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Police across U.S. see support surge

Taos Ski Valley unveils Kachina

Unions make push to recruit migrants

NYC officers’ deaths amid shooting controversies spur many Americans to show their gratitude. PAGE A-5

Resort offers sneak peek of new “superstar” chairlift that carries snowsport enthusiasts to alpine terraine. PAGE B-5

President Barack Obama’s executive action presents an opportunity for labor groups to expand their ranks. PAGE A-3

FAROLITO WALK LONG A LOCAL CHRISTMAS TRADITION

‘Journal’ site hacked with threat to ABQ residents FBI says website post claiming ISIS support not likely credible The New Mexican

Group: 2 regulators too cozy with PNM executives

By Milan Simonich

Hackers commandeered the Albuquerque Journal’s mobile app and website Wednesday morning, giving top billing to a story that expressed support for the Islamic extremist group ISIS and warned citizens of Albuquerque that their personal secrets were being collected through mobile devices, with plans to expand the havoc to other locations.

“You’ll see no mercy infidels.

We are already here, we are in your PCs, in each house, in each office. With Allah’s permission we begin with Albuquerque,” the post said.

The FBI is investigating the incident.

“At this time, we do not believe there is a credible threat to public safety,” FBI spokesman Frank Fisher told The New Mexican.

The Albuquerque Journal reported that its website was down for an hour as a result of the takeover, in which the diatribe on ISIS was posted in place

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Kathy Rivera of Santa Fe participates in the annual Christmas Eve Farolito Walk on Canyon Road wearing a coat illuminated with tiny farolitos. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

‘Just about everyone is out’ Canyon Road spectacle still a popular draw for Santa Feans

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undreds of locals who usually never set foot on Canyon Road flocked to the iconic street in historic downtown Santa Fe on Wednesday to enjoy the annual Christmas Eve Farolito Walk.

The walk is a Santa Fe tradition in which Canyon

Road gallery owners and residents of adjoining streets line their storefronts and yards with brown paper bags filled with fine sand and a single, lighted wax candle called a farolito. The result is a neighborhood illuminated with thousands of flickering lights and a scene that attracts scores of locals and tourists alike.

The walk kicked off at 5 p.m. Wednesday as the sun sank, casting Santa Fe under a curtain of relative darkness. The police and the fire departments shut down the neighborhood streets, and people poured onto Canyon Road from Paseo de Peralta.

Cameras flashed ceaselessly, and some more adven-

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Santa: Third year merriest for shelter’s Yuletide pet deliveries

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Santa parked his sleigh and reindeer along N.M. 599 on Wednesday so he could make his first Christmas Eve rounds in a Santa Fe animal shelter van.

Ol’ St. Nick, or Santa Paws as he is known at the shelter, got behind the wheel to deliver cats and dogs to five Santa Fe families who had arranged for the Yuletide deliveries of three kittens and two dogs. It was the third year for the shelter’s Christmas pet adoption program.

At least two of the young boys who received the pets, Nathan Archuletta, 7, and Aaron Baca, 5, were caught by surprise when Santa and elf Kirsten Nelson knocked on their doors, animals in hand. “I’ve been wanting a dog for a year,” exclaimed Aaron, as he took the leash attached to Morena, a 5-year-old Chihuahuapug mix, who promptly began exploring her new home, darting down the hallway and into Aaron’s room. Morena had been acting a bit nervous on her way over in the van, but after

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Nonprofit wants PRC duo bumped from hearing case

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Santa Claus, surprises Nathan Archuletta, 7, on Christmas Eve with a cat from the animal shelter. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

her romp with Aaron, any uneasiness quickly evaporated in the child’s arms.

Aaron’s mother, Stephanie Lovato, had arranged for the Santa visit at a recent pet adoption site at the Santa Fe Auto Park, and Aaron had actually taken Morena for a walk but was told by his mom that they would have to wait and see about bringing the dog home.

In all the excitement of Santa’s visit, Aaron

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Films and Chinese dinner event presented by Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival; films: The Producers, Annie Hall and Crossing Delancy, screenings start at 2 p.m. at the Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail; dinner at 6 p.m at Temple Beth Shalom, 205 E. Barcelona Road, $8-$36 in advance at CCA box office or online at ccasantafe.org.

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Obituaries Irene Tayor Reed, 95, Santa Fe, Dec. 21 Gina Gray, 60, Pawhuska, Okla., Dec. 20 PAGE A-10

Today Partly cloudy with wind.

High 41, low 21.

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A massive project that threatens to displace thousands and destroy a fragile environment gets underway in Nicaragua. PAGE A-9

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Recession drives down wages for middle class Editor’s note: This is the second in a series.

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An advocacy organization says two members of the state Public Regulation Commission should withdraw from a high-profile utility case because they fraternize with executives from Public Service Company of New Mexico.

New Energy Economy alleges that Commissioners Patrick Lyons, R-Clovis, and Karen Montoya, D-Albuquerque, have cozy, improper relationships with PNM, the company that supplies electricity to about 500,000 customers in New Mexico.

Mariel Nanasi, president of New Energy Economy, filed a motion Wednesday calling on both commissioners to recuse themselves from hearing PNM’s application to abandon two coal-fired units of the San Juan Generating Station and replace them with natural gas and nuclear power.

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Midway through the last game of the 2013 Carolina League season, after he’d swept peanut shells and mopped soda off the concourse, Ed Green lumbered upstairs to the box seats to dump the garbage.

Green was already 12 hours into his workday. He rose at dawn to lay tar on the highway. As the sun sank, he switched uniforms and drove to BB&T Ballpark, where he runs the custodial crew for a minor league baseball team. Now it was dark and his radio was crackling. It was his boss, asking him to head back downstairs. Green walked onto the first-base line and into a surprise. In front of 6,000 fans, the Winston-Salem Dash honored him as the team’s employee of the year.

The crowd applauded. The game resumed. Green walked back upstairs.

The trash wasn’t going to empty itself.

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Sony releases ‘The Interview’ LOS ANGELES — Amid a swell of controversy, backlash, confusion and threats, Sony Pictures broadly released The Interview online Wednesday — an unprecedented counterstroke against the hackers who spoiled the Christmas opening of the comedy depicting the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Interview became available on a variety of digital platforms Wednesday afternoon, including Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft’s Xbox Video and a separate Sony website, a day after Sony and independent theaters agreed to release it in over 300 venues on Christmas. The wide digital release is the culmination of a set of deals that have been in the works since the major theater chains last week dropped the movie that was to have opened on up to 3,000 screens.

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Steve Galik secures buckets of water in his truck from the Healing Springs at God’s Acre last week in Blackville, S.C. People have thought the natural springs have healing powers ever since four wounded British soldiers recovered after drinking from them in 1781. PHOTOS BY JEFFREY COLLINS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBIA, Miss. — Elizabeth Bordelon planned to go Christmas shopping until nasty weather blowing through southeastern Mississippi convinced her to hold off.

By the time she returned Tuesday to her Columbia trailer park she had called home for only a short time, a neighbor’s mobile home had flipped onto her grandmother’s, trapping her and Bordelon’s aunt. She said her grandmother, Maryjean Sartin, 73 was killed. She was one of four killed in Columbia and Laurel by likely tornadoes that tore through the communities.

N. Korea still having Internet troubles North Korea’s microscopic corner of the Internet has had a rough couple of days, suffering seven outages in the last 48 hours, according to one Web traffic monitor.

The mysterious problems have some talking of a retaliatory cyberattack by the United States, which holds Pyongyang responsible for last month’s spectacular hack of Sony Pictures. American officials have fueled speculation with vague denials, but security experts say North Korea’s Internet infrastructure is so skeletal that even amateurs -- or a simple glitch -- could have brought it clattering down.

Cash spill snarls Hong Kong traffic A blizzard of millions in cash paralyzed a road in Hong Kong on Wednesday afternoon, when a security van spilled bundles of Hong Kong $500 notes presenting onlookers with a Christmas Eve test of whether to be good for goodness’ sake.

The police estimated that the equivalent of about $2 million was missing, local news reports said,.

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God’s Healing Springs People come from all over for the water deeded to Almighty

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BLACKVILLE, S.C. or longer than anyone has recorded history, water has bubbled from out of the ground at a natural spring in what used to be deep woods about an hour’s drive down a two-lane road south of Columbia.

American Indians let four gravely wounded British soldiers in on the secret in 1781, leaving the men to astonish the garrison in Charleston that left them behind to die.

Since then, people have flocked to the Healing Springs of Barnwell County for some restorative and perhaps supernatural help.

That’s why Annabelle Galik of Goose Creek drinks the clear, cool water, which according to local property records was deeded to the Almighty God in 1944.

Two and a half years ago, Galik, 50, was diagnosed with lung can-

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was built nearby. The springs passed through several owners until 1944, when L.P. Boylston deeded it to God and the site became known as God’s Acre.

Instead of seeping out of the ground, Barnwell County installed about a dozen taps about a foot off the ground that flow constantly, stronger if there are recent rains.

The Department of Health and Environmental Control tests the water, which the agency said has no coliform bacteria and has most recently received its highest rating.

All of those advancements in medicine in recent decades hasn’t diminished the popularity of Healing Springs, whether people believe in its healing properties or not.

“It tastes better than the town water,” said Carolyn Hayes, who lives in nearby Blackville.

Galik’s husband rarely waits longer than two weeks before driving 100 miles back to Healing Springs, at least nine giant buckets tethered in the bed of his pickup. “There’s just something about this place.

People for hundreds of years can’t be wrong,” Steve Galik said.

“It’s about as close as I think you can get to the Garden of Eden.”

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland — Deep inside a modernist research center on the edge of a mountain lake here, automated smoking machines sample the future of nicotine.

Scientists at Philip Morris International are experimenting with ways to deliver nicotine — Big Tobacco’s addictive lifeblood — that are less hazardous than cigarettes but still pack the drug’s punch and smoking’s other pleasures. The smoking carousels, stuffed with burning cigarettes or glowing electronic devices, are among dozens of high-tech instruments being used.

The rush by Philip Morris and other tobacco companies to develop new ways of selling nicotine is occurring as more consumers are trying e-cigarettes, devices that heat a nicotine-containing fluid to create a vapor that users inhale. While only a small percentage of smokers have switched to the devices — experts say early e-cigarettes did not deliver enough nicotine to satisfy a smoker’s cravings — major tobacco companies are deploying their financial resources and knowledge in a bid to dominate a potentially huge market for cigarette alternatives.

In recent months, several tobacco companies have ramped up nicotine levels in their e-cigarette brands, while others, like Philip Morris International, are starting to introduce slender, tubelike devices that will give users as much nicotine as the real thing by heating, not burning, tobacco.

The entry of Big Tobacco into the e-cigarette business has set off alarm bells. Public health advocates, pointing to the industry’s documented history of deception about the risks of smoking, question whether cigarette makers want to develop devices to help smokers quit or find new ways to sell nicotine to young people who have never smoked.

“Developing products that satisfy a smoker’s addiction will increase the risk that they will be highly addictive to nonsmokers,” said Matthew L. Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, an advocacy group in Washington, D.C.

their legal authority and CIA bosses ignorant about exactly how many detainees were warehoused in their overseas prisons. CIA oversight, the Senate committee found, “was deeply flawed throughout the program’s duration.”

The CIA agrees in its official response that “the agency made serious missteps in the management and operation of the program.”

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cer and given about four months to live. She drank the water along with some more traditional cancer treatments.

“I’d take a shower in it if I could,” Galik said. “Jesus owns it, and if He’s maintaining it here, it’s got to be good.”

Even with all the advances of modern medicine, people still come in bunches to the spring hoping for their own personal miracle.

They bring anything they can use to carry water — 5-gallon buckets, 2-liter soda bottles, milk jugs, orange juice containers and even insulated mugs. Some people take off their shoes as they gather the water that pools under the taps, letting their feet soak it in, too.

“This is all my dad drank, and he lived to 90,” said Walter Tobin, who grew up nearby but now lives 50 miles away in Columbia. He stopped by for a few gulps on his way to visit his sister.

The water, likely originating underground in the mountains hundreds of miles to the north, heads downhill away from all the pollution on the surface of the earth.

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Films and Chinese dinner event presented by Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival; films: The Producers, Annie Hall and Crossing Delancy, screenings start at 2 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m., $8-$36 in advance at CCA box office or online at ccasantafe. org, or santafejff.org.

SANTA FE TOURS: Local historian Stefanie Beninato leads Jewish Legacy Tour, 10 a.m., $30 per person, and the Ghost Tour: Dark Side of Santa Fe, 55 minutes, 5:30 p.m., $25, ages 15 and under $10, call for meet-up locations, 988-8022.

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Lotteries Hours of operation at various city and county government offices will be affected by observance of the Christmas holiday today, including: u City and county government offices and Municipal Court will be closed all day Thursday. u Santa Fe Trails and Santa Fe Ride bus service will will not operate Thursday. u Parking facilities and onstreet parking meters will be free Thursday. u The city of Santa Fe’s trash and recycling collection service will follow the regular schedule. u Santa Fe public libraries will close all day Thursday. u The city’s recreation centers will close all day Thursday. u The Buckman Road Recycling and Transfer Station and Caja del Rio Landfill will be closed Thursday. u Santa Fe County solid waste transfer stations will be closed Thursday.

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

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS NEW MEXICO: Tutors sought for local students at all grade levels; math and literacy sup-

port needed in particular; training provided; contact Cynthia Torcasso, 954-1880, ctorcasso@cisnm.org.

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

FIGHT ILLITERACY: Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe will train individuals willing to help adults learn to read, write, and speak English; details available online at lvsf.org or call 428-1353.

FLOWER ANGELS: Help out weekly as a Flower Angel for Presbyterian Medical Services Hospice Center; contact Mary Ann Andrews for information, 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, 685-4333, ext. 4120.

ST. ELIZABETH SHELTER: Help with meal preparation at residential facilities and emergency shelters; other duties also available; contact Rosario, 505-982-6611, ext. 108, volunteer@steshelter.org.

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The Homeland Security Department is experimenting with a new way to track immigrant families caught crossing the border illegally and then released into the U.S.: GPS-enabled ankle bracelets.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month launched a program to give GPS devices to some parents caught crossing the Mexican border illegally with their children in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. They were given the devices after being released from custody with notices to report back to immigration officials, according to a confidential ICE document obtained by The Associated Press.

In September, the Homeland Security Department confided to a group of immigrant advocates during a confidential meeting that about 70 percent of immigrants traveling as families failed to report back to ICE as ordered after they were released at the border. The AP obtained an audio recording of the meeting and interviewed participants. The ICE official on the recording was not identified.

The high no-show rate and a lack of jail space for immigrant family members prompted the Obama administration to open a temporary family jail at the Border Patrol’s training academy in rural New Mexico and convert a men’s jail in Texas to one that could house families. Immigration advocates have been critical of the Obama administration for jailing families — mostly mothers with young children — and for poor conditions in the jails.

The ICE official told advocates during that September meeting that the agency was looking for alternatives to jailing families and welcomed suggestions for how to get more immigrants to report back to ICE. ICE said this week that the pilot program, known as “RGV 250,” started Dec. 1 and will eventually track 250 “heads of household” caught traveling with their families in the Rio Grande Valley and released into the interior of the U.S. Once those immigrants arrive and report as ordered, ICE may remove the tracking device.

The document says the GPS devices will allow ICE to track the rate of immigrants reporting back to the agency as ordered and the average length of time it takes those people to report. If the program proves successful in getting immigrants to report back to ICE, it may be expanded.

An ICE spokeswoman, Jennifer Elzea, said immigrants are screened on a case-by-case basis to decide who should be detained or released. Those who don’t pose a threat to public safety are considered for monitoring programs such as this one, she said.

During the 2014 budget year that ended in September, Border Patrol agents arrested more than 68,000 immigrants traveling as families along the Mexican border. More than 61,000 of those people were from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala and could not be sent home immediately. The majority of those people were released with orders to report back to ICE and enroll in a monitoring program called Alternatives to Detention, which allows the government to keep tabs on immigrants while their cases make their way through immigration court. The process can take several years.

More than 429,000 cases are pending in federal immigration court. Thousands of those immigrants are enrolled in the ICE reporting program, which varies from reporting periodically via telephone to being outfitted with a GPS tracking device. According to the ICE document, ICE will be able to monitor about 29,000 immigrants with GPS devices.

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CHICAGO — Unions across the U.S. are reaching out to immigrants affected by President Barack Obama’s recent executive action, hoping to expand their dwindling ranks by recruiting millions of workers who entered the U.S. illegally.

Labor leaders say the president’s action, which curbs deportation and gives work permits to some 4 million immigrants, will give new protection to workers who have been reluctant to join for fear of retaliation.

“I think we’ll see very positive changes” because of the action, said Tom Balanoff, president of Service Employees International Union Local 1. “One of them, I hope, is that more workers will come forward and want to organize.”

SEIU, whose more than 2 million members include janitors and maintenance workers, recently announced a website where immigrants can learn about the action.

Unions across the U.S. are reaching out to immigrants like Chicago’s Felipe Diasdado, above, affected by President Barack Obama’s recent executive action, hoping to expand their ranks by recruiting workers who entered the U.S. illegally. NAM Y. HUH/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The AFL-CIO says it’s training organizers to recruit eligible workers. And the United Food and Commercial Workers and other unions are planning workshops and partnering with community groups and churches to reach out to immigrants.

The efforts come even as Republicans and other opponents of Obama’s action work to undo it, saying it will hurt American workers, and as some labor experts say they’re skeptical immigrants will feel safe enough to unionize in large numbers.

Labor unions have struggled over the past decade to maintain their membership and political

muscle. The ranks fell by more than 1.2 million between 2003 and 2013, when there were about 14.5 million members nationwide, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The percentage of workers that were union

members fell from 12.9 percent to 11.3 percent during that same period.

Business-friendly Republican governors have approved measures in recent years aimed at weakening labor, even in places such as Michigan that were once considered union strongholds.

In Obama’s home state of Illinois, a GOP businessman unseated the Democratic governor last month in part by promising to constrain labor’s influence in government.

Unions say they can help protect immigrants against abuses such as wage theft and discrimination.

And even if the immigrants aren’t citizens and cannot vote, they can help unions by paying dues and doing the heavy lifting needed around election time — knocking on doors, driving

voters to the polls and making phone calls for pro-labor candidates.

Republicans say the executive actions — which would affect people who have children and have been in the U.S. more than five years — will make it tougher for Americans already struggling to find good-paying jobs.

“The president’s action is a threat to every working person in this country — their jobs, wages, dreams, hopes and futures,” said GOP U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama.

Felipe Diosdado, who came to the U.S. illegally in 1997, says undocumented people he knows are working for cash at small businesses that aren’t unionized because they’re afraid to apply at larger job sites that are more likely to verify a worker’s immigration status.

