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Law-enforcement agencies in New Mexico, worried about the safety of missing 10-year-old James Agnew, issued an Amber Alert for him Oct. 29. They believed he had been abducted by his father’s fiancée. TV and radio broadcasts blared information all day about the boy and his alleged captor, Rebecca Aguirre, who was engaged to the boy’s father, Steven Ohala. Cellphones buzzed and wailed, alerting anyone with a cell signal in Northern New Mexico about the missing child. The Amber Alert was canceled when the boy was found hours later with Aguirre at a home near N.M. 14 and N.M. 599. He was uninjured. But whether the boy was ever in danger — as a text alert that day suggested — is unclear. The alert, one of two in New Mexico in October, raises questions about whether enough thought is being put into the alerts before they are issued and whether the alerts are actually effective in helping officials recover missing children. New Mexico State Police Lt. Emmanuel Gutierrez defended the Amber Alert, saying, “We stop the world in the state of New Mexico” in cases involving crimes against children. The Amber Alert system began in Texas following the 1996 abduction and murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman. Spurred by federal legislation, the alert

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SEATTLE — The finding was hard to believe, but year after year and in state after state, the numbers kept bearing it out: Sixth-graders who missed 20 days of class had, at best, a 20 percent chance of graduating from high school on time. This was a bombshell for researcher Bob Balfanz, who’d spent most of his career trying to understand the factors driving 1 million American students to drop out each year. He’d paced school hallways and sat through hundreds of hours of classroom instruction. But in 2007, after tracking 13,000 middle-schoolers for eight years in Philadelphia, Balfanz finally isolated a red flag common to all who, years later, failed to graduate on time: a history of poor attendance. “You’d think, ‘Hey it’s only sixth grade — you can recover and grow out of this,’ ” he said.

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prehension and the English language. Though still in search of mainstream acceptance, students and staff members who describe themselves in terms such as agender, bigender, third gender or gender-fluid are requesting — and sometimes finding — linguistic recognition. Inviting students to state their preferred gender pronouns, known as PGPs for short, and encouraging classmates to use unfamiliar ones such as “ze,” “sie,” “e,” “ou” and “ve” has become an accepted back-to-school practice for professors, dorm advisers, club sponsors, workshop leaders and health care providers at several schools. The phenomenon gained notice in the San Francisco Bay area in early November after an 18-year-old student at a private high school in Berkeley suffered severe burns when a 16-year-old boy set fire to the student’s skirt while the two were riding a public bus. The parents of the injured student, Sascha Fleischman, said their son is biologically male but identifies as agender and favors they as a pronoun. At the University of Vermont, students who elect to change their names and/or pronouns on class rosters now can choose from

she, he and ze, as well as the option of being referred to by only their names. Hampshire College in Massachusetts advertises its inclusiveness by listing the gender pronouns of its tour guides on the school’s website. And intake forms at the University of California, Berkeley’s student health center include spaces for male, female or other. As neologisms like “ze” have moved beyond conversation and into students’ academic papers, some professors have expressed annoyance and uncertainty about how to respond, said Lucy Ferriss, writer-in-residence at Trinity College in Connecticut and a frequent contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s language blog, Lingua Franca. “There is an initial discomfort. I think it’s probably hypocritical to pretend there isn’t, to say, ‘Ok, that’s what they want to do’ and leave it at that,” Ferriss said. “The people I know who teach will say, ‘This is weird and it’s cumbersome and it’s not going to last because it’s not organic.’ ” At the same time, Ferris thinks it’s a mistake for scholars and grammarians to dismiss the trend without considering whether English and society might be served by less-rigid ideas about gender.

Thanksgiving takes a bite out of Black Friday sales By Steve Rothwell The Associated Press

Thanksgiving Day is no longer all about turkey: It’s eating away at Black Friday shopping. U.S. shoppers spent $9.74 billion on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. That’s a drop of 13.2 percent compared with last year, according to data on Saturday by research firm ShopperTrak. The decline appears to show that more Americans shopped on the holiday itself: Combined spending on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, which had been considered the official start to the holiday buying season until this year, rose 2.3 percent to $12.3 billion. The data reflect that Thanksgiving, which along with Christmas was one of two days a year that most stores were closed, is

becoming an important day for major retailers. Black Friday is a time when retailers open early and offer deep discounts, but a few started opening and offering those discounts on Thanksgiving in the past couple of years. And this year, at least a dozen did so, with a few opening earlier in the holiday than they did last year. The National Retail Federation, a retail trade group, predicted that 33 million, or almost a quarter, of the 140 million people who planned to shop during the four-day holiday weekend that ends on Sunday, would do so on Thanksgiving. And analysts questioned whether the holiday openings would steal sales away from Black Friday or result in people spending more overall. “Retailers were pretty successful in drawing the consumers

into the stores on Thursday,” said ShopperTrak founder Bill Martin, whose company counts how many shoppers go into about 40,000 stores in U.S. But “Thursday’s sales came at the expense of Black Friday’s numbers.” The decline in sales on Black Friday was the second one in a row. Last year, sales on that day dropped 1.8 percent to $11.2 billion, though it still was the biggest shopping day last year, according to ShopperTrak. Despite the big drop this year, Shoppertrak’s Martin said he thinks Black Friday will remain the biggest shopping day of the year for the 10th consecutive year. But if retailers continue to promote Thanksgiving as the start of the holiday buying season, he thinks the holiday will eventually surpass Black Friday in sales. “We’re just taking Black Friday

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Government supporters, foes clash violently in Thai capital BANGKOK — Aggressive political protests in the Thai capital turned violent late Saturday with at least one man killed and five wounded by gunshots in street fighting between supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. It was not immediately known who fired the shots or what side the victims were on. National Police Deputy Spokesman Anucha Romyanan said the dead man was a 21-year-old male with two bullet wounds. The violence in the short run may stir fears of further instability like what plagued the country during related political conflicts in 2006, 2008 and 2010. Any escalation of violence is likely to scare away tourists who come to Thailand by the millions and contribute a huge chunk to the economy.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — The weekly meetings of Mouthing Off!, a group for students at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, always start the same way. Members take turns going around the room saying their names and the personal pronouns they want others to use when referring to them — she, he or something else. It’s an exercise that might seem superfluous given that Mills, a small and leafy liberal arts school historically referred to as the Vassar of the West, only admits women as undergraduates. Yet increasingly, the “shes” and “hers” that dominate the introductions are keeping third-person company with “they,” “ze” and other neutral alternatives meant to convey a more generous notion of gender. “Because I go to an all-women’s college, a lot of people are like, ‘If you don’t identify as a woman, how did you get in?’ ” said sophomore Skylar Crownover, 19, who is president of Mouthing Off! and prefers to be mentioned as a singular they, but also answers to he. “I just tell them the application asks you to mark your sex and I did. It didn’t ask me for my gender.” On high school and college campuses and in certain political and social media circles, the growing visibility of a small, but semantically committed cadre of young people who, like Crownover, self-identify as “genderqueer” — neither male nor female but an androgynous hybrid or rejection of both — is challenging anew the limits of Western com-

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Sunday, Dec. 1 CULTURAL APPROACHES TO HIV/AIDS: From 2 to 6 p.m. at the Museum of International Folk Art, community scholars and leaders engage in a panel discussion and a Q&A, in conjunction with the exhibit Let’s Talk About This: Folk Artists Respond to HIV/AIDS; outdoor candlelight observance follows. 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill. HANUKKAH ON THE PLAZA: At 3 p.m. sponsored by Chabad, entertainment by Wise Fool, New Mexico. Presenting “Too Much Noise,” a Jewish folk tale featuring life-sized animal puppets brought to life by young audience members‚ plus Menorah Lighting, live music, balloons, dreidels, hot latkes, sufganiot, hot chocolate and more. Public invited. 80 E San Francisco St. JOURNEY SANTA FE DISCUSSION: At 11 a.m. at Collected Works Bookstore, Fred Nathan, founder and executive director of Think New Mexico, will discuss its history and successes, and discuss its current initiative to address New Mexico’s jobs crisis. 11 a.m. 202 Galisteo St. PAIGE GRANT AT OP. CIT. BOOKSTORE: At 3 p.m. the author reads from Kitten Caboodle and leads kids activities. 3 p.m. 500 Montezuma

LOS ANGELES — Paul Walker, the star of the Fast & Furious movie series, died Saturday in a car crash that killed one other person north of Los Angeles, his publicist said. He was 40. Walker died Saturday afternoon, Ame Van Iden told The Associated Press. A statement on the actor’s Facebook page said he was a passenger in a friend’s car, and that Walker was in the area to attend a charity event for his organization Reach Out Worldwide. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said that deputies found Paul Walker a car engulfed in flames when they responded to a report of a collision in the community of Valencia. Two people who were found in the car were pronounced dead at the scene. The Santa Clarita Signal reports a red Porsche crashed into a light pole and tree and burst into flames.

Obama administration optimistic about website WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it will meet its self-imposed deadline of fixing the troubled health care website so that 50,000 people can log in at the same time starting late Saturday. Yet questions remain about the stability of the site, the volume of traffic it can handle and the quality of the data it is delivering to insurers. Round-the-clock repair work since HealthCare.gov went live on Oct. 1 has produced fewer errors, and pages are loading faster. But the site still won’t be able to do everything the administration wanted, and companion sites for small businesses and Spanish speakers have been delayed. Still, the White House hopes a website that is at least operating more smoothly after weeks of bad publicity about its troubles will mark a fresh start for Obama and the signature domestic initiative of his presidency, as well as give him a chance to salvage a second term that has been weighed down by health care law’s rough start and other issues.

N. Korea says U.S. tourist apologizes for war crimes SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea state media claimed Saturday that an elderly U.S. tourist detained for more than a month has apologized for alleged crimes during the Korean War and for “hostile acts” against the state during a recent trip. North Korean authorities released video showing 85-year-old Merrill Newman, wearing glasses, a blue button-down shirt and tan trousers, reading his alleged apology, which was dated Nov. 9 and couldn’t be independently confirmed. Pyongyang has been accused of previously coercing statements from detainees. There was no way to reach Newman and determine the circumstances of the alleged confession. But it was riddled with stilted English and grammatical errors, such as “I want not punish me.” “I have been guilty of a long list of indelible crimes against DPRK government and Korean people,” Newman purportedly wrote in a four-page statement, adding: “Please forgive me.” New Mexican wire services

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In a column that published on Page A-9 of the Nov. 30, 2013, edition, the name of Dr. Wendy Johnson was misspelled in her Life & Science column, Medical Matters. Her name also was misspelled in a front-page teaser to the column. The errors were due to editing.

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CAIRO — The panel amending Egypt’s suspended constitution began voting Saturday on some 250 changes, the first step toward democratic rule following the July military coup that ousted the country’s president. The constitution before the 50-member committee makes drastic changes in ensuring civil liberties, fighting discrimination, criminalizing torture, protecting religious freedoms and giving lawmakers power to remove the president. Yet

the draft also allows Egypt’s powerful military to choose its own chief and try civilians in military tribunals. The constitutional changes come amid a heavy-handed crackdown on dissent that’s left the country largely divided between supporters and opponents of the military that toppled Mohammed Morsi, the country’s first freely elected president. “This is the path of rescue from the current condition,” said Amr Moussa, the elder Egyptian statesman leading the constitutional panel. “It is the transition from disturbances to stability and from economic stagnation to development.” The military suspended the Islamistdrafted, voter-approved 2012 constitution in the July 3 coup that ousted

tion of Shariah’s principles. That “didn’t appease the Islamist representative,” said panel member Kamal el-Helbawi, an independent who once belonged to Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood. The panel voted for an amendment banning slavery, human trafficking and “the sex trade.” The panel’s sole Islamist party representative opposed the amendment, as some say the article restricts early marriages. The panel also voted in favor of abolishing the upper house of parliament, the Shura Council, as well as an amendment defining Egypt as a “civilian” government in Arabic. That term angers Islamists, who say it means secular. Among articles the panel will vote on Sunday is one allowing lawmakers to

Morsi. The constitutional panel, dominated by secularists, has been working on changes as part of a military-backed timeline that calls for voters to approve it. It plans for parliamentary and presidential elections early next year. On Saturday, 48 panel members began voting on the changes in a session aired live on state television. Most articles passed unanimously. One issue the panel faced was how the principles of Islamic or Shariah law, already called the main source of law in Egypt, should be defined. Some feared a definition would allow for a heavier implementation of Shariah and the creation of a religious state. The panel voted to refer to Supreme Constitutional Court’s limited defini-

vote out an elected president and call for early elections if they have a twothirds majority. Another allows parliament to prosecute the president for “violating the rules of the constitution.” A proposed change also prohibits the establishment of political parties on religious grounds, meaning the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party and Al-Nour, the political arm of Salafi Call movement, could be banned. Other controversial changes up for a vote include one giving the military the right to choose its own army chief, who serves as the defense minister, over a transitional period of eight years. Another gives the military the right to try civilians in front of military tribunals for a series of crimes.

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MOMENT Albuquerque man starts website where skiers can ‘claim’ their runs via video posts Continued from Page A-1 the digital imaging company GoPro in 2004, made the cover of the October issue of Santa Fe-based Outside magazine. According to Forbes magazine, he is worth $1.3 billion. People everywhere are chronicling their everyday lives (see Facebook) in detail, and the advent of devices like the GoPro (the leading pocket camera on the market) allow them to do it even while practicing extreme sports. Woodman, who wore one on his chest when his children were born, according to Forbes, calls the GoPro a “life” camera. Skiers, snowboarders, surfers, mountain bikers, sky divers and motorcyclists are adopting it as part of their regular gear. So, too, are dads and moms who want to capture the heroic moments in the lives of their children. Some of the fun is being the director of your own panoramic film, but a lot of the appeal is in going home after a day in the outdoors and watching the videos — in high definition — on a TV or computer with your friends. Or showing them to co-workers on Monday morning on an iPad. Outside senior editor Grayson Schaffer says the GoPro revolution “is all about this idea of self-celebrity. Helmet-cams essentially allow you a way to get good pictures and videos of yourself. If you have one, you can strap it to your front and get great selfies for an entire river run or put it

forward to capture the awesomeness of your ski runs.” Schaffer, who always has one in his backpack, pointed out that GoPro works because of social media. Otherwise, it would just be a camera, albeit a very good one — it shoots at a higher resolution than any camera that existed five years ago. But “having YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo is the key that allows it to become a disruptive lifestyle technology,” he said. Moreover, he said, “It’s amazing how good at editing some of these kids are getting. Their fluency with technology is way ahead of where any of us were.” The GoPro videos posted by skier Tom Wallisch were so good — for instance, his tour of Park City, Utah, called “What would Jesus look like if he Freestyle Skied” — that he got the attention of the industry and is now a member of The North Face freeski team. He’s also on the U.S. Olympic freestyle slopeside team and one of the best park and pipe skiers anywhere. So many people are making videos of themselves that Brett Hills, an avid skier, and his partner, Woody, created a site for the videos called ClaimMYrun.com. Hills, who lives in Albuquerque, said the dream was born in March 2011, when he was skiing the ridges in Taos and “the powder on every run was over my head.” Capturing “unbelievable footage,” he thought “how cool

