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Audit points to questions on workers’ credentials Presbyterian says state wouldn’t accept records

By Patrick Malone The New Mexican

Portions of an audit made public for the first time show that Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration based fraud allegations against a Santa Fe-based behavioral health provider primarily on incomplete documentation of workers’ credentials, rather than on faulty Medicaid billing practices.

The state’s audit of Presbyterian Medical Services identified lapses in record-keeping of mental health treatment providers’ qualifications as its main basis for suspecting the company of millions of dollars worth of overbilling, an attorney says.

“We went back and audited claim by claim,” said Don Daniel, an attorney for Presbyterian. “We were able to produce documentation that the [Medicaid] claims themselves were proper.”

But when Presbyterian tried to refute the audit findings by providing proof of its employees’ qualifications, the New Mexico Human Services Department refused to accept the records, Daniel said.

Matt Kennicott, a spokesman for Human Services, said the agency

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Performance Santa Fe Orchestra New Year’s Eve concert 5 p.m., family preview open rehearsal performance 2 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., preview tickets $25; families with children $10 per person; 5 p.m. concert $27-$100; 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, or performancesantafe.org.

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Feds slash incentives to WIPP contractor Leak, other problems at facility prompt action

By Patrick Malone The New Mexican

Financial fallout from a February radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad has reached the contractors that operate the underground nuclear waste dump.

The U.S. Department of Energy has withheld more than $8 million in performance fees from Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC, due to the leak and other problems at WIPP throughout the year, according to documents released Tuesday. The consortium was awarded just $21,576 in performance incentives for the past fiscal year — about one-quarter of a percent of the full $8.1 million that was available in inventive payments.

“The U.S. Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office has taken actions that reduced the level of ‘fee’ available to the Nuclear Waste Partnership for [fiscal year] ’14 as a result of the incidents that have happened at WIPP this year,” the Energy

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Idaho boy, 2, accidentally shoots mom

By Bill Morlin and Kirk Johnson

Clockwise from top left: Athens is filled with lights for the New Year; the Hospice Center will hold its annual Light Up A Light event on the Plaza; Filipinos welcome the New Year with fireworks; the annual Polar Bear Plunge at Storrie Lake is a New Year’s Day tradition.

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Residents ready to revel, despite bone-chilling temperatures two — for whatever outing you have planned.

For the outdoor enthusiast, Ski Santa Fe will be open New Year’s Day. A spokeswoman said staff were expecting fresh snow Tuesday or Wednesday night.

Those who would prefer a New Year’s hike could consider a guided hike at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Cerrillos Hills State Park on N.M. 14.

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rom solemn meditations to cacophonous celebrations, Santa Fe has an event for everyone to usher in 2015.

But first, the National Weather Service forecasts a 30 percent chance of snow and temperatures dropping into the high teens for New Year’s Eve. Highs won’t break the mid-20s. So bring a coat — or

choose from two free gatherings in town — an early session at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday at the Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, and a later session for those who prefer to sleep in — a 9:50 p.m. event at the Upaya Zen Center, 1404 Cerro Gordo Road. Refreshments will be served at midnight at the Upaya Zen Center.

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HAYDEN, Idaho — The details are shatteringly ordinary. A 2-year-old toddler, sitting in a shopping cart in a Wal-Mart, his mother’s purse unattended and within reach as she shopped. Three girls, all under age 11 — relatives of the boy and his mother, police said — tagging along.

A frosty morning in the northern Idaho panhandle, the temperature in the teens. Holiday break. The clothing aisles near electronics, back of the store.

Then, shortly before 10:20 a.m. on Tuesday, as the store video cameras recorded the scene, the little boy found a gun in his mother’s purse and it discharged once at near pointblank range from where she stood, less than arm’s length away, said Lt. Stu Miller, a spokesman for the

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Local police team up to patrol for drunken drivers

By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

New Mexico State Police and Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies will be on the lookout New Year’s Eve for drunken drivers and are advising people who plan to ring in 2015 with booze

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State police have been conducting random saturation patrols in counties across the state, including Santa Fe County, throughout the holiday season.

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In brief WASHINGTON — Potential candidates eyed a New York congressional seat Tuesday as Republican Rep. Michael Grimm announced his resignation, following a guilty plea on tax evasion charges.

Among the possible candidates is a Staten Island prosecutor who oversaw a case in which a white New York City police officer was cleared in the death of a black man in an apparent chokehold.

Two state lawmakers and a former congressman who was unseated by Grimm could also be interested in the open seat.

By Mike Stobbe and Jonathan Paye-Layleh The Associated Press

Scalise regrets 2002 speech to white supremacists

Cha Kil-yong, a popular online math tutor in South Korea, runs a hagwon or cram school called SevenEdu that focuses entirely on preparing students to take the college entrance exam in mathematics. He often dresses up for his program to engage students’ attention.

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders rallied around one of their own, Whip Steve Scalise, on Tuesday after he said he regrets speaking 12 years ago to a white supremacist organization and condemns the views of such groups.

Scalise said that as a state legislator in 2002, he spoke to many groups about a major tax issue.

“One of the many groups that I spoke to regarding this critical legislation was a group whose views I wholeheartedly condemn,” he said in a statement Tuesday. “It was a mistake I regret, and I emphatically oppose the divisive racial and religious views groups like these hold.”

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Celebrity teachers South Korea’s cram schools create stars, multimillionaires SEOUL, South Korea lasping his headphones and closing his eyes as he sang into the studio microphone while performing a peppy duet with one of South Korea’s hottest actresses, spiky-haired Cha Kil-yong looked every bit the K-pop star. But Cha is not a singer or actor. No, he’s a unique kind of South Korean celebrity: a teaching star.

In this education-obsessed country, Cha is a top-ranked math teacher. But he doesn’t teach in a school. He runs an online hagwon — or cram school — called SevenEdu that focuses entirely on preparing students to take the college entrance exam in mathematics.

Here, teaching pays: Cha said he earned a cool $8 million last year.

“I’m madly in love with math,” said Cha, looking the height of trendiness in his crimson shirt and pants and tweed jacket, in his office in Gangnam — a wealthy part of Seoul.

It’s hard to exaggerate the premium South Korea places on education. This is a society in which you have to get into the right kindergarten, so that you can get into the right elementary school, then into the right middle school and high school, and finally into the right college. Which, of course, gets you the right job and scores you the right spouse.

All of this combines to make South Korea’s equivalent of the SAT the most important event in a young person’s life.

As such, the vast majority of teenagers here attend normal classes by day but go to hagwons for after-hours study. Increasingly, online hagwons are replacing traditional brick-and-mortar cram schools. The hagwons have become a $20 billion industry.

This devotion to studying is credited with helping South Korea consistently rank at the top of the developed world in reading, math and science, although the latest rankings from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development also show that Korean students come last when asked whether they are happy at school. South Korea also has the highest suicide rate in the developed world.

Some politicians and educators are questioning whether things have gotten out of hand. But even parents opposed to this punishing system find it difficult to opt out.

About 300,000 students take Cha’s online

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BRINDISI, Italy — Italian authorities warned Tuesday that more bodies will likely be found when the blackened hulk of a Greek ferry is towed to Italy, as part of a criminal investigation into the fire that engulfed the ship at sea, killing at least 11 of the more than 400 people on board.

The fire-tinged Norman Atlantic was adrift for a third day off the Albanian coast, where two sailors were killed earlier Tuesday when a tow line attempting to secure it to a tugboat apparently snapped, Albanian officials said.

The Italian coast guard said another body from the ferry was found Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 11.

Harvard Law agrees to sex harassment resolution BOSTON — Harvard Law School has agreed to revise its sexual harassment and assault policies and to review sexual harassment complaints dating to the 2012-13 school year after U.S. education officials found the school in violation of federal law.

Under the agreement announced Tuesday, Harvard Law will notify students and employees about their right to file complaints and how to do so; pursue the criminal process in sexual violence cases; and submit sexual harassment and sexual violence complaints to the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

Somalia says U.S. airstrike kills al-Shabab leader NAIROBI, Kenya — A U.S. airstrike killed the intelligence chief of Somali terror group al-Shabab, Somalia’s intelligence service said Tuesday.

Abdishakur is the name of the slain leader, who is also known as Tahlil, a statement from the spy agency said, adding that the operation also killed two other al-Shabab militants.

The Pentagon said the airstrike took place Monday in the vicinity of Saakow, Somalia. The statement from the Pentagon provided no details.

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class at any given time, paying $39 for a 20-hour course (traditional cram schools charge as much as $600 for a course). He teaches them tricks for taking the timed exams, including shortcuts that students can take to solve a problem faster. Cha’s studio is set up with a green chalkboard and desks, and behind the camera are piles of props — including hippo and Batman masks and a gold-sequined jacket.

“You’re not only teaching a subject, you also have to be a multitalented entertainer,” said Cha, declining to give his age and offering only that he’d been working for 20 years.

On SAT day, he visits schools to offer encouragement to test takers. He also does television ads, endorsing products such as a red ginseng drink meant to boost brain power.

Kwon Kyu-ho, a top-ranked literature teacher, also appears with K-pop stars and has a lucrative side business in celebrity endorsements, lending his name to a chair meant to help people study better.

Maintaining his position doesn’t require just good lessons. Kwon, 33, also gets regular facials and works out, and he said some teachers even have stylists. “I always wanted to be a teacher, but I feel that regular school teaching has its limits,” said Kwon, whose lessons appear on the sites Etoos and VitaEdu. “And, of course, I’m making a lot more money this way.”

He wouldn’t disclose how much he earned, only that it was “several millions” of dollars a year. The secret of his success, Kwon said, was finding the parts of tests that make most students stumble. He focuses lessons on those problem areas.

As President Park Geun-hye promotes a “creative economy” as the key to taking South Korea to the next level in its development, many analysts say the country would do well to take a more creative approach to education.

Lee Ju-ho, who was minister of education until last year, is among them. “All this latenight study could lead to problems in enhancing their other skills, like character, creativity and critical thinking,” he said. “Hagwon is all about rote learning and memorization.”

Lee said all the problems stem from the college admissions procedures, which have been slow in looking beyond test scores to other criteria such as extracurricular activities and personal essays.

“We really need to change,” said Lee, who is now a professor at the Korea Development Institute’s School of Public Policy and Management.

NEW YORK — A team of researchers think they may have pinpointed how the Ebola epidemic in West Africa started — with a small boy playing in a hollowed-out tree where infected bats lived.

The researchers explored an area in southeastern Guinea where 2-year-old Emile Ouamouno fell ill a year ago and died. Health officials believe he was the first case in the epidemic, which wasn’t recognized until spring.

The Ebola virus wasn’t found in the bats they tested so they weren’t able to prove the source, the scientists reported in a study published Tuesday. But they believe the boy got Ebola from the furry, winged creatures that had lived in the hollow tree.

“As a scientist, I can say it’s a possible scenario,” said one of the study’s authors, Fabian Leendertz of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin.

An outside expert said the researchers’ work was thoughtprovoking.

“They didn’t find smoking guns” but perhaps broadened the thinking about what sparked the epidemic, said Stephen Morse, a Columbia University infectious disease expert.

The Ebola epidemic is the worst in world history, blamed for killing nearly 8,000 people across West Africa this year, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The epidemic’s exact origin has never been determined, but the virus is thought to spread to people from some sort of animal. Many experts have suspected some species of fruit bat, though some wonder if West Africa’s epidemic started through another animal — like a chimpanzee or small antelope — that was perhaps infected by bats and then eaten by people.

The study was published Tuesday in EMBO Molecular Medicine.

Also on Tuesday, Liberia’s government announced it will allow families to bury Ebola victims in a special plot of land instead of requiring that the bodies be cremated so as not to spread the virus.

Ciatta Bishop, head of Liberia’s national Ebola burial team, said the government has secured 25 acres where Ebola victims can now be buried. More than 2,000 suspected Ebola victims have been cremated since the cremation decree was ordered at the height of the crisis in Liberia several months ago.

The corpses of Ebola victims are highly contagious, and many of those who washed or touched bodies before the burials contracted the disease.

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Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014 LIGHT UP A LIFE: From 5:30 to 6 p.m., this annual community event will take place to support The Hospice Center. Attendance is free.

Members of the public are invited to purchase farolitos for $20 each to dedicate in memory or in honor of a loved one by visiting pmsnm.org or calling 988-2211.

ANNUAL WORLD PEACE MEDITATION FOR 2015: Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, call 983-5022. Open meditation session, 4:45 to 6 a.m., no charge.

PERFORMANCE SANTA FE ORCHESTRA: The Lensic, 211 W. San Francisco St. New Year’s Eve concert 5 p.m., family preview open rehearsal performance 2 p.m. Preview tickets $25; families with children $10 per person; 5 p.m. concert $27-$100; 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, or performancesantafe.org.

NEW YEAR’S EVE AMERICAN JEM: La Plancha Restaurant, 7 Caliente Road., Eldorado. Dance to the Americana trio, Jay Cawley, Ellie Dendahl, and Michael Umphrey, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. sets, $60 includes a three-course dinner

Lotteries with Champagne, call for reservations, 670-8604.

BUFFALO THUNDER RESORT & CASINO: New Year’s Eve dinner and concert, 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 877-848-6337.

Dance to the Drifters, 8 p.m., $10 includes cocktails, dinner, and concert; after-dinner entertainment with the JDs Band.

COWGIRL BBQ NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY: Juke-joint, honky-tonk, biker-bar band Broomdust Caravan, 8:30 p.m to close; no cover. 319 S. Guadalupe St., 982-2565.

EL FAROL NEW YEAR’S EVE BASH: 808 Canyon Road. Tone & Company Band, 9 p.m., $25 at the door.

LA CASA SENA CANTINA: New Year’s Eve celebration; show tunes performed by staff, 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., call for cover. 125 E. Palace Ave., 988-9232.

MESA RECORDINGS/MEOW WOLF NEW YEAR’S EVE MELTDOWN: Molly’s Kitchen & Lounge, 1611 Calle Lorca.

Dance like it’s 2015 to DJs Numbtron, David Last and LoloHigs, Muffintop, Erin E, and many more, doors open at 8 p.m., audio/visual installations by Team Everything and Meow Wolf, $15 in advance at holdmyticket.com, $20 at the door, facebook.com/meowwolf.

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NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE LODGE AT SANTA FE: Dinner and dancing to the TCB Express Band, dinner only advance tickets $25, dance only tickets at the door $35, dinner and dance advance tickets $90, call 992-5800 for tickets, 21+.

NEW YEAR’S EVE GALA AT VANESSIE: 434 W. San Francisco St., 982-9966. Dinner and music by pianists Doug Montgomery and Chris Blacker, $150 per person, call for details.

SHINE YOUR LIGHT BALL: Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta. Bounce sharing app for cell phones and tablets launch party; DJs include Buddha Bass, Adem Joel, Phi, Deja, and Zia Zombie, 8 p.m. to 3 a.m., $11.45-$53.74 in advance at eventbrite.com.

SPEAKEASY BALL: Palace Restaurant & Saloon, , 142 W. Palace Ave., 428-0690. Dance to the Shiners Club Jazz Band, 9 p.m.,champagne toast at midnight, $15 per person, couples $25, call for details.

TURQUOISE TRAIL NEW YEAR’S EVE BASH: Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino, 0 Buffalo Thunder Trail. Cissy

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Searchers find AirAsia wreckage Officials offer slim hope of survivors in sea off Borneo coast

By Thomas Fuller The New York Times

SURABAYA, Indonesia — The mystery of Indonesia’s missing airliner was partly solved Tuesday, when rescue teams retrieved and tallied a grim inventory of bodies and debris from the plane off the coast of southwestern Borneo.

But it remained unknown what caused the plane, AirAsia Flight 8501, to plunge into the sea Sunday, less than an hour after taking off from Surabaya bound for Singapore.

Although Indonesian officials did not say so explicitly, their comments Tuesday suggested that it was unlikely that survivors would be found.

“I am so very sorry for this accident,” Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s president, said before meeting with families of passengers here. “I hope families can stay strong while facing tragedy.”

Throughout the afternoon, Indonesian authorities built up an inventory of debris collected by ships and helicopters from the sea surface, including life vests, aircraft parts and what appeared to be a small blue suitcase. Indonesian television showed a rescuer descending from a helicopter toward a corpse, which like other bodies found was not wearing a life jacket.

Search and rescue officials said that three items in particular — the suitcase and parts they identified as an aspirator assembly and a reservoir slide

Officers of the Indonesian Search And Rescue Agency check a map Tuesday at their command center at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Rescue teams retrieved a some bodies and debris from AirAsia Flight 8501 off the coast of Borneo. TRISNADI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

craft — helped them determine that the debris came from Flight 8501.

Indonesian authorities said the pieces of wreckage were found about 60 miles southeast of the last known position of the plane — the opposite direction from the plane’s path.

How the debris came to be there was not immediately explained. But according to Sailing Directions, a mariner’s reference published by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, ocean currents in that part of the Java Sea run generally to the southeast from November to March.

Luca Centurioni, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego who measures currents around the world, said it would not be surprising for the floating debris to have drifted 60 miles since Sunday morning, especially in unsettled weather.

“The currents are not terribly strong,” he said in a telephone interview, “but the waves can

be big and the wind can push objects quite a bit.”

Search teams also spotted what they said might be a larger submerged piece of the fuselage of the aircraft, an Airbus A320200 that was operated by an Indonesian affiliate of AirAsia.

“My heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in QZ 8501,” Tony Fernandes, the head of AirAsia, wrote in a Twitter message soon after the debris was discovered. “On behalf of AirAsia my condolences to all. Words cannot express how sorry I am.”

Fernandes said later that he did not want to speculate about the cause of the disaster until the plane’s flight data recorders were recovered and analyzed, though he noted that “bad weather is the short-term conclusion — weather in Southeast Asia is bad now.”

As news spread of the grim discoveries in the sea, some relatives of passengers stood despondently outside the airport in Surabaya.

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“I’m still hoping my brother is safe,” said Ifan Joko, standing in a light drizzle outside the terminal where relatives and friends had gathered since Sunday.

His brother, Charly Gunawan, who was traveling to Singapore for the New Year’s holiday, was among the 162 people onboard.

“If the passengers are dead, I want the bodies brought back to Surabaya,” Ifan said. “I will pay the bill myself if I have to.”

The crash was a particular loss to Surabaya’s ethnic Chinese minority. Flights from Surabaya to Singapore serve as shuttles for residents here who do business in Singapore or have family members there.

The air disaster seems also to have also disproportionately affected Surabaya’s Christian community.

Leaders of Bethany, a large church in a wealthy neighborhood on the outskirts of Surabaya, pored over the plane’s manifest when it became available Sunday and determined that at least five passengers were members of families who attend the church.

Deddy, one of the church pastors, said the crash was a tragedy for all of Indonesia. “We can guess from the names that many are Christian and Chinese,” he said.

If passengers from both the AirAsia plane and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the jet that disappeared in March are included in the calculations, 1,320 people died in air accidents in 2014, the deadliest year since 2005, according to the Bureau of Aircraft Incidents Archives, an organization that tracks aviation accidents.

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Gun deaths of U.S. law enforcement officers jump 56 percent in 2014 WASHINGTON — The number of law enforcement officers killed by firearms in the U.S. jumped by 56 percent this year and included 15 ambush assaults, according to a report released Tuesday.

The annual report by the nonprofit National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund found that 50 officers were killed by guns this year, compared to 32 in 2013.

In all, the report found that 126 federal, local, tribal and territorial officers were killed in the line of duty in 2014.

That’s a 24 percent jump from last year’s 102 on-duty deaths.

Shootings were the leading cause of officer deaths in 2014 followed by traffic-related fatalities, at 49.

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The sharp increase in gunrelated deaths among officers followed a dramatic dip in 2013, when the figure fell to levels not seen since the 19th century. This year’s uptick comes amid increased tension between police and the public following the high-profile deaths of unarmed black men by white police officers, including that of Eric Garner in New York and Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The states that saw the most officer deaths were California, at 14, Texas, at 11, and New York, at nine. Florida followed with six deaths, and Georgia had five, according to the report.

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Audit: State Attorney General’s Office still investigating case Continued from Page A-1 could not accept Presbyterian’s records of employee qualifications at that point because a criminal investigation by the state Attorney General’s Office was already underway.

The Human Services Department based its allegations of Medicaid billing fraud against Presbyterian and 14 other providers on findings in an audit

by Massachusetts-based Public Consulting Group. The department then referred the providers to the Attorney General’s Office for an investigation.

“We certainly were never informed by Public Consulting Group or by representatives of the Human Services Department that they thought Presbyterian Medical Services committed fraud,” Daniel said. “When we review the PCG audit report … it’s hard in our minds to make any case for findings of Medicaid fraud.”

The Martinez administration stripped Presbyterian and the other providers of their Medicaid funding. The providers were replaced by five Arizona companies, some of which have announced they are struggling financially since setting up shop in New Mexico.

Many of the state’s former behavioral health providers still wonder why they were removed.

The audit reports are being kept confidential while the Attorney General’s Office completes its investigation.

Recently, a handful of the ousted providers filed lawsuits against the Human Services Department in state District Court in Santa Fe, claiming they were denied due process. They are seeking access to the audit that led to their removal.

Making the audit public would compromise the long-running investigation, according to an attorney general’s spokesman.

More than 18 months have passed since the audit was completed, and the Attorney General’s Office still has not contacted Presbyterian about the investigation, Daniel said. “[Presbyterian] believes the state of New Mexico and the Human Services Department have an appropriate and important role in investigating potential fraud and abuse in the Medicaid program,” Daniel said.

“We just feel that this particular PCG audit process was incredibly flawed.”

A state district judge in Santa Fe earlier this month ordered

portions of the Presbyterian audit unsealed in a lawsuit brought by the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government. It’s just the third behavioral health audit to be released publicly since the 15 providers were terminated about a year and a half ago.

The sections released Monday alleged more than $4 million in overbilling between July 1, 2009, and Jan. 31, 2013. The auditors had sampled 150 claims and then extrapolated the billing abnormalities they found hundreds of times over to come up with the figure.

In an internal review of all claims submitted to Medicaid over the span of the audit, Presbyterian officials found vastly fewer billing discrepancies.

“It was a couple hundred thousand dollars, potentially, if we gave, in our opinion, the most generous interpretation of the PCG audit results,” Daniel said.

“We believe the perceived overpayment amount was overstated by millions.”

Presbyterian is one of two providers that reached settlements to continue providing services. Presbyterian paid the state $4 million in late 2013 as part of its settlement, which prevents the company from suing the state over the fraud allegations. Presbyterian executives told lawmakers on the Legislature’s Behavioral Health Subcommittee in October that Human Services issued the nonprofit an ultimatum: Either pay the amount that the PCG audit claimed it had overbilled Medicaid, or face closure.