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Wages: Millions work more hours at low pay to make ends meet Continued from Page A-1 Green once held a middleclass job. Now, to make enough money to send his children to college, he works the equivalent of two full-time jobs: one maintaining highways for the state of North Carolina and one ushering fans and collecting trash for a variety of sports teams around Winston-Salem.

The American economy has stopped delivering the broadly shared prosperity that the nation grew accustomed to after World War II. The explanation for why that is begins with the millions of middle-class jobs that vanished over the past 25 years, and with what happened to the men and women who once held those jobs.

Millions of Americans are working harder than ever just to keep from falling behind; Green is one of them. Those workers have been devalued in the eyes of the economy, pushed into jobs that pay them much less than the ones they once had.

Today, a shrinking share of Americans are working middleclass jobs, and collectively they earn less of the nation’s income than they used to. In 1981, according to the Pew Research Center, 59 percent of American adults were classified as “middle income” — which means their household income was between two-thirds and double the nation’s median income.

By 2011, it was down to 51 percent. In that time, the “middle” group’s share of the national income pie fell from 60 percent to 45 percent.

For that, you can blame the past three recessions, which sparked a chain reaction of layoffs and lower pay.

Millions of American jobs disappeared during the 1990, 2001 and 2008 recessions. That’s what happens in recessions. But for decades after World War II, lost jobs came back when the economy picked up again.

These times, they didn’t. And it was a particular sort of job that disappeared permanently in those downturns, economists from Duke University and the University of British Columbia have found: jobs that companies could easily outsource overseas or replace with a machine.

Economists call those jobs “middle-skill” jobs. They include a lot of factory work — the country is down about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since 1990, according to the Labor Department — but also a lot of clerical and sales tasks that can be handled easily from a country where workers make a fraction of what they make here.

In 1979, middle-skill jobs accounted for 57 percent of the jobs in the U.S. economy, according to calculations by David Autor, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By 2009, the share was down to 46 percent. If the share had not changed over those 30 years — if it had stayed at 1979 levels — there would be 15 million more middle-skill jobs in America today.

When middle-skill jobs vanish, those workers must either take low-skill jobs or compete for the fewer middle-skill jobs left. That extra competition pushes down everybody’s pay, as Ed Green has discovered.

Green’s state job pays about $12 an hour. His sports jobs pay about $9 an hour, which is decent money for anyone who works at a minor league or college stadium. Green’s wife works full time as a social worker for a small salary. Between them, they clock between 110 and 120 hours a week on average. All those hours allow them to earn what a typical American family earned 25 years ago, after adjusting for inflation.

The average two-parent American family earned 23 percent more in 2009 than it did in 1973, after adjusting for inflation. That’s because people in those families are working more hours — 26 percent more than in 1973 on average. Take away the extra time on the job, and wages haven’t gone up at all for the median family in more than 40 years, even though workers have grown more productive.

That wage stagnation ripples through the economy. Workers who earn less than they used to have less money to spend in town, less time to spend helping their kids in school, less cushion to take a risk and start a business. Economic research shows a thriving middle class fosters entrepreneurs and economic

Ed Green prepares to works with the North Carolina Department of Transportation in Winston-Salem.

It’s one of several jobs he holds to make ends meet.

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mobility — the places with the largest middle classes are also the ones where it’s easiest for children who grow up poor to climb out of poverty as adults.

Green grew up in the middle class, the son of a New York City bus driver. He also went on to drive a bus, after he dropped out of technical school, got married and started having kids. He was earning $68,000 a year in a union job and was on track to retire with full benefits.

But cancer struck his mother, who had moved to North Carolina after Green’s father died.

Green moved his family there to help care for her, and he went looking for the sort of goodpaying factory job that powered the Carolina economy for a long time. It was 2000, and as Green was about to discover, America’s middle-class job machine was starting to sputter.

Since the turn of the millennium, North Carolina has been an epicenter of a phenomenon economists call “hollowing out.”

Simply put, it’s the disappearance of jobs that require some training and technical mastery, including work in factories, call centers and secretarial pools.

Green’s first job in North Carolina was at a battery factory, where he earned $12 an hour.

He found a slightly higher salary driving a city bus, but it still paid

much less than his old bus-driving job. Then he joined the state highway crew. His six children and stepchildren were growing up, and he wanted them to go to college. So he started cleaning his church two or three times a week. Soon he was into his night sports-event jobs. He realized that “if I can’t make what I need hourly, I just have to supplement my hours,” he said.

North Carolina was one of the states that lost thousands of jobs due to the expanded trade and improved technology in the 2000s — the forces and federal policies that pushed work abroad or allowed employers to replace workers with machines — according to calculations by Autor, the MIT economist who is the godfather of “hollowing out” research. The state lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs over the course of the decade. Its real median income fell by about 10 percent; in Forsyth County, where Green lives, it fell about 20 percent. Autor’s research pins much of that loss on the effects of expanded trade with China, because Chinese factories made many of the same items North Carolina’s factories did, but at a much lower price.

Few new jobs appeared, in North Carolina or around the country, that paid as well as

those lost jobs. Autor and several co-authors estimate that increased import competition from China killed at least 2 million jobs, on net. That left former middle-class workers in a vise. As Autor puts it, the most valuable asset any worker has is scarce labor — the thing he or she can do that most others can’t, which commands a premium in the marketplace.

When workers find their labor isn’t scarce anymore, they must work harder just to keep up.

Green starts work every weekday at 7 a.m., driving the paving truck when the weather allows, pitching in on odd tasks when it doesn’t. He gets a halfhour for lunch, finishes his shift midafternoon, then changes in a transportation department locker room and usually drives to a sports stadium. In the summer, he goes to the baseball field, where the Dash, the Class A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, plays 70 games a year. In the winter, he works security at Wake Forest University’s arena, for basketball games and the odd concert. On fall weekends, he’s an usher at the school’s

football games.

One day last year, when it was too cold for paving, Green and his road-crew colleagues slowly trawled up Interstate 40 east of town, clearing brush from the side of the road and feeding it into a wood chipper.

Cars buzzed past at 70 mph.

The workers on the crew, Green said, know to listen for tires on the serrated edge of the pavement. Or for brakes screaming.

You hear those things, you don’t look — you just run.

Later that day, Green donned a gold polo shirt with a Wake Forest logo and clocked in at a concrete tunnel under the school arena, where the Demon Deacons women’s basketball team was set to play in a couple of hours. He pulled out a cushioned black chair and sat for a quick spell. He said he thinks he will need to work until age 68, 14 more years, to retire.

Green was finally, briefly, relaxing after at least 10 hours on his feet. He is not a small man. Years of standing and paving and trash dumping have whittled away at his health.

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You can talk to Green for hours about his life and his family and his various jobs, and he will never complain about how much he works. He will not blame anyone for his load.

“I work hard to pay the bills,” he said. “I wish I didn’t have to work so hard, but I’ve been doing it so long, it’s just … what you do.”

The final game of the Dash’s 2013 season ended with a concussive barrage of fireworks, which shook the stands like artillery fire. When the show stopped, the sleepy, happy crowd filed out. Smoke wafted through the bleachers. Green walked back onto the field for the second time that night.

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BERKELEY, Mo. — The mayor of the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley called for calm Wednesday after a white police officer killed a black 18-year-old who police said pointed a gun at him. The shooting reignited tensions that have lingered since the death of Michael Brown in neighboring Ferguson.

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the officer was questioning two men — one later identified as 18-year-old Antonio Martin — late Tuesday about a theft at a Berkeley convenience store when Martin pulled a 9mm handgun on the officer.

The officer stumbled backward but fired three shots, one of which struck Martin, Belmar said. No shots came from Martin’s loaded gun, the chief said.

Martin died at the scene, though Belmar declined to specify where the fatal bullet hit Martin.

Berkeley is near Ferguson, Mo, where white police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old, on Aug. 9, sparking weeks of sometimes violent demonstrations. A grand jury’s decision to not charge Wilson last month in the shooting has spurred a nationwide movement to protest police brutality.

The 34-year-old, white Berkeley police officer, a six-year veteran of the police force in the 25,000-resident suburb, is on administrative leave pending an investigation, Belmar said.

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After deaths, support for police surges

By David Crary The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Rocker Jon Bon Jovi donned a New York Police Department T-shirt on stage. Well-wishers delivered home-baked cookies by the hundreds to police in Cincinnati. In Mooresville, N.C., police and sheriff’s officers were treated by residents to a chili dinner.

At a time when many in the nation’s police community feel embattled, Americans in cities and towns across the country are making an effort to express support and gratitude.

“I’m showing a little solidarity for my brothers in the NYPD and all of those who protect and serve us every day,” Bon Jovi told a cheering crowd at his concert Monday in Red Bank, N.J. The surge of support is linked to two distinct but overlapping developments.

The immediate catalyst was the killings of two New York police officers as they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn on Saturday. For many of those making appreciative gestures, there also was a desire to counter the widespread protests — steeped with criticism of police — that followed

grand jury decisions not to charge white officers for their roles in the deaths of black men Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in New York.

Becky Grizovic, of Walton, Ky., helps orchestrate a campaign called Cookies for a Cop that provides treats to officers in more than 200 departments in 23 states. She was joined by her husband, son and a neighbor in delivering cookies to Cincinnati police stations on Monday.

At the District 2 station house, Capt. Jeffrey Butler said the gesture was especially appreciated in light of the deaths of the two officers in New York.

“The reason that this started is that I’ve just been so disheartened by the news,” Grizovic said in a phone interview.

“I wanted to do something positive to lift their spirits because this is so hard on all of them.”

Rallies and vigils in support of police have taken place recently in several locations, including Nashville, Tenn.; West Orange, N.J.; Annapolis, Md., and New York’s Riverdale neighborhood.

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Monday night in Nashville was Merri Puckett, a retired police officer.

“The police are really taking a hard hit right now,” she told The Tennessean newspaper.

“Ninety-nine percent of the officers out there are doing a good job, and it’s a thankless job and they need to know that the public supports them.”

In Minden, Nev., there was a one-man rally in support of local officers.

John Munk, a retired sheriff’s deputy, stood in front of the post office with a sign reading, “God Bless Law Enforcement.”

Passing motorists honk as retired Douglas County sheriff’s deputy John Munk of Gardnerville, Nev., holds a sign showing his support for law enforcement.

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Israel strikes Gaza after Palestinian sniper fire, killing 1 Hamas militant

ISIS extremists capture Jordanian pilot tinue its fight against the group that has overrun large parts of Syria and Iraq and beheaded AMMAN, Jordan — Islamic foreign captives.

State militants captured a JorThe cause of the crash was danian pilot after his warplane not immediately known, but the crashed in Syria while carryU.S. military insisted the plane ing out airstrikes Wednesday, was not shot down. making him the first foreign “Evidence clearly indicates military member to fall into the that [ISIS] did not down the extremists’ hands since an interaircraft as the terrorist organizanational coalition launched its tion is claiming,” Central Combombing campaign against the mand said in a statement. group months ago.

U.S. Army Gen. Lloyd J. Images of the pilot being Austin III, who is overseeing pulled out of a lake and hustled all coalition military operations away by masked jihadis underscored the risks for the U.S. and in Iraq and Syria, condemned the pilot’s capture, saying in a its Arab and European allies in statement: “We will support the air campaign. efforts to ensure his safe recovThe capture — and the ery and will not tolerate [ISIS’s] potential hostage situation — presented a nightmare scenario attempts to misrepresent for Jordan, which vowed to con- or exploit this unfortunate

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aircraft crash for their own purposes.”

A coalition official, who was not authorized to discuss the episode publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the pilot was in an F-16 fighter and was able to eject.

Jordanian Information Minister Mohammad Momani earlier told the AP that the plane was believed to have been shot down.

“It is our expectation that the plane went down because of fire from the ground, but it is difficult to confirm that, with the little information we have,” he said.

The Islamic State group is known to have Russian-made Igla anti-aircraft missiles.

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JERUSALEM — Israeli forces on Wednesday struck targets in the Gaza Strip, killing a Hamas militant, after its troops came under attack

by Palestinian snipers while patrolling the Israeli side of the border, the military said.

It was the first deadly clash between the sides since a 50-day war over the summer, and came days after Israel carried out its first postwar airstrike in Gaza in response to renewed rocket fire.

The Israeli military said air and tank units attacked targets on Wednesday following the sniper attack. It said one soldier was seriously injured.

“Our policy is clear — a strong and vigorous response in the face of any attempt to violate the quiet in the

has long been in the Syrian and Iraqi government arsenals; it was used during the 1991 Gulf War by Iraqi forces to bring down a British Tornado jet, for example.

The warplane went down near the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto IS capital.

Images showed the pilot — in a white shirt, naked from the waist down and sopping wet — being pulled by gunmen out of what appeared to be a lake. Another picture showed him surrounded by more than a dozen fighters, some of them masked.

The images were published by the Raqqa Media Center, a monitoring group that operates in areas under the extremists’ rule with the group’s consent.

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Nicaragua canal may be $50B boondoggle As nation breaks ground, massive project threatens to displace thousands and destroy fragile environment

By Ishaan Tharoor The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — This week, Nicaraguan dignitaries and officials from a Hong Kong-based consortium inaugurated what could be the most ambitious infrastructure project in the Western Hemisphere.

The planned Grand Canal of Nicaragua would span 172 miles across the Central American nation, cutting through Lake Nicaragua, the region’s largest freshwater reservoir. At a cost of about $50 billion, it would dwarf the Panama Canal in terms of capacity and bring untold economic benefits to what remains one of the poorest countries in the Americas.

“With this great canal, Nicaragua expects to move 5 percent of the world’s commerce that moves by sea, which will bring great economic benefits and double the GDP,” said Nicaraguan Vice President Omar Halleslevens at a groundbreaking ceremony on the Pacific Coast.

But there are many reasons to doubt the venture will be a success.

The dream of building a trans-oceanic waterway through Nicaragua is an old one, dating back to the 19th century.

American proponents of such a project included the powerful Vanderbilt family and President Theodore Roosevelt. None of the earlier plans were realized.

Ground was broken only after a deal hatched last year between Nicaragua’s Sandinista government and a consortium led by Chinese telecom billionaire Wang Jing. Critics wonder how the little-known Wang came to win the bid, which gives his Hong Kong-listed company, HKND, a 100-year-long concession over the canal’s operation. There was next to no transparency in the process. Wang is exempt from local taxes and commercial regulations, and has been granted hiring and landexpropriating powers, according to the Guardian.

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ability to finance the project, and some speculate that it will never actually be completed, leaving perhaps at best some ports and container facilities but no canal in between.

In an interview with Reuters earlier this year, Wang said he was forking out some $10 million a month of his own money as the project’s preparations grew apace.

Wang demurs on whether he will seek aid or loans from China. Many observers see the planned canal as China’s biggest footprint in Latin America. Although it’s not unusual for Chinese state companies to bankroll infrastructure projects around the world, Wang has said the Nicaraguan canal is a fully private venture. He’s walking a geopolitical tightrope: To this day, Nicaragua maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan, not the government in Beijing.

The proposed canal, which is expected to take at least five years to be built, has been heavily criticized by environmental experts and campaigners, as well as activists who fear it may simply be a lucrative boondoggle for President Daniel Ortega and his allies in power. Hundreds of protesters blocked a highway leading to the capital Managua on Monday, but they were removed by what they deemed a “militarized” police response.

Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans may be displaced by the canal’s construction, including some indigenous communities. Moreover, the project poses serious threats to the country’s wetlands and forests. It may involve the dredging of Lake Nicaragua, which is too shallow at present

to accommodate the supertankers that the canal’s backers want to see steaming through Nicaragua. That would generate a great deal of sediment and potentially damage water quality and harm the surrounding ecosystem.

Scientists and activists are incredulous that HKND’s bid was accepted without an independent environmental assessment; the company says it has conducted its own reviews, but it has yet to make those reports public.

There are also concerns about the safety of protected mangroves, local fisheries and the potential of invasive species from the Caribbean and the Pacific penetrating Nicaragua’s delicate wetlands. The Panama Canal, which is far shorter and smaller than the proposed Nicaraguan venture, is entirely freshwater and uses a series of locks to hoist ships along an elevated waterway. The Nicaraguan canal would be shallower and pose less of a barrier to marine life.

The Panama Canal, which marked its centennial this year, raises perhaps the most pertinent question regarding HKND’s Nicaraguan pipe dream: Does the world really need it? A $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal — which, unlike the Nicaragua project, was approved after a national referendum — is expected to be completed by 2016. By some estimates, even if the Nicaragua project managed to capture all of the Panama Canal’s traffic, it would possibly take more than three decades for Wang and company to pay off their initial investment.

“I’m skeptical,” Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas in Washington, said year when news of the Nicaragua megaproject was first announced. “There’s already a canal. The expense is going to be significant and success is far from guaranteed.”

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Pet: 5 get new homes about how the adoption came about, saying only, “Well, Santa apparently wasn’t at first sure brought her.” that Morena was his to keep.

Nathan was a bit more soft“Is she going to stay with us?” spoken than Aaron, but it Aaron whispered in his mothseemed clear that both Fluffles er’s ear. and Nathan were already Over at the Archuletta home, becoming fast friends.

Nathan was still in his “boy Santa and elf Nelson were genius” pajamas when grandgreeted with waves and honks mother Rosemary Archuletta from other drivers and even answered Santa’s knock on the stopped for the occasional photodoor. Nathan, it turns out, loves op as they made their rounds cats (a bigger fan of the Interabout the town and back to the net’s “Grumpy Cat” there isn’t) sleigh and reindeer, dropping off and broke into a gap-toothed the other two cats and a houndgrin when Santa presented him pit bull mix named Twinkles with Cherry, a just-weeks-old at homes where families had tabby kitten. The Salazar firstdecided that Christmas Eve grader had apparently suspected would be a good time to wela cat might be in the works for come a new four-pawed member of the clan.

Christmas and already had gotSanta was heard to remark as ten a bed and a few toys for any new feline arrival, and promptly he drove out of sight that this year’s visit was the merriest of renamed the kitten Fluffles. his three Santa Fe pet deliveries.

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Transfers from the lab the The worker will be monitored experiment material came from for 21 days and the person’s have been stopped during the name hasn’t been released. internal review, and the lab the Additional employees have exposure may have happened been notified, but none has in is closed, Reynolds said.

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Walk: ‘A thank you to the city’ turous walkers donned Christmas lights. Some sang Christmas carols as they ambled up and down the streets. Kathy Rivera wore a set of Christmas lights modified to resemble minifarolitos, delighting children and adults alike.

Gallery owners handed out hot chocolate, hot cider and other creature comforts to shivering walkers.