would it be to attach these videos to a trail map.” He pitched the idea to his friend Woody, who was surfing in Panama, where he noticed everyone was using GoPros. The next year, they launched their platform with two resorts: Taos Ski Valley and Mountain High, Calif. After shooting video, users can upload it to YouTube or Vimeo, then tag it to the resort’s page on ClaimMYrun, indicating on the trail map where it was filmed. The first person to attach a video to a specific run gets to “claim” the run, although others can continue posting their own videos of the same run. Then, someone thinking about coming down Taos’ fabled Al’s Run for the first time — or the 10th — can click on the interactive map at ClaimMYrun. By watching the videos posted there, the skier can and see the features of Al’s Run and its level of difficulty, and see how others have skied it. Around 50 ski resorts worldwide are working with ClaimMYrun, including Jackson Hole, Stevens Pass and Crested Butte. The videos are sorted by most viewed, top rated, most recent and first claim. (Resorts pay to be listed but can use the programming on their own sites.) Hills said the appeal to extreme skiers and others is “capturing life’s moments in such a highquality format.” He also uses his for cliff-jumping in the Sandias. Jesse Guillén originally bought his camera — a Contour, once a competitor to GoPro — a year

and a half ago to use when riding motorcycles on tracks and roads, but later he stuck it on his helmet for snowboarding. (He had to use Super Glue to make the mount adhere to his helmet.) Last season, he said, he and a co-worker brought a mutual friend who was learning the sport to the ski basin. “I would record him skiing, so after we were done, he could watch himself” and, presumably, improve his form the next time. Some of his best videos, Guillén said, come when he doesn’t land the jump. “There’s a mix of ground and sky and snow everywhere, and it can be amusing.” Scott Hussoin, who manages the Ski Santa Fe Sports Shop, said the store sells the GoPro Hero 3 in the white, silver and black models of GoPro, which range in price from $200 to $400. The store also sells a Giro ski helmet that has a builtin camera mount. In addition to helmets, the cameras can be mounted to a ski pole, attached to a chesty, or worn on a head strap if you don’t ride with a helmet. Hussoin said that for boarders, the best option is the pole mount. “If you get good, you can get some good shots because your arm absorbs the bumps.” Moreover, he said, “I think it’s a good way to share your skiing experience with other people.” Jeremy Jordan, manager of the ski basin’s rental shop, also likes the pole mount because it allows the camera to be passed among different people. He sees people of all ages using the cameras, although there “definitely is an extreme sport side” to the GoPro. The affordable price, he added, “puts it in the hands of everybody.” JJ DiJanni bought one the year he had a season pass in Colorado. He wore it on his chest or at the end of a pole. “It just changes the perspective. You see yourself in the picture,” he said. But he hasn’t used it much recently. “Whenever people have them, it turns into trying to film everything,” he said. Although the cameras are definitely cool, he said, “For me it’s about the moment.” Tommy Fitzgerald, the rental shop supervisor at Ski Santa Fe, has had a GoPro for four years and uses it for “anything sports related.” Once he recorded a time-lapse video of himself and other employees working in the rental shop. On a good power day, he will put it on his chest, and “it will follow my pole plants so I can see the development of my turns.” He sometimes wears the camera on his forehead, although that configuration “looks a little goofy.” Fitzgerald also likes the waterproof feature. “If somebody jumps off a cliff [at Abiquiú Lake], I can jump off with them and follow them down. I’ve gotten really cool shots [of people doing flips] and then breaking the water.” The videos he’s posted have won him some deals on clothing and equipment. Ski area spokeswoman Candy DeJoia — who said she never films herself on the groomers where she skis — said a lot of the users in Santa Fe are hard-core riders who like the trees and bumps, not so much the cruisers. Sometimes the little cameras, which can stick a few inches above a helmet, pop off when a skier or boarder shoots under a tree. They get turned into lost and found occasionally, but often they just get lost in the powder. Regardless, they’re always in demand. According to a Forbes article earlier this year, sales have more than doubled every year since 2004, when the camera made its debut. In 2012, the company sold 2.3 million cameras and grossed $521 million. The San Mateo, Calif., firm is valued at $2.25 million. Contact Anne Constable at 986-3022 or aconstable@sfnewmexican.com.

Amber: Strict criteria must be met before alert is issued in N.M. Continued from Page A-1 system had been adopted in all 50 states by 2005. Now, with new technology such as reverse 911 systems that broadcast alerts to all cellphones in a selected area, concerns have grown about Amber Alert fatigue. Professors of criminal justice, as well as the father of a child who was kidnapped and murdered, express doubts about the system’s efficacy. Amber Alerts have been used sparingly in New Mexico. Only six have been issued since the state’s adoption of the system in 2003, which makes the two in October more notable. Early that month, authorities said nine young men had gone missing from the Tierra Blanca Ranch, a privately run correctional camp for troubled youth in Hillsboro, about 77 miles north of Las Cruces. Police issued an Amber Alert for them, and all eventually were found. The Associated Press later reported that an attorney for the ranch said the boys had been with their parents all along.

Good intentions, questionable results Marc Klaas, who founded the KlaasKids Foundation, a research and advocacy group that works to end violence against children, said the motivations behind the Amber Alert system are noble. But he has been critical of its implementation and is especially skeptical of the automated cellphone alert. Klaas’ 12-year-old daughter, Polly, was kidnapped and murdered in 1993. “I think absolutely people are going to opt out of it,” he said of the Amber Alert in a telephone interview. “You’re just not going to notify the public.” Klaas believes radio announcements are more effective than cellphone alerts. He also criticized the range

of the alert. For example, he said, if a child is kidnapped in Dallas, phones as far away as El Paso may get the alert. He believes the system should be more localized. Another problem with the system, he said, is that local law-enforcement agencies sometimes have to get their Amber Alert request approved by state officials, which wastes time and contradicts “the whole idea to get information out quickly.” John DeCarlo, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, said the Amber Alert system often is used in scenarios in which it probably shouldn’t be. DeCarlo, a former police chief in Branford, Conn., said people are more likely to help law-enforcement officers if they have an option of receiving alert services, rather than receiving the messages by default, as is the case with new Amber Alert systems. Forced alerts, he said, could desensitize some people. But for law-enforcement officials, DeCarlo said, it’s often a matter of doing nothing or issuing a public alert, so they choose the latter. “It goes a long way of answering the question of, ‘What do we do?’ But it’s also a victim of its own success,” DeCarlo said. Often, he said, Americans legislate by moral outrage, which creates systems that have good intentions but may have unintended consequences. He said the goal should be to implement systems that have been proven useful instead of “just taking a shot at it.”

Blanketing an area with the broadcast The Amber Alert was started by broadcasters in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, who teamed up with local police to develop an early-warning system to find missing children. By 2001, however, only four states had adopted it.

In 2002, then-President George W. Bush requested that the U.S. attorney appoint the first national Amber Alert coordinator. In 2003, Bush signed the PROTECT Act, legislation that called for the Amber Alert coordinator to develop a national program. And by 2005, all states had an alert system in place. Prior to 2013, wireless customers had to sign up to receive Amber Alerts, but that ended when the program joined the Wireless Emergency Alert program run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. That’s the same agency that sends out warnings from the National Weather Service and other organizations. The Wireless Emergency Alert system broadcasts the signal in a set area, and any device that picks up the broadcast will display it. By default, most wireless customers are signed up for these alerts, but they can opt out by contacting their service provider. Before an Amber Alert can be issued in New Mexico, the case has to meet five criteria suggested by the U.S. Department of Justice: Lawenforcement officials must confirm the child is missing; the child must be deemed at risk of serious injury or death; there must be a description of the child, the captor or the captor’s vehicle; the child must be 17 or younger; and the case must be entered into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center. The Santa Fe Police Department cannot issue Amber alerts on its own. It must make the request to the New Mexico State Police, city police department spokeswoman Celina Westervelt said. In the case of James Agnew, police determined Aguirre had taken the 10-year-old without permission, according to a statement from the boy’s father. Police had photos of the boy, Aguirre and the vehicle she was driving, a 1990 teal Honda Accord. Westervelt also said

law-enforcement agents were worried that Aguirre might have fled to North Carolina, in part because the boy’s father said he had not seen his child since Oct. 26. Also, Westervelt said, Aguirre was not Agnew’s legal guardian or biological parent. “We needed to find the child as quickly as possible,” she said. But Aguirre clearly had a close relationship with the child and often picked him up from school. Her telephone number was listed on a police report about the incident. It’s still unclear what prompted the father to notify police that his child was missing, and several calls to Aguirre for comment on the situation also have not been returned. Instead of returning the child to his father, the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department took custody of the boy, according to a department spokesperson. Both Aguirre and Ohala are reportedly transients, Westervelt said. Aguirre is not facing charges. Westervelt and Gutierrez both said the alert led to the speedy recovery of the child, but it’s impossible to know if he would have been found in the same amount of time without an alert. Westervelt said the department tracked down Aguirre through her cellphone signal, as well as through tips police had received about her location.

System with too much ‘cry wolf’ potential David Finkelhor, a professor at the University of New Hampshire and the director of the Crimes against Children Research Center, said the system has “big cry wolf” potential, but he believes the criteria for issuing an alert have helped deter potential abuse. “Evidence suggests overall that people like to be involved with law enforcement,” he said. “They appreciate opportunities to contribute.”

He said it’s hard to determine if the public is sick of the alerts, especially since the system has only been used six times in New Mexico. But he supports the idea of using technology to locate missing children. The Amber Alert’s purpose, according to informational materials from the U.S. Department of Justice, is to find missing children fast and to reduce the chances they will be harmed. According to the Amber Alert program’s website, about 500 children have been recovered nationwide as a result of the alerts. The alert system was used last August to safely recover a 16-yearold California girl, Hannah Anderson, whose mother and 8-year-old brother had been murdered in the burned home of her accused abductor, James Lee DiMaggio. The search lasted nearly six days before a group of horseback riders saw Anderson and DiMaggio in Idaho and tipped off authorities. DiMaggio was killed in a shootout with FBI agents. But Timothy Griffin, a criminal justice professor at the University of Nevada who has studied the Amber Alert system, questions whether many of the children recovered with the help of the alert system were ever in real danger. He also challenges the numbers provided by the program. “The question is, is the program working in situations where the children are in genuine peril?” he said in a telephone interview. “Evidence shows that doesn’t happen. In my opinion, the system is of limited value.” Griffin said he’s found in his research that the majority of child abductors have familial connections to children they kidnap. He argued that the main factor in a child’s safety isn’t necessarily how quickly officials find the child, but the kidnapper’s intent. And an Amber Alert, he said, won’t change a person’s motivations for taking a child.

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About 3,000 people are killed annually in crashes they would have survived if they had buckled up, according to NHTSA. Safety advocates and antidrunken-driving groups support technology that grounds motorists before they can hurt themselves or others. By Jerry Hirsch But some have reservations Los Angeles Times about these high-tech minders. The restaurant lobby opposes Auto safety regulators are what it sees as an encroaching pushing for new equipment nanny state. Some analysts preto protect motorists from dict the equipment could add their biggest threat: themhundreds of dollars to the cost of selves. They’re aiming to keep each vehicle. And even some car drunken drivers off the road enthusiasts say that imperfect with the help of onboard techtechnology could alienate the nology that immobilizes their public it’s supposed to protect. cars. New vehicles may soon Jack Nerad, an analyst with come with systems to help auto information company prevent collisions. And engines Kelley Blue Book, imagined may not start unless occupants a scenario in which sensors buckle their seat belts. picked up alcohol on the breath It’s all part of a push by the of passengers, preventing the National Highway Traffic designated driver from getting Safety Administration to use them home. technology to reduce traffic “You are reliant on the techfatalities. nology to be 100 percent per“Ninety percent of all crashes fect or your car doesn’t start,” have an element of human he said. “That makes people error,” NHTSA Administravery, very angry.” tor David Strickland said. “We Automakers have been down really need to focus on what this road before. In the early more we can do to address 1970s, more than 50,000 people these risks.” a year were dying on U.S. Automakers for years roads. In response, NHTSA resisted federal safety initiamandated a seat-belt monitortives, originally objecting to ing system that launched in the seat belts, air bags and more 1974 model year. It prevented recently making backup camvehicles from starting unless eras standard equipment. But the front seat belts were fasfor now they are supporting tened. NHTSA’s efforts. “It is just the The public balked and a cotright thing to do,” said Heather tage industry sprang up to help Rosenker, a General Motors Co. drivers bypass the system, said spokeswoman. Jeremy Anwyl, an automotive The insurance industry and industry consultant and former auto safety experts predict the chief executive of Edmunds. government’s initiative will improve driving safety, leading com. Then-President Gerald Ford beat a hasty retreat, orderto fewer claims and deaths. ing NHTSA to abandon the “This is the holy grail,” said Russ Rader, spokesman for the requirement for 1975 cars. Anwyl suspects renewed Insurance Institute of Highway efforts by government to keep Safety. tabs on driving behavior will Much of the technology elicit a similar outcry. already exists. Cars equipped “People won’t like the idea with optional collision warning and automatic braking systems that all of a sudden they are no longer completely in control,” were at nearly every automakhe said. “They might not buy er’s display at the Los Angeles a new vehicle and instead just Auto Show this week. keep the car they have.” Vehicles currently chime But increased awareness when a passenger isn’t belted; automakers already know how of the dangers of alcohol and distracted driving has some to link that to the car’s transmission to prevent the car from consumers eager to see the changes. moving. “I think those are great feaNow NHTSA and a coalition tures,” said Monterey Park, of 17 automakers are working Calif., retiree Joseph Tedros. on the so-called Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety. The “It will keep idiot drunks from getting on the road. It will keep DADDS system uses sensors in the cabin to measure blood alco- people who drive too close to the car in front of them from hol content by breath or touch rear-ending someone. And we to ensure a driver is below the all should use seat belts.” legal 0.08 percent threshold for But there could be glitches. impairment. Mistaken alcohol readings or Drunken driving killed more than 10,000 people last year, faulty seat-belt sensors could about a third of traffic deaths. put motorists in harm’s way if

As gay marriage legislation picks up momentum across the country, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan said the Roman Catholic Church is losing the fight because it’s been “caricatured as anti-gay.” Dolan, a charismatic cardinal who until recently was president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, talked about gay marriage and the Affordable Care Act with David Gregory on NBC’s Meet the Press in an interview scheduled to air Sunday. “Regardless of the church teachings, do you think this is evolving in such a way that it’s ultimately going to be legal everywhere?” Gregory asked. “I think I’d be a Pollyanna to say there doesn’t seem to be

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kind of a stampede to do this,” Dolan responded. “I regret that.” Dolan made the comments in the midst of a wave of same-sex marriage legislation across the country. While Pope Francis has garnered attention for arguing that the church should devote less energy to fighting gay marriage and focus more on helping the poor, U.S. bishops have been vocally opposed to same-sex marriage legislation. On the day that Hawaii’s Democratic governor, Neil Abercrombie, signed his state’s gay marriage legislation into law, Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva called same-sex marriage a “manufactured civil right” that was “symptomatic of a profound misreading of the purpose of human sexuality.” And a week later, when Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn of Illinois legalized same-

sex marriage, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield held an exorcism for the state to rid it of the “grave sin.” According to a partial transcript of Dolan’s remarks on Meet the Press, he explained why he thinks the church is losing the argument on gay marriage. “We’ve been outmarketed sometimes. We’ve been caricatured as anti-gay,” he said, adding that the church is “pro-traditional-marriage” and “not anti-anybody.” “When you have forces like Hollywood, when you have forces like politicians, when you have forces like some opinionmolders that are behind it, it’s a tough battle,” Dolan said. But when Gregory asked Dolan whether the gay marriage debate is a settled question, Dolan said: “I don’t think it’s over. No. I don’t think it is.”