“The fact remains that [Presbyterian] settled with the state for $4 million after a claims review and agreed to intensive oversight and retraining of staff,” Kennicott said. “They could have chosen not to accept the settlement, but they overbilled the taxpayers, and that funding needed to be recovered.”

Daniel said Presbyterian had been through dozens of audits over the years. In the nonprofit’s experience, he said, neither the results nor the methodology of previous audits compared to the PCG audit. For instance, he said, in prior audits, Presbyterian was able to respond to any unusual findings with a goal of correcting problems.

“This particular audit,” he said, “certainly doesn’t seem to have been conducted in that spirit.”

Contact Patrick Malone at 986-3017 or pmalone@ sfnewmexican.com.

Boy: Guns are a part of culture in rural area of Northern Idaho Continued from Page A-1 Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office.

She died at the scene, he said, her death appearing to be accidental.

“He probably still doesn’t even know what has happened,” Miller said of the little boy.

The victim, Veronica Jean Rutledge, 29, of Blackfoot, Idaho, about 380 miles from Hayden in Idaho’s southeast corner, was visiting family members here in this community of about 13,000 people bordering the resort town of Coeur d’Alene, about 40 minutes from Spokane, Wash. Both her parents and her husband’s live in the area, Miller said.

He did not know whether Rutledge had a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Her husband came to the store to collect his son and the girls after the accident.

“This situation is such a tragedy, particularly happening so close to the holidays,” Miller said.

Asked why the woman might have felt the need to go armed to the Wal-Mart, he said that carrying a weapon was not particularly remarkable or unusual.

“It’s pretty common around here — a lot of people carry loaded guns,” he said.

This part of Idaho, about 100 miles from the Canadian border, is not part of the state’s famed agriculture belt, known for its potatoes, which stretches far to the south. Up here, evergreen forests, the blue expanse of nearby Lake Coeur d’Alene, and

the deep historical imprint of the silver mines that defined life for decades starting the 1800s, make it feel more like Montana or Washington, the states that sandwich it on either side.

“It’s a small-town atmosphere with a lot of tourism and a lot of growth,” said Stefan T. Chatwin, the city administrator, in an interview at City Hall, about three blocks from the Wal-Mart, which sat closed, its parking lot mostly empty, on a stretch of U.S. 95 that wends down from British Columbia. The store is expected to reopen Wednesday, Chatwin also said that guns are a part of the culture here. The city amended its gun laws just last week, he said, to conform with state laws and make it clear that a gun owner is justified in firing a weapon in defense of persons or property.

Judy Minter, a self-employed artist who was working on an art display at City Hall, said that she too supported the right to bear arms, though she said she did not carry a weapon herself. The wisdom of when to go armed or not seemed to her to be more the question at issue in Tuesday’s accident.

“There’s a lot of people who do carry guns in this area,” said Minter, who had spent most of the day photographing bald eagles, a common sight on Lake Coeur d’Alene. “But for her to have it within reach of her child — that was not very smart.”

Feds: WIPP unlikely to meet deadlines Continued from Page A-1 Department said in a written statement. However, an Energy spokesman said the award announced Tuesday was preliminary, and that the contractor could qualify for more incentive payments.

Nuclear Waste Partnership was formed by URS Energy and Construction, Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services and AREVA Federal Services to manage WIPP for the Energy Department under a contract that pays more than $140 million annually.

The paltry performance award for the WIPP contractor was announced one day after the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration docked Los Alamos National Security, the private consortium that manages Los Alamos National Laboratory, more than 90 percent of its performance incentives for the fiscal year that concluded at the end of September.

The Energy Department awards performance fees separately from operational

funding, which is authorized

by Congress and the president. And WIPP stands to get as much federal support for operations next year as it traditionally has, despite its shutdown. Additionally, the federal budget provides more than $100 million for recovery efforts at WIPP next year, bringing the total budget for the nuclear waste dump to $324 million.

Don Hancock of the Southwest Information and Research Center in Albuquerque, who closely monitors WIPP, said he’s frustrated that operational funding for WIPP will continue even as waste disposal there has stopped.

“The contractors are too big and too important to fail,” Hancock said. “The Department of Energy is so dependent on the contractors that the contractors always get off without really getting penalties. They’re able to underperform and still get rewarded. I’m frustrated with the WIPP and Los Alamos situations, but it’s just symptomatic of what happens with millions of dollars on a

regular basis.”

Hancock said he doubts WIPP will meet the first two deadlines in its recovery plan — the New Year’s Day target for closure of Panel 6, one of the bunkers affected by the radiation leak, and March recertification of the repository by the Environmental Protection Agency. He also doubts there will be any consequences for the contractor.

The goals outlined in the Energy Department’s recovery plan for WIPP also don’t match up with the objectives established for contractor fee incentives during the year ahead, he said. For instance, he said, the permanent closure of Panel 6, which the recovery plan states should be done by Thursday, could result in bonus pay for the WIPP contractor even if the job is completed by Aug. 30.

A spokesman for Nuclear Waste Partnership did not respond to a message Tuesday seeking comment.

In February, a belowground truck fire at WIPP was followed nine days later by a radiation leak that started with a chemical reac-

tion in a drum that had originated at Los Alamos, halting disposal of waste at the site.

In the months since the leak, which exposed more than 20 workers to low doses of radiation, The New Mexican obtained emails that show LANL did not include accurate descriptions of the waste in the drum that ruptured.

Some of the volatile components in the drum linked to the leak were omitted or misidentified.

Energy Department officials have said they expect full restoration of waste disposal activities at WIPP to take up to five years and cost more than a half-billion dollars.

Earlier this month, the New Mexico Environment Department fined the Energy Department more than $54 million stemming from the radiation leak for violations of permits issued to LANL and WIPP. Contact Patrick Malone at 986-3017 or pmalone@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter @pmalonenm.

Revel: Las Cruces plans to drop a chile Continued from Page A-1 For the more daring who are looking for a spiritual awakening, consider trying the annual fire walk at The Light Institute of Galisteo, 40 Calle Nizhoni. The walk costs $120 and starts at 8 p.m.

Wednesday.

The Hospice Center will host its annual Light up a Life fundraiser Wednesday, an annual community celebration on the Plaza that commemorates those who have died in the past year.

Mourners can give a suggested donation of $20 for a farolito to light in honor of a deceased loved one. People often adorned their bag with pictures of the loved one. The event is free to attend and starts at 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday.

For those looking to take an icy swim, Storrie Lake near Las Vegas, N.M., hosts an annual polar plunge on New Year’s Day from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Revelers who want to ring in the New Year with a drink, or several, will have plenty of options across town. In the downtown area, Skylight Santa Fe, 139 W. San Francisco St., will host an evening comedy show featuring nationally touring comics Warren Durso and Allan Stephan with shows at 6 and 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. That show will be followed by a late-night dance party starting at 10 p.m. to celebrate the New Year. Tickets for the comedy show range from $15 to $25, and tickets for the dance party cost from $10 to $50.

A few blocks away,

Workers make adjustments before a test of the Waterford crystal ball for the New Year’s Eve celebration atop One Times Square in New York on Tuesday. The ball, which is 12 feet in diameter and weighs 11,875 pounds, is decorated with 2,688 Waterford crystals and illuminated by 32,256 LED lights. KATHY WILLENS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

the Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta, will open its doors for sets by a number of local DJs. The party will double as the

launch for a Santa Fe-produced app for mobile phones and tablets called “Bounce,” a content-sharing application that allows users to share pho-

tos, text, music and other files with anyone within range.

Tickets for the party range from $10 to $50, and doors open at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Most downtown venues will host some type of New Year’s celebration, and a few, such as the The Lodge at Santa Fe, will host special dinners.

For those who don’t want to venture downtown, local artist collective and promotion group Meow Wolf hosts its annual New Year’s celebration at Molly’s Kitchen and Lounge, 1611 Calle Lorca, in central Santa Fe. Normally a dimly lit local watering hole with an emphasis on Latin American tunes, the space will be transformed by Meow Wolf into a neon-lit wonderland aimed at drawing hundreds of young folk.

Pre-order tickets cost $15, and tickets at the door will be $20. The party starts at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

And for the south-side revelers, Sol Santa Fe, 37 Fire Place, will host a “Baile de Fin de Año” at its dance hall.

Tickets cost $15, and the event starts at 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Across the nation, cities will host celebratory drops similar to the ball drop in New York City’s Times Square. The Associated Press reported that Miami drops a 35-foot orange, some places in Arizona drop cowboy boots or pine cones, and New Mexico’s largest southern city, Las Cruces, will drop a chile this year.

Contact Chris Quintana at 986-3093 or cquintana@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter @CQuintanaSF.

Patrol: County subsidizes cab rides Continued from Page A-1 Checkpoints are planned for New Year’s Eve. “These checkpoints are helping to change society’s attitude about drinking and driving,” state police said in a news release.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said deputies from that agency also will be patrolling the streets with a concentration on drunken drivers.

Law enforcement officials suggest that groups celebrating on New Year’s Eve choose a designated driver who will completely abstain from drinking alcohol and can bring everyone home.

Other options include the county’s cab ride program.

The usual rate for the subsidized cab ride home — which runs from 5:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights — is $5 for one to two riders, and $10 per cab for three or more passengers. But on New Year’s Eve, the county

will provide $1 cab rides.

The discounted taxi ride is provided by Capital City Cab from a liquor establishment to a person’s house within the Santa Fe city limits. The service will be offered from 5:30 p.m. Wednesday until 2:30 a.m. Thursday. For a ride home from Capital City Cab, call 438-0000.

Another option is AAA New Mexico’s Tipsy Tow program. The program, which runs from 6 p.m.

Wednesday until 11:59 p.m.

Thursday, will take motorists and their vehicles home, free of charge, for a distance of up to 10 miles. For information on AAA New Mexico’s Tipsy Tow program, call 800-222-4357.

“We hope everyone who plans to celebrate the New Year with alcohol will make transportation plans before they ever have their first drink,” said Linda von Quintus, AAA vice president of government and community affairs. “Make sure you, your

A new choice for those who are imbibing is the ridesharing service Uber. family and your friends think about safety first before celebrations and plan ahead.”

A new choice for those who are imbibing is the Internet-based, ride-sharing service Uber, which launched in Santa Fe last month. Riders can download the app on their smartphones and request a ride from an Uber driver. The app includes a map showing the driver’s location and an estimated arrival time.

The app also provides customers with the driver’s name, his or her profile pic-

ture, the vehicle make and model, and the license plate number. Drivers also will call or text customers when they’re arriving at the pickup spot. At the end of an Uber ride, no one exchanges credit cards or cash. Instead, Uber charges the customer’s credit card account, registered with the smartphone app.

Uber charges a minimum fee of $6.50 per ride. Its base fare in Santa Fe is $2.35, with charges of 30 cents per minute and $1.85 per mile.

On Uber’s website, the ridesharing company announced that when an Uber user requests a ride between 6 p.m.

Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday, with the promo code MADDNYE, it will donate $1 to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, a national nonprofit that advocates against drunken driving.

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

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Thank You Senators Tom Udall, Martin Heinrich and Jeff Bingaman (ret.)

Congressman Ben Ray Luján and Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham for standing with our local community in championing the Columbine Hondo Wilderness.

Your unwavering leadership will forever safeguard New Mexico’s clean water, critical wildlife habitat, and outstanding recreation. Columbine Hondo now stands with the Latir Peak, Wheeler Peak and Pecos wilderness areas that serve as vital watersheds for all New Mexicans.

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TASTE Verde Juice is unpasteurized, unprocessed and additive-free

Cold-pressed juice comes to Santa Fe

By Tantri Wija For The New Mexican

French lentil salad is a side dish that goes with just about everything. MATTHEW MEAD/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Simple, healthy lentil salad tastes great

By Elizabeth Karmel

FRENCH LENTIL SALAD Start to finish: 25 minutes Servings: 4 When I was in high school, 1 cup dried small green my parents took my sisters and lentils (French lentils or me to Paris. That trip shaped lentilles de Puy) me in so many ways, most of 1 tablespoon Dijon them culinary. So many of the mustard dishes I make even today were 3 tablespoon red wine inspired by that trip. vinegar One night, we went to a Kosher salt and small, rustic restaurant in the ground black pepper heart of the city. The meal 1/3 cup extra-virgin started with hunks of cheese, olive oil sausages, cornichons and a 1 small carrot, finely bowl of “country caviar.” The chopped bread, cheese and meat were as 2 medium shallots, delicious as you would expect, chopped but it was that last item that 2 tablespoons chopped blew us away. fresh curly parsley It’s hard to believe that a Place the lentils in a mesh trio of sisters from the South strainer and rinse with cool would get so excited over a water. Discard any gravel or bowl of what basically was just other debris. a cold lentil salad. But these Place the lentils in a 4-quart lentils were different than the saucepan, then add enough Indian lentils we had eaten in water to cover by 2 inches. Set dal. They were small, greenish- over medium-high heat and black in color and didn’t lose bring to a gentle boil. Reduce their shape. wIt was evident the heat to medium-low, then why the restaurant referred to simmer until the lentils are just the dish as country caviar. It tender but not falling apart, looked like caviar. about 15 minutes. When lenThe lentils were perfectly tils are done, drain them, then cooked so that they were return them to the saucepan creamy and popped a little in and cover. Set aside. In a small your mouth. They were dressed bowl, whisk together the muswith a homemade vinaigrette tard, vinegar and a pinch each slightly pungent with Dijon of salt and pepper. While conmustard and red wine vinegar. tinuing to whisk, drizzle in the Minced shallots, carrot and oil and whisk until fully comcurly parsley added color, bined and emulsified. crunch and flavor. The dish was Drain any lingering liquid simple, but the combination from the lentils, then place was rich and the texture addic- them in a medium bowl. Add tive. the vinaigrette, carrot, shallots Lentilles du Puy — often and parsley. Toss gently, taking labeled green French lentils care not to smash the lentils. in the U.S. — are grown in the Taste and adjust the vinegar rugged mountainous region and salt, if necessary. The of Auvergne in the South of dressing should have a hint of France. Only those grown near mustard and enough acidity to Puy-en-Velay can be called len- offset the richness of the lentils. tilles du Puy. Serve the salad warm, room They are grown in volcanictemperature or chilled. Keeps rich soil and much like old vine in the refrigerator for up to grapes are left to grow with 3 days. Nutrition information no fertilizer or watering, givper serving: 320 calories; ing them far more flavor. Like 170 calories from fat (53 percent other lentils, they are high in of total calories); 19 g fat protein and fiber. But you will (2.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); make them because they taste 0 mg cholesterol; 30 g carbohyso good, are easy and very satdrate; 8 g fiber; 2 g sugar; isfying.

10 g protein; 230 mg sodium.

It is a side dish that goes with just about everything. And this Elizabeth Karmel is a barbecue time of year, when I am payand Southern foods expert. She is ing penance for all my holiday the chef and pitmaster at online indulgences, I am excited to retailer CarolinaCueToGo. make food that is both healthy com and author of three books, and delicious. including “Taming the Flame.”

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Side Dish What’s on tap in and around Santa Fe NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE ANASAZI RESTAURANT A three-course prixe fixe menu from chef Juan Bochenski to ring in the new year, including pork belly and octopus ajillo and pavlova roulade; $98 prixe fix.

Wednesday, Dec. 31, 4 p.m. – 10 p.m., www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/ inn-of-the-anasazi-santa-fe

GENTLE CLEANSING FOR THE NEW YEAR COOKING CLASS AT BODY Ayurvedic practitioner Deva Khalsa teaches recipes that will clean your pipes and flush your system of all your holiday culinary sins.

Sunday, Jan. 4, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. $80-$140 www.bodyofsantafe.com

I WISH I KNEW HOW TO COOK CLASS AT THE LAS COSAS COOKING SHOPPE AND COOKING SCHOOL Learn to feed yourself without a takeout menu with basic cooking instruction from Las Cosas. Might make a good New Year’s gift for that special someone who always overcooks your pasta. $85 Friday, Jan. 2, 6 to 9 p.m. www.lascosascooking.com

WHISKEY TASTING 101 – AT SANTA FE SPIRITS DOWNTOWN TASTING ROOM Teach your tastebuds to appreciate the finer points of that barrel-aged, peaty nectar you used to mix with cola from SF Spirits owner Colin Keegan himself.

Tuesday, Jan. 6, 5:30 p.m., $30 www.santafespirits.com

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ou have spent the last month eating cheese.

And ham. And cake and biscochitos and wine and everything else you wanted, because you knew that New Year’s was coming up right afterward and you would be able to wash it all away with a juice cleanse.

“Juice,” in this context, obviously does not mean aggressively sweetened, processed, mass-produced sugar water (you know, the kind you feed your children).

When drinking for health, you want the freshest juice you can obtain, devoid of additives and extra sugar and preservatives, made of organic, fresh produce.

But if you’re serious about juicing, the method by which the juice is extracted makes a big difference, and in the hierarchy of juice, cold-pressed juice is at the apex.

At most juice bars or in a home juicer, produce is macerated in a centrifugal machine, which grinds the produce to a pulp and pushes it against a mesh filter, immediately pressing the juice out if it. Centrifugal juicing heats up the juice during pressing, causing it to oxidize faster, so it must be drunk almost immediately.

In cold-pressed juicing, vegetables and fruits are macerated via machine into a bag and then slowly crushed with a hydraulic press, extracting the juice, which is then bottled and labeled with the date and the time of pressing. Juice extracted this way lasts longer, up to five days, and supposedly retains far more of the life-giving nutrients you need when you’ve been surviving on a diet of sugar, fancy cheese and alcohol since Halloween.

And for the freshest coldpressed juice in town, you have to go to Verde Juice, located at 851 W. San Mateo, Santa Fe’s brand-spanking-new juice mecca. Verde is not what you immediately expect of a juice bar. There are no piles of fruit, no loud whirring machinery, no helpful teenagers in neon visors.

The space is minimalist, clean, even spartan, like the front end of a high-end spa, shiny and white and decorated only with strips of freshly growing wheatgrass mounted on the walls behind the counter. The shop’s entire product line sits in a lone refrigerated case, jeweltone liquids encased in glass bottles like the food of the future.

The concept of Verde Juice was born last year when owner Kelly Egolf had surgery on her jaw and was told she had to live on a liquid diet for two months afterward. Tired of nutritional shakes, she developed a suite of recipes for juices that would both taste good and heal her body (and keep her, you know, alive). Egolf’s husband, attorney and state Rep. Brian Egolf, blended her juice every day during her recuperation, and then started drinking it himself.

Some of his colleagues caught on and requested he bring juice to work, and soon Kelly Egolf found herself pressing produce for a half a dozen people every morning.

“I couldn’t do that everyday,” she laughs, and several months and about a thousand pieces of paperwork later, a juice bar was born, making Verde Santa Fe’s one and only spot for truly pure drinkable nectar. “People have been saying ‘finally’,” says Egolf. “There’s a real demand for this here, I think.”

Verde’s juice is totally raw, unpasteurized, unprocessed and contains no additives whatsoever, which is why they sell it at the pressing site.

Cold pressing is a slow pro-

Kelly Egolf, owner of Verde Juice, is shown at the juice store, 851 West San Mateo. Verde Juice opened in November and its hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. PHOTOS BY LUIS SANCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

cess, so the juice cannot be made to order on the spot like a traditional juice bar. Juices are pressed in advance and stored in refrigerated cases for no more than three days.

Many of Verde’s offerings are actually hybrids of coldpressed juices and smoothies, as the greens in the juice, which include wheatgrass and kale, are blended separately and then folded into the juice, retaining all the healthy fiber.

This combination is unusual in the juice world, the recipes developed by Egolf out of the necessity of feeding herself in an efficient (and drinkable) way. Verde offers a plethora of combinations like the fresh “Apple Cleanse” and the cayenne-spiked “Spicy Sunrise,” and almost all the juices contain a surprisingly long list of ingredients; the brightly tangy Piña Verde, for example, contains pineapple, coconut milk, banana, kale, spinach, parsley, almonds, mint and lime.

Protein comes from the almonds or chia and pumpkin seeds, as well as the almond and coconut milk, both of which are also cold-pressed fresh at Verde. Soon, Verde will also serve prepared foods concocted by chef Lizz Redman, formerly of Body, turning the juice bar into a café space and giving you something to chew on with your fresh drinkables.

Santa Fe’s Charles Burkhardt loads carrots into a hydraulic press juicer.

It’s all part of a process where the finished product is sold at Verde Juice for $9 a bottle.

Plus, conveniently for all you holiday bingers out there, Verde has a carefully designed juice cleanse plan for $162 (or $172 delivered) comprised of six different juices a day for three days, meant to replace all your meals and flush your body of all that mulled wine and fruitcake.

In a single day your nutrientparched system will be inundated with cucumber, beets, apples, chai spices, green tea, kale and at least 30 other things that are on your New Year’s Resolution list anyway. Because the juice is all pressed on demand, make sure to pre-order the plan a week or so in advance.

Verde’s juice is not inexpensive at $9 a bottle, but when doing your mental math, consider that each bottle contains

2 pounds of a wide variety of produce, seeds and fresh nut milks that you would have to make yourself if you really wanted something as pure as Verde’s offerings. Verde will also deliver your juice to you, four bottles brought to you three times a week in a cooler bag, and according to Egolf, customers frequently bring the glass bottles back for a 50-cent rebate.

Sure, you could buy a cold-pressed juicer (for about $2,000) and a billion pounds of raw organic vegetables and start macerating up a storm in your kitchen, but now that Santa Fe has its very own homegrown cold-pressed juice bar, you might consider doing something else with all that time you’ll save.

Like exercise.

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Protests follow conviction of Putin’s foe Popular blogger has been under house arrest since February

By Nataliya Vasilyeva The Associated Press

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin’s chief political foe was convicted along with his brother on Tuesday in a fraud case widely seen as a political vendetta by the Kremlin, triggering one of Russia’s boldest antigovernment demonstrations in years.

Police allowed a few thousand protesters to gather just outside Red Square for about two hours — a show of relative restraint for Russian authorities, who have little tolerance for dissent — before moving in to break up the unsanctioned rally by pushing the demonstrators toward subway entrances.

The rally came hours after anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny was found guilty of what activists said were trumped-up charges and given a suspended sentence of 3½ years. His younger brother was sent to prison, a move that drew comparisons to the Stalin-era practice of punishing family members of enemies of the state.

The 38-year old Navalny, a lawyer and popular blogger, rose to prominence with his investigations of official corruption and played a leading role in organizing anti-Putin Alexei demonstrations in Navalny Moscow in 2011 and 2012 that drew hundreds of thousands.

