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What’s in a No. 1 baby name? Heritage with a twist was the year’s most commonly bestowed name for newborn males in the state.

Mia, a variation of the name Maria that seems to track more closely with New Mexico’s cultural roots and religious traditions, was the most common name given to girls born in the state last year, the New Mexico Department of Health’s Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics reported.

The popularity of Liam, which means “resolute protector” according to the website www.babynamewizard.com, has been steadily

Mia, Liam score big among New Mexico infants in 2014

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Family says mom killed by tot was gun lover

By Patrick Malone The New Mexican

Parents in New Mexico reached back into centuries of heritage when they named baby boys in 2014 — but they didn’t draw from the state’s Spanish, Mexican or even Native American roots. The traditional Irish name Liam, the Gaelic short form of William,

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TOP BABY NAMES IN N.M. YEAR

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on the rise nationally and in New Mexico during recent years. Liam was at No. 3 on the list of boys’ names in the state in 2013, when it leaped from 23rd in popularity in 2012 and 39th in 2011, according to the U.S. Social Security Administration.

Liam supplanted Noah, a whale

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Noah Noah Jacob Elijah Jacob Michael Michael Michael David

Sophia Sophia Sophia Isabella Alexis Jessica Jennifer Michelle Mary

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Navajo official says the new gambling compact is “better for all parties.”

Navajos, gov. OK deal with one more casino

By Terrence McCoy

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Doors open to more than 100 shivering, hungry people

Father-in-law livid that shooting is cited in call for more firearm limits

Veronica Rutledge and her husband loved everything about guns.

They practiced at shooting ranges.

They hunted. And both of them, relatives and friends say, had permits to carry concealed firearms. Veronica typically left her Blackfoot, Idaho, home with her gun nestled at her side. So on Christmas morning last week, her husband gave her a present he hoped would make her life more comfortable: a purse with a special pocket for a concealed weapon.

The day after Christmas, she took her new gift with her on a trip with her husband and her 2-year-old son.

They headed hundreds of miles north to the end of a country road where Terry Rutledge, her husband’s father, lived. The father-in-law learned of the new purse.

“It was designed for that purpose — to carry a concealed firearm,” Rutledge said in an interview late Tuesday night. “And you had to unzip a compartment to find the handgun.

On Tuesday morning, that was exactly what Veronica Rutledge’s son did — with the most tragic of outcomes. Veronica, 29, arrived at a nearby Wal-Mart in Hayden with her three nieces and son, her gun “zippered closed” inside her new purse, her father-in-law said. Then, in the back of the store, near the electronics section, the purse was left unattended for a moment.

“An inquisitive 2-year-old boy

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Compact, which still faces opposition, needs Legislature’s approval

By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

he said, more like the shelter’s numbers for late January or early February.

Jordan-Berenis said he rounded up enough volunteers to keep the shelter open during the day Thurs-

The Navajo Nation would be able to build another casino in New Mexico in six years under a proposed compact negotiated with Gov. Susana Martinez’s staff that was approved by the tribe’s legislative branch this week.

The new proposed Navajo compact would allow the tribe fewer casinos than a proposed compact that was voted down last year by the state Senate. That compact, which was opposed by several gaming tribes as well as anti-gambling activists, would have allowed the tribe to build five casinos over the course of 30 years.

The tribe already operates two large casinos — Fire Rock Navajo Casino near Gallup and the Northern Edge Navajo Casino near Farmington — as well as a smaller gambling facility, the Flowing Water Navajo Casino near Shiprock.

The Navajo Nation is one of six tribes that have been negotiating with the governor for new compacts over the past several months. The others are Acoma Pueblo, the Jicarilla Apache Nation and the Mescalero Apache Tribe — all of which already operate casinos under compacts that expire in June. Jemez and Zuni pueblos, which don’t currently have any gambling operations, also are seeking gaming compacts, though neither has immediate plans to build casinos.

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Paloma Garcia of Sinaloa, Mexico, feeds her Chihuahua, Lovito, some roast beef during lunch Wednesday at the Interfaith Community Shelter on Cerrillos Road. Cold temperatures have brought scores of people to the facility, seeking food and warmth. PHOTOS BY LUKE E. MONTAVON/THE NEW MEXICAN

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

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ore than a hundred of the city’s homeless and hungry, including a family of four, sought a warm place to sleep, a hot meal and the company of others Tuesday night at the Interfaith Community Shelter on Cerrillos Road, with temperatures forecast to dip near 10 degrees.

When the doors opened at 6 p.m., people were lined up to get inside, some inadequately dressed for a night when temperatures had already dropped to the teens. One woman pushing a walker wore sneakers with no socks. Some people accepted offers of new thermal socks. Volunteers from St. Bede’s Episcopal Church dished up bowls of steaming posole and ample servings of lasagna, chicken enchiladas and salad to the crowd of hungry people, and all the bunk beds for men and women filled.

Meanwhile, shelter staff scoured the facility for some extra blankets to warm those who were drunk and waiting outside until they

From left, Marcus Taylor of Oklahoma and Cary Alder of Fresno, Calif., wait outside the shelter for lunch to be served Wednesday.

could be admitted at 9 p.m.

Executive Director Joseph Jordan-Berenis said the shelter offered refuge to 113 people Tuesday night, and he anticipates that number will be the same in the coming days, with more low temperatures in the forecast. It’s higher than normal,

GLOW The Santa Fe Botanical Garden on Museum Hill is holding a winter lights event, 5 to 8 p.m., $8, 471-9103.

Obituaries

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Yvonne Theresa Russell, 83, Santa Fe, Dec. 25

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Index

New laws a boon for wine lovers, livestock and tigers who hate selfies

Today Cloudy, snow.

High 33, low 13.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — New state laws taking effect Thursday give livestock in California more living room, approve directto-consumer wine shipments in Massachusetts and levy the ultimate punishment on wannabe teen drivers in Nevada by

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denying them licenses if they skip too much school. Other laws will allow trained school personnel in Tennessee to administer insulin, let Louisiana teens as young as 16 register to vote, crack down on meth dealers in Michigan, end tax breaks for Hollywood in North Carolina and raise the minimum wage in Ohio, New York, Rhode Island and elsewhere.

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Although it doesn’t take effect until early February, a New York law captures this year’s “Who knew?” prize by banning tiger selfies, which have been used by young men as profile photos on social media sites.

A look at some of the new laws taking effect Jan. 1:

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A little more leg room Chickens at an egg farm near Livingston, Calif., will get the right to more space Thursday, thanks to a ballot initiative approved in 2008 that also benefits sows and veal calves. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

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Parties, protests ring in 2015 Tragedy in Shanghai; fireworks elsewhere The Associated Press

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evelers converged on the beaches of Brazil, the skyscrapers of Dubai and New York’s Times Square to say good riddance to a turbulent 2014 marred by terror woes, Ebola outbreaks and a horrific series of airline disasters. But tragedy struck in Shanghai, Baghdad was on edge and protesters in the United States planned a sobering reminder of one of the year’s biggest stories.

Here’s a look around the world: Stampede in Shanghai: Thirty-five people were killed in a stampede during New Year’s celebrations in downtown Shanghai, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

The deaths — the worst disaster to hit one of China’s biggest cities in years — occurred at Shanghai’s popular riverfront Bund area, which can be jammed with spectators for major events. The report early Thursday cites the Shanghai government in saying that another 42 people were injured.

Breaking a record in Dubai: The Gulf Arab emirate of Dubai was aiming to break the world record for the largest LED-illuminated facade with its spectacular display centered on the world’s tallest building.

Some 70,000 LED panels around the 2,722-foot Burj Khalifa flashed colored lights and projected images of the country’s leaders when clocks there struck midnight as a massive fireworks display erupted.

The celebration draws throngs of thousands of spectators every New Year’s Eve. Emaar Properties said a team

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from Guinness World Records monitored the preparations. Last year, Dubai won the title for the world’s largest firework display, according to Guinness.

Trying to celebrate in Baghdad: In Iraq’s war-scarred capital, Baghdad authorities ordered a oneoff lifting of the overnight curfew in force for more than a decade to allow the city’s revelers to stay out late on the streets.

Traffic was unusually heavy starting shortly after sunset and authorities closed commercial streets to vehicles in the city’s center as a precaution against possible suicide bombings by militants of the Islamic State terror group.

Hope in Havana: Across the capital of Havana on Wednesday, people were roasting pigs for their traditional New Year’s Eve family dinners, often using a pit dug in the backyard. While contemplating the new year, they wonder about the nation’s future after a recently announced U.S.-Cuba detente.

“If relations between Cuba and the United States change, it will bring many years of joy,” Javier Ramos said as he roasted the pig for his family feast.

Island getaway: Thousands of partiers arrived on speedboats, yachts and ferries to dance the night away on the tiny Caribbean island of Jost Van Dyke that has long hosted one of the region’s biggest, most uninhibited New Year’s Eve bashes. In the British Virgin Islands, Jost Van Dyke balloons from about 300 full-time residents to roughly 5,000 people each New Year’s Eve as throngs of barefoot, tipsy people groove to reggae bands on white sands and hop from bar to bar. The annual tradition started in the 1960s on the idyllic island — so small it didn’t get electricity until 1992.

At the Copacabana: More than 1 million people are expected to flock to the golden sands of Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach, where two dozen artists and DJs will perform on three stages. Tourists and locals routinely party until dawn on the beach, staying awake to watch the tropical sun rise for the first time in 2015.

A massive fireworks display that’s blasted from boats on the Atlantic Ocean will light the sky over the crowd, which traditionally dresses in all white, a Brazilian tradition to bring purification and a peaceful year.

Tossing the refrigerators: In South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg, New Year’s Eve has historically brought an increase in petty crime and vandalism. In the city’s Hillbrow district there has been a strange, and dangerous, tradition of throwing unwanted items, like furniture and even stoves and refrigerators, out of high-rise apartments.

U.S. protests: Amid the celebration, some U.S. cities are on alert for New Year’s Eve protests related to recent police killings of unarmed black men. Activists in Boston staged a peaceful “die-in” during First Night, Boston’s popular New Year’s Eve celebration. Dozens of people participated in the brief protest in front of the Boston Public Library Wednesday evening while others held signs saying “black lives matter” and “a young black man is two times more likely to be shot dead by police than a white young man.”

Police reported no arrests or disruptions to nearby festivities.

No plans for major protests were announced in New York, where the police department is still mourning two officers shot to death in a patrol car. But security will be tight, with more personnel than usual.

MIAMI — Five men held for a dozen years without charge at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan for resettlement.

The two men from Tunisia and three Yemenis are among dozens of men held at Guantánamo who have been cleared for release but cannot be sent home.

All five were captured in Pakistan and held in Guantánamo as suspected militants with ties to al-Qaida.

A government task force determined they no longer posed a threat.

A Pentagon statement Tuesday said the release of the five brings the Guantánamo prisoner population to 127. Nearly 30 prisoners have been resettled in third countries this year as part of President Barack Obama’s renewed push to close the detention center over opposition from Congress.

Lithuania gets euro as emigration grows VILNIUS, Lithuania — When Antanas Zubavicius turns the light on in his run-down house, it’s the only light for miles. He is the last man in Dumbliuneliai, a once busy farmers’ village in Lithuania that has gradually been abandoned as its residents emigrated in search of better jobs.

“I’m not going anywhere. This is my land,” the 60-year-old says, waving at the abandoned, shuttered houses around him. “When I am gone this village is gone too.”

Lithuania became the 19th country to adopt the euro on Thursday, hoping that membership in the European Union’s official currency will bring a rise in investment and trade. But the Baltic country’s increasing integration with richer European countries has also a pernicious side-effect: a wave of emigration that is emptying towns and causing worker shortages.

Death-row inmates get life, no parole ANNAPOLIS, Md. — In one of his final acts as governor, Democrat Martin O’Malley announced Wednesday that he will commute the sentences of four death-row inmates to life in prison without parole.

Two years ago, the General Assembly abolished the death penalty, leaving five inmates on death row.

The governor said he had met or spoken with many of the relatives of the people killed by the inmates.

Some victim family members and prosecutors were upset with O’Malley’s decision.

O’Malley said that if he didn’t commute the sentences the legal process would “needlessly and callously subject survivors, and the people of Maryland, to the ordeal of an endless appeals process.”

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U.S. stocks post sixth straight year of gains NEW YORK — U.S. stocks ended a strong 2014 with moderate declines Wednesday.

Even with the losses, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index finished the year up 11.4 percent, or 13.7 percent when dividends are included. It was the sixth straight year of gains for the stock market.

Oil, by contrast, had its worst annual performance since 2008, ending down 45 percent for 2014 after a sharp slump in the second half of the year.

The market’s annual gain exceeded even most optimistic forecasts made at the beginning of the year.

“It turned out to be a great year for U.S. economic growth, which got us higher corporate profits as well,” said Cameron Hinds, regional chief investment officer for Wells Fargo Private Bank.

Most strategists believe the stock market will also rise in 2015, but they expect more modest gains of between 4 percent and 6 percent.

There was no major catalyst for Wednesday’s selling. Trading has been slow all week because of the holidays and most fund managers have closed their books for the year.

However, some investors do reshuffle their portfolios in the last few days of the year for tax purposes.

Roughly 2.6 billion shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, compared with the 3.6 billion traded on an average day.

Energy stocks edged lower as the price of oil fell. Benchmark U.S. crude dropped 85 cents to $53.27 a barrel in New York. Oil has plunged by half since June amid abundant supplies and weak global demand.

Oil drillers fell the most Wednesday. Diamond Offshore was the biggest decliner in the S&P 500, declining 3.6 percent. The energy component of the S&P 500 is down 10 percent this year “I think most of the selling you’re seeing today is related to the fall in oil, as well as repositioning before the end of the year,” Hinds said.

U.S. markets will be closed Thursday for New Year’s Day and will reopen on a normal schedule on Friday.

On Wednesday, the Dow Jones industrial average ended 2014 up 7.5 percent, lagging behind the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.

The Nasdaq rose 13.4 percent in 2014.

Prices for U.S. government bonds rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note edged down to 2.17 percent. Bonds were an unexpected strong spot for the market in 2014. The 10-year note started 2014 at around 2.99 percent. Bond yields fall as prices rise.

Gold fell $16.30 to $1,184.10 an ounce.

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VOLUNTEER COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS NEW MEXICO: Tutors sought for local students at all grade levels; math and literacy support needed in particular; training provided; call Cynthia Torcasso at 954-1880 or send an email to ctorcasso@cisnm. org.

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

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE LANDSCAPE TOUR GUIDES: Volunteers sought by Ghost Ranch Education & Retreat Center in Abiquiú for two or three days per month; includes lunch and other amenities; contact karenb@ghostranch.org or call 685-4333, ext. 4120.

MANY MOTHERS: Help new mothers and families, raise funds, plan events, become a board member, and more; requirements and details available online at manymothers. org.

SANTA FE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Join the Teen Volunteer Program and help in the visitor services department and in the museum; must be 15 or older; for more information call 989-8359, ext. 115; applications available online at santafechildrensmuseum.org.

ST. ELIZABETH SHELTER: Help with meal preparation at residential facilities and emergency shelters; other duties also available; contact Rosario, Call 982-6611, ext. 108 or

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

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Police: Rocket kills 26 at Afghan wedding party

Palestinians to press war crimes Israel threatens retaliation, doesn’t recognize jurisdiction of international court

By Josef Federman and Mohammed Daraghmeh The Associated Press

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Turning up the pressure on Israel, the Palestinians announced Wednesday that they are joining the International Criminal Court to pursue war-crimes charges against the Jewish state — a risky, high-stakes move that brought threats of retaliation from Israel and criticism from the U.S. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas acted a day after suffering a defeat in the U.N. Security Council, which voted down a resolution setting a three-year deadline for the establishment of a Palestinian state on lands occupied by Israel.

“We want to complain. There’s aggression against us, against our land. The Security Council disappointed us,” Abbas said.

Turning to the international court at The Hague marks a major policy shift, transforming Abbas’ relations with Israel from tense to openly hostile. The ultimate goal is to pressure Israel into withdrawing from the territories and agreeing to Palestinian statehood.

The strategy carries risks, including the possibility the Palestinians themselves could be accused of war crimes over rocket attacks by the extremist group Hamas on

Israel is not a member of the court and does not recognize its jurisdiction. And the court has no police force and no authority to go into Israel and arrest suspects. But it could issue arrest warrants that would make it difficult for Israeli officials to travel abroad.

Abbas has been under heavy pressure to take stronger action against Israel amid months of rising tensions over the collapse of U.S.-brokered peace talks last spring, a 50-day war between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza over the summer, a recent spate of deadly Palestinian attacks on Israeli Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas targets, and Israeli restrictions on access to speaks during a meeting in January, a key Muslim holy site in Jerusalem.

2014, at his compound in Ramallah.

The Palestinians planned to submit the Abbas said Wednesday that the Palpaperwork for joining the ICC to U.N. Secestinians are joining the International retary-General Ban Ki-moon on WednesCriminal Court. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO day afternoon, but postponed it, probably Israeli population centers and other viountil Friday. Handing over the documents is lence against Jewish targets. the last formal step for Palestine to become Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netana member of the ICC, which would happen yahu vowed to take unspecified “retaliatory in about 60 days. steps.” In Washington, State Department Israel could take a number of retaliatory spokesman Jeff Rathke said the U.S. was actions. “deeply troubled” by the Palestinians’ In a statement, Netanyahu said Israel will “escalatory step.” He said it was “entirely protect its troops from prosecution, calling counterproductive and does nothing to the country’s army “the most moral” in the further the aspirations of the Palestinian world. He warned that Abbas’ Palestinian people for a sovereign and independent Authority is “the one who needs to fear the state.”

International Criminal Court.”

At the international court, the PalestinThe court would be able to prosecute ians could seek to have Israeli military or only crimes committed from here on in, not political figures prosecuted for alleged past offenses, said Robbie Sabel, an internacrimes involving settlement construction tional law expert at the Hebrew University on occupied lands or actions by the military of Jerusalem. Sabel agreed the Palestinians that cause heavy civilian casualties. themselves could be at risk of prosecution.

extraction. And lower costs at the pump means consumers will be less opposed to new PARIS — Low oil prices taxes to offset greenhouse gas could paradoxically help the emissions. Those taxes, someworld reach an international times called carbon taxes, have agreement to fight global warm- faced resistance in the United ing, according to the French States, but many other countries ambassador charged with orga- have adopted some versions nizing a key climate conference of them, using the proceeds to in Paris. invest in renewable resources.

France is spending the next Still, the argument only car11 months trying to cajole ries so far — many environmenmore than 190 countries into talists fear that low oil prices overcoming disagreements will simply let governments about acceptable greenhouse continue their reliance on gas emissions levels and who greenhouse gas-emitting fossil should pay to achieve them to fuels, while high prices could produce a binding accord to force them to look elsewhere limit emissions. for energy.

Laurence Tubiana, France’s Oil prices have plunged by special representative for the half since June. Benchmark U.S. 2015 climate conference in Paris, crude fell $1.48 to $52.64 a barrel says now nations can’t cite high Wednesday on the New York energy prices as a reason to Mercantile Exchange. avoid taking action.

The ultimate goal of U.N. cli“Several years ago, I would mate negotiations is to stabilize have said it [low oil prices] greenhouse gases at a level that complicates things,” she told keeps global warming below The Associated Press in an 3.6 F, compared with pre-indusinterview this week. “[But] trial times. lower energy prices give more For Tubiana, the key to reachmaneuvering room for investing that goal is a legally binding ment and could ultimately allow agreement, one incorporated the introduction of a carbon tax into law or national policy in or something that works like one.”

In fact, she said, forwardlooking governments will be able to use the money saved on oil and gas to develop renewable technologies, rather than increasing their fossil fuel

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A rocket fired amid fighting between Taliban insurgents and Afghan soldiers killed at least 26 people at a nearby wedding party Thursday, authorities said, a grim end to a year that saw the end of the 13-year U.S.-led combat mission there.

The rocket struck a house in southern Helman province’s Sangin District, where Afghan security forces have been battling insurgents in the six months since U.S. forces withdrew from the area.

Police spokesman Fareed Ahmad Obaid said the rocket wounded at least 45 people.

Bashir Ahmad Shakir, a provincial council member, said the death toll could be up to 30 killed with as many as 60 wounded.

Abdul Haleem, a cousin of the bride who was hosting her wedding, said that nine of his children were missing after the rocket struck his house as guests waited outside for the bride to arrive.

“Nine children of mine are missing; I just collected body parts,” he said. “I don’t know whether it’s my children or someone else.”

Wednesday marked the final day of the U.S. and NATO’s combat mission, which began with the invasion that overthrew the Taliban after the

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But, Tubiana said, one set of rules must apply to everyone.

And ultimately, low oil prices or not, fossil fuels have to be phased out.

“We have to change the trajectory of development for all countries,” she said.

Crucially — and potentially most difficult — she said the accord must be legally binding.

Still, Tubiana was encouraged by some progress in Lima.

“Every country has agreed to make a contribution.”

every country in the world.

Negotiations culminating in the Nov. 30-Dec. 11 meeting in Paris will rise or fall on two key points: How to divide responsibility for global warming and how to pay to fight it.

The developed world used fossil fuels to build roads, cities and houses and emerging economies want to have the same chances to grow as quickly as possible. Island nations like Tuvalu and low-lying countries, meanwhile, fear rising sea levels will swamp them and need

Sept. 11 attacks. Al-Qaida then enjoyed safe haven in Afghanistan, where the Taliban ruled according to its own violent interpretation of Islamic law.

Afghanistan’s own 350,000-member-strong forces officially take responsibility for security starting Thursday.

The insurgency has been testing the resolve of the army and police, who officials say are holding their ground even as the number of attacks increases and casualties soar.

This year was the deadliest of the war, with around 5,000 Afghan soldiers and police killed, officials have said. An estimated 10,000 civilians have been killed or wounded.

In much of the south and east, government forces are facing off against the Taliban without the assistance of coalition air support or medical evacuations.

President Ashraf Ghani, who took office in September, has said he wants to bring peace to his country after more than 30 years of continuous war. He has bolstered ties with China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as part of an effort to isolate the Taliban and bring them to the negotiating table.