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Survey shows Americans’ trust is at record low By Connie Cass The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — You can take our word for it. Americans don’t trust each other anymore. We’re not talking about the loss of faith in big institutions such as the government, the church or Wall Street, which fluctuates with events. For four decades, a gut-level ingredient of democracy — trust in the other fellow — has been quietly draining away. These days, only one-third of Americans say most people can be trusted. Half felt that way in 1972, when the General Social

Survey first asked the question. Forty years later, a record high of nearly two-thirds say “you can’t be too careful” in dealing with people. An AP-GfK poll conducted last month found that Americans are suspicious of each other in everyday encounters. Less than one-third expressed a lot of trust in clerks who swipe their credit cards, drivers on the road or people they meet when traveling. “I’m leery of everybody,” said Bart Murawski, 27, of Albany, N.Y. “Caution is always a factor.” Does it matter that Americans are suspicious of one another? Yes, say worried political and

social scientists. What’s known as “social trust” brings good things. A society where it’s easier to compromise or make a deal. Where people are willing to work with those who are different from them for the common good. Where trust appears to promote economic growth. Distrust, on the other hand, seems to encourage corruption. At the least, it diverts energy to counting change, drawing up 100-page legal contracts and building gated communities. Even the rancor and gridlock in politics might stem from the effects of an increasingly

People do get a little more trusting as they age. But beginning with the baby boomers, each generation has started off adulthood less trusting than those who came before them. University of Maryland Professor Eric Uslaner, who studies politics and trust, puts the blame on economic inequality. Trust has declined as the gap between the nation’s rich and poor gapes ever wider, Uslaner says, and more and more Americans feel shut out. They’ve lost their sense of a shared fate. Tellingly, trust rises with wealth. “People who believe the world is a good place and it’s

distrustful citizenry, said April K. Clark, a Purdue University political scientist and public opinion researcher. “It’s like the rules of the game,” Clark said. “When trust is low, the way we react and behave with each other becomes less civil.” There’s no easy fix. In fact, some studies suggest it’s too late for most Americans alive today to become more trusting. That research says the basis for a person’s lifetime trust levels is set by his or her mid-20s and unlikely to change, other than in some unifying crucible such as a world war.

going to get better and you can help make it better, they will be trusting,” Uslaner said. “If you believe it’s dark and driven by outside forces you can’t control, you will be a mistruster.” African Americans consistently have expressed far less faith in “most people” than the white majority does. Racism, discrimination and a high rate of poverty destroy trust. Nearly 8 in 10 African Americans, in the 2012 survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago with principal funding from the National Science Foundation, felt that “you can’t be too careful.”

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BOUCA, Central African Republic — About a dozen Muslim armed fighters rolled up to the Catholic mission in their pickup and delivered an ominous message to the hundreds seeking refuge on church grounds: Leave the premises by morning or face death. Ismael Hadjaro, a selfproclaimed colonel in a rebel movement that overthrew Central African Republic’s president earlier this year, accused the mission and its staff of harboring armed Christian combatants. “If you are not gone by 8 o’clock tomorrow morning, we will come back and shoot you and burn down the mission,” he told the nun running the mission, according to a witness. “You’re making this a religious war.” Frantic phone calls followed, and soon soldiers from a regional peacekeeping mission showed up to guard the Catholic mission, where church officials and aid workers insist they are merely trying to protect civilians. Most of the people sheltered there are women and children, according to Lewis Mudge, a researcher with the Africa division of Human Rights Watch who witnessed the colonel’s threat in Bouca last week. France’s foreign minister has warned that its former colony in central Africa is “on the verge of genocide” as attacks mount across the country’s remote northwest between the mostly Muslim fighters from Seleka, who ousted the president in March, and Christian militias that have emerged to defend towns and in some cases attack Muslim civilian communities. To try to avert further violence, France has pledged to send 1,000 troops to Central African Republic to help boost security before an African Union-led peacekeeping mission is fully up and running. The situation in Bouca has been particularly dire since early September, and fresh clashes in late November prompted the threat against the Catholic mission. Forty-three bodies have been buried in recent weeks in Bouca, about 180 miles north of Bangui, the capital, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Hundreds of homes in Bouca have been burned to the ground, and those who haven’t fled to the Catholic mission have taken shelter in the fields outside town. “My house was looted and burned by the Seleka forces, and like many here I fled into the bush,” says Nathanael Wandji, the director of the local Red Cross in Bouca. “We need to restore peace here quickly. The situation is becoming more and more dramatic.” The violence first ignited in Bouca on Sept. 9, when Christian militia fighters attacked a Muslim neighborhood, setting homes ablaze. Reprisal attacks were soon launched. Even as the community maintains an uneasy peace, people are still dying from malaria and other diseases because of a lack of access to health care.

Yet Balfanz, based at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, found that missing as few as 10 days a year has a cumulative impact, weakening the foundation upon which all other school achievement builds. More surprising still, school attendance averages, while widely reported, are highly misleading. A district may accurately note rates of 90 percent, but still have hundreds of students missing weeks of instruction because that number is an aggregate — concealing the fact that different students are absent on different days. “That’s when the sheer magnitude hit us,” said Balfanz, who recently released the findings of a major study on this effect. Other researchers have found a similar relationship between poor attendance and low performance among rural kids, preschoolers and middleclass youth alike. “Wherever we’ve looked, we’ve seen a clear relationship between missing a month of school and negative educational outcomes later,” Balfanz said. “That has been proven for all kids.” Conversely, it turns out that targeting attendance can make a significant dent in such thorny areas as the achievement gap and high school dropout rates — without having to overhaul an entire curriculum.

A program to tackle problem This finding inspired Balfanz to create the anti-dropout program Diplomas Now, which sends dozens of recent college graduates into middle schools with a laser focus on attendance and tutoring. At Denny International and Aki Kurose in Seattle, both of which have long struggled with student discipline and lackluster scores, it is making a dramatic difference. Until recently, their attendance figures were miserable. In 2010, more than half of the 590 students at Aki Kurose missed at least 10 days of class. That may not sound like a crisis. But it meant two full weeks of instruction, and in math, where comprehension of basic principles is essential to building more-advanced skills, the fallout was predictable: 62 percent of students tested below grade level. According to Balfanz, about 200 of them were high school dropouts-in-themaking. “The unexcused absence rate was ridiculous,” agreed Principal Mia Williams, who arrived in 2008 and quickly grasped the severity of the problem.

City Year corps member Becka Gross, right, and student Taylor Trimming chat between classes at Denny Middle School in Seattle. MIKE SIEGEL/SEATTLE TIMES

“The first thing we did was start paying attention to it, saying, ‘Hey, attendance really does matter. I mean, if you’re not here, how are you going to pass your classes?’ “ In 2010, Williams and Jeff Clark, the principal at Denny, flew to Chicago to see Diplomas Now in action. Four months later, they’d brought it home to Seattle Public Schools, and by the following school year, Aki Kurose achieved national attention for improving student attendance by more than 4 percentage points. Its upward trajectory has continued ever since. The program — which targets course work and behavior, along with truancy — has been slower to produce such dramatic attendance shifts at Denny, where Clark used it primarily to help with academics. Still, during its three years there, Diplomas Now has contributed to an 18-point rise in eighth-grade math scores.

‘She never gave up on me’ There is no magic to Diplomas Now. It builds on the basic truth that kids respond to relationships. Every day at 7:20 a.m., in dark rain or cutting cold, a group of chipper 20-somethings line up outside Aki

Kurose and Denny, cheering sleepy pupils as they trudge to class. Kids call them corny. Some teachers may wave them off as a gimmick. And several have been reduced to tears by students who deemed them less-than-cool. But the red-vested recruits, who provide in-class tutoring and after-school instruction, have contributed to a combined 15 percent decrease in the number of students with attendance problems, as well as a 79 percent drop in those failing English and a 96 percent decrease in the number failing math. They are employed by the nonprofit City Year, an arm of AmeriCorps. At Aki Kurose, each City Year corps member is responsible for tracking 10 students, calling parents to question absences and explain that late buses or faulty cars are not acceptable excuses. Late arrivers must explain themselves at an “attendance window” and walk to class with a City Year escort, who probes deeper. “A lot of these kids were flying under the radar,” said Katrina Hunt, the Diplomas Now coordinator at Aki Kurose. “We never had any single person following them.” One eighth-grader had already missed weeks of class when he came to Hunt’s attention. The youngest of seven children, the boy never realized that it mattered to anyone if he showed up.

Hunt said she’d watch for him every day, waiting until he checked in. “Why do you want me to come to school?” he often asked as they walked to class. Over several weeks, the two developed a rapport. Hunt learned that there was no one at home waking the youth. She found out that he showed up at Aki Kurose only 80 percent of the time, or else ambled in around fourth period. “In his family, that was the culture,” she said. “But we became close, and that’s what made him want to come — ‘Miss Hunt is waiting for me.’ I saw that with kids again and again.” The success of Diplomas Now hinges on those student-mentor connections, and on creating seamless unity between the three nonprofits under its umbrella: Talent Development, which handles academic improvement; Communities in Schools, which addresses kids with more serious counseling needs; and City Year, which funnels about 20 young people into each building, paying each a $250 weekly stipend. At the end of their two-year commitment, corps members earn $5,000 toward their own education costs. They are not teachers, though they provide academic help. And they are not counselors, though many learn things that students would be loath to tell a teacher. “I have City Year in all of my regular classes and it’s huge,” said Jon Moor, who teaches math at Denny and relies on corps member James Dixon to provide in-class assistance to anyone who may be struggling. A coltish eighth-grader who veers between flirtation and introversion, Taylor came to the attention of City Year for trouble with focus. The slightest hint of struggle with schoolwork set her to drawing on her wrists or playing with other students’ pencils, admiring their sneakers or spinning into sudden rage. Despite an inauspicious beginning, her City Year tutor, Becka Gross, did not walk away. In Taylor’s eyes, that was all that mattered. “I was always mean to Becka — I guess I’m not really comfortable with help sometimes,” the 13-year-old said. “But she never gave up on me, and I think it did make a difference. My grades started to get better. Sometimes when I didn’t even have work to do, I’d go find her, just to hang out and talk. It was mainly about her never giving up on me.” Adults may wave off such testimonials. But Diplomas Now is at work in 41 schools across the country, with results promising enough that the federal government is backing a $30 million study of the program.

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sent official public records requests to a bunch hanksgiving for the New Mexico Demoof state agencies asking for all emails between crats running for governor came early this year in form of a scathing article in the state employees and McCleskey and records Washington, D.C.-based National Jourof “meetings of state officials, and or nal targeting Gov. Susana Martinez’s staff with Mr. McCleskey regarding political consultant, Jay McCleskey. public information which official state business was discussed.” This actually As I pointed out in the paper, the might be interesting; although, judging lengthy article written by Daniel Libit from my own experience with Inspec— with the headline “The Man Who tion of Public Records Act requests Discovered Susana Martinez Could in this administration, it probably will Also Be Her Downfall” — was one of, be months before Morales receives if not the only national media piece on anything except notifications of time Martinez that wasn’t entirely flatterSteve Terrell extensions on the request. ing. Using entirely Republican sources, Roundhouse including former GOP state Chairman And Lawrence Rael called on state Roundup Harvey Yates and current Chairman Auditor Hector Balderas to investiJohn Billingsly, it portrayed McCleskey gate something that was mentioned in as a divisive, slash-and-burn Svengali Libit’s article — that during a legislative who has way too much influence over Martinez. session, McCleskey used office space in the Governor’s Office. (I guess he means the Fifth Floor It looks like the Democrats felt a little left out. was on the Fourth Floor, which might violate The candidates who want Martinez’s job all have some sort of architectural code.) Notice, he didn’t had something to say. On the day the article was ask for an attorney general investigation, possibly published, Attorney General Gary King and state because the AG is one of Rael’s primary rivals. Sen. Linda Lopez emailed missives linking to the I’m not sure whether Balderas, who himself is article and deploring McCleskey. On his website, running for attorney general, will actually launch candidate Alan Webber did some denouncing of this investigation. So far, his office hasn’t replied his own. to my inquiries about Rael’s request. Then last week, two other candidates weighed in. State Sen. Howie Morales announced that he’d Despite the cries for his head, there’s no indica-

tion that the thought of dumping McCleskey has ever crossed Martinez’s mind. So it looks like McCleskey himself could be an issue in the campaign. I’m sure he doesn’t like that, but it’s not something he’s unused to. It happened in several legislative races in 2010. That might have hurt his client in the state Senate GOP primary in Clovis, where Pat Woods beat the Martinez-backed Angie Spears. Woods, who was unopposed in the general election, hit back at the attack fliers produced by McCleskey for Spears with an attack flier of his own, urging Republican voters to reject “mudslinging” by a “slick Albuquerque consultant.” But later that year, McCleskey also became an issue in the Roswell Senate race. That probably didn’t help GOP candidate Cliff Pirtle, but it didn’t hurt him enough. The young farmerturned-politician ousted longtime Democratic lawmaker Tim Jennings, who was the Senate president pro-tem at the time of his defeat. In the National Journal article, Libit observed that “… without a serious Democratic challenger opposing her, Martinez looks primed for re-election.” So if her Democratic challengers want to get serious, they need to look beyond McCleskey.

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n Thanksgiving Day, as many as 1,500 Wal-Mart stores around the U.S. were picketed for their failure to pay their workers a living wage — even though the corporation is earning record profits. How can a corporation so ubiquitous and so powerful be punished for its greed? How can this egregious example of what Pope Francis calls “capitalism’s new tyranny” be humbled? The only effective action lies with you, the consumer. This Thanksgiving holiday weekend and thereafter, simply stop shopping at Wal-Mart. And start visualizing in your mind every Wal-Mart parking lot as empty of cars. John Hatch

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Stabilize the GRT What I learned from (“Gross receipts tax revenues hit milestone,” Nov. 22) is that Carmichael Dominguez, District 3’s current city councilor, has spent eight years on the Finance Committee, and his only solution to stabilizing the city of Santa Fe’s economic problems is to cross his fingers and keep a flat budget.

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receipts tax on food and medicines. Taxing food and medicine is not the solution to stabilizing our slumping city economy. There is a better way! Stabilize gross receipts — how about if we do some work and utilize our city’s current economic assets, such as tourism, alternative health, sports and other industries that do not offend our cultural history? Invest in building the economy, creating jobs and employing people who live here.

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Faculty disagrees with Guzmán’s description of college

n Nov. 22, 2013, the Faculty Senate met to discuss several challenges occurring at Santa Fe Community College. Of particular concern was the public statement by Dr. Ana “Cha” Guzmán that had appeared in the local media the previous day. The Faculty Senate released a statement last week. SFCC Faculty Senate elected officers present the following statement: u The Faculty Senate does not agree with Dr. Guzmán’s statement that SFCC “was a broken system when she arrived.” During a global economic recession, SFCC experienced unprecedented growth in student enrollment, completed construction of Health and Sciences and the Trades and Technology facilities, furloughed no employees and expanded numerous programs. All SFCC administration and employees united to make the college successful; the college was not “a broken system.” When confirmed as SFCC president on July 12, 2012, Dr. Guzmán stated that “the college is

in such a good place” and “not many presidents take over a college that is doing so well,” and “I needed to go to where I could be challenged with new opportunities and with a college that was [on] the rise.” The video is available on YouTube as “SFCC Appoints Guzman President.” These statements by Dr. Guzmán begin at the 8:29 mark. We also consider Dr. Guzmán’s statement that the college “has failed the students for so long” to be unfortunate, self-serving and inaccurate. SFCC is a significant catalyst for education and positive outcomes for literally thousands of people in Northern New Mexico and beyond. u Increased graduation rates are not the result of Dr. Guzmán alone. Increased enrollment and graduation rates are the result of years of hard work by hundreds of SFCC employees, students and the community; not just the chief executive who has been here a little more than one year. u Faculty has not resisted positive change. We have participated in several reorganizations. We welcome supportive and effective change.