Gallery owners said they see plenty of tourists on the Farolito Walk each year, but the presence of Santa Feans is more notable, given that most local people don’t often frequent the area.

Gallery owner Barbara Meikle said she has participated in the walk since she started her gallery, Barbara Meikle Fine Art, about eight years ago. Before that, she said, she would walk Canyon Road on Christmas Eve. Meikle said she was planning to serve hot cider, cookies and other goodies in the gallery until about 8 p.m. Wednesday. She said she loves the Farolito Walk because she gets the chance to reconnect with people she hasn’t seen in a long time.

“Just about everyone is out,” she said.

Ann Hosfeld, owner of New Concept Gallery, said the walk is “definitely a local thing.” She has put farolitos out for the past seven years and has lived in Santa Fe for 30 years. And Troy Buchleiter, who also works at the New Concept Gallery, said the walk is a part of Santa Fe that locals like to show off to family and friends visiting over the holidays.

John Alvarado operates a little pop-up shop where he sells hot chocolate, warm cider and hand warmers about halfway up Canyon Road.

Christmas Eve sales help cover the bills, he said, but he also loves the tradition of people walking the streets, chatting and catching up.

“It’s reconnecting to what Santa Fe was all about,” he said.

Lifelong Santa Fe resident Michael Beltran said he and his wife, Linda, have been coming to the walk for as long as he can remember. He said the walk has gotten larger and more commercial. But it still has a “small community feeling, that’s what we like.”

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Santa Fe’s annual Christmas Eve Farolito Walk on Canyon Road remains a popular tradition for locals. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Beltran said he doesn’t often visit Canyon Road.

That’s the story for many local people who were walking Wednesday night.

Consider Ron and Geri Martin, who have lived in Santa Fe for 10 years. They said they used to frequent Canyon Road when they first moved to the city, but now they spend less time there. The Farolito Walk, they said, serves as a good reminder about what the artsy area has to offer. Plus, Geri Martin said, it’s fun to bring their children and grandchildren to the walk when they come to visit.

Maybe the owner of the Waxlander Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Bonnie French, explained the event’s appeal best. She has lined her storefront with farolitos for the past 30 years.

“This is the way we give back to the community,” she said. “It’s a big thank you to the city.”

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

Hacked: Post vows more havoc ANY LONGER.” It featured a photo illustration of a man of a story about the 43-year-old whose face was covered by killing of a New Mexico State a scarf along with the words Police officer by a man who “CyberCaliphate” and “i love fled to Cuba and remains there. isis,” an apparent reference to Normalcy was restored to the the Islamic extremist group newspaper’s online presence Islamic State, or ISIS, whose around 9 a.m. beheadings of Western jourAn editor at the newspaper nalists and other acts of terror reached by phone on Wednesspurred the U.S. to wage airday afternoon would not comstrikes in parts of Syria that the ment on the incident beyond group controls. what was reported in a brief The posting acknowledged story on the Albuquerque Joura relationship between the nal’s website. That story said U.S.-led and sanctioned bombthe newspaper’s servers had ings of ISIS-held areas as one not been breached, and that the motive for the cyberattack. changes to the intended content Since at least September, were limited to a single story. news organizations globally The altered story on the have reported ISIS’s plans to Albuquerque Journal’s eleclaunch a “cyber caliphate” tronic editions carried the attack targeting technology in headline “CHRISTMAS the U.S. with encoded software WILL NEVER BE MERRY that makes identifying the cul-

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prit difficult.

“While the U.S. and its satellites are bombing the Islamic State, we broke into your home networks and personal devices and know everything about you,” the story said.

The CyberCaliphate story made an ominous proclamation to citizens of Albuquerque.

“We know all personal data of Albuquerque locals: Where you live, what you eat, your diseases and even your health insurance cards,” it said.

The unknown author of the story characterized Christmas Eve 2014 as a day when lives of residents of Albuquerque will forever change: “You will look around more often, will call up your children more often, think of your security more often, but that won’t help you.”

The trees must be bare. That means no lights, ornaments or tree stands. The lights, however, can be recycled at the Buckman Road Recycling and Transfer City and county residents can Station, also known as BuRRT. recycle their Christmas trees for Trees with artificial snow, or free at a handful of locations, flocking, cannot be recycled and starting Friday. should be tossed in the trash.

The program “allows the Residents can drop off their trees to be mulched rather than trees at the following locations placed into our landfill,” accord- from Friday to Jan. 26: u Payne’s Nursery, ing to a news release from the 715 St. Michael’s Drive and Santa Fe Solid Waste Manage304 Camino Alire. ment Agency.

Recycling program turns Christmas trees to mulch

u Newman’s Nursery, 7501 Cerrillos Road. u Franklin Miles Park, Camino Carlos Rey and Siringo Road. u BuRRT, 2600 Buckman Road.

The city Parks Division will be chipping the collected trees at Franklin Miles Park from Monday through Friday. Tree chips will be available for free to city residents while supplies last.

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Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department took the following reports: u Shenandoah Hawkins, 37, of Carson, N.M., was arrested at 10:43 p.m. Monday on suspicion of simple assault in an unlicensed liquor establishment following an incident at the Interfaith Community Shelter, 2801 Cerrillos Road. u Someone broke into a vehicle parked in the 1100 block of Camino de las Crucitas between Monday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon. No items were listed as missing.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office took the

following reports: u County deputies arrested Ian Marlin, 24, of Santa Fe on a charge of felony larceny after he was accused of stealing scrap metal from a home on Vista del Rey sometime Monday. u Jail staff said they found Victoria Lopez, 20, in possession of a controlled substance, though she said she was holding the substance for someone else.

County deputies rebooked her into the Santa Fe County jail on an additional charge of possession of a controlled substance.

Lopez was originally in the jail on an arrest warrant. u County deputies say they

arrested Patricia Martinez, 25, on charges of aggravated battery against a household member and aggravated battery at a home on Camino Vista Aurora sometime Monday night.

She is accused of battering several people and leaving them with “visible injuries.” u Someone stole a TV and watches from a home on Camino Vista Aurora between 9 a.m. and 9:50 p.m. Monday. u A resident on Florencio Road reported that someone stole personal information and took $1,760 from a bank account between Nov. 29 and Monday.

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Cozy: Lyons calls claim ‘ridiculous’ sion-issued cellphone as an appearance of impropriety.

In an affidavit and 20 pages Montoya also dined with of supporting documents, PNM staff members, Nanasi Nanasi said the two commissaid. Nanasi also alleges that sioners have socialized with Montoya golfed with one PNM company executives that they employee and, at the explicit are supposed to keep at arm’s request of another, held meetlength because they regulate ings at a Starbucks in AlbuPNM. querque instead of at the regu“PNM and some of our state latory commission’s offices. utility regulators have comNanasi said some of this pletely corrupted that public information came from emails faith,” Nanasi said. originally obtained from the Lyons called her allegations Public Regulation Commission baseless and said they were by the Rio Grande Sun. politically motivated. Montoya Lyons, reached by telephone could not be reached for comat his home, said he had done ment on Christmas Eve. nothing wrong and would not Nanasi released snippets of a withdraw from this or any deposition she took from Ron other utility case. He called Darnell, a PNM vice president, New Energy Economy’s allegato support her allegations tions “just ridiculous.” against Lyons and Montoya.

“They’re a very liberal orgaHer documents quoted Dar- nization that doesn’t take into nell as saying that Lyons had consideration the ratepayers dined with PNM executives of New Mexico,” Lyons said. and attended a baseball game “They’re grabbing at straws, with one at the Texas Rangers trying to push through a liberal stadium. Lyons was in the Dal- agenda.” las area at the time for a conferNanasi, though, said her ence, according to Darnell’s motion is steeped in facts. account.

Lyons and Montoya, she said, Nanasi also listed a series of are so close to PNM that calls between Lyons and PNM they cannot be objective and therefore should not hear the executives on Lyons’ commis-

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company’s proposal for the San Juan Generating Station.

The Public Regulation Commission is composed of five elected members. Lyons won election to a second four-year term in last month’s election.

Montoya is in the middle of her first term.

Two newly elected members of the commission will take office in January. The fifth commissioner is Valerie Espinoza, D-Santa Fe, who often is at odds with Lyons and Montoya.

If Lyons and Montoya do not voluntarily withdraw from the hearing on the San Juan Generating Station, Nanasi said, her organization can ask the New Mexico Supreme Court to remove them based on conflicts of interest.

Lyons, though a critic of Nanasi and her group, recently said the Public Regulation Commission is dysfunctional and not focused enough on utility rate cases.

Though he was just reelected seven weeks ago, Lyons said he would push for changing the commission from a five-member elected panel to three members appointed by the governor.

Two year anniversary.

Thank you for all the signs you send us.

Merry Christmas in heaven.

We love you Dad, Mom and Family.

IRENE TAYLOR REED Irene Taylor Reed passed away peacefully on the evening of the first day of Winter, December 21st, 2014, at the age of 95. She left this world in the presence of loving family at her home at the Pacifica Rosemont in Santa Fe. Irene is survived by two children: W. Hamilton Reed and Stephanie Reed, her three grandchildren: Alex Reed, Jenna Reed, and Saxon Reed-Christian, and four greatgrandchildren: Dexter, Sawyer, Lexi, and Ava. She was preceded in death by her husband Clyde E. Reed Jr. and her two sons James Dorrington Reed and Jeffrey Jay Reed. Irene was born in London on July 27, 1919. She met her husband Captain Clyde Reed during World War II and married him in a bombed out church in London on February 10, 1945. After her husband retired from the Army, Irene moved with him to the States where she became a U.S. citizen, making America her new home for the remainder of her days. After living in several states across the country, she retired with Clyde in New Mexico and moved to Santa Fe in 2001 to be close to her daughter. She was married to Clyde for 63 years until the time of his death in 2008. A small service for family will be held at 8am on Friday at Berardinelli’s Funeral Home, followed by interment at the Santa Fe National Cemetery on Friday, December 26th at 9am where Irene will be buried with her loving husband.

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Ray Rivera Editor

ANOTHER VIEW

Is there a Santa Claus?

E LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Sheriff’s deputy deserves recognition

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he Santa Fe area got the snowstorm that residents had been praying for, but unfortunately, it made the highways dangerous. On the morning of Dec. 17, on my way to Santa Fe I got into an accident.

A gravel truck pulled out in front of me and when I tried to avoid it, my car went around three times and hit the guardrail head on. I was OK, but in shock. A passerby stopped to check on me and called the police. A deputy by the name of Eric Duling, from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, arrived. He asked me if I was OK, and if I wanted for him to call an ambulance or a wrecker service. He then asked for my registration and insurance.

After that he took a look at the damage to my vehicle and saw that the bumper was lodged against the tire. He then used his baton to bend the bumper back so that I could drive. All this was done as the snow was falling in 30-degree temperatures. He also said that he would wait until my husband arrived, since my vehicle was white, and didn’t want someone to run into me. He went over and beyond the call of duty.

Our police officers are paid to protect us and so many times we don’t give them the credit that they deserve. Thank you, Eric Duling, for being there in my time of need.

Liz Sandoval

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PNM’s plan I am a Santa Fe resident and I oppose the Public Service Company of New Mexico’s efforts to buy coal plants and raise our energy rates. I already pay what I consider an enormous amount a year for electricity. I would much rather that PNM invest in renewable sources of energy and not turning the clock back with coal-fired power plants.

Thank you for taking my opinion into consideration.

Matthew Mitchell

Santa Fe

Helping vets All of us at Pak Mail on Montezuma Ave. would like

to thank the caring Santa Fe customers who helped us by doing their holiday packing and shipping with us the week of Dec. 8 through Dec. 13.

That week, we donated 10 percent of all Pak Mail store sales to the Santa Fe “Adaptive Ski Program” (soon to be The Adaptive Sports Program) specifically for New Mexico disabled military veterans.

Our generous patrons made it possible for this important organization to help many veterans to enjoy winter skiing as well as summer outdoor activities like river rafting, horseback riding and more.

Kathleen and Del Mulder and Pak Mail staff Montezuma Ave.

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COMMENTARY: CLARK STRAND

Despite light, we must have darkness WOODSTOCK, N.Y. hen the people of this small mountain town got their first dose of electrical lighting in late 1924, they were appalled. “Old people swore that reading or living by so fierce a light was impossible,” wrote the local historian Alf Evers.

That much light invited comparisons.

It was an advertisement for the new, the rich and the beautiful — a verdict against the old, the ordinary and the poor. As Christmas approached, a protest was staged on the village green to decry the evils of modern light.

Woodstock has always been a small place with a big mouth where cultural issues are concerned. But in this case the protest didn’t amount to much. Here as elsewhere in early 20th-century America, the reluctance to embrace brighter nights was a brief and halfhearted affair.

Last week we had the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. But few of us turned off the lights long enough to notice.

There’s no getting away from the light.

There are fluorescent lights and halogen lights, stadium lights, streetlights, stoplights, headlights and billboard lights.

There are night lights to stand sentinel in hallways, and the lit screens of cellphones to feed our addiction to information, even in the middle of the night. No wonder we have trouble sleeping. The lights are always on.

In the modern world, petroleum may drive our engines but our consciousness

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is driven by light. And what it drives us to is excess, in every imaginable form.

Beginning in the late 19th century, the availability of cheap, effective lighting extended the range of waking human consciousness, effectively adding more hours onto the day — for work, for entertainment, for discovery, for consumption; for every activity except sleep, that nightly act of renunciation.

Darkness was the only power that has ever put the human agenda on hold.

In centuries past, the hours of darkness were a time when no productive work could be done. Which is to say, at night the human impulse to remake the world in our own image — so that it served us, so that we could almost believe the world and its resources existed for us alone — was suspended. The night was the natural corrective to that most persistent of all illusions: that human progress is the reason for the world.

Advances in science, industry, medicine and nearly every other area of human enterprise resulted from the influx of light.

The only casualty was darkness, a thing of seemingly little value. But that was only because we had forgotten what darkness was for.

In times past, people took to their beds at nightfall, but not merely to sleep.

They touched one another, told stories and, with so much night to work with, woke in the middle of it to a darkness so luxurious it teased visions from the mind and divine visitations that helped to

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guide their course through life. Now that deeper darkness has turned against us.

The hour of the wolf we call it — that predatory insomnia that makes billions for big pharma. It was once the hour of God. There is, of course, no need to fear the dark, much less prevail over it. Not that we could. Look up in the sky on a starry night, if you can still find one, and you will see that there is a lot of darkness in the universe.

There is so much of it, in fact, that it simply has to be the foundation of all that is. The stars are an anomaly in the face of it, the planets an accident. Is it evil or indifferent? I don’t think so. Our lives begin in the womb and end in the tomb.

It’s dark on either side.

We’ve rolled back the night so far that soon we will come full circle and reach the dawn of the following day.

And where will that leave us? In a world with no God and no wolf either — only unrelenting commerce and consumption, information and media … and light. We need a rest from ourselves that only nights like the winter solstice can give us. And the Earth, too, needs that rest.

The only thing I can hope for is that, if we won’t come to our senses and search for the darkness, on long nights, the darkness will come looking for us.

Clark Strand, who wrote this for The New York Times, is the author of the forthcoming book Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age.

ditor’s note: Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps. We share it with our readers once again this Christmas Day. “Dear editor: I am 8 years old.

“Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.

“Papa says, ‘If you see it in The Sun it’s so.’

“Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O’Hanlon 115 West Ninety-Fifth Street” New York Sun Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn?

Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there.

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 25, 1989: Merry Christmas!

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expanding, experts say cyberspace is aiding their plight.

“Social media has put pets front and center,” said Christie Keith, social media consultant for Maddie’s Fund, a Californiabased foundation that works to save pets’ lives. Social media, she said, “is revolutionizing how we help animals.”

The Internet has created a vast audience of potential adopters. To save pets’ lives, animal welfare organizations are reaching out to an audience addicted to cat videos. Shelters use social media to promote everything from adoption campaigns to free vaccinations, spaying and neutering.

Although there are no comprehensive nationwide statistics, recent studies of targeted communities and available data indicate increases in animal shelters releasing cats to owners or agencies such as rescues that guarantee adoption.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Cats these days aren’t associated with deities the way they were in ancient Egypt, but the Internet has gotten them a little closer.

We adore Nora the pianoplaying cat. We chuckle as a comical feline named Maru leaps into cardboard boxes. We revel in Grumpy Cat’s permanently sour expression. And with millions watching videos of other kitties getting tongue baths from horses and playing peekaboo with their owners, cats have become online stars.

For feline fans, it’s a sea change. In the affections of Americans, cats often get short shrift compared with dogs.

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organizations in six areas from Florida to Washington state supplied data from 2007 to 2011.

Overall, the rates for dogs and cats released to people or agencies rose from 41 percent to 65 percent. Cats showed a whopping 111 percent boost.

It’s difficult to pinpoint how much of this good news stems from the Internet, but many online campaigns have seen successes.

A year ago, just before Christmas, the Dumb Friends League in Denver posted a photo and story on Facebook of an 11-year-

old cat that had been in its shelter for nearly eight months.

Older cats like Ripley are often overlooked by potential adopters.

For her online appearance, Ripley donned a tiny Santa suit.

The posting got hundreds of shares and “likes” and netted her a new home, said Megan Rees, spokeswoman for the organization.

The organization has increased its adoption rate of adult cats by 13 percent over the past year, with help from its website, Facebook and Twitter.

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TCU’s Patterson wins AP college football coach of year and in 2008 at Alabama.

Patterson received 27 of 54 votes from the AP Top 25 media panel.

Urban Meyer of Ohio State was the runner-up with 14 votes. Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen received six votes.

Alabama’s Saban and Arizona’s Rich Rodriguez drew two votes each.

Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher, Baylor’s Art Briles and Memphis’ Justin Fuente had one.

Patterson guided the sixth-ranked Horned Frogs to an 11-1 record and a share of the Big 12 title after going 4-8 in 2013.

By Ralph D. Russo The Associated Press

TCU coach Gary Patterson embraced changed and joined an exclusive club.

Patterson was voted college football coach of the year by The Associated Press on Wednesday, joining Nick Saban as the only two-time winners.

The AP coach of the year has been awarded since 1998. Patterson, in his 14th season at TCU, was coach of the year in 2009. Saban was coach of the year in 2003 when he was with LSU

“The head coaches get too much attention,” Patterson said. “That means really that you had a good team. Good players and really a great coaching staff.”

After his worst season at TCU, Patterson overhauled his offense, knowing he needed more production to keep up in the high-scoring Big 12. He brought in Doug Meacham to be offensive coordinator and Sonny Cumbie to assist and coach quarterbacks. They installed an up-tempo, spread offense similar to the one used

by Big 12 rivals Texas Tech, Oklahoma

State and West Virginia.