First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum said Wednesday that he had reached an agreement with some 300 Taliban fighters in the northern Jawzjan province to lay down their arms.

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Air industry in Asia has seen rapid growth and lax oversight; weather delays ocean search

Advocates: Proposal to not gather data on divorces, marriages would hurt studies

By Thomas Fuller and Keith Bradsher

The New York Times

JAKARTA, Indonesia — When a team of U.N. auditors visited Jakarta in May to rate the country’s aviation safety, they came to a troubling conclusion: Indonesia was well below the global average in every category, and scored just 61 percent in airworthiness.

The audit reinforced the fact that Indonesia, which scored far worse than impoverished neighbors such as Laos and Myanmar, has a chronic problem with aviation safety.

Although in recent years there were glimmers of hope that aviation safety might be improving, the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501 into the Java Sea on Sunday has renewed concerns that Indonesia cannot keep up with the ever-growing popularity of air travel as incomes rise and low-cost carriers multiply.

What role, if any, the failings of Indonesia’s aviation system may have played in the crash of Flight 8501 may not be known for weeks.

But in a country of 17,000 islands, where cheap flights are replacing the ferry journeys that Indonesians use to take across the archipelago, the chances of dying on an Indonesian plane, while rare, are unacceptably high, experts say.

Arnold Barnett, a statistician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in airline safety, said that the death rate in airplane crashes over the past decade in Indonesia was one per million passengers who boarded. That rate is 25 times higher than that in the United States.

“To assert that the disparity is only a coincidence or manifestation of bad luck would be preposterous,” Barnett said.

Investigators looking into Flight 8501, which went down with 162 people onboard, will zero in on the minutes between 6:12 a.m. Sunday, when the pilot asked for permission to change course to avoid stormy weather and 6:14 a.m., when the tower lost contact with the Airbus A320.

Indonesian women hold candles to pray Thursday for the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 in Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia. TATAN SYUFLANA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Indonesian soldiers carry a coffin containing a victim of AirAsia Flight 8501 on Wednesday upon arrival at Indonesian Military Air Force base in Surabaya, Indonesia.

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By Wednesday night, with recovery teams fighting turbulent weather and rocky seas, only seven bodies had been recovered, four men and three women. Contrary to some news reports, there were no confirmed sightings of the plane’s fuselage, much less the flight data recorder.

What is known so far about the ill-fated flight offers only vague clues to why it plunged into the sea. Flying in stormy conditions around 40 minutes after takeoff from Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, on a quick hop to Singapore, the pilot requested permission to change course.

Ground controllers granted the request to veer left but denied the request to ascend to a higher altitude, which was

reserved for another AirAsia aircraft. Then nothing. The aircraft sent no distress signal. The fact that bodies were discovered intact in the sea has led to speculation that the aircraft may have hit the water in one piece.

The uncertainty over what happened to their loved ones is tearing apart family members waiting for news in a room in the Surabaya airport.

When the first bodies appeared off the coast of Kalimantan on Tuesday afternoon, 2½ days after the plane disappeared, family members wailed in grief. Lince Gonimasala, 39, fainted into the arms of Surabaya’s mayor.

Her 13-year-old son, Adrian Fernando, had been on the plane, as well as her brother and sister-in-law, and their 4-year-

old son. “I’m still hoping,” Gonimasala said Wednesday.

Adrian’s grandfather, John Gonimasala, 70, a retired general goods trader from the Moluccan islands, held open his palms. “Disasters are God’s will,” he said. “I know they’re gone.”

Like most of the passengers, the Gonimasalas were members of Indonesia’s emerging middle class, en route to Singapore for post-Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.

Many were among the first generation in their family who could afford such a luxury, avatars of a demographic shift that has produced an airline boom in Indonesia.

With a population of 250 million people, Indonesia is one of the world’s fastest-growing markets for commercial jets, with more than 600 planes on order.

Yet Indonesia has long ranked at or near the top of every list of developing countries with an aviation safety problem. It has a reputation for weak airline safety practices, a shortage of experienced pilots, lots of mountains that get in the way of low-flying planes, and rapidly rising air travel as the economy booms.

It is one of nine countries currently listed as failing a safety assessment by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. (The other countries are Bangladesh, Barbados, Curaçao, Ghana, India, Nicaragua, Saint Maarten and Uruguay.)

Freed Cuban spy has yet to surface in U.S. Man who daily spoke to family from prison hasn’t called them

By Frances Robles The New York Times

MIAMI — Two weeks after the release of an imprisoned spy whom President Barack Obama called “one of the most important intelligence agents the United States has ever had in Cuba,” the man’s family is still asking: Where is he?

Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, 51, is a former Cuban intelligence officer who was serving a 25-year prison sentence for espionage. Few people in or out of Cuba had heard of him until Dec. 17, when Obama announced that a man “whose sacrifice has been known to only a few” was safe on American shores after 19 years behind bars in Cuba. In exchange for Sarraff, the United States freed three Cuban agents jailed here since 1998, as the two countries moved toward normalizing diplomatic relations. The

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ing, which marriages persist or whether children are involved.

And because the government If the Census Bureau prodevotes so few resources to ceeds with a recently released collecting these data, several plan, then in a few years’ time, states don’t even bother countwe will know very little about ing how many divorces they how the contours of family life grant. As a result, estimates are changing. of the U.S. divorce rate do not We will not even know include data on a large share of whether marriage and divorce the country; they are missing rates are rising or falling. For all of the divorces in California, all the talk of evidence-based Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louipolicy, the result will be that siana and Minnesota. debates on issues including The rationale the health statfamily law, welfare reform, isticians offered for no longer same-sex marriage and the rise collecting the more detailed of nontraditional families will data was that much of this proceed in a statistical void. information could be gleaned Much of what economists from a special survey taken who study family issues have every five years as a supplelearned about recent trends in ment to the Current Populamarriage and divorce has come tion Survey. But a different set from questions in the Ameriof government statisticians can Community Survey. It killed that supplement in the asks people whether they have late 1990s. given birth, married, divorced All was not lost, as demogor been widowed in the past raphers could still rely on year. Their answers allow surveys asking people about demographers to track martheir marital histories as part riage and divorce rates by age, of a separate poll, the Survey of gender, race and education.

Income and Program ParticiThese data have revealed pation. These are useful data many important social trends, as far as they go — and indeed, including the rise of sharply The New York Times relied different marriage and divorce heavily on them in a recent patterns between rich and analysis of national divorce poor, and the increase in trends. However, these marital divorce among older Amerihistories are taken every five cans, even as it has fallen for younger people. And they have years, they’re only as reliable as people’s memories and the provided the only statistical results are released only years window into the adoption of later — the most recent year same-sex marriage. we have data for is 2008.

The Census Bureau is proMoreover, the sample size posing to eliminate these quesis so small that it is impossible tions. It would follow steps taken over recent decades that to track trends by state. For instance, the latest iteration have collectively devastated includes only 23 New Yorkers the ability to track family who got divorced in the most change. This isn’t being done as a strategic policy choice but recent three years. This is parrather is the result of a series of ticularly problematic because isolated decisions made across most family policies are impleseveral decades by statisticians mented at the state level, and so the survey can’t be used to scattered across various govtrack, say, the implications of ernment agencies who have failed to understand the cumu- New York having adopted nofault divorce laws in 2010. lative effect of their actions.

The Bush administration In principle, tracking mardecided to end that remaining riage and divorce shouldn’t family survey. Even though be too hard. Every wedding, it later reversed itself in the like every divorce, requires a face of widespread criticism, trip to City Hall or the county courthouse to file the relevant it did so with a much-reduced budget, which has necessitated paperwork. The resulting paper trail should be enough to a host of changes in how the allow analysts to map the con- survey is conducted. It remains unclear just how comparable tours of our changing family these new data will be with life over time. earlier survey rounds.

Indeed, until the mid-1990s, It is this emerging statistithe federal government colcal void that makes the debate lated data from all those marabout whether the Census riage and divorce certificates into a coherent set of marriage Bureau should continue to collect marriage and divorce and divorce statistics that detailed the changing nature of information so critical. It’s also an issue ripe for confusion, marriage. because dozens of government But in 1996, the National surveys ask people about their Center for Health Statistics current marital status. But stopped collecting these data. current marital status is not If you subsequently got married or divorced, the forms you the relevant statistic for most policy debates. filled out still exist, but only It is far more relevant to as unexamined documents in track the flow of new mara filing cabinet at your county riages and divorces each year, courthouse.

Today, states report only the and this is the unique contributotal number of marriages and tion of the questions that are to be cut from the American divorces each year — providing no detail on who is marry- Community Survey.

By Justin Wolfers

The New York Times

Cuban government also freed a U.S. subcontractor held for five years for bringing communications equipment into the country.

But Sarraff has yet to surface in public or to contact his parents, whom he had been calling daily from prison.

Sarraff’s sister, Vilma, said her family grew alarmed on Dec. 16 when her brother failed to make his daily phone call from prison to his parents. They then learned he had been released from Cuba’s Villa Marista prison, but since then, no U.S. or Cuban official has notified the family of his whereabouts, she said. “We still don’t know where he is,” Vilma Sarraff said.

A senior U.S. official said it was unclear why the former secret agent has not contacted his parents in Havana or his sisters in Spain because he has been free to make phone calls.

“He’s not being held captive,” the official said.

Although the president did not name Sarraff, a first lieutenant who was jailed in 1995, several current and former U.S. officials confirmed his identity.

In a statement, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said only that the CIA asset freed in the prisoner exchange provided information that helped the government identify and convict several American and Cuban spies inside the United States.

In previous cases, the United States has held foreign spies received in prisoner exchanges at military bases, where they were extensively debriefed before the authorities began the process of moving them back into society.

“My debriefing took two years,” said Enrique García Díaz, a former Cuban intelligence official who defected from Cuba in 1989.

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“Sarraff’s debriefing should not take so long because he has been in prison so long that he probably does not have current information,” García said.

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Gun: New bag made for firearm Continued from Page A-1 reached into the purse, unzipped the compartment, found the gun and shot his mother in the head,” Rutledge said. “It’s a terrible, terrible incident.”

The aftermath has been crushing, he said. His son went to the Wal-Mart to collect his nieces and son, and no one now is sure what to say to the boy, who is not doing well.

“My son is terrible,” Rutledge said. “He has a 2-yearold boy right now who doesn’t know where his mom is and he’ll have to explain why his mom isn’t coming home. And then, later on in his life, as he questions it more, he’ll again have to explain what happened, so we’ll have to relive this several times over.”

Rutledge isn’t just sad — he’s angry. Not at his grandson. Nor at his dead daughter-in-law, “who didn’t have a malicious fiber in her body,” he said. He’s angry at the observers already using the accident as an excuse to grandstand on gun rights.

“They are painting Veronica as irresponsible, and that is not the case,” he said. “… I brought my son up around guns, and he has extensive experience shooting it. And Veronica had had handgun classes; they’re both licensed to carry, and this wasn’t just some purse she had thrown her gun into.”

The path Veronica Rutledge charted before her death, friends and family say, was one of academics and small-town, country living.

“Hunting, being outdoors and being with her son” was what made her happiest, her friend Rhonda Ellis said. She was raised in northeast Idaho and always excelled at school, former high school classmate Kathleen Phelps said, recalling her as “extremely smart… . valedictorian of our class, very motivated and the smartest person I know… . Getting good grades was always very important to her.”

She went on to graduate in 2010 from the University of Idaho with a chemistry degree, according to a commencement program. From there, she got a job at Battelle’s Idaho National Laboratory and published several articles, one of which analyzed a method to absorb toxic waste discharged by burning nuclear fuel.

While away from the lab, she and her husband, whom she married in 2009, spent time shooting guns. “She was just as comfortable at a camp ground or a gun range as she was in a classroom,” close friend Sheri Sandow said in an interview. On Facebook, she showed an interest in the outdoors and the National Rifle Association, and followed Guns.com, a publication that reports on gun life.

“They carried one every day of their lives, and they shot extensively,” Rutledge said. “They loved it. Odd as it may sound, we are gun people.”

A lot of people in Idaho are. Earlier this year, the state legislature passed a bill that allows people to carry concealed guns onto state university campuses. And more than 85,000 people — 7 percent of the population — are licensed to carry concealed weapons, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center.

So many locals didn’t discern anything odd with a 29-year-old woman carrying a loaded gun into a Wal-Mart during the holiday season.

Stu Miller, a spokesman for the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, told the New York Times that it didn’t strike him as anything out of the ordinary. “It’s pretty common around here,” he said. “A lot of people carry loaded guns.”

Sandow told The Post she often sees people with a gun cradled at their side. “In Idaho, we don’t have to worry about a lot of crime and things like that,” she said. “And to see someone with a gun isn’t bizarre. [Veronica] wasn’t carrying a gun because she felt unsafe. She was carrying a gun because she was raised around guns. This was just a horrible accident.”

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Baby: Some parents are going gaga over rare names Continued from Page A-1 of a popular biblical name that had been the most popular for boys in the state for two years running before finishing second to Liam in 2014. Noah was also the most popular name for boys nationally in 2013, followed by Liam. Jacob wore the crown as the nation’s most popular boy’s name for 14 years before Noah unseated him.

Before that, Michael was the most common name given to baby boys every year between 1961 and 1998.

Mia has been patiently waiting her turn. It’s been a mainstay in New Mexico’s top 10 girls’ names for the past decade, and was among the five most popular names in the state for girls seven times during that span.

Also among the top 10 girls’ names in New Mexico in 2014 were Sophia and its homonym Sofia, Emma and Emily, Isabella, Olivia, Ariana, Ava and Abigail. Joining Liam and Noah in the list of top 10 boys’ names in the state last year were Elijah, Jacob, Aiden and Jayden, Daniel, Josiah, Ethan and Michael.

Nationally, Sophia, Isabella, Emma, Emily, Jessica and Ashley have had turns occupying the top spot for girls’ names throughout the past 25 years.

For the most part, name popularity in New Mexico tracked with national trends. The top 10 boy names nationally in 2013 included seven from New Mexico’s 2014 list, and eight of the most prevalent girls’ names in the state in 2014 were on the top 10 list nationally the year before.

But popular names aren’t popular

with everyone.

Christopher Vincent of Santa Fe named his son Caellum (pronounced “kay-LUM”) to assure the boy’s name didn’t appear on lists like the one the state put out this week. Along with Caellum’s mom, Vincent consulted several books about choosing baby names to find something unusual.

“It was not a common name,” Vincent said. “We wanted a very rare name. We didn’t want him to have a typical name. We wanted to name him something that people would look at and say, ‘Hey, that’s a really cool name because it’s so different.’ ” When Caellum is old enough to attend school, Vincent doubts his son will have any classmates by the same name.

“When I was in school and the teacher called out ‘Chris,’ it seemed like everybody jumped up because so many of us shared that name,” Vincent said.

One day this week in the Santa Fe Place mall, a woman named DeeDee from Santa Fe, who preferred not to share her last name, wheeled a newborn along in a stroller while his toddler sister bounced along beside them.

DeeDee, who’s twice named babies in the last couple of years, explained the process she and her husband used to name their kids.

“My husband makes his list of names, and I make my list,” she said.

“We decide between them.”

Harrison is 1 month old; Fiona is 2 years old; and DeeDee is 2-for-2 in the name choosing department. Her favorites won out over her husband’s when

TOP 10 BABY NAMES IN NEW MEXICO, 2014 Boys: 1. Liam 2. Noah 3. Elijah 4. Jacob 5. Aiden 6. Daniel 7. Jayden 8. Josiah 9. Ethan 10. Michael

Girls: 1. Mia 2. Sophia 3. Emma 4. Isabella 5. Olivia 6. Emily 7. Sofia 8. Ariana 9. Ava 10. Abigail

SOURCE: NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF VITAL RECORDS AND HEALTH STATISTICS

they named their children.

“I wanted something kind of classic and strong,” DeeDee said.

Baby Harrison’s name tracks with a growing trend in recent year to give boys or girls first names that historically have been surnames. That practice is discussed on a number of websites devoted to choosing a baby’s name. Think Jackson, Hudson, Carter, Harper, Cooper etc.

“I did have quite a few last names on my list before we chose Harrison,” DeeDee said. Harrison almost was Paxton, and came close to walking through life as Sheldon.

Other names were eliminated along the way, or made their way into consideration because of people who had those names that DeeDee or her husband had known.

“You have certain associations with a given name, and that can add to a

name’s appeal or take away from it,” DeeDee said.

What association could be stronger than family?

Ivon Moncada of Santa Fe didn’t have to look outside her own household for the inspiration to name her 1-year-old son, Daniel.

“It’s after his dad,” she said. “I know it’s used a lot, and we know a few [Daniels]. But I like it.”

In choosing a baby name, parents liking it is all that ultimately matters — with a few exceptions.

“There are no specific New Mexico laws that restrict naming a baby, however there are federal naming conventions that all states have to comply with when accepting birth certificates,” said Kenny Vigil, spokesman for the New Mexico Health Department.

For instance, fans of the Star Wars movies, no matter how avid, cannot name their children R2-D2 or C-3PO after the robots that attained fame in the films. However, if spelled in letters, Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio have the feds’ blessings. Federal law prohibits numbers from being used in names, including, for example, John Doe 2nd.

But Roman numerals in names such as John Doe II are allowed.

Federal law also bans symbols such as %,$,*, and @ as parts of names.

So it will take an act of Congress before social media fanatics can apply hashtags, such as #JohnDoe, to their babies’ names.

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Shelter: Facility has been tearing through supplies Continued from Page A-1 day, so patrons could have a break from the wintry weather. The shelter also will be open for its normal night hours Thursday starting at 6 p.m.

The facility has been tearing through food, clothing and money this season.

In-kind donations such as spare clothing, toiletries and extra food are always appreciated, but financial donations make the biggest impact, he said.

Chris Luckett, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service said Wednesday that Santa Feans probably won’t get a reprieve from the bitter cold until the weekend, but the temperatures are not so unusual for this time of year.

After all, he said, “We’re right in the heart of winter.”

The agency forecast a 70 percent chance for snow Thursday with highs in the upper-20s, thanks to an east-

A winter storm watch was issued From Wednesday until 5 tonight. moving storm that was in Arizona on Tuesday. By nightfall, those temperatures will drop into the upper single digits, and the chance for snow will decrease to 20 percent. The agency issued a winter storm watch from midnight Wednesday to 5 p.m. Thursday.

Luckett said these conditions could make for icy roads, and motorists should exercise caution while traveling Thursday. The latest road conditions are available at nmroads.com.

Melissa Dosher, a spokeswoman with the New Mexico Department of Trans-

portation, said crews will be working if necessary.

“There’s not going to be a lack of people because of the holiday,” she said.

Dosher also said that as of Tuesday, road conditions around the state were improving, but overall driving was still dangerous in many areas. And she added that if the forecast holds true, she expects the conditions to worsen in the coming days.

Despite the cold weather, local law enforcement officials said they hadn’t responded to any exposure-related deaths in the past week.

Andrew Phelps, the city’s emergency manager, said the wintry weather hadn’t caused any major problems for the city, but he said he or city police might issue a travel advisory Thursday via the text-based alert system, Nixle, if road conditions in town are treacher-

ous. He added that snowplow crews would be on call, though it might take them some time to clear all the city’s streets.

With colder temperatures comes an increased demand for natural gas, but New Mexico Gas Co. spokeswoman Teala Kail said the utility company purchased “plenty” to avoid an outage similar to the one during a cold snap in February 2010, which left thousands of New Mexico residents without natural gas to heat their homes. Kail also said the recent storm brought the highest heating demand this season.

In Southern New Mexico, the National Weather Service forecast up to 6 inches of snowfall in the mountains near Cloudcroft and Silver City.

The agency also issued a winter storm warning for the western portion of the state.

Laws: Minimum wages rise today in several states Continued from Page A-1 Alcohol: Wine connoisseurs will be popping the cork over a new law taking effect Thursday that allows out-ofstate wineries to ship bottles directly to consumers in Massachusetts. The drive for direct wine shipments had been stalled for years before getting a big boost from former New England Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe.

Now a winemaker in Washington state, Bledsoe complained to lawmakers he could not send his products to Massachusetts residents, including fans and former teammates like current Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

Animals: In California, a ballot initiative approved by voters in 2008 takes effect restricting the confinement of egg-laying hens, breeding sows and veal calves. The Humane Society of the United States says the law goes further than any in the country when coupled with a law signed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that extends the space requirements for egg-laying hens to out-of-state suppliers.

In Utah, cities and towns can no longer ban specific dog breeds within their limits. At least 10 cities now have restrictions that ban ownership of breeds such as pit bulls.

Crime: In California, a “yes means yes” standard for sex between college students takes effect, requiring “an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity,” meaning silence or a lack of resistance can no longer be deemed consent.

In Michigan, rape evidence may be better organized and tracked under laws designed to help ensure kits aren’t caught in the sort of backlog found when more than 11,000 untested boxes were discovered in a Detroit Police storage facility in 2009.

In Louisiana, law enforcement agencies must provide a tally of the number of untested rape kits on their shelves

by Thursday, part of a law that took effect in August.

In Tennessee, ex-felons who have turned their lives around can now receive a certificate of employability, which gives businesses who hire such

individuals protection from negligent hiring lawsuits.

Drug abuse: In Michigan, buying cough and cold medicines for the purpose of making methamphetamine will be illegal under another series of measures intended to crack down on meth makers. The laws also prohibit asking someone to buy the ingredients and require state police to add meth offenders to a national database.

Elections: In Louisiana, 16- and 17-year-olds will be able to register to vote when obtaining a driver’s license, though they still won’t be able to vote until they turn 18.

In North Carolina, individuals filing as a candidate in a party primary must have had an affiliation with that party for at least 90 days before filing a candidacy notice.

A Delaware law establishes new rules for allocating campaign contributions among joint account holders, such as when spouses submit a political contribution using a single check.

Environment: In North Carolina, home sellers will have to disclose whether they know if underground oil and gas rights have been sold.

In New York State, consumers must begin recycling old computers, televisions and video game consoles instead of throwing them in the trash.

In the face of a three-year drought, new California laws require water districts and other local entities to develop plans to manage their groundwater and allow the state to intervene if necessary.