Education is a dynamic process, and we endorse quality-based progressive initiatives. u Faculty and staff were rebuked for participation in shared governance. Employees feared to express their opinions and associations. This dynamic created negative ramifications for the quality of the education at SFCC. u Thus, many faculty members affirm the SFCC board’s actions regarding Dr. Guzmán. We appreciate that established college polices are being honored and respected. SFCC has enjoyed 30 years of supported growth and student success, transforming education in Santa Fe. One of the Senate’s many goals is to provide quality education in a professional, respectful and safe environment. We are grateful for the community’s support now and into the future. As faculty at SFCC, we are dedicated community members, taxpayers and educational professionals.

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Justice for all could become real arlier this week, there was a feeling of holiday cheer at the Roundhouse, even though the subject was hardly jovial. Democrats and Republicans were working together, listening and trying to devise practical ways to improve New Mexico’s criminal justice system, and there was nary a hint of the rancor we’ve been accustomed to seeing in our partisan and polarized political landscape. Maybe the lack of bickering is due to the fact that the Criminal Justice Reform Subcommittee has only recently been established. When you’re in the planning and talking stages, it’s easy for everyone to get along. So far, though, the subcommittee offers hope that the idea Rob of good governance Nikolewski doesn’t have to be just some hollow platitude. Commentary “We don’t need to be tough on crime, we need to smart on crime,” said state Sen. Lisa Torraco, a Republican from Albuquerque, co-chairwoman of the subcommittee. It’s reminiscent of another phrase I first heard about a year ago but am now hearing more often: that we need to distinguish between punishing the people we’re scared of (violent criminals) and those we’re simply mad at (nonviolent offenders). Jerry Madden calls the people in the latter category “the knuckleheads.” “They’re in on drug charges or for writing hot checks,” Madden told me during a break in the subcommittee hearing. “They got involved with the wrong crowd. They’re not hardened criminals.” Madden is a recently retired legislator in Texas who, as chairman of the Corrections Committee in the Texas statehouse, helped lead reform efforts that reduced the prison population by 6,000 inmates since 2011 without seeing the crime rate go up. In fact, Madden says, the crime rate in the Lone Star State has continued to drop. Reducing the prison population and easing overcrowding has long been a cry from the political left, but what’s making this movement interesting and giving it extra momentum is that the call is being joined by many on the right. A Republican, Madden is a senior fellow with a nonprofit group called “Right On Crime” and has worked with Hal Stratton, the former New Mexico attorney general who was elected in 1986 as the first Republican to win the AG’s race since 1928. In a recent opinion piece in the Albuquerque Journal, Madden and Stratton argue for changing the state’s criminal justice system from a fiscal as well as moral standpoint: “For too long, conservatives have abandoned their limited government principles when it comes to criminal justice spending — pushing construction of prisons without regard to cost or, more importantly, whether such an approach actually improves public safety.” And we do spend a lot of money on incarceration. According to the Legislative Finance Committee, New Mexico spent almost $300 million in fiscal 2011 to house an average of 6,700 offenders and supervise another 18,000 offenders each day. It’s estimated the average cost per inmate in New Mexico is about $34,000 per year. Compare that to the average of $7,300 that’s spent per student in New Mexico’s public schools. Adding to the harmony during Tuesday’s hearing was state Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas, a Democrat from Albuquerque and subcommittee co-chairman, who told reporters, “Ironically, it’s our friends from the right that are doing it, it’s the red states that are doing these reforms, and we have to learn from their example.” Torraco said she doesn’t expect any major policy legislation to be introduced until the 60-day legislative session in January of 2015 — “We’re not going to [create a better system] by jumping in and being impulsive and piecemealing something together,” Torraco said. But there’s a feeling of optimism that something can be done to — surprise! — make the system a whole lot better. And reasonable minds should be able to accomplish something meaningful. Maestas phrased it very well: “I think the public is ahead of the policymakers with regards to this. Everyone has loved ones who have substance abuse problems, alcohol or drugs, and they know the criminal justice system doesn’t solve those problems.” Huh, something that helps people and actually saves taxpayers some money. What a concept.

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Most Republicans feel that they have worked hard and earned their social and economic position in this country. So why should they contribute to people who just want a free ride, and take from the government or others instead of working on their own? Well, when I hear this, I always think of my Aunt Sarah, who was born in the old country and lived to 101. During her life in America, she corresponded with scores of people who somehow got her name, and wrote their troubles and asked for money, which she willingly sent, usually in $1 or $2 amounts. Remember, this was many years ago. Many of these writers were still in Europe. Once I read one of these sad letters from a regular asking for money. This person had been in Europe but now was in Israel. So I said, “Aunt Sarah, this person is OK now on his own. He is in Israel; he can get a new life and the government there will help him. You don’t need to continue to send him money.” Her reply was, “Herman, if

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The folly of fickle tax policy

hen the Legislature moved to eliminate gross receipts taxes on food and medicine in 2004, it had wide implications for local governments, which are much more dependant on such spending to pay for necessities as law enforcement and firefighting. But with new Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson eager to show off his tax-cutting acumen, a deal was done. Part of the trade-off was called the “hold-harmless” provision. It meant the state would roll back the taxes on food and medical services, but continue paying cities and counties for the amount that would have been collected. The state, in essence, was both cutting its own tax collections and paying to local governments what they were losing by not collecting. In a bubble-like economy with, sales, home-building and revenue going only up, no one complained. It was nice while it lasted. As with many tax-cutting measures, however, the cost to the state general fund has been far more than estimated. Part of the reason is that although food and medical purchases did not go down during the recession, other spending did. State revenues took a hit, which resulted in a hiring freeze and cuts to services. Additionally, as the population ages, purchases on medical supplies will increase, so the overall impact to the state will continue to grow. All that will mean more parsing of state services such as education, state parks, health and transportation. With encouragement from another governor, Republican Susana Martinez — who also wanted to show off her tax-cutting prowess — a deal backed by both Democrats and Republicans moved forward in the final hours of the last legislative session. As a way to reduce corporate income taxes, close other loopholes and reinvigorate the film and TV incentives, an omnibus tax-reform bill is now law. One of the trade-offs to pay for the measure was a scaling back of the “hold harmless” promise to city and counties, starting in 2015, with the entire reimbursement eliminated by 2030. For the city of Santa Fe, this will have an initial cost of about $650,000, but eventually could mean as much as $10 million in annual gross receipts tax losses in 15 years, with the final cost to Santa Fe County as high as $7 million. Local government lobbyists are already making it a priority to preserve a portion of the “hold harmless” agreement in the coming session. However, the Legislature did allow city councils and county commissions to increase their share of gross receipts taxes by three-eights of a percent on other goods and services to compensate for the lost taxes. In other words, the state won’t raise your taxes, but your local governments just might. Missing from this discussion are taxpayers and local businesses. No one is talking about holding them harmless. Gross receipts taxes are an essential revenue tool for local governments. It is a broad tax that brings in money from retail purchases such as art and jewelry as well as sales commissions from real estate and services as accounting, legal work and tutoring. Unlike property tax revenue, though, GRT collections fluctuate widely with the economy, the weather, even the ski season. Also a factor is the ever-increasing footprint of Internet commerce — where online transactions are largely not paying a gross receipts or sales tax in New Mexico and can still offer free shipping. Congress is trying to address this inequity and, if resolved, that would benefit to Santa Fe retailers. Meantime, increasing the GRT will make it all the more harder for locally owned businesses to win that skirmish. The economy is improving. The last year has seen an increase in construction, retail sales, tourism and dining, and more money is coming into city coffers as a result — Santa Fe’s GRT revenue is up more than $2 million from a year ago. So we urge a pause in the “hold harmless” discussion for the coming Legislature and agree with city councilors in Santa Fe who want a hiatus on discussions here about a GRT increase. There should be no rush to hike the GRT in the state. A wait-and-see approach to assess what happens with the economy and overall revenue trends is more prudent that a rush to tax. It is time for taxpayers and local businesses to be held harmless from the folly of fickle tax policy.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican Dec. 1, 1963: Dallas — While Americans grope with the enormity of a presidential assassination, they also are asking questions about the details of the slaying. The questions evidently asked most often: was the assassination a conspiracy followed by the silencing of the accused triggerman so he could not reveal the plot? Could one man have fired three bullets that rapidly from the bold-action rifle police say is the assassination gun — in other words, did another man stand beside Lee Harvey Oswald and fire with him?

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Iran deal is good for U.S. WASHINGTON he Iranian nuclear deal struck last weekend is a triumph. It contains nothing that any American, Israeli or Arab skeptic could reasonably protest. Had George W. Bush negotiated this deal, Republicans would be hailing his diplomatic prowess, and rightly so. A few weeks ago, a “senior administration official” outlined the agreement that President Barack Obama hoped to achieve in Geneva. Some reporters who heard the briefing (including me) thought that the terms were way too one-sided, that the Iranians would never accept them. Here’s the thing: The deal just signed by Iran and the P5+1 nations (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China plus Germany) is precisely the hoped-for deal laid out at that briefing. It is an interim agreement, not a treaty (which means, among other things, that it doesn’t require Senate ratification). It is meant as a first step toward a comprehensive treaty to be negotiated in the next six months. More than that, it expires in six months. In other words, if Iran and the other powers can’t agree on a follow-on accord in six months, nobody is stuck with a deal that was never meant to be permanent. There is no opportunity for traps and trickery. Meanwhile, Iran has to do the following things: halt the enrichment of all uranium above 5 percent and freeze the stockpile of uranium enriched to 3.5 percent; neutralize its stockpile of uranium that’s been enriched to 20 percent (either by diluting it to 5 percent purity or converting it to a form that cannot be used to make a weapon); stop producing, installing or modernizing centrifuges; stop constructing more enrichment facilities; halt all activities at the Arak nuclear reactor (which has the potential to produce nuclear weapons made of plutonium); permit much wider and more intrusive measures of verification by the International Atomic Energy Agency, including daily inspections of all facilities. Without going into a lot of technical

detail, the point is this: The agreement makes it impossible for the Iranians to make any further progress toward making a nuclear weapon in the next six months — and, if the talks break down after that, and the Iranians decide at that point to start building a nuclear arsenal, it will take them much longer to do so. In exchange for these restraints, the P5+1 nations agree to free up about $6 billion of Iran’s long-frozen foreign assets. This amounts to a very small percentage of the sanctions imposed on Iran’s energy and financial sectors. Meanwhile, all other sanctions will remain in place and continue to be vigorously enforced; the agreement doesn’t affect those sanctions at all. The U.S. Congress does have to agree not to impose additional sanctions in the next six months. If it imposes them anyway, they must know that this agreement — and the international coalition holding the sanctions in place — will collapse. Even this Congress is likely to hold off. If it does go ahead and passes a bill imposing new sanctions, Obama will certainly veto it. So what’s not to like? According to Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and several American neoconservatives, plenty. In their view, a good agreement must, first, dismantle Iran’s entire nuclear program and, second, ban Iran from enriching uranium to any level. In other words, it must ensure that Iran can never build a nuclear weapon. Notice, I wrote in my lede that the agreement signed Saturday night contains nothing that anyone could “reasonably” protest. These objections are unreasonable. Even if the mullahs of Iran vanished tomorrow and were replaced by secular democrats, these new rulers would continue to demand what they see as the right to enrich uranium to some degree. Some would argue that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enshrines this right. Certainly the treaty allows them the right to develop “peaceful nuclear energy” — that is, to have some form of a nuclear program. But let’s get serious and address the real reason some people object to this

agreement — or any Iranian agreement. First, they don’t trust Iran. This is reasonable; when it comes to their nuclear facilities, the Iranians have been lying and cheating for years. The thing about this agreement is that — like all wellwritten accords between countries with good reason to distrust one another — it doesn’t require trust. The second reason for resistance, and a more serious political problem, is that some people (including the Israeli president, many American neoconservatives and lots of Sunni Arabs) are worried, above all, that this agreement might work. They don’t want to see the United States and the other big powers cozying up with Iran. The Sunnis fear that doing so might tilt the regional balance of power against them and toward the Shiites. Some Israelis fear that a deal could signal an American retreat from the entire region (though many Israelis, including former Mossad chiefs, support an Iranian deal, within reason). And some American neoconservatives … well, let’s face it, they trust Netanyahu more than they trust Obama. It’s time for all the critics to take a deep breath, read the terms of the agreement, recognize that the deal goes way beyond what anybody could reasonably have hoped for, and give this thing a chance. It is in U.S., Israeli and Arab interests for Iran to do things that make it harder to build a nuclear bomb. And if a détente-of-sorts evolves from these talks, if it becomes possible for the United States and Iran to discuss, then maybe act upon, issues of mutual interest, then that is certainly in our interest, whatever anybody else thinks. The agreement struck this weekend is a first step. In a year’s time, it may be seen as a small step and a brief, naive step at that. But for now it’s a step rife with historic possibilities; it’s a step that should be taken with caution but also with hope and gusto. Fred Kaplan is Slate’s “War Stories” columnist.

COMMENTARY: RAMESH PONNURU

It’s dumb vs. dumber in case of standards

ecently, Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, picked just the right words to make an increasingly hot controversy even hotter. Like many education officials in both parties, Duncan is a defender of the Common Core initiative to create uniform academic standards for K-12 education in all states. Resistance to it, he asserted, comes mainly from “white suburban moms” who don’t take kindly to hearing that their children aren’t meeting newly raised standards. Duncan had to backtrack from the comment, of course, which also happens to be clearly false. Students aren’t yet being tested to determine whether they meet the standards, so poor test results couldn’t be generating a backlash. The contempt that the remark revealed is real enough, though. Proponents of the Common Core tend to view its critics as an ignorant mob. Support for it is, in certain circles, a sign of one’s seriousness about education reform. Yet the reform strategy it represents hasn’t been thought through well, and it seems unlikely to work. The debate that surrounds it is an extended exercise in missing the point. The initiative’s critics advance an angry populism that if frequently misinformed. One can certainly imagine Duncan’s frustration at having to rebut Glenn Beck’s claim that the standards are leading to mandatory iris scans for schoolkids. Even less fantastic attacks on the standards are often overwrought. Take the complaint

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that they downgrade the study of literature in favor of “informational texts.” Actually, they call for a split between fiction and nonfiction across the curriculum. The split starts at 50-50 in elementary school and rises to 70 percent informational, 30 percent fictional by the end of high school. English class, in other words, can be entirely devoted to literature. But supporters of the Common Core have their own misleading claims. They say that its adoption by states has been totally voluntary, even though state governments had a better shot at getting a share of federal money and relief from some regulations if they signed up for it. Supporters also say that the initiative isn’t a common curriculum, as though there were a hard and fast distinction between requiring all students to know specific things at a set time and requiring they be taught them in a certain order. What these arguments obscure is that the case for having a “common core” in the first place is weak. High standards may be valuable, but why do they have to be common? It isn’t as though different state standards are a major problem in U.S. education. There’s more variation in achievement within states than between them. Common standards may make life a bit easier for students who move across state lines, but they also mean that we lose a chance for states to experiment. Common Core supporters sometimes suggest that with a single set of standards, states could determine if they’re

doing worse than their neighbors, and that this knowledge will make them eager to reform their schools. They said something similar about the No Child Left Behind Act that Congress passed a decade ago: Parents would learn that schools were failing to make their kids “proficient” in English and math and would demand reform. It didn’t work out that way. Many people got mad when the law labeled their schools failures. State and local officials responded by setting a lower bar for proficiency. In making his remark about white suburban moms, Duncan indicated that he thinks parents will have the same reaction this time. In which case, what good will the Common Core do? The real problem with the Common Core is not that it represents Big Brother in the classroom, but that it seems unlikely to do much to increase the amount of learning that students do. Perhaps that’s because there’s not much that can be done on the national level to make K-12 schooling better. A lot of education reformers find it hard to admit that. And so the debate over the Common Core is a dismal cycle of elite disdain and populist outrage, each side feeding the other’s worst impulses. Ramesh Ponnuru is a Bloomberg View columnist, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor at National Review.