Navalny, who has been under house arrest since February, violated its terms to attend the rally and was rounded up by police as he approached the site.

He later tweeted that police drove him home and blocked him from leaving his apartment.

The protesters, who gathered on the Manezh Square outside the Kremlin, chanted: “We are the power!” and “Russia without Putin!” Some shouted slogans of support for Ukraine, which saw its Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia in March and has faced a proRussia insurgency in the east.

Scuffles erupted between the protesters and pro-Putin activists shouting, “Those who don’t like Russia should go to the United States!” — the chants reflecting the Kremlin’s depic-

Police prepare to push supporters of Russian opposition activist and anticorruption crusader Alexei Navalny away during an unsanctioned protest in Manezhnaya Square in Moscow on Tuesday. DENIS TYRIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

tion of opposition supporters as Western stooges.

The Russian authorities usually move quickly to break up opposition protests, and the unusual delay this time may reflect Kremlin concerns about fueling public anger amid the country’s economic woes.

The ruble has lost about half its value this year, and the economy is heading into recession under the combined weight of Western sanctions and slumping oil prices.

Police said they detained about 100 protesters, while activists claimed up to 250 were rounded up. Russian

Despite war’s end, conflicts continue Worsening crises may demand U.S. intervention

By Robert Burns and Deb Riechmann

By Michael Riley and Jordan Robertson Bloomberg News

Mourners carry the coffin of retired Brig. Gen. Abbas Hassan Jabr, a member of the Badr Brigades, a Shiite militia, who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq, during his funeral in Baghdad on Thursday. HADI MIZBAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Group claims Iraq suicide attack BAGHDAD — The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a funeral tent north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad the day before that killed 16 people and wounded 34 others.

The claim was made in a statement posted on a Twitter account frequently used by the extremist group. It did not mention the nationality of the attacker.

Monday’s attack targeted the funeral of the father of two members of pro-government Sunni militias. The Islamic State group frequently targets Iraq’s Shiite majority as well as Sunnis allied with the Shiite-led government.

The bomber showed up at the funeral disguised as a Shiite, with a religious flag and a portrait of a Shiite imam, according to Hussein Ali, a local resident who said he witnessed the attack.

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group’s base and weakening its grip in Iraq.

And once again the U.S. is on a path that could expand or prolong its military role in Afghanistan. The U.S. combat role there ends Dec. 31, but Obama has authorized remaining U.S. troops to attack the Taliban if they pose a threat to U.S. military personnel who are training Afghan security forces for at least the next two years.

At his final news conference of 2014, Obama spoke just 18 words on Afghanistan, saying, “In less than two weeks, after more than 13 years, our combat mission in Afghanistan will be over.”

As of Dec. 16, 2,215 U.S. troops died in Afghanistan and 19,945 were wounded.

In Iraq, 4,491 died and 32,244 were wounded.

Obama’s promise to end the war in Iraq was a key to

winning the White House in 2008. He delivered on that promise, but the war was not really over. Events conspired to pull Obama back in. In January 2014 the Islamic State group seized the Sunni city of Fallujah, scene of the bloodiest fighting of the U.S. war a decade earlier.

In June, the militants expanded their offensive, sweeping across much of northern Iraq and capturing key cities.

As Obama approaches the end of his sixth year in office, he awaits Congress’ formal endorsement of his new war against Islamic State militants.

The administration wants a legal basis for the war, known as an authorization for use of military force, rather than continuing to rely on congressional resolutions granted after 9/11 to justify the invasion of Afghanistan, wage the Iraq War and pursue al-Qaida elsewhere.

Obama insists he has kept his word to end America’s big wars, the occupations and nation-building efforts that began with such promise in both Afghanistan and Iraq but ultimately defied U.S. hopes for clear victories.

Dissent on military sex-assault policy spurs probe

By Craig Whitlock The Washington Post

With just a few weeks left in her Air Force career, Capt.

Maribel Jarzabek decided to vent a little. She posted a few messages on a U.S. senator’s Facebook page, supporting the lawmaker’s push to overhaul the military justice system for sexual-assault cases.

Not long afterward, Jarzabek received an email from a higher-ranking officer, informing her that she was under criminal investigation.

The allegations? That she had wrongfully advocated “a partisan political cause” and expressed opinions online that could undermine public

FBI keeps close eye as firms take cyber aim against hackers Companies look to push limits of law, reclaim stolen data

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WASHINGTON — Taking America off a permanent war footing is proving harder than President Barack Obama may have suggested.

U.S. troops are back in Iraq, the endgame in Afghanistan is requiring more troops — and perhaps more risks — than once expected and Obama is saddled with a worsening, high-stakes conflict in Syria.

Last spring, Obama described to newly minted Army officers at West Point how “the landscape has changed” after a decade of war. He cited then-dwindling conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. And he said Osama bin Laden, whose plotting from an al-Qaida sanctuary in Afghanistan gave rise to what became America’s longest war, “is no more.”

“You are the first class to graduate since 9/11 who may not be sent into combat in Iraq or Afghanistan,” Obama declared to a burst of applause.

But once again the landscape has changed.

Once again the U.S. is engaged in combat in Iraq — not by soldiers on the ground but by pilots in the sky. And the Pentagon is putting “boots on the ground” to retrain and advise Iraqi soldiers how to fight a new menace: the Islamic State militants who emerged from the Iraq insurgency that U.S. troops fought from 2003-2011.

Once again there are worsening crises demanding U.S. military intervention, including in Syria. Four months after his speech at the U.S. Military Academy, Obama authorized American pilots, joined by Arab allies, to begin bombing Islamic State targets with the aim of undermining the

law requires demonstrators to get official clearance for rallies. Violators can face prison sentences and heavy fines.

Tuesday’s verdict was not scheduled to come down until next month, but the court session was abruptly moved up to the day before New Year’s Eve, the main holiday in Russia, in what was widely seen as an attempt to head off protests. Russia’s main state-controlled TV stations all but avoided the story.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said the U.S. government was troubled by the verdict, which “appears to be another example of the Russian government’s growing crackdown on independent voices.”

European Union spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said the charges hadn’t been substantiated and the verdict “appeared to be politically motivated.”

Navalny and his brother Oleg were convicted of cheating a French cosmetics company and given the same 3½-year sentence, but only Navalny’s was suspended. The court also fined each man 500,000 rubles (about $8,800) and ordered them to pay a total of about 4 million rubles ($77,000) in damages.

confidence in the Air Force.

Jarzabek is a military lawyer assigned as part of a new program to represent victims of sexual assault. Although the Defense Department has promoted the program as a success story and part of a broader campaign to crack down on sex crimes within the armed forces, Jarzabek had grown disillusioned and said she felt the Air Force was papering over deeper problems.

“Changes are needed, and it’s time that the public knew about the military’s true dirty little secrets!” she wrote Dec. 2 in a long comment posted on the Facebook page of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. Under military regula-

tions, uniformed personnel are prohibited from publicly participating in overt political causes. Appearing at a rally in uniform or endorsing a candidate is forbidden.

In her Facebook posts, Jarzabek identified herself as an active-duty Air Force lawyer, which apparently is what drew the attention of her superiors and prompted the investigation.

On Dec. 23, after a brief investigation, Jarzabek said she was notified by the investigating officer that she had been found guilty of the allegations. The punishment was decidedly mild: She was given “verbal counseling,” or a warning not to do it again.

Although the outcome won’t appear as a black mark on her official military record, Jarzabek called the investigation a thinly veiled attempt to retaliate against her for advocating too strongly for sexual-assault victims. In an interview, she also questioned the timing, noting that her departure from the service was imminent. After a fiveyear career, Wednesday is her last day in the Air Force.

“I told the truth,” said Jarzabek, 34, who is stationed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

“I do believe they are trying to silence me and also send a message to other special-victim counsels who agree with me but are afraid to speak up.”

WASHINGTON — The hacked are itching to hack back.

So say a dozen security specialists and former lawenforcement officials, who described an intensifying and largely unspoken sense of unease inside many companies after the recent breach of Sony’s networks.

U.S. officials have shown little appetite to intervene as banks, retailers, casinos, power companies and manufacturers have been targeted by foreignbased hackers. Private-sector companies doing business in the U.S. have few clear options for striking back on their own.

That has led a growing number of companies to push the limits of existing law to consider ways to break into hackers’ networks to retrieve stolen data or even knock computers offline to stop attacks, the cybersecurity professionals said in interviews.

Some companies are enlisting cybersecurity firms, many with military or government security ties, to walk them through options for disrupting hacker operations or peering into foreign networks to find out what intellectual property hackers may have stolen.

In one case, the FBI is looking into whether hackers working on behalf of any U.S. financial institutions disabled servers that were being used

by Iran to attack the websites of major banks last year, said two people familiar with the investigation. JPMorgan Chase & Co. advocated such a move in a closed meeting in February 2013, these people said. A bank spokeswoman said no action was ever taken. Federal investigators are still trying to determine who was responsible, the people said.

“It’s kind of a Wild West right now,” said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. Some victim companies may be conducting offensive operations “without getting permission” from the federal government, he said.

“They’re very frustrated,” McCaul said of these firms.

Hacking costs the global economy as much as $575 billion annually, according to a study published in June by McAfee, a security-software maker owned by Intel, and the Center for Strategic & International Studies. Counterstrikes are a small part of the overall cybersecurity industry, which Gartner projects will surpass $78 billion in worldwide revenue next year.

The idea of hacker-on-hacker

justice raises thorny questions, including when U.S. companies can legally order international strikes on their behalf. Also little explored are the consequences of engaging hackers that may be backed, explicitly or implicitly, by states from North Korea and Iran to China and Russia.

The idea of counterstrikes gained an unprecedented level of visibility when President Barack Obama vowed on Dec. 19 to mount a “proportional” response against North Korea for the Sony breach, which destroyed data and leaked movies and employee emails. North Korea suffered Internet outages a few days later. The White House has declined to comment on North Korea’s accusation that the U.S. government played a role.

“Sony represents a dramatic escalation, one so punitive in nature that I think it does change the equation,” said Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer at Trend Micro, a Tokyo-based security firm.

Trend Micro advises clients against taking aggressive countermeasures, he said.

Already, someone appears to have struck back against the Sony attacks. Fake copies of Fury, Annie and other leaked films began appearing earlier this month on file-sharing sites, slowing the computers of people attempting to download the movies and crippling torrent sites disseminating the files, said Tal Klein, vice president of strategy at Adallom, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based security company. The fake files have now largely been eliminated as file-sharing sites have used rating systems to blacklist the decoys, he said.

Sony declined to comment on the fakes or on any steps the company is taking to recover from the breach.

In the U.S., companies are prohibited by the 30-year-old Computer Fraud and Abuse Act from gaining unauthorized access to computers or overloading them with digital demands, even to stop an ongoing attack.

The act exempts intelligence and law-enforcement activities, allowing the government to respond more aggressively than private-sector firms. There’s little indication, though, that military and intelligence agencies have used their most powerful tools to shut down attacks on businesses, as the U.S. has attempted to address foreignbased hacking through diplomacy and the courts.

U.S. law-enforcement agencies appear to give security companies more leeway when it comes to breaching computers to gather intelligence on the hackers or discover what data they took, according to a former law-enforcement official.

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Empty stocking fund

Medical woes set man back The New Mexican

Jesse was engaged to be married, but his fiancée passed away in early 2013, and he became homeless after that.

Luckily, friends and family let him stay with them so he was not out in the cold. He had a hip replacement and continued staying with friends and family while he healed. With the help of several local agencies, he is now in an apartment.

Jesse receives income from Social Security, but it is not enough to cover all of his bills.

He is requesting approximately $1,600 to help with rent, medication and miscellaneous items to help him get through the winter.

Jesse is among the many community members asking for help from The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund during the holiday season. The New Mexican is not publishing the applicants’ real names to protect their privacy. uuu

The Empty Stocking Fund is a project of The Santa Fe New Mexican. The Santa Fe Community Foundation, First National of Santa Fe, The Salvation Army and Presbyterian Medical Services donate services to jointly administer the Empty Stocking Fund.

To donate: Although the holiday season is ending, you can still make a constribution to the Empty Stocking Fund. Make your tax deductible donation online at www.santafenew mexican.com/empty_stocking.

Candidate quits SFCC board race Jeff Green, a candidate for Santa Fe Community College’s Governing Board, announced he is withdrawing from the race.

He was one of three candidates vying for the Position 4 seat currently held by Chris Abeyta, who decided not to run for re-election.

Green, an environmentalist who unsuccessfully ran for a City Council seat earlier this year and is a student in the college’s nutrition program, said he is endorsing Xubi Wilson for the seat because “he’s with the Green Party and has been a Green for many years, and walks the talk, but unlike his opponent, Xubi is a lifelong educator with deep institutional knowledge about the community college.”

Jack Sullivan, an engineer and former county commissioner, also is running in the Position 4 race.

Linda Siegle and Pablo Sedillo are running unopposed for Positions 1 and 2 in the Feb. 3 election.

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Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department took the following report: u Virginia Miranda, 21, of Santa Fe was arrested on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia, distribution of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance at about 10 p.m. Monday.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office took the following reports: u Someone used a person’s personal information to open an AT&T cellphone account and accrued about $1,852 worth of charges. The victim reported the incident to deputies Monday. u Someone cashed a stolen check in the amount of $1,635 on Dec. 12.

Report: Over 17K in state insured through exchange The New Mexican

Figures released Tuesday show that 17,556 people in New Mexico had either re-enrolled in a health insurance plan through the HealthCare.gov platform or had signed up for the first time from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15.

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department said almost 3 in 4 enrollees in New Mexico, 73 percent, have qualified for a federal tax subsidy to help off-

set the cost of their monthly premiums.

“Interest in the Marketplace has been strong during the first month of open enrollment. We still have a ways to go and a lot of work to do before February 15, but this is an encouraging start,” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell said in a statement.

Nationwide, more than 4 million people have enrolled in plans through federal and state marketplaces, according to the Obama administration.

In 2014, New Mexico saw 34,000 people sign up for private insurance using HealthCare.gov.

New Mexico is still using the federal government’s online insurance marketplace for individuals and families. Smallbusiness owners and their employees, however, can use the state portal for enrollment, bewell.com.

Under the Affordable Care Act, most individuals must have health insurance or pay a fine when they file a federal

income tax return.

Individuals who don’t have coverage in 2015 will be assessed the higher of these two amounts, according to the HealthCare.gov website: u A fee equal to 2 percent of yearly household income. (Only the amount of income above the tax filing threshold, about $10,000 for an individual, is used to calculate the penalty.) u A fee of $325 per person for the year, with a $975 maximum per family.

Funeral services and memorials JOE (PIPAS) M. MARTINEZ, JR. Our beloved father, Joe (The Great), left this world to join his loving wife, Helen, on December 23, 2014 after a short illness. Joe was born May 16, 1924 in Albuquerque, NM to Paula (Pablita) Valdez and Joe M. Martinez, Sr. He lived his young life in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico and married his childhood sweetheart, Helen, on March 2, 1944. Immediately after marrying, Joe was sent overseas to fight in the Pacific against the Japanese in WWII with the Air National Guard. After completing 29 successful bombings without injury, he earned the Distinguished Flying Medal, went to the University of Montana to complete his undergraduate studies. He returned to his native NM to Santa Fe in early 1952 and started teaching Science and Biology at the Espanola Municipal Schools in 1953, was promoted to Principal in 1966 and stayed until he retired in 1983. He was recognized by Mayor Larry A. Delgado with a certificate proclaiming May 16th, 2004 to be Joe "PIPAS" Martinez Day in Santa Fe for his undying commitment to the Santa Fe Senior Citizens Program for over 20 years, and for working to obtain a Greyhound type passenger bus through the Legislators of Santa Fe County and Mayor Larry Delgado. He and the Santa Fe senior citizens enjoyed many trips to Nevada in that bus.

After losing his wife in 2005, a new chapter began with Joe moving to Albuquerque to be near his children. He lived a joyful and fulfilling life at Las Colinas Retirement Community, was always "in charge" of Bingo and had a special poker game with his buddies. We will always remember him as a loving and generous father who loved his children and everyone around him.

His life with Helen produced four children, son LTC (ret.) Stan Valdez and companion Emma Apodaca, daughters Jeanette M. Hohler and husband Robert, Marcia J. Martinez and companion Meg Lili Christensen, and Susan L. Baca and husband Phil, grandchildren Eric Hohler, Jaimie Lynn (Hohler) Sciolino and husband John, Christian Diener and wife Megan, Michele Diener and partner Ronald Aveling, great grandchildren Tyler Troutman and Hailie Troutman, Hannah Marie Hohler, Eric Joseph Hohler, Sarah Hohler, Julia Diener and Henry Diener, his sister-in-law, Bertha Christiansen, nephews Clifford Christiansen and wife Amy, and sons Eric Christiansen and wife Jody, and children Taylor, Cody and Trinity, Bryan Christiansen and wife Ali, children Santiago and Julian, nephew James Christiansen and wife Linda, and daughter Jessica, niece-in-law Elizabeth Christiansen and daughter Sara Christiansen and son Haize, and his niece Rosina (Martinez) Philips.

A rosary will be recited on Sunday, January 4, 2014 at 6 pm at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, January 5, 2014 at 10 am at St. Anne’s Catholic Church with interment to follow at 11:15 am at Santa Fe National Cemetery.

REUBEN BRADLEY LONGACRE December 25, 1943 - December 27, 2014 Reuben was born on Christmas Day in 1943 to David Longacre and Celia Friday Longacre. Nicknamed by the doctor who delivered him, Reuben was known as "Butch" by his large extended family. Reuben began school at St. Michael’s Catholic School when he was five years old and where he was given the nickname "Rats". Reuben attended St. Mike’s until his graduation in 1961. During his years at St. Mike’s he made many close and cherished lifelong friends. Reuben was a dedicated member of the St. Michael’s Alumni Association where he devoted many hours to the promotion of athletic and other school activities by volunteering to do whatever job needed to be done.

On April 30, 1966, Reuben married Dolores Garcia. Their marriage began 48 years of devotion to his family. Together, he and Dolores raised two daughters, five grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. Reuben loved his wife, his children, his grandchildren and great granddaughter. He loved sports and loved watching his daughters and grandchildren compete. Reuben was a role model to his children, his grandchildren, his many nieces and nephews, and to many of the students he encountered and coached over the years.

Reuben worked as a mechanic at Santa Fe Motors and Carl’s Pontiac for many years. In 1984 he began working at St. Michael’s High School where he was nicknamed Mr. Miyagi by the students. He retired from St. Mike’s in 2014 after serving 30 years as Maintenance and Groundskeeper. He also worked at his many hobbies and interests; always planted a garden, loved to cook for his family, and liked to work on his house and his yard. He was the classic Jack of all Trades. He was a hard worker and never shirked from doing the work that needed to be done. He knew how to do almost everything and never hesitated to help anyone who asked. Sometimes he didn’t wait to be asked, he just pitched in and helped. In his later years he coached volleyball and Little League Softball.

He also played hard; he found enjoyment in everything and everyone and was always the life of the party. Reuben was a very generous man; generous with his help, generous with his hospitality, with his time, his smiles, his teasing, and his love. He made many friends throughout his lifetime Reuben was preceded in death by his parents, Dave and Celia, his brother Robert D. Longacre, his sister-in-law, Maria Longacre, and his nephew David Anderson. He is survived by his wife, Dolores; his daughter Charmaine Longacre and her son, Alex; his daughter Leticia Alvarez, her husband Joe and their children, Audrianna, Joseph and his partner Janaye, Alicia (Cia), and Andrew, and their grand-daughter Layla. Also survived by sister Lillian Anderson and husband Loyd, brother Lawrence Elmer Longacre, and sister-in-law Lita Longacre, many nephews, nieces, cousins, and good friends.

Services will be held Friday, January 2, 2015 at St. Michael’s High School inTipton Center. Rosary will begin at 9 am followed by a Funeral Mass. Reception immediately following. There will be a memorial service on Wednesday January 7, 2015 at St. Michael’s beginning at 9:30 am.

Honorary Pallbearers: Bill Valdes, Alex Longacre, Joseph Alvarez, Andrew Alvarez, Alycia Alvarez, Ian Longacre, Roger Longacre, Audrianna Alvarez, John Garcia, Elmer Longacre, Lynda Smith, Shana Longacre, Vicki Gage.

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TERESA MARCELINA CORRIZ LOVATO Teresa Marcelina Corriz Lovato, age 87, residing in Santa Fe, NM died on Thursday, December 25, 2014. She passed away at home following complications from a surgery.

Teresa, or better known as Tessie, was born on April 26, 1927, in Cerrillos, NM. Her parents were Santos Corriz Sr. and Juanita Sedillo Corriz. Her siblings were Santos Corriz Jr., Jose Inez Corriz, Ruben Corriz, Lucy Corriz, Margie Corriz, Victoria Padilla, Rose Ortega, and Dolores Lovato.

Tessie graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1945 and attended one year of business school. In her younger days, she worked at the Del Rico Creamery (at Woolsworth), the School for the Deaf and La Fonda where she met her husband of 57 years, Cosme A. Lovato Sr. (deceased). Her most valued position in life was that of a wife and mother so she babysat neighborhood children so she could be a housewife while raising her four children - Raymond Lovato (wife Ramona), Gloria Romero, Angela Montoya (husband Charles), Antonio Lovato, Jr. (deceased) and her foster son Johnny Jaramillo. She grew up in Cerrillos, NM, lived in Los Alamos, NM for a few years but spent most of her life in Santa Fe, NM. Tessie had many hobbies - crocheting, quilting, gardening, playing the piano, playing Book Worm on the computer, and doing puzzles. She especially enjoyed raising her own chickens, geese and peacocks. She always said that people could learn a lot from nature. Tessie was also known for having a big heart, especially for the sick and underdogs. She belonged to several prayer groups - St. John’s, San Ysidro, and Guadalupe. In 1990, she opened up her home weekly to her second family, the Medjugorje Prayer Group. Tessie is survived by her 6 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren, with one on the way, who have now been handed the torch to plant the seed of love.

Visitation will be held on Thursday, January 1, 2015 from 5-7pm at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service where a Rosary will be recited at 7pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, January 2, 2015 at 9am at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. The burial will be held on Tuesday, January 7, 2015 at 11:15am at Santa Fe National Cemetery.

A special thank you to all of Tessie’s caregivers, especially Dr. Kullman.

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

Abel Ryan Martinez, 33 passed away December 24th 2014. He was born to Manuel & Christella Martinez June 8th 1981. Able is survived by his grandmother Irene Larranaga, children Priscilla, Isiah, Asia, and Brooke.