Health: Tennessee joins more than 20 states adding insulin to medications that school staff may volunteer to be trained to administer. Proponents said it will help in an era of dwindling school nurses, while opponents say only someone with a medical background should give insulin in case something unexpected happens.

In Louisiana, smoking will be banned within 25 feet of public entrances to state office buildings, as a way to lessen exposure to secondhand smoke.

Hunting: In North Carolina, the state Wildlife Resources Commission

faces new restrictions on how high it can raise fees on hunting, fishing and trapping licenses. Starting with the new year, the fees can’t be raised beyond a widely used measure of inflation averaged over the previous five years.

Motor vehicles: In California, driver’s licenses will be available for people in the country illegally.

In Nevada, students who are declared habitually truant could be delayed from obtaining a driver’s license, or could have their license suspended.

In Florida, all children aged 4 and 5 will be required to sit in a child safety seat or booster seat instead of using just a car seat belt.

In Indiana, license plates will be required on motor scooters for the first time following complaints about unsafe driving by those who’ve lost their licenses because of drunken driving arrests or other offenses.

In Michigan, lawmakers closed a loophole so motorcyclists can no longer buy a temporary permit every riding season without taking a safety or skills test needed for a full endorsement.

Massachusetts will finally allow “hold open” clips on pumps at selfservice gasoline stations, ending motorists’ complaints — particularly in winter — about being in one of the few states where the clips weren’t allowed.

In Utah, police will be required to impound the vehicles of uninsured drivers instead of just having the option to do so.

Social media: In New York in February, it becomes illegal to pose for a photo with a lion, tiger or other big cat.

The measure, which specifically prohibits contact between members of the public and big cats at animal shows, passed after self-portraits with the animals started becoming more popular online, particularly with some young men on dating sites.

Taxes: In North Carolina, Republican lawmakers who approved an income tax cut also took away breaks to Hollywood and cab drivers. Expiring is a 25 percent tax credit for TV and

film productions that in 2013 allowed producers to forego paying $61 million in state taxes. It’s being replaced in 2015 by a grant program for video productions capped at $10 million.

In Virginia, drivers can expect to see a 5 cents-per-gallon increase in the cost of gas, while Maryland’s gas tax is set to rise about 3.5 cents.

In Mississippi, totally disabled veterans and their surviving spouses who have not remarried would not have to pay property taxes on their primary residence.

Veterans: In Nebraska, vets and the spouses of fully disabled veterans will receive a hiring preference when applying for jobs in state or local government.

Wages: The minimum wage goes up Thursday in several states, including Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. A wage increase in New York takes effect Wednesday. In addition, troopers in Oklahoma get their first pay raise in seven years.

Weapons: In Pennsylvania on Jan. 5, a law takes effect that’s designed to give the National Rifle Association, or any gun owner, a better chance at successfully challenging local firearms ordinances in court. In general, Pennsylvania bars its municipalities from enforcing firearms ordinances that are stronger than state law. But the NRA has complained that dozens of local ordinances go unchallenged in Pennsylvania courts by residents who can prove it harmed them.

In California, law enforcement agencies are required to develop policies that encourage officers to search the state’s database of gun purchases as part of routine welfare checks. The bill was prompted by sheriff’s deputies’ failure to detect the danger posed by a man who weeks later embarked on a deadly rampage in May near the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Welfare: In Tennessee, as part of welfare eligibility, a parent or guardian with a child struggling in a school must attend two or more conferences with the teacher within a year to review the child’s status.

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Horoscope ACROSS 1 Kindly 7 Absorbed, with “up” 13 State south of Veracruz 14 Upwards of 170 beats per minute 15 Thanksgiving phrase 17 Mario Vargas Llosa’s home 18 Pluses 19 Somerhalder of “The Vampire Diaries” 21 Newcastle and others 22 Absorbed 23 Sister of the grand duchess Anastasia 24 Capacity 25 [Wrong] 27 ___ shooting 28 What this sign warns of:

29 Parts of a Nativity scene 30 Having roared too much, say

31 Highest-paid TV star of 2014, by far 33 Half of some partnerships 36 “When You’re Good to ___” (“Chicago” tune) 37 Bit of honey, perhaps: Abbr.

40 Classic diva performances?

41 Minor inventions 42 Second-largest moon of Saturn 43 Relative of -kin 44 Unkindly 45 Goes off 46 Pigtails and ponytails 47 Monster in the “Odyssey” 50 On the money 51 Thanksgiving phrase 54 Eastern terminus of the Erie Canal 55 Actual first name of Tom Seaver and Orson Welles 56 Holds on 57 Idlers

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015: This year you add wisdom and wit to your communication style. Your focus will be less on long-term goals and more on your daily life.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You’ll wake up feeling thankful. Those in your inner circle might express their feelings, though one person could be closing down. Tonight: Follow your imagination.

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DOWN Big citrus fruits Honors Pretext “That hits the spot” Put one over on Disburden Bit of perfume Sermonize What bench presses enhance Symbol for Freud’s field Merchandiser that’s never closed Doctors’ orders Thanksgiving phrase

17 Take a coat off 20 Statistician Silver 23 Word that can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb or interjection 25 Directed 26 Big name in boots 27 Word before bread or water 29 Tousle 30 Operates perfectly 31 Coffee sack material 32 Skewer 33 Went like lightning 34 It meets the Shenandoah at Harper’s Ferry

35 Beat in the market 37 Over and done with 38 Clothing items with fringes 39 Over and done with 41 Visits by Voyager 1, e.g.

42 Counter with a sharp edge 44 One use for marzipan 47 Certain JPEG 48 Hangs back 49 Writer about Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals 52 Hitter’s stat 53 Corp. manager

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FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. A.T.O.T.C.: Charles Dickens Answer________ 2. T.L.O.T.R.: J.R.R. Tolkien Answer________ 3. T.C.I.T.R.: J.D. Salinger Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 4. A.T.T.W.N.: Agatha Christie Answer________ 5. T.W.I.T.W.: Kenneth Grahame Answer________ 6. T.A.O.H.F.: Mark Twain Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. T.T.O.P.R.: Beatrix Potter Answer________ 8. T.B.O.M.C.: Robert James Waller Answer________ 9. T.L.G.P.E.: Hal Lindsey, Carole C. Carlson Answer________ ANSWERS: 1. A Tale of Two Cities. 2. The Lord of the Rings. 3.

The Catcher in the Rye. 4. And Then There Were None. 5. The Wind in the Willows. 6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 7. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. 8. The Bridges of Madison County. 9. The Late, Great Planet Earth.

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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 Thursday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2015. There are 364 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Jan. 1, 1975, a jury in Washington found Nixon administration officials John N. Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Robert C. Mardian guilty of charges related to the Watergate coverup; a fifth defendant, Kenneth Parkinson, was acquitted, and Mardian’s conviction for conspiracy was later overturned on appeal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Now that the pace is slowing down, you might want to consider everything that has happened over the past few weeks.

Tonight: Reach out to a special person.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You could be in a situation where you feel overwhelmed by everything that is happening around you. Tonight: Ask questions.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You could be stressed out about what is going on around you. You tend to get so into the holidays that you have difficulty saying goodbye to that time of year. Tonight: Allow yourself the freedom of doing nothing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH You might have more fun today than you have had during most of the holiday season. You will want to have a long-overdue discussion. Tonight: In the here and now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You suddenly might start thinking about everything you still haven’t done, which could add to the pressure of the moment.

Tonight: Pace yourself.

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

A good start to the new year Dear Readers: Welcome to 2015! My, how time flies.

Our New Year’s wish for you, our readers, is for this year to be one of health and happiness.

Do your best to make this year better than the last.

Be kinder, more patient and more tolerant.

Help someone in need.

Vow to look after your health, work out more, eat less junk, meditate, get a massage, give up smoking.

Smile more. Put more effort a into your relationships, and tell the people you love how much they mean to you.

Dear Annie: A couple of years back, a reader asked you to reprint some pieces you had previously printed on New Year’s Day. She said she used one of them as the basis for her New Year’s resolutions. I remember liking both.

Would you reprint them every year. — Hoping for Inspiration in Texas Dear Texas: We’d be happy to. These two pieces have proved to be extremely popular, and we hope you enjoy seeing them in print once again: Just for Today author unknown Just for today I will live through the next 12 hours and not tackle my whole life’s problems at once.

Just for today I will improve my mind. I will learn something useful. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.

Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look my best, speak in a well- modulated voice, be courteous and considerate.

Just for today I will not find fault

with friend, relative or colleague. I will not try to change or improve anyone but myself.

Just for today I will have a program. I might not follow it exactly, but I will have it. I will save myself from two enemies — hurry and indecision.

Just for today I will exercise my character in three ways. I will do a good turn and keep it a secret. If anyone finds out, it won’t count.

Just for today I will do two things I don’t want to do, just for exercise.Just for today I will be unafraid. Especially will I be unafraid to enjoy what is beautiful and believe that as I give to the world, the world will give to me.

Dear Readers: Here’s one more: Golden Rules for Living

by Miriam Hamilton Keare u If you open it, close it. u If you turn it on, turn it off. u If you unlock it, lock it up. u If you break it, admit it. u If you can’t fix it, call in someone who can. u If you borrow it, return it. u If you value it, take care of it. u If you make a mess, clean it up. u If you move it, put it back. u If it belongs to someone else, get permission to use it. u If you don’t know how to operate it, leave it alone. u If it’s none of your business, don’t ask questions.

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 You may want to open up to a change. A loved one could be extremely touchy and willful. Tonight: Make a call to a friend at a distance.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You’ll deal with a situation differently from how you have in the past. You are able to communicate your bottom line much more easily now. Tonight: Be a duo.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You might find that several people around you are pushing for more time with you, as you seem to have been somewhat of a recluse lately. Tonight: Consider your options.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You have so much to do that you can’t seem to squeeze in enough time to suit your group of friends.

Tonight: Get some exercise.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You might want to kick back and do some hard thinking about your choices, yet someone seeking a good time could walk in through your front door. Tonight: And the party continues.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You might feel a sense of obligation to make certain decisions and take some time putting order back into your life. Tonight: Invite friends over.

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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Hotel hopes guests adopt a dog ‘Guests love’ service offered at N.C. facility

By Sue Manning The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — At this hotel, guests get welcomed with a wagging tail or a warm lick to the face.

A dog will bound out from behind the registration desk, clad in an “adopt me” vest, as visitors arrive at the Aloft hotel in downtown Asheville, N.C., believed to be the only hotel in the U.S. where guests can adopt the dog that greets them when they check in.

But the hotel doesn’t overwhelm road-weary travelers to this mountain tourist mecca, where people come to tour the nation’s largest home, the Biltmore estate; cast a fly-fishing rod; or hoist a beer in what has been dubbed “Beer City USA.” There’s only one adoptable dog at a time, and it’s always on a leash.

The pooches at the Aloft Asheville Downtown hotel are part of an adoption program run by the hotel and Charlie’s Angels Animal Rescue. The rescue saves the pets from possible euthanasia at area shelters.

“We feel like we are saving lives,” said Christine Kavanagh, Aloft’s director of sales.

Hotel and rescue workers hope the program not only becomes permanent but spreads to some of the chain’s other locations, too.

The Asheville hotel, which also allows guests’ pets to stay

Will Trantham kneels by Jackson, left, a Shih Tzu, along with Darcy and Sophie on Nov. 23. Trantham and his wife, Jan, adopted Jackson when they checked into Aloft Hotel in downtown Asheville, N.C. COURTESY JAN TRANTHAM

for free, opened in 2012 and has not received one complaint about allergies, messes or dueling dogs, Kavanagh said.

The adoptable dogs have space set aside at the registration desk, on the roof, third floor and in certain employee areas.

They can’t stay in guest rooms at night but can go with visitors to the restaurant, bar and other spots if they’re on a leash.

“The guests love it. It shows up on guest reviews and consumer surveys,” Kavanagh said.

Caren Ferris of Amherst, Mass., and her husband certainly did. The couple were staying nearby when they met a 4-year-old terrier mix named Ginger in the hotel bar and cozied up to the pooch sporting

an “adopt me” vest.

After a visit, “I got up to leave and told her goodbye. She sat up, looked me in the eye and kissed me on the lips. So I called the shelter, thinking maybe we should adopt the dog,” Ferris said.

She and her husband filled out the adoption papers, paid $175 in fees and waited to be approved before they were able to take Ginger home to meet their other dogs.

Charlie’s Angels has tough adoption standards, including a home visit.

If a potential owner is from another state, the rescue will ask a shelter there to do the check.

The restrictions haven’t

John Ferris rides with his adopted dog Ginger on a ferry to Peaks Island, Maine.

Ferris with his wife, Caren, adopted Ginger.

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stopped 14 dogs from finding homes since the program started in July, said Kim Smith, president of Charlie’s Angels.

The rescue’s placements have doubled since the hotel started stationing the dogs.

Jan Trantham and her husband, from Atlanta, adopted a 2-year-old Shih Tzu named Jackson. They fell in love with him when they checked in, she said.

“Every time we went somewhere, one of us would say, ‘Let’s go back to the hotel and see Jackson.’ l couldn’t stop thinking about this dog,” Trantham said.

It’s also a wonderful way for the dogs — and the guests — to socialize, Kavanagh said.

Avalanche dog dreams get snowed in

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ellie, our 3-year-old 20 percent. Fast rescue is essenBernese mountain dog, tial. This is where the dogs and I were sitting on the come in. A trained avalanche couch watching a movie about dog, using its extraordinary avalanches and watching it sense of smell, can cover a footsnow outside. ball field-sized slide area in 20 minutes. It She was excited would take hours for and began barking. people to search the Nellie and her same area probing the sidekick, Tank, love snow with poles. snow. Favorite words: Sensing Nellie’s Snowed in. Drifts. eagerness, I felt I Snow days. UPS truck should jump in and stuck in snow in front help. I’d done the of our house. Winter Hersch same routines with storm warning. (Not Wilson my daughters: Guitar to be confused with Tales of Tails lessons, cello lessons, its weak cousin, winhockey lessons, socter storm watch or cer camps and the junior firethe even more noncommittal, fighter academy. winter weather advisory.)

So I called Bob Willette. He But while Tank simply wanted to go play in the snow, I runs the avalanche dog program for the Taos ski area, the only could sense something deeper Class A Avalanche resort in in Nellie’s bark.

New Mexico. Class A means It was like when your child that the terrain is favorable to comes home all excited and avalanches. (And also favorable says, “I want to play the basto some of the best skiing in the soon!” world! But that’s another Nellie wanted to be an avastory …) lanche dog! She sat up a little Bob has been on the Taos straighter, and I could tell she Ski Patrol and worked with was seeing herself in the red rescue vest of an “avy dog.” She avalanche dogs for 27 years. My first question was, “Why have let out that deep “woof!” of a you worked so long with dogs?” dog that had found her vocaHe responded that he tion. liked dogs more than people Avalanche dogs, for sum— except for his family and mer people, are the dogs that friends. A kindred spirit. avalanche-prone ski areas use With Nellie in mind, I asked to help find and rescue people him to explain the process of who have become trapped in becoming an “avy dog.” slides. For the past 10 years, an average of 28 people per year Apparently, breeding is a big have died in avalanches, most of part of this. I chose not to menthem in Colorado, according to tion this to Nellie. She was sitthe Colorado Avalanche Inforting by my side, all enthusiastic. mation Center.

“We’ve trained 15 dogs, most If buried in a slide, your of them Labs and retrievers. chances of survival are around They have great noses, a double 50 percent for up to 30 minutes coat that keeps them warm, and then drop quickly to webbed feet that help in deep

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snow and they love to please people.

I decided not to mention to Bill our dog’s opinions about Labs. Pleasing people is not high on the agenda of most Berners; they are here to be pleased, not please.

Typically, Bill went on, it takes a couple of years to train a avalanche dog starting with basic obedience training as puppies and then moving on to training on the mountain.

Besides learning how to search, they have to be comfortable riding on sleds, chairlifts and snowmobiles. They need to be comfortable with people, deal with the excitement of a search and possess the ability to work hard over the hours it takes to get to a scene and search.

But it comes back to their ability to smell. James Walker, the former director of the Sensory Institute of Florida State University, was recently interviewed by Nova.

He said, “A dog’s sense of smell is an order of magnitude, 10,000 times better than ours. If we were talking about sight, we could see a one-third of a mile and a dog could see 3,000 miles just as clearly.”

Avalanche dogs use this astonishing ability to track people buried as deep as six feet under compact snow.

“We train every week,” Bill went on. “We do single burial and multiple burial simulations, both with human volunteers and articles of clothing. The dogs love it. They are high energy and will keep working, probably until they physically couldn’t.”

Have a fun and safe holiday!

Hersch Wilson is a Santa Fe author who yearns to understand all things canine. His column appears monthly. Contact him at hersch.wilson@mac.com.

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It was here that I asked the obvious question. “What do you think about Bernese mountain dogs? (I stressed the word mountain.)

Bill replied, “I love Berners.”

Then there was a pause. He continued, “The problem is they have weak noses. And they are big-boned. The snow here is light and deep. Our dogs are like seals swimming through it. A Berner would need a sled to get her to the slide area.”

I could absolutely envision Nellie being regally pulled on a sled up to the avalanche area, preferably by a team of retrievers.

Then I noticed both our dogs had decided to nap, which actually is what they are best at. So maybe we’d just let the avalanche dog dream fade and enjoy our snow days together.

But I wanted to let Bill have the last word.

“In an avalanche, if you’re not wearing a beacon, it’s going to be a dog that will save you, if you are to be saved. And the majority of the skiers up here don’t wear beacons.”

The next time you’re in the mountains and you see a dog with a red rescue vest playing in the snow, happy as all get out, recall that they are preparing for the most important of work: saving people.

But it’s not going to be Nellie.

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Felines & Friends: Cassidy and Cole, two beautiful kitSanta Fe Animal Shelter tens, are both & Humane Society: Max, a Caspian a little shy, but 5-year-old Rottweiler mix, is a are coming loyal and loving dog who will around with stay by your side as long as you lots of TLC please. He came to the shelter from their heart-worm positive but has foster homes. gone through treatment and is Cassidy is doing well. Caspian, 7, is a bit Max a beautiful shy at first but comes around female with after a bit of attention. a short gray These and other animals are coat while available for adoption from Cole is a the shelter at 100 Caja del Rio handsome Road. The shelter’s adoption boy with a hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. short coat and Cassidy Visit adoptable animals in the orange tabby community during the shelmarkings. ter’s weekend mobile adoption Cats of events: 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, noon all ages are to 3 p.m. Saturday and 1 to available for 4 p.m. Sunday at PetSmart adoption from Santa Fe, 3561 Zafarano Drive.

Felines & Visit www.sfhumanesociety.

Cole Friends and org or call 983-4309, ext. 610. can be visited Española Valley Humane at PetCo durSociety: Cornelius is a shy ing the week. boy at first, but warms up Adoption quickly. This young boy can be advisers are picky with his canine friends. available 1 to Balloo, a male kitten, loves to Cornelius 4 p.m. Thursrun and play all the time. He day, Friday, would do fine in a single-feline Saturday and family or with other cats.

Sunday at These and other animals PetCo on Cerare available for adoption at rillos Road. the shelter, 108 Hamm ParkBecome a way. The shelter is open from Balloo Felines & 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday Friends volunthrough Saturday and from teer. Visit www.petfinder.com/ noon to 4:45 p.m. Sunday. Call 753-8662 or visit www.espano- shelters/NM38.html or call lashelter.org.

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In brief Tips to help pets in cold weather Freezing temperatures and the promise of more Arcticlike weather have prompted animal-welfare groups to urge animal owners to protect their critters or bring them inside.

It’s not only the right thing to do for the animals, but it’s also the law.

The state’s cruelty law mandates that animals be provided with adequate shelter and most local city and county ordinances contain provisions for shelter requirements.

Dogs and cats should be allowed indoors as much as possible, especially during weather extremes.

When animals must be outside, animal-welfare groups offer tips to ensure animals protection and to be in compliance with the law: u A weatherproof shelter should be large enough to accommodate the animal, yet small enough to retain heat; u The shelter should be protected on all sides from the elements, have a door and contain dry, insulating bedding such as straw; u Animal housing should be raised off the ground a few inches, be shingled to keep out moisture, and positioned so that the doorway is out of the wind.

All animals left outdoors,

including horses and livestock, should be provided with extra food during cold weather, according to the news release.

Livestock should have a windbreak and fresh water should be available continuously.

Those who see animals in danger are urged to contact local animal control officers or call the attorney general’s Animal Cruelty Task Force hot line, 1-877-5-HUMANE.

Shelter hosts winter camp There are still spots available for this weekend’s Winter Critter Camp at the Santa Fe animal shelter.

The two-day camp offers children ages 10-13 a hands-on experience with animals at the shelter, 100 Caja del Rio Road.

The camp runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and the application deadline is 5 p.m. Friday.

Similar to Summer Critter Camp, teams of children will learn the care and handling of a variety of animals, with a focus on behavior, veterinary care and grooming. Short talks about animal sheltering and care will be punctuated with interactive games, workbooks and hands-on projects.

The camp, which costs $100, is limited to 10 participants. To register or for more information, call Devin White at 983-4309 ext. 128 or email dwhite@sfhumanesociety.org.

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Storm drops snow, cold on West for New Year is,” said Berri, one of about 340,000 revelers expected to pack the Strip and the downtown Fremont area on New Year’s Eve. The storm swept from CaliBy Amy Taxin fornia into the Mojave Desert The Associated Press and Las Vegas, bringing snow to parts of northern Arizona A blustery winter storm and New Mexico along the dumped snow and ice across way. the West on Wednesday, makIce and snow also made ing driving treacherous in the roads and highways dangerous mountains from California to along the panhandles of Texas the Rockies and forcing resiand Oklahoma. dents and party-goers in some Gusting winds toppled trees usually sun-soaked cities to throughout California, killing at bundle up for a frosty New least three people in the state Year’s.

Giddy residents in Southern in recent days.

Two people were killed and California foothills snapped photos of snow-covered lawns a third was missing after winds broke boats loose from mooras kids tossed snowballs. In ings at Santa Catalina Island suburban Phoenix, swimming off the coast of Southern Calipools and cactus-lined backfornia. More than 180 motoryards were dusted with the ists were rescued after they white stuff. were stranded by the snow on Those planning to usher in mountain highways northeast 2015 along the Las Vegas Strip of Los Angeles. or watch flower-decorated Still, many Southern Califorfloats in the Rose Parade in nians were excited to see snow Pasadena, Calif., were bracing for near-freezing temperatures. at their front door.

