Associated Press

rebound for one more chance at completing the comeback. His baseline jumper hit rim, but nothing else.

St. Michael’s guard Marcus Pincheira-Sandoval remembered the teams’ junior varsity game, which Capital won on a putback at the buzzer, as Larranaga’s shot was in the air.

“If he misses this, he’s not getting the rebound and the putback,” Pincheira-Sandoval said. “We had to get out on him right away and box him out. We had no excuse about that.”

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Strange as it sounds, John Fox finds himself needing to defend his five-time MVP quarterback.

“The sky’s not falling. We’re not getting ready to get rid of our quarterback. He’s fine and, you know, we’re all going to get better,” Denver’s coach proclaimed a day after one of Peyton Manning’s worst games as a Bronco.

The Broncos (11-4) blew their shot at earning the top seed in the AFC playoffs for the third straight season when Manning threw four interceptions. Denver’s defense and special teams also committed critical blunders in a 37-28 loss at Cincinnati on Monday night.

Denver can still clinch the No. 2 seed and the firstround bye that comes with it by beating Oakland (3-12) at home next Sunday.

The Broncos down-shifted their high-octane offense a month ago and began relying more on their ground game to ease Manning’s burden. They had to dial up the pass Monday night when they found themselves trailing the Bengals 20-7 at halftime.

It worked, and they took a 28-27 lead into the fourth quarter, only to see Manning throw two interceptions

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Capital’s Eric Coca goes up for two points against St. Michael’s Cameron Conway, left, and Marcus Pincheira-Sandoval during Tuesday’s game at Edward A. Ortiz Memorial Gymnasium. Coca put up 20 points despite the attention he received from the Horsemen. View more photos at http://tinyurl.com/n4an9u3. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

that tied the score. St. Michael’s had three turnovers in that stretch, and Joey Najjar missed a free throw that gave the Jaguars a second life.

“We ran the play we wanted against [the box-and-one],” Capital head coach Ben Gomez said. “We weren’t as effective as we wanted to be.”

Sometimes effectiveness simply comes down to hitting the shot that is there. Larranaga had that chance in the final seconds, as he had a wide-open look at a 3 that hit the front of the rim, but he managed to get the

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ix games.

Nine days.

Two towns.

Two tournaments.

If you’re a Pecos Panther, Mora Ranger, McCurdy Bobcat or an Escalante Lobo, the next two weeks will either make or break your basketball spirit. Thanks to the quirks of the calendar and the holiday season, those four boys teams will go through the roundball meat grinder starting Friday afternoon at Santa Rosa High School.

It won’t stop until Jan. 3 in Ben Luján Gymnasium at Pojoaque Valley.

They will take part in two tournaments — the Tri-Cities and the Northern Rio Grande — in that stretch of time, and it will be the

ultimate test of a player’s passion for the sport and the endurance he must demonstrate to get through the rigors of (at least) 204 minutes of varsity basketball.

James Oh, and they get Barron to ring in 2015 in Commentary Bun Luján Gymnasium for the opening round of the NRG. But for nine days, they can all say they know what it’s like to be a professional.

“I tell the kids they have to pretend they’re in the NBA because that’s

how they do it,” Pecos head coach Ira Harge said. “There’s not much breathing room, and that’s the part we all like.”

Yet, it’s not as simple as just going out there to just play. The winter season is a time for illness, and many teams are already battling colds or the flu. And tournaments often see injuries pop up. Mora had point guard Casimiro Fresquez suffer a sprained ankle and Santiago Laumbach battle a concussion in this past weekend’s Ben Luján Tournament.

It’s not that easy for the coaches, either.

“If I get a little frog in my throat, do I want to sit?” Harge said. “Absolutely. We’re on the road continuously

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through the first of the year. But we do what it takes to make it work.”

Then there’s the uniqueness of the NRG Tournament wherein the committee does not set the bracket until the Sunday before the tournament.

Teams are seeded based on their records, but because four of those teams still have a game to play on Monday (the Tri-Cities Tournament will not play on Sunday), the committee likely will not take those into account for the bracket.

If there is an upside to this excursion, it’s that those teams will have a better grasp on the personalities of their teams, as the fatigue of playing will bring out the baser instincts of every player.

“When adversity strikes, people revert back to what they do,” Harge said. “You find out what your team’s characteristics are playing that many games in so few days. As coaches, we have to get those kids who withdraw to re-engage, or the ones who get mad to calm down.”

And, with basketball so ingrained in the Northern culture, sometimes you have to enjoy the downtime when you get it. Harge said he’ll give his team as much rest as it needs during this stretch. And, no, he won’t unlock the gym doors when his Panthers inquire about getting some time in during this stretch.

Sometimes, too much of a good thing is not a good thing at all.

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NFL American Conference W East y-N. England 12 Miami 8 Buffalo 8 N.Y. Jets 3 South W y-Indianapolis 10 Houston 8 Jacksonville 3 Tennessee 2 North W x-Cincinnati 10 x-Pittsburgh 10 Baltimore 9 Cleveland 7 West W y-Denver 11 San Diego 9 Kansas City 8 Oakland 3

L 3 7 7 12 L 5 7 12 13 L 4 5 6 8 L 4 6 7 12

T 0 0 0 0 T 0 0 0 0 T 1 0 0 0 T 0 0 0 0

Pct .800 .533 .533 .200 Pct .667 .533 .200 .133 Pct .700 .667 .600 .467 Pct .733 .600 .533 .200

PF PA 459 296 364 336 326 280 246 377 PF PA 431 359 349 290 232 389 244 411 PF PA 348 317 409 351 389 292 289 317 PF PA 435 340 341 329 334 274 239 405

National Conference East W L T Pct PF PA y-Dallas 11 4 0 .733 423 335 Philadelphia 9 6 0 .600 440 374 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 354 366 Washington 4 11 0 .267 284 394 South W L T Pct PF PA Carolina 6 8 1 .433 305 371 Atlanta 6 9 0 .400 378 383 New Orleans 6 9 0 .400 378 404 Tampa Bay 2 13 0 .133 257 387 North W L T Pct PF PA x-Detroit 11 4 0 .733 301 252 x-Green Bay 11 4 0 .733 456 328 Minnesota 6 9 0 .400 312 334 Chicago 5 10 0 .333 310 429 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Seattle 11 4 0 .733 374 248 x-Arizona 11 4 0 .733 293 279 San Francisco 7 8 0 .467 286 323 St. Louis 6 9 0 .400 318 334 x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division Monday’s Result Cincinnati 37, Denver 28 Sunday, Dec. 28 Indianapolis at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Houston, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Dallas at Washington, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at New England, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 11 1.m.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

Oakland at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Detroit at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m.

Carolina at Atlanta, 2:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.

NFL Playoff Scenarios WEEK 17 AFC CLINCHED: New England - AFC East and home-field advantage throughout AFC playoffs; Denver - AFC West; Indianapolis - AFC South; Cincinnati and Pittsburgh - playoff berth.

NEW ENGLAND (vs. Buffalo) — Clinches home-field advantage throughout AFC playoffs DENVER (vs. Oakland) Clinches first-round bye with: — Win or tie, OR — Cincinnati Loss, OR — Cincinnati tie and Indianapolis win CINCINNATI (at Pittsburgh) — Clinched playoff spot Clinches AFC North with: — Win or tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win and Denver loss or tie, OR — Tie and Denver loss and Indianapolis loss or tie PITTSBURGH (vs. Cincinnati) Pittsburgh clinches AFC North with: — Win SAN DIEGO (at Kansas City) Clinches playoff spot with: — Win, OR — Tie and Baltimore loss or tie BALTIMORE (vs. Cleveland) Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and San Diego loss or tie, OR — Tie and San Diego loss KANSAS CITY (vs. San Diego) Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and Baltimore loss and Houston loss or tie HOUSTON (vs. Jacksonville) Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and Baltimore loss and San Diego loss NFC CLINCHED: Arizona - playoff berth; Seattle - playoff berth; Detroit - playoff berth; Green Bay - playoff berth; Dallas - NFC East.

DALLAS (at Washington) Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win and Arizona loss or tie and Detroit/Green Bay tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie and Arizona loss or tie, OR — Win and Detroit/Green Bay tie, OR — Seattle loss and Arizona loss, OR — Tie and Seattle tie and Arizona loss or tie and Detroit/Green Bay does not end in a tie DETROIT (at Green Bay) Clinches NFC North with: — Win or tie Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie and Arizona loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss and Arizona loss and Dallas loss or tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win, OR — Tie and Dallas loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss and Arizona loss GREEN BAY (vs. Detroit) Clinches NFC North and first-round bye with: — Win Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie SEATTLE (vs. St. Louis) Clinches NFC West with: — Win, OR — Tie and Arizona loss or tie, OR — Arizona loss Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win and Detroit/Green Bay game does not end in a tie, OR — Win and Dallas loss or tie, OR — Tie and Arizona loss or tie and Dallas loss or tie and Green Bay/ Detroit tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win, OR — Tie and Arizona loss or tie and Dallas loss, OR — Tie and Arizona loss or tie and Green Bay/Detroit tie ARIZONA (at San Francisco) Clinches NFC West with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie and Green Bay loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss and Dallas loss or tie and Green Bay/Detroit tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss and Dallas loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss and Green Bay/Detroit tie CAROLINA (at Atlanta) Clinches NFC South with: — Win or tie ATLANTA (vs. Carolina) Clinches NFC South with: — Win

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

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GB — 9 10½ 17½ 17 GB — 1½ 8½ 11½ 11½ GB — 1½ 5½ 9½ 14

Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB Memphis 21 7 .750 — Houston 20 7 .741 ½ Dallas 20 10 .667 2 San Antonio 18 11 .621 3½ New Orleans 14 14 .500 7 Northwest W L Pct GB Portland 23 7 .767 — Oklahoma City 13 16 .448 9½ Denver 12 17 .414 10½ Utah 9 20 .310 13½ Minnesota 5 22 .185 16½ Pacific W L Pct GB Golden State 23 4 .852 — L.A. Clippers 19 10 .655 5 Phoenix 16 14 .533 8½ Sacramento 12 16 .429 11½ L.A. Lakers 9 19 .321 14½ Tuesday’s Games Chicago 99, Washington 91 Orlando 100, Boston 95 Indiana 96, New Orleans 84 Cleveland 125, Minnesota 104 Atlanta 107, L.A. Clippers 104 Philadelphia 91, Miami 87 Brooklyn 102, Denver 96 Portland 115, Oklahoma City 111, OT Charlotte 108, Milwaukee 101 Phoenix 124, Dallas 115 L.A. Lakers 115, Golden State 105 Monday’s Results Charlotte 110, Denver 82 Chicago 129, Toronto 120 Houston 110, Portland 95 Utah 97, Memphis 91 Atlanta 105, Dallas 102 San Antonio 125, L.A. Clippers 118 Golden State 128, Sacramento 108 Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled.

Thursday’s Games Washington at New York, 10 a.m.

Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 12:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Miami, 3 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Calendar Jan. 5 — 10-day contracts can be signed.

Jan. 10 — Contracts guaranteed for rest of season.

Feb. 13-15 — All-Star weekend, New York.

Feb. 19 — Trade deadline (1 p.m.).

April 15 — Last day of regular season.

NBA Boxscores Cavaliers 125, Timberwolves 104 MINNESOTA (104) Muhammad 7-17 4-6 18, Young 6-18 1-2 13, Dieng 6-10 8-8 20, LaVine 3-6 0-1 6, Wiggins 9-16 6-8 27, Budinger 2-4 2-2 7, Williams 3-8 0-0 6, Bennett 0-4 0-0 0, Adrien 1-2 0-0 2, Daniels 0-1 0-0 0, Hummel 2-2 0-0 4, Robinson III 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 39-88 22-29 104.

CLEVELAND (125) James 8-16 4-5 24, Love 5-11 9-11 20, Varejao 3-5 0-0 6, Irving 12-19 3-3 29, Miller 0-1 0-0 0, Waiters 5-12 7-8 19, Thompson 2-4 1-2 5, Dellavedova 1-5 0-0 3, Marion 5-7 1-2 11, Haywood 1-1 0-0 2, Jones 1-2 0-0 3, Harris 1-1 0-0 3, Price 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 44-84 25-31 125.

Minnesota 26 30 23 25—104 Cleveland 27 37 32 29—125 3-Point Goals—Minnesota 4-13 (Wiggins 3-3, Budinger 1-2, Daniels 0-1, LaVine 0-1, Muhammad 0-2, Williams 0-4), Cleveland 12-24 (James 4-7, Irving 2-4, Waiters 2-4, Harris 1-1, Jones 1-2, Love 1-2, Dellavedova 1-3, Miller 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Minnesota 51 (Dieng 11), Cleveland 51 (Love 10). Assists—Minnesota 25 (Williams 7), Cleveland 24 (Irving, Waiters, Love 4). Total Fouls—Minnesota 23, Cleveland 23. Technicals— Minnesota defensive three second 2.

A—20,562 (20,562).

76ers 91, Heat 87 PHILADELPHIA (91) Covington 3-11 4-4 11, Mbah a Moute 8-16 3-4 19, Noel 0-5 1-4 1, CarterWilliams 9-18 0-0 20, Sampson 3-6 2-2 8, McDaniels 4-8 4-4 13, Sims 3-6 2-2 8, Grant 3-7 4-7 11. Totals 33-77 20-27 91.

MIAMI (87) Deng 3-11 0-0 7, Williams 6-9 2-2 17, Andersen 2-4 2-3 6, Chalmers 4-8 2-2 11, Wade 9-21 5-7 23, Haslem 2-4 0-2 4, Cole 2-8 2-2 7, Granger 2-7 0-0 6, Ennis 3-6 0-0 6, Whiteside 0-2 0-0 0.

Totals 33-80 13-18 87.

Philadelphia 19 23 31 18—91 Miami 32 25 21 9—87 3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 5-19 (Carter-Williams 2-4, Grant 1-2, McDaniels 1-3, Covington 1-5, Sims 0-1, Mbah a Moute 0-2, Sampson 0-2), Miami 8-26 (Williams 3-5, Granger 2-3, Cole 1-3, Chalmers 1-4, Deng 1-6, Ennis 0-2, Wade 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Philadelphia 50 (Noel 10), Miami 53 (Haslem 8).

Assists—Philadelphia 11 (CarterWilliams 5), Miami 13 (Wade 6). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 20, Miami 19.

A—19,600 (19,600).

Nets 102, Nuggets 96 DENVER (96) Chandler 5-17 0-0 11, Faried 8-11 4-5 20, Mozgov 1-7 3-4 5, Lawson 10-20 5-6 29, Afflalo 4-10 1-2 11, Hickson 4-7 2-2 10, Robinson 1-4 0-0 2, Gee 0-1 2-2 2, Nurkic 3-5 0-1 6. Totals 36-82 17-22 96.

BROOKLYN (102) Johnson 11-19 1-2 27, Garnett 1-5 0-0 2, Plumlee 9-14 1-3 19, Jack 7-13 3-3 17, Karasev 4-8 4-4 12, Teletovic 1-7 0-0 3, Davies 1-3 0-0 2, Lopez 3-5 0-0 6, Anderson 1-4 0-0 2, Morris 2-4 0-0 4, Bogdanovic 2-7 0-0 5, Jefferson 1-2 1-2 3. Totals 43-91 10-14 102.