He is survived by his 3 siblings, numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and special friends.

Abel’s sense of humor and generous heart will be greatly missed by all those who loved and knew him.

We would also like to give a special thanks for all of the support and generosity received.

Services will be held on Friday January 2, 2015 at 11:30 at the F.O.E.

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COMMENTARY: JOE NOCERA

Questions to ponder for the year ahead

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ill President Barack Obama approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline?

Up until recently, I always assumed that Obama would, sooner or later, despite the protests of the environmental community. In March 2012, for instance, he spoke positively about the proposed pipeline, which would bring oil mined from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, approval of the pipeline is important to the government of Canada, our neighbor and ally.

But several things happened in 2014 that now make me think he will turn it down.

The first is that the glut of oil — largely because of the increase in U.S. production — has made the oil from the tar sands unnecessary, at least for now. Second, as the president moves into legacy mode, saying no to Keystone could firm up his credentials as a leader who tried to do something about climate change. And, finally, Republicans, who will control both the House and the Senate in January, have vowed to send the president a bill approving construction of the pipeline. Vetoing that bill would be very much in keeping with the bolder, more confrontational persona that Obama has displayed since the midterm elections.

Will insider-trading prosecutions disappear?

Thanks to a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, they just might. The ruling overturned the convictions of two hedge fund managers who had made stock trades based on information they received, third- or fourth-hand, from corporate insiders. Because they didn’t know the identity of the insiders — or whether those insiders were receiving any tangible benefit for leaking information — the court ruled that the fund managers had not committed a crime. Thus did the appeals court define insider trading narrowly, making it difficult to charge anybody who did not directly pay off a source for information.

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Ray Rivera Editor

OUR VIEW

Be cautious this New Year

T To some degree, the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are reaping what they sowed. There is no law that defines the crime of insider trading; instead the rules for what is, or is not, illegal have evolved through court cases. For years, that suited the government, which could try to stretch the definition from case to case. But now the judiciary is drastically shrinking that definition. James B. Stewart, The Times business columnist, recently wrote that the country needs an insidertrading statute to define the crime, once and for all. He’s right.

Will the average college football coach make more than the average professional football coach?

Well, it probably won’t happen in 2015, but we are headed in that direction. As of this fall, the average pay for the head coaches in the five wealthiest football conferences (the “power five”) was $2.96 million. Professional coaches made nearly twice as much, $4.85 million. But more and more, colleges are luring top coaches by offering them prolike salaries. The most recent

example is Jim Harbaugh. Paid $5 million a year to coach the San Francisco 49ers, he has reportedly agreed to leave the pro ranks for the University of Michigan for $8 million a year. No doubt, the Michigan trustees calculated that he would be worth that much if he returned the school to its former football glory. But it’s another reminder that college football is every bit the multibillion-dollar business that the NFL is. Except, of course, that the players don’t get paid. (By the way, the upcoming issue of The Washington Monthly has an illuminating article about the controversy that ensued a century ago when college coaches first began to be paid.)

Will Uber survive?

I’m only being partly facetious. Uber has an enormous war chest and is a popular service that now operates in 255 cities. But it has a serious problem: It keeps bumping into government resistance.

When a company like, say, Skype began offering free phone calls, it disrupted the telephone industry. But the phone companies couldn’t do much about it. Uber, however, is disrupting services that are controlled and regulated by

governments. Uber can argue all it wants that those government regulations are outmoded. It can even be right.

But it doesn’t matter. Governments have the power to push back. Uber has been ruled illegal in Nevada. South Korea went so far as to indict Travis Kalanick, Uber’s chief executive, charging that the company violated “local licensing laws,” according to The Times. There are lots more examples.

Compare Uber’s hyperaggressive business practices to those of Airbnb, the company that is disrupting the hotel industry. Facing much the same kind of government resistance, Airbnb has lowered its rhetoric and taken steps to comply with local regulations. That approach seems to be working.

They say you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Uber should try it sometime.

Joseph “Joe” Nocera is a business columnist and an opinion columnist for The New York Times. Nocera is also a business commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Consider going meatless as a resolution

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t’s time for New Year’s resolutions, particularly those about our health.

Although gun violence remains the leading cause of death among young people, our most dangerous weapon is still our fork. Forty-five times as many die of chronic diseases linked to a diet containing animal products, sugar and salt.

Hardly a month goes by without another study linking consumption of animal products with obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and certain cancers.

But times are changing. Hundreds of schools, colleges, hospitals and corporate cafeterias have embraced Meatless Monday. According to a Gallup poll, 22 percent of American consumers are avoiding meat and 12 percent are avoiding dairy products.

Harris Interactive claims that 47 percent of American consumers are reducing consumption of animal products.

Let this New Year’s resolution be about exploring the variety of plant-based entrees, lunch meats, cheeses, ice creams and milks in our supermarket.

Seth Rosenthal

Santa Fe

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and more promising than ever before. For instance, highlighted in the report is the more than $800,000 in investments — actual dollars spent in our community that are changing the quality of life in Santa Fe. We encourage you to take a look at the report online at www.santa fenm.gov/economic_development.

Diane Karp

Bright future As members of the Santa Fe City Council’s Business and Quality of Life Committee, we want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the Economic Development Division for its recently released annual report — a handsomely designed document that tells a story of the changes and significant progress made within the business community. Amazing!

The generally held picture of Santa Fe’s future predominantly as a wealthy retirement community is being turned on its head. With investments in nighttime economy, film and media, the business incubator, velocity project and the development of the business ombudsman’s office, the city’s economic future is looking brighter

MALLARD FILLMORE

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retired director of the Santa Fe Art Institute Piper Kapin

owner of Back Road Pizza

A cookie original Tantri Wija recently wrote (Biscochito: Deconstructing a New Mexico original,” Dec. 24): “Massachusetts now officially celebrates the chocolate chip cookie, how original.” In fact, that cookie is quite original to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, having been created as the Toll House Cookie — the first chocolate chip cookie — at the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Mass., in 1936.

John Liebson

Santa Fe

oo often, the answer to the old song — “What are you doing New Year’s Eve?” — is getting drunk.

And then getting in a car and driving. The result can be tragedy, in lives shattered after a crash.

Or, perhaps, the cost and inconvenience of an arrest and conviction on drunken driving charges. Many times, the drunken driver staggers home, tragedy averted for the time being. But every time a drunk is driving, lives are at risk.

This New Year’s Eve, party-goers who don’t stay home to welcome the New Year should remember to plan ahead.

Designate a driver who will not be drinking, not even one beer or glass of wine. Or plan to take a cab home.

(Hey, Santa Fe even has Uber drivers now, offering more choices.) The best way not to drink and drive is to decide before that first drink that you won’t be taking unnecessary chances.

Remember that saturation patrols from the New Mexico State Police and Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office will be out. Checkpoints are planned. All the attention to spotting drunken drivers on the roads is a focus on keeping people safe.

The county’s cab ride program, usually $5 for one or two riders and $10 for more, will be a bargain this New Year’s Eve. For $1, the county is subsidizing cab rides from Capital City Cab from 5:30 p.m. Wednesday until 2:30 a.m. Thursday. (Call 438-0000 for a ride.) AAA New Mexico’s Tipsy Tow program, which runs from 6 p.m. until 11:59 p.m. New Year’s Eve, will take drivers and their vehicles home for free, within 10 miles. (Call 800-222-4357 for more information.)

Then, of course, there is Uber, the ride-sharing service that just came to Santa Fe. Download the Uber app on a smartphone and request a ride. This is more costly, with the minimum fee of $6.50 a ride. One up side, though, is that rides requested from 6 p.m. Wednesday until 6 a.m.

Thursday, using a special code, will result in a $1 donation to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The code is MADDNYE. Be good and do good, with one app.

Even without an accident, the consequences of DWI can be severe. A driver faces losing a license to drive. There’s the humiliation of a night in jail, and the hundreds or thousands of dollars in legal costs. Cars can be impounded.

Six cities, including Santa Fe, have laws that could result in forfeiture of a vehicle after a DWI conviction. Ignition interlocks are required upon conviction, an expensive and clunky device that prevents people with alcohol on their breath from driving. And those are just some of the costs.

Yet, despite the reality that drunken driving can kill and is expensive, not to mention time-consuming, people continue to think they are OK to drive and take stupid risks.

They aren’t.

Don’t start the New Year off in jail or in the hospital or dead. Designate a driver. Use other transportation if you do drink. Don’t get behind the wheel after drinking.

All of that requires planning — before, not after, the first drink.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 31, 1914: Carlsbad — Water from the river Jordan was used in the baptism of Jennie McLees Stennis, 16 months old, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Stennis of this place. The baptism of the little girl was delayed so that the Jordan water, secured especially for the purpose by Miss Delta Archer, of Galveston, Texas, a friend of the family, could be used. So far as known, little Miss Stennis is the first resident of New Mexico to be sprinkled with water from the historic river.

Dec. 31, 1964: Cattle in New Mexico eat cactus, because the cowboy has replaced his six-gun with a blowtorch. It began with the drought of 1953. Cattle were dying by the thousands. Water was only a memory. Cactus was the only living plant that covered the parched ground. When cattle tried to eat that, they died of punctured intestines. It was recalled that early Spanish settlers in New Mexico gathered cactus during heavy snows, burned off the spines and fed the pulp to cattle. Armed with blowtorches, cowboys burned off the cactus spines and the livestock survive.

It has been calculated that one acre of grass land, grown over with cactus, would feed five head of cattle for five months. During drought, it could take 35 acres of grass alone for one cow.

Dec. 31, 1989: New Year’s Eve revelers who drink too much to drive tonight have a couple of choices: Call Santa Fe police for a ride home or call for a free tow home for their car. Santa Fe and state police will make extra efforts to nab drunken revelers.

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9 p.m. on NBC NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly 2014 It isn’t that he doesn’t have, oh, a few other activities for the network — Today, The Voice, Last Call — but Daly, pictured, also has become NBC’s man to ring in Jan. 1, and he’s based in New York to do so again, with the program continuing in the late-night hours.

10 p.m. on HBO Jennifer Lopez: Dance Again This 90-minute 2014 “docu-concert” goes behind the scenes of the actress, singer and American Idol judge’s first world tour of 65 cities and five continents, offering both a high-energy music performance and a surprisingly candid look at how Lopez juggled her professional and personal lives during this six-month period — with two young children in tow, to boot.

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LONDON — Walter Bagehot, in his 1867 book, The English Constitution, famously described the key to a lasting monarchy as mystery and obfuscation. “Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic,” he wrote.

These days, however, the task is rather different: controlling the daylight to preserve, or restore, the magic. And if that requires a devious spin doctor, so be it. But not too much daylight, please.

In a controversial decision, the BBC has postponed the scheduled broadcast of a documentary about how the royal family hired a public-relations professional to restore the reputation of Prince Charles after the 1997 death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and to help integrate into the royal household his then-lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he later married.

The first part of a two-part documentary, Reinventing the

WE’RE CLOSED New Year’s Day Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015

The offices of The New Mexican will be closed Thursday, Jan. 1, and will reopen 8 a.m. Friday, Jan. 2. While normal distribution will occur on Jan. 1, Circulation Customer Service will be closed. New Mexican Plaza offices and call center will be closed at 3pm, Dec. 31, and the call center will reopen at 6 a.m. Jan. 2, the offices at 8 a.m. Jan. 2. The newsroom can be reached at 986-3035.

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7 p.m. on ABC Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2015 In his third year of hosting without the presence of the late Clark, Seacrest holds forth in New York’s Times Square with co-host Jenny McCarthy as this event again fills ABC’s primetime schedule, then extends into late night — for, of course, the midnight ball drop.

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The following water statistics of December 26 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 2.159 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 3.349 City Wells: 0.000 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 5.508 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.101 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 12.5 percent of capacity; daily inflow 1.16 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.

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Royals, was supposed to be broadcast on Jan. 4, but the BBC has postponed it for an indefinite period “while a number of issues, including the use of archive footage, are resolved,” the public broadcaster said in a statement.

But according to the RadioTimes, which broke the story, the BBC acted after “an intervention from lawyers known to represent senior members of the royal family.”

The documentary focuses on Mark Bolland, a publicrelations executive hired by Charles in 1996.

The documentary is presented by Steve Hewlett.

It shows how Bolland took every opportunity to show Charles as a loving father and concerned single parent, while trying to win public acceptance for Parker Bowles.

A spokesman for Clarence House, where Charles and Camilla live, have denied asking that the program be pulled or postponed.

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Weak shots haunt Lobos ahead of MWC opener

By Will Webber San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner throws Oct. 29 during the fifth inning of Game 7 of the World Series against the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City, Mo. Bumgarner is the 2014 Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

AP Male Athlete of the Year: MadBum

By Janie McCauley The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Madison Bumgarner sat in the outfield alongside Jake Peavy before Game 7 of the World Series and told his teammate exactly what needed to happen: Tim Hudson would work a few innings and get the ball to Bumgarner, who would hand it off to the bullpen to finish the championship.

Peavy quickly offered his own prediction that Bumgarner would end it himself.

That’s exactly what MadBum did, following up a pair of World Series wins with a save at Kansas City to close out San Francisco’s third title in five years and cap a brilliant postseason that made him a household name — or, at the very least, a household nickname. He is the 2014 Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year.

“I was sitting in the outfield with Madison and he was asking me how I thought this game was going to play out,” Peavy recalled this month. “I said to him: ‘Madison, when you get the ball, you’re not coming out of the game. You’re the best guy we’ve got.’ … He said, ‘Man, that’s exactly what I hoped you would say’ and exactly what he wanted. He just needed some confirmation, somebody to believe in him as well. I said, ‘Fight for that ball, man,’ and what he did will go down in the ages as the best ever.”

The shaggy-haired left-hander who

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Craig Neal was a pretty decent shooter back in the day.

Known more for his ability to dish than shoot during his playing days at Georgia Tech and later in the NBA and other places, he was always reliable when lining up most any shot.

Even now, with his dark mop replaced by a solid rug of gray and his trademark hops having long since abandoned him, he can still throw the ball through the hoop with alarming regularity.

But one thing The University of New Mexico men’s basketball head coach cannot do is shoot

TODAY Fresno State (5-8 overall, 0-0 Mountain West) at New Mexico (8-4, 0-0), 5 p.m. in The Pit TV: None Radio: KKOB-AM (770); KVSF-AM (1400) Webcast: ESPN3 Live stats: lobos.statbroadcast. com Twitter: @sfnmsports

the ball for his players. And putting the ball in the bucket is something his guys have had difficulty doing this season. Particularly from deep.

The Lobos (8-4) enter Wednesday night’s Mountain

West Conference opener against Fresno State in The Pit as owners of one of the nation’s worst 3-point shooting percentages.

Having made just 52 of their 192 tries from beyond the arc, they rank 335th out of 345 teams in the entire country.

“We just have to make shots,” Neal said. “I can’t make shots for them. All I can do is put them in spots.”

When it concerns anything inside the line, the Lobos are just plain average. As a team, they’re shooting 43 percent from the floor — good for 185th in the nation.

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New Mexico forward Jordan Goodman, left, drives to the basket as New Mexico State forward Johnathon Wilkins defends during a Dec. 20 game in Las Cruces. New Mexico won 69-67. ANDRES LEIGHTON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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t. Michael’s tacked on yet another win on Tuesday, but the Lady Horsemen still aren’t where they want to be.

St. Michael’s extended its win streak to nine games with a 49-38 girls basketball win over Pojoaque Valley in the semifinals of the Lady Horsemen Christmas Tournament.

The Lady Horsemen meet Farmington, who handled Taos 59-49, in the championship game in Perez-Shelley Gymnasium at 1 p.m. The Lady Tigers and Elkettes, District 2AAAA foes, will square off for third place at 11:30 a.m.

Pojoaque (4-7) never really got close to making it to the championship game, but it threw a wrench in the Lady Horsemen offense. After scoring 16 points in the last five minutes of the first quarter, the Lady Horsemen (9-2) only mustered nine in the second for a 29-17 halftime lead.

The Elkettes kept the Lady Horsemen to three points in the first four minutes of the third quarter, but St. Michael’s found its groove and started the fourth quarter with a 42-18 lead.

The Lady Horsemen still got their fourth straight double-digit win, and

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NFL

DT Suh has suspension reduced, can play Sunday

Please see ST. MIKE’S, Page B-3 St. Michael’s Alex Groenewold, front, goes up for a shot while Pojoaque tries to defend during Tuesday’s Lady Horsemen Christmas Tournament semifinal at Perez-Shelley Gymnasium. For more photos, go to tinyurl.com/ ojxnygj. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Punishment changed to $70,000 fine The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh can play in Detroit’s wild-card game after his one-game NFL suspension was reduced to a $70,000 fine.

Hearing officer Ted Cottrell heard Suh’s expedited appeal Tuesday and ruled that Suh can play Sunday at Dallas but must pay the fine.

Suh originally was suspended for stepping on Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ left leg twice last Sunday in a loss to Green Bay for the NFC North title. He stepped on Rodgers once with each foot, which violated unnecessary roughness rules, according to the league.

But Cottrell, jointly appointed by the NFL and the players’ union, rescinded the suspension.

The Lions said they would not comment until Wednesday, when Suh will be available at their training complex.

One Cowboys defensive player, end Jeremy Mincey, seemed surprised by Cottrell’s decision.

“I didn’t understand that,” Mincey said. “You’ve got to play the game the

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We learned a lot about prep sports this year

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h, New Year’s Eve. AA school to the smallest AAA proThe unofficial holiday of the gram, and was a prime example of New Year, because many of us how the private-school multiplier will spend the first day of 2015 tryhurt the wrong programs for the wrong reasons. ing to recover from the last day of 2014. But before we Santa Fe High, seeing throw caution to the wind, what 10 years of playing let’s look back at what we in AAAAA did to its prolearned in Northern New gram, dreaded its move to Mexico in the last 364 days.

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the state tournament, and the volleyball team got to the AAA quarterfinals. u We learned that “discipline” and “Las Vegas Robertson football” did not mix. The one-game suspensions of starting quarterback (Dominic Lucero) and wide receiver/defensive back (J.R. Gonzales) because of ejections during the Cardinals’ regular-season finale over West Las Vegas derailed a budding story about the revival of their program. Their absences clearly hurt when Hatch Valley came up to the Meadow City and beat the No. 1 seed in the quarterfinals.

Then, for some players to incur unsportsmanlike penalties in the final seconds, not participate in postgame handshakes and slam helmets against the wall wasn’t the most graceful way to exit. u We learned that videotaping rules might need tweaking. The

incidents with the Capital boys basketball team and Santa Fe Waldorf’s volleyball team demonstrated that technology has raced past an archaic rule that prevents schools not involved in a contest from filming. With tablets and smartphones at almost everyone’s reach, it shows that any concerns about unfair advantages no longer exist. The good news is that the organization is exploring changes to the bylaw. u We learned that the prep sports world is a smaller place with the deaths of Bobby Rodriguez, Jake Martinez, and Kevin Holman. They created coaching paths for future generations to follow, and they did it with grace and dignity. In a time when people grumble about the lack of discipline and respect people have for authority, these men instilled it while also extending a helping hand.

These are just a few things to ponder as we ring in a new year.

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THE NEW MEXICAN Wednesday, December 31, 2014

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

W 24 15 10 5 4 W 23 22 14 13 10 W 22 18 16 11 8

L 7 16 18 28 25 L 8 9 18 22 22 L 10 13 16 21 23

Pct .774 .484 .357 .152 .138 Pct .742 .710 .438 .371 .313 Pct .688 .581 .500 .344 .258

Grizzlies 95, Spurs 87 GB — 9 12½ 20 19 GB — 1 9½ 12 13½ GB — 3½ 6 11 13½

Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB Memphis 23 8 .742 — Houston 21 9 .700 1½ Dallas 23 10 .697 1 San Antonio 19 14 .576 5 New Orleans 16 15 .516 7 Northwest L Pct W GB Portland 25 7 .781 — Oklahoma City 15 17 .469 10 Denver 13 19 .406 12 Utah 11 21 .344 14 Minnesota 5 25 .167 19 Pacific W L Pct GB Golden State 24 5 .828 — L.A. Clippers 21 11 .656 4½ Phoenix 18 15 .545 8 Sacramento 13 18 .419 12 L.A. Lakers 10 22 .313 15½ Tuesday’s Games Detroit 109, Orlando 86 Atlanta 109, Cleveland 101 New Orleans 110, Phoenix 106 Brooklyn 96, Chicago 82 Memphis 95, San Antonio 87 Dallas 114, Washington 87 L.A. Lakers 111, Denver 103 Utah 100, Minnesota 94 Toronto at Portland Philadelphia at Golden State Monday’s Games Chicago 92, Indiana 90 Milwaukee 104, Charlotte 94, OT Orlando 102, Miami 101 Brooklyn 107, Sacramento 99 Washington 104, Houston 103 L.A. Clippers 101, Utah 97 Wednesday’s Games Sacramento at Boston, 11 a.m.

Miami at Indiana, 1 p.m.

New York at L.A. Clippers, 4 p.m.

Charlotte at Houston, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at San Antonio, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

NBA 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.

Tuesday Hawks 109, Cavaliers 101 CLEVELAND (101) Miller 0-0 0-0 0, Love 1-8 4-4 7, Thompson 9-12 0-5 18, Irving 13-27 6-7 35, Dellavedova 2-6 0-0 6, Waiters 3-10 2-3 9, Harris 4-7 2-2 13, Amundson 0-0 0-0 0, Price 2-4 0-0 4, Jones 3-10 0-0 9. Totals 37-84 14-21 101.

ATLANTA (109) Carroll 2-8 3-3 7, Millsap 10-17 6-6 26, Antic 2-7 0-2 5, Teague 8-13 6-10 23, Korver 7-11 0-0 19, Sefolosha 2-6 1-2 6, Brand 0-1 0-0 0, Scott 4-9 2-2 12, Schroder 5-7 1-1 11, Bazemore 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-79 19-26 109.

Cleveland 25 16 32 28—101 Atlanta 26 25 27 31—109 3-Point Goals—Cleveland 13-31 (Harris 3-4, Jones 3-9, Irving 3-10, Dellavedova 2-4, Love 1-1, Waiters 1-3), Atlanta 10-29 (Korver 5-8, Scott 2-4, Sefolosha 1-3, Antic 1-4, Teague 1-4, Millsap 0-2, Carroll 0-4). Fouled Out— Thompson. Rebounds—Cleveland 50 (Thompson 13), Atlanta 50 (Millsap, Carroll 9). Assists—Cleveland 23 (Irving 9), Atlanta 23 (Teague 11).

Total Fouls—Cleveland 24, Atlanta 19.

Technicals—Atlanta defensive three second. A—19,215 (18,729).