Temecula City Manager Marco Berri, 26, of Brazil Aaron Adams said his 12- and said he would likely buy some 14-year-old daughters were scarves and gloves to keep sledding outside his home on warm in Las Vegas, Nev., but bodyboards usually reserved the cold wouldn’t keep him for the beach or pool. He said inside.

“We’re gonna be in the street. he has never seen as much It doesn’t matter how cold it snow — half a foot in some

Las Vegas Strip, Southern California, receive rare flurries

places — in the two decades he has lived there.

“You’d think you woke up in Tahoe or something,” Adams said. “Our Old Town looks like a ski town.”

In Flagstaff, Ariz., as much as 15 inches of snow was expected

by New Year’s Day. Pasadena city officials urged parade-goers to come ready with layers of clothing and foot- and hand-warmers.

The cold snap could impact the famous floral floats in the parade. Some of the tropical flowers could turn black, and float builders were using twice the normal amount of glue to affix flowers because of the cold, said Charles Meier, creative director for Paradiso Parade Floats.

“This is a very unique business that really depends on one day a year, and that one day we have no control over the weather,” Meier said.

In Carlsbad, N.M., a soldout New Year’s Eve party was postponed until Friday due to slick, icy roads. Party planner Ric Serrano said a supply truck carrying the party’s alcohol crashed en route to the event, but that wasn’t the reason for the cancellation.

California citrus growers appeared to pull through the storm unscathed.

GOV. MARTINEZ RECEIVES BLESSING

Gov. Susana Martinez is escorted Wednesday by her husband and first gentleman Chuck Franco into the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. Martinez, the nation’s only Latina governor, was blessed by the Rev. Adam Lee Ortega y Ortiz as part of ceremonies for her second inauguration. Martinez, who was re-elected to a second term in November, was to take the oath of office at midnight in a private ceremony. A public swearing in is slated for 9 a.m. Thursday at the Capitol and a ball will be held in the evening in Albuquerque.

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Funeral services and memorials

Casino: Can be built in 6 years Continued from Page A-1 All the compacts must be approved by both the state Legislature, which convenes this month, and by the U.S. Department of the Interior before taking effect.

In a news release Monday, Navajo Nation Speaker Pro Tem LoRenzo Bates said that in the past few months, his tribe has been working with other gaming tribes. “I believe it is a compact that is better for all parties,” he said. “We look forward to continuing our cooperation with the other gaming tribes and to move the compact to the state Legislature for ratification.”

Guy Clark, an Albuquerque dentist who has opposed gambling for years, said Wednesday that his group, Stop Predatory Gambling New Mexico, views even one additional casino as gambling expansion. “We will fight it on that issue, and on the social and economic damage it will cause. All casinos — both tribal and track — are a drag on the economy and a blight on the citizens of the state,” he said.

“I can’t imagine that the other tribes will be happy with

an additional Navajo casino, basically because of the additional competition,” Clark said.

He pointed out that the total “net win” for slot machines — which basically is the difference between the amount of money wagered in the machines minus the amount paid in prizes — for New Mexico’s gaming tribes was down by nearly $22 million in the first three quarters of 2014 from the same period in 2013, according to figures reported to the state Gaming Control Board, “I suspect the other tribes’ opposition will have more weight in the Legislature than we will, but we’ll be working in the same direction,” Clark said.

Will other tribes oppose the compact as some did last year?

Conroy Chino, who lobbies for Acoma Pueblo as well as the Jicarilla Apache Nation, said his clients, who also negotiated new gambling compacts, have agreed to the provision that allows one more Navajo casino, even though, he said, it could affect Acoma Pueblo’s Sky City Casino east of Grants.

Chino noted Wednesday that the compact would allow fewer casinos than did the unsuccessful Navajo compact proposed

last year. Chino also pointed out that last year’s compact would have allowed the Navajo Nation to build a new casino in five years, not the six years in the new compact.

Another Western New Mexico gaming tribe is Laguna Pueblo, which has The Dancing Eagle Casino east of Grants on Interstate 40 and the Route 66 Casino west of Albuquerque, also on I-40.

Skip Sayre, chief of sales and marketing of the Laguna Development Corp., said Wednesday that his board of directors will be reviewing the proposed compact in order to assess the impact it might have on Laguna Pueblo’s gambling operations.

Laguna is operating under the 2007 compact, which doesn’t expire until 2037.

Under the proposed 23-year compact, the Navajos’ revenue sharing formula would increase from 9 percent to 10.75 percent over the life of the deal.

In 2014, the Navajo Nation’s slot machines generated nearly $80 million. The tribe says gambling provided about 755 jobs and paid about $6.3 million to the state under the revenuesharing provision of the current compact.

Empty Stocking donations Ronald and Mary Lee Hull, $500 Sue Katz, $50 Kim Keahbone, in memory of Robert Keahbone, $100 Kathleen King, $100 Susan and Richard Martin, in honor of the Duval, Gonzales, Nielsen family, and in memory of Estevan Gonzales, $150 Jeanette Martinez, in memory of George, Mary Ann and Earl Martinez, $50 Andrew and Laura Montoya, $75 New Mexico Association of Counties, $410 Arthur and Patty Newman, $100 JW Parker, $200

Judith Polich, $100 Harry and Margaret Ritchie, $100 Karen Rowell, $50 Linda Siegle, $100 Nancy Spring, $20 Liz Stefanics, $100 Stewart Stevens, $30 Kathi and Steve Stork, in memory of Sherry Benjamin and Marcia Fell, $100 Pamela Homer and James Taylor, $200 Kay Condiss and Mike Warren, $200 John and Samantha Williams, $2,500

block of Paseo Del Sol between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday. u An 18-foot utility trailer was stolen from the driveway of a home in the 2400 block of The Santa Fe Police Department took the follow- Isabel Street between 10 p.m.

Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday. ing reports: u Someone broke into an u A burglar stole $212 in cash apartment in the 1800 block of from an apartment in the 4500 Pacheco Street between 9 a.m.

and 9 p.m. Monday. No items were listed as stolen.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office took the following report: u A burglar on Monday stole an air compressor, welding machine and hand tools from a shed on N.M. 41 in Stanley.

The latest list of donations: Anonymous (11), $4,420 Denise Anderson, $60 Anne Beckett, $250 JoAnn Bethel, $250 Julie Ann Canepa, $250 Barbara Bernard Cawley, $300 Katherin and David Chase, in memory of John Martin, $250 Loretta Dunleavy, in memory of Mary M. Dunleavy, $50 Susan Dunshee, $100 Margie Edwards and Ellie Edelstein, $100 David and Peggy Feldt, in honor of Tony & Sarah, $100 Joey and Dan Geran, $100 David Hawkanson, $250

Police notes

Cumulative total: $188,367.92

YVONNE THERESA RUSSELL September 3, 1931December 25, 2014 Surrounded by those who loved her, Yvonne Theresa Marko (Russell) passed away peacefully on Christmas morning at her home in Santa Fe following a long illness.

Born in Oak Park, Illinois to Stephen Bruno Marko and Rose Stella Matuszak (Marko), Yvonne and her sister Geraldine (who preceded her in death), were raised in Cicero, Illinois. She went to the University of New Mexico and graduated in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. After getting married, the couple returned to the Chicagoland area for several years where Yvonne found her passion as an elementary school. In the mid 60’s, Yvonne and her family returned to New Mexico and settled in Santa Fe where she worked for the State of New Mexico in the Department of Taxation for 25 years.

Yvonne is preceded in death by her daughter Whitney Ann Russell. She is survived by her eldest daughter Leslie Ellen Savoye and son-in-law Curtis Armistead Savoye of Lafayette, CA; grandchildren: Walter James Selby IV and Stephen Marko Selby of Lafayette, CA and Theresa Duran Jacobs of Charleston, SC. She was a very charismatic and funny lady who developed many friendships in and around Santa Fe. Yvonne was an accomplished water color artist and enjoyed her art classes after retirement.

Traveling was her real love and she enjoyed many trips all around the world.

Yvonne’s life will be celebrated at a memorial service to be scheduled in the spring. If you would like to be notified of the date and time, please send an email to dharmalightforce@hotmail.com.

TWO-MONTH ANNIVERSARY JOSÉ MODESTO MADRID

After he retired from a 33year career at Gates Rubber Co., he moved his family back to Canjilón, where he worked his father’s land. He died Nov. 1 in Canjilón. At his burial in Cebolla this November, clouds formed a cross in the sky. His friend Pedro Nolasco Romero wrote: "Modesto was a get-it-done kind of man. I know in my heart that he was so proud of his family and friends, that he wanted all of us to have a cross to remember him by."

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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Thursday, January 1, 2015 THE NEW MEXICAN

OPINIONS

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

COMMENTARY: CASS R. SUNSTEIN

Make resolutions stick in New Year

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t’s the New Year — a time for resolving to eat less, exercise more, work harder, give more, get your financial situation in order, make a long-delayed life change. Why do we make such resolutions?

The simplest explanation is that our highest aspirations for ourselves often conflict with our daily desires. Resolutions are designed to give our aspirations the upper hand.

In the terms of modern social science, human beings engage in fast, automatic, short-term thinking, and also in slower, more deliberative, long-term thinking. When we make New Year’s resolutions, we’re taking advantage of a “temporal landmark” that helps us to strengthen our best intentions.

Valuable evidence in this regard comes from Hengchen Dai, Katherine L. Milkman and Jason Riis of the Wharton School, who investigated what they call “the fresh start effect.” At certain salient times — a new year, a new month, a birthday, a holiday — people really do refocus their thinking and even reorient their conduct.

A lot of people want to lose weight. But when, exactly, do they think about dieting?

Using Google searches, Dai and his colleagues found that people look up the word “diet” a lot more at the beginning of the week, month and year. Such temporal landmarks — mere accidents of the calendar — turn out to have a much bigger effect on people’s searches than important news events do, such as reports of the successful trial of a diet pill.

Google searches are one thing; actual behavior is another. But the researchers find that when people use temporal landmarks, they are far more likely than usual to engage in activities

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F that fit with their aspirations.

One study of almost 12,000 students at a large university found that the start of each week, month and year brings a large increase in gym attendance. And in the month following the average undergraduate’s birthday, he or she is much more likely to go to the gym — an effect as great as that produced by keeping the gym open for two more hours.

The website stickK.com enables people to enter into “commitment contracts,” by which they specify certain goals and agree to pay some amount (sometimes to a cause they dislike) if they do not fulfill those goals. The Wharton researchers followed the behavior of more than 44,000 stickK.com users and found that people are more likely than usual to elect to commit to specific goals at the beginning of a new week (by 62.9 percent) or month (by 23.6 percent) — and even more at the start of a new year (by 145.3 percent).

Why do temporal landmarks matter so much? First, they provide a clear opportunity to step back from daily life and reflect — to ponder whether your actions, and your life, mirror your highest goals for yourself. When you hit a birthday or a new year, you ask about the big picture.

But there is a second factor. Dai and his co-authors contend that temporal landmarks open up new “mental accounts” that enable us to separate the past from the future. We make a sharp distinction between our past self (who ate too much and failed to exercise, or stuck with unrewarding work or a bad relationship) and our current self (who has turned over a new leaf). People’s behavior often stems from their sense of their own identity, and big changes happen more easily when they can convince themselves that their 2015 self is on a whole new path.

But how can we ensure that our resolutions actually stick?

Behavioral economists have

three answers: Make them easy and automatic, make them a matter of habit and make them fun. A resolution is more likely to work if it is concrete and can be translated into a simple routine.

It’s an inescapable fact of life that when our aspirations conflict with our desires, our desires often win out. But sometimes we can ensure that embarking on a long-delayed task, or changing our life course, is a pleasure, even a delight. If we can engage in that bit of alchemy — transforming our aspirations into our desires — we will be far more likely to look back on our resolutions not as a failure, but as a turning point.

Happy 2015.

Cass R. Sunstein, the former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is the Robert Walmsley university professor at Harvard Law School and a Bloomberg View columnist.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Massachusetts proud of state cookie

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antri Wija wrote a lengthy article about New Mexico’s state cookie, the biscochito (“Biscochito: Deconstructing a New Mexico original,” Dec. 24) and it probably contained lots of interesting information.

However, I stopped reading it after the comment about the Massachusetts state cookie “the chocolate chip cookie, how original.” That comment destroyed the author’s credibility immediately. She hadn’t taken the time to learn that the Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie was developed at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts, giving the state every right to claim it as the state cookie.

Why bother to read the rest of the article when you can’t trust its accuracy?

Journalists, check your facts.

Holly P. Bostwick

La Cienega

Prison for Cheney Of course, Dick Cheney, referring to the Senate torture report, says he would do it all again. Torture served him and his neoconservative colleagues as it did the North Koreans and the North Vietnamese, for whom the purpose of torture was to force false confessions for propaganda purposes. Any information yielded

by CIA torture could supply claims to further the disastrous neocon agenda, including unilateral military aggression and suppression of any popular dissent that would impede their imperial dreams.

What can you expect from one who will submit to no rule of law and no ethical consideration that does not serve his own specific purposes, including blood for oil in the invasion of Iraq and in his plans to attack Iran, and the conversion of the White House to lawlessness?

Glenn Greenwald said correctly that Cheney should be in federal prison not on national media.

Hans von Briesen

Santa Fe

Suffering Cubans Cuba, where visions of gayly dressed folks laugh, dance to great jazz and drink into the night. Alas, only if it is 53 years ago. On my recent trip to Cuba (July, 2014) what I observed was very different.

Today’s Cuba is a muted, depressed, but resilient society — one robbed long ago of very basic human rights. One where now the majority seem to be completely socialistic.

In my opinion, President Barack Obama’s recent policy change toward Cuba will reveal a failed economic and political system, something we have known for some time.

It has been and will continue to be the people of Cuba who pay a very high price for their government. Because the embargo is codified (1996 Helms-Burton), and because Congress is frozen with inaction, their suffering will continue.

The U.S. will continue to be seen as

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the oppressor and at the same time a beacon of hope.

ace it. Whatever resolution being made on this, the first day of 2015, likely won’t last until February.

Whether someone wants to lose weight, exercise more, quit smoking or learn to speak French, resolutions are easy to make and difficult to keep.

Yet, it is possible to change a habit. And changing habits are how people can improve their health and better enjoy their lives.

To that end, get some help in charting a new course for whatever resolution you want to make this year.

Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter (and New Mexico native), wrote a compelling book about the nature of habit. In it, he synthesizes science and anecdote to provide solid steps for people who want to change their lives.

The Power of Habit, published in 2012 with paperback out in 2014, shows people how to make necessary changes.

It’s not about willpower, but rather about recognizing patterns. Duhigg writes on his blog, “changing habits isn’t necessarily quick or easy. But it is possible. And now we know how.”

On his website, Duhigg presents his own case study — a habit of buying and eating a chocolate chip cookie every day at work. First he figured out when the urge to get a cookie happened. Then he analyzed what his routine for cookie-buying. Finally, he tried to figure out why he wanted the cookie. He sums it up as cue, routine and reward — with the key to changing a habit figuring out the reward.

For Duhigg, it turned out that getting up to get a cookie was more about socializing. As he went to the cafeteria to buy his cookie, he would stop and chat along the way.

Once he figured that out, he stopped buying the cookie but continued to chat. In the process, he lost 12 pounds and no longer eats chocolate chip cookies every day. That same analysis can change other habits, as different case studies in his book show.

Want to exercise every day? Pick a cue — setting the alarm early or leaving running shoes by the door or packing a gym bag every night. The reward? Duhigg suggests a piece of chocolate at night or a half-hour on Facebook.

After a few days, analyze whether the reward is working; if not, pick something else. Write down the plan — Duhigg even has a flow chart at his blog.

It’s straightforward, too. “This year when I see [cue], I will [behavior], in order to [get reward].” The formula can work for exercise or eating less. Willpower is not the answer. Identifying habits that need to change is.

For extra help, read the book, and as Duhigg writes, “thank us later.”

Evangeline M. Pacheco

Santa Fe

The past 100 years

Drivers, slow down My friend is not here anymore. Abel R. Martinez (pedestrian hit and killed on Dec. 24) was a person looking — reaching — and he was respectful to me. We prayed. People, slow down while driving in Santa Fe. Let’s respect our civilities.

Slow down. We don’t have the driving skills we think we do.

Joe Alvarez

Santa Fe

Our Santa Claus George R.R. Martin is Santa Fe’s Santa Claus. He fearlessly came forward — well before Sony’s change of heart— to say that he and the Jean Cocteau Cinema would screen The Interview. Martin said, “Come to Santa Fe. ... We’ll show your film for you.” Now Santa Fe is one of the select cities nationwide showing The Interview.

Thank you, George, for your wonderful holiday gift to Santa Fe, for making going to movies fun again with the Cocteau offerings, and for making such a huge difference in our community.

JoAnn Lynn Balzer

From The New Mexican: Jan. 1, 1915: Roswell — In the year just closed, Chaves County paid bounties on the scalps of 1,956 coyotes, 249 wildcats, 29 wolves and one lynx. The list shows increases over 1913, when 1,849 coyotes, 226 wildcats and 10 wolves were killed and the scalps sent in for the bounty money.

Clovis — Clovis is proud of the fact that its residents have loosened their purse strings in behalf of the needy here this winter.

Money and other donations, such as coal, clothing and groceries, will aggregate more than $200. It is worthy of note that there is not a destitute family in the city.

Jan. 1, 1990: Criminal charges against three men have been dropped by the Santa Fe District Attorney’s Office in recent months because genetic tests cleared the suspects or left prosecutors without sufficient evidence to go to trial. “This situation points out a need to fully conduct criminal investigations independent of what happens with DNA testing,” said Dan Cron, attorney for one of the three men charged and later released.

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The weather

For current, detailed weather conditions in downtown Santa Fe, visit our online weather stations at www.santafenewmexican.com/weather/

N.M. fishing report

7-day forecast for Santa Fe Today

Cloudy with snow, 1-3” storm total

Tonight

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Almanac

New Mexico weather

Santa Fe Airport through 6 p.m. Wednesday Santa Fe Airport Temperatures High/low ........................................... 26°°/8°° Normal high/low ............................ 43°°/18°° Record d high h ............................... 55°° in 1909 Record d low ................................. -1°° in 2010 Santa Fe Airport Precipitation 24 hours th hrough h 6 p.m. yest. ............ Trace Month h/year to date .................. 0.96”/9.94” Normall month h/year to date ... 0.77”/13.50” Santa Fe Farmers Market hrough h 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” 24 hours th Month h/year to date ................ 0.00”/11.04”

Air quality index

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

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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.

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

Sun and moon

tate extremes Wed. High 37 ............................. Bloomfield Wed. Low -8 ..................................... Chama

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On Jan. 1, 1864, an arctic blast caused the temperature in Louisville, Ky., to drop from 47 to 19 below zero in just 21 hours.

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7 p.m. on ABC The Taste This food show hasn’t missed a chance to mark the holidays lately, so a new episode titled “Happy New Year” — on a most appropriate night — shouldn’t come as a major shock. As the season of celebration begins to come to a close, Anthony Bourdain, pictured, Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre and Marcus Samuelsson oversee the competing cooks’ “decadent” (per the network) efforts with such ingredients as caviar and champagne. Michael Symon (The Chew) is a guest judge.

9 p.m. on NBC Parenthood The title “Vegas” indicates the setting of much of this story. Indeed, Sarah (Lauren Graham) takes Zeek (Craig T. Nelson) there on a birthday getaway, but the trip has unexpected consequences.

Amber (Mae Whitman) has a hard time coping with growing up.

9 p.m. on PBS Great Performances For the sixth time, stage and screen icon Julie Andrews travels to Austria to present the Vienna Philharmonic’s annual holiday concert in “From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2015.”

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9 p.m. on ABC How to Get Away With Murder Annalise (Viola Davis) takes a special interest in a case involving a man who previously was handed a death sentence by Asher’s (Matt McGorry) father in “Freakin’ Whacka-Mole.” The details of where Asher himself was on a pivotal night are revealed. Wes’ (Alfred Enoch) continuing anger toward Annalise over withheld information worries her.

Billy Brown, Jack Falahee and Katie Findlay also star.

9 p.m. on CBS Elementary Holmes and Watson (Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu) come face to face with their old adversary Moriarty (Natalie Dormer) when she’s brought in as a consultant on a kidnapping case they’re investigating. Bell (Jon Michael Hill) continues his struggle to recover in “The Diabolical Kind.” Aidan Quinn also stars.

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All Sierra Club Rio Grande chapter outings are free and open to the public. Always call leader to confirm participation and details.

Visit www. riograndesierraclub. org/outings for the most updated information.

SATURDAY, JAN. 3: Strenuous snowshoe, location to be determined. Two or three dogs OK. Call Tobin Oruch at 690-6253.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7: Legislative training. 6 to 8:30 p.m., Southwest Environmental Center, 275 N. Downtown Mall, Las Cruces.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7: Pajarito Executive Committee and Bag Ban potluck 6 p.m. (location to be determind). Please bring a vegetarian dish to the New Year’s Bag Ban Organizing Party. RSVP by Jan. 3: Send email to Jonesmm1@ comcast.net or call 662-9443.

SATURDAY, JAN. 10: Strenuous snowshoe outing to Spirit Lake starting from the ski basin, 13 miles and 2,100-foot elevation gain. Early start. Two or three dogs OK. Send email to lorenz. hughes@gmail.com or call Larry at 913-0589.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14: Legislative training. Learn how to make an impact at the Legislature.

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 431 Richmond Place NE,

Albuquerque. Send an email to daniel.lorimier@sierraclub.org.

SATURDAY, JAN. 17: Rio Nambé Basin loop snowshoe, 8 miles, 1,800 feet of elevation gain. A loop route through a particularly beautiful area in the winter. Difficulty depends on snow conditions. Call Aku at 577-2594.

SUNDAY, JAN. 18: Easy hike along Arroyo Chamisa Trail, start at Zia Road parking area, return via Rail Trail. Call Norma McCallan at 471-0005.