Denver 27 27 23 19—96 Brooklyn 30 28 18 26—102 3-Point Goals—Denver 7-25 (Lawson 4-8, Afflalo 2-6, Chandler 1-9, Robinson 0-2), Brooklyn 6-23 (Johnson 4-5, Teletovic 1-4, Bogdanovic 1-4, Morris 0-1, Jefferson 0-1, Jack 0-2, Anderson 0-3, Karasev 0-3). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Denver 58 (Faried 14), Brooklyn 45 (Plumlee 13). Assists— Denver 15 (Lawson 9), Brooklyn 21 (Jack 8). Total Fouls—Denver 15, Brooklyn 19. Technicals—Denver defensive three second. A—17,080 (17,732).

HOCKEY

Bulls 99, Wizards 91

Suns 124, Mavericks 115

CHICAGO (99) Dunleavy 0-2 0-0 0, Gasol 7-13 3-3 18, Noah 4-12 0-2 8, Rose 10-17 4-4 25, J.Butler 4-13 2-4 11, Brooks 5-13 3-5 13, Gibson 5-5 2-2 12, Moore 2-4 0-0 5, Mirotic 2-5 2-4 7, Snell 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 39-85 16-24 99.

WASHINGTON (91) Pierce 4-10 2-5 12, Humphries 4-9 0-0 8, Gortat 5-15 4-4 14, Wall 9-16 0-0 18, Beal 6-12 1-2 15, Nene 3-10 2-3 8, R.Butler 1-7 1-1 4, Miller 4-6 0-0 8, Porter 1-1 0-0 2, Seraphin 1-3 0-1 2.

Totals 38-89 10-16 91.

Chicago 21 25 24 29—99 Washington 20 20 25 26—91 3-Point Goals—Chicago 5-17 (Gasol 1-1, Moore 1-1, Mirotic 1-3, Rose 1-3, J.Butler 1-4, Dunleavy 0-2, Brooks 0-3), Washington 5-9 (Beal 2-3, Pierce 2-4, R.Butler 1-2). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Chicago 63 (Noah 11), Washington 48 (Gortat 11). Assists— Chicago 20 (Brooks 6), Washington 21 (Wall 9). Total Fouls—Chicago 14, Washington 17. Technicals—Chicago defensive three second, Gortat.

A—20,356 (20,308).

DALLAS (115) Parsons 3-9 0-0 7, Nowitzki 7-12 6-7 22, Chandler 6-8 10-12 22, Rondo 6-14 0-0 13, Ellis 5-17 4-4 15, Villanueva 7-13 0-0 18, Jefferson 0-1 1-2 1, Harris 1-5 1-2 3, Smith 2-2 2-2 6, Barea 4-7 0-0 8, Powell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-88 24-29 115.

PHOENIX (124) Tucker 5-8 3-5 15, Mark.Morris 4-9 0-0 9, Len 6-9 5-7 17, G.Dragic 10-17 3-5 25, Bledsoe 6-19 3-3 16, Marc.Morris 2-6 0-0 4, Plumlee 1-4 2-4 4, Green 7-13 2-2 22, Thomas 3-12 5-6 12. Totals 44-97 23-32 124.

Dallas 26 19 29 41—115 Phoenix 25 28 36 35—124 3-Point Goals—Dallas 9-25 (Villanueva 4-9, Nowitzki 2-3, Rondo 1-1, Ellis 1-4, Parsons 1-5, Barea 0-1, Harris 0-2), Phoenix 13-33 (Green 6-9, Tucker 2-3, G.Dragic 2-6, Mark.Morris 1-2, Thomas 1-5, Bledsoe 1-7, Marc.

Morris 0-1). Fouled Out—Rondo, Len. Rebounds—Dallas 58 (Chandler 14), Phoenix 56 (Bledsoe 10). Assists— Dallas 22 (Rondo 8), Phoenix 30 (Bledsoe 11). Total Fouls—Dallas 27, Phoenix 26. Technicals—Dallas Coach Carlisle. A—18,055 (18,055).

Pacers 96, Pelicans 84 NEW ORLEANS (84) Babbitt 3-5 1-2 10, Davis 8-18 5-6 21, Asik 3-6 0-2 6, Holiday 7-21 2-2 16, Evans 6-13 2-3 14, Rivers 1-5 2-2 4, Anderson 1-8 2-2 4, Cunningham 2-5 0-0 4, Ajinca 1-1 0-0 2, Salmons 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 33-83 14-19 84.

INDIANA (96) S.Hill 6-11 0-0 13, West 6-8 1-2 13, Hibbert 5-10 4-6 14, Watson 5-10 0-0 10, Stuckey 2-6 1-2 6, Allen 4-5 0-0 8, Miles 4-13 2-2 11, G.Hill 5-8 3-4 15, Scola 2-7 2-2 6. Totals 39-78 13-18 96.

New Orleans 26 14 21 23—84 Indiana 24 20 26 26—96 3-Point Goals—New Orleans 4-20 (Babbitt 3-5, Salmons 1-1, Rivers 0-1, Evans 0-2, Holiday 0-5, Anderson 0-6), Indiana 5-15 (G.Hill 2-3, Stuckey 1-1, S.Hill 1-3, Miles 1-5, Watson 0-3).

Fouled Out—Anderson. Rebounds— New Orleans 54 (Evans 11), Indiana 45 (Allen, West 7). Assists—New Orleans 15 (Holiday 5), Indiana 24 (West 5). Total Fouls—New Orleans 18, Indiana 19. A—17,336 (18,165).

Magic 100, Celtics 95 BOSTON (95) J.Green 2-6 0-0 4, Sullinger 0-5 0-0 0, Zeller 6-9 10-10 22, Nelson 3-9 2-2 9, Bradley 7-13 2-2 20, Turner 1-6 0-0 3, Olynyk 5-12 3-4 14, Smart 0-0 3-7 3, Wright 2-4 1-2 5, Pressey 1-2 0-0 2, Bass 5-16 1-2 11, Crowder 1-3 0-0 2.

Totals 33-85 22-29 95.

ORLANDO (100) Harris 7-13 2-4 19, O’Quinn 6-12 4-4 18, Vucevic 8-12 2-2 18, Payton 6-10 0-2 12, Oladipo 2-15 4-5 8, Frye 3-5 0-0 8, Fournier 2-9 3-6 7, B.Gordon 4-4 0-0 8, Dedmon 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 39-83 15-23 100.

Boston 9 21 30 35—95 Orlando 26 27 32 15—100 3-Point Goals—Boston 7-23 (Bradley 4-6, Turner 1-2, Olynyk 1-3, Nelson 1-6, Bass 0-1, J.Green 0-1, Pressey 0-1, Crowder 0-1, Sullinger 0-2), Orlando 7-18 (Harris 3-4, Frye 2-3, O’Quinn 2-4, Payton 0-1, Oladipo 0-2, Fournier 0-4).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Boston 53 (Zeller 10), Orlando 58 (O’Quinn 13). Assists—Boston 22 (Nelson 11), Orlando 23 (Payton 7). Total Fouls— Boston 21, Orlando 21. A—17,489 (18,500).

Hawks 107, Clippers 104 L.A. CLIPPERS (104) Barnes 1-6 3-4 6, Griffin 9-17 3-4 21, Jordan 7-11 1-4 15, Paul 7-18 2-2 19, Redick 6-11 3-5 18, Davis 0-2 2-4 2, Crawford 5-19 5-5 18, Bullock 0-1 0-0 0, Turkoglu 1-3 0-0 2, Farmar 1-4 0-0 3.

Totals 37-92 19-28 104.

ATLANTA (107) Carroll 9-12 2-3 25, Millsap 4-12 8-9 17, Horford 7-18 6-8 20, Schroder 2-8 1-2 5, Korver 4-9 2-2 14, Brand 1-2 1-2 3, Sefolosha 3-5 2-2 9, Teague 3-8 2-3 9, Scott 1-1 3-4 5, Bazemore 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 34-76 27-35 107.

L.A. Clippers 25 32 26 21—104 Atlanta 31 19 31 26—107 3-Point Goals—L.A. Clippers 11-29 (Redick 3-6, Paul 3-7, Crawford 3-7, Farmar 1-2, Barnes 1-4, Turkoglu 0-1, Bullock 0-1, Griffin 0-1), Atlanta 12-23 (Carroll 5-6, Korver 4-7, Sefolosha 1-2, Teague 1-3, Millsap 1-4, Horford 0-1).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Clippers 62 (Jordan 22), Atlanta 52 (Carroll 10). Assists—L.A. Clippers 26 (Griffin 11), Atlanta 28 (Millsap 7).

Total Fouls—L.A. Clippers 23, Atlanta 21. Technicals—Schroder. A—19,191 (18,729).

Hornets 108, Bucks 101 CHARLOTTE (108) Kidd-Gilchrist 4-10 2-2 10, Zeller 1-4 4-4 6, Jefferson 6-11 0-0 12, Walker 9-18 8-10 27, Henderson 6-10 7-8 20, Hairston 4-7 0-0 10, Williams 4-6 0-0 12, Neal 0-9 5-6 5, Biyombo 1-2 2-6 4, Roberts 1-5 0-0 2. Totals 36-82 28-36 108.

MILWAUKEE (101) Antetokounmpo 3-4 5-6 11, O’Bryant 2-3 0-0 4, Sanders 1-6 3-6 5, Knight 13-21 4-4 34, Mayo 3-8 0-0 7, Ilyasova 2-8 0-0 4, Pachulia 1-6 1-1 3, Dudley 4-9 0-0 10, Bayless 4-7 0-0 8, Marshall 1-3 1-1 3, Middleton 5-7 1-2 12. Totals 39-82 15-20 101.

Charlotte 28 26 34 20—108 Milwaukee 30 26 24 21—101 3-Point Goals—Charlotte 8-21 (Williams 4-5, Hairston 2-4, Henderson 1-1, Walker 1-4, Roberts 0-2, Neal 0-5), Milwaukee 8-21 (Knight 4-7, Dudley 2-5, Middleton 1-2, Mayo 1-2, Bayless 0-1, Marshall 0-1, Ilyasova 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Charlotte 57 (Jefferson 9), Milwaukee 45 (Sanders 8). Assists—Charlotte 21 (Walker, Henderson, Roberts 4), Milwaukee 25 (Knight 5). Total Fouls—Charlotte 21, Milwaukee 25.

Technicals—Mayo, Sanders. A—14,653 (18,717).

Trail Blazers 115, Thunder 111, OT PORTLAND (115) Crabbe 2-4 0-0 5, Aldridge 9-28 7-8 25, Freeland 1-5 2-2 4, Lillard 11-21 10-11 40, Matthews 8-15 1-1 22, Kaman 3-8 0-0 6, Blake 1-4 2-2 5, McCollum 2-3 0-0 6, Robinson 0-2 0-0 0, Wright 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 38-91 22-24 115.

OKLAHOMA CITY (111) Jones 0-5 0-0 0, Ibaka 7-14 0-0 16, Adams 3-4 1-1 7, Westbrook 16-34 7-9 40, Roberson 1-5 0-0 2, Jackson 8-17 4-4 21, Perkins 2-4 0-0 4, Morrow 4-9 0-0 10, Collison 4-4 1-1 9, Smith 1-5 0-0 2, Lamb 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 46-101 13-15 111.

Portland 19 35 19 25 17—115 Oklahoma City26 17 30 25 13—111 3-Point Goals—Portland 17-31 (Lillard 8-12, Matthews 5-8, McCollum 2-3, Crabbe 1-3, Blake 1-4, Aldridge 0-1), Oklahoma City 6-19 (Ibaka 2-3, Morrow 2-5, Jackson 1-2, Westbrook 1-5, Jones 0-2, Roberson 0-2). Fouled Out—Ibaka, Westbrook. Rebounds— Portland 54 (Kaman, Aldridge 9), Oklahoma City 58 (Adams 11).

Assists—Portland 22 (Lillard 11), Oklahoma City 20 (Westbrook 6). Total Fouls—Portland 20, Oklahoma City 28. Technicals—Aldridge, Freeland, Adams, Ibaka, Westbrook. Ejected— Aldridge, Ibaka. A—18,203 (18,203).

Lakers 115, Warriors 105 GOLDEN STATE (105) Barnes 2-6 0-0 5, Green 1-6 0-0 2, Ezeli 4-8 2-2 10, Curry 10-14 0-0 22, Thompson 6-15 2-2 18, Speights 3-8 0-0 6, Iguodala 1-4 0-0 3, Lee 4-8 4-4 12, Livingston 1-2 3-4 5, Holiday 3-6 3-3 11, Barbosa 3-5 1-2 9, Kuzmic 1-1 0-0 2, Rush 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 39-84 15-17 105.

L.A. LAKERS (115) Johnson 5-10 2-2 14, Davis 7-7 0-0 14, Hill 1-5 2-4 4, Price 6-10 2-2 17, Ellington 5-9 0-0 12, Boozer 8-11 2-6 18, Lin 4-11 0-0 11, Young 5-13 3-3 15, Sacre 3-6 0-0 6, Clarkson 2-7 0-0 4. Totals 46-89 11-17 115.

Golden State 24 24 25 32—105 L.A. Lakers 34 29 32 20—115 3-Point Goals—Golden State 12-26 (Thompson 4-8, Barbosa 2-3, Holiday 2-4, Curry 2-5, Barnes 1-1, Iguodala 1-3, Rush 0-1, Speights 0-1), L.A. Lakers 12-26 (Lin 3-5, Price 3-7, Johnson 2-4, Ellington 2-4, Young 2-6). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Golden State 45 (Lee 7), L.A. Lakers 51 (Boozer 9). Assists—Golden State 20 (Curry 6), L.A. Lakers 28 (Price 8). Total Fouls—Golden State 18, L.A. Lakers 15. A—18,997 (18,997).

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COLLEGE FBS Bowls Tuesday’s Games Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl Marshall 52, Northern Illinois 23 Poinsettia Bowl - At San Diego Navy 17, San Diego State 16 Monday’s Result Miami Beach Bowl Memphis 55, BYU 48, 2OT Wednesday’s Games Bahamas Bowl - At Nassau Western Kentucky (7-5) vs. Central Michigan (7-5), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Hawaii Bowl - At Honolulu Rice (7-5) vs. Fresno State (6-7), 6 p.m. (ESPN)

NCAA Boxscore Mashall 52, N. Illinois 23 Marshall 14 10 14 14—52 N. Illinois 7 6 7 3—23 First Quarter NIU—Brescacin 19 pass from Hare (Hagan kick), 7:33.

Mar—Reaves 93 kickoff return (Haig kick), 7:19.

Mar—Cato 5 run (Haig kick), 3:42.

Second Quarter Mar—FG Haig 28, 11:51.

NIU—FG Hagan 19, 7:30.

Mar—D.Johnson 2 run (Haig kick), 5:29.

NIU—FG Hagan 30, :07.

Third Quarter Mar—Shuler 6 pass from Cato (Haig kick), 6:39.

NIU—Stingily 24 run (Hagan kick), 4:50.