What resulted was one of the biggest turnarounds of the season. TCU went from being ranked 105th in the nation in yards per play and 106th in yards per game in 2013 to ranking ninth and fourth, respectively, in those categories in 2014. The Horned Frogs increased their points per game by three touchdowns, from 25 to 46. Trevone Boykin, who seemed destined to become a full-time receiver, instead developed into one of the best dual-threat quar-

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LeBron returns to Miami James won 2 titles with the Heat before deciding to head back to Cleveland

By Tim Reynolds and Tom Withers The Associated Press

Colts’ Vinatieri is 1 game away from perfection

MIAMI eBron James doesn’t have any apprehension for this homecoming.

There’s nothing to fear, no real worries about his safety, unlike what awaited him the last time he had one of these return games. Then again, this might not even classify as a homecoming — because, it turns out, Miami was never truly his home, just a place he called home for four years while playing with the Heat.

He came. He won. He left.

On Thursday, James returns to face the Heat, the team that turned him from a superstar to a two-time NBA champion superstar. And as he and the Cleveland Cavaliers prepare for what will certainly be an emotional Christmas visit, James expects to be flooded with positive vibes.

“To say I haven’t thought about going back, I would be lying,” James said in Cleveland on Tuesday night after he and the Cavaliers beat Minnesota. “It’s going to be great to be back in that building around those unbelievable fans and the memories will definitely come back, being a part of the organization for four years.”

For their part, the Heat insist that they’re looking forward to the reunion.

It goes without saying that some in the organization were angry when James left this past summer, in large part because of how long it took him to tell Miami that he would not be returning. But the building has hardly been scrubbed of reminders: Heat coach Erik Spoelstra still has photos of James in his office, and huge prints of some of his most memorable moments still adorn the walls of “Championship Alley” — the hallway leading from the Miami locker room.

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STORIES THAT INSPIRED IN 2014

Little League pitcher, marathon win are key moments

By Jimmy Golen The Associated Press

BOSTON — Meb Keflezighi strode alone down Boylston Street, past the patched-up sidewalks and reopened restaurants that line the path to the Boston Marathon finish line. On his race bib he had the names of those killed there by a pair of homemade bombs, and on his shoulders he would soon drape an American flag.

An Eritrean by birth, Keflezighi came to the United States to escape war and poverty in his African

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10 a.m. on ESPN — Washington at New York 12:30 p.m. on ABC — Oklahoma City at San Antonio 3 p.m. on ABC — Cleveland at Miami 6 p.m. on TNT — L.A. Lakers at Chicago 8:30 p.m. on TNT — Golden State at L.A. Clippers

TCU head coach Gary Patterson was selected as The Associated Press college football coach of the year Wednesday.

homeland. He did more than that: A year after the terrorist attacks shattered a scene of so much joy, Keflezighi became the first American man to win the world’s most prestigious marathon in more than three decades.

Keflezighi crossing the finish line, to the chants of “U-S-A!” and a few moist eyes, was one of the feel-good sports moments of 2014. In a year that included reports of corruption and the arrest of athletes, there were plenty of inspiring moments in sports.

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At 42, Indianapolis Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri is one game away from becoming only the fourth kicker in NFL history not to miss a single kick over a full season. He has converted all 47 extra points and all 28 field goals, including three of at least 50 yards.

He attributes his season of perfection simply to “trying to stay consistent” — the results certainly have been — and taking good care of his body, the oldest in the NFL. “I don’t get under a heavy squat rack or do a lot of heavy power cleaning anymore,” he said in a recent telephone interview. “It’s hard on the joints, and when you get a little bit older, you can do other things that doesn’t take quite as much strain on your body. I do a lot of core stuff to keep my core and hips loose and limber and strong. The workouts have evolved.”

Vinatieri would join Gary Anderson (1998, Minnesota), Jeff Wilkins (2000, St. Louis) and Mike Vanderjagt (2003, Indianapolis) as the kickers not to miss over a full season.

This season, NFL kickers have converted 62.5 percent of all field goals beyond 50 yards.

In Vinatieri’s rookie season, in 1996, that success rate was roughly the league standard on kicks between 40 and 49 yards. Twenty years before that, in the 1970s, kicks between 30 and 39 yards were made that often.

In other words, kicking proficiency is steadily improving, with the baseline of making two of three kicks pushing back 10 yards every two decades.

“So you’re saying 20 years from now, it’ll be in the 60s?” Vinatieri said with a laugh.

NFL kickers are testing the limit of the human capacity to kick an oblong leather ball weighing less than a pound through a pair of yellow-painted poles 18 feet 6 inches wide and situated an increasing distance from where the ball is held upright.

Kickers have been successful on 83.9 percent of all field goals this season, the third-highest rate on record, trailing only last year’s 86.5 percent and 2008’s 84.5 percent.

The 11 seasons with the highest proficiency are the 11 most recent seasons.

Among the 12 teams in line for the playoffs, the results are even better.

Now that Connor Barth has staked claim to the job in Denver, the 12 projected playoff kickers are converting 87.1 percent of field goals and 63.4 percent beyond 50 yards. Proximity to the goal posts is not necessary when deciding close postseason games.

Of the top 15 kickers, 12 are active.

Please see KICKERS, Page B-3 Mo’ne Davis, left, the first female pitcher in the Little League World Series to pitch a complete-game shutout, is accompanied by players from the team before throwing out the first pitch Oct. 25 at the World Series in San Francisco. MATT SLOCUM/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

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Tuesday’s Games Chicago 99, Washington 91 Orlando 100, Boston 95 Indiana 96, New Orleans 84 Cleveland 125, Minnesota 104 Atlanta 107, L.A. Clippers 104 Philadelphia 91, Miami 87 Brooklyn 102, Denver 96 Portland 115, Oklahoma City 111, OT Charlotte 108, Milwaukee 101 Phoenix 124, Dallas 115 L.A. Lakers 115, Golden State 105 Thursday’s Games Washington at New York, 12 p.m.

Okla. City at San Antonio, 2:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Miami, 5 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Golden St. at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Brooklyn at Boston, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

San Antonio at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Charlotte at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Houston at Memphis, 8 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Denver, 9 p.m.

Philadelphia at Portland, 10 p.m.

Phoenix at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Leaders Through Dec. 23 Scoring G FG FT PTS Harden, HOU 27 216 235 729 James, CLE 26 232 147 655 Bryant, LAL 27 225 175 665 Davis, NOR 27 258 146 662 Anthony, NYK 26 232 112 615 Curry, GOL 27 226 100 632 Griffin, LAC 29 258 146 669 Aldridge, POR 28 253 119 640 Wade, MIA 21 188 91 479 Lillard, POR 30 222 132 658 Butler, CHI 26 181 175 563 Thompson, GOL26 199 88 561 Bosh, MIA 23 180 102 496 Ellis, DAL 30 248 97 628 Gay, SAC 26 189 137 544 Lowry, TOR 29 197 137 581 Irving, CLE 27 192 111 540 Gasol, MEM 28 203 149 556 Jefferson, CHA 29 243 67 553 FG Percentage FG FGA Wright, BOS 106 144 Jordan, LAC 117 166 Chandler, DAL 124 182 Zeller, BOS 98 151 Howard, HOU 110 190 Davis, NOR 258 450 A. Johnson, TOR 109 191 Stoudemire, NYK 146 259 Favors, UTA 168 302 Varejao, CLE 111 200 Rebounds G OFF DEF TOT Jordan, LAC 29 122 267 389 Drummond, DET28 135 217 352 Chandler, DAL 30 127 231 358 Vucevic, ORL 25 83 211 294 Gasol, CHI 25 61 225 286 Randolph, MEM26 97 200 297 Duncan, SAN 24 72 193 265 Aldridge, POR 28 78 219 297 Asik, NOR 24 92 160 252 Love, CLE 27 53 230 283 Assists G AST Rondo, DAL 25 265 Wall, WAS 27 282 Lawson, DEN 28 291 Paul, LAC 29 282 Curry, GOL 27 208 Lowry, TOR 29 222 Carter-Williams, PHL20 152 James, CLE 26 197 Holiday, NOR 28 203 Harden, HOU 27 189

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NCAA Men Top 25 Thursday’s Game No. 11 Wichita State vs. Colorado or George Washington at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, 4:30 or 7 p.m.

Saturday’s Games No. 1 Kentucky at No. 4 Louisville, Noon No. 8 Gonzaga at BYU, 7:30 p.m.

No. 15 Maryland vs. Oakland, 3 p.m.

No. 20 North Carolina vs. UAB, 2 p.m.

No. 21 Ohio St. vs. Wright St., 5 p.m.

No. 24 Colorado St. at New Mexico St., 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Games No. 6 Wisconsin vs. Buffalo, 6 p.m.

No. 13 Wash. vs. Stony Brook, 6 p.m.

No. 17 St. John’s vs. Tulane at the Barclays Center, 10 a.m.

No. 23 Northern Iowa vs. South Dakota State, 1 p.m.

Men’s Division I Thursday, Dec. 25 Tournaments Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic At Honolulu Seventh Place DePaul vs. Loy. Marymount, 11:30 a.m.

Fifth Place Ohio vs. Nebraska, 2 p.m.

Third Place Colorado vs. Hawaii, 4:30 p.m.

Championship G. Washington vs. Wichita St., 6:30m.

Saturday, Dec. 27 East Indiana vs. Georgetown at Madison Square Garden, 10 a.m.

Maine at Seton Hall, 10 a.m.

South Jacksonville St. at Jacksonville, Noon Kentucky at Louisville, Noon UAB at North Carolina, 2 p.m.

Oakland at Maryland, 3 p.m.

Mercer at Georgia, 4 p.m.

Presbyterian at Virginia Tech, 5 p.m.

Brescia at W. Kentucky, 6 p.m.

Tennessee St. at Tennessee, 6:30 p.m.

Midwest Georgia St. at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

N. Kentucky at Northwestern, 1 p.m.

Wright St. at Ohio St., 5 p.m.

UNC Wilmington at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Kennesaw St. at Illinois, 7 p.m.

Far West IUPUI at Pepperdine, 2 p.m.

Santa Clara at Saint Mary’s (Cal), 2 p.m.

San Francisco at Pacific, 4 p.m.

Colorado St. at New Mexico St., 7 p.m.

Portland at San Diego, 7 p.m.

Wayland Baptist at Utah St., 7:05 p.m.

Sacramento St. at Utah Valley, 7:05 p.m.

Gonzaga at BYU, 7:30 p.m.

San Diego Christ. at San Diego St., 8 p.m.

S. Utah at UNLV, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 28 East Tulane vs. St. John’s at the Barclays Center, 10 a.m.

Iona at Drexel, 11 a.m.

CCSU at UConn, 11 a.m.

Sacred Heart at Brown, Noon Colgate at Columbia, Noon Md.-Eastern Shore at Duquesne, Noon NJIT at Lafayette, Noon Bucknell at Siena, Noon Long Beach St. at Syracuse, Noon Hofstra vs. LIU Brooklyn at the Barclays Center, 12:30 p.m.

Coast Guard at Army, 1 p.m.

Rutgers at Monmouth (NJ), 1 p.m.

St. Peter’s at Cornell, 2 p.m.

Loyola (Md.) at Fairfield, 3 p.m.

Delaware St. at Temple, 3 p.m.

Lehigh at UMBC, 3 p.m.

Howard at Fordham, 4 p.m.

South UNC Greensboro at E. Carolina, Noon Marist at Elon, Noon Cincinnati Christian at Liberty, Noon Campbell at Samford, Noon Thomas (Maine) at High Point, 1 p.m.

NC Wesleyan at NC A&T, 1 p.m.

Cent. Pennsylvania at Radford, 1 p.m.

Bowling Green at South Florida, 1 p.m.

Wake Forest at Richmond, 2 p.m.

UCLA at Alabama, 4:30 p.m.

Midwest Concordia (Mich.) at E. Michigan, 11 a.m.

Longwood at Ball St., Noon Morgan St. at Marquette, Noon Coppin St. at Evansville, 12:05 p.m.

UMKC at Indiana St., 12:05 p.m.

Texas Southern at Kansas St., 1 p.m.

Northland at N. Dakota St., 1 p.m.

S. Dakota St. at N. Iowa, 1 p.m.

Harris-Stowe at SE Missouri, 1 p.m.

Robert Morris-Chicago at SIU-Edwardsville, 1 p.m.

Milwaukee at South Dakota, 1 p.m.

Florida Gulf Coast at Xavier, 2 p.m.

Judson at IPFW, 2:30 p.m.

Ill.-Chicago at Bradley, 3 p.m.

Belmont at Butler, 4 p.m.

Buffalo at Wisconsin, 6 p.m.

Southwest Northwestern St. at Arkansas, 1:30 p.m.

Haskell Indian Nations at Oral Roberts, 2 p.m.

MVSU at Houston, 3 p.m.

Far West Harvard at Arizona St., Noon Saint Katherine at Fresno St., 2 p.m.

San Diego Christ. at N. Arizona, 2 p.m.

Abilene Christ. at Gr. Canyon, 4 p.m.

UC Davis at Washington St., 4 p.m.

Stony Brook at Washington, 6 p.m.

CS Bakersfield at California, 8 p.m.

Women’s Top 25 Saturday’s Game No. 2 UConn vs. SMU, 11 a.m.

Sunday’s Games No. 4 Notre Dame at UCLA, 2 p.m.

No. 8 Tenn. vs. No. 10 Oregon St., 11 a.m.

No. 12 Kentucky vs. Tenn. St., Noon No. 14 Georgia at Seton Hall, Noon No. 16 Stanford vs. Santa Barbara, 3 p.m.

No. 17 Rutgers at Indiana, Noon No. 20 Mich. St. vs. Nrthwstrn, Noon No. 22 Syracuse vs. Cornell, 4 p.m.

No. 23 Iowa vs. Penn State, 1 p.m.

No. 24 Green Bay at Dayton, Noon No. 25 Arizona St. vs. Yale, 2:30 p.m.

Women’s Division I Saturday, Dec. 27 East SMU at UConn, 11 a.m.

Southwest UCF at Houston, 1 p.m.

Far West BYU at Gonzaga, 3 p.m.

Pacific at San Francisco, 3 p.m.

Saint Mary’s at Santa Clara, 3 p.m.

San Diego at Portland, 6 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 28 East Holy Cross vs. Norfolk St. at Island FCU Arena, Stony Brook, N.Y., 10 a.m.

Providence at Boston College, 11 a.m.

Fairfield at La Salle, 11 a.m.

Northeastern at Albany (N.Y.), Noon Bucknell at Binghamton, Noon UMass at Boston U., Noon Duquesne at Lehigh, Noon G. Washington at Loyola (Md.), Noon New Hampshire at Manhattan, Noon St. Francis (Pa.) at Pittsburgh, Noon Lafayette at Saint Peter’s, Noon Georgia at Seton Hall, Noon George Mason at Towson, Noon W. Michigan at Stony Brook, 12:30 p.m.

Dartmouth at Niagara, 2 p.m.

Colgate at Siena, 2 p.m.

Cornell at Syracuse, 4 p.m.

South Drexel vs. Miami (Ohio) at John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, Va., 10 a.m.

East Carolina at South Florida, 10 a.m.

Oregon St. at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

North Florida at Florida, Noon Tennessee St. at Kentucky, Noon Gardner-Webb at Longwood, Noon American at Wake Forest, Noon Richmond at William & Mary, Noon Davidson at Virginia, 12:30 p.m.

MVSU at Alabama, 1 p.m.

VCU at Coppin St., 1 p.m.

Middle Tenn. at Tenn. Tech, 1 p.m.

Coll. of Charleston at S.C. St., 2 p.m.

Jackson St. at La.-Lafayette, 3 p.m.

Temple at Memphis, 6:30 p.m.

Midwest Oakland at Cent. Michigan, 11 a.m.

Tulane at Cincinnati, Noon Green Bay at Dayton, Noon Rutgers at Indiana, Noon Milwaukee at IPFW, Noon Northwestern at Michigan St., Noon Saint Louis at E. Illinois, 1 p.m.

Purdue at Illinois, 1 p.m.

DePaul at Illinois St., 1 p.m.

Penn St. at Iowa, 1 p.m.

Sam Houston St. at Wichita St., 1 p.m.

Michigan at Wisconsin, 2 p.m.

Eureka at W. Illinois, 3:30 p.m.

Southwest Chattanooga vs. SIU Edwardsville at the Convocation Center, San Antonio, 11 a.m.

Hus.-Tillotson at Houston Bap., 1 p.m.

Denver at North Texas, 1 p.m.

Lamar at Rice, 1 p.m.

S. Dakota at Tex-San Antonio, 1:30 p.m.

Alcorn St. at UTEP, 2 p.m.

Far West Notre Dame at UCLA, 2 p.m.

Yale at Arizona St., 2:30 p.m.

LIU Brooklyn at Long Beach St., 3 p.m.

UC Santa Barbara at Stanford, 3 p.m.

Tournaments Miami Holiday Tournament At Coral Gables, Fla. First Round Florida A&M at Miami, 11 a.m.

UNC Greensboro vs. LSU, 1:30 p.m.

Hawk Classic At Philadelphia First Round Quinnipiac at Saint Joseph’s, Noon Northridge vs. Florida Gulf Coast, 2 p.m.

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

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

National Conference East W L T Pct PF PA y-Dallas 11 4 0 .733 423 335 Philadelphia 9 6 0 .600 440 374 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 354 366 Washington 4 11 0 .267 284 394 South W L T Pct PF PA Carolina 6 8 1 .433 305 371 Atlanta 6 9 0 .400 378 383 New Orleans 6 9 0 .400 378 404 Tampa Bay 2 13 0 .133 257 387 North W L T Pct PF PA x-Detroit 11 4 0 .733 301 252 x-Green Bay 11 4 0 .733 456 328 Minnesota 6 9 0 .400 312 334 Chicago 5 10 0 .333 310 429 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Seattle 11 4 0 .733 374 248 x-Arizona 11 4 0 .733 293 279 San Francisco 7 8 0 .467 286 323 St. Louis 6 9 0 .400 318 334 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Sunday, Dec. 28 Indianapolis at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Houston, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Dallas at Washington, 11 a.m.

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

Buffalo at New England, 11 a.m.

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

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

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

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

Oakland at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

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

Carolina at Atlanta, 2:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Pro Bowl Selections Players will be assigned to teams through the Pro Bowl Draft, Wednesday, Jan. 21.

At University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Ariz.

Sunday, Jan. 25 (x-first-time selection) OFFENSE Quarterbacks (6) Tom Brady, New England; Andrew Luck, Indianapolis; Peyton Manning, Denver; Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay; Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh; Tony Romo, Dallas.

Wide Receivers (8) Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh; Dez Bryant, Dallas; A.J. Green, Cincinnati; x-T.Y. Hilton, Indianapolis; Calvin Johnson, Detroit; Julio Jones, Atlanta; x-Jordy Nelson, Green Bay; Demaryius Thomas, Denver.