Pistons 109, Magic 86 DETROIT (109) Singler 4-8 0-0 9, Monroe 3-8 3-3 9, Drummond 6-11 5-16 17, Jennings 2-9 0-0 5, Caldwell-Pope 2-8 0-0 4, Jerebko 1-4 2-4 4, Butler 1-4 0-0 3, Augustin 4-8 2-2 11, Meeks 11-16 3-4 34, Tolliver 2-6 0-0 5, Anthony 3-3 0-0 6, Dinwiddie 1-1 0-0 2, Martin 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-86 15-29 109.

ORLANDO (86) Harris 6-11 2-3 15, O’Quinn 3-6 0-0 6, Vucevic 5-10 0-0 10, Payton 4-8 0-0 8, Oladipo 6-14 3-4 16, Frye 1-6 0-0 3, Fournier 4-9 0-0 9, Dedmon 4-6 0-0 8, B.Gordon 2-5 0-0 4, Ridnour 0-1 0-0 0, Harkless 0-1 1-2 1, Nicholson 3-5 0-1 6, Green 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 38-85 6-10 86.

Detroit 20 34 26 29 —109 21 26 23 16 —86 Orlando 3-Point Goals—Detroit 14-33 (Meeks 9-11, Butler 1-2, Augustin 1-3, Singler 1-4, Tolliver 1-5, Jennings 1-5, Jerebko 0-1, Caldwell-Pope 0-2), Orlando 4-20 (Harris 1-2, Fournier 1-3, Frye 1-4, Oladipo 1-5, Green 0-1, B.Gordon 0-1, Nicholson 0-1, Payton 0-1, O’Quinn 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Detroit 59 (Drummond 22), Orlando 52 (Dedmon 10). Assists—Detroit 22 (Augustin 10), Orlando 19 (Payton 6).

Total Fouls—Detroit 14, Orlando 21.

Technicals—Frye. A—17,414.

SAN ANTONIO (87) Green 3-11 0-0 7, Duncan 4-7 1-2 9, Splitter 2-5 2-4 6, Joseph 9-13 0-1 18, Belinelli 7-13 0-0 18, Ginobili 2-7 2-2 6, Bonner 1-2 0-0 2, Mills 3-10 4-4 10, Diaw 0-3 2-2 2, Baynes 0-2 1-2 1, Ayres 1-1 0-0 2, Anderson 2-2 0-0 4, Daye 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 35-78 12-17 87.

MEMPHIS (95) Allen 3-8 1-2 7, Leuer 2-4 0-0 4, Gasol 6-12 5-7 17, Conley 10-13 6-7 30, Lee 3-9 1-1 8, Stokes 0-1 0-0 0, Prince 4-7 4-4 12, Carter 1-5 0-0 2, Udrih 1-6 1-1 3, Koufos 3-4 0-0 6, Pondexter 2-3 0-0 6, Adams 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-72 18-22 95.

San Antonio 20 18 25 24—87 Memphis 30 22 22 21—95 3-Point Goals—San Antonio 5-22 (Belinelli 4-7, Green 1-6, Bonner 0-1, Joseph 0-1, Daye 0-1, Ginobili 0-2, Mills 0-4), Memphis 7-15 (Conley 4-5, Pondexter 2-3, Lee 1-2, Prince 0-1, Udrih 0-1, Carter 0-3). Fouled Out— None. Rebounds—San Antonio 43 (Duncan 10), Memphis 46 (Gasol 9).

Assists—San Antonio 17 (Green, Joseph, Mills 3), Memphis 25 (Conley 6).

Total Fouls—San Antonio 18, Memphis 18. Technicals—Diaw, San Antonio Coach Popovich. A—18,119 (18,119).

Pelicans 110, Suns 106 PHOENIX (106) Tucker 3-4 2-2 10, Mark.Morris 6-14 1-1 13, Len 2-3 0-0 4, Bledsoe 6-13 9-12 21, G.Dragic 10-17 1-2 22, Plumlee 3-5 0-0 6, Green 6-13 2-2 17, Marc.Morris 3-7 0-0 8, Thomas 2-10 0-0 5. Totals 41-86 15-19 106.

NEW ORLEANS (110) Babbitt 1-2 0-0 3, Davis 7-15 5-5 19, Asik 5-6 1-6 11, Holiday 8-13 2-2 21, Evans 8-20 7-10 24, Anderson 8-10 0-2 19, Cunningham 2-4 0-1 4, Rivers 0-4 0-0 0, Fredette 3-7 3-3 9. Totals 42-81 18-29 110.

Phoenix 25 28 26 27—106 New Orleans 31 24 26 29—110 3-Point Goals—Phoenix 9-21 (Green 3-5, Tucker 2-2, Marc.Morris 2-5, G.Dragic 1-2, Thomas 1-3, Mark.

Morris 0-1, Bledsoe 0-3), New Orleans 8-18 (Anderson 3-4, Holiday 3-5, Babbitt 1-2, Evans 1-5, Fredette 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Phoenix 40 (Bledsoe 8), New Orleans 59 (Davis 18). Assists—Phoenix 17 (Thomas, Bledsoe, G.Dragic 3), New Orleans 19 (Holiday 6). Total Fouls—Phoenix 21, New Orleans 18.

Technicals—Marc.Morris. A—16,364.

Nets 96, Bulls 82 BROOKLYN (96) Johnson 8-14 3-4 20, Plumlee 2-4 2-2 6, Lopez 13-21 3-4 29, Jack 4-9 2-2 11, Karasev 0-5 2-2 2, Teletovic 1-9 2-2 5, Jordan 3-4 0-0 6, Anderson 4-6 0-0 11, Williams 1-8 4-5 6, Davies 0-1 0-0 0, Bogdanovic 0-0 0-0 0, Morris 0-1 0-0 0, Jefferson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 36-83 18-21 96.

CHICAGO (82) Dunleavy 9-15 0-0 23, Gasol 4-12 2-2 10, Noah 6-10 0-0 12, Rose 2-15 0-0 4, Butler 3-12 2-3 8, Gibson 3-7 2-6 8, Brooks 1-2 2-2 4, Moore 0-3 0-0 0, Mirotic 1-5 0-2 2, Snell 3-3 0-0 9, Mohammed 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 33-86 8-15 82.

Brooklyn 24 31 29 12—96 31 14 24 13—82 Chicago 3-Point Goals—Brooklyn 6-14 (Anderson 3-5, Johnson 1-1, Jack 1-1, Teletovic 1-6, Williams 0-1), Chicago 8-25 (Dunleavy 5-9, Snell 3-3, Gasol 0-1, Moore 0-1, Mirotic 0-3, Butler 0-3, Rose 0-5). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Brooklyn 53 (Johnson 11), Chicago 57 (Noah 12). Assists—Brooklyn 21 (Jack 5), Chicago 22 (Gasol 7).

Total Fouls—Brooklyn 17, Chicago 18.

Technicals—Brooklyn Coach Hollins, Brooks 2. Ejected— Brooks. A—22,032 (20,917).

Mavericks 114, Wizards 87 WASHINGTON (87) Pierce 2-6 3-6 9, Nene 3-4 1-2 7, Gortat 5-9 0-0 10, Wall 4-7 3-4 11, Beal 4-14 1-2 10, Humphries 4-5 3-4 11, Butler 1-7 1-1 3, Webster 0-4 3-5 3, Seraphin 4-7 1-1 9, Miller 1-2 0-0 2, Blair 4-6 1-2 9, Porter 1-3 0-0 3, Temple 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 33-74 17-27 87.

DALLAS (114) Parsons 5-8 2-4 14, Nowitzki 2-8 9-10 13, Chandler 1-2 0-0 2, Rondo 4-10 3-4 11, Ellis 8-15 3-4 20, Villanueva 6-8 0-0 14, Harris 1-2 1-2 3, Smith 3-4 2-4 8, Jefferson 6-9 0-0 14, Barea 2-8 0-0 5, Aminu 2-2 0-0 4, Powell 1-2 0-1 2, Felton 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 43-82 20-29 114.

Washington 24 21 19 23—87 Dallas 27 36 26 25—114 3-Point Goals—Washington 4-12 (Pierce 2-3, Porter 1-1, Beal 1-3, Wall 0-1, Webster 0-1, Butler 0-3), Dallas 8-15 (Jefferson 2-2, Parsons 2-2, Villanueva 2-4, Ellis 1-2, Barea 1-3, Rondo 0-1, Felton 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Washington 56 (Humphries 7), Dallas 43 (Chandler 12). Assists—Washington 22 (Wall 8), Dallas 21 (Barea, Rondo 5). Total Fouls—Washington 26, Dallas 22.

Technicals—Dallas defensive three second. A—20,397 (19,200).

Lakers 111, Nuggets 103 L.A. LAKERS (111) Johnson 6-10 0-0 16, Davis 2-3 3-4 7, Hill 6-9 0-0 12, Bryant 6-11 8-11 23, Price 6-10 1-2 18, Boozer 8-14 3-6 19, Lin 1-6 2-3 4, Young 2-7 0-0 4, Sacre 0-0 0-0 0, Ellington 3-6 0-0 8. Totals 40-76 17-26 111.

FOOTBALL

DENVER (103) Chandler 2-6 4-4 9, Faried 2-7 0-0 4, Mozgov 5-9 1-4 11, Afflalo 5-14 0-1 11, Lawson 5-11 5-9 16, Hickson 3-5 3-5 9, Nurkic 7-10 2-2 16, Harris 1-5 2-2 5, Robinson 6-13 0-0 13, Green 1-3 0-0 3, Gee 2-4 0-0 6. Totals 39-87 17-27 103.

L.A. Lakers 33 29 21 28—111 Denver 29 17 25 32—103 3-Point Goals—L.A. Lakers 14-25 (Price 5-6, Johnson 4-7, Bryant 3-5, Ellington 2-4, Lin 0-1, Young 0-2), Denver 8-26 (Gee 2-2, Green 1-2, Chandler 1-3, Afflalo 1-4, Harris 1-4, Lawson 1-4, Robinson 1-7). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Lakers 56 (Bryant 11), Denver 47 (Mozgov, Nurkic 8). Assists—L.A. Lakers 31 (Bryant 11), Denver 25 (Lawson 9).

Total Fouls—L.A. Lakers 20, Denver 24. Technicals—Robinson 2, Denver defensive three second. Ejected— Robinson. A—17,248 (19,155).

Jazz 100, Timberwolves 94 MINNESOTA (94) Muhammad 10-17 5-5 30, Young 4-11 0-2 9, Dieng 4-9 0-0 8, LaVine 4-7 0-0 8, Wiggins 10-19 0-0 21, Budinger 0-3 0-0 0, Bennett 1-2 2-2 4, Williams 4-10 0-0 9, Adrien 1-3 3-5 5, Daniels 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 38-82 10-14 94.

UTAH (100) Hayward 9-16 5-5 26, Favors 6-10 3-6 15, Kanter 4-8 6-6 14, Burke 10-21 3-4 26, Hood 2-5 0-0 4, Ingles 2-3 0-1 4, Exum 0-4 0-0 0, Gobert 0-0 0-0 0, Christopher 2-8 0-0 4, Booker 3-4 0-0 7. Totals 38-79 17-22 100.

Minnesota 27 17 28 22—94 Utah 21 24 27 28—100 3-Point Goals—Minnesota 8-17 (Muhammad 5-6, Williams 1-2, Young 1-2, Wiggins 1-2, Dieng 0-1, Daniels 0-1, LaVine 0-1, Budinger 0-2), Utah 7-19 (Hayward 3-4, Burke 3-6, Booker 1-1, Ingles 0-1, Hood 0-2, Christopher 0-2, Exum 0-3). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Minnesota 39 (Muhammad 7), Utah 55 (Kanter 12). Assists— Minnesota 26 (Dieng, Young 6), Utah 16 (Burke 6). Total Fouls—Minnesota 23, Utah 19. A—18,947.

Late Monday Clippers 101, Jazz 97 UTAH (97) Hayward 8-20 2-3 22, Favors 6-16 3-9 15, Kanter 8-17 0-0 16, Burke 4-10 1-2 11, Hood 2-6 4-5 9, Gobert 5-7 1-1 11, Exum 3-6 0-0 7, Ingles 1-4 0-0 2, Booker 0-4 2-2 2, Christopher 1-2 0-0 2, Novak 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-92 13-22 97.

L.A. CLIPPERS (101) Barnes 4-8 2-2 13, Griffin 10-20 4-6 24, Jordan 2-4 1-2 5, Paul 7-14 3-4 20, Redick 6-13 4-4 17, Crawford 6-14 3-4 17, Hawes 1-4 0-0 2, Farmar 1-1 0-0 3, Bullock 0-0 0-0 0, Davis 0-3 0-0 0.

Totals 37-81 17-22 101.

Utah 18 26 33 20—97 L.A. Clippers 25 23 29 24—101 3-Point Goals—Utah 8-19 (Hayward 4-7, Burke 2-3, Exum 1-1, Hood 1-3, Christopher 0-1, Kanter 0-1, Ingles 0-3), L.A. Clippers 10-23 (Barnes 3-5, Paul 3-5, Crawford 2-4, Farmar 1-1, Redick 1-6, Hawes 0-2). Fouled Out— None. Rebounds—Utah 60 (Gobert 13), L.A. Clippers 52 (Jordan 19).

Assists—Utah 26 (Hayward 7), L.A. Clippers 24 (Paul 8). Total Fouls—Utah 22, L.A. Clippers 16. Technicals— Griffin. A—19,060 (19,060).

Wizards 104, Rockets 103 WASHINGTON (104) Pierce 7-9 6-6 21, Nene 5-9 2-2 12, Gortat 4-8 1-2 9, Wall 4-10 5-6 13, Beal 9-17 10-10 33, Humphries 0-6 0-0 0, Butler 3-5 0-0 8, Seraphin 1-4 2-2 4, Porter 0-0 0-0 0, Gooden 0-2 0-0 0, Miller 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 35-73 26-28 104.

HOUSTON (103) Ariza 6-15 1-1 15, Smith 1-6 1-4 3, Howard 6-11 1-3 13, Beverley 4-8 0-0 10, Harden 12-23 6-7 33, Motiejunas 1-3 1-2 3, Brewer 5-13 3-4 15, Dorsey 2-2 1-2 5, Terry 3-5 0-0 6. Totals 40-86 14-23 103.

Washington 24 22 32 26—104 Houston 27 18 22 36—103 3-Point Goals—Washington 8-18 (Beal 5-11, Butler 2-2, Pierce 1-3, Wall 0-1, Nene 0-1), Houston 9-29 (Harden 3-8, Brewer 2-5, Beverley 2-6, Ariza 2-8, Motiejunas 0-1, Smith 0-1). Fouled Out— None. Rebounds—Washington 44 (Gortat 7), Houston 51 (Harden, Motiejunas, Dorsey 6). Assists—Washington 21 (Wall 12), Houston 19 (Beverley, Harden, Terry 4). Total Fouls—Washington 21, Houston 20. A—18,322.

NCAA BASKETBALL Men’s Top 25 Tuesday’s Games No. 3 Virginia 83, Davidson 72 No. 5 Louisville 63, Long Beach State 48 No. 10 Utah 85, Carroll 49 No. 12 Maryland 68, Michigan St. 66, 2OT No. 13 Kansas 78, Kent State 62 No. 14 Notre Dame 87, Hartford 60 No. 17 West Virginia 82, Virginia Tech 51 No. 19 N. Carolina 86, William & Mary 64 Iowa 71, No. 20 Ohio State 65 No. 22 Baylor 92, Norfolk State 51 Wednesday’s Games No. 2 Duke vs. Wofford, 1 p.m.

No. 4 Wisconsin vs. Penn State, 11 a.m.

No. 6 Villanova vs. Butler, 12:30 p.m.

No. 9 Iowa State vs. MVSU, 5 p.m.

No. 15 St. John’s at Seton Hall, 10 a.m.

No. 16 Wichita State at Drake, 4:05 p.m.

No. 18 Oklahoma vs. George Mason, 3 p.m.

No. 24 Colorado St. vs. Boise St., 7 p.m.

No. 25 Georgetown at Xavier, 8 p.m.

Men’s Division I Tuesday’s Games East Buffalo 76, Binghamton 50 Canisius 67, UMKC 55 Delaware 82, St. Bonaventure 77 Duquesne 78, Texas-Pan American 72 George Washington 80, VMI 60 La Salle 84, Penn 67 NJIT 77, St. Francis (Pa.) 65 Niagara 65, Albany (NY) 47 Northwestern 51, Rutgers 47 Pittsburgh 71, Florida Gulf Coast 54 St. Francis (NY) 72, Columbia 64 UMass 87, Iona 82 West Virginia 82, Virginia Tech 51 Yale 70, Sacred Heart 64 Midwest Akron 70, Marshall 63 Cal Poly 71, IPFW 57 Dayton 78, Mississippi 74 Ill.-Chicago 79, Judson 38 Iowa 71, Ohio St. 65 Kansas 78, Kent St. 62 Maryland 68, Michigan St. 66, 2OT Michigan 73, Illinois 65, OT Notre Dame 87, Hartford 60 Ohio 72, UNC Wilmington 53 Oral Roberts 77, Detroit 73, OT W. Illinois 74, Anderson (Ind.) 62 W. Michigan 70, New Hampshire 56 South Alabama St. 76, Fort Valley St. 65 Arkansas St. 63, South Alabama 60, OT Cincinnati 76, NC State 60 Clemson 64, Robert Morris 57 Concordia-Selma 79, Alcorn St. 70 E. Kentucky 66, Coppin St. 63 FAU 68, Jacksonville 50 Florida St. 65, Florida 63 Furman 72, St. Andrews 35 Georgia St. 65, Louisiana-Monroe 45 Georgia Tech 67, Charlotte 66 Louisville 63, Long Beach St. 48 McNeese St. 66, Mississippi St. 47 Md.-Eastern Shore 63, UT-Martin 60 Miami 67, Coll. of Charleston 40 Murray St. 76, Alabama A&M 39 New Orleans 90, Central Baptist 60 Nicholls St. 71, Spring Hill 64 North Carolina 86, William & Mary 64 SC-Upstate 101, Montreat 55 Samford 94, Auburn-Montgomery 60 South Carolina 91, NC A&T 54 Stetson 77, Florida Tech 61 Texas St. 57, Troy 46 The Citadel 51, Bethune-Cookman 47 Virginia 83, Davidson 72 W. Carolina 86, St. Catherine U. 70 Southwest Baylor 92, Norfolk St. 51 Houston Baptist 98, Ecclesia 47 Lamar 85, Huston-Tillotson 59 Texas A&M 65, Mercer 50 Texas-Arlington 62, Georgia Southern 61 UTSA 79, Cameron 68 Far West: Harvard 72, Grand Canyon 59

Women’s Top 25 Tuesday’s Games No. 3 Texas 77, Rice 54 No. 9 North Carolina 71, Albany 56 No. 21 Syracuse 74, CCSU 43 No. 23 Seton Hall 70, Butler 65 Monday’s Games No. 2 UConn 83, No. 10 Duke 52 Washington 70, No. 5 Texas A&M 49 No. 6 Baylor 108, Prairie View 64 No. 7 Louisville 73, Evansville 51 Minnesota 72, No. 12 Nebraska 69 No. 14 Maryland 87, Ohio State 78 No. 17 Mississippi State 83, ArkansasPine Bluff 26 No. 18 Oklahoma State 89, Northwestern State 44 Wednesday’s Games No. 2 UConn at East Carolina, 12:30 p.m.

No. 5 Texas A&M vs. North Texas, 3 p.m.

No. 24 Michigan St. at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Women’s Division I Tuesday’s Games Midwest Creighton 76, Georgetown 61 E. Michigan 75, Detroit 71, OT Ill.-Chicago 63, Loyola of Chicago 28 Kansas St. 60, Samford 41 Missouri St. 57, Missouri 52 N. Illinois 67, Bradley 54 Valparaiso 109, Purdue-Calumet 81 W. Illinois 79, Milwaukee 59 Xavier 74, Marquette 71 South Coll. of Charleston 61, SC-Upstate 60 High Point 79, Coastal Carolina 64 Liberty 67, UNC Asheville 55 Md.-Eastern Shore 86, Monmouth (NJ) 73 N. Kentucky 57, IUPUI 43 New Orleans 58, Kent St. 55 North Carolina 71, Albany (NY) 56 Radford 76, Gardner-Webb 60 Richmond 71, UAB 65, OT S. Illinois 75, Morehead St. 66 Tulane 70, Houston 40 Virginia Tech 60, Hofstra 43 Winthrop 81, Longwood 48 Southwest Cent. Arkansas 63, Austin Peay 54 Oklahoma 71, Yale 54 TCU 78, UC Irvine 56 Texas 77, Rice 54 Texas Tech 60, Houston Baptist 59 Far West UCLA 59, Southern Cal 52 Tournament Cyclone Challenge Championship Iowa St. 71, UC Riverside 54 Third Place: Brown 80, Howard 68 FIU Sun & Fun Classic Championship Hampton 44, Auburn 42 Third Place: FIU 68, Bowling Green 55 Fordham Holiday Classic Championship Princeton 67, Fordham 53 Third: Hartford 59, Savannah St. 55 Georgia Tech Holiday Tournament Championship Georgia Tech 96, Louisiana Tech 81 Third Place: Harvard 84, Lipscomb 63

NFL PLAYOFFS Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 3 Arizona at Carolina, 2:35 p.m. (ESPN) Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 6:15 p.m.

(NBC) Sunday, Jan. 4 Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 11:05 a.m.

(CBS) Detroit at Dallas, 2:40 p.m. (FOX)

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 10 Baltimore, Indianapolis or Cincinnati at New England, 2:35 p.m. (NBC) Arizona, Detroit or Carolina at Seattle, 6:15 p.m. (FOX) Sunday, Jan. 11 Arizona, Dallas or Carolina at Green Bay, 11:05 a.m. (FOX) Indianapolis, Cincinnati or Pittsburgh at Denver, 2:40 p.m. (CBS)

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

No. 13 GEORGIA 37, No. 20 LOUISVILLE 14

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

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

(ESPN)

Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1 - At Glendale, Ariz.

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

NCAA FOOTBALL FBS Bowls Tuesday, Dec. 30 Music City Bowl - At Nashville, Tenn.

Notre Dame 31, LSU 28 Belk Bowl - At Charlotte, N.C. Georgia 37, Louisville 14 Fosters Farm Bowl - At Santa Clara, Calif.

Stanford vs. Maryland Monday, Dec. 29 Liberty Bowl - At Memphis, Tenn.