Mar—Jean-Louis 11 pass from Cato (Haig kick), 2:06.

Fourth Quarter Mar—McManus 27 pass from Cato (Haig kick), 11:48.

NIU—FG Hagan 31, 8:39.

Mar—Cato 4 run (Haig kick), 4:10.

A—29,419.

Mar NIU First downs 28 25 Rushes-yards 38-224 50-200 Passing 281 225 Comp-Att-Int 25-37-0 15-28-0 Return Yards 0 0 Punts-Avg. 3-34.3 6-41.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 6-60 4-41 Time of Possession 29:18 30:42 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Marshall, D.Johnson 15131, Watson 4-25, Cato 10-25, Butler 5-17, Pittman 2-14, Foster 2-12. N. Illinois, Bouagnon 13-82, Stingily 1876, Hare 14-50, A.Daniels 2-7, Turner 2-(minus 5), Team 1-(minus 10).

PASSING—Marshall, Cato 25-37-0-281.

N. Illinois, Hare 15-27-0-225, Team 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING—Marshall, Shuler 18-185, McManus 2-47, Jean-Louis 2-26, Frohnapfel 2-16, Yurachek 1-7.

N. Illinois, Da’.Brown 4-63, Turner 4-55, Brescacin 2-40, A.Daniels 1-29, Blake 1-15, Eakes 1-13, Stingily 1-8, Bouagnon 1-2.

NAVY 17, SAN DIEGO ST. 16 Navy 7 0 7 3—17 San Diego St. 10 3 3 0—16 First Quarter Navy—Reynolds 1 run (Grebe kick), 7:35.

SDSU—Pumphrey 5 run (Hageman kick), 5:35.

SDSU—FG Hageman 43, 2:51.

Second Quarter SDSU—FG Hageman 37, 6:34.

Third Quarter Navy—Reynolds 6 run (Grebe kick), 8:28.

SDSU—FG Hageman 30, 4:16.

Fourth Quarter Navy—FG Grebe 24, 1:27.

A—33,077.

Navy SDSU First downs 13 18 Rushes-yards 58-254 33-186 Passing 17 141 Comp-Att-Int 3-7-0 11-27-2 Return Yards 52 0 Punts-Avg. 4-42.8 3-34.3 Fumbles-Lost 4-4 1-1 Penalties-Yards 5-45 5-34 Time of Possession 30:27 29:33 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Navy, C.Swain 8-72, Williams-Jenkins 8-67, N.Copeland 12-63, Sanders 4-24, Whiteside 6-20, Reynolds 19-9, Team 1-(minus 1). San Diego St., Pumphrey 21-112, Price 11-69, Kaehler 1-5.

PASSING—Navy, Reynolds 3-7-0-17.

San Diego St., Kaehler 11-27-2-141.

RECEIVING—Navy, Dudeck 2-15, Whiteside 1-2. San Diego St., Pumphrey 4-42, Clark 3-45, Price 2-9, Judge 1-32, Favreau 1-13.

NHL Eastern Conference GP Pittsburgh 34 Montreal 35 N.Y. Islandrs 34 Tampa Bay 36 Detroit 35 N.Y. Rangrs 32 Toronto 35 Washington 34 Boston 35 Florida 32 Philadlphia 34 Ottawa 34 Columbus 33 New Jersey 36 Buffalo 35 Carolina 34

W 22 22 23 21 18 18 20 17 18 15 14 14 14 12 13 10

L OL Pts GFGA 7 5 49 108 80 11 2 46 95 84 11 0 46 105 94 11 4 46 117 96 8 9 45 100 87 10 4 40 97 83 12 3 43 118102 11 6 40 99 90 14 3 39 91 91 9 8 38 73 82 14 6 34 97101 14 6 34 90 94 16 3 31 80107 17 7 31 78104 19 3 29 69115 20 4 24 70 93

Western Conference GP W L OL Pts GFGA Anaheim 36 23 8 5 51 104 98 Chicago 35 23 10 2 48 107 72 Nashville 33 22 9 2 46 95 70 San Jose 35 19 11 5 43 99 90 St. Louis 34 21 10 3 45 100 86 Vancouver 33 20 11 2 42 99 91 Winnipeg 35 18 10 7 43 88 81 Los Angeles 35 17 11 7 41 97 88 Calgary 36 18 15 3 39 104 98 Minnesota 32 16 13 3 35 93 89 Colorado 34 13 13 8 34 90101 Dallas 33 14 14 5 33 95113 Arizona 34 12 18 4 28 80112 Edmonton 35 7 21 7 21 75121 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Tuesday’s Games Carolina 2, New Jersey 1, SO Boston 5, Nashville 3 Montreal 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 N.Y. Rangers 4, Washington 2 Philadelphia 5, Minnesota 2 Toronto 4, Dallas 0 Detroit 6, Buffalo 3 Tampa Bay 4, Pittsburgh 3 Arizona 5, Edmonton 1 Colorado 5, St. Louis 0 Winnipeg 5, Chicago 1 Monday’s Results Florida 4, Pittsburgh 3, SO Washington 2, Ottawa 1 Nashville 5, Columbus 1 Vancouver 7, Arizona 1 Anaheim 3, San Jose 2, OT Calgary 4, Los Angeles 3, OT Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled.

Calendar Jan. 1 — Winter Classic: Chicago at Washington.

NHL Summaries Canadiens 3, Islanders 1 Montreal 0 2 1—3 N.Y. Islanders 1 0 0—1 First Period—1, N.Y. Islanders, Okposo 8 (Tavares, Visnovsky), 12:04.

Second Period—2, Montreal, Markov 5 (Subban), 6:10. 3, Montreal, Gallagher 10 (Gonchar, Galchenyuk), 11:27.

Third Period—4, Montreal, Desharnais 5 (Eller, Parenteau), 18:49.

Shots on Goal—Montreal 3-9-9—21.

N.Y. Islanders 14-9-15—38.

Power-play opportunities—Montreal 0 of 2; N.Y. Islanders 0 of 2.

Goalies—Montreal, Price 19-9-1 (38 shots-37 saves). N.Y. Islanders, Johnson 5-5-0 (21-18).

A—16,170 (16,170). T—2:25.

Bruins 5, Predators 3 Nashville 2 0 1—3 Boston 2 2 1—5 First Period—1, Boston, Marchand 9 (Bergeron), 2:01. 2, Nashville, Wilson 8 (Neal, Ekholm), 7:35. 3, Boston, Krejci 4 (Krug, Lucic), 9:43 (pp). 4, Nashville, Jarnkrok 4 (Ekholm, Beck), 11:31.

Second Period—5, Boston, Eriksson 8 (Bartkowski, Kelly), 5:53. 6, Boston, Marchand 10 (Bergeron, Miller), 10:51.

Third Period—7, Nashville, Beck 4 (Jarnkrok, Weber), 6:48. 8, Boston, Eriksson 9 (Bergeron, Kelly), 19:22 (en).

Shots on Goal—Nashville 7-3-15—25.

Boston 10-5-10—25.

Power-play opportunities—Nashville 0 of 2; Boston 1 of 4.

Goalies—Nashville, Hutton 0-3-1 (24 shots-20 saves). Boston, Rask 14-10-3 (25-22).

A—17,565 (17,565). T—2:29.

Hurricanes 2, Devils 1, SO Carolina 0 0 1 0—2 New Jersey 1 0 0 0—1 Carolina won shootout 1-0 First Period—1, New Jersey, Gionta 3 (Bernier, Ruutu), 13:32.

Second Period—None.

Third Period—2, Carolina, Hainsey 1 (Dwyer, Sekera), 11:59.

Overtime—None.

Shootout—Carolina 1 (Skinner NG, Gerbe NG, Terry G), New Jersey 0 (Gomez NG, Cammalleri NG, Henrique NG).

Shots on Goal—Carolina 6-15-9-3—33.

New Jersey 5-3-7-4—19.

Power-play opportunities—Carolina 0 of 2; New Jersey 0 of 3.

Goalies—Carolina, Khudobin 1-8-2 (19 shots-18 saves). New Jersey, Schneider 11-16-4 (33-32).

A—16,101 (17,625). T—2:32.

Rangers 4, Capitals 2 Washington 0 0 2—2 N.Y. Rangers 1 1 2—4 First Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, Nash 21 (Zuccarello, Brassard), 3:32.

Second Period—2, N.Y. Rangers, St. Louis 11 (Boyle, Brassard), 1:03 (pp).

Third Period—3, N.Y. Rangers, Nash 22 (Zuccarello), 5:12. 4, Washington, Kuznetsov 4 (Brouwer, Carlson), 5:53.

5, Washington, Ovechkin 16 (Carlson, Johansson), 10:58 (pp). 6, N.Y. Rangers, St. Louis 12 (Nash, Stepan), 16:12 (pp).

Shots on Goal—Washington 5-621—32. N.Y. Rangers 9-9-9—27.

Power-play opportunities—Washington 1 of 5; N.Y. Rangers 2 of 7.

Goalies—Washington, Holtby 15-8-5 (27 shots-23 saves). N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist 15-7-3 (32-30).

A—18,006 (18,006). T—2:30.

Flyers 5, Wild 2 Philadelphia 2 1 2—5 Minnesota 1 1 0—2 First Period—1, Philadelphia, Couturier 9 (Umberger), 7:16. 2, Philadelphia, Giroux 11 (L.Schenn, Voracek), 9:33.

3, Minnesota, Scandella 8 (Spurgeon, Parise), 10:03.

Second Period—4, Minnesota, Coyle 3 (Pominville, Suter), 3:43 (pp). 5, Philadelphia, Simmonds 15 (B.Schenn, Streit), 15:22.

Third Period—6, Philadelphia, Lecavalier 5 (MacDonald, Bellemare), 5:29.

7, Philadelphia, Raffl 10 (Voracek), 19:31 (en).

Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 8-1111—30. Minnesota 7-10-7—24.

Power-play opportunities—Philadelphia 0 of 1; Minnesota 1 of 5.

Goalies—Philadelphia, Emery 7-4-1 (24 shots-22 saves). Minnesota, Kuemper 11-10-0 (29-25).

A—19,020 (17,954). T—2:34.

Maple Leafs 4, Stars 0 Toronto 1 2 1—4 Dallas 0 0 0—0 First Period—1, Toronto, Kadri 10 (van Riemsdyk, Kessel), :55.

Second Period—2, Toronto, van Riemsdyk 15 (Kadri, Bernier), 6:21. 3, Toronto, Bozak 13 (Phaneuf, Kessel), 10:30 (pp).

Third Period—4, Toronto, Santorelli 7 (van Riemsdyk), 16:09 (en).

Shots on Goal—Toronto 8-11-7—26.

Dallas 11-13-19—43.

Power-play opportunities—Toronto 1 of 5; Dallas 0 of 4.

Goalies—Toronto, Bernier 14-8-3 (43 shots-43 saves). Dallas, Lehtonen 13-8-5 (25-22).

A—18,532 (18,532). T—2:38.

Red Wings 6, Sabres 3 Buffalo 2 1 0—3 Detroit 1 1 4—6 First Period—1, Buffalo, Deslauriers 3 (Stafford, Flynn), 2:36. 2, Detroit, Weiss 5 (Kindl, Nyquist), 10:50 (pp).

3, Buffalo, Stewart 4 (C.Hodgson, Grigorenko), 13:35.

Second Period—4, Buffalo, Benoit 1 (Flynn), 9:00 (sh). 5, Detroit, DeKeyser 2 (Jurco, Glendening), 17:54.

Third Period—6, Detroit, Zetterberg 7 (Datsyuk, Abdelkader), 4:19. 7, Detroit, Tatar 13 (DeKeyser, Nyquist), 11:40 (pp). 8, Detroit, Franzen 7 (Zetterberg, Kindl), 14:06 (pp). 9, Detroit, Tatar 14 (Smith, Nyquist), 17:48 (pp).

Shots on Goal—Buffalo 6-4-6—16.

Detroit 15-11-13—39.

Power-play opportunities—Buffalo 0 of 1; Detroit 4 of 6.

Goalies—Buffalo, Neuvirth 3-8-1 (39 shots-33 saves). Detroit, Mrazek 4-2-1 (16-13).

A—20,027 (20,027). T—2:29.

Lightning 4, Penguins 3 Pittsburgh 0 1 2—3 Tampa Bay 2 2 0—4 First Period—1, Tampa Bay, Johnson 11 (Kucherov, Palat), 6:54. 2, Tampa Bay, Johnson 12 (Palat, Hedman), 19:56.

Second Period—3, Tampa Bay, Kucherov 14 (Carle, Filppula), :52. 4, Tampa Bay, Johnson 13 (Kucherov, Palat), 2:37. 5, Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 13 (Klinkhammer), 10:15.

Third Period—6, Pittsburgh, Kunitz 10 (Malkin), 9:55. 7, Pittsburgh, Letang 8 (Hornqvist, Malkin), 18:29.

Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 7-1210—29. Tampa Bay 8-12-7—27.

Power-play opportunities—Pittsburgh 0 of 2; Tampa Bay 0 of 4.

Goalies—Pittsburgh, Fleury (10 shots-7 saves), Zatkoff 0-1-0 (0:52 second, 17-16). Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 2-1-0 (29-26).

A—19,204 (19,204). T—2:28.

Coyotes 5, Oilers 1 Arizona 2 1 2—5 Edmonton 1 0 0—1 First Period—1, Arizona, Gagner 4 (Erat, Hanzal), 1:44. 2, Arizona, Erat 6 (Murphy, Gagner), 5:00. 3, Edmonton, Schultz 3 (Hunt, Arcobello), 6:18.

Second Period—4, Arizona, Yandle 4 (Doan, Vermette), 7:54.

Third Period—5, Arizona, Gormley 2 (Hanzal, Gagner), 4:07. 6, Arizona, Gagner 5 (Gormley, Hanzal), 4:20.

Shots on Goal—Arizona 8-7-7—22.

Edmonton 13-5-9—27.

Power-play opportunities—Arizona 0 of 2; Edmonton 0 of 6.

Goalies—Arizona, Dubnyk 7-3-2 (27 shots-26 saves). Edmonton, Scrivens 5-13-5 (3-1), Fasth (5:00 first, 19-16).

A—16,839 (16,839). T—2:29.

Avalanche 5, Blues 0 St. Louis 0 0 0—0 Colorado 2 3 0—5 First Period—1, Colorado, Johnson 9 (Duchene, MacKinnon), 15:02.

2, Colorado, Redmond 4 (O’Reilly, Landeskog), 18:45 (pp).

Second Period—3, Colorado, Tanguay 12 (Iginla, Stuart), 5:49. 4, Colorado, O’Reilly 6 (Landeskog, Stuart), 16:47 (pp). 5, Colorado, Iginla 8 (Mitchell, Tanguay), 17:27.

Third Period—None.

Shots on Goal—St. Louis 7-7-12—26.

Colorado 14-17-10—41.

Power-play opportunities—St. Louis 0 of 3; Colorado 2 of 6.

Goalies—St. Louis, Allen 11-4-2 (31 shots-26 saves), Mar.Brodeur (0:00 third, 10-10). Colorado, Varlamov 5-6-5 (26-26).

A—17,634 (18,007). T—2:26.