Running Backs (6) x-Le’Veon Bell, Pittsburgh; Jamaal Charles, Kansas City; Arian Foster, Houston; Marshawn Lynch, Seattle; LeSean McCoy, Philadelphia; DeMarco Murray, Dallas.

Fullbacks (2) John Kuhn, Green Bay; Marcel Reece, Oakland.

Tight Ends (4) Jimmy Graham, New Orleans; Rob Gronkowski, New England; x-Greg Olsen, Carolina; Julius Thomas, Denver.

Tackles (6) Ryan Clady, Denver; Jason Peters, Philadelphia; Tyron Smith, Dallas; Joe Staley, San Francisco; Joe Thomas, Cleveland; Trent Williams, Washington.

Guards (6) Jahri Evans, New Orleans; Mike Iupati, San Francisco; Kyle Long, Chicago; x-Zack Martin, Dallas; Josh Sitton, Green Bay; Marshal Yanda, Baltimore.

Centers (4) x-Travis Frederick, Dallas; x-Jason Kelce, Philadelphia; Nick Mangold, New York Jets; Maurkice Pouncey, Pittsburgh.

DEFENSE Defensive Ends (6) x-Calais Campbell, Arizona; Robert Quinn, St. Louis; Cameron Wake, Miami; DeMarcus Ware, Denver; J.J. Watt, Houston; Mario Williams, Buffalo.

Interior Linemen (6) Marcell Dareus, Buffalo; x-Aaron Donald, St. Louis; Gerald McCoy, Tampa Bay; Dontari Poe, Kanas City; Ndamukong Suh, Detroit; Kyle Williams, Buffalo.

Outside Linebackers (6) x-Connor Barwin, Philadelphia; Elvis Dumervil, Baltimore; Tamba Hali, Kansas City; Justin Houston, Kansas City; Clay Matthews, Green Bay; Von Miller, Denver.

Inside/Middle Linebackers (4) Luke Kuechly, Carolina; x-C.J. Mosley, Baltimore; x-Lawrence Timmons, Pittsburgh; x-Bobby Wagner, Seattle.

Cornerbacks (8) x-Vontae Davis, Indianapolis; Brent Grimes, Miami; Joe Haden, Cleveland; x-Chris Harris, Denver; Patrick Peterson, Arizona; Darrelle Revis, New England; Richard Sherman, Seattle; Aqib Talib, Denver.

Free Safeties (4) x-Tashaun Gipson, Cleveland; x-Glover Quin, Detroit; Earl Thomas, Seattle; Eric Weddle, San Diego.

Strong Safeties (2) Kam Chancellor, Seattle; T.J. Ward, Denver.

SPECIALISTS Punters (2) x-Kevin Huber, Cincinnati; x-Pat McAfee, Indianapolis.

Placekickers (2) Stephen Gostkowski, New England; Adam Vinatieri, Indianapolis.

Return Specialists (2) Devin Hester, Atlanta; x-Darren Sproles, Philadelphia.

Special Teamers (2) Justin Bethel, Arizona; Matthew Slater, New England.

NCAA FOOTBALL FBS Bowls Wednesday’s Games Bahamas Bowl At Nassau W. Kentucky 49, Central Michigan 48 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Rice vs. Fresno State Tuesday’s Games Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl Marshall 52, Northern Illinois 23 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego Navy 17, San Diego State 16 Friday, Dec. 26 Heart of Dallas Bowl Illinois (6-6) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl At Detroit Rutgers (7-5) vs. North Carolina (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl UCF (9-3) vs. N.C. State (7-5), 6 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Annapolis, Md. Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Duke (9-3) vs. Arizona State (9-3), Noon (CBS) Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Miami (6-6) vs. South Carolina (6-6), 2 p.m. (ESPN2) Pinstripe Bowl At Bronx, N.Y. Boston College (7-5) vs. Penn State (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Nebraska (9-3) vs. Southern Cal (8-4), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 29 Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

West Virginia (7-5) vs. Texas A&M (7-5), Noon (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Clemson (9-3) vs. Oklahoma (8-4), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl At Houston Texas (6-6) vs. Arkansas (6-6), 7 p.m.

(ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 30 Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Notre Dame (7-5) vs. LSU (8-4), 1 p.m.

(ESPN) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Louisville (9-3) vs. Georgia (9-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Fosters Farm Bowl At Santa Clara, Calif.

Stanford (7-5) vs. Maryland (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

HOCKEY Wednesday, Dec. 31 Peach Bowl At Atlanta Mississippi (9-3) vs. TCU (11-1), 10:30 a.m. (ESPN) Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Boise State (11-2) vs. Arizona (10-3), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl At Miami Gardens, Fla. Mississippi State (10-2) vs. Georgia Tech (10-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Wisconsin (10-3) vs. Auburn (8-4), 10 a.m. (ESPN2) Cotton Bowl Classic At Arlington, 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 Fort Worth, Texas Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Houston (7-5), 10 a.m. (ESPN) TaxSlayer Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Iowa (7-5) vs. Tennessee (6-6), 1:20 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) 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 Charleston, 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) Saturday, Jan. 24 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 2 p.m. (NFLN)

FCS Playoffs Championship Saturday, Jan. 10 - At Frisco, Texas North Dakota State (14-1) vs. Illinois State (13-1), 11 a.m.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Assigned LHP Nick Maronde outright to Columbus (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Assigned LHP Darin Downs outright to Fresno (PCL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with LHPs Scott Snodgress and Adam Wilk on minor league contracts.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Assigned RHP Brandon Gomes outright to Durham (IL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS — Agreed to terms with coach Kevin McHale on a three-year contract extension.

PHOENIX SUNS — Traded F Anthony Tolliver to Detroit for F Tony Mitchell.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Released LB James Anderson. Signed RB Jerome Smith from the practice squad and S Brendan Bishop to the practice squad.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Placed OT Ricky Wagner on injured reserve.

Released DE Zach Thompson from the practice squad. Signed DE Steven Means from the practice squad and OTs Nate Menkin and J.J. Unga to the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed DL Ishmaa’ily Kitchen and QB Johnny Manziel on injured reserve. Signed LS Charley Hughlett from Kansas City’s practice squad. Activated DL John Hughes from injured reserve.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed TE Adam Schiltz to the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Placed CB Jamar Taylor on injured reserve and G Nate Garner on the non-football illness list. Released C Michael Brewster from the practice squad.

Signed DT Deandre Coleman and C Sam Brenner from the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed RB Henry Josey from Jacksonville’s practice squad and LB Justin Anderson to the practice squad.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Placed TE Brian Leonhardt on injured reserve. Signed DE Shelby Harris from the practice squad and DB Shelton Johnson and LB Justin Jackson to the practice squad.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed DT Garrison Smith to the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended San Jose F John Scott four games for punching an unsuspecting opponent and causing injury.

BUFFALO SABRES — Assigned Fs Mikhail Grigorenko, Joel Armia and Tim Schaller and D Mark Pysyk to Rochester (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned F Tim Sestito to Albany (AHL).

COLLEGE NCAA FLORIDA — Named Doug Nussmeier offensive coordinator.

NHL Eastern Conference GP Pittsburgh 34 Montreal 35 N.Y. Isles 34 Tampa Bay 36 Detroit 35 N.Y. Rangers32 Toronto 35 Washington 34 Boston 35 Florida 32 Philadelphia34 Ottawa 34 Columbus 33 New Jersey 36 Buffalo 35 Carolina 34

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

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

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

Tuesday’s Games Carolina 2, New Jersey 1, SO Boston 5, Nashville 3 Montreal 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 N.Y. Rangers 4, Washington 2 Philadelphia 5, Minnesota 2 Toronto 4, Dallas 0 Detroit 6, Buffalo 3 Tampa Bay 4, Pittsburgh 3 Arizona 5, Edmonton 1 Colorado 5, St. Louis 0 Winnipeg 5, Chicago 1

Leaders Through Dec. 23 Scoring GP J. Voracek, Phi 34 Tyler Seguin, Dal 33 Evgeni Malkin, Pit 34 Claude Giroux, Phi 34 Ryan Getzlaf, Anh 35 Phil Kessel, Tor 35 V. Tarasenko, StL 34 Tyler Johnson, TB 35 Sidney Crosby, Pit 31 Rick Nash, NYR 32 S. Stamkos, TB 36 Patrick Kane, Chi 35 N. Backstrom, Was 34 M. Giordano, Cgy 36 2 tied with 33 pts.

G 14 25 16 11 12 17 20 13 10 22 19 16 11 10

A PTS 32 46 17 42 25 41 30 41 27 39 21 38 17 37 24 37 27 37 14 36 17 36 20 36 25 36 24 34

AWARDS 2014 SPORTS STORY OF THE YEAR VOTING Total points based on 10 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 10th-place vote: NFL-Domestic abuse 659 NBA-Donald Sterling 518 LeBron James goes home 439 J. Collins-M. Sam-Gays in sports 393 Giants win World Series 314 FBS college football playoff 313 Tony Stewart-Kevin Ward Jr. 304 World Cup 303 Seahawks win Super Bowl 286 Sochi Olympics 268 NCAA-Legal challenges 244 Derek Jeter retires 238 A, Rodriguez susp. for season 183 UConn wins both college bkbl titles 179 Spurs win NBA championship 98

AP COACH OF THE YEAR VOTING Coach, Team Gary Patterson, TCU Urban Meyer, Ohio State Dan Mullen, Mississippi State Rich Rodriguez, Arizona Nick Saban, Alabama Art Briles, Baylor Jimbo Fisher, Florida State Justin Fuente, Memphis

Votes 27 14 6 2 2 1 1 1

Past Winners 2014 — Gary Patterson, TCU 2013 — Gus Malzahn, Auburn 2012 — Brian Kelly, Notre Dame 2011 — Les Miles, LSU 2010 — Chip Kelly, Oregon 2009 — Gary Patterson, TCU 2008 — Nick Saban, Alabama 2007 — Mark Mangino, Kansas 2006 — Jim Grobe, Wake Forest 2005 — Joe Paterno, Penn State 2004 — Tommy Tuberville, Auburn 2003 — Nick Saban, LSU 2002 — Kirk Ferentz, Iowa 2001 — Ralph Friedgen, Maryland 2000 — Bob Stoops, Oklahoma

THIS DATE December 25 1956 — Corky Devlin of Fort Wayne goes 0-for-15 from the field against the Minneapolis Lakers to tie an NBA record.

1971 — Garo Yepremian’s 37-yard field goal at 7:40 of the second overtime gives the Miami Dolphins a 27-24 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of the AFC playoffs. At 82:40, it’s the longest game in NFL history.

1984 — Bernard King of the New York Knicks scores 60 points in a 120-114 loss to the New Jersey Nets.

1995 — Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys scores his 25th touchdown of the season in a 37-13 win over Arizona, breaking the record for most TDs in a season. Smith passes John Riggins of Washington, who scored 24 in 1983.

1999 — Hawaii beats Oregon 23-17 in the Oahu Bowl to cap a remarkable turnaround for the Rainbow Warriors.

Hawaii improves from 0-12 in 1998 to 9-4 — the greatest single-season improvement in NCAA history.

2002 — Katie Hnida becomes the first woman to play in a Division I football game when she attempts an extra point following a New Mexico touchdown in the Las Vegas Bowl. Hnida, a walk-on junior, has her kick blocked in the 27-13 loss to UCLA. 2008 — The Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston to end the Celtics’ franchiserecord winning streak at 19 games. Kobe Bryant scores 27 points and grabs nine rebounds to lead Los Angeles in the 92-83 win. Lakers coach Phil Jackson reaches 1,000 victories. Jackson, the sixth coach to reach 1,000, has a career record of 1,000-423 with Chicago and the Lakers.

2012 — The Los Angeles Clippers extend their franchise-record winning streak to 14 games with a 112-100 win over the Denver Nuggets. The Clippers claim the NBA’s best record at 22-6 in the finale of a Christmas Day doubleheader at Staples Center. In the first game, Kobe Bryant scores 34 points in his NBA-record 15th Christmas Day game to lead the Lakers to a 100-94 win over the New York Knicks 100-94.

SPORTS

Thursday, December 25, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

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W. Kentucky survives wild finish SCOREBOARD complete the bizarre play.

Central Michigan coach Dan Enos said he originally planned to kick the extra point. He then changed his mind, a decision that’s surely going to be debated.

“Cooper had thrown seven The Associated Press touchdown passes already in the game, so we figured he NASSAU, Bahamas — was pretty hot,” Enos said. “We Western Kentucky knows its didn’t want to go to overtime defensive blunders on what because we had trouble stopbecame the final touchdown of ping them all day. We thought the Bahamas Bowl will stay on we had momentum so we’d try highlight to win the game.” reels for a W. Kentucky 49 When the conversion pass hit long, long C. Michigan 48 the ground, only then could the time.

Hilltoppers exhale.

That’s “It was a roller-coaster ride,” fine with the Hilltoppers — Central Michigans tight end Deon Butler laterals the ball said Western Kentucky quarbecause they found a way to while being tackled Wednesday by Western Kentucky lineterback Brandon Doughty, who hang on for an unforgettable backer Dejon Brown and defensive back Marcus Ward, forethrew five touchdowns pass to win. ground, during the Bahamas Bowl game in Nassau, Bahamas. increase his nation-leading total Wasting nearly every bit of AUSTIN ANTHONY/THE DAILY NEWS to 49 on the season. “We were a 35-point lead and giving up just lucky and blessed that we the most improbable of touchthis game is all about.” where six Chippewas — one got the win.” downs on the final play from Here’s how the miracle hapcenter, one quarterback and Very lucky. scrimmage, Western Kentucky pened: The Chippewas (7-6) got four receivers — touched the The ending largely overshadovercame a record-setting ball. Officially, it went down as a the ball on their own 25 with a owed a huge day by Doughty, seven touchdown passes from touchdown pass to Titus Davis second remaining after a punt, who threw for 486 yards.

Cooper Rush and beat Central trailing 49-42. Rush threw deep

by Rush, his seventh scoring Doughty completed 31 of Michigan 49-48 on Wednesday toss of the day, one more than to Jesse Kroll, who caught the 42 passes for the Hilltoppers in the first bowl game played anyone had ever thrown in any ball between three defenders and capped the sixth-highest outside the U.S. or Canada since bowl game. at the 29. Kroll advanced the single-season touchdown total 1937. ball slightly before lateraling to in major college football history.

Central Michigan went for a “There’s been a lot of twists 2-point conversion and the win, Deon Butler, who got the ball to Anthony Wales and Leon Allen and turns to all of our games,” Courtney Williams just before only to have it broken up by added touchdown runs for the Western Kentucky coach Jeff Western Kentucky’s Wonderful getting tackled.

Hilltoppers.

Brohm said.

Williams then tossed the ball Terry.

Rush threw for 485 yards.

Not like this. to Davis, who caught it at the 15 He never had more than three A wonderful finish, indeed.

Central Michigan (8-5) scored “I want to tell Central Michi- and outran three Western Ken- touchdowns in a college game, the final five touchdowns of the gan that’s one heck of a job tucky players to the end zone, and wound up being credited game, including a three-lateral, reaching to knock over the by them,” Brohm said. “They with five in the final 12 minutes 75-yard dazzler on the final play showed the heart and spirit that pylon as he fell out of bounds to for the Chippewas.

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TCU: Horned Frogs had shot at national title Continued from Page B-1 terbacks in the country. “It was a big jump for us. Thirty-two years of my 33 years [in coaching] I’ve been part of run, play action, play good defense. Special teams. This was outside of my comfort zone,” Patterson said.

Patterson learned a good defense and an up-tempo offense could co-exist. And TCU, in just its third year in the Big 12, won a share of the conference title. Only a lastsecond loss at Baylor kept the Frogs from a perfect season. TCU was in the hunt for a College Football Playoff spot and came into the final weekend of the season third in the selection committee rankings. The Frogs ended up sixth and instead of playing for the national title will meet Mississippi in the Peach Bowl on Dec. 31.

“We wanted to be in the playoff, but I’m not sure the way it all was handled that TCU didn’t gain even more from not being it in. How we handled it,” Patterson said.

“There’s a lot of positives that came out of how everything turned out.”

A look at the other contenders and their cases to be coach of the year.

URBAN MEYER The Buckeyes’ coach has had an unbeaten season with Utah, won two national championships with Florida and is 36-3 at Ohio State.

With a rebuilt offensive line and a redshirt freshman quarterback, Meyer and the Buckeyes overcame early season growing pains to win the Big Ten and earn a playoff spot. Meyer’s greatest strength has always been building a stellar staff. Credit quarterback coach Tom Herman for turning J.T. Barrett into a Heisman contender after Braxton Miller went down in the preseason and for getting Cardale Jones ready to play against Wisconsin in the conference title game.

DAN MULLEN In his sixth year with the Bulldogs, Mullen led Mississippi State to one of the best seasons in school history. Mississippi State went 10-2, spent five weeks as the No. 1 team in the AP poll, and earned a spot in the Orange Bowl. Mullen’s greatest success is building a program that can have sustained success on one of the smallest

budget in the SEC West. This season an experienced team made up mostly of threestar recruits jelled into a team that could compete with all those five-star rosters in the toughest division in college football.

RICH RODRIGUEZ Another coach doing more with less in a rugged neighborhood. Rodriguez’s team was expecting to take a step forward this season, but instead the Wildcats made a leap, relying on a freshman quarterback and running back and a defense led by a sophomore linebacker. Rodriguez won the Pac-12 South, handed Oregon its only loss, and maxed out his roster on the way to an appearance in the Pac-12 title game. Arizona finishes its season in the Fiesta Bowl.

NICK SABAN Like Patterson, Saban hired a new offensive coordinator (former USC coach Lane Kiffin), moved toward a more no-huddle attack and won a conference championship. Saban has had so much success he is almost underrated. He could be coach of the year almost every year.

Kickers: NFL benefits from soccer players kick,” said Folk, who is 19 of 33 (57.6 percent) from beyond 50 The most accurate kicker in yards. He added, “To make a league history is the Baltimore 40-yard field goal before, it’d be Ravens’ Justin Tucker like taking a nine-iron out and (89.6 percent). Tucker is oneputting it through. When you’re tenth of 1 percent ahead of the tired, you have to take out the Dallas Cowboys’ Dan Bailey, driver, so it’s a little bit different. who until last Sunday was alone Now guys are training harder above 90 percent for his career and they can keep the nine-iron before a 52-yard miss put him in out a lot longer.” second place at 89.5 percent.

Many stadiums also have Bailey says soccer was his more consistent and durable segue into high school kicking. kicking surfaces.