SATURDAY-MONDAY, JAN. 17-19: Moderately strenuous backpack to Buds Hole at the intersection of the main and west forks of Mogollon Creek (about 5 miles) in the Gila Wilderness from the Mogollon Creek Trail trailhead. Send an email to walton@utep.edu or call John Walton at 915-747-8699.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21: Legislative training. Learn how to make an impact at the state Legislature.

Whole Foods Community Room, 1090 S. St. Francis Drive from 6 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, send an email to daniel.lorimier@ sierraclub.org.

SATURDAY, JAN. 24: Moderate cross-country ski outing. Location TBD. If no snow, will hike. Send an email to Alan Shapiro at tonm5s@ yahoo.com.

PECOS RIVER: On Dec. 20, Brandon Whaley and Josh Whaley of Carlsbad caught a 17-inch and a 15.5-inch white bass. They were fishing the river below Carlsbad and using in-line spinners on ultra-light tackle.

NOTE: If you have a catch of the week story or want to share your latest New Mexico fishing experience, send it to fishforfun2@ hotmail.com. For catches of the week, include name, date and location, as well as type of fish, length and weight, bait, lure or fly used.

Northeast CHARETTE LAKES: Closed for the season.

CIMARRON RIVER: We had no reports from anglers this week.

CLAYTON LAKE: Closed for the season.

CONCHAS LAKE: Fishing pressure was very light and fishing was slow for all species.

COYOTE CREEK: We had no reports from anglers this week.

EAGLE ROCK LAKE: Closed through next fall. The closure will allow Chevron Mining to dredge the lake and reconstruct the area.

EAGLE NEST LAKE: As of Monday, there was a layer of ice on the lake and the lake was closed to fishing. Call the State Park Office at 575-377-1594 for updated conditions.

GALLINAS RIVER: We had no reports from anglers this week.

HOPEWELL LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

LAKE ALICE: Closed due to thin ice on the lake.

LAKE MALOYA: As of this past Sunday, the lake was closed to fishing due to thin ice conditions.

Call the State Park office at 575- 445-5607 for ice updates.

With the colder weather, safe ice conditions could allow fishing by next weekend.

MANZANO LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

MAXWELL LAKE 13: Closed for the season.

MONASTERY LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

MORPHY LAKE: Closed for the season.

MOUNT VIEW PONDS: We had no reports from anglers this week.

PECOS RIVER: We had no reports from anglers this week.

RED RIVER: Trout fishing was fair to good using poundmeisters, wooly buggers and salmon eggs.

RIO GRANDE: Fishing was slow to fair using large streamers for northern pike. Fishing for all other species was slow. Rio Hondo: We had no reports from anglers this week.

RIO PUEBLO: We had no reports from anglers this week.

SANTA BARBARA: We had no reports from anglers this week.

SHUREE PONDS: We had no reports from anglers this week.

SPRINGER LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

STORRIE LAKE: As of Monday, there was a thin layer of ice covering the lake. For updated conditions, call the State Park Office at 425-7278.

UTE LAKE: Fishing was slow to fair using slab spoons and blade baits for white bass and a few walleye. We had no reports on other species. Fishing pressure was light.

Northwest ABIQUIÚ LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

ANIMAS RIVER: We had no reports from anglers this week.

ALBUQUERQUE AREA DRAINS: Fishing on the Corrales Drain was fair drifting salmon eggs under a bobber for trout. We had no reports on other species or from other drains.

BLUEWATER LAKE: As of this past Sunday, there was a thin layer of ice on the lake and it was closed to fishing. For updated ice conditions, call the State Park Office at 876-2391. Note: Anglers should be aware that it is illegal to use bait fish at this lake.

BRAZOS RIVER: We had no reports from anglers this week.

CANJILON LAKES: We had no reports from anglers this week.

CHAMA RIVER: Trout fishing below El Vado was slow to fair using salmon eggs and copper John Barrs. Fishing below Abiquiú was good using zebra midges, brassies and salmon eggs.

COCHITI LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

EL VADO LAKE: As of Monday, the lake was covered with unsafe ice. Call the State Park Office at 575-588-7247 for updated conditions.

FENTON LAKE: A layer of ice has formed on the lake and it is closed to ice fishing. Put this one back on your list for great fishing early next spring.

HERON LAKE: There was some ice around the edges of the lake as of Monday and we had no reports from anglers.

JACKSON LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

JEMEZ WATERS: We had no reports from anglers this week.

LAGUNA DEL CAMPO: Closed for the season.

LAKE FARMINGTON: We had no reports from anglers this week.

NAVAJO LAKE: Fishing pressure was light and fishing continued to be slow for all species.

SAN GREGORIO: We had no reports from anglers.

SAN JUAN RIVER: Trout fishing through the Quality Waters was good using Griffith’s gnats, small pheasant tails, red larva and crystal flash. Fishing through the bait waters was good using Gulp eggs, salmon eggs, copper John Barrs and streamers.

SEVEN SPRINGS BROOD POND: We had no reports from anglers this week.

TINGLEY BEACH: Before the cold snap, fishing at the Youth and Central ponds was good using Pistol Petes, Gulp eggs, Velveeta cheese, homemade dough bait and salmon eggs for trout. We had no reports from the Bob Gerding Catch and Release Pond.

TROUT LAKES: We had no reports from anglers this week.

Southwest ALUMNI POND: We had no reports from anglers this week.

BEAR CANYON: Trout fishing was fair using salmon eggs, chartreuse Power Bait and Pistol Petes.

BILL EVANS LAKE: Trout fishing was fair to good using garlic cheese, Power Bait, Pistol Petes and salmon eggs. We had no reports on other species.

CABALLO LAKE: Fishing was slow for all species.

ELEPHANT BUTTE LAKE: Fishing was slow for all species and fishing pressure was light.

ESCONDIDA LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

GILA RIVER: We had no reports from anglers this week.

GLENWOOD POND: We had no reports from anglers this week.

LAKE ROBERTS: We had no reports from anglers this week.

PERCHA DAM: We had no reports from anglers this week.

QUEMADO LAKE: As of Sunday there was a thin layer of ice on the lake considered unsafe for fishing.

RIO GRANDE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

SNOW LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

YOUNG POND: Trout fishing was very good using Power Bait, corn and Velveeta cheese. We had no reports on other species.

Southeast BATAAN LAKE: Fishing was fair to good using Power Bait, salmon eggs and small spinners for trout.

We had no reports on other species.

BLACK RIVER: We had no reports from anglers this week.

BLUE HOLE PARK POND: Fishing was fair using Power Bait and salmon eggs for trout. We had no reports on other species.

BONITO LAKE: Closed.

BOSQUE REDONDO: Fishing was fair using salmon eggs and beadhead wooly buggers for trout. We had no reports on other species.

BOTTOMLESS LAKES: Fishing at Pasture Lake and Devil’s Inkwell was good using chartreuse and rainbow Power Bait and Pistol Petes for trout.

BRANTLEY LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

Note: Anglers are to practice catch-and-release for all fish here as high levels of DDT were found in several fish.

CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL LAKE: Fishing was very good using Mepps spinners and chartreuse and orange Power Bait for trout.

CHAPARRAL PARK LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

EL RITO CREEK: Fishing was good using salmon eggs and garlic Power Bait for trout.

EUNICE LAKE: Fishing was fair to good using Power Bait for trout.

GREEN MEADOW LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

GREENE ACRES LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

GRINDSTONE RESERVOIR: We had no reports from anglers this week.

JAL LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

LAKE VAN: Fishing was very good using Power Bait, salmon eggs, yellow Mepps spinners and Pistol Petes under a bubble for trout.

OASIS PARK LAKE: As of Monday morning, the lake was covered with a thin layer of ice and closed to fishing. For updated information, call the State Park Office at 575-356-5331.

PERCH LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

PECOS RIVER: Fishing below Sumner was fair using Power Bait for trout. Fishing below Carlsbad was fair using in-line spinners for white bass. We had no reports on other species.

RUIDOSO RIVER: We had no reports from anglers.

SANTA ROSA LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

SUMNER LAKE: We had no reports from anglers this week.

This fishing report, provided by Bill Dunn and the Department of Game and Fish, has been generated from the best information available from area officers, anglers, guides and local businesses. Conditions may vary as stream, lake and weather conditions alter fish and angler activities.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2015 THE NEW MEXICAN

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LADY HORSEMEN CHRISTMAS TOURNAMENT ST. MICHAEL’S 42, FARMINGTON 40

SUGAR BOWL

St. Mike’s wins own tourney for 1st time

By Edmundo Carrillo The New Mexican

The Lady Horsemen would like to say that they added another championship trophy from their own tournament, but the truth is, they barely got the first one on Wednesday.

In escaping Farmington with a 42-40 win in the championship game of the Lady Horsemen Christmas Tournament in Perez-Shelley Gymnasium, the St. Michael’s girls basketball team won the tournament for the first time in its 20-year history.

“We were stoked about it,” said St. Michael’s head coach Martin Romero. “It was on our to-do list.”

But it wasn’t the prettiest win for the Lady Horsemen (10-2), who were

victorious despite going 14-for-35 from the free throw line.

“It shouldn’t have been that close of a game with all the opportunities we had at the free-throw line,” St. Michael’s senior post Alex Groenewold said.

Saying the game was close is almost an understatement.

St. Michael’s ended the first quarter with a 12-11 lead, but Farmington (8-3) kept close and eventually took a 17-16 lead with 3:57 left in the first quarter.

The Lady Scorpions kept the lead until Cristiana Gabaldon hit a 3-pointer from the corner just before the third quarter buzzer sounded to give the Lady Horsemen a 30-29 lead.

After three more lead changes and

two ties, St. Michael’s found itself with a 37-35 lead off a Groenewold layup with 2:17 remaining.

The Lady Horsemen led 41-38 with :15 left, enough time for Farmington head coach Danny Secrest to draw up a potential game-tying play. Junior sharp shooter Tanisha Beetso, who made six 3-pointers against Taos the night before, had the ball at the top of the key, but she dished to forward Brighton Clah, who sunk a 2-pointer to make it a one-point game with three seconds left.

Secrest had intended for Beetso to take the 3, but she was forced to make the pass.

“Sometimes that happens when you draw it up and they defend it well,” Secrest said.

Jocelyn Fernandez made a free throw — after missing one — at the other end, and the Lady Horsemen kept the Lady Scorpions from getting a shot in the final seconds.

St. Michael’s did not have the best day at the charity stripe, but the Lady Horsemen were able to get their 10th straight win by limiting mistakes and playing stingy defense late in the game.

“It showed that we were able to gut it out and overcome that bad freethrow shooting,” Romero said. “It can cost you a game, and we’re lucky it didn’t.”

The Lady Scorpions, however, still feel the trip to Santa Fe during

Please see ST. MIKE’S, Page B-3

UNM MEN’S BASKETBALL NEW MEXICO 76, FRESNO STATE 64

Spark of life for Lobos

Alabama coach Nick Saban, left, and Ohio State coach Urban Meyer pose Wednesday with the Sugar Bowl Classic trophy during a news conference in New Orleans.

Alabama is slated to square off against Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day. BRYNN ANDERSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Meyer’s goal of SEC North gets tested in Big Easy

By Paul Newberry The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — When Urban Meyer got back into coaching at Ohio State, he made it clear what kind of program he wanted to build.

SEC North.

Well, he’ll get a chance to see just how that plan is going when the Buckeyes take on the Southeastern Conference powerhouse everyone wants to emulate.

Top-ranked Alabama (12-1) will meet No. 5 Ohio State (12-1) in the Sugar Bowl on Thursday night, a semifinal game in college football’s new playoff system. The winner advances to the Jan. 12 national championship game against either Florida State or Oregon, which play in the other semifinal at the Rose Bowl.

The Crimson Tide is going for its fourth national championship in six seasons, a stunning run of dominance in what is supposed to be an era of increased parity.

“You can have that one-shot won-

Please see SUGAR, Page B-4

INSIDE u Roundup of Wednesday’s bowl games. u Ducks, ’Noles ready for Rose Bowl like no other. PAGE B-4 New Mexico’s Obij Aget, left, pulls down a rebound against Fresno State’s Julien Lewis during Wednesday’s game at The Pit in Albuquerque.

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UNM rebounds, beats Fresno State for MWC opener win

By Will Webber The New Mexican

ALBUQUERQUE nything for a spark.

That includes disciplinary measures against the best player on the team.

In his latest attempt to breathe a little life into his team’s stagnant offense, University of New Mexico men’s basketball coach Craig Neal pulled out a few more stops against Fresno State in the Mountain West Conference opener Wednesday night in The Pit. Electing to bench notoriously slow-starting senior Deshawn Delaney for the first eight-plus minutes due to an unspecified violation of team rules, the coach appeared to push all the right but-

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tons in a 76-64 win over the Bulldogs.

The team’s leading scorer and rebounder this season, Delaney sat for the first 8 minutes, 19 seconds as walk-on Tim Jacobs took his spot in the starting five.

Delaney still finished with 12 points, hitting both of his 3-point tries with five rebounds in 27 minutes — the fewest he has played since the third game of the season. Both he and junior forward Jordan Goodman ran afoul of Neal’s team policies, earning each a disciplinary measure from the coaching staff.

“The reason why D.D. played is because he’s been here and won a championship,” Neal said.

“Jordan hasn’t done anything yet. So, that was my decision and my staff’s decision.”

Once Delaney finally entered, he did have an

impact. He hit his first shot and was 4-for-8 from the field overall.

“He tried to make too many plays early but once he settled in he did some really good things as he always does, as a senior,” said point guard Hugh Greenwood.

The Lobos’ 76 points tied for the team’s secondmost this season and, perhaps more importantly, saw them shoot 59 percent from the floor. They hit 8 of 10 tries from 3-point range and had every player who saw action score at least five points.

Neal called it “a great team win” because it was an appropriate bounce-back from UNM’s ugly loss at Grand Canyon in its most recent game. That, and it was the opener of what should be a challenging MWC slate.

“I have to do whatever I can to help my team win,” Neal said. “I’m willing to do whatever it takes to win, but I also have to be willing to become a better coach and I think that’s one of the things

Please see LOBOS, Page B-3

NHL

Winter Classic shares New Year’s with new playoffs

By Joseph White Chicago Blackhawks teammates Wednesday try to score on goalie Antti Raanta at Nationals Park at the beginning of a team practice in preparation for the Winter Classic outdoor hockey game to be held on New Year’s Day. The Blackhawks will face off against the Washington Capitals.

SUSAN WALSH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — For the first time, the Winter Classic is sharing New Year’s Day with college football games that actually have something to do with the national championship.

Watch outdoor hockey in the afternoon and then go out for dinner? Or plan your day so that you’re home in time for the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl in the evening?

Brooks Laich thinks it should be a slam-dunk decision.

“This is one of my favorite

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

TODAY ON TV 11 a.m. on NBC — Winter Classic, Chicago vs. Washington, in Nationals Park

catchphrases to use of all time: ‘Who cares? It’s college,’ ” the Washington Capitals defenseman said. “I hope the rest of America has the same mindset I do.”

The NHL’s annual showcase has been able to establish a beachhead on Jan. 1 in part because college football essentially abandoned what used to

Please see CLASSIC, Page B-4

NFL

Suh won’t discuss Rodgers incident

By Noah Trister The Associated Press

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Ndamukong Suh says he is happy his suspension was lifted for Sunday’s playoff game in Dallas.

And that’s about all the Detroit defensive tackle was willing to offer about his successful appeal.

Suh spoke Wednesday, one day after a hearing officer overturned a one-game league suspension, saying the Lions’ star needed only to pay a $70,000 fine. Suh was suspended for stepping on Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ left leg twice last Sunday in a loss to Green Bay, but now he’ll be available for this weekend’s playoff game at Dallas.

“I’m just pleased with the decision and glad I have the opportunity — I can go against Dallas and help my teammates win the game,” Suh said.

“I think that’s most important.”

Suh made it clear he wasn’t going to elaborate about his suspension or the appeal. At first, he tried changing the subject by saying he was focused

Please see SUH, Page B-4

INSIDE u Doug Marrone steps down as head coach of Buffalo Bills. PAGE B-4

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THE NEW MEXICAN Thursday, January 1, 2015

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Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB Memphis 23 8 .742 — Houston 22 9 .710 1 Dallas 23 10 .697 1 San Antonio 20 14 .588 4½ New Orleans 16 16 .500 7½ Northwest W L Pct GB Portland 26 7 .788 — Oklahoma City 15 17 .469 10½ Denver 13 19 .406 12½ Utah 11 21 .344 14½ Minnesota 5 25 .167 19½ Pacific W GB L Pct Golden State 25 5 .833 — L.A. Clippers 22 11 .667 4½ Phoenix 18 15 .545 8½ Sacramento 13 19 .406 13 L.A. Lakers 10 22 .313 16 Wednesday’s Games Boston 106, Sacramento 84 Indiana 106, Miami 95 L.A. Clippers 99, New York 78 Houston 102, Charlotte 83 San Antonio 95, New Orleans 93, OT Milwaukee 96, Cleveland 80 Phoenix at Oklahoma City 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 Thursday’s Games Denver at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Friday’s Games Brooklyn at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

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

Houston at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Washington at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Utah, 7 p.m.

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

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

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

Jan. 10 — Contracts guaranteed for rest of season.

Wednesday Pacers 106, Heat 95 MIAMI (95) Deng 6-11 3-5 15, Andersen 3-7 5-6 11, Bosh 7-14 2-3 18, Chalmers 2-6 0-0 5, Wade 9-20 2-2 20, Cole 2-4 2-2 6, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Granger 6-9 0-0 14, Whiteside 3-6 0-0 6. Totals 38-77 14-18 95.

INDIANA (106) S.Hill 1-4 6-6 8, West 4-7 1-1 10, Hibbert 4-8 2-2 10, G.Hill 7-14 4-4 20, Stuckey 3-5 0-0 6, Miles 6-16 8-10 25, Allen 2-5 0-0 4, Watson 3-4 4-4 11, Scola 2-8 1-2 5, Copeland 3-8 0-1 7.

Totals 35-79 26-30 106.

Miami 24 27 19 25—95 Indiana 20 22 36 28—106 3-Point Goals—Miami 5-16 (Bosh 2-4, Granger 2-4, Chalmers 1-3, Cole 0-1, Deng 0-2, Wade 0-2), Indiana 10-18 (Miles 5-10, G.Hill 2-4, West 1-1, Watson 1-1, Copeland 1-2). Fouled Out— None. Rebounds—Miami 41 (Bosh 8), Indiana 50 (Hibbert 10). Assists— Miami 20 (Wade 7), Indiana 23 (West, Miles, Watson 4). Total Fouls—Miami 24, Indiana 18. Technicals—Whiteside, Williams, Copeland, G.Hill. A—18,165 (18,165).

Celtics 106, Kings 84 SACRAMENTO (84) Gay 4-19 1-2 9, Hollins 2-3 0-0 4, Cousins 5-17 1-2 11, Collison 4-10 6-6 14, McLemore 3-5 4-4 12, Landry 7-11 0-0 14, Stauskas 1-6 2-4 4, Evans 0-0 1-2 1, Williams 1-5 0-0 2, McCallum 4-8 3-6 11, Casspi 1-3 0-2 2. Totals 32-87 18-28 84.

BOSTON (106) Green 2-6 2-3 6, Sullinger 9-18 2-2 20, Zeller 3-5 1-1 7, Turner 4-10 2-2 10, Bradley 4-8 1-2 9, Olynyk 6-10 2-2 15, Smart 4-8 0-0 11, Bass 3-7 2-2 8, Crowder 5-10 1-1 12, Nelson 1-8 0-0 2, Wright 3-4 0-0 6, Pressey 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 44-94 13-15 106.

Sacramento 19 20 22 23—84 Boston 23 26 28 29—106 3-Point Goals—Sacramento 2-15 (McLemore 2-3, Stauskas 0-2, McCallum 0-2, Gay 0-2, Williams 0-2, Collison 0-4), Boston 5-21 (Smart 3-6, Olynyk 1-2, Crowder 1-4, Green 0-1, Sullinger 0-3, Nelson 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Sacramento 62 (Cousins 11), Boston 55 (Sullinger

11). Assists—Sacramento 12 (Collison 5), Boston 32 (Turner 11). Total Fouls—Sacramento 17, Boston 23.

Technicals—Cousins 2, Smart. Flagrant Fouls—Zeller. Ejected—Cousins.

A—18,624 (18,624).

Clippers 99, Knicks 78 NEW YORK (78) Anthony 7-18 4-6 19, Ja.Smith 1-5 1-2 3, Aldrich 4-9 0-0 8, Hardaway Jr. 2-7 0-0 5, Calderon 2-5 0-0 4, Prigioni 3-6 2-2 9, Bargnani 4-11 1-2 9, Larkin 3-7 0-0 6, J. Smith 3-10 0-1 7, Acy 3-5 2-2 8, Wear 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 32-84 10-15 78.

L.A. CLIPPERS (99) Barnes 3-7 0-0 9, Griffin 6-16 1-3 13, Jordan 6-6 2-7 14, Paul 2-11 0-0 5, Redick 7-13 2-3 20, Hawes 4-7 0-0 10, Crawford 4-10 3-3 13, Farmar 3-5 2-2 11, Davis 0-4 2-2 2, Bullock 0-2 0-0 0, Cunningham 1-1 0-0 2, Udoh 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 36-82 12-20 99.

New York 21 19 18 20—78 L.A. Clippers 29 21 24 25—99 3-Point Goals—New York 4-17 (Anthony 1-2, J. Smith 1-3, Prigioni 1-4, Hardaway Jr. 1-5, Larkin 0-1, Calderon 0-1, Acy 0-1), L.A. Clippers 15-34 (Redick 4-8, Farmar 3-5, Barnes 3-6, Hawes 2-3, Crawford 2-7, Paul 1-4, Bullock 0-1). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—New York 49 (Ja.Smith 10), L.A. Clippers 62 (Jordan 12).

Assists—New York 24 (Aldrich, Larkin 5), L.A. Clippers 28 (Griffin 11). Total Fouls—New York 19, L.A. Clippers 13.

Technicals—Acy, Barnes. A—19,198 (19,060).