Jets 5, Blackhawks 1 Winnipeg 3 1 1—5 Chicago 0 1 0—1 First Period—1, Winnipeg, Perreault 7 (Frolik, Scheifele), 9:04. 2, Winnipeg, Little 13 (Ladd, Wheeler), 13:18. 3, Winnipeg, Peluso 1 (Slater, Thorburn), 15:30. Penalties—Harrison, Wpg, major (fighting), 9:21; Carcillo, Chi, major (fighting), 9:21.

Second Period—4, Winnipeg, Perreault 8 (Byfuglien, Ladd), 8:16 (pp).

5, Chicago, Hossa 7 (Saad), 12:05.

Penalties—Seabrook, Chi (holding), 7:10.

Third Period—6, Winnipeg, Wheeler 10, 15:17 (en). Penalties—Versteeg, Chi (unsportsmanlike conduct), 7:43; Wheeler, Wpg (tripping), 10:33; Thorburn, Wpg (slashing), 18:22.

Shots on Goal—Winnipeg 15-7-4—26.

Chicago 7-20-12—39.

Power-play opportunities—Winnipeg 1 of 2; Chicago 0 of 2.

Goalies—Winnipeg, Hutchinson 8-2-2 (39-38). Chicago, Crawford 12-6-2 (1310), Raanta (15:30 first, 12-11).

A—22,095 (19,717). T—2:26.

ON THIS DATE December 24 1950 — Cleveland’s Otto Graham throws four touchdown passes, despite icy footing in Municipal Stadium, and Lou Groza kicks a 16-yard field goal with 28 seconds left to give the Browns a 30-28 victory over the Los Angeles Rams and the NFL title in their first year in the league.

1961 — George Blanda’s 35-yard touchdown pass to Billy Cannon gives the Houston Oilers a 10-3 victory over the San Diego Chargers for their second AFL title.

1997 — In one of the biggest upsets in college basketball, Division II American University of Puerto Rico defeats No. 12 Arkansas 64-59 in the Puerto Rico Holiday Classic.

2000 — Marshall Faulk breaks Emmitt Smith’s NFL record for touchdowns, scoring three times to give him 26 for the St. Louis Rams. Faulk’s three touchdowns and 220 yards fueled a 26-21 victory over the New Orleans Saints. Emmitt Smith scored 25 times for Dallas in 1995.

2000 — Baltimore sets an NFL record for fewest points allowed in a 16game schedule. The Ravens allow 165 points, easily breaking the mark of 187 by the 1986 Chicago Bears.

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Christian Wood had 24 points and 10 rebounds, Rashad Vaughn added 21 points and UNLV pulled off one of its biggest wins in recent years by knocking off No. 3 UNLV 71 Arizona 71-67 Tuesday night.

3 Arizona 67 UNLV (8-3) refused to back down, playing more aggressively most of the game to end Arizona’s regularseason nonconference winning streak at 39 games.

Trailing by five with 2:19 left, Arizona (12-1) fought its way back, pulling within 68-67 on T.J. McConnell’s putback with a minute left.

The Wildcats had a couple of chances in the final minute, but Brandon Ashley’s jumper bounced out and Stanley Johnson was stripped by Patrick McCaw in the open court.

McCaw, who had 13 points, hit two free throws, sending the fans rushing onto the court after the buzzer sounded.

Johnson had 13 points and 13 rebounds.

McConnell finished with 14 points and seven rebounds.

UNLV coach Dave Rice has spent the first two months of the season trying to find the identity of a team that includes five freshmen and a sophomore.

Playing one of the toughest stretches in program history figured to give him and the Rebels a better sense of where they stand.

UNLV already faced No. 14 Utah and has No. 10 Kansas next week, giving the Rebels a run of three top-15 opponents in 16 days for the first time in program history.

UNLV lost 59-46 to Utah and wasn’t expected to give Arizona much of a fight, pegged as a double-digit underdog (12½ points) at home for the first time since 1995.

The Rebels looked like a good bet in the first half, going right at the Wildcats.

UNLV rallied from an eight-point deficit and was the more aggressive team, staying within 41-36 at halftime despite Arizona making 5 of 8 from 3-point range.

STANFORD 74, NO. 9 TEXAS 71 (OT) In Austin, Texas, Anthony Brown scored a season-best 25 points and Chasson Randle added 22 to help Stanford knock off No. 9 Texas in overtime.

The victory was Stanford’s first on the road against a top-10 team since 2008.

Brown gave Stanford (7-3) a one-point lead by making a driving shot with 1:08 left in the extra period. After Texas (10-2) guard Javan Felix missed a 3-point shot, Randle made a jumper with 10 seconds left for the final margin of victory.

Felix and Demarcus Holland then missed forced 3-point shots as Texas tried to tie the game.

Felix led Texas with a season-high 19 points. Guard Kendal Yancy and forward Jonathan Holmes scored 14 apiece.

Holmes created the overtime with a jump shot from the free throw line with 25 seconds remaining.

Stanford had taken the lead 31 seconds earlier on a jumper by Randle from around the foul circle.

NO. 4 LOUISVILLE 80, CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE 55 In Louisville, Ky., Wayne Blackshear hit his first seven shots en route to a careerhigh 31 points that helped the Cardinals rout Cal State Northridge.

After a five-point effort Saturday at Western Kentucky, Blackshear made four 3-pointers en route to scoring 16 of Louisville’s first 21 points. The senior matched his previous career best of 23 points by halftime of a game the Cardinals (11-0) played without suspended junior forward Montrezl Harrell.

Harrell, a preseason All-America selection, was suspended one game by the Atlantic Coast Conference following a

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL 10 a.m. on ESPN — Bahamas Bowl: Cent. Michigan vs. W. Kentucky, in Nassau 6 p.m. on ESPN — Hawaii Bowl: Fresno St. vs. Rice, in Honolulu

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

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

Today (nothing scheduled)

Thursday (nothing scheduled)

Friday Boys basketball — Stu Clark Tournament (at NMHU) — quarterfinals Abq. St. Pius vs. Capital, 1 p.m.

Santa Fe High vs. Bernalillo, 3 p.m.

Las Vegas Robertson vs. Raton, 6 p.m.

West Las Vegas vs. Aztec, 8 p.m.

Tri-Cities Tournament (at Santa Rosa) — quarterfinals McCurdy vs. East Mountain, 2 p.m.

Mora vs. Monte del Sol, 3:30 p.m.

Escalante vs. Pecos, 5 p.m.

Cimarron at Santa Rosa, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday

Arizona forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson takes a shot as UNLV guard Jelan Kendrick, right, defends during Tuesday’s game in Las Vegas, Nev. The Rebels upset the No. 3 Wildcats 71-67. ERIC JAMISON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Boys basketball — Penasco at Clayton, 1 p.m.

Pojoaque Valey at Wingate, 6 p.m.

Stu Clark Tournament (at NMHU) (semifinals) St. Pius-Capital winner vs. Robertson-Raton winner, 6 p.m.

Santa Fe-Bernalillo winner vs. West Las Vegas-Aztec winner, 8 p.m. (consolation round) Santa Fe-Bernalillo loser vs. West Las Vegas-Aztec loser, 1 p.m.

St. Pius-Capital loser vs. Robertson-Raton loser, 3 p.m.

Tri-Cities Tournament (at Santa Rosa) (semifinals) Escalante-Pecos winner vs. Mora-Monte del Sol winner, 5 p.m.

East Mountain-McCurdy winner vs. Cimarron-Santa Rosa winner, 6:30 p.m. (consolation round) Escalante-Pecos loser vs. Mora-Monte del Sol loser, 2 p.m.

East Mountain-McCurdy loser vs. Cimarron-Santa Rosa loser, 3:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — Penasco at Clayton, 2:30 p.m.

McCurdy at West Las Vegas, 4 p.m.

Sunday flagrant-2 foul and ejection at WKU. Louisville didn’t miss him, shooting 47 percent from the field in its final tuneup before Saturday’s rivalry game against top-ranked Kentucky.

The Matadors (3-10) got within 51-43 before Louisville broke it open with a 17-1 run over 3:36 that included six straight points by Blackshear, who made 11 of 17.

NO. 7 VILLANOVA 92, NJIT 67 In Villanova, Pa., Dylan Ennis scored 17 points, Ryan Arcidiacono matched a season high with 16 and the Wildcats shot 54 percent from the field to survive an early upset scare with a win over NJIT. Daniel Ochefu added 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Wildcats (12-0), who remained perfect on the season to match their second best start in program history.

Four players hit double figures for NJIT (5-8), which stunned Michigan earlier this month and looked prime to pull off their second major upset of the season after shooting a blistering 8 for 13 from 3-point range in the first half.

But after trailing by seven early in the second half, Villanova reeled off a 20-3 run to take a 61-51 lead with 10:30 remaining.

Arcidiacono scored seven points in the stretch to hit double figures in scoring for the first time in nine games.

NO. 11 WICHITA ST. 80, HAWAII 79 (OT) In Honolulu, Rashard Kelly grabbed a rebound and put back a short bank shot with 3.8 seconds left as No. 11 Wichita

Boys: Teams learn about importance of little things Continued from Page B-5 Reprieved, the Horsemen did not give the game away again. Senior guard Wesley Vaughan nailed a 3 on their first possession, and it set the tone for the rest of the overtime.

“Marcus just found me on the skip pass,” Vaughan said. “It was a good open look, and it was a big shot.”

Conway, the junior post who finished with 20 points, had a layup on Andrew Griego’s dump-down pass under the basket to make it 46-41 at 2:43. Capital cut the lead to 47-45 when Vaughan missed one of two at the line, then Coca hit two of four free throws to go with Brian Garcia’s two free throws.

But when Coca missed his attempt with the score at 47-45, Horsemen junior Eric Schandelwein grabbed the rebound and was fouled. He hit two free throws for just enough cushion to make the holidays a bit cheerier. So did a 12-for-19 effort from the line by the Horsemen.

“We hadn’t even been at 50 percent for the season,” Vaughan said.

St. Michael’s was better than that this time, and they learned what happens when the little things are done correctly.

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

Capital’s Isaiah Brooks shoots for two points as St. Michael’s Joey Najjar defends during the second quarter of Tuesday’s game in Edward A. Ortiz Memorial Gymnasium. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

State overcame a sloppy night to beat Hawaii in overtime and reach the final of the Diamond Head Classic.

Ron Baker led the Shockers (10-1) with 17 points on another horrid shooting night, though he came up with a key block to send the game into overtime.

Hawaii (8-4) led 77-74 with just under a minute to go and took its last lead when Mike Thomas scored inside off an inbounds pass. Fred VanVleet missed badly on a 3, and Kelly was there for the game-winner.

Aaron Valdes and reserve Isaac Fleming led the Warriors with 17 points. There were 22 lead changes.

Boys basketball — Stu Clark Tournament (at NMHU) 7th place, 1 p.m.

5th place, 3 p.m.

3rd place, 6 p.m.

Championship, 8 p.m.

NO. 14 UTAH 80, SOUTH DAKOTA ST. 66 In Salt Lake City, freshman Brekkott Chapman scored a career-best 22 points to help No. 14 cruise past South Dakota State.

Delon Wright added 17 points, 10 assists and six rebounds for the Utes, who used a four-minute first-half run to take command and never looked back.

Dakarai Tucker added 11 points for Utah (9-2).

Cody Larson scored 13 points, Reed Tellinghuisen added 12 points and Zach Horstman had 10 for the Jackrabbits (9-4), who shot 39 percent and saw their seven-game winning streak snapped.

Chapman displayed a savvy inside-out floor game and seemed to be in the right place at the right time, whether it be by the basket for a rebound and a put-back or flying to the rim to receive a Wright-led fast break pass.

u The Genoveva Chavez Community Center will hold its annual Holiday Hoops 3 on 3 Tournament on Dec. 27-28. Teams will be guaranteed three games, and there will be divisions for youth, teen and adults. Team fee is $50 per team. Registration can be done at the Chavez Center front desk and closes Dec. 21. For more information, call Dax Roybal at 955-4074 or email ddroybal@ ci.santa-fe.nm.us

STATEWIDE SCORES Boys basketball

St. Michael’s 50, Capital 45

Escalante 59, Cuba 27

West Las Vegas 67, Clayton 64

Kayenta Monument Valley, Ariz. 52, Shiprock 50

Girls basketball Shiprock 70, Kayenta Monument Valley, Ariz. 26

Santa Rosa 78, Mora 75

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Lobos: UNM hosts Fresno St. next Continued from Page B-5 second half. He picked off the final inbounds pass from Greenwood when the Lobos senior tried to get the ball to Devon Williams against moderate full-court pressure.

UNM head coach Craig Neal said Williams made the mistake of running toward Greenwood for the entry pass instead of positioning himself 20 feet away and waiting for the ball to come to him.

That, the coach said, underscores one of the problems with this year’s team. Aside from the obvious issues with injuries and a lack of experience, he said this club doesn’t execute as well out of timeouts as UNM teams in the past have.

“Historically, we’ve always been one of the best in the country out of timeouts, but now we’re not,” Neal said.

Daniel Alexander came off the bench to score 17 points for Grand Canyon. He also grabbed a team-high seven rebounds and hit a game-high nine free throws (in 10 attempts).

Greenwood snapped out of his offensive funk by scoring a gamehigh 20 points on 7 of 15 shooting,

but he was just 2-for-7 from behind the 3-point line. As a team, UNM was 4-for-18 from the outside.

That includes an identical 2-for-7 effort from Jordan Goodman. The 6-foot-9 power forward only took three shots from inside the arc, finishing with 10 points.

Deshawn Delaney had 13 points for New Mexico. No one else had more than six.

“Hugh played OK, but he’s just not making the 3-ball,” Neal said.

“Jordan Goodman … seven of his 10 shots can’t be 3-pointers. If that’s the case, then he’s not going to play very much.”

Neal said his team’s biggest need right now is figuring out a way to get scoring from its quartet of big men. Center Obij Aget, backup center J.J. N’Ganga and freshman forward Joe Furstinger combined for just eight points, although Furstinger did grab a game-high eight rebounds.

In his postgame radio interview on KKOB-AM, Neal said he has concerns about his team putting so much of the emphasis on the lone seniors, Greenwood and Delaney.

“We can’t rely so heavily on Hugh and Deshawn,” he said. “We gotta

get some stuff out of everybody.”

Earlier, he said the blame for Tuesday’s loss was on him.

“I evidently didn’t have us ready, and our guys think that they’re better than they are,” Neal said, later adding that a number of players who thought they were good enough to be on the floor got a lesson in humility Tuesday.

The Lobos led 44-40 on a Delaney jump shot with 10:47 left in the second half, but GCU went on a 16-4 run to assume control. Alexander put the ’Lopes ahead for good with a pair of free throws to make it 45-44.

UNM trailed 59-52 with two minutes remaining, then trimmed it to two, 67-65, when Greenwood hit a 3-pointer with 14 seconds left. After Alexander hit one of two free throws with 5.7 seconds remaining, Greenwood set up the final play from the GCU baseline out of a timeout.

That’s when Braun got the steal and the Antelopes dribbled out the clock.

The Lobos are off for eight days during the Christmas break, returning to action Dec. 31 in The Pit against Fresno State in the Mountain West Conference opener.