His small school, Southwest “I think the installation of Covenant in Yukon, Okla., sponFieldTurf has just made the sored only eight-man football percentages go up through the and practiced in an open field roof,” Gostkowski said. “You without goal posts. A handy look at some old film and some family friend, Bill Martin, of these fields — and I had helped Bailey construct his some experience my rookie own. year playing on just terrible “We brought out some PVC grass — and it just makes the Indianapolis Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri kicks Sunday in pipe, dug some holes in the DARRON CUMMINGS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Indianapolis. job a lot harder.” ground and crafted our own Also valuable to kickers has makeshift uprights,” Bailey said, been a concurrent increase “and I just kicked on those.” ing and specialization, often at national youth soccer team. in scholarships for the longThe pivotal step in his a younger age. The country’s Year-round training has snappers. Sailer’s kicking camp development — as with most growing appreciation of and helped kickers improve has a companion run by former younger kickers — was attend- participation in soccer seems to strength, and sophisticated inUCLA long-snapper Chris ing a privately run camp run have increased the basic aptiseason routines have helped Rubio, and colleges are offering

by Chris Sailer Kicking. Sailer, tude of kicking talent. them maintain it. Bailey, for more scholarships to players at 37, a two-time All-America The position has attracted a instance, said he focuses on that position as well. kicker and punter at UCLA, has higher caliber of athlete, too. muscle-isolation lifts that “People don’t understand become the nation’s pre-emiThe New England Patriots’ emphasize explosive movethat the snapper and the holder nent kicking instructor; he says Stephen Gostkowski was also a ments, as well as box jumps make such a big difference in and plyometrics. The kickers 13 of the 32 starting NFL kickers pitcher on Memphis’ baseball team; the New York Jets’ Nick believe such training has helped how many kicks you can make attended his camps.

Folk received more soccer improve their precision as well on a consistent basis,” GostWhile there have been changes in technique — kickers scholarship offers than football; as their endurance. Gostkowski kowski said, “if you know the ball is going to be in the same Bailey was an individual state ranks first in career 50-yard tend to strike the ball to create place at the same time with the more loft than before — the pri- golf champion; and the Oakland attempts, having made 13 of 17 same amount of lean and the (76.5 percent) from that range. mary impetus for improvement Raiders’ Sebastian Janikowski was a member of the Polish “They’re not having to overlaces in the right spot.” has been more dynamic train-

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

Today (nothing scheduled)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Escalante vs. Pecos, 5 p.m.

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

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

Pojoaque Valey at Wingate, 6 p.m.

Stu Clark Tournament (at NMHU) (semifinals) St. Pius-Capital winner vs. Robertson-Raton winner, 6 p.m.

Santa Fe-Bernalillo winner vs. West Las Vegas-Aztec winner, 8 p.m. (consolation round) Santa Fe-Bernalillo loser vs. West Las Vegas-Aztec loser, 1 p.m.

St. Pius-Capital loser vs. Robertson-Raton loser, 3 p.m.

Tri-Cities Tournament (at Santa Rosa) (semifinals) Escalante-Pecos winner vs. Mora-Monte del Sol winner, 5 p.m.

East Mountain-McCurdy winner vs. Cimarron-Santa Rosa winner, 6:30 p.m. (consolation round) Escalante-Pecos loser vs. Mora-Monte del Sol loser, 2 p.m.

East Mountain-McCurdy loser vs. Cimarron-Santa Rosa loser, 3:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — Penasco at Clayton, 2:30 p.m.

McCurdy at West Las Vegas, 4 p.m.

Sunday Boys basketball — Stu Clark Tournament (at NMHU) 7th place, 1 p.m.

5th place, 3 p.m.

3rd place, 6 p.m.

Championship, 8 p.m.

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Defenders using martial arts moves

By Arnie Stapleton The Associated Press

DENVER — Denver defensive end DeMarcus Ware considers himself a mixed martial artist on the football field.

Ever since his rookie year in 2005, he’s spent as much time in the offseason working on his handwork with a second generation Bruce Lee student as he has working out at a traditional gym.

Ware is part of a growing number of NFL pass rushers who have adopted the grappling and striking techniques of MMA. It helps them outmaneuver the everexpanding 330-pound tackles and get to the ever-quicker quarterbacks before they can throw the football.

Ware credits the moves he’s learned and refined under the tutelage of Valentin Espiricueta, owner/ operator of AppliedMMA in Dallas, for helping him amass 127 sacks over his decade in the NFL. “If I didn’t learn martial arts, I’d be just a basic dipand-rip guy just trying to go around the corner,” Ware said.

Instead, Espiricueta’s star pupil and eight-time Pro Bowler uses swift swipes and whirlwind motions to set up and ultimately vanquish pass protectors. Like a fighter getting the best of his opponent in the octagon.

Sparring or grappling with technical fighters and their trainers teaches NFL players to swat away and otherwise avoid punches from O-linemen. It also aids their cardiovascular training, tenacity and acumen.

“What we’re doing at least in the grappling aspect of our sport is we’re manipulating another man’s body, putting it where we want it, whether

Broncos defensive end DeMarcus Ware adopted the moves of MMA to help him outmaneuver opponents. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

that’s putting it on the ground or moving it to the left or right or off-balance,” said Matt “The Immortal” Brown, a 33-year-old welterweight UFC fighter from Columbus, Ohio. “So, to learn how to control another man’s body is surely going to be an important skill for them. Anytime it’s one on one, man against man, there’s going to be some correlation.”

Packers pass rusher Datone Jones said MMA training helps his “hand-eye coordination, balance, body control and just being able to strike, being able to endure more.” The ancillary benefit, he said, is greater flexibility, “so it’s working on more areas so you get stronger, flexible, faster, looser.”

Ware was introduced to the martial arts aspect of pass rushing by Greg Ellis, a defensive end in the NFL from 1998-2009. Ellis learned of Espiricueta’s training methods from Randy White, who played for the Cowboys from 1975-88.

“Greg Ellis told me, ‘You’re not going to have this speed forever. But you can have the quickness.’ So, one thing I learned when I did have a lot of ability, like Von Miller, was I would actually just beat guys from here,” Ware said, tapping his right temple, “instead of beating them just with athleticism.”

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Like Division III basketball player Lauren Hill, diagnosed with terminal brain cancer before her first game, who summoned the energy to play a few games. Philadelphia 13-year-old Mo’ne Davis brought her braids to the Little League World Series. Boston College baseball player Pete Frates inspired us all to dump ice water on our heads.

Other stories brought cheers within the world of sports: LeBron James returning to Cleveland and Derek Jeter leaving Yankee Stadium for the last time with a game-winning hit; American fans chanting at the World Cup, “I believe that we will win!”; Dale Earnhardt Jr. winning the Daytona 500 at the track where his father died, and then winning Martinsville to claim one of the prized grandfather clocks his dad had scattered around the house.

Here are other stories that reminded us why we watch: Throw like a girl: Davis broke one barrier after another when she helped her inner-city team get within one victory of the U.S. championship in the Little League World Series. After making the cover of Sports Illustrated, Davis had her jersey displayed in baseball’s Hall of Fame and threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the World Series.

“You knocked it out of the park for girls everywhere,” first lady Michelle Obama told her on Twitter.

Lou Gehrig’s legacy: Like Hill, Frates had more that he wanted to accomplish while fighting a terminal illness. Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, Frates helped the ice bucket challenge go viral in a trend that stretched from Kermit the Frog to ex-President George W. Bush and is credited with raising more than $100 million to combat ALS. Friendly rivals: When Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett was injured in the fourth quarter of the annual game against archrival Michigan, some of his teammates gathered around him to offer support. So did Wolverines quarterback Devin Gardner, setting aside one of college football’s biggest rivalries to deliver some words of encour-

Heat players, and his close friendship with Dwyane Wade continues.

“He made the right decision.

He went home,” Wade said Wednesday. You can’t say nothing about that decision when someone decides to go home.”

The homecoming drama was so different four years ago.

When James returned to Cleveland on Dec. 2, 2010, for the first time after signing as a free agent with Miami, the city that adopted the Akron native as one of its own turned on him. He was booed incessantly

by Cavs fans who felt that he had betrayed them despite seven great seasons.

The Heat won that night.

And they knew they would

Titans players take part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Aug. 20 and pour ice water over their heads after practice in Nashville, Tenn. MARK HUMPHREY/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Rangers and scored the Game 6 winner against Montreal to put the Rangers in the Stanley Cup Finals.

“I’ve had a lot of good examples of perseverance over the years, and none more so than my wife, Katie,” Moore said after winning the NHL’s Masterson Trophy for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. “So this award is very meaningful, and I’m very grateful.”

O Canada: On the night a Meb Keflezighi of San Diego Canadian soldier was killed celebrates his victory April while guarding the national war 21 in the Boston Marathon. memorial in Ottawa, Pittsburgh CHARLES KRUPA/ASSOCIATED PRESS fans sang an emotional rendition of “O Canada” before the Penagement. “It’s like having a little guins game against Philadelphia.

Good prognosis: The sports brother get hurt,” the Michigan world also rallied around Chad QB said. “I didn’t like to see that Carr, the 4-year-old grandson of at all.” former Michigan football coach Baseball and hot dogs: A Lloyd Carr, who had the same stray and injured dog who wankind of inoperable tumor as dered into the Brewers complex Hill. The Carrs said this month at spring training became an that the tumor, which had been instant celebrity with the team expected to kill him within a and the fans back in Milwaukee. year, had shrunk by 90 percent.

When no one came forward to Princess Lacey: Lacey Holsclaim Hank — named for Hall worth, an 8-year-old girl who of Famer Hank Aaron, he broke with a football-sized cancerous camp with the ballclub and a tumor in her abdomen, was Brewers executive took him in befriended by Michigan State back in Milwaukee. The team forward Adreian Payne and the began selling merchandise with rest of the Spartans baskethis likeness — including his own ball team. She took the court bobblehead, with some of the with Payne on senior night and proceeds going to the Wisconsin helped the Spartans cut down Humane Society. the nets at the Big Ten tournaIn sickness and health: ment, less than a month before Dominic Moore took a year off she died of cancer. from hockey after his wife was “I learned so much, just seediagnosed with liver cancer. She ing her fight every day,” Payne died just nine months later. He said after being honored at the returned as a fourth-liner on the John R. Wooden Award gala.

never face an atmosphere that daunting again.

“It was just us,” James said.

James has spent the past few days downplaying his return to South Florida, but the fourtime MVP has found himself reminiscing about what he accomplished alongside Wade, Udonis Haslem, Chris Bosh, Mario Chalmers and those former Heat teammates who remain in Miami.

They became a family, and for James, family is everything.

“I’m one person who understands being home, being able to stay home and making sacrifices to be home,” said Haslem, a Miami native who has spent his entire NBA career there despite the chance to make more elsewhere. “I’ve done it my whole career and I can’t

fault him for that. We had a great four years together, we had a lot of success together and we’ll continue to be friends.”

And remember, they’ve already played once — at Brazil, in the preseason.

“We already played each other,” Wade said. “The NBA messed up on that. … That whole weirdness, awkwardness that it could be, that’s out the window.”

Haslem still refers to his former teammate as the best player in the world and downplays the Heat vs. LeBron notion. The teams have other issues — Miami is 13-16 and missing an injured Bosh, and Cleveland lost forward Anderson Varajao to a major lowerleg injury Tuesday night.

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Kachina Lift rises to new heights Taos Ski Valley introduces new ‘superstar’ chairlift, the 3rd highest in U.S.

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The new Kachina Lift at Taos Ski Valley, shown here, rises up from the base of Kachina Bowl, just west of Hunsiker Bowl. A group of media folks took one of the first rides to the top of Kachina Peak on Dec. 13. PHOTOS BY KATHARINE EGLI/THE TAOS NEWS

By Andy Dennison For The Taos News

TAOS SKI VALLEY t was hardly the bluebird day that Taos Ski Valley staff had hoped for to introduce the new Kachina Lift to a cadre of media types on Dec. 13 but, in a way, it was just how it should have been.

Prevailing winds whipped in from the southwest, clouds rolled over the 12,481-foot summit of Kachina Peak, and it was spitting snow. You couldn’t see even Wheeler Peak on the next ridge, let alone the long shot of Blanca Peak some 100 miles north in Colorado.

A major storm was rolling across Northern New Mexico, with a promise of a foot or more of early season powder. To anyone who has made the 45-minute hike to the peak in the past, it was what you would expect on one of the highest mountain ridges in New Mexico.

“We’re going to 12,000 feet,” said CEO Gordon Briner to the dozen invitees during brunch at the Bavarian Inn. “So we want you to bundle up, because you never know.”

True to his warning, the backside of Taos Ski Valley had a midwinter feel to it as the group rode up Chair 4 and walked across the traverse to the base of what Briner and his marketing team believe will be the superstar of a new era for a resort that is approaching its 60th birthday.

“Ernie Blake [founder of TSV] believed that everyone should be able to enjoy this alpine terrain,” Briner said. “Now, with the Kachina Lift, we are helping Ernie’s vision come to reality. I know we can’t see much, but this is just the kind of alpine conditions that Ernie loved.”

It’s just a five-minute ride over 12 towers on a fixed-grip triple chairlift up to the top of the ridge, but for Briner and new owner Louis Bacon, the Kachina Lift represents a first giant step toward a new and improved Taos Ski Valley.

“With the renovations at the base and the Kachina Lift, the game has changed for Taos

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Fishing report Catches of the week BOSQUE REDONDO: On Dec.5, Sienna Segura, 5, caught a 21-inch rainbow trout. She was using an olive fly.

ESCONDIDA LAKE: On Dec. 21, Delilah Trujillo of Albuquerque caught a 22.25-inch rainbow trout. On Dec. 21, Joe Brown of Albuquerque caught a 20-inch rainbow trout.

TINGLEY BEACH: On Dec. 19, Frank Jaramillo of Albuquerque caught and released a 20-inch rainbow trout. He was fishing the Bob Gerding Catch and Release Pond and using a Size 18 flash back pheasant tail nymph.

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 EAGLE NEST LAKE: As of Monday there was a layer of ice on the lake and the lake was closed to fishing.

The top of the Kachina Lift shown on Dec. 13.

Ski Valley,” Briner said.

For skiers and snowboarders who come to TSV this winter, the new chairlift makes some 150 acres of advanced and expert terrain in Kachina Bowl accessible without climbing. Ever since Blake opened the resort in 1955, taking turns on TSV’s highest ground meant a long walk up the ridge. From there, they had a choice of wide-open Main Street or the gnarly tight gullies of the K Chutes.

They also could access the narrow chutes above Hunsiker Bowl.

The lift now ranks as the third-highest in North America, behind only lifts at Loveland Ski Area and Breckenridge. It also extends the resort’s vertical-foot range to 3,244 feet which, as Briner said, puts Taos in an “exclusive club [resorts with 3,000-plus vertical] in North American skiing.”

In the past, Kachina Bowl has been open for hike-and-ski about 50 days a year. Now, because the new lift makes boot-packing and

Call the State Park office at 575-377-1594 for updated conditions.

LAKE MALOYA: Fishing was very good using brown bead head wooly buggers and Power Bait for trout.

We had no reports on perch. Fishing pressure was light.

LOS PINOS: We had no reports from anglers this week.

MANZANO LAKE: Fishing was good using garlic scented Power Bait, garlic cheese, corn and salmon eggs for trout. We had no reports on other species.

MAXWELL LAKE 13: Closed for the season.

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

RIO GRANDE: Fishing was slow for all species but there were a few trout caught by anglers using weighted wooly buggers and spoons.

STORRIE LAKE: Fishing was good using Power Bait and corn for trout.

We had no reports on other species.

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

UTE LAKE: Prior to the cold wind coming in over the past weekend fishing was very good using slab spoons and blade baits for white bass at 40 to 45 feet. Anglers using blade baits also picked up a few walleye and catfish.

avalanche control much easier, Briner said the staff expects it to be open much more.

Getting at least 40 inches of snowfall should be enough to open the terrain, Briner said, and mountain managers will keep an eye on the amount of moguls that heavier traffic will produce and consider machine-grooming the Main Street section.

As the group prepared to head down the new lift — and out of the wind — someone asked Briner if Kachina Lift would have to close often to avoid swaying in the winter gales.

“Right now, we close three to five days a year on the front side,” he said. “It shouldn’t be too different up here. But, again, it’s winter in the Sangre de Cristos and that’s what we all want anyway.”

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

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

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

ALBUQUERQUE AREA DRAINS: Fishing on the Albuquerque Drain was good using worms, salmon eggs, wax worms and Power Bait for trout.

Fishing for trout on the Bernalillo was very good using salmon eggs, corn and worms under a float. Trout fishing on the Peralta Drain was good using Gulpeggs and salmon eggs. We had no reports on other species or from the other drains.

BLUEWATER LAKE: Fishing was slow for all species and fishing pressure was very light. There was some ice on the westside of the lake but the remainder was open for launching boats and shore fishing. For updated ice conditions, call the State Park office at 876-2391.

Anglers should be aware that it is illegal to use bait fish at this lake.

CHAMA RIVER: Trout fishing above El Vado was fair to good using bead head wooly buggers for brown trout.

Trout fishing below El Vado was fair using salmon eggs, wooly buggers and copper John Barrs. Fishing below Abiquiu was fair using salmon eggs,

worms and streamers for a mixed bag of rainbow and brown trout.

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

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: We had no reports from anglers this week.

JEMEZ WATERS: Fishing on the Jemez River was fair using copper JohnBarrs. We had no reports from the other streams in the area.

TINGLEY BEACH: Fishing at the Youth and Central ponds was very good using Pistol Petes, Z Rays, Power Bait, garlic cheese and salmon eggs for trout. Fishing at the Bob Gerding Catch and Release Pond was fair using size 16 and 18 pheasant tail nymphs and small streamers.

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.

y family — sans Mom and Dad — will come to Santa Fe this year for Christmas, which reminds me of other winter holidays my childhood spent at Taos Ski Valley and Santa Fe ski basin.

There was a trip here with our cousin Trinka, who I was enthralled with. I was perhaps 8. We had a great day in the sun and snow on the mountain, and I recall exploring all the back hallways of La Fonda, where we stayed.

There were other brief stays in Santa Fe other than Christmas for skiing. Once, with my wonderful Aunt Allene, I threw up pink-frosted Valentine’s Day cupcakes during the drive up from Albuquerque, and it froze to the white car — a nice touch!

But mostly we headed to Taos Ski Valley when the family assembled for our annual ski trip at the end of December. It was four or five kids, occasionally a dog, plus Mom and Daniel Dad in the behemoth Sierra Vista Gibson Cruiser. We usually got stuck in the parking lot at the foot of the dirt Snow Trax road to the cabin of my parent’s friends, Jim and Gay McGuckin.