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ike many residents of Mora County, I am opposed to oil and gas development. I am also against fracking, the controversial method of extracting oil and gas from shale. Most of my life has been dedicated to focusing on environmental justice in communities disproportionately affected by pollution. These communities are primarily poor and people of color. We want Mora County to enact the strongest protections, even if it means testing our powers in court. Under the leadership of former County Commission Chairwoman Paula Garcia, we were in a process of reviewing ordinances from around New Mexico and the nation. The county had passed a moratorium on oil and gas drilling, giving us the time to make an educated decision about what would be best for our county. Unfortunately, this process was halted when people from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, the legal arm of the Democracy School from Pennsylvania, focused their attention on Mora County. The group became involved in Mora County politics, altering the County Commission and creating division in our community. This political change meant that the moratorium and the public process to educate ourselves on other ordinances was abruptly halted and the new commission moved quickly to adopt the community defense fund’s ordinance. In John Olivas, current commission chairman, community defense fund organizers found the willing partner it had needed for a long time to test their Community Rights Ordinance. However, the mantra of the environmental justice movement is, “We speak for ourselves.” Unfortunately, liberals who would advance their agendas on the backs of poor and impacted communities of color have denied us this right. Despite repeated warnings from constituents and fellow elected officials, Olivas charged forward with an ordinance that most lawyers agree is unlikely to withstand a legal challenge — it’s being challenged in federal court as I write. Under the guidance of Thomas Linzey, lawyer for the community defense fund, Olivas and other supporters of the local law, including Linzey’s paid organizer, Kathleen Dudley, know-

ingly worked to enact an ordinance designed to provoke a legal challenge so that Linzey could have an opportunity to make novel arguments against corporate personhood — a concept we, too, oppose. Shortly after Mora County passed the controversial ordinance, Linzey sought the help of attorneys who are actually licensed to practice in New Mexico, since he is not. Despite his repeated promises to defend the ordinance at no cost to Mora County, Linzey’s first move was to pawn off the major part of the legal defense work to another legal nonprofit, the New Mexico Environmental Law Center. In getting the ordinance enacted, Olivas, who often appears to be acting as a proxy for Linzey, assured his fellow commissioners and the public about costs. Mora County, while getting free attorneys, faces other costs. Court fees, expert witness fees and travel costs of the attorneys are all the responsibility of Mora County. Olivas assured everyone that these costs would be minimal. Perhaps that is so. But at no time at any commission meeting where this ordinance was discussed did anyone warn the commission or residents that Mora County, if it does not prevail in court, could face the costs of attorney’s fees and damages awarded to the plaintiffs. The last time Mora County had to pay court-ordered damages in a lost court case, county employees were placed on a 32-hour workweek to balance the budget. This in one of the poorest counties in the state as well as the nation. I only hope that Mora County and the New Mexico Environmental Law Center can make the best of an imperfect situation and defend the county to the best of their abilities. At this point, things have gotten real, and their best strategy would be to focus on the needs and interests of Mora County residents by having a strict regulatory ordinance as a backup plan if the ban fails in court, and limit the influence and role of Linzey in this litigation. Our community deserves better and it deserves the maximum protection. Sofia Martinez is the president of the Concerned Citizens of Wagon Mound and Mora County.

Anti-fracking signs are posted around Mora County. The county recently was sued by oil and gas companies and private landowners after passing an ordinance banning hydraulic fracturing. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

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MY VIEW: MIKE GROSS

Senate puts democracy back into lawmaking D emocracy is messy. Unfettered majority rule can produce stupid, dangerous or unfair decisions. The tyranny of the majority. To guard against excesses, our Constitution included checks and balances: a Bill of Rights, a bicameral legislature; a presidential veto; an independent court system. After President Franklin Roosevelt’s four successive elections, another amendment created a twoterm limit for the office of president. But Congress has often sought to insert additional controls on democracy not expressly authorized by the

Constitution. Hence the “Hastert” rule in the House (that when Republicans are in the majority, no measure may be brought to a vote unless a majority of Republicans favor it) and the filibuster in the Senate. Recent misuse of these procedures produced clearly outrageous outcomes: the recent shutdown and an enormous backlog of unfilled judicial positions, as well as other harms. It has now become plain that these extra-constitutional, undemocratic controls, as used, have stalled government. The tyranny of the minority is not a legitimate tool to aid our democracy but simply a

weapon to stymie it. Now, at last, the Senate under the leadership of a few courageous senators, especially our own Sen. Tom Udall, has led the fight to put democracy back into lawmaking. Yes, there will be instances where our political opponents gain control and take revenge. So be it. Let the effects of their policies take real hold; the democratic pendulum will produce the necessary adjustment. Meanwhile, thanks, Tom. Mike Gross is a local attorney and former member of the Santa Fe School Board.

s one of the Santa Fe County commissioners who voted in 2008 to adopt an ordinance regulating oil and gas extraction within the county, I’ve followed similar efforts of other communities across the country. Earlier this year, and following in the footsteps of about two dozen towns and cities (including the city of Pittsburgh), I watched as the Mora County commissioners proceeded to adopt a local law banning oil and gas drilling as a violation of the civil rights of Mora residents, which included their right to water. Understanding that our current system of law views the “rights” of extraction corporations as more important than those of our communities and elected officials, the Mora commissioners then used their local law to raise Mora’s right to local self-government above those “rights” claimed by extraction corporations. Mora’s actions were a response to a shocking reality — that New Mexico isn’t really governed by us anymore, but by a relatively small handful of individuals who run some of the largest corporations. Those corporations, over the last century or so, have not only successfully created a system of law that allows them to use government to pre-empt us, but one that also recognizes “corporate rights,” which can be used to legally override our local lawmaking. Thus, when our communities decide that they must stop projects that endanger our health and safety, we find that we have been rendered powerless to do so. In Santa Fe County in 2006, when we began to explore options for controlling oil and gas extraction in our county, our lawyers informed us that we couldn’t ban — even though that’s what I believe a majority of people in the county actually wanted. The lawyers told us that if we did try to ban drilling outright, we could be sued by oil and gas corporations for violating their constitutional “rights” and for “interfering” with state authority over oil and gas operations. Like most elected officials who run into that system of law, we decided to try to live within that law. Thus, we adopted an ordinance that regulates

how drilling for oil and gas can be done within the county. As a regulatory ordinance, it automatically allows the drilling to occur — it just makes it more expensive to do so. When natural gas or oil prices rise to the point where it’s costeffective to comply with the requirements of our ordinance (or to bear the cost of suing to overturn parts of it), Santa Fe County will be drilled. If I had the choice again, as a county commissioner, I would choose to go in a different direction — the one that Mora County has gone. Unlike us, Mora commissioners recognized that we have to make a choice — that we can either accept the system of law as it has been given to us (which guarantees that we’ll be drilled because the extraction corporations have more “rights” than we do), or we can begin to build a new system of law that forces those corporations to respect local laws that protect the health, safety and welfare of our communities. Earlier this month, Mora County was sued by corporate interests seeking to overturn their Community Bill of Rights’ ban on oil and gas extraction. In that lawsuit, a corporate few seek to vindicate their “rights” over the rights of the Mora community. It is my hope — given how clear the Mora County situation has become — that people across New Mexico will begin to realize that we don’t have a fracking problem — we have a democracy problem. Win or lose, Mora County commissioners deserve our thanks for beginning that long overdue conversation about whose rights must, in the end, prevail — community majorities or corporate minorities. Harry Montoya served two terms as Santa Fe County Commissioner, from 2002-10, has served on the Pojoaque school board and has been a candidate for New Mexico public lands commissioner and U.S. Congress. He has represented New Mexico on the National Association of Counties Board of Directors and the National School Boards Association.

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MY VIEW: JAN JAHNER

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transport folks to the ’m proud to be an employee of Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical expert ICU intensivCenter. As the palliative care nurse ists to the top-notch coordinator, I interface with clinicians, nursing staff and the patients and families in most areas of the engaged administrahospital on a daily basis. The patients tion. and families who I see are dealing with I’ve worked in hosserious illness, pain and sometimes pitals in a variety of life and death issues. I’ve cherished my Jan Jahner roles for 40 years, and time at St. Vincent because I witness have grown to underextraordinary compassion, caring and stand and expect the competence from every element of the ever-changing complexities of health care-giving team, from the best-attitude care. I’ve witnessed the sweeping

MY VIEW: SETH D. MOSGOFIAN

increase in technologies that provide better communication and diagnostics, but also have inserted an entire layer of sometimes invisible care that has changed the role of those at the bedside. Resisting change usually wastes vital energy that can be transformative for individuals and institutions. I’ve been disappointed by the disparaging comments made by union leadership that were reported on by The New Mexican. In the most recent article about the sad business of lay-

offs, there again, I saw comments from the union leadership. Yet not one of the people laid off was a bedside nurse impacting patient care. We have a better staffing ratio than most of our close New Mexico hospitals, which is often the topic under discussion. Those affected, and all of us at St. Vincent, serve the whole of Northern New Mexico, which includes many people who have no ability to pay for the compassionate, excellent care they receive. Every day that I work, I hear

patients and families thanking us for the great care, the kindness, for going the extra mile. From my experience, St. Vincent is no different in its ethics or its challenges than other hospitals around the country. Our local nonprofit community hospital deserves our trust, support and encouragement in these challenging times in the health care arena. Jan Jahner, RN-BC, CHPN, PMO, is palliative care coordinator at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center.

MY VIEW: MARY LOUISE WILLIAMS

A single-payer Let’s favor children over guns health system is G still the best plan I But corporate profits must never be threatened, and thus we end up with a few new and improved regulations and guidelines in a non-system influenced by insurance companies that have a legal commitment to make a profit for their stockholders instead of a commitment to the health of American families and at an agreedupon operating cost seven times that of Medicare. Clearly Republicans tried to crash the program and still want it to fail. Who knows how much that has caused the fiasco we are witnessing in the sign-up attempts? But this is just one more reason to have opened Medicare to all. The detractors, try as they might, could not have crashed Medicare. A government that is unduly influenced by Wall Street will never run a country or a health care system with the people’s best interest at heart. Regardless of what the Roberts/Alito Supreme Court alleges, corporations don’t have hearts. The Affordable Care Act will ultimately get straightened out and be better than nothing, but if we want the emphasis to be on our health, not profit, we still need to continue pressing for a single-payer health care system. It must be one that excludes private insurers from the Medicare supplemental and prescription drug coverage as well. Put all the coverage and all the dollars under one roof and put the White House, the Senate and the House on the same plan as the rest of us. Then see if they screw it up or make it work.

’ve witnessed friends with chronic illness become sick from the stress of trying to navigate the Affordable Care Act application process, week after week in dire fear of soon becoming uninsured. Some health insurance brokers, overwhelmed by the chaos, have dropped clients into the abyss without answers or solutions. This struggle for millions of people was totally avoidable. The president knew a singlepayer plan was simpler and best, but he bowed to political and corporate influence. We didn’t need the new Affordable Care Act. We already had one in place called Medicare: a proven, successful, single-payer, government-run, health care system that has been working well for a long, long time and at a cost that is onetenth that of private insurance companies’ overhead. Medicare is an up-and-running, true health care system. Opening enrollment to everyone would have added millions of people and hundreds of millions of dollars to the Medicare coffers through new enrollees. New money would have meant improvements to Medicare, patient care and doctor reimbursement, and it would have meant jobs for displaced insurance company employees. Instead of adding a new and complicated health insurance plan, we could have had a single health care plan covering everyone, streamlined and flush with new income. It would have simultaneously eliminated the stress of having to weave through the dizzying maze of a new and dysfunctional insurance program.

un violence has been with us since the beginning of this republic. It is nothing new. What is new is the capability of automatic weapons to kill or injure large numbers of people in less than a minute, as well as the increasingly widespread presence of guns. It has ceased to shock when the morning papers include accounts such as a recent story about two teens at a Houston residence killed when a teen guest fired a shot in celebration of the hostess’s birthday. This set off a round of shots wounding 16, even though the teen guests were checked for guns at the entrance. That’s Texas for you, I thought. But is it just Texas? That question that concerns me is how all of this is affecting the lives of our youth? We watch the news about the Middle East as well as the Americas, whereby young children witness death and loss daily. We fear and try to prevent further Columbines and Sandy Hooks, yet we allow our children to be numbed to violence by profit-motivated entertainment. The blood and torn flesh become a part of the curiously thrilling aspects of participating in media dramatization, video games, et al., in which no real consequence has to be suffered or acknowledged. Is it resulting in the desensitizing of our youth to the point of lessening a respect for life? And what about the long-term psychological effects of those who have been directly affected? I have begun reliving a relatively minor experience

East and the Americas as gun ownership grows exponentially? More frightening is the question of what happens if our society politically splinters and we lose the ability to engage in sane civil discourse? Just as a gun fired in celebration at the Houston residence resulted in death and injury, I cringe to think of what could happen at demonstrations such as the one at the Alamo some weeks ago, with automatic rifle-toting Texans descending on the celebration. One wrong step or statement could result in what Nobel writer Wole Soyinka describes as, “I’m right; you’re dead!” What I have described is beyond an individual’s ability to change. But it will change if

compared to what others have suffered. As children were being loaded in cars after a Bible school picnic some 55 years ago, a loud explosion turned me in my driver’s seat to see my mother’s arm with flesh hanging and blood pouring, blood all across the back seat, and the 9-year-old girl seated behind me bleeding with a bullet in her back. This picnic did not end tragically, but it scarred individuals in obvious and not-so-obvious ways because of the carelessness of a father. He left a loaded gun in his car, where his young son found it and pulled the trigger. Remembered images surface along with emotions. What will the social fabrics be like in societies of the Middle

we begin to love our children more than our guns. We can support New Mexicans for Gun Safety by educating for safety and proper respect for guns in the home and elsewhere. We can lock them away from our curious, unknowing children and our sometimes emotionally distraught teens who too often end their concerns with an accessible gun. We must give priority to gun safety for the health of our children, our society and the common good. Mary Louise Williams is a retired educator and consultant with more than 50 years of experience educating for democratic processes and rule of law in the U.S., Turkey and Russia. Williams resides in Santa Fe.

Seth D. Mosgofian writes from Santa Fe.