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Broncos: Manning’s stats have nosedived Continued from Page B-5

The Cavaliers’ Kevin Love defends a shot by the Timberwolves’ Shabazz Muhammad during the fourth quarter of Tuesday’s game in Cleveland. MARK DUNCAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Love, Cavs roll over T-Wolves The Associated Press

CLEVELAND — Kevin Love scored 20 points in his first game against Minnesota, Kyrie Irving Cavaliers 125 added 29 and the T-Wolves 104 Cavaliers pulled away in the second half for a 125-104 victory over the Timberwolves on Tuesday.

Love’s reunion with the team he spent six frustrating seasons with before a summer blockbuster trade was overshadowed by an injury to Cleveland center Anderson Varejao, who had to be helped off the floor in the third quarter. Varejao was unable to put any weight on his left leg as he was assisted to the locker room.

LeBron James added 24 points for the Cavs, now 12-3 since opening 5-7.

BULLS 99, WIZARDS 91 In Washington, Derrick Rose scored 25 points and Pau Gasol had 18 as Chicago won its fourth straight.

After Washington scored 12 straight — 10 by John Wall — to take an 87-86 lead with 3:44 remaining, Chicago steadied and scored eight straight, six by Rose, to lead 94-87 with 1:48 to play.

HAWKS 107, CLIPPERS 104 In Atlanta, DeMarre Carroll scored a career-high 25 points and the Hawks rallied from a 13-point deficit to beat Los Angeles for their fifth straight victory.

76ERS 91, HEAT 87 In Miami, Michael CarterWilliams scored 20 points, Luc Mbah a Moute added 19 and Philadelphia erased a 23-point, second-half deficit.

K.J. McDaniels scored 13 for the 76ers, who’ve won two straight for the first time all season. Jerami Grant and Robert Covington each had 11 for Philadelphia.

NETS 102, NUGGETS 96 In New York, Joe Johnson scored 27 points, Mason Plumlee added 19 points and a

career-high 13 rebounds, and Brooklyn rallied in the fourth quarter to beat Denver.

MAGIC 100, CELTICS 95 In Orlando, Fla. Tobias Harris scored 19 points and the Magic hung on to beat Boston.

Nik Vucevic and Kyle O’Quinn each added 18 points as Orlando ended a four-game losing streak.

PACERS 96, PELICANS 84 In Indianapolis, George Hill scored 15 points in 21 minutes after missing the first 28 games with a left knee injury, leaving Indiana over New Orleans.

TRAIL BLAZERS 115, THUNDER 111 (OT) In Oklahoma City, Damian Lillard scored 40 points, making a tying 3-pointer with three seconds left in regulation, and the Portland Trail Blazers rallied from a 13-point, fourthquarter deficit to beat the Thunder.

HORNETS 108, BUCKS 101 In Milwaukee, Kemba Walker scored 27 points and Gerald Henderson added 16 as Charlotte held off the Bucks, extending the Hornets’ winning streak to a season-high four games.

SUNS 124, MAVERICKS 115 In Phoenix, Eric Bledsoe got his second career tripledouble and Phoenix won its fourth in a row, beating the Dallas Mavericks in the Suns’ highest-scoring game of the season.

Bledsoe had 16 points and 11 assists, then grabbed his 10th rebound away from teammate Goran Dragic with 31 seconds to play.

LAKERS 115, WARRIORS 105 In Los Angeles, Carlos Boozer scored 18 points in his new role off the bench, and the Lakers shocked the leagueleading Golden State Warriors without Kobe Bryant.

The NBA’s No. 3 career scorer sat out for the first time this season to rest his tired legs, a decision made by coach Byron Scott.

to Dre Kirkpatrick in the waning minutes, One of those was returned for a 30-yard touchdown when he stepped in front of Demaryius Thomas on a miscommunication.

“I shouldn’t have thrown it to him,” Manning said. “I probably had Emmanuel [Sanders] open over the middle, and I might have even had Julius [Thomas]. I think his guy may have fallen down. I definitely picked the wrong guy to throw to.”

Counting once in the playoffs, this was just the sixth time Manning has been picked off four times in a game and the first since 2010.

Over the last month, Manning’s numbers have nosedived.

Although the Broncos won three of those games, it’s been enough of a slide to merit concern from TV analysts and fans.

In his first 43 regular-season games in a Broncos uniform, Manning averaged 27 completions per game for 318 yards.

Over his last four, he’s averaged 18 completions for 224 yards. His TD rate has fallen from 2.68 per game to 1.25, and his interception rate has more than doubled from .69 to 1.5.

None of that matters to Fox. “I know if you look at the meaningful statistics as it relates to quarterback, I think he’s probably in the top five in the National Football League, which we’re pleased with,” Fox said.

“And you know, all of us need to coach or play better here moving forward.”

Asked if he sees any physical changes in Manning — a drop in velocity perhaps — Fox answered with a tart “No.” A look at the rankings backs up Fox: Manning leads the league with 39 TD passes and his 102.9 passer rating and 4,454 yards passing both rank fourth in the league.

Manning has fought through some serious obstacles, too.

His O-line can’t pass protect cleanly, continually committing infractions that wipe out big plays. Manning often lacks the time or the space to step into his throws and sometimes looks rushed even when he’s not.

Pro Bowl tight end Julius Thomas hasn’t scored in six weeks after scoring a dozen TDs through nine games. Since spraining his left ankle on Nov. 16, he’s had as many catches — three — as games he’s missed.

Wes Welker, who had 73 catches for 778 yards and 10 TDs last year, has dropped off drastically with 47 catches for 422 yards and two TDs this season.

Then there’s the question of age starting to creep into the picture.

Manning, 38, is trying to supplant his boss, Broncos GM John Elway, as the oldest QB to win a Super Bowl. On Feb. 1, he’ll be 97 days older than Elway was when he won his last NFL game and second straight Super Bowl.

Although it appears the road to the big game will go through New England, where the Broncos haven’t won since 2006, Manning and company can increase their title odds by securing a firstround bye.

That would give them a muchneeded break because they haven’t had one since September, and it would give top tackler Brandon Marshall (foot) another week to get better.

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Bowl: Marshall beats N. Illinois Continued from Page B-5 yards to help set up the gamewinner by Grebe.

San Diego State then got to the Navy 17 before Hageman missed. Hageman earlier made field goals of 43, 37 and 30 yards.

His third field goal gave SDSU a 16-14 lead late in the third quarter.

Pumphrey gained 112 yards on 21 carries to set SDSU’s singleseason rushing record with 1,867 yards. The old record was 1,842 yards by George Jones in 1995.

Navy (8-5) lost four fumbles.

SDSU (7-6) had three turnovers.

Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds ran for two touchdowns, extending his own NCAA record for scores by a

quarterback to 64.

He scored on a 1-yard keeper for the game’s first score and then somersaulted into the end zone at the end of a 6-yard run to give Navy a 14-13 lead midway through the third quarter.

The Midshipmen won their fourth straight and for the sixth time in seven games. They’ve won consecutive bowl games for the second time in history.

They were playing just 10 days after beating Army for the 13th straight time.

BOCA RATON BOWL MARSHALL 52, NORTHERN ILLINOIS 23 In Boca Raton, Fla., Rakeem Cato capped a record-setting

career by tying an NCAA mark for touchdown passes and throwing for three scores to help Marshall beat Northern Illinois in the inaugural Boca Raton Bowl.

Cato extended his streak of throwing at least one touchdown pass to 46 consecutive games. That tied the NCAA alldivision record set by Central Washington’s Mike Reilly.

As usual, Cato’s favorite target was fellow senior Tommy Shuler, who made 18 receptions for 185 yards and a score. Shuler broke the Conference USA record for career receptions with 322.

Cato increased his season total to a school-record 40 touchdown passes. He threw for scores of 6 yards to Shuler, 11 yards to Angelo Jean-Louis and 27 yards to Deon-Tay McManus.

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e are in the thick of cookie season. At no other time of year are we inundated with so many wee baked things, handed to us at parties, given to us in decorative tins or plated to us by our children meant for imaginary gift-giving saints. Gingerbread, shortbread, sugar cookies shaped like trees, but here, you’d be remiss not to include the aromatic official state cookie, the biscochito.

New Mexico was, in fact, the first state to have an official cookie (Massachusetts now officially celebrates the chocolate chip cookie, how original). The crunchy rounds were declared a state symbol in 1989.

Biscochito is the diminutive form of bizcocho in Spanish, which basically means “biscuit,” and while they are extremely similar to Spanish mantecados, shortbreads made with pig fat, the distinctively spicy, disarmingly simple biscochito is an original New Mexican recipe, integral to Norteño cuisine.

The signature flavor in biscochitos is anise, the tiny aromatic seed that flavors ouzo and Absinthe. Anise is a medicinal herb with a whole host of beneficial attributes: It is a potent digestive aid with carminative effects (particularly useful at Christmas if you’re lactose-intolerant but defiantly drink eggnog anyway, if you know what I mean), and is said to help with menstrual cramps as well.

Anise theoretically tastes similar to licorice or fennel, but biscochito recipes use true anise, from the pimpinella anisum plant, as the flavor is far subtler, more floral than acridly spicy.

Many spice mixes or recipes substitute ground star anise, which tastes reasonably like anise but comes from a totally different plant. Star anise is actually the dried fruit of an evergreen, and the pods are shaped like little hard flowers, or stars. It smells like anise, but has a far more acrid flavor and should be used sparingly.

Biscochitos are usually also flavored with, and dusted with, cinnamon. Cinnamon is ubiqutious in coldweather recipes, possibly because it’s both a tasty flavoring and a potent medicine, with aggressive anti-fungal and antibacterial properties, the ideal spice for flu season. But cinnamon is another spice with a low-end doppelgänger. True cinnamon, or Ceylon cinnamon, is the fragrant bark of the cinnamonium zeylanicum tree, native to Sri Lanka. All other cinnamon, including Saigon cinnamon and Khorinje cinnamon, is the bark of the cassia tree (cinnamonium cassia), a related but distinct plant that produces a harder, thicker, darker bark.

If you’re going to powder the outside of your biscochito with it, spring for the slightly pricier Ceylon cinnamon. It has a softer texture when ground and a much subtler flavor.

Cassia cinnamon is common in the U.S. (most of it comes from Indonennam a on sia), but in Mexico Ceylon cin is more common, and when Mexican recipes call for cinnamon,, they on mean the more delicate Ceylo variety. Cassia is best used sparingly — it has a harsher, sharper taste and can be overwhelming if overused.

It also contains higher levels of coumarin, an aromatic chemical sometimes used in perfumery and flavored tobacco that in large enough amounts can cause liver damage (and a large enough amount can be about a teaspoon, for a child). Ceylon cinnamon, by contrast, contains hardly any coumarin at all. Problematically, most ingredient labels (and even packaged spices) don’t specify which kind of cinnamon they contain. It’s a good bet that if the ingredient listed is just “cinnamon,” you’re buying cassia cinnamon, since Ceylon cinnamon is always more expensive and will be labeled as such to let you know why.

Also, most traditional cookies are not vegan, but biscochitos are not even vegetarian. Traditional recipes always involve lard, aka rendered pig fat. Once a symbol of all that is wrong with the American diet, lard is having a bit of a renaissance now that the (often capricious and arbitrary) nutrition gods have decided it may actually be a health food, arguing that the type of saturated fat in lard is actually better for us than the vegetable fats they tried to get us to eat in the ’90s. For baked goods like biscochitos, you should be using “leaf lard,” the highest grade of lard, which comes from the fat around the pig’s kidneys. Leaf lard is snowwhite and practically odorless and flavorless, lending a pleasantly savory mouthfeel (yes, mouthfeel) to your cookies without making them taste like bacon (take your hipster cookies

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New Mexico’s official cookies, biscochitos, out of the oven.

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While I still pay attention to what I eat during the holidays, I nonetheless allow plenty of small splurges.

And those splurges mostly can be summed up in one word: chocolate!

Trouble is, the holidays eventually pass, but my cravings for the deep flavor of a perfectly roasted cocoa bean linger. Even more than the sweetness that accompanies most chocolate desserts, I miss the unctuous coating cocoa leaves on the palate. But who says healthy eating must mean the end of that deliciousness? Enter unsweetened chocolate! All the richness of the flavor without the sugar.

My healthy chocolate-eating strategy has me leaning toward savory dishes because they need no sugar for me to appreciate the wonderful flavor of the cocoa. Among the most classic choices — and one of my favorites — is Mexican mole, a thick, spicy sauce based on cocoa or chocolate that traditionally takes a couple of days to develop its rich flavors.

But I have four hungry kids who aren’t willing to wait days for chocolate, sweet or savory. So I have developed a version of mole that takes under an hour. Does it capture all the flavor of a two-day mole?

Nope. But for a recipe that shaves 47 hours off my labor, I think it still does a pretty darned good job.

And you can take comfort in knowing that you’re getting all the delicious benefits and satisfaction of chocolate without the pesky sugar. Chocolate in the New Year? Yes, indeed. All in the name of health.

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h If you’rre going to powder the outside of your biscochito pring for the with it, sp slightly pricier Ceylon cinnamo on. g The signature flavor in biscochitos is aniise, the matic seed tiny arom hole host with a wh of beneficial attributes.

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somewhere else, thanks). The lard can be replaced with butter or vegetable shortening, of course, but the result will be markedly different (but suitable for vegetarians).

Claudia Perez, head baker at the Tesuque Village Market, makes some of the most addictive biscochitos in (or slightly outside of) town — light, crunchy and always fresh. Perez believes that lard is the way to go, though she sometimes makes them with butter in a pinch. “I think the flavor is different,” she says. Unlike many other rolled cookie recipes, Perez does not refrigerate her biscoh to dough gh, rolling it out and baking chi immediattely after mixing. Perez and it im ants are responsible for all her assistan t e cak a es, tiiramisus and other baked th goodies tth hat pour out of the Tesuque spot. The biscochitos are almost a aaffterthought to that whole an operaation, but they’re exactly i e your abuelita would have lik de if you’d had one. You’ll mad ffiind hand-packed bags of Perez’s bisccochitos up by the register at the market for $5.

Or if you’re downtown, stop by chef Juan Bochenski’s ot chocolate and cookie new ho a t on n the Inn at the Anasazi car patio, only open until New Year’s y, wheree you can get sublime Day Mexican hot chocolate spiked with basil and the chef’s selection of cookies. If you’ve ever stayed at the inn, you’ve probably experienced these cookies — they give them out as amenities everywhere, all the time, on your pillow, in the lobby, etc., and they’re all baked in-house. And while they (amazingly) crank out at least 20 different sweet confections (including macarons, chocolate tuiles and booze-spiked truffles), biscochitos are big for Christmas (Bochenski’s biscochitos are also made with lard, naturally). Plus, if you hang out in the bar or restaurant, they might give you one for free. ’Tis the season, after all.