There were efforts to push or pull — or both — but at some point the car was abandoned and we would lug all our stuff to the McGuckin’s iconic A-frame cabin.

It had a front deck across the ground floor that must have been 30 feet wide. The two-story cabin faced directly across the Hondo Valley to the lower slopes of the ski area — eye-to-eye with the last steep pitch of Al’s and the serpentine gully of Snake Dance. A little pine tree grew at the foot of the deck — it towers over the cabin today. This was circa 1963-67 — a lot of snow ago.

In the cabin, we packed five Gibson kids (sometimes four if our eldest, David IV, found alternate accommodations), our parents David and Virginia, plus four McGuckin siblings (James, Susie, Marcie and Amy) and some years the McNary brothers (Clifford and Curtis) and their parents. It was utter chaos, but somehow the thundering herd all managed to exit the cabin before 8:30 a.m. after a hot meal, with most all our gear, and find our way to the slopes.

The McGuckins played an important early role at TSV. They invested in the ski area’s stock, and Jim, an Albuquerque eye doctor, sat on its board for many years. As builders of one of the first private cabins at TSV, they helped attract other residents and visitors.

One year, I recall our parents hosted a cocktail party at the A-frame. Resort founder Ernie Blake and his wife, Rhoda, came by, as did Walter Widmer, the Mayer brothers and many other of the Taos founders.

The snow was so deep some years we tobogganed off the A-frame’s roof. I remember some really cold times on the mountain. Skiing with Marcie one day, her Cubco binding was jammed with ice and we could not get her ski back on.

We were on a run over our heads (Inferno) and who should come along but Mr. McGuckin in his black stretch pants, cutting a dashing line down the run to us, and he got Marcie’s ski back on and we proceeded to the bottom.

Jim McGuckin passed away this year, moving on to the land of forever snow and New Mexico sun. He was a New Mexico ski pioneer and nice man to one and all.

Regional Conditions Ski Santa Fe picked up 5 inches Monday night and reports a 41-inch base. The top of the mountain and all chairs are open, with about 70 percent of its overall terrain skiable. However, Chile Glades, Easter Bowl, the Burns, Molly Hogan, Cornice, Gayway and Parachute remain closed.

Several storms dropped new snow on Taos Ski Valley, and it sports a 37-inch base. All lifts are open except the new Kachina Peak Chair. Three runs of Highline Ridge are now open, and one off West Basin Ridge.

Jimmy Stadler plays in the Martini Tree on Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

Sipapu has a 29-inch base and all five lifts operating. It has opened two terrain parks, the Playground and Flight School. They are New Mexico’s only “organic” terrain parks.

Angel Fire is running its chair on the backside and almost 70 percent of its runs are open on a 26-inch base.

Red River has a 20-inch base and is open top to bottom. Its Silver Chair remains silent, and most expert runs are not yet skiable. It will hold a torchlight parade on Saturday, with fireworks and a rail jam.

Ski Apache reports a 31-inch base, with the gondola running to the summit. Apache Bowl and Elk chairs are not running, and almost no expert runs are skiable.

Pajarito, with a 13-inch base, and Sandia Peak, with an 8-inch base, are on hold.

Monarch Mountain continues to have the region’s best base — 51 inches. It has now dropped the rope on the Mirkwood Basin hike-to extreme terrain and is 100 percent open, with both terrain parks functioning.

Telluride is enjoying a 44-inch base. Its Gold Hill and Prospect Express lifts have opened, and a handful of it famed double black diamond runs off these lifts — like Electra, Buzz’s Glade and Crystal — and off the Plunge chair, like Kant-Mak-M and Spiral Stairs. Its Revelation Bowl chair has yet to spin.

Crested Butte has a 37-inch base. Two of its four terrain parks are available, and most lifts, but none of its Extreme Limits terrain.

Silverton Mountain opened with a 40-inch base and all runs. It will operate this weekend and Jan. 2-4 for unguided and guided (optional) skiing. Avalanche beacons, shovels and probes are needed to ski. Rentals are available at the mountain.

Wolf Creek has a 40-inch base and 70 percent of its terrain open.

Daniel Gibson can be reached at dbgibson@newmexico. com

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LOTS & ACREAGE

RANCHO VIEJO FSBO 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 2,700 sq.ft. home in the College Heights. Fully landscaped large backyard on halfacre lot, radiant heat, kiva fireplace, dog run, 2-car garage.

Walk to SFCC, Amy Biehl, Santa Maria. $429,000, brokers welcome.

505-424-3932 or email sumac3b@comcast.net

Where treasures are found daily

$95,000 CASH, "AS-IS CONDITION" .

2 bedroom, 1 bath. 900 sq.ft. Fixer upper. 3/4 acre. Southside. 5 Ceramic Court. 505-470-5877

INVEST IN YOUR RETIREMENT HEARTSTONE Thriving Country Villa Community * View lots, $159,000 * Financing available, 10% down * 2,300 sq.ft. homes, from $340,000

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RETAIL SPACE 1607 ST. MICHAELS DRIVE

505-471-1183 donaltshul@aol.com.

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For Sale or Lease. 4000 sq.ft. Open space. Ample parking. 505-699-0639

LOTS & ACREAGE

GREAT 1 BEDROOM. Fenced yard, washer dryer in unit. Cozy floor plan with spacious kitchen. Plenty of off-street parking. Only $629 monthly.

Unspoiled 5 Acre Lot set 1/4 mile back from Old Santa Fe Trail. Easily buildable, mature Pinon and Juniper tree-covered land only 15 minutes from the Plaza and 5 minutes from I-25 exit and entrance.

Get it right the first time! Build your own house and guest or caretaker’s house on this lot when you are ready. Very private and quiet.

Neighboring land around the lot is well protected from further development by reasonable covenants and existing zoning; 100 mile south and west sunset views of Jemez and Sandia Mountains with Mt. Taylor in between and secluded by Sangre de Cristo foothills to northeast. Land slightly slopes to southwest with pretty arroyo within northern boundary; good operating shared well; water, electricity, centurylink fiber and telephone to lot’s boundary; lot entrance protected by electric remote controlled gate; foot and horse trails to National Forest. For sale by seller at $375,000. Realtor representing only buyer welcome at 5% commission. Serious inquiries only.

Call 505-670-8779 or unspoiledland@gmail.com

OUT OF TOWN

Sits on one acre of land next to the Rio Grande . 505-995-0318 DETAILS: www.northernnewmexicohome.com

CLASSIFIEDS RIVERFRONT PROPERTY in Village of Pecos. FOR SALE BY OWNER 2.840 acres. Breathtaking views, tranquil setting. $350k. Gene 505920-5629

SPRINGER NM 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1050 sq.ft, natural gas, laundry room, storage building, big fenced yard, remodeled condition, wood floors.

Move-in today. 804 Colbert. $45,000 Price, $551 down payment. $395 monthly payment. Owner financed 480-392-8550

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RODEO ROAD AREA. 2 excellent apartments, nice amenities. $699 or $750 monthly.

Home for the Holidays!

Chamisa Management 505-988-5299

2 BEDROOM 2 Bath, $1,900 monthly with lease, $2,500 monthly without lease. 992-0412

813 CAMINO DE MONTE REY: Live-in studio, full kitchen, bath, small back yard, tile throughout. $690 gas and water paid. NO PETS! 505-471-4405 CHARMING 2 bedroom Casita, $850 plus utilities. Centrally located, near bus stops and parks. 101 1/2 Taos, Call Gertrude, 505-983-4550.

STUDIO, 1 MILE FROM P L A Z A .

Westside. No Pets. First, Last, Security Deposit, $485 monthly plus utilities. Call, 505-897-9351, leave message.

BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN, 1000 sq.ft. One bedroom. Washer, dryer. $1,200. Near community college, 2.5 acres. Private gated property. 505-901-7415.

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Private estate. Walled yard, kiva fireplace. Safe, quiet. Utilities paid.

Sorry, No Pets. 505-471-0839

APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED

NEWLY REMODELED ADOBE HOME FOR SALE!

LAS CAMPANAS Golf Course Home 3 bedrooms, office, detached casita. 3 1/2 baths, 3291 sq.ft. Landscaped. 3-car garage. Radiant heat, AC. Many upgrades. $1,150,000 lchomeforsale@comcast.net , 505-228-8897

GUESTHOUSES

2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH. Ra n c h o Siringo Road, fireplace, fenced yard. $729 monthly.

LAST OF THE BEST! COUNTRY LIVING CLOSE TO SANTA FE PLAZA

CLASSIFIEDS SANTA FE

APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED

OUT OF TOWN

1 BEDROOM, 1 BATH DUPLEX ON EAST-SIDE. Large living room, hardwood floors.

Off-street parking, carport.

All appliances. $900 utilities included.

No pets. References a must. 505-9825232.

1 BEDROOM 1 bath. Prime north railyard. Fenced yard. Washer, dryer.

Parking. Near Farmer’s Market. $1000 monthly plus utilities. 505-2315410.

2 BEDROOM, 1 bath, no pets. $750 monthly. Quiet neighborhood. 2-car garage. East Carlson Subdivision, by National Guard. 505-471-7587, 505690-5627.

Where space is a concern and convenience is priority, look no further than Las Palomas Apartments. Call us today at 888-4828216 for a tour of a spacious studio and see the incredible amenities our community offers!! Let us help you start the year off right. ¿Mencionamos, hablamos español!

EUROPEAN STYLE. Quiet upscale neighborhood. Sophisticated furnished 1 bedroom & office. Private courtyards. Meadow, mountain views, 200 acre walking/ horse trails. 10 minutes to town. Dog Friendly. $1500 monthly plus utility. 505-699-6161

CONDOSTOWNHOMES

Sell your car in a hurry!

1 BEDROOM, 1 BATH, 600 sq.ft. Dos Santos condo. $775 monthly, $775 deposit, year lease. Pool, gym, jacuzzi. schweetie80@yahoo.com, or 505-6203672

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REDTAIL ACCOUNTING SERVICES for individuals and companies, all phases of operations, GAAP standards, Quickbooks specialist. redtailaccounting.com 505-670-8083

HAIR BY CHERYL!! Holiday Season Specials; $10 OFF! Appointment Only at Shear Paradise Salon, 1599 S. St. Francis Dr. 505-577-5559.

REPAIRS, MAINTENANCE; PRO-PANEL & FLAT ROOF REPAIR, PAINTING, FENCING, YARDWORK. MINOR PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL. 25 years experience. Licensed. References.

Free estimates. 505-470-5877

40 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Professional Plastering Specialist: Interior & Exterior. Also Re-Stuccos. Patching a specialty. Call Felix, 505-920-3853.

TUTORING FOR ACT & SAT, Math, Sciences, English, French, German, Russian, etc. Immediate Santa Fe area. $35 hourly. Anthony, 505-988-1307.

CARETAKING

FIREWOOD

CAREGIVER NURSE-AID. 20 years experince.

Billingual.

References available. Please call, 505-310-5234.

Leave message.

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

Dry Pinon & Cedar

Clean Houses

CONSTRUCTION

CASEY’S TOP HAT CHIMNEY SWEEPS is committed to protecting your home. Creosote build-up in a fireplace or lint build-up in a dryer vent reduces efficiency and can pose a fire hazard. Call 505989-5775. Get prepared!

CLEANING

Homes, Office, Move-ins- Move-outs.

Also, House and Pet sitting.

Dependable, Experienced. $18 hourly.

Julia, 505-204-1677.

MENDOZA’S & FLORES’ PROFESSIONAL MAINTENANCE

Office and Home Cleaning. Janitorial, Handyman, Home Repairs, Garden, Irrigation, Windows.

Licensed, bonded, insured.

References available. 505-795-9062.

505-983-2872, 505-470-4117 FLOORING RM FLOORING Re-finishing of wood floors. Installation of wood, tile, brick and flagstone flooring. Licensed, Bonded.

Senior Discount 15%.

505-469-6363

HANDYMAN

TRINO’S AFFORDABLE Construction all phases of construction, home repairs including water damage. Licensed, Bonded & Insured. 505920-7583.

PHIL’S HAULING. Dump runs, cleaning, moving, deliveries, tree removal, hassles handled. Up to 6 tons/ load.

Reasonable, reliable, punctual. 505670-6100

BATHROOM & KITCHEN REMODELING EXPERTS

Also new additions, concrete, plastering, walls, flagstone, plumbing, heating, cooling, and electrical. Free estimates. 505-3107552.

Genbuild Corporation Additions, Remodels, New Construction, Foundations, Garages, Roofing, and Block Walls. Licensed, Bonded, Insured. 505-401-1088

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

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

HOUSE & PET SITTING by senior for 24/7 flat rate or hourly. Have 27’ trailer to stay on property. Including horses. 505-795-0007

AFFORDABLE HOME REPAIR

Housecleaning, garage cleaning, hauling trash.

Cutting Trees, Flagstone Patios, Driveways, Fencing, Yard Work, Stucco, Tile, Roofing. Greg, Nina, 920-0493.

METAL MOBILE HOME & RVs LIQUID RUBBER ROOF COATING, no seams.

10 year guaranteed. Single-wides starting from $900. Licensed & insured. 505-795-0007

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HAULING OR YARD WORK

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ADDITIONS, GARAGES & Portable Buildings. Starting at $30.00 a square foot. Licensed and insured. Call 505252-0534 or 505-821-3790.

A+ Professional Cleaning Service

ALL-IN-ONE ROOF LEAKING REPAIR & MAINTENANCE. Complete Landscaping. Yard Cleaning, Maintenance.

Foam roof maintenance. Painting.

Torch Down, Stucco. References Available. 505-603-3182.

Free Kindling, Delivery & Stack.

145.00 pick up load.

Deliver Anytime.

Inside and out. Windows, carpets. $18 per hour. Sylvia 505-920-4138.

Handyman, Landscaping, Roofing.

FREE estimates, BNS. 505-316-6449.

ROOFING

MOVERS A A R D V A R K DISCOUNT M O V E R S Most moving services; old-fashioned respect and care since 1976. Jo h n , 505-473-4881.

PAINTING ANDY ORTIZ PAINTING

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

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

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

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

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SPECIALIZING IN YARD WORK, TREE TRIMMING. Trash, brush and other hauling available. Yard, gravel work available. Call 505-204-3186. 505-3162936.

YARD CLEAN UP & More! Gravel, trenches, trash hauling. We Move Furniture. Any work you need done I can do! Call George, 505-316-1599.

YARD MAINTENANCE

Seasonal planting. Lawn care.

Weed Removal.

Dump runs.

Painting. Snow Removal. Honest & Dependable.

Free estimates.

References.

Berry Clean - 505-501-3395

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CANYON ROAD, GALLERY 822 Leaving 3930 sq.ft. Will lease 1/3, 2/3, or all of space. Regular lease. 505-699-6878 or 505-867-5623.

ROOMMATE WANTED

NORTHSIDE CASITA. Furnished one bedroom. 750 sq.ft. Quiet. Private yard. DSL. Cable. $1000 monthly. Utilities included. 1-year lease. Nonsmoker. 505-412-1074.

HOUSES UNFURNISHED 2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH 900 sq.ft. 1 car garage. $900 includes utilities.

Month-to-month. Deposit. Available 1/3/2015. Near La Cienega. 505-4705877

Private rooms, shared bath & kitchen, washer, dryer. $425 and $475.

Clean, safe, quiet. No Pets. Month-toMonth. Deposit. 2 miles North of Plaza. 505-470-5877

WAREHOUSES OFFICE, Warehouse with overhead door, midtown location. 1,300 squ.ft, with heating, air conditioning and parking. $1200 monthly plus utilities.

505-470-9213.

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2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH CASITA

Clean, ready to move-in.

Approximately 840 sq.ft. $850 plus utilities, $700 deposit. Forced heat, wood fireplace, washer dryer, saltillo tile.

Private parking, yard.

No smoking or pets. 505-231-0010

2-BE DR O O M CUSTOM, HIGH CEILINGS, PORCHES, WASHER, DRYER, FIREPLACE, RADIANT HEAT. CENTRALLY LOCATED, OFF HICKOX. $1000 PLUS UTILITIES. 505-992-1014

CHARMING 2 bedroom, 2 bath, NE Hillside home. Walk to Plaza. Mountain views, trails. Available January 3 at $1,700 monthly. 239 Rodriguez.

512-287-0192 rkirmse@hotmail.com

CONTEMPORARY TWO story in safe, quiet neighborhood, close to Super WalMart, I-25 and 599. Master suite with walk-in closet, private bath, upstairs carpeted, downstairs tile. Island kitchen, gas range, dishwasher, fireplace, garage, Washer Dryer, AC, small yard. Tenant application and background check required. Subdivision restrictions apply. No smoking, no drugs. Small pet negotiable. $1300 monthly plus utilities. Move-in with first, last and $400 deposit. Call 505988-5816, leave message.

MANUFACTURED HOMES PEACE & QUIET: 3 bedroom, 2 bath.

Plaster, stucco. Highway 14 area. $850 monthly. Lease, deposit. References required . 505-473-7155, 505699-0120.

SEEKING COMPASSIONATE

Caregivers

REWARD! B L A C K SHEPHARD MIX , female, Xena, red collar with tags. Lost Sunday, December 21, about 11 a.m., at south end of Frank Ortiz Park.

Might be in Solana neighborhood.

SKITTISH. PLEASE CALL IF SEEN! 505-490-0388

Large entry with sectioning possibilities. Private office, large storage, handicapped bathroom.

Quiet convenient location. 505-9834631, 505-470-8151.

MODERN OFFICE BUILDING FOR LEASE $14 PER SQ.FT. ANNUALLY

»jobs«

BOOKKEEPER FOR a small CPA Firm.

Must be knowledgeable in A/P, A/R, P/R, and QuickBooks. Please send resume to: Human Resources; PO Box 5373; Santa Fe, NM 87502-5373.

Please call (505)983-9646.

(Part-time, 20 hours weekly) Site Manager is responsible for the day to day operations and services provided to our Senior Center. The Manager will ensure that all policies and procedures are followed. All food and supplies will be purchased and stored by the manager in accordance with policy. Responsible for monthly reports, activities, menus, etc.

Will provide transportation using the programs vehicle as needed.

There are two positions available, one located in Nambe Pueblo and one in Pueblo of San Ildefonso.

Both positions are 20 hours a week. Prefer individual who has experience with Senior Programs.

Must have a good driving record and pass a criminal background check.

Must possess a food handler’s certificate or be able to obtain one.