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MY VIEW: TIM ORIGER

State must act to Truth vs. hype on Veterans Day improve residents’ A On to the “myths” quality of life of PTSD:

ew Mexico is poised to do something remarkable. It has the potential to address the health and quality of life for hundreds of thousands of residents. But only if we take advantage of the opportunities this remarkable event will present. I’m talking about the expansion of Medicaid coverage. Our health is determined by more than just how well we take care of ourselves. Poverty remains the single most important factor affecting one’s health. Things such as homelessness, consistent access to food and domestic violence (sometimes called “social determinants of health”) all affect a person’s health and well-being. If you can’t get to the doctor because you don’t have a car and there’s no public transportation, you probably won’t go, even if you need to. If you’re homeless and have diabetes, you’re probably not going to be able to keep your insulin refrigerated. If you can’t afford food or can’t get to a grocery store because there isn’t one in your neighborhood … well, the picture becomes pretty clear rather quickly. And there are many social determinants that impact health and health outcomes. Santa Fe County’s recent health profile brings some of this into startling clarity. An estimated 1,500 homeless people live in the county, more than 15,000 low-income residents live a mile or more from a grocery store, 15 percent of residents report difficulty obtaining needed health care because of cost, and last year, 1,494 incidents of domestic violence were reported to city and county law enforcement. So it’s going to take more than just expanded health insurance to address these issues. And here’s why we have the opportunity to do something remarkable. With just a little creative thinking, the managed care organizations that will be providing Medicaid coverage (United, Molina, Presbyterian and Blue Cross Blue Shield) can

easily partner with local community organizations that help address homelessness, ensure consistent access to food, provide rapid and effective treatment for domestic violence, and a whole host of other needs, at the same time they are helping newly insured people access health care. Three years ago, Kitchen Angels joined with eight other local nonprofit health and social service agencies to better coordinate the group’s delivery of services, and the group has started talking with one health insurance company about connecting our collective services to newly enrolled Medicaid participants. We’re also talking about ways to help pay for those services. After all, it’s significantly cheaper to pay for housing than it is to let a homeless person’s diabetes become out of control and put them in the hospital; it’s cheaper to provide meals to someone who’s homebound than it is to put them in a nursing home; and it’s cheaper to address the impact of domestic violence early than let the violence spiral out of control. In short, it’s cheaper to address these “social determinants” head on and early than it is to ignore them. Creative thinking is key. Most of these services fall outside our traditional definition of “health care.” Health insurance and Medicaid don’t typically pay for them. And most of these services in Santa Fe are provided by small, nonprofit agencies that are already struggling to meet a growing demand with limited resources. However, if Medicaid and the insurance companies will work creatively with these agencies to find ways that both link newly enrolled individuals to the social services they need and help pay for those services, the potential return will be huge, not just in terms of health care cost savings but in an improved quality of life for hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans.

s a disabled combat veteran with a 40-year relationship with posttraumatic stress disorder, I would like to clarify a few misconceptions left by Drs. Sydney Croft and Harry Savion in their pre-Veterans Day commentary (“PTSD: Hype vs. truth on this Veterans Day,” Nov. 10). For now, I will not address their rationale on links between violence in an extremely violent and well-armed culture and members of that culture who have been trained professionally to kill. There are simply too many variables to consider to draw a definitive conclusion. Instead, I will first address their depiction of the transition from military life to civilian. That journey actually begins in a civilian life, complexly structured with social and moral codes re-enforced by law. Our overflowing prisons attest to the rigidity of this system and the consequence of overlooking or ignoring these “rules.” Entrance into military life is a transition to an equally rigid set of rules, although in fact not nearly so complex as civilian society in that the military has a more singular and simplistic purpose than facilitating diverse social order. The purpose of soldiering is killing, and in the killing fields, few social guidelines exist. Ultimately, the dominant rule is reduced to kill before you yourself are killed. If you live by this simple guideline to problem-solving for one or more combat tours, you are irrevocably changed. It is that simple. In part, it is the

Symptoms, onset and treatment are fluid and not easily defined nor remedied. incongruity between the civilian life you leave and return to and the military experience of killing to survive that that brings on PTSD. For what they are worth, the symptom clusters that “define” PTSD are accurate, if one keeps in mind they describe not the details of combat PTSD but a range of human trauma so broad as to oftentimes become pure abstractions. On to the “myths” of PTSD: Symptoms, onset and treatment are fluid and not easily defined nor remedied. A recent congressional study of “Mental Health Problems in the Military,” delivered in August of 2013, reached the following conclusions. u Mental disorders such as PTSD are poorly understood and in most cases cannot be physically identified but, rather, must be diagnosed using symptoms reported by the servicemember. u Estimates of the prevalence of mental health conditions in any given population

may be greatly affected by the methodology used. u Diagnoses of mental health conditions among active duty service members have increased substantially relative to nondeployed servicemembers. This may also be due in part to Department of Defense efforts to reduce the stigma associated with seeking mental health treatment that might dissuade some service members from reporting mental health concerns or accessing care. u Reliable evidence is lacking as to the quality of mental health care and counseling offered in Department of Defense facilities. Within the military context and the bullet points above; addressing the “myths” of PTSD: Points 1 and 3. PTSD is a little like pregnancy; everyone, due to the nature of military training, who successfully com-

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paying off/down our national debt. The article outlined four tax loopholes that would “raise” $79 billion over the next decade. $79 billion divided by 10 equals $7.9 billion raised per year. $7.9 billion divided by 12 equals approximately $658 million per month. $658 million divided by 30 equals a daily “raise” of approximately $22 million! Ladies and gentlemen, the national debt is more than $17 trillion and increasing at a clip of $2.67 billion daily. That is obscene and also a far cry from the $22 million-per-day raise that Mr. Ohlemacher was pushing on the public. When are we going to stand up and vote all the incumbents out of office and replace them with fiscally responsible candidates? When are we going to stop buying newspapers and stop watching mainstream television news programs that constantly distort facts? Frank McCabe, a former New Yorker, divides his time between Santa Fe and Midland, Texas, where he is a partner in a small oil and gas firm.

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n both a recent Pasatiempo article and opinion piece in The New Mexican, two different writers expressed disappointment that the orchestras in Santa Fe seem to present only “ultra-familiar” pieces in their concerts, leaving many experienced concert-goers with little enthusiasm for attending those concerts. I wonder if your readers are aware that there is a professional chamber orchestra and chorus in Santa Fe that specializes in performing what they like to call “unjustly neglected gems” — pieces that ought to be better known than they are, by composers who in some cases are well-known and in other

The players often remark that they look forward to every program with great enthusiasm because they get to play wonderful music that they’ve never played before. cases are unjustly obscure. The Canticum Novum Chorus and Orchestra has been delighting audiences in Santa Fe for the last nine years with programs that are gorgeous, adventuresome, immensely varied, affordable and never dull. The players come from the Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, the New Mexico Philharmonic and Serenata of Santa Fe and often include advanced, virtuoso

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CHILDREN'S "BREAKFAST WITH ST. NICHOLAS." Saturday, December 7 at United Church of Santa Fe (9:00 to 10:30). Come and meet the real St. Nicholas (the 3rd c. Christian bishop who gave his wealth to the poor and later morphed into Santa Claus). They'll make Christmas stockings for St. Elizabeth Shelter and are invited to bring a wrapped gift for children at Casa Familia Shelter. (Please mark age and for a boy or girl.) St. Nicholas' Breakfast is part of United's mission to help children learn to "Love God. Love Neighbor. Love Creation." 1804 Arroyo Chamiso (at St. Michael's) 988-3295 or unitedchurchofsantafe. org.

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Elmer Leslie dedicates more than a decade to building homes for Habitat

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Elmer Leslie of Santa Fe, shown at his home Nov. 22, is one of The Santa Fe New Mexican’s 10 Who Made a Difference. Leslie has been a Habitat for Humanity volunteer for 12 years. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Commitment to help By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican

he secret to life is working at something you love and continuing to be active in retirement, Elmer Leslie says. So, when Leslie retired and moved from Dallas to Santa Fe 12 years ago, he called Habitat for Humanity and offered to volunteer. Leslie, 75, grew up in southern Illinois. As a teenager, he built houses with his uncle, studied engineering at Purdue University and spent 12 years at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Then he and two partners started a firm in Dallas that built computerized systems for the sewn-goods industry. He also owned a hardware store in Texas. After retiring in 2001, Leslie and his wife, Judy, moved to the north side of Santa Fe. Their two sons are grown and married, and are living in Texas and Georgia. Elmer Leslie said when he first offered to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, he was told he could do committee work or construction work. He drove over to the site and talked with the construction manager. “I said, ‘OK. I’m here,’ so I’ve been here ever since,” he said. It is for that commitment that Leslie is being honored as one of The New Mexican’s 10 Who Made a Difference for 2013.

Nominator Kim Shanahan, executive officer of the Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association, cited Leslie for his self-effacing style, “institutional memory” (he has the longest tenure of any volunteer or employee at the Santa Fe program) and “his unfailing gentleness and good humor [that] keeps the mood on the site upbeat, focused, and a gratifying experience for all Habitat visiting volunteers.” Leslie said, “If you’ve got a bunch of volunteers, you can’t be very dictatorial because they’ll just say, ‘I’ll do something else next time.’ ” On a recent Friday, 18 to 20 Habitat volunteers were working on two condos in one duplex and getting ready to build four more condos on La Paz Lane off Henry Lynch Road. Even though it was after 4 p.m., Leslie was still on the job. He works eight hours a day, usually four days a week, but sometimes five, and has built close to 100 houses. “We buy our own land,” he said as he walked through the area. ” … And then we go out and select the family and qualify them. They’re assigned houses, and then we build them. We try to have families known when we build, so we can make sure we build a house that meets the family’s needs. This one over there that is done is a fourbedroom. That one will be two.”

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Roman “Tiger” Abeyta has dropped out of the race for Santa Fe mayor and has endorsed Javier Gonzales. Abeyta’s decision, announced Saturday, leaves four candidates for the March 4 municipal ballot, with less than two weeks before the deadline for dropping out. “I fear the crowded field of candidates risks pulling our community farther apart, when the needs of our children require us to stand together more than ever before,” he wrote in a news release and Facebook post. “I know from personal experience, much of what I want to see for our Roman Abeyta city I can continue to push forward from the non-profit sector and as a private citizen.” Abeyta’s sister is married to Gonzales’ brother — a factor that weighed on Abeyta’s decision to drop out and endorse Gonzales, according to those close to the Abeyta campaign. In his Facebook posting, Abeyta said he had come to his decision during the Thanksgiving weekend, which gave him a chance to reflect on why he entered the race. “My decision is grounded in the knowledge that the campaign was never about me, or personal political ambitions, but about keeping Santa Fe a city of opportunity for everyone, especially our youth, just as it has been for me in my life,” he wrote. In a separate news release, Abeyta said Gonzales’

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Taos hopes new lift, other upgrades will entice skiers By J.R. Logan The Taos News

Leslie, who has been volunteering for Habitat for Humanity in Santa Fe since he retired 12 years ago, said he never considered an idle retirement. TOM SHARPE/THE NEW MEXICAN

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It hasn’t been easy for Taos Ski Valley to watch its skier numbers dip over the last 10 years, while resorts in Colorado and other parts of the West have seen visitation numbers rise. Taos finally opened to snowboards in 2008, but lifting that ban hasn’t been enough to stem the tide. Resort heads say they need things like new lifts, more gladed terrain and an upgraded base area to stay in the game. “We feel strongly that we need to upgrade our product to stay competitive,” said Gordon Briner, Taos Ski Valley’s chief of operations. To improve its reputation, the resort put together a new master plan that was approved by the Forest Service a year ago. The plan is like a multimillion-dollar to-do list, and its No. 1 item is to build a chairlift to the top of Kachina Peak. “Taos Ski Valley has some of the greatest terrain in North America,” Briner said. “All we’re really doing is making it more accessible for more people.” Reaching the 12,481-foot summit of Kachina requires a 45-minute hike that can be daunting for many. Briner said the proposed Main Street Lift is expected to cost between $2.5 million and $3 million and will shuttle skiers and boarders right to the top, greatly expanding the resort’s lift-served acreage. Briner points to other mountains in the region — Telluride, Breckenridge, Big Sky — that have installed lifts to expand expert terrain, some of which was previously only accessible by hiking. He says those moun-

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FIDEL LEE GUTIERREZ 1962 - 2013 "Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible" St Francis of Assisi The love, support and kindness surrounding Fidel and extended to his family during his illness and passing will always be remembered and cherished. Fidel’s family wishes to thank all those who so generously contributed to his Memorial fund, publically acknowledged his community service, sent flowers, mass services, cards and provided meals during Fidel’s illness and the days following his death. Special thanks to Dr. Caroline Kingston, Heather Neil, and Maria Anderson for their outstanding medical care, Father T. Brennan for officiating the mass, Father Jacobiak for assisting, Anita Lopez for her organizational assistance at the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, the St. Anne’s Choir for the beautiful rosary music, E.J. and Lala Martinez for leading the rosary, Kelly Mutch and Emily Lane for producing the programs for Fidel’s services, Pedro, Javier and Alicia Atencio for providing the meal after Fidel’s rosary and Berardinelli Family Funeral Services for handling the arrangements. Special thanks to Michelle Padilla, Amanda Pierce, Monie Blum, Cathe McClard, Suleika Enriquez and the numerous employees at each Los Alamos National Bank office for their tremendous helpfulness, love and support during Fidel’s life and death. Fidel dearly loved you all! A very special thanks to Kate Kennedy, Marketing Coordinator at LANB, for organizing the funeral reception, which was a magnificent tribute to Fidel’s life and was made possible by generous monetary gifts from Los Alamos National Bank and Cuddy & McCarthy, LLP. We are deeply grateful, Fidel’s Family

AURORA LEYVA VIGIL AURORA LEYVA VIGIL, 95, a resident of Santa Fe, passed peacefully following a briefi llness on Thursday, November 21, 2013 surrounded by her family. She was a beloved mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother and great-greatgrandmother. Aurora was preceded in death by her loving husband and soul mate of 74 years, Ramon Juan Jose Vigil; son, Paul Rogelio Vigil; grandson, Santiago Gabriel Vigil and parents, Pablo and Dolores Leyva. Aurora is survived by her children, Raymond L. Vigil (Sheila), Gilbert E. Vigil (Helen), Frederico M. Vigil, Dolores A. Vigil, Father Joseph Vigil and Bernadette M. Vigil; sister, Juanita Rommes (Ronnie); 16 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; 3 great-great-grandchildren and numerous other relatives and friends. Aurora was the founder of El Coro de la Sagrada Familia of Aurora Subdivisions in Budaghers and was a member of the Third Order of St. Francis. She was a cosmetologist by trade and owner of Center Barber & Beauty Shop in Santa Fe. Aurora served the community with grace as a volunteer, reciting the rosary for Manor Care Nursing Center as well as the Four Seasons Nursing Center. She had a great devotion and love to Our Blessed Mother and strong faith in her Roman Catholic tradition. She was a great cook and always welcomed you with her beautiful smile and will be greatly missed. Public visitation will begin on Sunday, December 1, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. at the Cristo Rey Catholic Church located on Canyon Road in Santa Fe with a rosary to be recited at 6:30 p.m. Mass of Christian burial to be celebrated on Monday, December 2, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. also at the Cristo Rey Catholic Church in Santa Fe with her son, Father Joseph Vigil, and other priests officiating. Burial to follow at the Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles Cemetery of Aurora Subdivision in Budaghers with her grandsons serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be her granddaughters. In lieu of flowers, a memorial contribution may be made in Aurora Leyva Vigil’s name to the Carmelite Monastery in Santa Fe. The family of Aurora Leyva Vigil has entrusted their loved one to DeVargas Funeral Home & Crematory of the Española Valley. 505-747-7477 - www.devargasfuneral.com

FUNERAL SERVICES & MEMORIALS WILLIAM ALBERT REID AUGUST 27, 1937 ~ NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Richard R. Sisneros, June 26, 1929, November 23, 2013. Thomas Michael Ortega, December 2, 1955, November 23, 2013. Dolores Cordova, October 30, 1946, November 24, 2013. Anke Dunkin, February 4, 1927, November 25, 2013.

Age 77, son of Helen and W.A. Reid, "Bill" grew up on Reid Ranch Barallis Peak, Las Vegas and Santa Fe. He moved to California, was Fire Chief for Mosquito Volunteer Fire Department where he had concession at Fennon Lake. Bill was a kit Carson Mountain Man. Preceded in death by mother, father, brother John, sister Margaret Alta, daughter Helen, two sons W.A. and Bill. Bill is survived by seven sisters; Helen, Jean, Joan, Edna Pearl, Mary, Violet, and Patricia; eight children; Joan, John, Shannon, Robin, Andy, Summer, Amber and, Lacy; twenty three grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Memorial later at Old Well Reid Cemetery.