CHICKEN IN QUICK MOLE SAUCE Total time: 45 minutes; makes 4 servings 3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 1¼ pounds), cut into 1½-inch cubes Kosher salt and ground black pepper 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 large yellow onion, roughly chopped 3 cloves garlic, roughly chopped 2 teaspoons chile powder 1½ teaspoons ground cumin ¾ teaspoon ground coriander ½ teaspoon cinnamon 15-ounce can diced tomatoes 2 tablespoons chopped chipotles in adobo (more or less according to heat preference) 1 teaspoon grated orange zest ½ cup prune juice (or ¼ cup chopped pitted prunes) 1 ¼ cups chicken stock 1 tablespoon almond butter or peanut butter 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped Squeeze of lime (1 to 2 teaspoons) Fresh cilantro, chopped, to serve Preparation: Season the chicken on all sides with salt and pepper.

In a large sauté pan over medium-high, heat the oil.

Add the chicken and brown until golden on all sides, about 7 minutes. Transfer to a plate and set aside.

Return the pan to medium heat and add the onion.

Cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes. Add the garlic, chile powder, cumin, coriander and cinnamon, then cook, stirring, until very fragrant, another 2 minutes.

Add the tomatoes and let cook for 3 more minutes.

Add the chipotles, orange zest and prune juice, then cook an additional minute, stirring.

Add the stock and let simmer until the onion is fairly soft, about 5 minutes. Remove the mixture from the heat and allow to cool for several minutes. Pour or spoon carefully into a blender, then add the almond butter, chocolate and lime juice. Let sit for a minute in the hot liquid. Blend carefully — low at first, then at higher speed — until the sauce is smooth, about 1 minute. Add more stock if the sauce is too thick.

Return the chicken to the pan (no need to clean it) and pour the sauce over the chicken. Heat over medium until the chicken is cooked through, another 8 to 10 minutes. Serve with rice and beans and top with cilantro.

Nutrition information per serving: 430 calories; 190 calories from fat (44 percent of total calories); 21 g fat (7 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 105 mg cholesterol; 26 g carbohydrate; 6 g fiber; 11 g sugar; 39 g protein; 690 mg sodium.

Chicken in quick mole sauce. An easy alternative to the two-day mole. MATTHEW MEAD/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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City Councilman Jeff Waltman photographs Reading, Pa.’s Christmas tree. Waltman fought to save the 50-foot Norway spruce that many residents compared to the spindly tree in A Charlie Brown Christmas.

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Tourists sunbathe Friday as a vendor sells kites decorated with Cuba’s flag on a beach near Havana. American citizens have been allowed to visit Cuba on cultural exchange trips since 2011, which are required to be educational. PHOTOS BY DESMOND BOYLAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By Ben Fox The Associated Press

HAVANA .S. tourists are roaming the streets of Old Havana, listening to lectures on Art Deco architecture and meeting with jazz musicians. What they aren’t doing yet — at least most of the time — is lounging in the sun and sipping mojitos at white-sand beach resorts.

American citizens have been allowed to visit Cuba on such “people-to-people” trips since 2011, one of President Barack Obama’s first moves toward detente with the communist-run island — provided their scheduled activities are sufficiently educational and downtime is kept to a minimum.

Now, such cultural exchanges are not only expected to grow dramatically, they are expected to become more flexible and less bureaucratic following last week’s announcement by Cuba and the U.S. that they would work to restore normal diplomatic relations for the first time in more than 50 years.

Obama has said that the U.S. is easing the rules on visiting Cuba, and that will mean major changes for the trips, which are currently so tightly regulated that operators must submit extensive documentation to the Treasury Department, including detailed justification for all activities to prove they are sufficiently educational. That may help cut the costs for trips that can cost as much as a good used car back home.

For Americans who don’t have family on the island or fit into one of the handful of other categories for legal visits, the trips have been the only way to visit the island. General tourism to Cuba is still prohibited by the halfcentury old trade embargo, and it would take an act of Congress to lift it.

“We can’t go to the beach and drink mojitos all day,” said Tony Pandola, who was leading an eight-day trip to the island this week with Global Expeditions of San Francisco that included a guided architecture tour of Havana.

The new Treasury Department rules have not yet been released, but a White House statement suggests that educational travel to Cuba will now be covered by a “general license,” which means tour operators — and perhaps individuals, depending on how the regulations are written — will be able to head to Cuba and simply give the U.S. government their word that they’re not engaging in ordinary tourism.

Travelers may simply have to sign a form and board a charter flight, making it easier and cheaper to visit the island, experts say.

“As long as, with integrity, they can say they’re going to engage with the Cuban people and learn about Cuba and talk about the United States then they don’t have to do anything other than say that’s what they’re doing,” said John McAuliff, executive director of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, which has organized trips in the past.

The changes should add some flexibility to trips that tend to be pretty wonky, less of a sun-and-sand vacation and more like a seminar.

Jonathan Anderson, a 33-year-old from Denver on the Global Expeditions tour, was spending a sunny Sunday morning in Havana on an architecture tour, attended a dance exhibition the day before and met with a Cuban diplomat.

“It’s not very, very regimented because we can go out and see things, but we have to conform to the rules,” said Anderson, who was on an eight-day trip with his parents that cost them about $6,000 each, including a charter flight to the island. “But we’re not on a leash. We can wander around.”

There are already scores of trips on all sorts of topics: baseball, architecture, dance, photography, bird-watching, cigars, churches,

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A tourist takes pictures from a double-decker sightseeing bus as she passes the U.S. Interests Section building in Havana. As Cuba and the U.S. announced the renewal of full diplomatic ties, a small number of Americans were already strolling the cobblestone streets of Old Havana, attending concerts and architecture talks on tightly scripted cultural tours that cost more than some used cars.

Dozens of operators offer people-to-people travel to Cuba at prices that typically range from $2,000 to $6,000. visits to colonial cities and to scenic rural parks. Visitors can run in the Havana Marathon or cheer for the Industriales baseball team.

Critics sometimes complain that the trips already veer into tourism, with occasional group chats and lectures on politics and culture thrown in.

And while education is the primary purpose of these trips, some travelers readily admit the appeal of Cuba is a mix of the exotic and the basic desire for sunny weather.

“I thought, OK, I’m going to go somewhere I have no idea about, that has music that I’m going to learn about that I really don’t have any idea about,” said Katja Von Tiesenhausen, a 41-year-old emergency room doctor from Boston who was on a tour that included the Havana Jazz Festival.

Dozens of operators offer people-to-people travel at prices that typically range from $2,000 to $6,000. Some cater to specific groups such as academic and legal organizations and others are for the general public.

The precise number of people who take them is unknown but experts say most of the

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100,000 or so non-Cuban Americans who visit the island legally each year came by this route. That is expected to increase amid renewed interest in the country following Obama’s Dec. 17 announcement of restored relations after two decades of hostility.

“In the last week, I’ve gotten more calls and emails than ever,” said Collin Laverty, president of Cuba Educational Travel, which last year brought 3,000 people to Cuba.

The easing of tourism regulations is a gamble for both the U.S. and Cuba.

Obama said last week that “people-topeople” was a way to “empower the Cuban people.” At the same time, a surge in U.S. travel could funnel sorely needed cash to a tourism industry run mostly by what Obama described Friday as “a regime that represses its people.”

But that hasn’t stopped many Americans from traveling to Cuba through a third country and keeping quiet about it when they go through immigration and customs upon arrival back in the United States.

Tom Popper, president of tour organizer Insight Cuba, said he thinks many new travelers to Cuba will take organized tours because it can be difficult for an individual to organize a trip that meets Treasury Department requirements.

Still, eliminating the license requirement will remove a significant bureaucratic hurdle, according to Popper, whose last application was more than 700 pages long.

“This is such welcome news to us,” Popper said.

READING, Pa. — Reading’s official Christmas tree has brought the city plenty of grief. Good grief.

When the 50-foot Norway spruce went up last month, it drew immediate comparisons to the scraggly sapling in A Charlie Brown Christmas. Its giant bare spots and asymmetrical branches were no one’s idea of Christmas tree perfection — especially in Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s largest producers.

Some residents and city officials called it an embarrassment and demanded it be replaced with a more suitable specimen.

Instead, Reading decided to embrace the Charlie Brown theme.

Workers wrapped a blue blanket around its base — a la Linus — and adorned it with a single red ball. The city announced a worldwide photo and essay contest, with winners to receive copies of the book version of the beloved TV special. And on Saturday, the public was invited to give the tree a makeover, just like the Peanuts gang surprised Charlie Brown by turning his puny pine into a trimmed, twinkling tannenbaum.

Turns out Reading’s tree wasn’t bad at all, really. It just needed a little love.

“Christmas is so commercialized that we tend to forget what Christmases used to be like,” said Mayor Vaughn Spencer, channeling good ol’ Charlie Brown himself. “Sometimes we have to keep things in perspective, and I think that’s the lesson here.”

Amy Johnson, the daughter of the late Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, said her father would be tickled that A Charlie Brown Christmas has made a real-world impact nearly a half-century after its release.

“All he ever wanted to do with his strip was make people happy,” she said. “And if he could bring the town together, that would make him very happy.”

As generations of fans know, A Charlie Brown Christmas has the lovable loser picking a tree for the Christmas play. After he rescues a tiny sapling that’s losing its needles, the other kids scold him for his ineptitude and laugh derisively at the tree. Then Linus tells the biblical story of Jesus’ birth, and the gang has a change of heart.

In Reading, the story doesn’t have such a tidy ending.

Several pedestrians insulted the tree as ugly and unworthy as they walked past on a recent day, the lone red ball swaying in a stiff breeze.

One lifelong resident, Emma Vega, called it an unwelcome reminder of Reading’s troubles. Once a mighty manufacturing hub, the city of 88,000 is among the nation’s neediest, with nearly 40 percent of its residents living in poverty.

“Do we really need a tree as our mascot?” said Vega, 48, unemployed and looking for work. “Everyone knows Reading’s poor. It looks even more poor with that tree.”

For others, the tree offers up several timely messages: Nothing and no one are perfect. Be grateful for what you have. Make the most of what you’ve been given.

Workers had intended to get a Christmas tree from a farm in neighboring Schuylkill County, but the ground was sopping wet when they went to pick it up, and the owner turned them away. So they went to a city ballpark and, behind home plate, found the tree that would soon garner international media attention.

City Councilman Jeff Waltman said the conifer symbolizes Reading itself — full of potential and ready for transformation.

“This tree carries its own little spirit,” he said. “It has its own little voice now.”

LASTING IMAGES CRUISING IN CUBA Gary Iverson and Linda Tanner submitted this photo of a Cuban joyride from a trip to the island in 2013.

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Free estimates.

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to place your ad, call ADMINISTRATIVE

ADOPTION COUNSELOR Wanted for Santa Fe Animal Shelter. Basic animal welfare, good communication and computer skills required. Full time. Email: dmoore@sfhumanesociety.org NORTHSIDE CASITA. Furnished one bedroom. 750 sq.ft. Quiet. Private yard. DSL. Cable. $1000 monthly. Utilities included. 1-year lease. Nonsmoker. 505-412-1074.

MODERN OFFICE BUILDING FOR LEASE $14 PER SQ.FT. ANNUALLY

1441 St. Francis Drive. Take all or part of the building, available up to 3750 square feet. Kitchenettes, private and public baths, and outdoor balcony with views.

HOUSES UNFURNISHED

Taylor Properties 505-470-0818 Vista Property Corp 505-988-5299

2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH 900 sq.ft. 1 car garage. $900 includes utilities.

Month-to-month. Deposit. Available 1/3/2015. Near La Cienega. 505-4705877

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE

2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH CASITA

Clean, ready to move-in.

Approximately 840 sq.ft. $850 plus utilities, $700 deposit. Forced heat, wood fireplace, washer dryer, saltillo tile.

Private parking, yard.

No smoking or pets. 505-231-0010

Great location and parking! $500 monthly includes utilities, cleaning, taxes and amenities. Move in incentives!

RETAIL SPACE CANYON ROAD, GALLERY 822 Leaving 3930 sq.ft. Will lease 1/3, 2/3, or all of space. Regular lease. 505-699-6878 or 505-867-5623.

ROOMMATE WANTED

3000 SQ.FT. ULTIMATE SERENITY & VIEWS 5 bedrooms, 4 baths. Old Las Vegas Highway. $1900. NM Properties & Homes, 505-989-8860 3 BEDROOM, 2.5 BATH. 1840 sqft.

Fenced backyard, borders Golf Course. AC, Washer Dryer, 2 Car Garage. 6434 Paseo Del Sol. $1400 plus utilities. Marty 505-469-2573

AUTOMOTIVE

NEW DEALERSHIP!

Parts/Service Advisor & Sales Professionals Ideal applicant will be energetic, detail-oriented, and be passionate about customer service.

Email resume to mbecker@garciacars.com or call 505.913.2950.

EDUCATION

Private rooms, shared bath & kitchen, washer, dryer. $425 and $475.

Clean, safe, quiet. No Pets. Month-toMonth. Deposit. 2 miles North of Plaza. 505-470-5877 ROOMMATE WANTED. Furnished bedroom, den, private bath. Eldorado. $500 monthly. 505-466-0021.

3 BEDROOM, 2 bath house in La Cienega area. 505-690-4894.

3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH. Rowe. Fireplace, woodstove, all appliances, 3/4 acre fenced yard. $900 monthly, first, last, security deposit. 505470-0409

Visit sfhumanesociety.org for more information.

Please call (505)983-9646.

2 BEDROOM, 2 bath Home in Rowe.

Fenced yard, secure compound.

All appliances. $750 monthly, first, last, security deposit. 505-4700409.

2-BE DR O O M CUSTOM, HIGH CEILINGS, PORCHES, WASHER, DRYER, FIREPLACE, RADIANT HEAT. CENTRALLY LOCATED, OFF HICKOX. $1000 PLUS UTILITIES. 505-992-1014

RECEPTIONIST Needed for Santa Fe Animal Shelter’s fast-paced south-side animal clinic.

Email résumé to sdelarco@sfhumanesociety.org .

WAREHOUSES OFFICE, Warehouse with overhead door, midtown location. 1,300 squ.ft, with heating, air conditioning and parking. $1200 monthly plus utilities.

505-470-9213.

CHARMING 2 bedroom, 2 bath, NE Hillside home. Walk to Plaza. Mountain views, trails. Available January 3 at $1,700 monthly. 239 Rodriguez.

512-287-0192 rkirmse@hotmail.com

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CONTEMPORARY TWO story in safe, quiet neighborhood, close to Super WalMart, I-25 and 599. Master suite with walk-in closet, private bath, upstairs carpeted, downstairs tile. Island kitchen, gas range, dishwasher, fireplace, garage, Washer Dryer, AC, small yard. Tenant application and background check required. Subdivision restrictions apply. No smoking, no drugs. Small pet negotiable. $1300 monthly plus utilities. Move-in with first, last and $400 deposit. Call 505988-5816, leave message.

Benefits eligible.

Apply on-line at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491 EOE/ AA/ M/ F/ SO/ Vet/ Disability Follow us on Facebook.

MANAGEMENT

LOST Director of General Services

GORGEOUS 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH, 2700 SQ.FT. ESTATE- plus art studio that is attached. Light & bright. Saltillo tile, vigas, 3 fireplaces, office, chef kitchen. $3000 monthly. Pond, kiva fireplace, hot tub in private backyard. 5 minute walk to Plaza. Owners NM real estate brokers. Skye’s the Limit Realty LLC. 505-629-9998.