Texas A&M 45, West Virginia 37 Russell Athletic Bowl - At Orlando, Fla. Clemson 40, Oklahoma 6 Texas Bowl - At Houston Arkansas 31, Texas 7 Wednesday, Dec. 31 Peach Bowl - At Atlanta Mississippi (9-3) vs. TCU (11-1), 10:30 a.m. (ESPN) Fiesta Bowl - At Glendale, Ariz.

Boise State (11-2) vs. Arizona (10-3), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl - At Miami Gardens, Fla. Mississippi State (10-2) vs. Georgia Tech (10-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl - At Tampa, Fla. Wisconsin (10-3) vs. Auburn (8-4), 10 a.m. (ESPN2) Cotton Bowl Classic - At Texas Michigan State (10-2) vs. Baylor (11-1), 10:30 a.m. (ESPN) Citrus Bowl - At Orlando, Fla. Minnesota (8-4) vs. Missouri (10-3), 11 a.m. (ABC) Rose Bowl - At Pasadena, Calif.

Playoff semifinal: Oregon (12-1) vs.

Florida State (13-0), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Sugar Bowl - At New Orleans Playoff semifinal: Alabama (12-1) vs.

Ohio State (12-1), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 2 Armed Forces Bowl - At Texas Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Houston (7-5), 10 a.m. (ESPN) TaxSlayer Bowl - At Jacksonville, Fla. Iowa (7-5) vs. Tennessee (6-6), 3:20 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl - At San Antonio UCLA (9-3) vs. Kansas State (9-3), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN) Cactus Bowl - At Tempe, Ariz.

Oklahoma State (6-6) vs. Washington (8-5), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 3 Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Florida (6-5) vs. East Carolina (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN2) Sunday, Jan. 4 GoDaddy Bowl - At Mobile, Ala. Toledo (8-4) vs. Arkansas State (7-5), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 10 Medal of Honor Bowl - At S.C. American vs. National, 12:30 p.m.

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

National vs. American, 2 p.m. (ESPN2)

NOTRE DAME 31, No. 22 LSU 28

ND LSU First downs 23 17 Rushes-yards 51-263 38-285 Passing 186 151 Comp-Att-Int 18-26-0 7-14-0 Return Yards (-1) 9 Punts-Avg. 4-39.5 3-42.7 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 2-15 2-7 Time of Possession 37:00 23:00 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Notre Dame, Zaire 22-96, Prosise 3-75, Folston 21-73, Carlisle 1-7, Golson 1-6, McDaniel 1-4, Bryant 2-2. LSU, Fournette 11-143, Dural 4-61, Magee 7-26, D.Williams 3-22, Hilliard 3-16, Diarse 1-8, Jennings 8-8, Kragthorpe 1-1.

PASSING—Notre Dame, Zaire 12-150-96, Golson 6-11-0-90. LSU, Jennings 7-14-0-151.

RECEIVING—Notre Dame, Fuller 5-57, C.Brown 4-49, Prosise 3-34, Carlisle 3-22, Folston 2-12, Koyack 1-12. LSU, Smith 4-66, Diarse 2-76, Magee 1-9.

Notre Dame 7 14 7 3—31 LSU 7 7 14 0—28 First Quarter ND—Fuller 12 pass from Zaire (Brindza kick), 7:04.

LSU—Fournette 8 run (Domingue kick), :05.

Second Quarter ND—Zaire 7 run (Brindza kick), 11:04.

LSU—Fournette 100 kickoff return (Domingue kick), 10:52.

ND—Folston 6 run (Brindza kick), 6:12.

Third Quarter LSU—Diarse 75 pass from Jennings (Domingue kick), 14:46.

LSU—Fournette 89 run (Domingue kick), 6:14.

ND—Prosise 50 run (Brindza kick), 4:15.

Fourth Quarter ND—FG Brindza 32, :00.

A—60,419.

Georgia 7 13 7 10—37 Louisville 7 0 7 0—14 First Quarter Geo—Conley 44 pass from Mason (Morgan kick), 8:24.

Lou—Christian 11 pass from Bolin (Wallace kick), 4:25.

Second Quarter Geo—FG Morgan 41, 11:33.

Geo—Chubb 31 run (Morgan kick), 6:40.

Geo—FG Morgan 22, 4:58.

Third Quarter Geo—Michel 2 run (Morgan kick), 5:41.

Lou—Radcliff 6 run (Wallace kick), 1:48.

Fourth Quarter Geo—FG Morgan 41, 5:20.

Geo—Chubb 8 run (Morgan kick), 2:02.

A—45,671.

Geo Lou First downs 22 20 Rushes-yards 52-305 27-62 Passing 200 314 Comp-Att-Int 14-24-1 21-44-3 Return Yards 42 0 Punts-Avg. 2-41.0 6-37.5 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 7-44 4-32 Time of Possession 33:00 27:00 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Georgia, Chubb 33-266, Michel 11-33, Douglas 5-5, Mason 2-2, Team 1-(minus 1). Louisville, Radcliff 19-89, Scott 2-2, Bonnafon 1-(minus 9), Bolin 5-(minus 20).

PASSING—Georgia, Mason 10-150-149, Ramsey 4-9-1-51. Louisville, Bolin 20-40-2-300, Bonnafon 1-3-1-14, R.Johnson 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING—Georgia, Conley 4-80, Mitchell 3-19, Bennett 2-23, Blazevich 2-13, Michel 1-32, Scott-Wesley 1-19, Towns 1-14. Louisville, Parker 8-120, Rogers 5-81, Quick 2-57, Christian 2-25, Towbridge 2-21, De La Cruz 1-9, Radcliff 1-1.

HOCKEY Eastern Conference GP Montreal 37 Pittsburgh 36 Tampa Bay 38 N.Y. Islndrs 36 Detroit 37 Washington 36 Toronto 37 N.Y. Rangers 34 Florida 34 Boston 37 Ottawa 36 Philadelphia 36 Columbus 34 New Jersey 38 Buffalo 37 Carolina 36

W 24 22 23 24 19 18 20 19 16 19 15 14 15 13 14 10

L 11 9 11 11 9 11 14 11 9 15 14 16 16 18 20 22

OL Pts GFGA 2 50 100 86 5 49 109 86 4 50 122 99 1 49 112101 9 47 105 94 7 43 105 94 3 43 124111 4 42 102 87 9 41 80 88 3 41 98 99 7 37 97 99 6 34 100109 3 33 86 109 7 33 82 108 3 31 75 123 4 24 72 98

Western Conference GP W L OL Pts GFGA Anaheim 38 24 8 6 54 107101 Chicago 37 25 10 2 52 117 78 Nashville 36 24 9 3 51 106 78 Los Angeles 38 18 12 8 44 103 94 St. Louis 37 22 12 3 47 108 93 Vancouver 34 20 11 3 43 100 93 Winnipeg 37 19 11 7 45 94 87 San Jose 36 19 12 5 43 100 93 Calgary 38 20 15 3 43 110100 Minnesota 34 17 13 4 38 99 95 Dallas 35 16 14 5 37 102118 Colorado 36 13 15 8 34 92 109 Arizona 36 14 18 4 32 86 115 Edmonton 37 8 22 7 23 79 127 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Tuesday’s Games Montreal 2, Florida 1, SO Edmonton 3, Los Angeles 2, SO Nashville 3, St. Louis 2 Vancouver at San Jose Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Winnipeg, 3 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 4 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Florida, 4 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Columbus, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

Arizona at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

NBA ROUNDUP

Kobe Bryant leads Lakers to win over Nuggets The Associated Press

DENVER — Kobe Bryant had 23 points, 11 assists and 11 rebounds for his 21st career triple-double, and the Los Angeles Lakers 111 Lakers held off the Denver Nuggets Nuggets 103 111-103 Tuesday night to end a three-game losing streak.

Bryant shot 6 of 11 from the floor, giving him 25,000 field goal attempts for his career. The only players who’ve attempted more shots in NBA history are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (28,307) and Karl Malone (26,210), according to STATS. The Lakers star played nearly 32 minutes in his second game back.

He missed three games around Christmas because of overall soreness.

HAWKS 109, CAVALIERS 101 In Atlanta, Paul Millsap took over for Atlanta in the fourth quarter to help hold off a Cleveland comeback, and the Hawks beat the Cavaliers, who were without LeBron James.

James, celebrating his 30th birthday, was held out with a sore left knee.

GRIZZLIES 95, SPURS 87 In Memphis, Tenn., Mike Conley had 30 points and six assists, and Marc Gasol added 17 points to help Memphis defeat San Antonio.

Conley connected on 10 of 13 from the field, and missed only one of his five shots from outside the arc as the Grizzlies won their second straight and claimed at least a tie with the Spurs in

the season series.

MAVERICKS 114, WIZARDS 87 In Dallas, Monta Ellis scored 20 points in 27 minutes, and Dallas handed Washington its most lopsided loss of the season.

Nine of Ellis’ points came in the final 2:35 of the second quarter, when the Mavericks outscored the Wizards 36-21 for a 63-45 halftime lead. He shot 8 of 15 and finished with four steals without playing in the fourth quarter.

PELICANS 110, SUNS 106 In New Orleans, Tyreke Evans scored 24 points, including eight straight for New Orleans in the final 2 minutes, and the Pelicans stopped Phoenix’s winning streak at six games.

Anthony Davis had 19 points with a season-high 18 rebounds, and Jrue Hol-

iday scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half for New Orleans. Evans’ step-back jumper with 49.9 seconds left, coupled with a late steal by Dante Cunningham, helped the Pelicans hang on.

NETS 96, BULLS 82 In Chicago, Brook Lopez had a season-high 29 points, Joe Johnson had 20 points and 11 rebounds, and Brooklyn snapped Chicago’s seven-game winning streak.

Lopez, playing his fifth game since returning from a lower back strain, started in place of Kevin Garnett and was 13 for 21 from the field. Johnson was 8 for 14.

PISTONS 109, MAGIC 86 In Orlando, Fla., Jodie Meeks scored a season-high 34 points off the bench,

shooting 9 for 11 on 3-pointers, and Andre Drummond added 17 points and 22 rebounds to lead Detroit over Orlando.

Drummond, the NBA’s No. 2 rebounder, sat out the final 14 minutes after coming within three rebounds of the league’s season high. The Pistons (8-23) have won three straight for the first time since February last season.

JAZZ 100, TIMBERWOLVES 94 In Salt Lake City, Gordon Hayward scored 11 of his 26 points in the final 4 minutes to rally Utah past skidding Minnesota.

Trey Burke set a career high with 26 points and Derrick Favors had 15.

Before the game, the Jazz announced that starting guard Alec Burks will have shoulder surgery and miss the rest of the season.

SPORTS

Wednesday, December 31, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

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TOP 25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Gill’s 25 lead Virginia past Davidson The Associated Press

ranked Kentucky.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Justin Anderson hit back-to-back 3-pointers to fuel a 12-3 run in the second half and No. 3 Virginia pulled away to 3 Virginia 83 beat stubborn Davison 83-72 on Tuesday night.

Davidson 72 Anthony Gill led the Cavaliers (12-0) with a career-high 25 points and 13 rebounds. Malcolm Brogdon added 16, Anderson 14 and Darion Atkins 13 points and 10 rebounds as Virginia won its 18th in a row at home. The Cavaliers also reached 12-0 for the first time since Ralph Sampson was a junior in 1981-82.

NO. 10 UTAH 85, CARROLL COLLEGE 49 In Salt Lake City, Jordan Loveridge returned after missing the last seven games to score 14 points and Utah routed Carroll College.

The junior forward was out after a minor knee surgery and quickly made an impact when he entered the game a few minutes in. Loveridge had five quick points, including a 3-pointer.

NO. 5 LOUISVILLE 63, LONG BEACH STATE 48 In Louisville, Ky., Terry Rozier scored 23 points, Montrezl Harrell added 16 and Louisville beat Long Beach State.

Putting away the 49ers took some effort for the Cardinals (12-1), who saw their 45-23 lead cut to 57-48 with 2:44 remaining. But Harrell closed the game with a jumper, a dunk and a layup as Louisville rebounded from Saturday’s loss to top-

NO. 12 MARYLAND 68, MICHIGAN STATE 66 (2OT) In East Lansing, Mich., Dez Wells scored 16 points, including a tying 3 with 2.2 seconds left in regulation, and No. 12 Maryland earned a double-overtime win over Michigan State in the Terrapins’ first-ever Big Ten game.

Melo Trimble, just 2-for-13 from the field, added 15 points for Maryland (13-1), which used its size advantage for a 52-36 edge on the boards.

NO. 13 KANSAS 78, KENT STATE 62 In Lawrence, Ka., freshman Kelly Oubre Jr. scored 20 points and Perry Ellis added 15 to help Kansas beat Kent State.

NO. 14 NOTRE DAME 87, HARTFORD 60 In South Bend, Ind., Demetrius Jackson led four players in double figures with 18 points and Notre Dame beat Hartford.

NO. 17 WEST VIRGINIA 82, VIRGINIA TECH 51 In Morgantown, W.Va., Juwan Staten scored 18 points and Gary Browne added 12 as West Virginia routed Virginia Tech.

NO. 19 NORTH CAROLINA 86, WILLIAM & MARY 64 In Chapel Hill, N.C., J.P. Tokoto matched a season high with 19 points and added 10 rebounds, and North Carolina beat William & Mary.

IOWA 71, NO. 20 OHIO STATE 65 In Columbus, Ohio, Jarrod Uthoff and Aaron White each scored 18 points to lead Iowa past Ohio State in the Big Ten opener for both teams.

NO. 22 BAYLOR 92, NORFOLK STATE 51 In Waco, Texas, Royce O’Neale scored 15 points of his career-best 23 points in the opening minutes of the second half to lead Baylor to a win over Norfolk State.

Northern New Mexico

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL 10:30 a.m. on ESPN — Peach Bowl, Mississippi vs. TCU, at Atlanta 2:10 p.m. on ESPN — Fiesta Bowl, Boise St. vs. Arizona, at Glendale, Ariz.

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Lobos: Have beaten Fresno in last 10 of 12 Continued from Page B-1 The prospects for rapid improvement are not terribly bright. Despite the expected return of freshman guard Sam Logwood (shoulder injury) for Wednesday’s game, the offense simply will not get better until the big men produce more points in the paint. Up ’til now, they haven’t.

Saying his team has a “lot of shot takers but not a lot of shot makers,” Neal wants better shot selection from pretty much everyone on the team.

Point guard Hugh Greenwood tends to force some shots when he feels the offense is stagnant, while others — and Neal didn’t say exactly who, in particular — have a penchant for taking shots they weren’t cut out for.

“A lot of it is they are taking

shots that aren’t good shots,” Neal said. “A degree of difficulty is not something you want.”

To that end, look for more of the same old, same old from the Lobos as they navigate their way through what looks like a top-heavy MWC slate.

Two teams in the league have resided in the Top 25 while four teams have already reached double-digit victories.

Fresno State is not among them. The Bulldogs have struggled to a 5-8 start, making them the ideal low-hanging fruit for a UNM team that was humbled in its most recent outing, an embarrassing loss at Grand Canyon on Dec. 23.

After that game, Neal said the onus for the offense rests on his big men. They need to fight for position, demand the

ball and take advantage of their opportunities.

That means he expects more from center Obij Aget and reserves Jordan Goodman, J.J. N’Ganga, Joe Furstinger and Devon Williams.

A 6-foot-9 power forward, Goodman took seven of his 10 shots in the loss to Grand Canyon from the outside. That, Neal said, simply cannot happen.

“We have shown that we can play at a high level,” Neal said.

“Now, can they sustain it and keep improving?”

NOTES u Neal expects to make a decision about the redshirt status of his son, point guard Cullen Neal, before this Saturday’s game against Colorado State. u UNM leads the all-time series with Fresno State, 12-7,

UNM MEN’S BASKETBALL 5 p.m. on KKOB-AM 770; KVSF-AM 1400 — New Mexico vs.

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including wins in 10 of the last 12 meetings dating to the mid90s. One of the greatest games in The Pit’s history was when the Lobos beat the Bulldogs 104-99 in triple overtime of a Western Athletic Conference tournament game on March 8, 1996. u Fresno State is 0-8 against UNM in The Pit. u The Lobos have won 135 Mountain West games, second only to UNLV since the conference was created 15 years ago. u UNM has won or shared parts of the regular season or conference tournament titles in five of the last six years. The exception came in the 2010-11 season. u New Mexico plays its first two conference games at home and ends the regular season in The Pit against Wyoming. In between, the Lobos will play nine of 15 games on the road.

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PREP SCORES

Boys basketball Eldorado 81, Kirtland Central 56 EP Andress, Texas 47, Carlsbad 44 Valley 55, EP Cathedral, Texas 28 Volcano Vista 54, Clovis 45 Alamogordo Tournament Consolation Semifinal Sandia Prep 58, Chaparral 27 Santa Teresa 29, Los Lunas 27 Semifinal EP Bowie, Texas 59, Manzano 31 Hobbs Tournament Centennial 51, Cleveland 47 Hobbs 77, El Paso, Texas 43 Odessa, Texas 40, Cibola 39 Max Preps Holiday Classic Victor Valley, Calif. 54, Laguna-Acoma 44 Poe Corn Tournament Artesia 68, Moriarty 43 Belen 61, Los Alamos 26

Farmington 59, Goddard 47 Rio Rancho Tournament Canyon Randall, Texas 58, Mayfield 41 Hope Christian 61, La Cueva 49 Las Cruces 66, Española Valley 58 Rio Rancho 82, Grants 72 Striking Eagle Classic Red Mesa, Ariz. 61, Navajo Pine 35 Tohajilee 61, Laguna-Acoma JV 24 Tse Yi Gai 61, Monument Valley, Utah 54 POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS Logan vs. Coronado, ccd.

Girls basketball Hatch Valley 35, Miyamura 31 Valley 24, Carlsbad 20 Alamogordo Tournament Consolation Semifinal

Los Lunas 52, Valencia 47 Manzano 52, Chaparral 34 Semifinal Alamogordo 62, Gadsden 37 Flowing Wells Tournament Deming 52, Tucson Flowing Wells, Ariz. 48 Goddard Tournament Semifinal Goddard 50, Robertson 41 Roswell 44, Centennial 27 St. Michael’s Tournament Consolation Semifinal Laguna-Acoma 62, Española Valley JV 41 Semifinal Farmington 59, Taos 48 St. Michael’s 49, Pojoaque 38 Striking Eagle Classic Magdalena 53, Zuni 30 Shiprock Northwest 66, Red Valley-Cove, Ariz. 48 POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS Logan vs. Coronado, ccd.

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PREP ROUNDUP

Española Valley rallies, beats Piedra Vista The New Mexican

This was how cold it was in Clovis on Tuesday.

When given the option to eat anywhere in town, the EspaEspañola 65 ñola Valley Lady Sundevils opted for Piedra Vista 49 pizza delivery in their hotel. The high was 12 degrees, and that was recorded at 7 a.m. The only saving grace for Española’s day was that it beat Piedra Vista 65-49 in the consolation semifinal of the Plateau Wireless Classic girls basketball tournament in Rock Staubus Gymnasium.

The weather could play havoc on the Lady Sundevils on Wednesday. They are scheduled to play the Lovington/Dumas (Texas) winner at 1 p.m., but that is contingent on those two teams making it to Clovis for a 10 a.m. game.

Both teams are traveling from their respective homes in icy conditions caused by the cold and rain.

Neither the Lovington boys nor girls made it to Clovis because of the treacherous road conditions, which canceled the St. Michael’s boys game against the Wildcats.

It was a better Tuesday for the Lady Sundevils, who found themselves down by as much as 57-25 to host Clovis before trimming the margin to 65-47 in the opening round. Española head coach Cindy Roybal said the Lady Sundevils (10-2) played tenatively against the Lady Wildcats, the No. 1 team in Class AAAAAA, and that was unusual for her to see.

“I didn’t think they were afraid because we knew their ranking coming in,” Roybal said, “but we played kinda intimidated, and sometimes I forget how young we are. I think the youth in us finally came out.”

The Lady Sundevils (10-2) were much more composed against the Lady Panthers.

Alexis Lovato has 23 points, 15 rebounds and hit all nine of her free throws, while Leah DeAguero had 10. DeAguero led Española with 16 points against Clovis.

BOYS BASKETBALL LAS CRUCES 66, ESPAÑOLA VALLEY 58 The pattern repeated itself for the Sundevils in the consolation bracket of the Berger Allstate Holiday Hoops Classic in Rio Rancho. They jumped out to a 12-9 lead after a quarter and extended it to 31-24 at the half, but the second half belonged to the Bulldogs.

Jared Garduño led Española (10-3) with 30 points, while Uriah Arellano added nine.

The Sundevils plays Amarillo’s Randle (Texas) for seventh place at 9 a.m. at Rio Rancho High School.

St. Mike’s: Has work to do, but still a force Continued from Page B-1 regardless of their win streak, they still believe there is a lot of work to be done.

“We still haven’t played a full game, and that’s what we’re aiming for,” St. Michael’s sophomore point guard Jocelyn Fernandez. “Once we have a lead, we get comfortable with it. We’re letting them catch up to us, and we can’t do that.”

While the Lady Horsemen still kept a solid lead, Farmington (9-2) nearly let Taos (8-7) steal its semifinal spot. After the Lady Scorpions held a 28-15 advantage at halftime, the Lady Tigers got within 40-38 at the start of the fourth quarter.

Farmington still led 48-45 with 5:24 left, but the Lady Scorpions pulled away after that. It wasn’t the prettiest ending for the Lady Scorpions, but the Lady Horsemen will leave nothing to chance.

“It’s going to be a nice challenge for us,” St. Michael’s head coach Martin Romero said.

“We get to see a nice, strong

opponent. They can shoot the 3, they have decent size and they have really good athletes.”

By “shoot the 3,” Romero means Tanisha Beetso can shoot the 3. She finished with six 3-pointers, with three in the first quarter, and 21 points to lead the Lady Scorpions.

“She’s one of our shooters, so sometimes she gets hot and sometimes she doesn’t, and sometimes we rely on that too much,” Farmington head coach Danny Secrest said. “But tonight was one of those nights where it kept us in the game.”

So Farmington’s plan for the Lady Horsemen includes letting Beetso rip it from behind the arc, among other things that have helped the Lady Scorpions win seven of their last eight games.

“I think we’re just going to do what we normally do,” Secrest said. “We’re not going to change what we do for them or anyone else in our state. We have a good cast of role players and starters, and we just do what we do.”

Wednesday is going to present a matchup of two hot teams, but both are in need of some improvement.

Although the Lady Horsemen aren’t completely satisfied with any of the games they’ve played — and that includes a win over Class AAAAAA Santa Fe High in Toby Roybal Memorial Gymnasium — they still proved that they are a force in AAAA. “We’ve been coming out of our shells and playing hard,” said Fernandez, who led St. Michael’s with 14 points. “I think we’ve showed who we are and who we can beat.”