RANDOLPH PACHECO

Age 84, passed away peacefully on 11-23-13. He was born in Santa Fe on 6-26-29 to Jose Amadeo Sisneros and Felice Casados who preceded him in death. He was also preceded by his wife of 51 years Nora Noedel Sisneros and grandson Andrew Sisneros. He is survived by his children Dolores Vargas and husband Diego, Raymond Sisneros and wife Rosie, Connie Romero and companion Charlie Vigil, Patsy Sisneros-Walters and husband Dallas, Richard R. Sisneros Jr. and companion Cindy Romero, Gerald Sisneros Sr. and wife Donnica, Linda Diaz and husband Eloy, nineteen grandchildren, twenty nine great grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren. He is also survived by his sisters Rosalie Lucero and husband Leo, Geraldine Hopkins, brothers Joseph A. Sisneros and wife Imelda, Tony Sisneros and wife Genevieve, Robert Sisneros and Candice Leffler, and sister-in-law Christella Noedel. He is also survived by numerous nephews, nieces, and cousins especially the Casados family. He graduated from St. Michael’s High School, was a member of the New Mexico National Guard, worked at numerous positions and retired as a dispatcher from the Public Service Company of New Mexico. A Visitation will be held on Sunday, December 1, 2013 from 2 to 7 pm at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service where a rosary will be recited at 7pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Anne’s Catholic Church on Monday, December 2, 2013 at 11:00 am. The Burial will be held at Santa Fe National Cemetery at 1:30 pm. Serving as pallbearers are Gerald Sisneros Jr., Tony Quintana, Kenny Sisneros, Enrique Camarena, Marcus Jaramillo, Tony Petrillo Jr., and Dennis Jaramillo. Honorary pallbearers are his grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.

Robert William Weed, July 18, 1955, November 28, 2013. Berardinelli Family Funeral Service 1399 Luisa Street Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505) 984-8600 Please sign our guestbook for the family at: www.berardinellifuneralhom e.com

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A lifelong resident of Santa Fe born July 28, 1946 passed away on November 21, 2013. Randolph was preceded in death by his parents, Juan and Amelia Pacheco. Randolph is survived by his brother, Jose Pacheco, sisters, Rita Barnes, Maida Naquin (Doug) and many nephews and nieces. A Mass will be held on Monday, December 2, 2013 at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Santuario Catholic Church.

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84, originally from Lamy, NM, but a lifelong resident of Santa Fe, NM passed away peacefully with her children beside her on Monday, November 25, 2013. Josie was a loving wife, mother, sister, grandmother, great grandmother, aunt and friend to many. She was proudly retired from the New Mexico Department of Tourism, La Bajada Rest Area, who loved meeting visitors from all over the world and welcoming them to New Mexico. Josie was preceded in death by her husband Ismael Gonzales, her parents Tomas Maez and Libradita Brito and 3 brothers and 3 sisters. She is survived by her sister Dolores Montoya, her loving children; Berna Gurule, Dina Rodriguez (Henry) and Ismael Gonzales, Jr., 6 grandchildren; Robbie (Alma), Erica (George), Chris (Vanessa), Denise, Nicole and Tanya, 11 great grandchildren and numerous relatives and friends. Josie loved her trips to the casinos with her family and enjoyed the thrill of gambling. A visitation will be held on Monday, December 2, 2013 from 6 to 7pm at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service where a rosary will be recited at 7pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 9am at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. The burial will be held at Santa Fe National Cemetery immediately following the Mass. A special thank you to Gentiva Hospice Staff; Frances, Darlene and Judie, Father Nathan, Deacon Jerry and Sylvia. Pallbearers: Leroy Valencia, Robert Moya, Ray Montoya, Chris Rodriguez, Jack Lopez, Tim Clokey and Robbie Moya. The honorary pallbearers: Lydia Martinez, Liz DesGeorges ad Joe McLaughlin, 6 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

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

Josie Gonzales, October 20, 1929, November 25, 2013

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THOMAS MICHAEL ORTEGA Mike Ortega, 57, passed away peacefully in his home on November 23, 2013 surrounded by his loved ones after a long battle with cancer. He is survived by his parents Henry & Ruth Ortega, grandmother Guadalupe Montoya, daughters Roxanne Ortega and grandson Brody, Stephanie Minshew (Houston) and granddaughters Carmen & Kaylee, sister Deborah Ortega Ault and brother David Ortega (Michelle) and nieces Monica, Olivia, Caitlin and Jackie, and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. He was a parishioner and Eucharistic Minister at St. Francis Cathedral. Mike had a great sense of humor and a highspirited personality and he touched the lives of many. He was always very supportive of his family and friends and he will be greatly missed by all who love him. A rosary will be held Monday, December 2, 2013 (what would be his 58th birthday) at St. Francis Cathedral at 9:00 AM, with the funeral mass at 10:00 AM. Interment will be at Santa Fe National Cemetery at 11:15 AM.

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Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: u A visitor from Charlotte, N.C., reported about 8:30 p.m. Friday that his iPad was stolen while he was at dinner at Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen, 555 W. Cordova Road. u An iPad and jewelry were stolen from a residence in the 1100 block of Maez Road between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. after someone broke a window to gain entrance. u Jade Wilson, 6318 Calle Kryshanna, was arrested on a charge of shoplifting Friday after she was accused of consuming a 20-ounce bottle of Pepsi in the employees’ bathroom at Albertsons, 3001 St. Francis Drive. The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the following reports: u A television, a gaming console, games, DVDs, two watches and an iPod were stolen from a residence on Virgil Road in the La Puebla area between 4:30 p.m. Thursday and 1 a.m. Friday after someone gained entrance through a kitchen window. u A laptop computer and a projector were stolen from a business on La Hacienda Loop in the Eldorado area between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 6:40 p.m. Friday after a screen was removed and a window broken to gain entry.

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School’s variety show is pay-it-forward lesson “That our gift does impact others.”

By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

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or decades, students and teachers at the New Mexico School for the Deaf have held a talent show of sorts each December. In the past several years, however, that show has become a pay-it-forward lesson. “We want to instill the importance of giving back to the community and those in need,” said Keri-Lynn McBride, the director of development and community relations for the school. The school’s annual Winter Variety Show, in which students from kindergarten through high school participate in skits and choreographed musical presentations, will accept donations for The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund. For more than three decades, the fund has provided assistance to local residents, who use the aid for rent payments, car repairs, home heating and utility bills and other needs during the holiday season. This year, the New Mexico School for the Deaf’s talent show will be held at 6 p.m. Dec. 19 at James A.

Little Theater on the campus, 1060 Cerrillos Road, and organizers are encouraging the public to come and donate to the Empty Stocking Fund. In December 2012, the onenight show raised $365, McBride said. She said the event will be interpreted to the hearing community. “Paying it forward is always important,” she said. “And for me, personally … the importance of giving is something that I always wanted our students to embody.” She said any student or school staff member can participate in the show. The students will decide whether to perform a skit or choreographed dance around this year’s theme of Winter Solstice. Each year, the show has a different theme, McBride said. “It’s so important for our kiddos to learn that we can reach out and that it does make a difference,” she said.

The Empty Stocking Fund is a project of The Santa Fe New Mexican. The Santa Fe Community Foundation, the First National Bank of Santa Fe, The Salvation Army and Presbyterian Medical Services donate services to jointly administer the Empty Stocking Fund. Watch for daily stories featuring requests for assistance from local residents in The Santa Fe New Mexican.

To donate Make your tax-deductible donation online at www.santafenewmexican. com/empty_stocking or mail a check to: The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund c/o The Santa Fe Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, NM 87504-1827 If you can provide a needed service such as roofing, car repairs or home repairs, contact Roberta at Presbyterian Medical Services, 983-8968. If you can contribute food, clothing, toys, housewares or furniture in good condition, or other items or services, please contact The Salvation Army, 988-8054

To apply Complete your application for assistance online atwww.santafenewmexican.com/empty_stocking. Applicants who do not have access to a computer can complete an application online at several public libraries and businesses free of charge. Santa Fe Public Library: u Main Library, 145 Washington Ave. u La Farge Branch Library, 1730 Llano St. u Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive New Mexico Work Force Connections: 301 W. DeVargas St. Hopewell Center: 1800 Espinacitas St. Presbyterian Medical Services: 1409 2nd St. All applications must be received by 5 p.m. Dec. 13 to be considered by the Empty Stocking Fund Committee. The Empty Stocking Fund will consider every applicant who meets the eligibility criteria, without regard to race, creed, place or country of origin, age, disability, ethnicity, color, gender identity, marital status or sexual orientation. Applicants must provide a Social Security number, or their request will not be funded.

DWI arrests u Joshua F. Martinez, 23, of Tesuque was arrested on charges of aggravated driving while intoxicated and possession of a controlled substance after he was stopped near the corner of West Alameda and Shelby streets at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Police said he was driving without his headlights on. u Louis J. Garcia, 58, of Santa Fe was arrested on a charge of aggravated DWI and not staying within his lane Thursday after he was stopped near N.M. 14 and Rancho Viejo Boulevard. Deputies said Garcia registered 0.27 and 0.28 on blood alcohol tests. u Jesus Garcia Garcia, 31, of Española was arrested on a charge of aggravated DWI on Wednesday at Ash and Cyprus streets in Santa Fe. Deputies say Garcia registered 0.22 and 0.21 on blood alcohol tests.

Speed SUVs u The Santa Fe Police Department listed the following locations for mobile speed-enforcement vehicles: SUV No. 1 at Cordova Road between Galisteo Street and Old Pecos Trail; SUV No. 2 at Calle de Sebastian between Old Pecos Trail and Zia Road; SUV No. 3 at Galisteo Street at West Alicante Road.

Help lines Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families hotline: 800-473-5220 St. Elizabeth Shelter for men, women and children: 982-6611 Interfaith Community Shelter: 795-7494 New Mexico suicide prevention hotline: 866-435-7166 Solace Crisis Treatment Center: 986-9111, 800-721-7273 or TTY 4711624 Youth Emergency Shelter/Youth Shelters: 438-0502 Police and fire emergency: 911 Graffiti hotline: 955-CALL (2255)

Minors to test legal pot buying in Washington state SEATTLE — A select group of minors will go into Washington state’s new legal pot stores on a covert mission: to try and buy weed for the state. To curtail youth access to legal marijuana, state officials want to use minors in pot-buying stings next year when stores are expected to open. Charged with implementing the new law that allows adults to possess an ounce of pot, the state Liquor Control Board already uses minors in “controlled buys” of alcohol at retail stores. The board’s enforcement chief said it makes sense to apply the same practice to pot, particularly with the federal Department of Justice watchdogging the state’s newest legal intoxicant. “Of course the feds are looking at a tightly regulated market around youth access, and I think this shows we’re being responsible,” said Justin Nordhorn. The agency also will ask the Legislature to set penalties for minors who attempt to purchase legal pot and those who use or manufacture fake ID cards for that purpose. Alison Holcomb, chief author of the new law, said using minors in pot-buying stings would support the state and federal emphasis on limiting youth access. But as criminal-justice director for the ACLU of Washington, Holcomb does not believe that adding criminal laws for pot possession is a good idea. She said she would prefer a focus on other prevention strategies. The Seattle Times

Local writers converge for ‘Indies First’ Authors talk about their books at Collected Works in promotion of independent booksellers By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican

A dozen local authors showed up Saturday at Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse to talk about their recent books and why you might want to buy them during the shop’s first “Indies First” event to promote independent booksellers. Environmental writer William deBuys was there to sell his latest book on climate change in the Southwest, A Great Aridness, but he was even more enthusiastic about his next, The Last Unicorn. “It’s about tracking down a very rare species that I went looking for in Laos in 2010, called the saola,” he said. “It’s a beautiful horned animal that branched off from the family [Bovidea] from the evolutionary tree about the same time that wild cattle went one direction and goats and antelopes went another. The saola is a little twig off that tree of life.” DeBuys said when the animal shows its profile, its long, straight horns merge into one, making it look like a unicorn. “No Westerner has ever seen one in the wild,” he said. “Just as in the 13th century, when it was believed that only a virgin could hope to encounter a unicorn, only the absolutely pure of heart could hope to see one, so it is with saola in the wilds. That’s why we went into the field on the wildlife expedition. I knew I was never going to glimpse one. Not being of pure heart, it was over for me.” Carmella Padilla pointed out her newest book, The Work of Art: Folk Artists in the 21st Century. “It’s about international folk artists and the idea of folk art in the global marketplace and how

Michael McGarrity autographs a copy of his book Hard Country for Dot Alber from Pagosa Springs, Colo., at Collected Works Bookstore on Saturday. Several New Mexico authors were on hand at the store to promote their books. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

important it is to support these traditions, which also lead to sustainability for these communities,” she said. Padilla said she didn’t travel to research the book, but met most of the 100 artists represented in it at the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe. Susan McDuffie was present to talk about her third murder mystery set in the 1300s, The Study of Murder. Her first two were set in Scotland’s Hebrides Islands, while the third takes place in medieval Oxford, England. McDuffie began writing mysteries soon after coming to Santa Fe in 1981 to work as an occupational therapist for the Santa Fe Public Schools. Jo Ann Mapson, who was selling her 12th novel, Finding Casey, said it was set in Santa Fe and Ohkay Owingeh, formerly San Juan Pueblo, and concerns newlyweds who have a foster daughter who believes her sister has been kidnapped.

The Southern California native, who came to Santa Fe six years ago, was quick to speak about why Santa Fe draws so many writers. “There’s something kind of, like, magical about the sky, the clouds, the pueblos,” she said. “And it has a violent history. I think writers are drawn to understanding that.” Among other writers scheduled to attend Saturday’s Indies First event were Johnny Boggs, Joe Hayes, Sarah Lovett, Carol Maldow, Michael McGarrity, Valerie Plame Wilson, Lesley PolingKempes, Douglas Preston and Dawn Wink. Mapson said her biggest thrill of the day was when novelist Cormac McCarthy, who lives in Santa Fe but was not scheduled to participate in the event, dropped in during the noon hour to see what was going on. Contact Tom Sharpe at 986-3080 or tsharpe@sfnewmexican.com.

Helicopter and beavers join forces on project By Kyle Roerink The Casper Star-Tribune

CASPER, Wyo. — Keith Schoup and Pete Garrett are an unusual duo. Schoup is a habitat biologist for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Garrett is a rancher outside of Casper. Historically, practitioners in their respective fields have seldom seen eye-to-eye. But the two struck up a working relationship in the early 1990s and have been performing experimental projects to improve environments for wild species and livestock ever since. Some projects have failed. Some have been successful. “We admit when we’re wrong and then we go and try something new,” Schoup said. “We like to think out of the box.” In the past, the two have successfully worked to reduce cheatgrass growth and thin overgrown sage brush populations in the region. Their latest project had two objectives: keeping the North Platte River healthy and improving the quality of grazing lands on Garrett’s ranch by building dams made of debris from Winter Storm Atlas. The target of the project was Bolton Creek, a tributary to the North Platte that runs through Garrett’s land. It is cracked and craggy when the weather leaves the

Over time, a line of beaver dams should form and allow for slower water flows in the creek that will help to reduce sediment levels in the North Platte. region without precipitation. When water moves through the area the creek pushes a galvanized flow of sediment-rich water into the North Platte. By using a helicopter, beavers and 50 tons of tree debris left in the wake of the October snowstorms, the duo is hoping to transform the bare riparian habitat along Bolton Creek into terrain studded with cottonwood trees, grass and a thriving beaver population. The synergy of effects should reduce erosion in the creek, block sediment from the North Platte and keep fish populations healthy. For the project to be successful, Schoup and Garrett are hoping Mother Nature will take its course. Over time, a line of beaver dams should form and allow for slower water flows in the creek that will help to reduce sediment levels in the North Platte. The dams should also help to periodically flood the creek’s riparian habitat. The storm that passed in early October was a windfall for the project, Schoup said. Game and Fish would have chopped the tops off

overgrowing aspens without the excess wood. However, the aspen supplies wouldn’t have been enough to complete the project to its current extent, Schoup said. The city of Casper organized piles of the debris at the compost center. Game and Fish trucks picked up the material and drove it to Garrett’s land off Wyoming Highway 487. “It was great to see everybody work together,” said Sean Orszulak, superintendent of solid waste for the city. In the second week of November, a helicopter dumped hundreds of 1,500-pound loads of branches along the carved banks of Bolton Creek. The wood will serve as the foundations for the dams and food for a population of beavers introduced to the area by Game and Fish. The animals are native to stretches of riparian habitat within city limits. The critters had a knack for gnawing on trees in local parks, forcing city workers to wrap fence around trees and take other measures to mitigate the problem, said Jolene Martinez, special projects analyst for the

Casper City Manager’s Office. The city was quick to oblige when Game and Fish asked if it could remove some of the animals from the area, she said. “We’re in an urban area, we’re not going back to the wilderness,” Martinez said. “There are things we can do to cohabitate.” Garrett’s ranching operation will also be a beneficiary. The 6.5-mile stretch of land being restored by Game and Fish should provide a new stream of water, more grass and more protection for his livestock, Garrett said. “It’s helping us 100 percent,” he said. Bolton Creek has been a nuisance to the river for years. The on-and-off effects of storms and water runoff have eroded the creek, transforming it into a streamlined conduit that channels sediment-filled, murky water into the North Platte. At one time, the creek was shallow and about 4 feet wide. Now it is around 2 feet wide and up to 6 feet deep in some spots. Without the project it would only dig deeper and produce more sediment that would go into the river. The effects of Bolton Creek’s outflow are also shrinking the width and carving deeper the bottom of the North Platte. The effect creates a harmful habitat for the river’s wildlife, said Al Conder, regional fisheries supervisor with Game and Fish.