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIANS NEW MOON LODGE

(male adult facility -Espanola) BUTTERFLY HEALING CENTER (Youth Residential facility - Taos) The BHT is a member of the our residential direct care staff . The primary function of the BHT is to ensure the safety, therapeutic and physical needs of our residents are properly met as directed by the individual’s treatment plan, therapeutic goals and interventions determined by the clinical team. HS Diploma or equivalent, CPR and First Aid, certification are required, prefer experience in behavioral health field. *Working with our youth requires a completed CYFD fingerprinting and back ground check.*

LICENSED MASTER LEVEL THERAPISTS

ALBUQUERQUE and ESPANOLA OPENINGS Immediate openings.

Serving Northern New Mexico, several locations available, Albuquerque and Espanola.

Experience in individual, group, adult, family and couples therapy Experience working with addictions a plus.

Master level, licensed in the State of New Mexico. Must have current and in good standing an LMSW, LISW, LPCC, LMHC or Ph.D.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Director of General Services

Excellent benefits. Apply online at pmsnm.org. Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline1-866-661-5491. EOE/ AA/ M/ F/ SO/ Vet/ Disability. Follow us on Facebook.

CHILD CARE PROGRAM ESPANOLA Provides support to the Program Director of ENIPC’s Child Care Program.

Must have computer experience, data entry, Excel helpful. Will maintain program’s record system and provide reporting as required.

General clerical experience preferred, HS Diploma or equivalent.

Employment with ENIPC requires a valid NM State Driver License and must be insurable under ENIPC’s auto insurance. All required certificates and licensures must be valid and current prior to employment.

Positions close when filled, unless otherwise noted.

Send resume to: RCata@enipc.org or 505-747-1599 (fax) 505-747-1593 (office) ENIPC ensures Native American Preference ENIPC, Inc. is a Drug Free Workplace. *Drug testing and criminal background check completed prior to employment*

for activists rally Immigrants,

Locally owned

ADMINISTRATIVE

RECEPTIONIST Needed for Santa Fe Animal Shelter’s fast-paced south-side animal clinic.

Email résumé to sdelarco@sfhumanesociety.org .

Visit sfhumanesociety.org for more information.

AUTOMOTIVE

NEW DEALERSHIP!

Parts/Service Advisor & Sales Professionals Ideal applicant will be energetic, detail-oriented, and be passionate about customer service.

Email resume to mbecker@garciacars.com or call 505.913.2950.

Add a pic and sell it quick!

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

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

MANAGEMENT

Oversees physical plant operations for Santa Fe facilities.

Supervises departmental staff.

Has statewide responsibilities for facilities planning, telecommunications, group purchasing, corporate insurance and risk management.

1441 St. Francis Drive. Take all or part of the building, available up to 3750 square feet. Kitchenettes, private and public baths, and outdoor balcony with views.

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE

Experienced in Personal Care, willing to work in the SantaFe and Los Alamos area.

Please call 505-988-8851 to inquire.

SILVER BRACELET with INLAID DISC, Sadly lost, Friday afternoon, probably on Lincoln Avenue. Great sentimentlal value. REWARD OFFERED. Call 505-982-3133.

OFFICES IMMACULATE SMALL OFFICE SUITE

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COMFORT KEEPERS

ADOPTION COUNSELOR Wanted for Santa Fe Animal Shelter. Basic animal welfare, good communication and computer skills required. Full time. Email: dmoore@sfhumanesociety.org

SAN JUAN Pecos, 2 bedroom house. adobe, with 8 acres, $1000 monthly plus utilities.pets ok. 505423-3788

Benefits eligible.

Apply on-line at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491 EOE/ AA/ M/ F/ SO/ Vet/ Disability Follow us on Facebook.

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GORGEOUS 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH, 2700 SQ.FT. ESTATE- plus art studio that is attached. Light & bright. Saltillo tile, vigas, 3 fireplaces, office, chef kitchen. $3000 monthly. Pond, kiva fireplace, hot tub in private backyard. 5 minute walk to Plaza. Owners NM real estate brokers. Skye’s the Limit Realty LLC. 505-629-9998.

Part-time position working 28 hours per week, year round at Pojoaque Valley Early Head Start Center located at the Pojoaque Middle School. Position requirements listed on website.

CALL 986-3000

3 BEDROOM, 2.5 BATH. 1840 sqft.

Fenced backyard, borders Golf Course. AC, Washer Dryer, 2 Car Garage. 6434 Paseo Del Sol. $1400 plus utilities. Marty 505-469-2573

3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH. Rowe. Fireplace, woodstove, all appliances, 3/4 acre fenced yard. $900 monthly, first, last, security deposit. 505470-0409

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5 bedrooms, 4 baths. Old Las Vegas Highway. $1900. NM Properties & Homes, 505-989-8860

3 BEDROOM, 2 bath house in La Cienega area. 505-690-4894.

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EIGHT NORTHERN INDIAN PUEBLOS COUNCIL, INC.

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2 BEDROOM, 2 bath Home in Rowe.

Fenced yard, secure compound.

All appliances. $750 monthly, first, last, security deposit. 505-4700409.

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Full-time position with Santa Fe Community Guidance Center working with delinquent and at-risk youth and their families in home-based and community settings in Santa Fe area. Has on-call responsibilities.

ANTIQUES 20TH CENTURY DESIGN , MID-CENTURY. BUY AND SELL. 131 West San Francisco Street.

Jewelry, decorative and fine art, furniture. *** GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS! *** Friday & Saturday, 12 to 5, or call for appointment. 505-9882013 or 847-567-3991.

Excellent benefits. Apply online at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491. EOE/ AA/ M/ F/ SO/ Vet/ Disability. Follow us on Facebook.

APPLIANCES

MISCELLANEOUS JOBS MACHINE ATTENDANT SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

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

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

ART

No prior machine experience required. Job duties include loading materials into machines. Must be able to communicate well with workers, stand for prolonged periods and able to lift 20 pounds and up to 70 pounds. This is an entry level position with opportunities for advancement. Shift times will vary based on company needs.

Submit application or email resume to: Brenda Shaffer bshaffer@sfnewmexican.com 1 New Mexican Plaza (off I-25 frontage road) Or access an online job application http://sfnm.co/1eUKCcD at .

No phone calls please.

Successful completion of a drug test will be required prior to employment offer. EOE

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

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

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

PRO-PANELS: 3’X18’ 26 gauge ProPanel for roofs. Barn red. $45 per sheet. Have 30 panels. (List $59). 505795-0007

BUSINESS EQUIPMENT 4 OFFICE desks for sale in excellent condition. $100 each. Three HON desks #HON-10791-NAT 72" x 36".

Third is 66" Executive Desk in Light Cherry. Also have lectern, desk carts, monitors available. Make offer. 505216-2287.

Competitive Pay with No Door to Door or Cold Calling. Must have Reliable Transportation & a Smart Phone.

Call Justin at 517-574-1415.

CLOTHING 2 PAIR of Full Quill Ostrich Cowboy Boots, $250 each (size 10.5). Worn about ten times. 505-553-0143.

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Open Machine Attendant Position for The Santa Fe New Mexican No Prior Machine Experience Required. Job duties include loading materials into machines. Must be able to communicate well with coworkers, stand for prolonged periods and able to lift 20 pounds, up to 70 pounds. This is an entry level position with opportunities for advancement. Shift times will vary based on company need.

Northern Pueblos Housing Authority

Northern Pueblos Housing Authority seeks an Economic Development Director.

This is a one-year grant-funded position with a primary responsibility to finalize business plans for two identified proprietary Pueblo-owned businesses, arrange financing, and initiate implementation of the business plans.

Mental Health Therapist (MST)

Submit application or email resume to: Heritage Home Healthcare & Hospice, a premier home health care provider in New Mexico, is looking for RN’s for Home Healthcare and Hospice (Full time and PRN), and Physical Therapists (Full time and PRN) with a passion for providing exceptional care!

Brenda Shaffer Bshaffer@sfnewmexican.com 1 New Mexican Plaza (off I-25 frontage road) Or access an online job application at http://sfnm.co/1eUKCcD. No Phone Calls please.

Please apply at www.heritagehomehealthcare.co m or call (505) 796-3222.

AA/ EOE M/ F/ Vet/ Disability, Drug-Free Workplace

Successful completion of a drug test will be required prior to employment offer.

EOE

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WANT TO BUY

3 PAIRS of Rio Mercedes Full Quill Ostrich Cowboy Boots (size 10.5), (1)Black, (1)Tobacco, (1)Tan colored.

Brand New. $350 each. 505-553-0143.

ASHLEY WOOD STOVE. Approved for mobile home. with pipes. $500. Call Frank, 505-471-7746.

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LEGAL # 97639 The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is accepting proposals for Professional Legal Services The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (Department) requests proposals (RFP# 15 516 2101 00004) from qualified lawyers and law firms to provide professional legal services for but not limited to; Water law; Environmental law; Construction Law; Real Estate Law; Real Property Acquisitions, Disposals (specialize in public real property interests both state, federal), Mineral Estate, Easements, Leases; Land use law, eminent domain and inverse condemnation; Inspection of Public Records Act; and Appellate work, including administrative and civil law for the Department.

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Each lawyer or law firm’s proposal shall include evidence of its experience and expertise in the relevant/proposed practice areas. Submission of the proposal must be sent to the Department of Game and Fish no later than 3:00 PM December 22, 2014. To obtain a copy of this Request for Proposal please visit http://wildlife.state.n m.us/ or contact Joseph Miano at (505) 476-8086 or joseph.miano@state. nm.us.

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y trator at (505) 474- D101CV-2014-02512 1877 for further inforNOTICE OF CHANGE mation. Thank you.

OF NAME Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on TAKE NOTICE that in December 23-26, 29- accordance with the 31, 2014 and January provisions of Sec. 408-1 through Sec. 40-81-2, 5, 2015 3 NMSA 1978, the Petitioner Jerilyn LEGAL # 97845 Massara will apply to IN THE PROBATE the Honorable RAYMOND Z. ORTIZ, DisCOURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE trict Judge of the First STATE OF NEW MEXI- Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial CO complex at Santa Fe, New Mexico at 8:30 No. 2014-0159 IN THE MATTER OF a.m. on the 9th day of January, 2015 for an THE ESTATE OF RIMA LOUISE MILLER, ORDER OF CHANGE OF NAME of a child from Deceased Xavier Manuel Chavez to Xavier NOTICE TO Manuel Massara.

CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that TAMI MILLER VASQUEZ and EHREN MILLER NOGUEIRA have been appointed CoPersonal Representatives of this Estate in an informal probate.

All persons having claims against this Estate are required to present their claims within two (2) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the attorneys of the Co-Personal Representatives, Karl H. Sommer, Sommer Karnes & Associates, LLP, 200 West Marcy Street, Suite 133, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, or filed with the Santa Fe County Probate Court, Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

DATED: December _ 5_, 2014 Tami Miller Vasquez by Ehren Miller Nogueira her attorney in-fact TAMI MILLER VASQUEZ, Co-Personal Representative

Ehren Miller Nogueira Published in The San- EHREN MILLER ta Fe New Mexican on NOGUEIRA, October 27-31 and Co-Personal November 3-7, 10-14, Representative 17-21, 24-28, December 1-5, 8-12, 15-19, SOMMER KARNES & 22-26, 2014 ASSOCIATES, LLP Attorneys for CoPersonal RepresentaLEGAL # 97822 tives West Marcy Notice is hereby giv- 200 en that the New Mex- Street, Suite 133 Santa Fe, New Mexico ico State Armory Board will hold its 87501 regularly scheduled 505.989.3800 quarterly meeting/ in Conjunction with the Published in The Sanbi-annual Local Ar- ta Fe New Mexican on mory Board Council December 18 and 25, 2014 Meeting on:

STEPHEN T. PACHECO, District court Clerk By: Deputy Clerk

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Submitted by: Jerilyn Massara, Petitioner, Pro Se Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 25, 2014 and January 1, 2015 LEGAL # 97877 Bids can be downloaded from our w e b s i t e , www.generalservices .state.nm.us/statepur chasing, or purchased at our office, State Purchasing Division, Joseph Montoya Building, Room 2016, 1100 St. Francis Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87505, for $0.25 per page, check or money order only.

(505) 827-0472.

Sealed bids will be opened at the State Purchasing Division office at 2:00 PM, MST/MDT on dates indicated. Request for Proposals are due at location and time indicated on proposal.

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Date: Wednesday, LEGAL # 97876 January 07, 2015 FIRST JUDICIAL Time: 10:00 a.m.

TRICT COURT STATE OF NEW Place: Albuquerque MEXICO Armory COUNTY OF SANTA FE 600 Wyoming Blvd NE Albuquerque, NM IN THE MA87801 TER OF A PETITION OF An agenda will be CHANGE OF available before the NAME OF meeting. Please con- Xavier Manuel tact Elizabeth A. Massara, A child .

Alvarado, State Armory Board Adminis- Case No.:

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No later than 3:00 pm MST on 1/22/2015 50-690-14-12054 Children, Youth and Families Department, Protective Service Division Implementation of Children’s Justice Act Grant Regarding Child Abuse Issues Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 25, 2014

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Horoscope After completing this puzzle, connect nine appropriate letters in order to discover an image associated with 44-Down.

ACROSS 1 Century, for one 5 Skip over water, as stones 8 “Brr-r-r!”

14 One of the 12 in the Pac-12 15 “Huzzah!”

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014: Your focus will be on the quality of your daily life and your financial security.

You will work to enhance both areas.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You seem to get caught up in the excessive emotions of the day. You’ll feel fortunate just to see a child’s glee as he or she opens up gifts. Tonight: Not to be found.

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Suffix with theoLittle pasta Place It might be hammered out “___ Dinka Doo” (Durante tune) Lift others’ spirits?

Petroleum ether One not to be trusted Pluck Manual reader, maybe Having a sense of pride?

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Get going Clinging, say See 5-Down Antivenins, e.g.

Little green ones come from Mars Subject of this puzzle Often Young muchacho Israel’s Weizman Goat sounds Designed to minimize drag Lacoste competitor Hack it Brinks “The Waltons” grandpa

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Chess quiz BLACK WINS A PIECE Hint: Attack a key defender.

Solution: 1. ... g5!

2. Bxg5 Nxe5. If instead 2. Nxc6, ...

Qxc6ch! 3. Kg1 gxf4.

Hocus Focus

Super Quiz Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” — NO. 3 (e.g., Who was the final spirit to visit Scrooge? Answer: Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. What did the final spirit not do that the previous spirits did do?

Answer________ 2. The spirit showed him the death of which two people?

Answer________ 3. Local business associates will attend the miser’s funeral on this one condition.

Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 4. Which three characters steal Scrooge’s belongings?

Answer________ 5. Name an item that the laundress stole and sold to a “fence”?

Answer________ 6. What was the charwoman’s (housekeeper’s) name?

Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. Name any two items stolen by the charwoman?

Answer________ 8. At whose house does Scrooge spend Christmas Day? Answer________ 9. What are the final five words of the novel?

Answer________ ANSWERS: ANSWERS: 1. Speak. 2. Tiny Tim and Ebenezer Scrooge.

3. Lunch must be served. 4. Charwoman (housekeeper), laundress and undertaker. 5. Bed-curtains, blankets, a nightshirt. 6. Mrs. Dilber.

7. Sheets, towels, clothing, silver teaspoons, sugar tongs, boots. 8. Fred’s (his nephew).

9. “God bless us, every one!”

Jumble

SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2014 Ken Fisher

Today in history Today is Thursday, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2014. There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day. Today’s highlight in history: In 1818, “Silent Night (Stille Nacht)” was publicly performed for the first time during the celebration of Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Reach out to someone at a distance. This person might feel isolated on this holiday, and your call will mean the world to him or her. Tonight: Speak your mind.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Your words will mean a lot to a loved one who can be rather controlling.

Recognize the emotional power behind the holiday.

Tonight: Relax and watch a favorite holiday movie.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Deal with someone directly. A discussion could offer you some insight and understanding into this person’s behavior. Tonight: Honor the spirit of the moment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You seem to have a great time no matter where you are or whom you are with.

This Christmas holds a very special meaning for you, and it shows. Tonight: Join friends.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You could feel way below your normal level of activity. You have been so busy making sure that everything is done, you probably are very exhausted.

Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ cost Dear Readers: Merry Christmas. We hope you are fortunate enough to be with family and friends today. For the past few years, we have printed the annual PNC Christmas Price Index, which we find interesting and amusing. Enjoy: The Twelve Days of Christmas u On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree (cost: $207.68, an increase of 3.8 percent over last year). u On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, two turtledoves ($125, the same price since 2012). u On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me, three French hens ($181.50, up 10 percent over last year. u On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, four calling birds ($599.96, the same as last year). u On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, five gold rings ($750, the same price two years in a row. u On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, six geese-a-laying ($360, a whopping increase of 71.4 percent), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($181.50), two turtledoves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($207.68). u On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me, seven swans-a-swimming ($7,000, still pricey, but no more than before, unless you order them online, in which case, they went up 30 percent). u On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, eight maids-a-milking ($58, still at minimum wage, the same price for the past three years. u On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, nine ladies dancing ($7,552.84, same as last year), eight maidsa-milking ($58), seven swansa-swimming ($7,000), six geese-a-laying ($360), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds

($599.96), three French hens ($181.50), two turtledoves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($207.68). u On the 10th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 10 lords-a-leaping ($5,348.24, a 2 percent salary hike), nine ladies dancing ($7,552.84), eight maids-a-milking ($58), seven swans-a-swimming ($7,000), six geese-a-laying ($360), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($181.50), two turtledoves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($207.68). u On the 11th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 11 pipers piping ($2,635.20, same as before), 10 lords-a-leaping ($5,348.24), nine ladies dancing ($7,552.84), eight maids-a-milking ($58), seven swans-a-swimming ($7,000), six geese-a-laying ($360), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($181.50), two turtledoves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($207.68). u On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 12 drummers drumming ($2,854.50, no increase), 11 pipers piping ($2,635.20), 10 lords-a-leaping ($5,348.24), nine ladies dancing ($7,552.84), eight maids-a-milking ($58), seven swans-a-swimming ($7,000), six geese-a-laying ($360), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($181.50), two turtledoves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($207.68).

The total cost of these gifts would be $116,273.06, plus shipping. Have a happy holiday.

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 might be enchanted by a child’s excitement about what is going to happen next. Tonight: Consider an early bedtime.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You’ll feel the need to take care of those in your surroundings. A surprise visit could lift the mood.

Tonight: Add some mischief to the moment.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You might want to turn a situation around quickly.

Someone could help you ease up a bit. Tonight: Asleep at the drop of a hat.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Do something just for you this morning. You might be more uptight than you realize. Tonight: Share a favorite piece of music.

Cryptoquip

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You could feel as if you’re running around in all directions. Somehow, this holiday has unusual significance this year. Tonight: Enjoy the moment with loved ones.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You could be exhausted by the morning calls or/ or hectic activity. Smile through a problem.

Tonight: Favorite place, favorite people.

Jacqueline Bigar

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. © 2014 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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