Romero wants his team to get better, even after wins, so he imparts this little piece of wisdom on his players at every practice.

“We’re nowhere near where we need to be, but we’re closer than we once were,” he says.

“We’re working at it and we’re continuing to improve.”

SANTA FE HIGH JV 23, EAST MOUNTAIN 22 The junior Demonettes will

get a chance to play for fifth place after barely escaping the Lady Timberwolves in a game in which Santa Fe High led 1-0 at the end of the first quarter.

The Demonettes upped the margin to 15-3 at halftime, but East Mountain (3-7) scored 19 points in the second half to nearly pull out the win.

Rayann Bonnell paced the Santa High JV with 11 points, while Chenoah Crites scored six points to lead the Lady Timberwolves.

The Demonettes will play Laguna-Acoma at 10 a.m.

Wednesday while East Mountain faces the Española Valley JV for seventh place at 8:30 a.m.

LAGUNA-ACOMA 62, ESPAÑOLA VALLEY JV 41 The Lady Hawks (8-4) routed the junior Lady Sundevils one day after losing to Taos 37-36.

Talia Paytiamo led LagunaAcoma with 21 points, Deja Kie-Lorenzo had 13 points and Shaylynn Smith scored 10.

Lekeisha Madrid scored 10 points to lead Española Valley.

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

Today Boys basketball — Big XII Holiday Classic (at Clovis) St. Michael’s at Clovis, 7:30 p.m.

Berger Allstate Hoops Classic (at Rio Rancho) Española Valley vs. Randle (Texas), 9 a.m.

Poe Corn Invitational (at Roswell Goddard) Los Alamos vs. TBA in final round, time TBD Girls basketball — Lady Horsemen Christmas Tourn. (at St. Michael’s) 7th place, Española Valley JV vs. East Mountain, 8:30 a.m.

5th place, Laguna-Acoma vs. Santa Fe High JV, 10 a.m.

3rd place, Taos vs. Pojoaque Valley, 11:30 a.m.

Championship, Farmington vs. St. Michael’s, 1 p.m.

Goddard Holiday Classic (at Roswell Goddard) Capital vs. TBA in final round, time TBD Las Vegas Robertson vs. TBA in final round, time TBD Plateau Wireless Classic (at Clovis) Española Valley vs. Lovington/Dumas (Texas) winner, 1 p.m.

Thursday Boys basketball — Northern Rio Grande (at Pojoaque) Pecos vs. Mora, 11:30 a.m.

Peñasco vs. Dulce, 2:30 p.m.

Mesa Vista vs. Escalante, 5:30 p.m.

Questa vs. McCurdy, 8:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — Northern Rio Grande (at Pojoaque) McCurdy vs. Questa, 10 a.m.

Peñasco vs. Mora, 1 p.m.

Mesa Vista vs. Pecos, 4 p.m.

Dulce vs. Escalante, 7 p.m.

Friday Boys basketball — Ruidoso at West Las Vegas, 4 p.m.

Abq. Academy at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Taos at Capital, 7 p.m.

Northern Rio Grande (at Pojoaque) (semifinals) Peñasco-Dulce winner vs. Mesa Vista-Escalante winner, 7 p.m.

Pecos-Mora winner vs. McCurdy-Questa winner, 8:30 p.m. (consolation) Peñasco-Dulce loser vs. Mesa Vista-Escalante loser, 11:30 a.m.

Pecos-Mora loser vs. McCurdy-Questa loser, 2:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — West Las Vegas at Los Alamos, 5 p.m.

Northern Rio Grande (at Pojoaque) (semifinals) Peñasco-Mora winner vs. Mesa Vista-Pecos winner, 4 p.m.

McCurdy-Questa winner vs. Dulce-Escalante winner, 5:30 p.m. (consolation) Peñasco-Mora loser vs. Mesa Vista-Pecos loser, 10 a.m.

McCurdy-Questa loser vs. Dulce-Escalante loser, 1 p.m.

Saturday Boys basketball — Miyamura at West Las Vegas, 4 p.m.

Santa Fe Prep at Tularosa, 4:30 p.m.

Taos at Los Alamos, 5 p.m.

Las Vegas Robertson at Socorro, 5 p.m.

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Rousing reception No. 13 Georgia runs over No. 20 Louisville for Harbaugh in Michigan return COLLEGE BOWL ROUNDUP

memorabilia and other items over two years. Gurley later CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The injured his knee in his first Georgia running game appears game back from the injury. to be in good hands, even with Mason threw for 149 yards Todd Gur- and a touchdown before leav13 Georgia 37 ley headed ing with blurred vision in to the NFL. 20 Louisville 14 the second quarter with the FreshBulldogs ahead 20-7. He was man Nick Chubb ran for a replaced by Brice Ramsey, career-high 266 yards and two whose primary duty was to touchdowns, and No. 13 Georhand the ball off to Chubb. gia overcame an injury to startGeorgia’s defense came ing quarterback Hutson Mason up with four turnovers, with to beat 20th-ranked Louisville 37-14 in the Belk Bowl on Tues- Dominick Sanders recording two interceptions. day night.

Redshirt freshman quarterChubb averaged 8 yards per back Kyle Bolin made his first carry and the Bulldogs (10-3) career start for Louisville and piled up 301 yards rushing finished 20 of 40 for 301 yards against the nation’s second-best with two interceptions and one run defense. touchdown. Brandon Radcliff Chubb’s rushing total was ran for 91 yards and a touchsecond highest in school hisdown. tory, behind only Herschel Chubb set a new Belk Bowl Walker’s 283 yards rushing rushing record, eclipsing the against Vanderbilt in 1980.

174-yard effort set by Boston Chubb finished his first seaCollege’s Andrew Callender in son at Georgia by running for 2004.

1,323 yards and 12 touchdowns The Bulldogs leaned heavin last eight games after taking ily on the 5-foot-10, 228-pound over as the primary ball carrier after the NCCA suspended Chubb after Mason left the game and Ramsey was intercepted on Gurley for four games for takhis first play from scrimmage. ing $3,000 for autographed The Associated Press

Harbaugh’s $5 million base salary next ANN ARBOR, Mich. — By season is what the time Jim Harbaugh walked he would have onto the court at halftime of the received in the Michigan basketball game, his final year of his homecoming had turned into a deal with the full-fledged pep rally.

49ers.

Jim “I pledge to you that we will Michigan’s Harbaugh do our very best to carry on new coach has the great tradition of Michihis work cut out for him in a Big gan — excellence all across the Ten East Division that’s now board,” the Wolverines’ new full of big-name coaches. Urban football coach said to the cheer- Meyer is preparing Ohio State ing crowd at Crisler Center for this week’s semifinal against during Tuesday’s matinee win Alabama in the inaugural Colagainst Illinois — in an overtime lege Football Playoff. Michigan thriller, naturally.

State’s Mark Dantonio has built “You know how to make a a program that has staying guy feel at home,” Harbaugh power, and Penn State is on the yelled, his voice sounding rise again under James Franklin. hoarse from a whirlwind few This past season was the third days. time in seven years Michigan Harbaugh is back. And none finished with a losing record. too soon for fans who desperThe program’s most recent subately want him to save the foot- .500 season before this dismal ball program where he starred stretch came in 1967, two years as a quarterback 30 years ago before Schembechler began his — one that has fallen into the run as coach. middle of the pack at best in Nothing Michigan has tried the Big Ten Conference and has lately seemed to work for any become an afterthought in the extended period of time. Rich national landscape.

Rodriguez had tremendous The day began with a packed success at West Virginia before news conference, and onlookers taking over at Michigan after peeking through the windows the 2007 season. But the transifrom outside. Harbaugh strode tion was shaky and he was fired to the podium for a smiling, after three years. Brady Hoke lighthearted session as his fam- took over and went 31-20, but ily watched from a few feet his team fared worse each seaaway. son and he was let go early this “Michigan’s always been month. great. It’s always been great. I The longer Michigan’s coachalways believe in it,” Harbaugh ing search went on, the more said. “In terms of selling someobvious it became that the thing, you’re selling something school was focused on Haryou believe in, in your core.” baugh, who was finally available As a starting quarterback for after his NFL season ended Sunthree seasons under Bo Schem- day. The 51-year-old Harbaugh bechler, he is remembered for coached the San Francisco 49ers delivering a victory he guaranto three straight NFC champiteed over Ohio State in 1986, onship games, but they missed the same season he was Big Ten the playoffs this season at 8-8 player of the year and finished and he left in what the team third in Heisman Trophy voting. called a mutual decision.

The famously confident Now he returns to Michigan, Harbaugh stopped short of any where the fan base has become real bluster as he took the reins a bit fractured — and even apaof the storied program. After thetic — of late. all, he inherits a team that has Those two problems seem to lost 10 of its last 11 games to have been solved already. archrival Ohio State and six of “Jim is going to have the supits last seven to Michigan State. port of the great, great majority If those two rivals were looking for bulletin board material from of the Michigan family,” said Lloyd Carr, who coached the Harbaugh, he didn’t give them Wolverines to a national title much — not yet, at least. during the 1997 season.

“They’re outstanding proCarr and former Michigan grams. No, I make no guarcoach Gary Moeller were both antees,” he said. “I made a at the news conference, and guarantee a long time ago, and Harbaugh had plenty of other I’ve learned from that, and I’ve supporters. grown. I understand that you The Wolverines must replace don’t make guarantees.” two key players from this Harbaugh’s seven-year deal season’s team. Quarterback is worth about $40 million, not counting performance bonuses. Devin Gardner was a senior, and junior wide receiver Devin His $5 million annual salary Funchess is leaving for the NFL increases by 10 percent after years three and five, and he also draft. Offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier is gone, too, received a $2 million signing headed back to the SEC for the bonus. He can receive bonuses offensive coordinator job at based on Big Ten championships, bowl appearances, coach- Florida after a single season in Ann Arbor. ing awards and team academic performance. Following a “Thank you for the enthusireview by the athletic director asm and the support,” Harbaugh after next season, Michigan will told the crowd. “Even though also determine a deferred com- we have not done a darn thing, pensation arrangement. it is much appreciated.”

By Noah Trister

The Associated Press

Suh: Finished regular season with 8½ sacks Monday by Merton Hanks, the NFL’s vice president of football right way. I’m not knocking him. operations. Hanks ruled that I like his intensity. I love how Suh engaged in a non-football hard he plays. But there comes a act that placed his opponent at point where you’ve got to think unnecessary risk of injury. before you react.

In his letter to Suh, Hanks “Sometimes it happens. I’ve wrote, “You did not respond done plays like what Suh did, so in the manner of someone I’m not mad at him. It happens who had lost his balance and like that sometimes. You’re frus- accidentally contacted another trated, you’re down and you’re player who was lying on the losing and things like that.” ground. This illegal contact, Suh has a long list of fines specifically the second step and one previous suspension, and push off with your left for two games in 2011 for stepfoot, clearly could have been ping on the right arm of Packers avoided.” lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith.

Hanks further noted “you Suh has been fined eight times unnecessarily stepped on your in his career, but this is the first opponent’s unprotected leg as in 2014. he lay on the ground unable to Suh was fined $100,000 for an protect himself.” illegal block on Vikings center Cottrell’s decision means the John Sullivan in Week 1 of 2013 Lions will have one of their key during an interception return. defensive cogs. Suh finished That was the largest fine in NFL the season with a team-high history for on-field conduct, not 8½ sacks and helped Detroit counting suspensions. rank second overall and first in The suspension was imposed run defense.

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MUSIC CITY BOWL NOTRE DAME 31, NO. 22 LSU 28 In Nashville, Tenn., Notre Dame and senior kicker Kyle Brindza finished the season off with some much-needed redemption.

Brindza made a 32-yard field goal as time expired, and Notre Dame upset No. 22 LSU in a Music City Bowl shootout.

The Tigers were unsuccessful on a fake field goal at the end of the first half, a call that stood on review even though replays appeared to show the ball crossing the goal line. The Fighting Irish (8-5) also blocked a 40-yard field goal attempt

by Trent Domingue early in the fourth quarter.

Notre Dame got the ball with 5:41 left and never gave it back, driving 71 yards in 14 plays before Brindza finished off the win.

Coach Brian Kelly gave sophomore Malik Zaire his first career start, but he also played senior Everett Golson, using both quarterbacks on the winning drive.

Notre Dame held the ball for 37 minutes but finished with a 449-436 edge in total offense thanks only to that final drive. Golson was 4 of 5 for 50 yards passing on it, including a

12-yard completion to Ben Koyack on third-and-10. Zaire finished off the drive with a couple of rushes to set up Brindza.

Brindza had missed 6 of 9 field goals in the last five games of the regular season, including a 32-yarder late in a loss to Louisville.

The Fighting Irish were ranked as high as fifth before dropping four straight and five of their final six.

Zaire rushed 22 times for 96 yards and was 12 of 15 for 96 yards passing. He threw for a TD and ran for another. Golson was 6 of 11 for 90 yards passing.

LSU (8-5) lost for the first time this season to a team not from the Southeastern Conference’s Western Division. Leonard Fournette ran for 143 yards and two touchdowns, and the freshman also returned a kickoff 100 yards for a score.

The Tigers’ final three touchdowns took all of 38 seconds.

Fournette had his kick return, and his 89-yard TD run later gave the Tigers their first lead of the game at 28-21 with 6:14 left in the third quarter.

In between, Anthony Jennings connected with John Diarse on a 75-yard catch-and-run touchdown.

MadBum: Beats Kershaw, Jeter, McIlroy Continued from Page B-1 takes as much pride in his pitching and durability as he does his deep North Carolina roots, Bumgarner became October’s biggest star for a San Francisco club that really needed one during another improbable World Series run.

Bumgarner finished first in a vote by U.S. editors and news directors. He beat out Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw — who won the National League Cy Young and MVP. Retiring New York Yankees star Derek Jeter and golfer Rory McIlroy tied for third place. The award was announced Tuesday.

After months of the same questions about his well-tested left arm, Bumgarner made light of it all.

He had just thrown 270 innings, including 21 with two wins and a save in a World Series that went the distance against the fellow wild-card Royals.

“I got a splinter in my finger the other day. That was kind of painful,” Bumgarner quipped, sounding perfectly serious. “Fortunately, it was on my right hand.”

Bruce Bochy’s 25-year-old workhorse has earned the manager’s trust that he will speak up if anything ever feels off with his arm. Otherwise, he’s going to keep getting the ball.

With that tricky cross-body, three-quarters delivery — resembling a sling shot — Bumgarner shows hitters the ball briefly

with an outstretched arm before that rapid release and suddenly it’s right there leaving batters baffled.

On two days’ rest in Game 7, that day he sat with Peavy in Kansas City, he pitched five scoreless innings of relief in a 3-2 win.

Only after that would Bumgarner acknowledge he might need a mental and physical break at last after tossing a record 52⅔ postseason innings.

“You know what? I can’t lie to you anymore,” he said. “I’m a little tired now.”

Pitching coach Dave Righetti began fielding inquiries before the World Series began about whether Bumgarner had the chance to make three appearances. He knew it could happen, though it wasn’t exactly planned.

“You don’t realize when you’re in the middle of the eye, ‘Wow, what this guy’s doing is so special,’ ” Righetti said. “That really hasn’t been done in years. … When you’ve got a healthy guy who’s on a roll, those are the kind of guys who change big series and do special things.”

The Giants locked up Bumgarner longterm in April 2012 on a $35.56 million, sixyear contract through 2017. It could keep him in orange and black even longer, given the $12 million options for the 2018 and 2019 seasons. That almost seems like a bargain now given Bumgarner’s performance and star power on baseball’s biggest stage.

Bumgarner was MVP of the World

Series and NL Championship Series, going 4-1 during the postseason following an 18-10 regular season.

From his four-hit, 10-strikeout gem that got things started in an 8-0 wild-card win at Pittsburgh all the way through his brilliant relief outing in Game 7 of the World Series, Bumgarner dazzled like never before.

“He pitched a different game than we had seen from him earlier in the season,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle recalled recently. “We had watched video and saw how much sharper he had gotten as the season played out. In the wild-card game he had command of all his pitches and lived on the edges the entire outing. He also used his fastball up in the zone with deadly accuracy.”

Bumgarner made the rounds on the post-Series appearance circuit, then took a break to attend a rodeo.

Despite the heavy workload, Bumgarner will be eager for spring training come February.

“Everything feels great and we’re looking to just keep a normal offseason and a normal routine,” Bumgarner said.

It will hardly be normal given the attention and hype he is sure to generate after a spectacular 2014.

“I just love the way he’s handled everything, all the attention,” Righetti said. “It looks like he’s stayed the same.”

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THE SANTA FE RAILYARD COMMUNITY CORPORATION will have its monthly Board of Directors’ Meeting on Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Community Room of the downtown Santa Fe Public Library on 145 Washington Ave. The public, neighbors, tenants, and all interested persons are encouraged to attend. Agenda will be available 24 hours in advance of the meeting at the office at 332 Read Street (9823373) and posted at www.sfrailyardcc.org.

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ROOFING- ALL TYPES . Metal, Shingles, Composite torch down, Hot Mop, Stucco, Plaster. Maintenance.

Free Estimates! Call Ismael Lopez at 505-670-0760.

STORAGE A VALLEY U STOR IT Now renting 10x10, 10x20, Outdoor RV Spaces.

Uhaul Trucks, Boxes, Movers. In Pojoaque. FIRST MONTH FREE! 505455-2815.

PAINTING ANDY ORTIZ PAINTING

Professional with over 30 years experience. Licensed, insured, bonded Please call for free estimate, 505-6709867, 505-473-2119.

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TREES DALE’S TREE SERVICE. Fruit Tree & Conifer, Pinon, Chamisa, & ornamental. Pruning, removals, stumps, hauling. Yard work also available. 4734129

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NEEDED INVESTOR for an invention with working prototype. Low-risk investment with possible high return.

Patent search completed with promising results. Patent is pending. If interested call 575-375-2030.

PUBLIC NOTICES JUMPSTART 2015 Write Your Memoir 6-week classes begin January 6 & 7. Includes literary craft, construction and personal workshop of your creation. For other classes, go to imattered.com 505-316-1521. email hello@imattered.com

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.

Taylor Properties 505-470-0818 Vista Property Corp 505-988-5299

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Rossignol, 185CM with Tryolia bindings, $60. Nordica Ski Boots, size 27.5/315M (Mens9), $60. 505-479-9141.

SKI RACK for auto, roof gutter mount, old style, $50. 505-474-9141

Community Home Health Care and The Hospice Center

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE

Great location and parking! $500 monthly includes utilities, cleaning, taxes and amenities. Move in incentives!

ACCOUNTING

Please call (505)983-9646.

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST Los Alamos County Los Alamos $19.68 hr.-$29.52 hr. Requires an Associate’s in Accounting, Business Admin or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience; and 2 years accounting, bookkeeping or related experience. County application is required. Application and full job information available at www.losalamosnm.us or by calling 505-662-8040. Deadline is January 16, 2015 at 5 pm.

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 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

WANTED TO RENT MATURE COUPLE with Aust. Mix and English Bulldog need 2 BEDROOM, Apt or Home. ($1,000). In Santa Fe first week of February. Dogs are clean, well-mannered and well-cared for. Please call or leave message on the machine. I will get back to you as soon as I can. 417-777-3511.

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.

ADMINISTRATIVE

Full and part-time positions, including weekends. See website for details.Most positions benefits eligible.

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seeking an experienced and compassionate LSMW or an LISW. This individual will work as a member of an integrated team of professionals directly providing services to hospice clients and their support systems. A Spanish-speaking candidate is preferred.

Please contact our agency at 505-988-2049

MISCELLANEOUS JOBS COMMERCIAL STEEL Ladder, narrow aisle, stair-step with safety rails and wheels. 6-8 feet. $350. 505-474-9141.

WE’RE SO DOG GONE GOOD! We always get results!

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ADOPTION ADOPTION. A loving married couple wishes to adopt 1st baby. Expenses paid. Legal and confidential. 1-866867-0378 Mariana & Anthony.

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.

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LOST LABRADOODLE Recently-adopted labradoodle lost Thursday, December 11, was found one week later on the other side of town after being advertised in the Santa Fe New Mexican. Still wearing collar and leash. Owner most grateful!

LOST $100 REWARD! Please help find me. I am a 1994 4x4 Toyota pickup.

Burgandy. Xtra cab with camper shell. I went on test drive, but was never returned to my owner. The person that road tested me prevously worked at Santa Fe Cheverolet & Performance GMC. I miss my owner & want to get back home. Please call, 424-1225 or police.

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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.

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JUST ARRIVED….BEAUTIFUL Large Plants in Planters! All Donations and Purchases Support Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity. ReStore Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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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

RETAIL ALPINE SPORTS has immediate opening for part-time sales position in the women’s department.

Must be able to work on Sundays.

Please apply at 121 Sandoval Street.

SALES MARKETING

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.

TOOLS MACHINERY ALL-CLAD ELECTRIC table top grill.

No lid. (Retail $300). Sell for $65.

Great condition! 505-660-6034.

SNOWBLOWER, 24", 5 horsepower, 2 stage. Good condition. $185. 505-6626396

WASHER, WHITE, good condition, 30day warranty. $140. 505-662-6396.

ART SELLING FINE ART AT BELOW WHOLESALE PRICING including many well-known New Mexico artists. 136 Grant Avenue. 505-6810597, Jack.

DELTA MODEL 28-80 14" Band Saw, with mobile base, light, fence, guide, and user’s manual. Like new $500.

505-471-1758, or 505-470-5701.

AUCTIONS WANTED: Any type farm freight wagon or buggy made by Joseph Murphy of St. Louis. Call Tom, 800959-5782.

COLLECTIBLES 1950s SONG HITS & Hit Parade Magazines. Group of 8, $60 total. Nostalgia! Nostalgia! 505-474-9020

LEATHER CHAIR with matching ottoman. Dark brown, very comfortable, good condition. $200. Available December 30. 970-739-1902.

JEWELRY

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.

TV RADIO STEREO

COMPUTERS

TRINITON SONY TV, 27". $40. Works well. Older model. 505-231-2665 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.

FIREWOOD-FUEL

HIRING FULL TIME SCRETARIAL position. Must have experience. Must pass drug test if needed. Please send resume to martinez capitol@aol.com-

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SKIS - Kneissl, 170CM with tyrolia bindings, $60. Formula Blizzard, 160CM with marker M28 bindings, $60. 505-474-9141.

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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.