REWARD! B L A C K SHEPHARD MIX , female, Xena, red collar with tags. Lost Sunday, December 21, about 11 a.m., at south end of Frank Ortiz Park.

Might be in Solana neighborhood.

SKITTISH. PLEASE CALL IF SEEN! 505-490-0388 SILVER BRACELET with INLAID DISC, Sadly lost, Friday afternoon, probably on Lincoln Avenue. Great sentimentlal value. REWARD OFFERED. Call 505-982-3133.

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SAN JUAN Pecos, 2 bedroom house. adobe, with 8 acres, $1000 monthly plus utilities.pets ok. 505423-3788

MANUFACTURED HOMES

Excellent benefits. Apply online at pmsnm.org. Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline1-866-661-5491. EOE/ AA/ M/ F/ SO/ Vet/ Disability. Follow us on Facebook.

Sell your car in a hurry!

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PEACE & QUIET: 3 bedroom, 2 bath.

Plaster, stucco. Highway 14 area. $850 monthly. Lease, deposit. References required . 505-473-7155, 505699-0120.

OFFICES IMMACULATE SMALL OFFICE SUITE

Oversees physical plant operations for Santa Fe facilities.

Supervises departmental staff.

Has statewide responsibilities for facilities planning, telecommunications, group purchasing, corporate insurance and risk management.

ACCOUNTING

Large entry with sectioning possibilities. Private office, large storage, handicapped bathroom.

Quiet convenient location. 505-9834631, 505-470-8151.

BOOKKEEPER FOR a small CPA Firm.

Must be knowledgeable in A/P, A/R, P/R, and QuickBooks. Please send resume to: Human Resources; PO Box 5373; Santa Fe, NM 87502-5373.

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Open Machine Attendant Position for The Santa Fe New Mexican No Prior Machine Experience Required. Job duties include loading materials into machines. Must be able to communicate well with coworkers, stand for prolonged periods and able to lift 20 pounds, up to 70 pounds. This is an entry level position with opportunities for advancement. Shift times will vary based on company need.

Submit application or email resume to: Brenda Shaffer Bshaffer@sfnewmexican.com 1 New Mexican Plaza (off I-25 frontage road) Or access an online job application at http://sfnm.co/1eUKCcD. No Phone Calls please.

Successful completion of a drug test will be required prior to employment offer.

EOE

MEDICAL DENTAL

MANAGEMENT

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Northern Pueblos Housing Authority

Northern Pueblos Housing Authority seeks an Economic Development Director.

This is a one-year grant-funded position with a primary responsibility to finalize business plans for two identified proprietary Pueblo-owned businesses, arrange financing, and initiate implementation of the business plans.

For further information and application instructions, please e-mail receptionist@nphousing.com.

EIGHT NORTHERN INDIAN PUEBLOS COUNCIL, INC. SENIOR CENTER SITE MANAGER

(Part-time, 20 hours weekly) Site Manager is responsible for the day to day operations and services provided to our Senior Center. The Manager will ensure that all policies and procedures are followed. All food and supplies will be purchased and stored by the manager in accordance with policy. Responsible for monthly reports, activities, menus, etc.

Will provide transportation using the programs vehicle as needed.

There are two positions available, one located in Nambe Pueblo and one in Pueblo of San Ildefonso.

Both positions are 20 hours a week. Prefer individual who has experience with Senior Programs.

Must have a good driving record and pass a criminal background check.

Must possess a food handler’s certificate or be able to obtain one.

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS

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TEACHER I Part-time position working 28 hours per week, year round at Pojoaque Valley Early Head Start Center located at the Pojoaque Middle School. Position requirements listed on website.

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We are looking for a qualified person to manage a home repair, rehab program.

Good organizational, computer skills and the ability to competently manage federal grants is required. Constructions knowledge, experience preferred but not required. Position is 20 hours per week.

Email resume to ted@sfhfh.org .

MEDICAL DENTAL

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIANS NEW MOON LODGE

(male adult facility -Espanola) BUTTERFLY HEALING CENTER (Youth Residential facility - Taos) The BHT is a member of the our residential direct care staff . The primary function of the BHT is to ensure the safety, therapeutic and physical needs of our residents are properly met as directed by the individual’s treatment plan, therapeutic goals and interventions determined by the clinical team. HS Diploma or equivalent, CPR and First Aid, certification are required, prefer experience in behavioral health field. *Working with our youth requires a completed CYFD fingerprinting and back ground check.*

ALBUQUERQUE and ESPANOLA OPENINGS Immediate openings.

Serving Northern New Mexico, several locations available, Albuquerque and Espanola.

Experience in individual, group, adult, family and couples therapy Experience working with addictions a plus.

Master level, licensed in the State of New Mexico. Must have current and in good standing an LMSW, LISW, LPCC, LMHC or Ph.D.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

CHILD CARE PROGRAM ESPANOLA Provides support to the Program Director of ENIPC’s Child Care Program.

Must have computer experience, data entry, Excel helpful. Will maintain program’s record system and provide reporting as required.

General clerical experience preferred, HS Diploma or equivalent.

Employment with ENIPC requires a valid NM State Driver License and must be insurable under ENIPC’s auto insurance. All required certificates and licensures must be valid and current prior to employment.

Positions close when filled, unless otherwise noted.

Send resume to: RCata@enipc.org or 505-747-1599 (fax) 505-747-1593 (office) ENIPC ensures Native American Preference ENIPC, Inc. is a Drug Free Workplace. *Drug testing and criminal background check completed prior to employment*

Locally owned

Full-time position with Santa Fe Community Guidance Center working with delinquent and at-risk youth and their families in home-based and community settings in Santa Fe area. Has on-call responsibilities.

Excellent benefits. Apply online at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491. EOE/ AA/ M/ F/ SO/ Vet/ Disability. Follow us on Facebook.

MACHINE ATTENDANT SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

No prior machine experience required. Job duties include loading materials into machines. Must be able to communicate well with workers, stand for prolonged periods and able to lift 20 pounds and up to 70 pounds. This is an entry level position with opportunities for advancement. Shift times will vary based on company needs.

Submit application or email resume to: Brenda Shaffer bshaffer@sfnewmexican.com 1 New Mexican Plaza (off I-25 frontage road) Or access an online job application at http://sfnm.co/1eUKCcD .

No phone calls please.

Successful completion of a drug test will be required prior to employment offer. EOE

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Heritage Home Healthcare & Hospice, a premier home health care provider in New Mexico, is looking for RN’s for Home Healthcare and Hospice (Full time and PRN), and Physical Therapists (Full time and PRN) with a passion for providing exceptional care!

Please apply at www.heritagehomehealthcare.co m or call (505) 796-3222.

AA/ EOE M/ F/ Vet/ Disability, Drug-Free Workplace

Multimedia Consultant

The Santa Fe New Mexican is seeking a dynamic media sales executive to represent its award winning publications and state of the art digital platforms to existing and future advertising clients.

This position manages relationships with clients to grow and develop their business needs. Maintains a thorough understanding of each customer’s business goals, products and services. In addition, is aware of client’s industry and provides appropriate advertising solutions. Will be expected to maintain comprehensive understanding of competitive media and understand how the utilization of other media sources fit with customer’s strategic business objectives. Actively seeks out new business to meet or exceed sales goals.

Qualifications Requires a college degree or equivalent sales experience. Must have a minimum of two years plus consultative sales experience. Must have demonstrated ability to prospect qualified leads. Ability to sell a wide range of products. Must have knowledge of sales process, the ability to establish product value and close a sale in a timely manner. Understands strengths and weaknesses of competitive media.

Must have demonstrated team sales experience. Must have strong negotiation and problemsolving skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills and be proficient in Microsoft Office applications. Must be driven, proactive and have a strong desire to achieve results and be successful.

Must have proof of valid driver’s license, auto insurance and have reliable transportation.

Base salary, team bonus and commission plan are offered with an excellent benefits package.

Apply with cover letter and resume to: Wayne Barnard, Classified Advertising Manager The Santa Fe New Mexican, 202 East Marcy St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 or e-mail wbarnard@sfnewmexican.com No phone calls, please.

Seeking Motivated Commissions Sales Reps Competitive Pay with No Door to Door or Cold Calling. Must have Reliable Transportation & a Smart Phone.

Call Justin at 517-574-1415.

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COLLECTIBLES

to place your ad, call FURNITURE

ANTIQUES 20TH CENTURY DESIGN , MID-CENTURY. BUY AND SELL. 131 West San Francisco Street.

Jewelry, decorative and fine art, furniture. *** GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS! *** Friday & Saturday, 12 to 5, or call for appointment. 505-9882013 or 847-567-3991.

CIRCA 1910 3’ by 2’ Made by Antonio Garza. Call 577-5959.

CLASSIFIEDS Where treasures are found daily

Place an ad Today!

HEAT & COOLING

SPORTS EQUIPMENT

COMPUTERS

SELLING FINE ART AT BELOW WHOLESALE PRICING including many well-known New Mexico artists. 136 Grant Avenue. 505-6810597, Jack.

AUCTIONS

COMMERCIAL STEEL Ladder, narrow aisle, stair-step with safety rails and wheels. 6-8 feet. $350. 505-474-9141.

PRO-PANELS: 3’X18’ 26 gauge ProPanel for roofs. Barn red. $45 per sheet. Have 30 panels. (List $59). 505795-0007

FIREWOOD-FUEL FIREWOOD FOR sale. 1 full cord $200.

1/2 cord $125. Delivery Included! 505470-2789, 505-470-3869, 505-753-0303.

FIREWOOD Get yours now! Cedar, Pinon, Russian Olive…Quantity discounts. Full cords available. Call for prices & delivery options. 505-231-3034.

FAIRCHILD & CO written APPRAISAL AT $8,750. Over 2.5 carats total weight, size 7. Would make excellent engagement, wedding or cocktail ring. $5,000. Willing to meet at jeweler to confirm authentic. 505-379-3750

»animals«

GIVE THE gift of love. Beautiful Bassett hound poppies. 7 weeks old, 3 female pups left, Peach, Wrinkles and Sally. Purebred, AKC registered.

Euro parent, home raised and loved. $700 each OBO. Satisfaction guaranteed. Call Johnny 505-670-2195.

CHICKENS FOR SALE. 5 year old for $10 each. 10 months, $15 each. All layers. 505-507-4350

DELTA DJ-15 6" Jointer. Mobile base.

Like new. $800. 505-471-1758, OR 505470-5701.

WOODSTOVE

BY Vogelzang. Box woodstove with pipes. $275, OBO. 505-507-4350.

FURNITURE COMFORTABLE AND Stylish Chair.

Call 577-5959.

Custom made 40" Round Southwest Pine Table, bullet carvings by local craftsman, $250. Matching chairs, $125. Choose finish, upholstery, 505982-3214.

COOKING DISCO, Discadas for Sale.

17" to 32" diameter. Hundreds available. Starting at $35. Sold at Aldona’s Breakfast Buffet Restaurant, 3875 Cerrillos Road. Open 6:30am-3:30pm everyday. 505-469-3355.

FAROLITOS FOR SALE Perfect for your holiday parties and Christmas Eve. $8 per dozen pick-up, $10 per dozen delivered, $12 per dozen delivered and set-up. Please call 505-660-2583

Men’s Landsend Snowboots. size 13. waterproofed and insulated. New. leather uppers. Great GIFT!!! $50. 505231-9133.

PRICE REDUCED! FIRST EDITION book collection. Only $5 each. Great holiday gifts. 505-474-9020.

RIMS- 18", chrome, 5 lug, one piece cast. Original $900. Sacrifice for $200.

Call Patt at 505-466-1181

JUST ARRIVED….BEAUTIFUL Large Plants in Planters! All Donations and Purchases Support Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity. ReStore Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

PIANO STEINWAY, Medium Grand, Model M Ebony. Excellent condition.

Moving Sale, price reduced to $16,000. 505-881-2711

MULTI-PURPOSE CABINET, white, 70" x 48" x 20". Excellent condition. On wheels. $100. 986-1780.

NEARLY NEW pool table. Includes ping pong table and hockey table inserts. Can also be used for a dining table. Includes all accessories for all games. $1200 is a great deal for this item. Please call 660-8311 with any questions.

VITO B Flat Clarinet with case, reed and extras. Excellent Condition. Only $100. Call Patt at 505-466-1181.

OFFICE SUPPLY EQUIPMENT GREAT FOR Classroom, Church or Business. Two part Lectern. Only $125 Call Patt at 505-466-1181

EARLY NEW YEAR’S DAY 2015 DEADLINES Publication Date

DISPLAY ADVERTISING Pasatiempo, Friday, Jan. 2 Friday, January 2 Saturday, January 3 Sunday, January 4 Monday, January 5 Faith Directory, Saturday, Jan. 3 Bulletin Board, Sunday, Jan. 4 CLASSIFIED LINERS Thursday, January 1 Friday, January 2 OBITUARIES Thursday, January 1 Friday, January 2

Deadline

Friday, December 26, 4:00p.m.

Tuesday, December 30, Noon Tuesday, December 30, 2:00p.m.

Wednesday, December 31, Noon Wednesday, December 31, 4:00p.m.

Tuesday, December 30, Noon Wednesday, December 31, 11:00a.m.

Wednesday, December 31, Noon Wednesday, December 31, Noon Wednesday, December 31, Noon Wednesday, December 31, Noon Wednesday, December 31, Noon

THRIFTY NICKEL DISPLAY & LINERS Thursday, January 1 Friday, December 26, Noon For Death Notices after the above deadlines, please phone The New Mexican’s Newsroom at 986-3022 through Wednesday, December 31.

The offices of The New Mexican will be closed on Thurs., Jan.1, 2015 and will re-open on Fri., Jan. 2 at 8am. While normal distribution will occur on the 1st, Circulation Customer Service will be closed and the call center will reopen at 6 a.m. on the 2nd.

DELTA MODEL 31-280 Sanding Center, 6" x 24" belt, 12" diameter disc. Mobile base and user’s manual. $900.

505-471-1758, OR 505-470-5701.

TABLE SANDER. Rigid brand. $85.

SCROLL SAW, Rigid brand. 16" arm.

Solid metal. No plastic. $125. Fabio, 505-982-3214.

TV RADIO STEREO DENON TURNTABLE QUARTZ DP-33F with Audio Technica cartridge. $150.

505-310-1829 FISHER SOLID Wood 200 Watt Speakers- Excellent Condition. 2 speakers for $90.00 Call Patt at 505466-1181

SONY STEREO Speakers, black, great condition. $30, OBO. 505-231-9133

ACROSS 1 Flexible lunch hour 7 PC speed unit 11 D.C. United’s __ Stadium 14 Marvel Entertainment parent company 15 Cinders of old comics 16 Reef dweller 17 Needing to be bailed out, maybe 18 “Double, double, __ and trouble”: “Macbeth” 19 DCIV ÷ IV 20 Spreadsheet figure 22 Individual : SSN :: corp. : __ 23 Hospital fluids 24 “Impressive!”

25 Take by force 27 Happen afterward 29 Capital on the Dnieper River 30 Tot’s recitation 33 Prosecutors, at times 37 Cheering word 38 Nod from the maestro 39 Short or gross measure 40 See 59-Across 41 Ones making the rounds?