Bucks 96, Cavaliers 80 MILWAUKEE (96) Antetokounmpo 5-11 3-4 14, O’Bryant 1-5 0-2 2, Pachulia 4-9 1-2 9, Knight 11-19 0-0 26, Middleton 3-9 1-2 9, Dudley 4-8 0-0 9, Henson 3-8 0-0 6, Mayo 6-13 0-0 15, Marshall 1-5 0-0 2, Wolters 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 40-90 5-10 96.

CLEVELAND (80) Miller 2-8 0-0 5, Thompson 3-11 4-4 10, Haywood 2-5 0-1 4, Irving 9-23 6-7 25, Dellavedova 3-8 2-2 11, Harris 1-5 0-0 2, Amundson 0-2 0-0 0, Waiters 5-10 0-0 10, Jones 3-8 0-0 9, Price 1-4 2-2 4, Kirk 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 29-85 14-16 80.

Milwaukee 31 21 19 25—96 Cleveland 18 29 7 26—80 3-Point Goals—Milwaukee 11-25 (Knight 4-9, Mayo 3-6, Middleton 2-5, Dudley 1-2, Antetokounmpo 1-3), Cleveland 8-31 (Dellavedova 3-5, Jones 3-6, Miller 1-6, Irving 1-7, Price 0-1, Waiters 0-2, Harris 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Milwaukee 61 (Pachulia, Middleton, Antetokounmpo 8), Cleveland 52 (Thompson 13).

Assists—Milwaukee 25 (Antetokounmpo 5), Cleveland 19 (Dellavedova, Waiters, Irving 4). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 18, Cleveland 16. Technicals— Milwaukee defensive three second.

A—20,562 (20,562).

Rockets 102, Hornets 83 CHARLOTTE (83) Kidd-Gilchrist 6-15 4-4 16, Zeller 3-5 0-0 6, Biyombo 1-2 7-10 9, Walker 4-11 3-3 12, Henderson 7-14 2-2 16, Maxiell 2-4 0-0 4, Williams 1-4 0-0 3, Neal 3-7 4-5 10, Hairston 1-6 0-0 2, Roberts 1-7 2-2 5, Vonleh 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 29-76 22-26 83.

HOUSTON (102) Ariza 4-12 1-1 10, Smith 2-7 0-2 5, Howard 5-5 1-3 11, Beverley 5-16 0-0 14, Harden 12-19 4-4 36, Motiejunas 5-13 2-2 12, Brewer 2-8 0-0 5, Terry 2-4 0-0 5, Dorsey 0-0 1-2 1, Canaan 0-2 0-0 0, Johnson 1-1 0-0 3, Papanikolaou 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 38-88 9-14 102.

Charlotte 25 20 23 15—83 Houston 23 24 29 26—102 3-Point Goals—Charlotte 3-18 (Walker 1-3, Roberts 1-3, Williams 1-4, Henderson 0-2, Neal 0-2, Hairston 0-4), Houston 17-43 (Harden 8-11, Beverley 4-12, Johnson 1-1, Terry 1-1, Smith 1-2, Brewer 1-4, Ariza 1-9, Motiejunas 0-1, Canaan 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Charlotte 54 (Kidd-Gilchrist 8), Houston 52 (Howard 8). Assists—Charlotte 15 (Walker 5), Houston 22 (Harden 6).

Total Fouls—Charlotte 17, Houston 25.

Technicals—Houston defensive three second. A—18,276 (18,023).

Spurs 95, Pelicans 93 NEW ORLEANS (93) Babbitt 1-2 0-0 3, Davis 8-12 5-6 21, Asik 0-2 3-4 3, Holiday 5-18 0-0 13, Evans 5-18 5-6 15, Rivers 2-7 0-0 4, R.Anderson 7-18 2-2 18, Fredette 5-8 2-2 14, Cunningham 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 34-89 17-20 93.

SAN ANTONIO (95) K.Anderson 2-3 0-0 4, Duncan 6-12 4-6 16, Bonner 1-4 0-0 2, Joseph 4-9 1-2 9, Green 3-13 1-2 7, Splitter 3-7 0-0 6, Belinelli 4-8 2-4 10, Ginobili 9-17 3-4 26, Mills 3-9 0-0 7, Diaw 4-7 0-0 8.

Totals 39-89 11-18 95.

New Orleans 14 14 32 24 9—93 San Antonio 17 21 24 22 11—95 3-Point Goals—New Orleans 8-28 (Holiday 3-6, Fredette 2-3, R.Anderson 2-8, Babbitt 1-2, Rivers 0-3, Evans 0-6), San Antonio 6-24 (Ginobili 5-8, Mills 1-5, Bonner 0-1, Belinelli 0-2, Green 0-8). Fouled Out—Holiday.

Rebounds—New Orleans 58 (Asik, Davis 12), San Antonio 57 (Duncan 10). Assists—New Orleans 15 (Holiday 9), San Antonio 24 (Duncan 5). Total Fouls—New Orleans 20, San Antonio 19. A—18,581 (18,797).

FOOTBALL NCAA BASKETBALL Men’s Top 25

NFL Playoffs Wild-card Playoffs

Wednesday’s Games No. 2 Duke 84, Wofford 55 No. 4 Wisconsin 89, Penn State 72 No. 6 Villanova 67, Butler 55 No. 9 Iowa State vs. MVSU Seton Hall 78, No. 15 St. John’s 67 No. 16 Wichita State at Drake No. 18 Oklahoma 61, George Mason 43 No. 24 Colorado State vs. Boise State No. 25 Georgetown at Xavier 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

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)

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

Pro Bowl

Men’s Division I Wednesday’s Games Far West CS Bakersfield 87, La Verne 36 San Diego St. 53, Air Force 49 UC Irvine 82, Hampden-Sydney 53 Southwest Oklahoma 61, George Mason 43 SMU 83, South Florida 49 South Austin Peay 65, North Florida 60 Campbell 53, Liberty 46 Coastal Carolina 83, High Point 68 Duke 84, Wofford 55 Gardner-Webb 81, Presbyterian 64 Memphis 73, Houston 54 Northeastern 58, Richmond 57 N’western St. 94, Louisiana College 68 Tennessee 71, ETSU 61 Tennessee St. 73, Kennesaw St. 62 Tulane 67, East Carolina 59 Tulsa 56, UCF 54 UNC Asheville 62, Radford 60 UNC Greensboro 92, Mars Hill 48 Wake Forest 80, Princeton 66 Winthrop 82, Longwood 72, OT Midwest DePaul 61, Marquette 58 Georgia 50, Kansas St. 46 Green Bay 54, Chicago St. 50 Indiana 70, Nebraska 65 Indiana St. 63, Illinois St. 61 Iowa St. 83, MVSU 33 Loyola of Chicago 64, Bradley 49 Missouri St. 53, S. Illinois 50 Purdue 72, Minnesota 68 Vanderbilt 70, Saint Louis 55 Wichita St. 66, Drake 58 Wisconsin 89, Penn St. 72 Youngstown St. 78, N. Kentucky 74 East Boston U. 75, Holy Cross 72, OT Bucknell 57, American U. 47 Colgate 68, Lehigh 61 Dartmouth 76, Bryant 59 Fordham 74, SC State 54 Hofstra 84, CCSU 56 Lafayette 92, Army 78 Navy 70, Loyola (Md.) 47 Rhode Island 80, Brown 60 Seton Hall 78, St. John’s 67 Syracuse 61, Cornell 44 Temple 57, UConn 53, OT Villanova 67, Butler 55

MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE Overall W L Colorado St. 13 0 Wyoming 11 2 San Diego St. 11 3 Boise St. 10 3 UNLV 9 3 New Mexico 9 4 5 Air Force 7 Utah St. 7 5 Fresno St. 5 9 Nevada 3 8 San Jose St. 2 10 Wednesday’s Games San Diego St. 53, Air Force 49 New Mexico 76, Fresno St. 64 UNLV at Wyoming Boise St. at Colorado St. San Jose St. at Utah St.

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)

PCT 1.000 .846 .786 .769 .750 .692 .583 .583 .357 .273 .167

Women’s Top 25 Wednesday’s Games No. 2 UConn 89, East Carolina 38 No. 5 Texas A&M 75, North Texas 38 Indiana 70, No. 24 Michigan State 51 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

Women’s Division I Wednesday’s Games Far West Boise St. 75, Colorado St. 65 Cal St.-Fullerton 72, UMKC 52 Fresno St. 71, New Mexico 65 Southwest Texas A&M 75, North Texas 38 Tulsa 74, Cincinnati 52 South South Florida 72, Memphis 39 Stetson 72, UNC Wilmington 55 UConn 89, East Carolina 38 Wake Forest 77, W. Carolina 59 Midwest Dayton 98, Cent. Michigan 89 Indiana 70, Michigan St. 51 Wright St. 118, Central 70 East American U. 60, Bucknell 55 Boston College 66, Northeastern 56 Bryant 57, New Hampshire 54 George Washington 82, Towson 48 Holy Cross 71, Boston U. 48 Lafayette 71, Army 60 Lehigh 86, Colgate 68 Loyola (Md.) 55, Navy 49

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)

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

Jan. 10-11 — Divisional playoffs.

Jan. 18 — Conference championships.

Jan. 25 — Pro Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.

Feb. 1 — Super Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.

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

NFL Injury Report The National Football League injury report, as provided by the league (OUT - Definitely will not play; DNP - Did not practice; LIMITED - Limited participation in practice; FULL - Full participation in practice): BALTIMORE RAVENS at PITTSBURGH STEELERS RAVENS: DNP: LB Arthur Brown (thigh), DT Timmy Jernigan (foot, ankle), T Eugene Monroe (ankle).

FULL: DE Chris Canty (ankle, thigh).

STEELERS: DNP: T Mike Adams (illness), RB Le’Veon Bell (knee), TE Heath Miller (not injury related), QB Ben Roethlisberger (not injury related). LIMITED: NT Steve McLendon (shoulder), TE Michael Palmer (groin). FULL: S Troy Polamalu (knee), CB Ike Taylor (shoulder, forearm).

ARIZONA CARDINALS at CAROLINA PANTHERS CARDINALS: DNP: QB Drew Stanton (knee), NT Dan Williams (foot).

LIMITED: G Jonathan Cooper (wrist, knee), DT Frostee Rucker (ankle).

FULL: DE Calais Campbell (hip), LB Larry Foote (knee), S Tyrann Mathieu (thumb, hip), C Lyle Sendlein (back).

PANTHERS: DNP: QB Derek Anderson (illness), G Fernando Velasco (not injury related). LIMITED: S Thomas DeCoud (hamstring). FULL: LB A.J. Klein (ankle), RB DeAngelo Williams (hand).

CINCINNATI BENGALS at INDIANAPOLIS COLTS BENGALS: DNP: WR A.J. Green (concussion), TE Jermaine Gresham (back), CB Leon Hall (not injury related), RB Cedric Peerman (concussion), WR James Wright (knee).

COLTS: DNP: WR Josh Cribbs (not injury related), C A.Q. Shipley (ankle), G Hugh Thornton (shoulder). LIMITED: T Gosder Cherilus (groin), LB Erik Walden (knee), WR Reggie Wayne (groin), LB Bjoern Werner (shoulder).

FULL: TE Dwayne Allen (knee), LB Jerrell Freeman (hamstring), G Joe Reitz (ankle).

DETROIT LIONS at DALLAS COWBOYS LIONS: DNP: DT Nick Fairley (knee), G Larry Warford (knee). LIMITED: WR Calvin Johnson (ankle). COWBOYS: DNP: T Doug Free (ankle), DT Nick Hayden (shoulder), LB Anthony Hitchens (ankle), LB Rolando McClain (knee, illness), QB Tony Romo (back), S C.J. Spillman (groin). LIMITED: LB Dekoda Watson (hamstring). FULL: DT Josh Brent (calf), G Zack Martin (ankle), RB DeMarco Murray (hand).

NCAA FOOTBALL FBS Bowls Wednesday, Dec. 31 Peach Bowl - At Atlanta Mississippi vs. TCU Fiesta Bowl - At Glendale, Ariz.

Boise State vs. Arizona Orange Bowl - At Miami Gardens, Fla. Mississippi State vs. Georgia Tech 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)

HOCKEY

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)

FBS Bowls Summaries No. 6 TCU 42, No. 9 MISSISSIPPI 3 Mississippi 0 0 0 3—3 TCU 14 14 14 0—42 First Quarter TCU—Green 31 pass from Listenbee (Oberkrom kick), 14:00.

TCU—Green 15 run (Oberkrom kick), 6:23.

Second Quarter TCU—Doctson 12 pass from Boykin (Oberkrom kick), 11:00.

TCU—McFarland 0 interception return (Oberkrom kick), 2:00.

Third Quarter TCU—Listenbee 35 pass from Boykin (Oberkrom kick), 13:37.

TCU—Doctson 27 pass from Boykin (Oberkrom kick), 13:09.

Fourth Quarter Miss—FG Wunderlich 27, 7:18.

A—65,706.

Miss TCU First downs 10 24 Rushes-yards 37-9 42-177 Passing 120 246 Comp-Att-Int 11-27-3 27-37-3 Return Yards 39 7 Punts-Avg. 8-43.1 4-42.3 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 2-1 Penalties-Yards 6-44 5-55 Time of Possession 25:00 35:00 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Mississippi, Wilkins 4-61, Mathers 7-26, Kincade 3-5, Walton 8-3, Wallace 14-(minus 14), Team 1-(minus 72). TCU, Green 18-68, Boykin 10-65, T.Johnson 8-31, Hicks 4-6, Murphy 1-4, Echols-Luper 1-3.

PASSING—Mississippi, Wallace 10-23-3-109, Kincade 1-3-0-11, Team 0-1-0-0. TCU, Boykin 22-31-3-187, Kohlhausen 4-5-0-28, Listenbee 1-1-0-31.

RECEIVING—Mississippi, Pack 4-55, Core 3-28, Engram 1-11, Mathers 1-11, Adeboyejo 1-10, Walton 1-5.

TCU, Doctson 6-59, Listenbee 3-44, Slanina 3-16, D.Porter 3-15, Green 2-46, E.Porter 2-20, Gray 2-18, Moore 2-12, Gilbert 1-8, D.White 1-8, Story 1-2, Boykin 1-(minus 2).

No. 21 BOISE ST. 38, No. 12 ARIZONA 30 Boise St. 21 10 7 0—38 Arizona 7 10 10 3—30 First Quarter Boi—Ajayi 56 run (Goodale kick), 13:18.

Boi—Anderson 57 pass from Hedrick (Goodale kick), 9:17.

Boi—Ajayi 16 run (Goodale kick), 5:12.

Ari—Solomon 1 run (Skowron kick), 1:23.

Second Quarter Boi—Ajayi 1 run (Goodale kick), 11:56.

Ari—Wilson 1 run (Skowron kick), 8:03.

Ari—FG Skowron 42, :30.

Boi—FG Goodale 36, :03.

Third Quarter Ari—FG Skowron 24, 9:11.

Boi—Deayon 16 interception return (Goodale kick), 1:57.

Ari—Grant 51 pass from Solomon (Skowron kick), :41.

Fourth Quarter Ari—FG Skowron 32, 6:11.

A—66,896.

Boi Ari First downs 22 29 Rushes-yards 34-162 56-157 Passing 309 335 Comp-Att-Int 24-35-1 28-50-2 Return Yards 46 33 Punts-Avg. 9-47.6 7-43.1 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 6-72 6-55 Time of Possession 29:01 30:59 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Boise St., Ajayi 22-134, Hedrick 8-29, McNichols 2-4, WilliamsRhodes 2-(minus 5). Arizona, Wilson 19-86, Jones-Grigsby 14-39, Solomon 23-32.

PASSING—Boise St., Hedrick 24-341-309, Sperbeck 0-1-0-0. Arizona, Solomon 28-49-2-335, Team 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING—Boise St., Sperbeck 12-199, Ajayi 5-(minus 1), Anderson 3-80, Roh 2-9, Ware 1-17, Huff 1-5.

Arizona, C.Jones 8-117, Griffey 6-66, Grant 4-69, Jones-Grigsby 4-40, Hill 3-25, Neal 1-7, Johnson 1-6, Bondurant 1-5.

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic GP W Tampa Bay 39 24 Montreal 37 24 Detroit 37 19 Toronto 37 20 Florida 35 16 Boston 37 19 Ottawa 36 15 Buffalo 38 14 Metro GP W Pittsburgh 37 23 N.Y. Islanders 37 25 N.Y. Rangers 35 20 Washington 36 18 Columbus 35 16 Philadelphia 36 14 New Jersey 38 13 Carolina 37 10

L OL Pts GFGA 11 4 52 127 100 11 2 50 100 86 9 9 47 105 94 14 3 43 124 111 10 9 41 82 93 15 3 41 98 99 14 7 37 97 99 21 3 31 76 128 LOL Pts GF GA 9 5 51 111 87 11 1 51 117 103 11 4 44 107 89 11 7 43 105 94 16 3 35 89 110 16 6 34 100 109 18 7 33 82 108 23 4 24 73 100

Western Conference Central GP W LOL Pts GF GA Chicago 37 25 10 2 52 117 78 Nashville 36 24 9 3 51 106 78 St. Louis 37 22 12 3 47 108 93 Winnipeg 38 19 12 7 45 96 92 Minnesota 35 17 14 4 38 100 98 Dallas 35 16 14 5 37 102 118 Colorado 36 13 15 8 34 92 109 Pacific GP W LOL Pts GF GA Anaheim 38 24 8 6 54 107 101 Vancouver 35 21 11 3 45 103 94 Los Angeles 38 18 12 8 44 103 94 San Jose 37 19 13 5 43 101 96 Calgary 38 20 15 3 43 110 100 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.

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 5, Winnipeg 2 Tampa Bay 5, Buffalo 1 N.Y. Rangers 5, Florida 2 Pittsburgh 2, Carolina 1 Columbus 3, Minnesota 1 Toronto at Boston New Jersey at Detroit San Jose at Anaheim Arizona at Dallas Philadelphia at Colorado Edmonton at Calgary Tuesday’s Games Montreal 2, Florida 1, SO Edmonton 3, Los Angeles 2, SO Nashville 3, St. Louis 2 Vancouver 3, San Jose 1 Thursday’s Games Chicago vs. Washington at Washington, DC, 11 a.m.

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Friday’s Games Florida at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Montreal at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Colorado, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Calgary, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

NHL SUMMARIES Rangers 5, Panthers 2 N.Y. Rangers 1 2 2—5 Florida 0 1 1—2 First Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, Kreider 6 (Stepan, Klein), 16:42.

Second Period—2, N.Y. Rangers, Brassard 9 (McDonagh, Hagelin), 1:29. 3, N.Y. Rangers, McDonagh 3, 14:28 (pp). 4, Florida, Fleischmann 4 (Huberdeau), 16:38.

Third Period—5, Florida, J.Hayes 11 (Barkov, Bolland), 7:39 (pp). 6, N.Y. Rangers, St. Louis 12 (Stepan, Kreider), 9:51. 7, N.Y. Rangers, D.Moore 2 (St. Louis, Stepan), 15:35.

Shots on Goal—N.Y. Rangers 12-1210—34. Florida 7-5-8—20.

Goalies—N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist.

Florida, Montoya. A—15,090 (17,040).

T—2:24.

Lightning 5, Sabres 1 Tampa Bay 1 1 3—5 Buffalo 1 0 0—1 First Period—1, Tampa Bay, Carle 4 (Palat), 7:48. 2, Buffalo, Ennis 9 (Zadorov, Moulson), 12:33 (pp).

Second Period—3, Tampa Bay, Palat 9 (Johnson, Kucherov), 19:02 (pp).

Third Period—4, Tampa Bay, Connolly 7 (Stralman, Palat), 5:20. 5, Tampa Bay, Kucherov 16 (Johnson, Stralman), 8:40. 6, Tampa Bay, Kucherov 17 (Palat, Johnson), 18:05.

Shots on Goal—Tampa Bay 6-5-14—25.

Buffalo 4-6-1—11.

Goalies—Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy.

Buffalo, Enroth. A—19,070 (19,070).

T—2:23.

Penguins 2, Hurricanes 1 Carolina 1 0 0—1 Pittsburgh 1 0 1—2 First Period—1, Carolina, E.Staal 9 (Lindholm, Tlusty), 9:12. 2, Pittsburgh, Kunitz 11 (Bennett, Ebbett), 19:38.

Second Period—None.

Third Period—3, Pittsburgh, Bra.Sutter 8 (Bennett, Kunitz), 18:18.

Shots on Goal—Carolina 6-7-12—25.

Pittsburgh 9-17-13—39.

Goalies—Carolina, Ward. Pittsburgh, M.Fleury. A—18,639 (18,387). T—2:14.

Blue Jackets 3, Wild 1 Minnesota 1 0 0—1 Columbus 0 1 2—3 First Period—1, Minnesota, Parise 14 (Koivu, Vanek), 15:58 (pp).

Second Period—2, Columbus, Connauton 5, 19:14.

Third Period—3, Columbus, Savard 6 (Connauton, Dubinsky), 5:57 (pp). 4, Columbus, Johansen 10 (Dubinsky, Foligno), 19:37 (en).

Shots on Goal—Minnesota 12-512—29. Columbus 8-8-10—26.

Goalies—Minnesota, Kuemper.

Columbus, Bobrovsky. A—18,040 (18,144). T—2:24.

NBA ROUNDUP

Hill, 2nd-half rally push Indiana past Miami The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — C.J. Miles scored 25 points, George Hill added 20 and the Indiana Pacers beat the Miami Heat 106-95 Pacers 106 on Wednesday.

Heat 95 The Pacers (12-21) have won six straight regular-season home games against the Heat.

Dwyane Wade led Miami (14-19) with 20 points. Chris Bosh had 18 points and eight rebounds, but the Heat lost their third straight since beating LeBron James and the Cavaliers on Christmas.

Miami appeared to be in position to end the skid after scoring the last four points of the second quarter and extending the lead to 56-46 early in the third.

But Miles and C.J. Watson combined for 10 points in a quarter-closing 17-2 run that erased a 68-61 deficit and gave the Pacers a 78-70 lead.

CLIPPERS 99, KNICKS 78 In Los Angeles, J.J. Redick scored 20 points, and the Clippers handed the Knicks a year-ending ninth consecutive loss.