WANT TO BUY 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

MISCELLANEOUS

NEW OR used plexiglass, used or broken dressers, coffeetables, end table, wood dining tables, insulated glass windows, stained glass, used, broken. 505-795-0007.

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Art Books Plus: Large Selection, with dust covers. GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS! Only $3- $12. Other reasonable books. First editions. 505-474-9020 COMMERCIAL STEEL Ladder, narrow aisle, stair-step with safety rails and wheels. 6-8 feet. $350. 505-474-9141.

COOKING DISCO, DISCADAS. 17" to 32" diameter. Hundreds available.

Starting at $60. Sold at Aldona’s Restaurant, 3875 Cerrillos Road. 505-4693355.

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 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

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PORTABLE D.H. LAWRENCE $5, CUT: THE UNSEEN CINEMA $9, HOLLYWOOD BABYLON $5, NO SHIPPING FEE. 505-474-9020

PETS SUPPLIES

PRICE REDUCED! FIRST EDITION book collection. Only $5 each. Great holiday gifts. 505-474-9020.

MINI DOXIES. Reg,shots and health guaranteed. $650. 575-910-1818 POTTY PAD trained. PAYMENT PLAN credit, debit, PAYPAL. Red & sable. txt4pics. cingard1@hotmail.com.

USDA license

WORLD OF FAIRY TALES FOREMAN $10, ONE DAY IN OUR WORLD $7, ILLUSTRATED ATLAS OF WORLD $7. NO SHIPPING. 505-474-9020

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

PARTY POMERANIANS Registered, shots POTTYPAD trained. $800+ PAYMENT PLAN. Credit Cards, PAYPAL. 575-910-1818 txt4more pics. Taking deposits. cingard1@hotmail.com USDA licensed.

PIANO STEINWAY, Medium Grand, Model M Ebony. Excellent condition.

Moving Sale, price reduced to $16,000. 505-881-2711

SMALL DOG Rescue of Santa Fe. 505438-3749 for information on Grover and our other small dogs.

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CALL 986-3000 SEASONED FIREWOOD: P ONDEROSA, $100 PER LOAD. J u niper, $120 per load. CALL: 508444-0087. Delivery FREE TO ALBUQUERQUE & SANTA FE !

FURNITURE

SPORTS EQUIPMENT

MULTI-PURPOSE CABINET, white, 70" x 48" x 20". Excellent condition. On wheels. $100. 986-1780.

KARHU CROSS -COUNTRY SKIS, WAXLESS. 198cm. $25. Cross Country boots, size 10.5 mens, $25. 505-9826438

SILKY SCHNAUZER x MALTESE pups Reg, shots, guarantee. Potty pad trained. $800. Payment plan. PAYPAL, CREDIT, DEBIT. Non-shedding, Hypoallergenic.

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2002 BLUE SIENNA TOYOTA XLE, 156,000 miles. Winter tires, leather interior, rubber mats. In great condition. $4,500. 575-758-7333

2011 DODGE CHALLENGER, 33,000 MILES, MINT COND, FINGER TIP CONTROL, $17,995. P1793 CALL 505-473-1234.

Santa Fe Animal Shelter PET ADOPTION EVENTS Meet Adoptable Animals

Friday, Jan. 2 PetSmart

2013 DODGE CHARGER, LOW MILES, ALWAYS IN FASHION, SAVE $16,995. P1710 CALL 505473-1234.

3561 Zafarano Drive 1-3 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 3 PetSmart

2007 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER LS, SUV 4WD, VERY CLEAN!

3.6 V6, automatic, alloy wheels.

Runs great. New oil change. 99K miles. Charcoal grey. power driver seat, power windows & locks, roof rack, tow package hitch. New tires.

All maintenace records. Fuel efficient. $9,400 OBO. CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED! Eldorado, Santa Fe. 520-906-9399

3561 Zafarano Drive noon-3 p.m.

2011 Infiniti QX56 4x4 loaded! 7-passenger seating, leather, navigation, chromes, over $60k new! Clean CarFax $39,962.

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Sunday, Jan. 4 PetSmart 3561 Zafarano Drive 1-4 p.m.

Visit sfhumanesociety.org to view adoptable animals or visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ sfhumanesociety.

YORKIES! Full-Blooded Registered, shots and guaranteed.

Hypoallergenic and Non-shedding.

POTTYPAD trained. $500-1800 Credit Cards or PAYPAL PAYMENT plan. 575910-1818 txt4pics cingard1@hotmail.com

2014 Ford Edge Limited AWD 19K, super nice, new body and loaded...$27,871 Call 505-216-3800.

2014 BMW X3 low miles and even lower price, auto, moonroof, heated seats, why buy new... Call 505-2163800.

2011 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited AWD another local 1 owner trade-in! loaded, leather, low miles, clean Carfax pristine $19,721 505-9132900

2011 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara

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4x4, merely 21k miles, local trade, navigation, leather, loaded, clean Carfax, $30,971 505-913-2900

2014 JEEP Cherokee Latitude 4WD 17K, loaded, auto, 1 owner...$25,641 Call 505-216-3800.

IMPORTS 2011 CADILLAC SRX AWD 44K, Luxury Collection pkg, auto and loaded, just..$26,981 Call 505-216-3800.

2012 RAM 1500 4X4 BIG HORN, 34000 MILES, BUY OF THE WEEK, $27,995. T1758 CALL 505-473-1234.

AUTOS WANTED

2010 Acura MDX AWD, pwer HEATED seats, XM, moon roof, loaded with 3rd row seating. In time for changing weather $30,729 Call 505-216-3800.

2011 Infiniti EX35 Journey, AWD, just 38k miles, rare Deluxe Touring package, navigation, heated leather, gorgeous! clean CarFax! $26,791 505-913-2900 .

2013 DODGE AVENGER, THIS ONE COMES CERTIFED. KING OF THE ROAD $14,745. P1825 CALL 505473-1234.

WE WILL BUY YOUR USED CAR REGARDLESS IF YOU BUY A CAR FROM US! COME SEE US TODAY! 505-216-3800

2008 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 53K MILES NICE RIDE, $10488. CALL 505-473-1234.

2014 TOYOTA RAV 4 LIKE BRAND NEW, SAVE THOUSANDS, $24,365 .

T1853 CALL 505-473-1234.

CLASSIC CARS 1985 Oldsmobile, Royale Brougham, fully loaded. Nice interior, paint & tires. Runs well, however smokes. $2,500, OBO. 505-660-4079.

2010 Audi A6 Prestige quattro 4X4s

Local 1 owner, every option, AWD, Nav, supercharged, clean CarFax, a real gem! $24,932 505-913-2900

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CAR STORAGE FACILITY

Airport Road and 599 505-660-3039 www.collectorcarssantafe.com

2014 TOYOTA Tacoma Access Cab V6 4x4 auto Orig owner 9k mi TRD off road pack, warranty, $27,500 obo, 505-490-3868

2000 SUBARU LEGACY OUTBACK, AWD. 130,000 miles. Excellent condition, inside and outside. Good tires.

Power windows, locks, sunroof. $3900. 505-463-8486

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ACROSS 1 See the sites?

5 Parker who played Davy Crockett 9 Vagabond 14 Dept. with a sun on its seal 15 Future D.A.’s hurdle 16 Putting green features 17 Tiny pond plant 18 Holiday lights site 19 Slate of VIPs 20 King who supported Molière 22 Highfalutin sorts 23 Hoi __ 24 Egg-white omelet’s lack 26 Blotter letters 28 Ryder Cup team 29 “Mystery!” network 31 Colorful mnemonic 33 Line to tear along: Abbr.

35 “Constant Craving” singer 37 Pontificate 38 Northeastern educational octet ... or, in a way, what the ends of 20-, 31-, 49- and 61-Across comprise 41 Big mess 44 Isle of Mull neighbor 45 Beauties 49 City name meaning “spring mound” 51 Naval off.

53 Welcoming accessory 54 Carpentry tool 55 Some, in Seville 57 Two-gamete cell 59 Blow away 61 Maker of Smart Target acne treatment 63 Limber 64 Snack in a stack 65 Singles bar conversation starter 66 Easily corrupted 67 Badly need a bath 68 Squared up

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70 Kings and queens 71 They may be tacked on DOWN 1 Blubbery baby?

2 Free 3 Like some verbs and gas 4 Hardly hardy 5 With some wiggle room 6 Hollywood’s Morales 7 Shrewd 8 Canonized mlle.

9 Gift recipient’s sentiment 10 Lampshadeshaped chocolate 11 Woodcutter who knew the magic words 12 Camper’s dining gear 13 West Coast hrs.

21 Food for dunking 22 __-mo replay 25 Princess Leia’s last name 27 City thoroughfare: Abbr.

30 Whistle wetter

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32 First name of TV’s Dr. House 34 World Cup org.

36 Classical lead-in 39 Horn banned from the 2014 World Cup 40 “Zounds!”

41 RR stop 42 Many an Enya fan 43 Hoarder’s cry 46 Showing strong feeling

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47 Day play 48 Justice replaced

by Kagan 50 Having four sharps 52 One-named R&B singer 56 Bender 58 Treble staff symbol 60 Logician Turing 62 Clarinet insert 63 Actress Gardner 64 Ball

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2013 Kia Soul ! recent trade-in, local vehicle, back-up camera, super nice, single owner clean CarFax $13,951 505913-2900

2011 Mercedes-Benz GLK350 4matic CERTIFIED! w/factory warranty, local trade, just serviced, AWD, ask about finance specials $26,991 505-913-2900

2010 Toyota FJ cruiser 4wd, pwr seats, backup camera, CD/AM/FM/MP3, etc, super nice and value priced $26,550 Call 505-2163800.

2014 NISSAN Frontier 4WD Crew Cab 14K, auto, SV pkg, loaded and ready to go, 1 owner...$27,871 Call 505-2163800.

REX

Very What a playful, mellow-yellow Allison man... The will make name Rex a great stems from addition Latin meaning to a family “king”. It’s with fitting for another this guy who dog that has a lot of likes to self-confidence play. We’d recommend a fairly large and loves to be told how awesome space for them to crash around in. he is!

Allison is a sweet and loving dog.

REDUCED! For more information, contact the Española Valley Humane Society at 108 Hamm Pkwy, Española, or call 505-753-8662.

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2013 Volkswagen Jetta S

2007 GMC SIERRA EXTENDED CAB

super nice, 1 owner clean Carfax $13,971. 505-913-2900

Another Caring Local Owner, Service Records, 39,045 Miles, Extra Remote Keys, Books&Manuals, 8 Foot Bed, Running Boards, Bed Liner, Work Truck, Pristine, Soooo AFFORDABLE $14,950

2013 Lexus GX460 Premium 4wd ANOTHER Mercedes-Benz Tradein! local 1 owner, EVERY option, rare dark brown leather, adjustable suspension, over $64k new, clean CarFax $49,973.

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2013 TOYOTA 4RUNNERSR5 4X4

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Another One Owner, Local, Records, Garaged, Non-Smoker, Remaining Factory warranty, 22,447 Miles, Most Available Options, WHY BUY NEW, Pristine, Soooo TOYOTA LUXURIOUS AND DEPENDABLE $32,250

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2013 Volkswagen Jetta TDI local 1 owner trade, 40 mpg!, heated leather, sunroof, clean Carfax, NICE $17,953 505-913-2900

2013 Toyota Tundra

2013 Lexus RX350 AWD

Limited CrewMAX Rock Warrior 4x4 only 9k miles, local 1 owner, leather, nav, A/T tires, loaded clean CarFax $40,983 505-913-2900

recent trade-in! LOADED, saddle leather, navigation, single owner clean CarFax GORGEOUS! $38,912 505-913-2900

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2014 Toyota RAV4 AWD 14k, CLE pkg, auto, nice options, 1 owner...$23,981 Call 505-216-3800.

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2012 Volkswagen CC Luxury ANOTHER Mercedes tradein! Loaded, leather, navigation, immaculate, clean CarFax $17,951 505-913-2900 .

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2014 TOYOTA RAV4 XLE AWD 7K, auto, loaded, super clean and 1 owner...$24,981 Call 505-216-3800.

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PORCHE 2006 CAYENNE. Won’t last!

Beautiful SUV (taupe & tan), sun/moon roof, interior excellent condition, low mileage 97,000. Runs great! $15,000. 505-920-3849

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2013 Toyota Avalon XLE Premium another Mercedes trade! Low miles, leather, local one owner clean CarFax $25,973 505913-2900

LEGALS LEGAL # 97822 Notice is hereby given that the New Mexico State Armory Board will hold its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting/ in Conjunction with the bi-annual Local Armory Board Council Meeting on:

2014 VW Passat Wolfsburg Edition 13K, loaded, 1 owner and super nice...$19,881 Call 505-216-3800.

Date: Wednesday, January 07, 2015

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Time: 10:00 a.m.

PICKUP TRUCKS 2010 LEXUS RX350 AWD Lexus Certified, loaded up, full svc and ready to go...$29,871 Call 505-216-3800.

FORD F150 1983 V8, Automatic Transmission, 57,500 miles, 2WD, extended cab,cash only. $1800 in Ribera. Call 970-390-5597 or 575-421-4212.

CAMPERS & RVs AL’S RV CENTER RV Heating & Appliance Repair.

Call Al, over 43 years of experience. 505-203-6313, 505-5771938.

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2006 LEXUS GS300 AWD loaded, nav, leather, 1 owner...$18,981 Call 505216-3800.

2013 Toyota Corolla L, auto, A/C, equipt right and priced at only...$13,871 Call 505-216-3800.

2006 GMC SIERRA SLE EXTENDED CAB

Another Caring Local Owner, Service Records, Extra Remote Keys, Books&Manuals, Running Boards, Bed Cover, New Tires, Pristine, Soooo HARD WORKING $12,450

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Place: Albuquerque Armory 600 Wyoming Blvd NE Albuquerque, NM 87801 An agenda will be available before the meeting. Please contact Elizabeth A. Alvarado, State Armory Board Administrator at (505) 4741877 for further information. Thank you.

Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 23-26, 2931, 2014 and January 1-2, 5, 2015 LEGAL # 97838 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF Santa Fe Maribel Saucedo Medina Petitioner/Plaintiff, Vs.

WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE!

Jose Luis Flores Respondent/ Defendant .

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2002 LEXUS LX470 4WD 63K, super loaded and serviced religiously, super nice..$22,981 Call 505-216-3800.

2013 TOYOTA Tacoma Double Cab 4x4, ONLY 6K, Auto, TRD Off-Road Extra Value Package, come see this one.. Call 505-216-3800.

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y meeting will be held in the Mabry Hall at the Jerry Apodaca Building, 300 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM. The agenda will be available at the New Mexico Finance Authority’s office at 207 Shelby Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico and the website at www.nmfa.net and the Office of the State Engineer website (www.ose.state.nm.u s). The Board may go into closed session to discuss matters in accordance with NMSA 1978, Section 10-15-1 (H) (2). Anyone who has quesMaribel Saucedo tions regarding the Medina meeting or needs Petitioner/Plaintiff special accommoda4241 Agua Fria #6 tions should contact Address Yolanda Valenzuela Santa Fe, NM 87507 at (505) 992-9632.

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Horoscope ACROSS 1 Buried treasure

39 Put into law

site, maybe 5 Eagles’ band?: Abbr.

three-point shot 45 Suffix with super 46 Neither his nor

8 What confirmed bachelors avoid

hers or FHM) 49 “Clean out your

Obama press secretary

desk!”?

52 Goes down

17 Potato?

53 Commencement

18 Benefits

participants, for

19 “Bewitched”

short

spinoff 21 Take in, as patients

54 Eases 56 Like Superman and

22 Major tanker port 24 Ebb tide?

Spider-Man 58 1983 sci-fi drama …

26 Fled or bled

or a possible title

27 Not quite enough

for this puzzle

28 Philanthropist

61 Actress Bynes of

Broad 29 Sci-fi author

“She’s the Man” 62 Letterman’s

Stanislaw 30 Most of the

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014: This year you open up to many new ideas. You also become quite adventurous. As you become more accepting, your relationships will transform.

48 ___ mag (Maxim

14 Wet missile 16 Jay ___, onetime

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

42 Org. originating the

favorite activity?

63 Took home

symbols on a

64 A, B and C, in D.C.

traditional slot

65 See 50-Down

machine 32 Willow shoot

DOWN

34 Inoculation order?

38 Rotten tomato’s

1 Suffix with sex 2 Masseuse’s

sound

workplace

3 “Pay attention!”

15 Pal

4 Allen who captured

20 “Give it ___!”

Fort Ticonderoga

41 Scores of Vikings, for short

22 Toy sound

42 Warm blanket

5 Exile

23 Historical org.

43 Old galley

6 Like the toves in

25 Director Kazan

44 Biblical

“Jabberwocky”

27 Words of welcome

debarkation point

7 E’en if

31 Code letters?

46 Baby

8 Signature Obama

32 One side of Niagara

47 Aquarium fish

health measure,

Falls: Abbr.

for short

50 With 65-Across,

33 Watergate

9 Some microphones 10 Major League Baseball news

initials

“Not a clue” 51 Midwest tribe

35 Tough trek

52 Snide comments

36 Doo-wop group

55 Humpty Dumpty,

11 Savage

with the 1963

12 Go through again

hit “Remember

57 Scoundrel

13 What an anarchist

Then,” with “the”

59 Music genre

rails against, with

37 Infomercial figure

60 Chicago-to-

“the”

40 Cool ___

e.g.

Houston dir.

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Chess quiz WHITE WINS A PIECE Hint: Pinning the knight is key.

Solution: 1. Qd4! (threatens Bxf6). If ...

Qd8, 2. e5! (wins the pinned knight) [Sengupta-Fang ’14].

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: U.S. CITIES In which U.S. city? (e.g., Times Square and Wall Street. Answer: New York City.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. The Alamo and the River Walk.

Answer________ 2. Faneuil Hall and Fenway Park.

Answer________ 3. Rutgers-Newark and Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium.

Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 4. California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Answer________ 5. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Great Lakes Science Center.

Answer________ 6. Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and Tinker Air Force Base.

Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Answer________ 8. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Heartland of America Park.

Answer________ 9. Tony Packo’s Cafe and the Anthony Wayne Bridge.

Answer________

1. San Antonio. 2. Boston. 3. Newark. 4. Pasadena.

5. Cleveland. 6. Oklahoma City. 7. Baltimore.

8. Omaha. 9. Toledo.

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) 2015 Ken Fisher

Today in history Today is Wednesday, Dec. 31, the 365th and final day of 2014.

Today’s highlight in history: On Dec. 31, 1904, New York’s Times Square saw its first New Year’s Eve celebration, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Rather than eye a situation with remorse, take a deep breath and make your resolutions. Tonight: Stay present in the moment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Everyone will be unusually aware of your choices, yet they might question where you are going.

Tonight: Cheer in the new year!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You might not be in the mood to be around others this New Year’s Eve. Tonight: Use the pre-midnight hours to let go of any hassles.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH You could be in a new situation and not realize what is happening. Maintain your sense of humor.

Tonight: Do not hesitate — just dive right in.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You might be in the middle of a very lively situation.

You could make changes swiftly because of what you perceive as a problem.

Tonight: A major force in ringing in 2015.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Take a leap of faith and christen 2015 in a new way that reflects you and who you are. Tonight: Nap, then decide.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Host doesn’t have to meet demands Dear Annie: I have relatives coming to visit later this month.

A week ago, I received a list of necessities for their visit. Some seem reasonable for young children: cribs, high chairs and childproof cabinets. But some seem rude and presumptuous: a grocery list of 20 organic items (including peeled shrimp and smoked salmon) and individual bedrooms for the children.

Of course, I will adhere to requests that keep children safe and comfortable, but I don’t feel I need to accommodate their food preferences. There are no allergies here. They just prefer organic everything. I do not plan on purchasing the things they have asked for and would like to give them an earful on their lack of graciousness. They are, after all, guests.

But I know that is not a good idea.

Please give me some advice on how to respond when they find their demands are not met.

— Anonymous Dear Anonymous: Notify them in advance that you have childproofed your home but cannot accommodate their more exotic requests. Let them know where they can purchase their organic food and say you’ll make room in your fridge and cabinets for them.

If you are feeling particularly peevish, you could also send them a list of local hotels and motels, saying you’re doing the best you can but will certainly understand if they think they’ll be more comfortable elsewhere. Be extremely nice about it, but stick to your guns.

Dear Annie: I read your response to “Disgusted with My Sister in Texas,” whose mother and sister had an argument that resulted in Sis taking away the car that Mom had been making payments on. I agree with you that legal action should be a last resort in this issue, and I’m glad you suggested that someone impartial mediate.

Mediation is an informal process where a neutral and impartial mediator facilitates two or more disputing parties in coming to a mutually agreed-upon resolution.

The beauty of mediation is that the two parties are the decision

makers and the trained and certified mediator helps them dig below the surface to identify their true interests: “why” they have taken their opposing positions on an issue. More often than not, the two parties find that their interests are not that far apart and, with the help of the mediator, arrive at a resolution.

There are several routes to mediation, and the laws and procedures are different in each state, but there are attorneys who are mediators or who work with private mediators who can be of assistance. Additionally, the local courthouse staff may be able to assist the parties in procuring mediation for small-claims cases or higher (the dollar amount varies by state).

I highly recommend mediation because it is less expensive and less time consuming, and the individuals make the decision rather than a judge who will rule by statute. Of course, if they cannot resolve the issue through mediation, they still have litigation as the last resort. — W. Dear W.: Thank you for suggesting professional mediation as a way of working through these disagreements without resorting to a lawsuit. People are too quick to sue when simply talking it out and reaching a compromise often creates a solution without additional ill will.

Dear Annie: I had a similar experience to that of “Proud Grandma,” whose childless daughter criticizes the way her siblings raise their kids.

After hearing one too many criticisms, I finally came back with, “I hope, when you have children, they are as good as you think mine ought to be!” My sibling was hurt, but it didn’t happen so often afterward. — L. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column.

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

Sheinwold’s bridge

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Honor changing times, despite a loved one’s resistance. Tonight: Someone wants to kiss and make up.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Defer to a friend, as he or she will be up for calling the shots. You know that no one else can claim your power. Tonight: The only answer is “yes.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You’ll want to move forward with a project, no matter how irrelevant it may seem. Don’t react — just listen. Tonight: You could go way overboard.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You are all personality right now. You also have the ability to make a big difference to a loved one.

Tonight: Your treat.

Cryptoquip

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You might be stopped by a situation that might not be as dramatic as you think it is. Your sense of direction will point you to a new path. Tonight: At home.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH Return calls, and understand that everyone around you is feeling festive. Move on, and greet 2015 with a big smile.

Tonight: Where you are, the party is.

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. © 2015 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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