44 “The Thin Man” pooch 45 Dot on un mapa 46 Capital of Senegal 48 Debate subject 50 Bon __: Comet rival 51 Sports fan’s factoid 54 Clever remark 55 Classic 6-Down suggested by this puzzle’s circles 59 With 40-Across, trumped-up charge 60 Holiday purchase 61 Remove all doubt 62 A, in Oaxaca 63 Gremlins and Matadors 64 Lustrous fabric

Saturday, Dec. 27.

PetSmart

FOR SALE ALFALFA, San Acacia. 2strand heavy bales. $12 per bale.

Available in Santa Fe, Mondays only, corner of Cerrillos and Airport. 505220-4441. Leave message.

CHRISTMAS & All Occasion quality wrapping paper. Great Big Box with many rolls unopened. $20, OBO. 505231-9133

FIREWOOD PINON and cedar 16" long $220 cord. 10" 20" stovecut, $240 cord. Well seasoned. Free delivery with minimum 2 cords. 505259-3368, 505-832-4604 SEASONED FIREWOOD: P ONDEROSA, $100 PER LOAD. J u niper, $120 per load. CALL: 508444-0087. Delivery FREE TO ALBUQUERQUE & SANTA FE !

FEED EQUIPMENT SERVICES

LIVESTOCK

FIREWOOD PINON and cedar 16" long $220 cord. 10" 20" stovecut, $240 cord. Well seasoned. Free delivery with minimum 2 cords. 505259-3368, 505-832-4604

2 PAIR of Full Quill Ostrich Cowboy Boots, $250 each (size 10.5). Worn about ten times. 505-553-0143.

3 PAIRS of Rio Mercedes Full Quill Ostrich Cowboy Boots (size 10.5), (1)Black, (1)Tobacco, (1)Tan colored.

Brand New. $350 each. 505-553-0143.

MEN’S ALL WEATHER TAN COAT with lining. Size 46 long. $20. 505-577-8768.

MEN’S BLACK DRESS COAT, LARGE. $20. 505-577-8768.

LEGALS Tuesday, January 6

CALL 986-3000

BIG BOX of Mother Earth News & other Homestead Magazines. $5 for all.

505-231-9133

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

ARTIST SELLING her collection of beautiful Rainbow Gate dishes, $500.

See ad and photos on craigslist.com.

DC-380 15" Planer, 2HP Motor, Mobile Base, Table Extensions and User’s Manual.

Like new. $1000. 505-471-1758, OR 505-470-5701.

MISCELLANEOUS

4 OFFICE desks for sale in excellent condition. $100 each. Three HON desks #HON-10791-NAT 72" x 36".

Third is 66" Executive Desk in Light Cherry. Also have lectern, desk carts, monitors available. Make offer. 505216-2287.

1950s SONG HITS & Hip Parade Magazines. Group of 8, $60 total. Nostalgia! Nostalgia! 505-474-9020

Add an Attention Getter to make your ad stand out.

Call our helpfull Consultants for details

Santa Fe Animal Shelter PET ADOPTION EVENTS Meet Adoptable Animals

WOODEN COYOTE/CACTUS craft decorative piece. Ideal for child’s room, den, conversation piece of Southwest, 3 ft. tall, $45, call 505-690-5042

COLLECTIBLES

GET NOTICED!

TOOLS MACHINERY

BUSINESS EQUIPMENT

CLOTHING

ATLAS SNOWSHOES, women’s, very good condition, Color red. $75. 505820-0776 TREK BICYCLE, 26". Antelope 820 Mountain Bike. 20" frame, blue. Recently tuned, in perfect working condition. $100. 505-424-1771.

NEW OR used plexiglass, used or broken dressers, coffeetables, end table, wood dining tables, insulated glass windows, stained glass, used, broken. 505-795-0007.

DELL LAPTOP, XP Professional, 3.24 GB of RAM, works great, $100. 505231-9133

WANTED: Any type farm freight wagon or buggy made by Joseph Murphy of St. Louis. Call Tom, 800959-5782.

BUILDING MATERIALS

PETS SUPPLIES

2011 (EARLY) MACBOOK PRO 13-INCH LAPTOP in excellent condition with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, OSX 10.10.1, brand new 1TB hard drive and 16GB Ram $800. Call 505470-4371 after 6 pm.

APPLIANCES

ART

ASHLEY WOOD STOVE. Approved for mobile home. with pipes. $500. Call Frank, 505-471-7746.

Have a product or service to offer?

Call our small business experts today!

WANT TO BUY

SEIKO WESTMINSTER wall clock, quartz movement with pendulum, new in box, never used. $120, call 505-690-5042

JEWELRY

CALL 986-3000

WASHER, WHITE, good condition, 30day warranty. $140. 505-662-6396.

WASHER, WHITE, good condition, 30day warranty. $140. 505-662-6396.

PHOTO EQUIPMENT TELESCOPE, COMPUTERCONTROLLED, Celestron, Nexstar 114gt, 114 mm,new in box, $275, great Christmas present, call 5056 9 0 5 0 4 2 http://www.amazon.com/CelestronNexstar-114GT-ReflectorTelescope/dp/B00004ZD38

REAL WOOD double-stacked Bookcase, painted white, 4’ high x 4’ wide, adjustable shelves. $35 . 505-231-9133

ORIGINAL COWNIE TANNING HORSE HIDE WINTER COAT, FULL LENGTH. Early 20th century, Des Moines, IL. Size 40 - 42, collectible, great condition. Asking $375. 520-906-9399 (Santa Fe).

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3561 Zafarano Drive Noon-3 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 28 PetSmart 3561 Zafarano Drive 1-4 p.m. $25 adoption fee on all adult animals through December.

Visit sfhumanesociety.org

HOLIDAY CHARMERS SPARKLE

MARQUITA

is waiting for a new family for Christmas.

She is a female medium haired gal who will love getting groomed and dressing up. She is 12 wks old and does well with other felines.

She is still young enough to learn and make friends with the family dog.

is a fun loving gal who’s ready for anything!! She loves people and loves to be outdoors so she’s hoping for a family who likes to do awesome things like hiking and camping. She can be choosey about her dog friends. so if you have another dog, please come for a meet and greet so we can be sure everyone gets along well.

For more information, contact the Española Valley Humane Society at 108 Hamm Pkwy, Española, or call 505-753-8662.

More animals are available on the website at

evalleyshelter.org

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65 Mag staff 66 “... be good for goodness’ __!”

67 Determined ahead of time DOWN 1 Like many Keats poems 2 Bogotá boys 3 Online transaction 4 Harms 5 Crew member 6 “Ave Maria,” e.g.

7 Copycat 8 A deadly sin 9 Oscar-winning director Kazan 10 Station identification letters 11 Stereo components 12 “__ Navidad”: Feliciano song 13 Kevin of “Dave” 21 Took the show on the road 26 Poetic time of day 28 Post-workout destination 29 Mall stand 30 Wall St. hedger 31 Cote cry

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32 Present day?

34 Transport in an Ellington classic 35 Informant 36 Hotel amenity 38 Instruments that sound similar to glockenspiels 42 The Tigers of the Ohio Valley Conf.

43 Attorney general under Ronald Reagan

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44 Entertainer 47 Equally hot or cold?

48 Inspire deeply (with) 49 In good shape 50 Smart guy?

52 Fits of fever 53 French hens count 56 “__ la Douce” 57 Recipe meas.

58 Hiker’s shelter

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LEGALS LEGAL # 97811 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALVIN BROCK, The New Mexico De- Deceased. partment of Game and Fish (Depart- No. D-101-PB-2014ment) requests pro- 00186 posals (RFP# 15 516 NOTICE TO 2101 00004) from CREDITORS BY qualified lawyers and PUBLICATION law firms to provide professional legal services for but not NOTICE IS HEREBY limited to; Water law; GIVEN that JOANN Environmental law; BROCK has been apConstruction Law; pointed Personal Real Estate Law; Real Representative of this Property Acquisi- estate. All persons tions, Disposals (spe- having claims against cialize in public real this estate are reproperty interests quired to present both state, federal), their claims within Mineral Estate, Ease- two months after the ments, Leases; Land date of the first publiuse law, eminent do- cation of this Notice main and inverse or the claims condemnation; In- will be forever barspection of Public Re- red. Claims can be cords Act; and Appel- presented either to late work, including the attorney for the administrative and Estate, James P. Plitz, civil law for the De- whose address is partment.

This re- 6001 Indian School quest for proposals Road NE, Suite 160, will result in a multi- Albuquerque, New ple source award Mexico 87110, to through which con- JOANN BROCK, whose tracts may be award- address is 7414 East ed to one or more Soaring Eagle Way, lawyers and or law Scottsdale, AZ 85266, firms in all of the or filed practice areas listed with the Santa Fe in the Scope of Work. County District Court.

Each lawyer or law DATED: December 3, firm’s proposal shall 2014. include evidence of its experience and Respectfully expertise in the submitted, relevant/proposed practice areas. Sub- MORRIS, HALL & mission of the pro- KINGHORN, P.L.L.C. posal must be sent to the Department of James P. Plitz Game and Fish no lat- Attorney for Personal er than 3:00 PM De- Representative cember 22, 2014. To 6001 Indian School obtain a copy of this Road NE, Suite 160 Request for Proposal Albuquerque, New please visit Mexico 87110 http://wildlife.state.n Telephone: 505-889m.us/ or contact Jo- 0100 seph Miano at (505) Fax: 505-889-0953 476-8086 or joseph.miano@state. Published in The Sannm.us. ta Fe New Mexican on December 10, 17 and Published in The San- 24, 2014 ta Fe New Mexican on October 27-31 and November 3-7, 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, December 1-5, 8-12, 15-19, 22-26, 2014 You can view

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y of the last publication of this Notice, judgNotice is hereby giv- ment by default may en that the New Mex- be entered against ico State Armory you.

Board will hold its Saucedo regularly scheduled Maribel quarterly meeting/ in Medina Petitioner/Plaintiff Conjunction with the bi-annual Local Ar- 4241 Agua Fria #6 mory Board Council Address Santa Fe, NM 87507 Meeting on: City/State/Zip Date: Wednesday, (505) 692-2012 Phone Number January 07, 2015 LEGAL # 97822

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g trogen compounds and organic compounds. The facility is located at approximately 16 miles northeast of Santa Fe, in Section 8, Township 18N, Range 11E, Santa Fe County.

Ground water beneath the site is at a depth of approximately two to 55 feet and has a total dissolved solids concentration of approximately 150 milligrams per liter. NMED permit contact: Kathryn Hayden at (505) 8271046 or kathryn.hayden@stat e.nm.us

g writing and shall set forth the reasons why the hearing should be held. A hearing will be held If NMED determines that there is substantial public interest.

Comments for requests for hearing should be submitted to the Ground Water Quality Bureau at PO Box 5469, Santa Fe, NM 87502-5469.

WITNESS this Honorable Sylvia LaMar, DisPlace: Albuquerque trict Judge of the First Judicial District Court Armory 600 Wyoming Blvd NE of New Mexico, and Albuquerque, NM the Seal of the District Court of Santa 87801 Fe, this 10 day of DeDP-1186, Turquoise An agenda will be cember, 2014 Trail Business Park, available before the Smothermon, meeting. Please con- STEPHEN T. PACHECO Gary CLERK OF THE DIS- Vice President, 5 tact Elizabeth A. Bisbee Court, #101, Alvarado, State Ar- TRICT COURT Santa Fe, NM 87508, mory Board Adminis- By: Michelle Garcia proposes to renew trator at (505) 474- Deputy Clerk the Discharge Permit 1877 for further inforPublished in The Sanfor the discharge of mation. Thank you. ta Fe New Mexican on up to 12,500 gallons Published in The San- December 17, 24, 31 per day of domestic and light industrial ta Fe New Mexican on 2014 wastewater from an December 23-26, 29industrial park. Po31, 2014 and January LEGAL # 97873 tential contaminants 1-2, 5, 2015 associated with this New Mexico Envitype of discharge inronment DepartLEGAL # 97838 clude nitrogen comment Ground WaFIRST JUDICIAL DISpounds, metals, and TRICT COURT STATE ter Quality Bureau organic compounds.

OF NEW MEXICO Notice is hereby giv- The facility is located COUNTY OF Santa Fe en pursuant to at 5 Bisbee Court, NMAC, #101 Santa Fe, apMaribel Saucedo 20.6.2.3108.G the following Ground proximately 8 miles Medina Water Discharge Per- southwest of Santa Petitioner/Plaintiff, mit applications have Fe, in Sections 24 and 16N, been proposed for 25, Township Vs. approval. To request Range 8E, Santa Fe additional informa- County. Ground waJose Luis Flores tion or to obtain a ter beneath the site is Respondent/ copy of a draft per- at a depth of approxiDefendant . mit, contact the mately 200 feet and has a total dissolved Ground Water Quality Case No.: D-101-DMsolids concentration Bureau in Santa Fe at 2014-00491 (505) 827-2900. Draft of approximately 148 permits may also be milligrams per liter.

NOTICE OF viewed on-line at NMED permit contact: PENDENCY OF SUIT http://www.nmenv.st Russell Isaac at (505) 827-2978 or STATE OF NEW MEXI- te.nm.us/gwb/NMED- russell.isaac@state.n W Q B CO TO Jose Luis G m.us PublicNotice.htm Flores. GREETINGS: You are hereby notiPrior to ruling on any fied that Maribel DP-569, Santa Fe Ski proposed Discharge Benny Saucedo Medina the Basin, President, Permit or its modifia b o v e - n a m e d Abruzzo, cation, the New MexiPetitioner/Plaintiff, 10 Tramway Loop, NE, co Environment DeNM has filed a civil action Albuquerque, partment, (NMED) against you in the 87122, proposes to re- will allow thirty days new the Discharge above-entitled Court after the date of puband cause, The gen- Permit for the dis- lication of this notice eral object thereof charge of up to 30,000 to receive written being: to dissolve the gallons per day of do- comments and durmarriage between mestic wastewater to ing which a public the Petitioner and a mechanical treat- hearing may be rement plant followed yourself. quested by any interUnless you enter your by two leachfields ested person, includP o t e n t i a l appearance in this ing the applicant. Recontaminants associcause within thirty quests for public (30) days of the date ated with this type of hearing shall be in discharge include niTime: 10:00 a.m.

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Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 24, 2014 LEGAL # 97874 NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING Notice is hereby given that the meeting of the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Finance Authority (NMFA) will convene at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 22, 2015.

The meeting will be held at the old PERA Building, Apodaca Hall, 1120 Paseo de Peralta (at corner of Old Santa Fe Trail), Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The agenda will be available at the NMFA office at 207 Shelby Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico and the web site (www.nmfa.net) at least 72 hours prior to the meeting. Anyone who has questions regarding the meeting or needs special accommodations should contact Connie MarquezValencia at (505) 9841454.

Public documents, including the agenda and minutes, can be provided in various accessible formats.

If you are an individual with a disability who is in need of a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter, or any other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing or meeting, or if a summary or other type of accessible format is needed, please contact the NMFA at 505-984-1454 at least one week prior to the meeting or as soon as possible.

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