DeAndre Jordan added 14 points and 12 rebounds for Los Angeles, and Blake Griffin had 13 points, seven rebounds

and tied his career high with 11 assists.

Jordan and Griffin scored four points apiece in a 13-0 run at the start of the third period that stretched the Clippers’ lead from 10 points to 23.

Carmelo Anthony was the only Knicks player in double figures with 19 points despite a sore right knee.

Knicks team president Phil Jackson was on hand at Staples Center, where he once guided the Lakers to repeat NBA championships. New York tied a season low for points while dropping to 2-16 on the road.

CELTICS 106, KINGS 84 In Boston, Jared Sullinger had 20 points and 11 rebounds, and the

Celtics snapped a four-game losing streak.

Kelly Olynyk added 15 points for Boston, which never trailed and avoided matching its longest losing streak this season.

Darren Collison and Carl Landry each scored 14 points to lead the Kings, who lost for the ninth time in 11 games.

Sacramento forward DeMarcus Cousins was ejected after collecting his second technical of the game midway into the final quarter. He finished with 11 points and 11 rebounds.

Boston led by 16 after three quarters and pushed it to 92-67 when Olynyk’s 3-pointer capped a 9-0 spurt with just over seven minutes to play.

BUCKS 98, CAVALIERS 80 In Cleveland, Brandon Knight scored 26 points Wednesday night and Milwaukee led most of the way in a win over the short-handed Cavaliers, who played without LeBron James for the second straight game.

James was sidelined because of a sore left knee, an injury that also forced him to miss Tuesday’s game against Atlanta. Kevin Love was out with back spasms, and the Cavaliers went on to their fourth loss in five games.

O.J. Mayo scored 15 points for the Bucks, and Giannis Antetokounmpo added 14 points, eight rebounds and five assists.

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Shepard, Aztecs hold off Air Force SCOREBOARD

By Bernie Wilson

The Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — Winston Shepard scored the final five points for San Diego State, which blew almost all SDSU 53 of a 19-point, first-half Air Force 49 lead before beating Air Force 53-49 Wednesday in a Mountain West Conference opener.

JJ O’Brien scored 10 points and Aqeel Quinn and Matt Shrigley nine each for SDSU (11-3, 1-0), the defending regularseason champion which won its eighth straight conference opener. SDSU has won four straight against Air Force.

The Aztecs led by 19 with less than two minutes to go in the first half but Air Force came on strong in the second half and pulled within two points three times.

After Hayden Graham made a layup to pull Air Force to 48-46 with 2:58 left, Shepard — who had missed 10 of his first 11 shots — made a clutch jumper from the baseline.

Air Force answered with a layup by Justin Hammonds with 1:35 left.

Each team missed a shot before Air Force’s Max Yon was fouled and made the front end of a one-and-one to make it 50-49, but missed the second shot.

Shepard rebounded the miss, was fouled and made the front end of a one-and-one for a two-point lead but missed the second.

Marek Olesinski rebounded and Air Force played for a final shot but Zach Kocur couldn’t handle a pass from Max Yon and lost it out of bounds with four seconds left.

Shepard was fouled and hit both shots with 3.2 seconds left.

Yon scored 15 and Kamryn Williams 11 for Air Force (7-5, 0-1).

Air Force outscored SDSU 15-4 to open the second half, including a 3-pointer and two free throws by Olesinski. A three-point play by Kamryn Williams, who suffered an Achilles injury late in the game, pulled the Falcons to 37-34 with 15:07 left.

SDSU blunted that run with a layup by O’Brien and a jumper by Quinn before Kocur made a layup. Quinn hit a 3-pointer with 11:50 left to give SDSU a 44-34 lead.

The Aztecs had a 12-0 run in outscoring the Falcons 23-11 during the last 10 minutes of the first half.

The Aztecs’ biggest lead was 31-12 after Shrigley’s third 3-pointer of the half, with 1:57 left.

SDSU led 33-19 at halftime.

Aztecs senior forward Dwayne Polee II missed his second straight game since collapsing during a game against UC Riverside on Dec. 22. The Aztecs didn’t have a medical update on Polee.

San Diego hosts New Mexico on Jan. 7.

NO. 2 DUKE 84, WOFFORD 55 In Durham, N.C., freshman center Jahlil Okafor scored 24 points and No. 2 Duke beat Wofford.

Justise Winslow added 16 points and Quinn Cook had 15 for the Blue Devils (12-0).

They shot nearly 56 percent — 71 percent in the second half — and broke open a tight game by outscoring Wofford 43-21 in the final 20 minutes, then turned it into a full-on rout by scoring the final 13 points.

Okafor was 11 of 13 from the field while reaching the 20-point mark for the fifth time in seven games.

Karl Cochran had 13 points on 5-of-17 shooting to lead the Terriers (9-4).

They shot 38 percent and kept it close well into the second half but went nearly 5 critical minutes between field goals while fading for their second straight loss. Both have come on the home floors of nationally ranked opponents.

NO. 4 WISCONSIN 89, PENN STATE 72 In Madison, Wis., Frank Kaminsky had 18 points and 14 rebounds, Nigel Hayes scored 21 points and Wisconsin shot a blistering 63 percent from the field to beat Penn State.

The Badgers (13-1) won their sixth straight with Kaminsky leading a balanced attack. The preseason All-American had secured his sixth double-double of the season by midway through the second half with Wisconsin comfortably ahead by double digits.

D.J. Newbill scored 29 points for Penn State (12-2), which had its 10-game winning streak snapped. The Big Ten’s leading scorer was 5-of-11 shooting in the second half after going 6 of 7 in the first.

Sam Dekker scored 17 for the Badgers and shot 7 of 10 from the field.

NO. 6 VILLANOVA 67, BUTLER 55 In Villanova, Pa., Ryan Arcidiacono scored 15 points and JayVaughn Pinkston had 13 to help Villanova beat Butler and match the best start in program history.

The Wildcats are 13-0 (1-0 Big East) for the first time since the 1937-38 season.

That team lost for the first time in its 14th game.

Daniel Ochefu had 10 points and nine rebounds for Villanova, and Kris Jenkins scored 11.

Alex Barlow and Andrew Chrabascz both scored 12 points for Butler (10-4, 0-1).

The Big East-favorite Wildcats opened an 11-point lead in the first half and then built a second double-digit lead after the Bulldogs pulled within four at halftime.

SETON HALL 78, NO. 15 ST. JOHN’S 67 In Newark, N.J., Sterling Gibbs had 25 points and eight assists to lead Seton Hall over St. John’s in the Big East opener for both teams.

Jaren Sina added 14 points for the Pirates (11-2, 1-0) in their first victory over a ranked

opponent since stunning No. 3 Villanova in the conference tournament last March.

The Red Storm (11-2, 0-1) had won seven straight since their only previous loss, 73-66 to then-No. 10 Gonzaga in late November.

Freshman forward Angel Delgado added 13 points and 12 rebounds for Seton Hall, and senior forward Brandon Mobley had 13 points with 10 boards.

D’Angelo Harrison paced St. John’s with 25 points before fouling out.

NO. 18 OKLAHOMA 61, GEORGE MASON 43 In Norman, Okla., Buddy Hield scored all but two of his 17 points in the first half, and Oklahoma shut down George Mason.

The Sooners improved to 9-3 in the final game for both schools before conference play begins.

Oklahoma’s swarming defense held George Mason to 29.5 percent shooting from the field, including 0 for 14 on 3-pointers. The Sooners also forced 11 turnovers that led to 14 points.

George Mason (5-7) was led by Shevon Thompson’s nine points and 11 rebounds.

NO. 16 WICHITA STATE 66, DRAKE 58 In Des Moines, Ron Baker scored 23 points, including 13 straight down the stretch, and 16th-ranked Wichita State opened league play with a win over Drake.

Tekele Cotton had 17 points for the Shockers (11-2, 1-0 MVC), who answered a Christmas Day loss to George Washington with their 22nd straight Missouri Valley conference victory.

But Wichita State struggled for much of the night against the team with the worst record in the Valley. The Shockers didn’t take their first double-digit lead, 56-46, until there was 5:49 left.

Baker’s layup with 1:02 remaining gave Wichita State a 64-57 lead, and Drake turned it over on the next possession.

Jacob Enevold had 12 points with 15 rebounds for Drake (3-10). The Bulldogs shot just 33 percent from the field.

NO. 9 IOWA STATE 83, MVSU 33 In Ames, Iowa, Naz Long made seven 3-pointers and scored a season-high 24 points as No. 9 Iowa State cruised past Mississippi Valley State.

Jameel McKay added 10 points and six rebounds for the Cyclones (10-1), who shot 51 percent from the field to help coach Fred Hoiberg earn his 100th career win.

Iowa State used a 13-0 run to build a 23-9 lead 9 minutes into the game and carried a 47-18 advantage into halftime.

Bryce Dejean-Jones had eight points, six assists and five rebounds for the Cyclones, who held the Delta Devils to 24.1 percent shooting.

Jeffrey Simmons and Isaac Williams had six points apiece for MVSU (1-12), which lost its sixth in a row.

Lobos: Greenwood leads with 16 points Continued from Page B-1 I’m going to have be willing to do with this team. I’m going to have to bring them energy, my passion for the game, my love for this school. That’s just part of being a good coach.”

The first half was all about balance for the Lobos (9-4 overall, 1-0 MWC). Of the nine players who got onto the floor in the first 20 minutes, eight scored. That included eight quick points from starting guard Xavier Adams, thus establishing a career high.

Adams was in the starting backcourt alongside Jacobs.

While Neal has made Delaney’s slow starts a common talking point this season, UNM didn’t seem to respond well at first as the Bulldogs took a 16-12 lead at the first media timeout.

Once Delaney checked in, the Lobo rally began as Obij Aget ignited an 18-2 run in which Fresno State had just one bucket in a seven-anda-half minute stretch. Hugh Greenwood and Adams had 3-pointers in the run as six different Lobos scored. That included a ferocious dunk by freshman Sam Logwood after he swooped into snare a missed jumper to slam it home.

Logwood’s return was a welcome sight for UNM fans, who hadn’t seen him take the floor since he injured his shoulder on Dec. 13 and missed each of the last three games.

Suiting up but not playing at all was junior Arthur Edwards.

The shooting guard had surgery on a dislocated finger before Thanksgiving and had missed seven straight games.

He did participate in pregame warmups but never got off the bench.

Up 36-29 at halftime, the Lobos let Fresno State close within 41-38 on a three-point play by Karachi Edo with 16 minutes left. That kickstarted another run, this one

by Greenwood and Delaney.

Greenwood hit back to back 3-pointers, then he fed Delaney with a one-bounce pass in front of the New Mexico bench for another trey to make it 50-38.

Less than two minutes later it was a 16-point lead and the Lobos never let the Bulldogs closer than nine the rest of the way.

Greenwood had 16 points to lead New Mexico. Williams added 10 while Aget and Adams each had eight.

NOTES u Nationally ranked Colorado State visits The Pit on Saturday in a game to be televised on the CBS Sports Network. The Rams, who started the season 13-0 and debuted in the Associated Press Top 25 at No. 24 two weeks ago, opened their MWC slate at home Wednesday night against Boise State. u Scouts from the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers took in Wednesday’s game in The Pit. The Pacers’ scout was Pat Knight, former head coach at Texas Tech and the son of hall of fame coach Bobby Knight. u Goodman was the only healthy Lobo not to get any playing time. The talented but oft-injured (and scrutinized) junior has sat out five games and never played more than 20 minutes in any of the eight contests he has entered.

St. Mike’s: Third tourney win of the year Continued from Page B-1 the holidays was worth it. After their last five games were decided by double digits, they got a clinic in how to compete in tight games.

“I thought it was great for our girls because we’ve never really been in this situation,” Secrest said. “When you get down to it, it’s nice to have that experience.

We learned to win, now we need to learn to win the close ones.”

This lesson gives the Lady Horsemen their third tournament win of the year after they took gold at the Bobby Rodriguez Capital City Tournament and the Ben Lujan Tournament, and they’re hoping the New Mexico Activities Association takes note of that when it comes time to make up the Class AAAA State Tournament bracket.

“It’s just nice résumé stuff for seeding down the road,” Romero said.

Groenewold led St. Michael’s with 20 points and picked up her second most valuable player award this year after also getting the honor at the Capital City Tour-

nament. Her trophies are starting to pile up, but she really only cares about getting the “W.” “I’d rather have the win than all these accomplishments,” she said. “As long as we’re winning, that’s what’s most important to me, but it’s nice that I get recognized.”

But the fact that the Lady Horsemen finally won their own tournament is special, and it’s something this team can hang its hat on for eternity.

“We’re the first team to win the tournament,” Groenewold said. “We’ll have that now forever.”

Taos (8-8) while Feliz Espinoza added 13 points.

THIRD PLACE

ESPAÑOLA VALLEY JV 56, EAST MOUNTAIN 33 The junior Lady Sundevils had an easier time with the Lady Timberwolves by outscoring East Mountain 26-12 in the second half.

Marina Padilla scored 15 points to lead Española and Savannah Montoya added 11 points. Chenoa Crites led East Mountain with 16 points while Raeanna VanDemark scored 10 points.

POJOAQUE VALLEY 45, TAOS 44 Aaliya Casados led the Elkettes with 17 points and was also their savior late in the game.

With Pojoaque (5-7) down 44-43, Casados was fouled on a 3-pointer at the final buzzer and made two free throws for the win.

Aaliyah Quintana scored 16 points to lead

FIFTH PLACE LAGUNA-ACOMA 40, SANTA FE HIGH JV 16 The younger Demonettes just couldn’t find any offense as only four players scored against the Lady Hawks.

Shaylynn Smith had 19 points to lead Laguna-Acoma while Talia Paytiamo scored 12 points. Both Alayna Montoya and Kaitlyn Baca had five points for Santa Fe High.

SEVENTH PLACE

Local results and schedules ON THE AIR

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

COLLEGE FOOTBALL 10 a.m. on ESPN2 — Outback Bowl, Auburn vs. Wisconsin, in Tampa, Fla. 10:45 a.m. on ESPN — Cotton Bowl Classic, Michigan St. vs.

Baylor, in Arlington, Texas 11 a.m. on ABC — Citrus Bowl, Missouri vs. Minnesota, in Orlando, Fla. 3:10 p.m. on ESPN — Rose Bowl, playoff semifinal, Oregon vs.

Florida St., in Pasadena, Calif.

6:50 p.m. on ESPN — Sugar Bowl, playoff semifinal, Alabama vs.

Ohio St. in New Orleans NHL 11 a.m. on NBC — Winter Classic, Chicago vs. Washington, in Nationals Park PREP FOOTBALL 8 p.m. on ESPN2 — Skills Challenge, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (same-day tape) SOCCER 5:40 a.m. on NBCSN — Premier League, Manchester United at Stoke City 10:25 a.m. on NBCSN — Premier League, Chelsea at Tottenham

PREP SCORES

Boys basketball Eldorado 37, EP Cathedral, Texas 36 EP Andress, Texas 57, Valley 54 Alamogordo Tournament Seventh Place Los Lunas 43, Chaparral 40 Third Place Bowie, Texas 82, Alamogordo 53 Manzano 60, Valencia 53 Championship Santa Teresa 45, Sandia Prep 34 Clovis Tournament Volcano Vista 54, Clayton 45 Poe Corn Tournament Fifth Place Artesia 52, Belen 51 Championship

Roswell 65, Farmington 58 Rio Rancho Tournament Seventh Place Española Valley 54, Mayfield 50 Fifth Place Las Cruces 65, Canyon Randall, Texas 55 Third Place La Cueva 80, Grants 72 Championship Rio Rancho 75, Hope Christian 68

Girls basketball Capitan 56, Tucumcari 50 Alamogordo Tournament Seventh Place Valencia 64, Chaparral 14 Fifth Place Los Lunas 64, Manzano 20

Third Place Eldorado, Texas 64, Gadsden 28 Championship EP Burges, Texas 73, Alamogordo 42 Goddard Tournament Roswell 64, Goddard 31 Plateau Holiday Tournament Española Valley 50, Amarillo Caprock, Texas 36 Piedra Vista 47, Amarillo Caprock, Texas 37 St. Michael’s Tournament Third Place Pojoaque 45, Taos 44 Championship St. Michael’s 42, Farmington 40 Texico Tournament Texico 60, Farwell, Texas 57

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

Today 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.

Northern Rio Grande (at Pojoaque) 7th place, 10:30 a.m.

5th place, 1:30 p.m.

3rd place, 4:30 p.m.

Championship, 7:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — Northern Rio Grande (at Pojoaque) 7th place, 9 a.m.

5th place, noon 3rd place, 3 p.m.

Championship, 6 p.m.

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Baltimore Ravens security head accused of groping at stadium BALTIMORE — Court documents say the Baltimore Ravens’ security director is accused of groping a woman and pressing up against her at the team’s stadium after a December game.

Charging documents filed in Baltimore City District Court say 48-year-old Darren Sanders is also accused of kissing the 34-year-old woman’s neck and attempting to force her to grab his genitals.

Ravens senior vice president Kevin Byrne said Wednesday that Sanders has been placed on paid leave, per the NFL’s personal conduct policy. He isn’t with the team and won’t travel to Pittsburgh for the Ravens’ playoff game Saturday night.

Sanders’ lawyers say he denies the allegations.

Court documents say the woman worked at M&T Bank Stadium and was asked to escort Sanders to another part of the building several hours after the Ravens beat the Jaguars on Dec. 14.

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COLLEGE BOWLS

Boise State beats Arizona in Fiesta Bowl The Associated Press

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Jay Ajayi ran for 134 yards and three touchdowns and No. 21 Boise State 21 Boise St. 38 made a late defensive 12 Arizona 30 stand to hold off No. 12 Arizona 38-30 in the Fiesta Bowl on Wednesday.

Boise State (12-2) raced to a 21-0 lead in the opening 10 minutes behind a string of big plays before allowing Arizona to claw its way back.

The Wildcats marched quickly down the field in the closing seconds, but Kamalei Correa sacked Anu Solomon at the 10 on the final play.

Grant Hedrick threw for 309 yards and a touchdown, helping the Broncos cap a successful first season under coach Bryan Harsin with their third Fiesta Bowl victory.

Arizona (10-4) fell flat in the Pac-12 Championship against Oregon in its previous game and labored early against the Broncos. The Wildcats rallied, but had trouble finishing drives, settling for three field goals after driving deep into Boise State’s end.

Solomon threw for 335 yards and a touchdown, but had two interceptions that led to touchdowns for Boise State.

Of all the non-playoff bowls, the Fiesta had one of the most intriguing matchups.

Boise State made a name for itself at the Fiesta Bowl, trickplaying its way past Oklahoma in 2007 and knocking off previously unbeaten TCU to finish

Boise State running back Jay Ajayi celebrates his touchdown against Arizona during the Fiesta Bowl on Wednesday in Glendale, Ariz. ROSS D. FRANKLIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

14-0 in 2010.

The Broncos made their way back to the desert by winning eight straight games under Harsin, who replaced Chris Petersen after he left for Washington.

Arizona won bowl games its first two seasons under Rich Rodriguez and took a big step this season, winning the Pac-12 South Division to earn a spot in an upper-tier bowl for the first time since the 1994 Fiesta Bowl.

Adding to the intrigue, the Broncos and Wildcats have two of the nation’s most prolific offenses, setting up what was expected to be a wild game.

It certainly lived up to the billing at the start.

The big-play Broncos burst out of the gate with long

touchdowns on their first two drives: a 56-yard touchdown run by Ajayi and a 57-yard TD hookup between Hedrick and Chaz Anderson.

No Fiesta Bowl with Boise State would be complete without a Statue of Liberty play, so the Broncos did that, too. It came much earlier than usual, but was just as damaging.

Ajayi scored on it, running left and stiff-arming Arizona cornerback Cam Denson to the ground for a 16-yard touchdown that left two Arizona players injured and the Wildcats down 21-0 before the first quarter was over.

PEACH BOWL NO. 6 TCU 42, NO. 9 OLE MISS 3 In Atlanta, Gary Patterson

knew just what to say when asked if TCU’s rout of Mississippi was a statement the Horned Frogs should have been in the four-team playoff.

Playing like a team motivated by the playoff snub, No. 6 TCU rode three touchdown passes from Trevone Boykin and a dominant defense to a rout of No. 9 Ole Miss.

Josh Doctson had two touchdown catches and Aaron Green ran for a score and added a touchdown reception for the Horned Frogs (12-1).

Added Doctson: “I think people around the nation will be talking about us for a while now.”

TCU fans also were thinking of the national championship they can’t win.

Late in the third quarter, when the lead was 42-0, TCU fans targeted the No. 1 seed in the playoff when they chanted “We want Bama!”

Ole Miss (9-4) lost four of its last six games. Bo Wallace threw three interceptions, including one caught in the Rebels end zone by defensive end James McFarland for a touchdown.

The action was as lopsided as the score. TCU finished with 423 yards and allowed only 129 to Ole Miss. The Rebels were held to 9 yards rushing in the biggest margin of victory in Peach Bowl history.

TCU led 28-0 at halftime.

Ole Miss ranked first in the nation with its average of only 13.8 points allowed. Turnovers and TCU’s quick-strike offense were too much to overcome.

Wallace completed only 10 of 23 passes for 109 yards with three interceptions.

Ducks, ’Noles ready for Rose Bowl like no other

By Ralph D. Russo

TODAY ON TV

The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — For years, college football fans pleaded for a playoff. Now it’s here and it starts at the sport’s most hallowed venue, with two Heisman Trophy winners and the defending national champions.

Welcome to the College Football Playoff at the Rose Bowl, where the past and present intersect to usher in a new era.

Marcus Mariota and second-seeded Oregon (12-1) face Jameis Winston and third-seeded Florida State (13-0) on Thursday in the first national semifinal ever played at college football’s highest level.

Ducks coach Mark Helfrich and Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher held their final news conferences Wednesday at a downtown Los Angeles hotel. They posed for pictures with the Rose Bowl trophy, shook hands and went their separate ways.

“We’re looking forward to the challenge,” Fisher said. “We know it’s a heck of a challenge. They’ve got a great team.

We’ve got a great team. It ought to be fun.”

Next stop, Pasadena. But it’s not the last stop. The winner gets a trip to Texas to play either Alabama or Ohio State on Jan. 12 for the national championship.

The Seminoles bring in a 29-game winning streak and last year’s Heisman winner, Winston, into its second straight trip to the Rose Bowl. Florida State won a national championship there last season, beating Auburn 34-31 in the last BCS title game.

The Ducks are led by this year’s Heis-

3:10 p.m. on ESPN — Rose Bowl, playoff semifinal, Oregon vs. Florida State, in Pasadena, Calif.

man winner, Mariota, and are in search of their first national championship. Oregon is a relative newcomer among college football powerhouses. The only thing left for the Ducks to confirm their status as a member of the nation’s elite is a national title.

“It would validate things externally a lot more than I think internally,” Helfrich said.

When we last saw Oregon playing, the Ducks played their best game of the season, winning the Pac-12 championship with a 51-13 beating of Arizona.

Mariota had all but locked up the Heisman Trophy by then, but he added an exclamation point against the Wildcats and ended up being a landslide winner.

The Hawaii native has accounted for 53 touchdowns (38 passing, 14 rushing and one receiving) and is the top-rated passer in the country.

“I think he’s been an amazing guy and amazing player,” Winston said.

Here’s what to watch for when Oregon and Florida State play for the first College Football Playoff game: Florida state’s great escapes: After romping to a perfect season last year, this season has been filled with great escapes for Florida State. Five times the Seminoles have overcome a halftime deficit. Seven times Florida State has won a one-score games, including the Atlantic Coast Conference championship against Georgia Tech (37-35).

The ’Noles have looked vulnerable, which explains why Oregon is a 9½-point favorite.

“Our team has never walked on the field and thought we were an underdog,” Fisher said.

Big finale: The conventional wisdom is that both Winston and Mariota will enter the NFL draft after this season, though both have at least a year of eligibility left.

So one of them is likely about to play his last college football game.

Winston hasn’t been as consistent this season as he was last year. The third-year sophomore has thrown 24 touchdown passes and 17 interceptions and has been plagued by slow starts. But when the game has been on the line, he has more often than not made the big plays.

“I think it actually makes me better as a quarterback because things are not always going good, and when you get to the next level or even in life, when things are not going your way, you can’t just hide up under a rock,” he said.

In many ways it is as if this season has been a continuation of last year’s title game against Auburn, when Florida State fell behind 21-3 in the first half and Winston led a game-winning drive in the final minute.

Speedy Ducks: Oregon has been at the forefront of the up-tempo offense revolution in football. While many have copied it, few do it better than the Ducks.

Florida State players have said they have done more conditioning to get ready for the fast-paced attack, but you never how much it will affect a team until it’s live.

Especially those big defensive linemen, who will also have their hands full chasing around the elusive Mariota.

Sugar: Alabama is 84-10 in last 7 seasons Continued from Page B-1 der, that one-year wonder, that one year where everything goes right,” Meyer marveled at the final Sugar Bowl news conference Wednesday. “But to have it year after year, that’s the model that people look for.”

No one does it better than Nick Saban and the Tide, who have gone 84-10 over the last seven seasons. Alabama captured national titles in 2009, 2011 and 2012 and came ohso-close to winning it all two other years.

As if trying to show the Buckeyes just what they’re up against, the Tide broke out a helmet with the number 15 — symbolizing the number of national titles the school claims to have won — for its photo ops leading up to the game.

It was there again Wednesday, propped on the dais as Meyer and Saban posed for pictures with the Sugar Bowl trophy.

“Our entire staff and all of our players have responded very well to the standard that

TODAY ON TV 6:50 p.m. on ESPN — Sugar Bowl, playoff semifinal, Alabama vs. Ohio State in New Orleans

we try to set for the way we want things to be done and how they need to be done so you can have success,” Saban said, methodically explaining the success of a program that seems to be on championship auto-drive.

Some of those 15 championships are highly suspect, most notably the 1973 team that lost to Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl. But even when limiting the count to The Associated Press poll, Alabama still has more titles (nine) than any other school.

The formula hasn’t changed much over the years: recruit the best players, put a system in place that makes it clear what is expected of them, and work harder than everyone else.

The 63-year-old Saban has turned to parables to drive home that last point, even if they’re a bit mystifying to play-

ers young enough to be his grandchildren.

“He once told the team something about this, I don’t know, a rock hitter or something like that,” receiver Amari Cooper said. “I don’t know what the guy was hitting a rock for. But he said the guy hit the rock 100 times and the rock didn’t do anything. The 101st time he hit it and the rock split.”

The point being? “Even though you may be working hard and might not be seeing the results so quick, we have to keep working hard,” Cooper said. “At the end of the day, all the results will come from your hard work.”

Here are some things to watch for when Alabama takes on Ohio State at the Superdome: Cardale’s second start: Cardale Jones turned in quite a performance in his first college start, throwing for three touchdowns and winning the MVP award in a 59-0 rout of Wisconsin at the Big Ten championship game. Now, for the encore. Jones, who took over after injuries to Braxton Miller and J.T. Barrett, certainly

seemed at ease this week in the Big Easy.

Stopping Cooper: Alabama’s junior receiver turned in one of the great seasons in college football history. The Heisman Trophy finalist has 115 catches for 1,656 yards and 14 touchdowns, even though everyone knows he’s the primary passing target. Offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin finds ways to keep Cooper involved; in the SEC championship game, for instance, Cooper got a bunch of short throws and wound up with 12 receptions.

Coaching matchup: It doesn’t get much better than this. Meyer has brought his high-scoring spread offense to Ohio State and will surely be looking to hit some big plays, but that won’t be easy against a defensive mastermind such as Saban.

Injury report: Alabama running back T.J. Yeldon is hampered by an ankle injury.

He’s gotten “better and better” in practice, but Saban said it won’t be known until game time if he’s healthy enough to play. If Yeldon can’t go, there’s shouldn’t be much drop-off with Derrick Henry (895 yards, 10 touchdowns) getting the bulk of the carries.

Marrone steps down as head coach of Bills

By John Wawrow The Associated Press

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills are searching for a coach after Doug Marrone’s surprise decision to step down after the team’s best finish in a decade.

Bills owner Terry Pegula announced Wednesday that Marrone exercised the optout clause in his contract.

“We are disappointed that Coach Marrone will no longer be an important part of our organization,” Pegula said in a team statement. “We thank him for all of his hard work and leadership during his tenure, and wish him and his family the best with the next chapter in their lives.”

Pegula said the team will immediately begin searching for a coach. One candidate might already be on the staff in defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, who previously spent five seasons coaching the Detroit Lions.

Marrone’s decision to step down was a stunning one, coming after he led the Bills to a 9-7 finish in his second season in Buffalo. It was the Bills’ first winning season in 10 years.

Buffalo, however, missed the playoffs to extend the NFL’s longest active postseason drought to 15 seasons.

The opt-out clause in Marrone’s contract went into effect after Pegula and his wife, Kim, bought the team in October. Marrone had until

Wednesday to make his decision.

The team was sold after Hall of Fame owner Ralph Wilson died in Doug March.

Marrone Marrone went 15-17 in Buffalo. He was hired after four seasons at Syracuse, where Marrone helped revive his alma mater’s struggling program.

The decision to step down came two weeks after Marrone told reporters he wasn’t going anywhere after the Bills were eliminated from playoff contention following a 26-24 loss at Oakland.

Marrone isn’t the first Bills coach to step down while still under contract.

Mike Mularkey quit the team for undisclosed reasons following the 2005 season after Tom Donahoe was fired as president and general manager.

Marrone was supposed to be part of a new era in Buffalo that began with Russ Brandon being elevated to president and CEO on Jan. 1, 2013.

Brandon hired Marrone.

That spring, Doug Whaley was promoted to general manager after Buddy Nix stepped down.

The Bills are searching for their seventh head coach since Wade Phillips was fired following the 2000 season.

Suh: Has long list of fines since 2011 Continued from Page B-1 on Dallas — or some variation of that answer. Later, Suh began repeatedly saying “next question” when pressed about the incident with Rodgers and its aftermath.

When Lions coach Jim Caldwell spoke, he also tried to put a stop to questions about Suh and his appeal, although he did talk a bit about Suh’s attitude in their first year together. Caldwell took over as Detroit’s coach after last season.

“I can only tell you that since I’ve been here with him, he’s been the guy that has been solid,” Caldwell said.

“He’s been good. He listens, and he tries to do the right thing.”

Suh has a long list of fines and one previous suspension, for two games in 2011 for stepping on the right arm of Packers lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith. Suh has been fined eight times in his career, but this was the first in 2014.

Suh’s short-lived suspension came after Detroit center Dominic Raiola served a onegame ban for stepping on a Chicago player. Raiola missed

the regular-season finale at Green Bay, and the Packers beat Detroit in a game that decided the NFC North title.

Raiola was wearing a “Bad Boys” shirt Wednesday — a reference to Detroit’s championship-winning NBA team of a quarter-century ago — but he said he wasn’t trying to send any sort of message with it. He said the offensive linemen have had those shirts for a while and he just happened to be wearing it.

“I know I’m chomping at the bit to get back out there,” Raiola said. “I just think this team is hungry. The more shots that people take at us, the stronger we get, the tougher we get.”

Suh stepped on Rodgers once with each foot, which violated unnecessary roughness rules, according to the league. Hearing officer Ted Cottrell heard Suh’s expedited appeal Tuesday and ruled that Suh can play at Dallas. Cottrell’s decision means the Lions will have one of their key defensive cogs.

Suh finished the season with a team-high 8½ sacks.

Classic: Sunny sky might delay start Continued from Page B-1 be its biggest day, populating it with run-of-the-mill bowl games and saving the big ones for later. This year, they’re trying to take it back, with the College Football Playoff semifinals highlighting the schedule.

Then again, there might be room for both. Now in its seventh year, the Classic has established enough of a presence to withstand a bit of competition.

“I’m a football fan like most people in this country,” Washington coach Barry Trotz said. “I think there’s a lot of football and it’s great, but you also get tired of it, too, and I think the Winter Classic is that one thing that’s different during this time of year that I think everybody gravitates to.”

It would help if the games don’t go head-to-head. That’s the plan, but the big ol’ sun

might mess it up.

The 1 p.m. EDT start Thursday between the Chicago Blackhawks and Washington Capitals at Nationals Park is in jeopardy because brilliant, cloudless skies are in the forecast. The sun would create a potentially dangerous glare, making the puck hard to see and causing the ice to get too soft. If faceoff is moved to, say, 3 p.m. — after the shadows from the stands have covered the rink — then the end of the game could conflict with the early minutes of the Rose Bowl.

A decision isn’t expected until shortly before the scheduled game time. There’s talk of switching sides halfway through the first period so that the glare would hamper both teams equally, and some players say they might emulate Capitals defenseman Karl Alzner, who wore sunglasses during Wednesday’s practice.

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It’s a familiar sight at the Four Corners Monument: Tourists taking shots like this to show they can be in as many as four places all at once. PHOTOS BY WILL WEBBER/THE NEW MEXICAN

The monument has changed significantly over the years, growing from an unprotected sandstone monolith to what it is today.

IF YOU GO Pre-cast tile slabs identifying each state surround the center point of the monument. Also cast in concrete are the official seals for each of the four states.

there is to see. In just a matter of minutes, the experience is over and reality that you’re dozens of miles from the nearest stoplight hits.

If you’re lucky, you’ll hear at least one tourist recount the media reports that surfaced a few years ago that claim the actual spot where the states converge is somewhere between 1,800 feet and 2.5 miles away, a happenstance of the antiquated technology available to surveyors who marked the monument in the 1800s.

That debate was put to rest when the federal government ruled that the monument is the legal boundary for the four states despite the fact that the true point may rest somewhere within walking distance.

With camping permits available and hiking adventures always an option, perhaps one day Skyler White will venture away from the monument and find the true Four Corners and flip again.

What: Four Corners Monument, the only place in the U.S. where the borders of four states (New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona) converge at a single point.

Getting there: From Santa Fe it’s 270 miles each way, or about four and a half hours by car.

Cost: $5 per person (kids 6 and under are free); cash-only since the limited facilities do not allow for credit cards or checks.

Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through April; closed New Year’s Day. Contact info: 928-206-2540.

Fun fact: While it has been documented that the actual spot for the Four Corners is about 1,800 feet to west of where the monument actually resides, the U.S. government recognizes the monument’s spot as the legal boundary between the states. So while you’re technically not in the exact spot of where the borders converge, the law of the land says you are.

Need to know: The monument is run by the Navajo Nation Parks and Recreation Department. There are no amenities within a few miles of the monument, so take cash and whatever refreshments you need before you leave. The nearest outpost is Teec Nos Pos, Ariz., about six miles away.

HAPPY TRAILS

Tracks in the snow tell their own stories

By Karen Denison For The New Mexican

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here are all the animals?” is a frequent question posed by friends and visitors during hikes.

Never mind that we’re out in the middle of a bright, sunny day, on a regularly used trail, nattering away as we walk. Most of the year, my answer must be some form of “elsewhere,” but in winter, the snow is more revealing.

Animals (including humans) leave tracks behind them as they move through a landscape. With snow, those tracks and trails are often more obvious and detailed than on bare ground. It’s a good time of year to see who lives in certain areas and how they behave, even if you aren’t there to see the animal itself.

Folks who snowshoe on trails

Santa Fe skier pens irresistible skiing book

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By Will Webber

FOUR CORNERS MONUMENT he hit show Breaking Bad may have made Albuquerque a destination spot for TV enthusiasts, but fans of the series will surely recall Episode 6 in Season 4 titled “Cornered.”

The episode is memorable for the scene where Walter White, the school teacherturned meth cook extraordinaire, delivers his famous “I am the one who knocks” monologue to his wife, Skyler.

What makes it notable in this instance is its relation to a popular landmark that many New Mexicans have visited at one point or another. Like the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, the Sandia Peak Tramway or White Sands National Monument, the Four Corners Monument is one of those day trips most folks take at some point.

In “Cornered,” Skyler White drives to the Four Corners with her infant daughter and flips a coin, presumably in an attempt to decide which state to flee to as she contemplates leaving Walt. The quarter settles in Colorado both times she flips. After a moment of consideration, she slides it back into New Mexico and returns home.

And with that, the monument that has become the center of accuracy debates in recent years, became just a little more famous.

The only spot in the U.S. where four states converge on a single point, the monument is interesting if only for its simplicity. At its center is a small aluminum-bronze plate that pinpoints the exact spot where the boundaries touch. It is a singular location where countless tourists have stood and taken pictures — proving once and for all that it is, indeed, possible to be in four places at once.

Speaking strictly from a Santa Fe perspective, the trip is fairly easy. Easy, that is, if you consider four and a half hours in the car an appealing thing to do.

That’s how long it takes to drive from the state capital to this isolated spot run by the Navajo Nation Parks and Recreation Department. Surrounded by hundreds of square miles of high-desert scrub and rugged mountains, the monument’s appeal is in the uniqueness of its geographic significance.

To know you can stand in one spot and visit four states at one time is an odd feeling.

But not as odd as knowing some of the history about the place. It became the center of what was then the territories of the four eventual states in 1863, earning its distinction as a special place when surveyors first erected a simple sandstone monolith.

That was eventually replaced by a stone, then a concrete slab with a commemorative plate. Along the way it grew from a solitary block of concrete in the middle of a dirt parking lot to what it is now; a below-grade visitation point surrounded by rows of benches, elevated sidewalks and covered booths where local artisans peddle jewelry, fry bread and just about anything else you might expect in such a setting.

All around are towering flag poles, each displaying the flags of the four states and the Indian nations that lie within. Between each of the four entry points are 4-foot stone structures with the history of each state carved into its face.

In the middle is where it all happens. In groups of one or many, each tourist takes a turn standing on the disc that signifies the four corners. Some straddle that one point; others lie down and splay out in every direction while giggling picture-takers snap away.

And just like that, you realize that’s all

Snowshoe hare tracks can be a common sight in the winter.

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off the ski basin road near Santa Fe should watch for the tracks of several common winter animals. In addition to cottontail rabbits, snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) live in the mountains here at the southern-most portion of their range. This is

a rabbit slightly larger than a cottontail, but with extra-large, heavily furred feet well-adapted to snowy conditions. It is colored like a brown cottontail in summer but transitions to a white fur coat as winter camouflage. Prints show distinctive broad front and hind feet, usually with toenails, and trails often span from one hiding place to another — the bases of fir trees are favorite spots. Because of how the large hind feet propel the hare, the tracks seem to run backward, the hind feet landing in front of the forefeet.

In the same areas, squirrels (especially red squirrels, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) are very active throughout the winter. Though an individual footprint might be mistaken for a very small rabbit, the pattern of the prints is very different.

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Squirrels in snow tend to spring off all four feet, bouncing from tree base to tree base. Their trails will show a square stamp of fore and hind feet rather than the staggered triangle of rabbit trails.

And because they also move through the trees, trails will simply appear or disappear at tree trunks.

Other animal tracks I’ve encountered with some regularity in the same areas include mule deer, elk, coyote, bobcat, ermine (Least weasel), mice, ravens and dusky grouse.

So where are all the animals?

The answer may still be “elsewhere,” but at least we can see who’s passed through recently.

Karen Denison is guide and owner of Outspire Hiking and Snowshoeing.

very sport has its works of great literature — think Paper Lion (by George Plimpton) or Instant Replay (Jerry Kramer) for football; The Natural (Bernard Malamud), Bang the Drum Slowly (Mark Harris) or October 1964 (David Halberstam) for baseball. There are wonderful reads about soccer, tennis, long distance swimming and even mountain climbing has its page-turners, like Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer). So where are the great books about skiing?

There are a few one could point to, such as Downhill Racers, but it was substantially altered to become the excellent film of the same name starring Robert Redford. Almost all skiing books are nonfiction guides about the wheres and hows of the sport. Few Daniel delve into its spirit and why it can Gibson inspire such passion and devotion.

Snow Trax For many, skiing is a lifestyle rather than a free-time activity.

Santa Fe resident Peter Kray has finally produced that book with The God of Skiing, a 174-page hybrid of fiction, nonfiction and memoir that any skier and many nonskiers will find irresistible. I read it all in almost one sitting. Its short chapters, simple but evocative language and mystery-based format is highly compelling. It also provides a window into the characters, places and motives of people who spend the bulk of their lives chasing frozen water droplets around the world.

The plot, roughly, follows the shadowy figure of rising collegiate ski racer Tack Strau, who is recruited onto the U.S. national team, only to crash terribly on a Lake Placid, N.Y., course before vanishing from the hospital. The writer eventually tracks him down to Jackson Hole, Wyo., where he happens to pick him up one night when walking along a snowbound road.

The two become friends and share turns, drinks, smoke and even a funky crash pad in Jackson before Tack disappears again.

Is he off chasing storms in India, Alaska or central Asia? Has he given up the sport? Impossible. You’ll have to read the book to find out what became of him.

Kray is perhaps the perfect man to write this story.

A native of Denver, he grew up on skis, trailing behind his inspiring father on the slopes of Vail. He writes in The God of Skiing, “I remember how he whispered in my ear, ‘You’re standing still,’ when I was 2, when he first took me skiing. Then he held me between his legs and tilted us over the hill until the wind was on my face and the sky was set in motion. ‘But you’re flying.’ ” Kray studied fiction writing and journalism at a New York college, which is where his book picks up, as he begins to hear bits and pieces about the enigmatic Tack Strau, a school alumnus. Kray established a career as a ski reporter, working for many magazines and the Professional Ski Instructors of America.

We met in Santa Fe when we worked for WinterSport Business.

A passage in the book notes, “After I started to write regularly for the magazines some good people at the ski companies would send me skis in long brown boxes and I would shower in the dark with my bags by the door. I would fly out of Santa Fe where I had followed a red-haired girl who burned like a prairie fire in my mind, boarding the puddle jumper to Denver with 17 seats and no bathroom, walking out on the tarmac like in Casablanca before the dawn.”

Kray covered three Winter Olympics and the World Cup circuit, visiting Europe many times, as well as Greenland, South America and most U.S. and Canadian resorts. He rubbed shoulders with dozens of leading ski athletes, who are sprinkled throughout this book — Alberto Tomba, Ken Read, Franz Klammer, Herman Maier, Bode Miller and Doug Coombs, among others. Of course, there are also characters it seems he met but did not. The two blend seamlessly, making a riddle of fact and fiction.

Of the world’s most feared downhill course, the Hahnenkamm of Kitzbuehel, Germany, he writes, “The entire World Cup was built around the drama of the Mausefalle, and the shudder when you first drop down that face like a man falling out a window.”

On assignment in Switzerland to interview the great racer Michael Von Gruenigen, he notes, “We met at a hotel in the hills far from the banners and blowing horns. The snow squeaked like Styrofoam as I walked past the ponies with white ridges of snow on their coats. Dogs barked, Pigs were pigging. And the pensions gave way to homes with white piles of wood stacked neatly under blue tarps and chimneys smoking. As the clouds lifted out of the valley, I saw the mountains sheltering the village like an open pair of alabaster hands. ‘You can smell the snow,’ Van Gruenigen said. ‘It magnifies the scent of everything.’ ” Toward the end of the book, one passage seems to capture its essence.

“For a sport so present in the now, it’s the memories that make it so important,” Kray writes. “Going fast through nature. Those long moments lost to a turn, and the feeling of flying when you are thinking of everything and nothing at the exact same time. How just by closing my eyes I can see Tack arcing down the high right side of the Hobacks like he’s elevating off the mountain. I can remember all those days when we moved like spirits in the storm.”

The God of Skiing can be purchased, for now, only online. Published by Mira Book Smart, under Kray’s own Shred White & Blue Media productions, it costs $13.95. To order a hard copy, visit http://www. mirabooksmart.com/The-God-of-Skiing_p_584.html Daniel Gibson can be reached at dbgibson@ newmexico.com.

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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.

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

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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!

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LEGALS

Submitted by: Jerilyn Massara, Petitioner, Pro Se Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 25, 2014 and January 1, 2015

NM Technology Assistance Program Advisory Council will hold its Regular meeting on Monday, January 12, 2015 at 1PM at 625 Silver Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM in the Conference

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