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New Mexico State University aims to ban tobacco Memorial bill prompts initiative on campus The Associated Press

LAS CRUCES — New Mexico State University could have a new smoking and tobacco use policy by next summer. The effort to develop a policy for one of the state’s largest universities stems from a memorial bill passed during the last legislative session. It asked that the governing bodies of every public postsecondary educational institution in New Mexico implement a tobacco-free campus policy by July 1. The initiative at NMSU would ultimately have to be approved by the

Board of Regents. Tilahun Adera, dean of NMSU’s College of Health and Social Services, said more than 1,100 colleges and universities across the U.S. already have smoke-free campuses and 800 campuses have a tobacco-free policy. “This growing trend is due to the increasing recognition of the health hazards of tobacco products, including the fact that cigarette smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States and is responsible for one out of every five deaths,” Adera said. According to Senate Memorial 63, nearly one-fourth of New Mexico high school students and young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 smoke, a rate significantly higher than the

national rate for the age group. The memorial also notes that policies creating smoke-free environments have been shown to decrease youth smoking. The University of New Mexico adopted a policy in 2009 that prohibits smoking and the use of tobacco products except in designated smoking areas. That policy applies to cigarettes, cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco, electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products, according to the university’s policies and procedures manual. To facilitate a policy change at NMSU and Dona Ana Community College, the university’s Department of Public Health Sciences has received a $123,000 grant from the Paso del Norte

Health Foundation. “Tobacco-free policies are effective in decreasing smoking rates and preventing the initiation of tobacco use,” said Jana Renner, the foundation’s associate program officer. “New Mexico State University’s effort to create a tobacco-free campus complements this goal by protecting students, faculty and staff from the effects of secondhand smoke and promoting healthy social norms and behaviors.” Supporters said they plan to first increase awareness around tobacco health risks and build support among the community and the university’s administration. The next step will be assessing current attitudes and behavior and use of tobacco products among

NMSU students, faculty and staff. “If the policy is adopted by the university, then at some point it will go into the student handbook,” said Susan Wilson, an associate public health sciences professor. “But we’re going to make sure that people are welladvised, well in advance of any needed behavioral changes.” NMSU currently has a policy that complies with the state’s Clean Indoor Act, prohibiting smoking in all buildings and within 25 feet of entrances, exits and vehicles, as well as during some organized outdoor events on NMSU property. The new policy, which will be selfenforced and peer reported, would forbid any use of tobacco on campus.

North Texas bison herd hits milestone By Steve Campbell Fort Worth Star-Telegram

PHOTOS WITH SANTA Yasmin Reynoso of Phoenix poses for a picture Saturday with Santa Claus on the Plaza during the Santa Fe Fire Department’s annual Charity Holiday Toy Drive. The vintage 1934 La France fire engine will also make a trip to the Plaza on Sunday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

In brief Pedestrian hit on Cerrillos Road A pedestrian was hospitalized in stable condition Saturday evening after being hit by a car on Cerrillos Road in front of the Interfaith Community Shelter. City of Santa Fe Deputy Police Chief William Johnson said the department was notified of the pedestrian and vehicle accident at 6:12 p.m. and that the circumstances remained unclear, because an ambulance quickly arrived to take the injured man to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. Johnson said the pedestrian reportedly was running in the bicycle lane or in a driving lane. The pedestrian, who was not identified, lives at the Coronado Condos, just across Cerrillos Road from the Interfaith Community Shelter, and may have been visiting someone at the shelter, Johnson said. “The driver of that vehicle was not under the influence,” he said. “We don’t know about the pedestrian.”

Feds report drop in homelessness ALBUQUERQUE — Federal officials are reporting a decline of nearly 19 percent when it comes to homelessness in New Mexico. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released its latest national estimate of homelessness. HUD officials say homeless housing and service providers in New Mexico report that the number of sheltered and unsheltered people has fallen by 656 since 2010. The agency measures the scope of homelessness on a single night in January of each year. In New Mexico, that one-night estimate turned up 2,819 homeless people, 18.8 percent fewer than three years ago. Of those people, the agency says about 18 percent are facing either chronic homelessness or are dealing with chronic substance abuse. More than 14 percent are victims of domestic violence.

Existing districts include Las Vegas, Silver City, Albuquerque, Los Alamos, Raton and Taos. Economic Development Secretary Jon Barela says Gov. Susana Martinez and state legislators provided new funding to expand the program. Among the benefits for districts is a doubling of state historic tax credits to renovate eligible properties and branding in larger statewide tourism campaigns. State officials say art and culture pump more than $3.3 billion into the economy and support about 60,000 jobs. Barela says rural communities, in particular, depend on cultural tourism.

Duke City police settle lawsuit ALBUQUERQUE — A settlement has been reached between the city of Albuquerque and a drunken driving suspect who claimed his jaw was broken by police while being taken into custody. The case stems from a May 2011 traffic stop in downtown Albuquerque. Officers initially stopped Charles Gomez for driving without his seat belt. After smelling alcohol, Officer Brian Pitzer ran Gomez through field sobriety tests and was about to arrest him but Gomez bolted. Pitzer and fellow Officer Justin Montgomery ran after Gomez and found him in an underground parking garage. Gomez’s attorney claims Gomez gave himself up but was kicked in the face and lost consciousness. The attorney says the settlement is worth $60,000. In court documents, the city denied allegations that Gomez’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated and that he was assaulted. Staff and wire reports

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas longhorns sauntering through the Stockyards hook more attention, but a bigger, badder and wilder Fort Worth herd is marking 40 years this month at their home on the city’s range. Since November 1973, when the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma donated three bison, including a pregnant cow, to the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, the herd has grown to 31 after a record 11 births and the addition of a rescued white buffalo and her calf this spring. “I’m not aware of any other city that has our setup,” said Rob Denkhaus, natural resource manager at the 3,621acre city-owned preserve. The bison are one of the refuge’s top draws but the buffalo are now on winter vacation until February or March in an 80-acre pasture where there is no public access. “We get some complaints but this is our gift to the bison for working hard all year,” Denkhaus told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. For most of the buffalo, the refuge is the only home they’ve ever known, and the shaggy beasts are wary of change. In 2005, when the refuge first opened new pastures on the west side of Buffalo Road, the cautious herd took 36 hours to move 69 feet. With the road closed and a temporary runway set up, a nature center crew watched and waited for 34 hours but other than a few tentative scampers back and forth, the herd wouldn’t budge. “They were ingrained on where they had been. They had been in that pasture since 1973, they had never stepped on pavement,” Denkhaus said. “We finally decided to go to lunch and we came back two hours later and they were all across. Our assumption is our presence kept them from going. They weren’t used to us watching,” he said. The herd is now owned and supported by the 750 members of the Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, and managed by city employees on five pastures inside 210 stoutly fenced acres. There hasn’t ever been a bison breakout, but Denkhaus was sent to the rescue in 2007 when the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department called for help in dealing with buffalo on the loose in Saginaw. Someone had bought some buffalo on a whim and soon found that normal fences

A white bison crossbreed cow and calf are shown at the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge. The self-sustaining herd of 31 bison is now owned by the Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center. JOYCE MARSHALL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

weren’t bison proof. “They had had some problems and they told the sheriff if someone can catch them, they can have them. So we got them,” Denkhaus said. The Fort Worth herd’s worst calamity occurred one night in November 1980 when a rogue shooter killed the refuge’s original bull. The killer was never caught. But the next day, Jim Diffily and Bill Voss of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History came to the refuge and helped skin the slain beast and added the hide and skull to the museum’s collection. The meat was donated to shelters to feed the needy, according to a herd history compiled by Denkhaus. A bison owner in Granbury donated a replacement bull and that was the only outside replacement until 2004 when the current herd bull, now a 9-year-old, 1,700-pound specimen, was acquired from Ted Turner’s Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico to introduce new genetics into the herd. All the animals are pure bison with the exception of the white buffalo and her calf which are cattle hybrids. That DNA-proven genetic purity has helped bring better prices for surplus animals that are sold yearly in sealed bid auctions by bison associations, Denkhaus said. The pregnant white buffalo cow was rescued in May from a Dallas gas station/taco joint/ store where it had been put on

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like a “carnival sideshow.” The store owner quickly made amends by donating the cow to the Native American groups which worked with the refuge to give them a new home. The calf was born shortly after the cow arrived. But the mature herd has a strict social order and the two white buffalo, which are smaller than the rest of the animals, are “way down at the bottom. It’s tough to break into a herd as stable as ours,” he said. The herd started changing in 2007, when the Fort Worth Zoo closed its bison exhibit and donated the animals to the refuge. That same year, another bison owner donated five more animals and the Saginaw escapees arrived. “We added 17 animals in one year. That flipped our herd very nicely,” Denkhaus said, noting that bison can live up to 20 years in captivity.

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Abeyta: Race drops to four and is a former Santa Fe County manager. Gonzales is a former background as a university Santa Fe County commissioner, regent and his ideas on expand- former chairman of the New ing the economy give him the Mexico Democratic Party and edge in the mayoral contest. the son of former Santa Fe “Javier exhibits a collabmayor George Gonzales. orative leadership style that Eight people registered for the is critical to tackling the chalmayoral race in September. But lenges ahead,” Abeyta wrote. over the last two months, neigh“Like no other remaining candidate in the race, Javier listens borhood activist Josina Campos and Motel 6 night clerk Michael and respects all voices, from all parts of the city. That’s why D’Anna were disqualified, and City Councilor Chris Rivera I remain as optimistic about withdrew from the race. Santa Fe’s future as ever.” Abeyta’s withdrawal leaves Abeyta is the director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Fe four candidates: City Council-

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ors Patti Bushee, Bill Dimas and Rebecca Wurzburger, and Gonzales. Dec. 13 is the deadline for withdrawing from the race. A recent poll, authorized by ProgressiveNew Mexico, found Bushee with a commanding lead in the race. Twenty-four percent of the registered voters polled preferred Bushee, compared with 11 percent each for Gonzales and Dimas, 8 percent for Wurzburger and 7 percent for Abeyta. Contact Tom Sharpe at 986-3080 or tsharpe@ sfnerwmexican.com.

Snowboarders sandwich a skier on the lift at Taos Ski Valley on March 19, 2008, the first day Taos allowed snowboarders on the mountain. Lifting the ban on boarders, however, hasn’t helped keep the numbers from dipping at the resort. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Taos: More upgrades planned resort has yet to announce publicly when it will begin contains reported positive reactions, struction. even from those who were Also near the top of the to-do worried that the lifts would ruin list is the possible replacement hard-to-reach places. of Lift 5 with a high-speed lift. Briner hopes Taos locals who Taos has relatively short ride are also wary will see the bentimes, even without high-speed efit of the new lift. He is quick lifts, but the resort sees it as part to note that, under the master of the modernization process. plan, more than 50 percent of “We realize there is a percepTaos’ hike-to terrain won’t be tion issue because most people accessible by a lift. are looking for high-speed lifts “It’s something that we’re as part of their criteria [for pretty damn sensitive to selecting a destination],” Briner because a lot of us enjoy that said. hike-to terrain,” Briner says. Investing in a high-speed lift “We think the hike-to-only can be pricey. Briner expects experience is an important it would cost about $5 million, experience, that’s why we’re and he says the resort will likely preserving more than half of it.” wait to gauge the success of the Briner calls the Main Street Main Street Lift before moving forward on a lift replacement. Lift a “top priority,” but the

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In addition to new lifts, Taos Ski Valley is also planning to create new gladed areas on the resort’s far western boundary off Lift 8. A new tubing hill, snowshoeing trail and redesigned base area also are completed or in the works. While all the improvements are meant to increase Taos’ status in a competitive industry, Briner points out that the existing mountain is still held in high regard. The mountain is regularly included on “Top” lists, including a 19th place on SKI Magazines Best in the West list, beating out heavyweights like Squaw Valley SKi Resort in California and Alta Ski Area in Utah. Briner expects the new work will improve that standing.

Help: ‘Takes everything in stride’ Continued from Page C-1 Leslie said his whole career has been based on building things, so switching from computer systems to houses wasn’t that big of a jump. He was amazed at how much he remembered about carpentry from when he was a teenager. He said he’s been able to pass on those skills to a parade of volunteers who come from AmeriCorps, universities and private industry, some of whom had no building experience before working with Habitat. “It’s amazing to me that you can take a group of unskilled people and, with a certain amount of direction, they can build a very nice house,” he said. “If somebody had told me back when Habitat started that I would go out and get a bunch of people who don’t know anything about construction, and we’re going to give them a little bit of instruction and let them build me a nice house, and we’ll do that all over the world, and we’re not going to charge interest on the loan, and we’re not going to pay anybody that does most of the work — I would say that doesn’t sound like a very good business plan to me. And yet, there are somewhere in excess of 100,000 Habitat houses around the world.” Ted Swisher, executive director of Santa Fe’s chapter of

Habitat for Humanity, said Leslie’s “calm, cool and collected” demeanor makes him an asset. “He’s very concerned about quality, but he never gets uptight,” Swisher said. “He’s got an engineering background, and just about every engineer I’ve ever met, they tend to be very precise. And the residential construction business is not that precise. Things are often off a quarter of an inch. … He never gets upset. He takes everything

in stride. And I think everybody just respects that he has come out to the work site four or five days a week for 12 years. It’s so dog-gone impressive that you just sort of feel good in his presence.” Leslie summed it up this way: “I’ve always had the feeling that if you’re active all your life, if you suddenly retire and stop, it’ll drive you crazy. And the best thing in the world is to do something you really like to do.”

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Weddings, engagements & anniversaries Trujillo 50th anniversary Priscilla Ceballes of Guachupangue and David E. Trujillo of El Rito were married Nov. 28, 1963 — Thanksgiving Day — at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in Española. They met at New Mexico Highlands University while both were on academic and band scholarships. Priscilla played the saxophone, and David played trumpet. David earned both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in music education. Priscilla earned a bachelor’s degree in secondary education and, later, a master’s degree in business administration at The University of New Mexico. They both had careers in education, where they enhanced and enriched the lives of thousands of New Mexico students. David began his career teaching music at Dulce High School. He then taught for 25 years in the Santa Fe Public Schools, including Harvey Junior High, School, DeVargas Junior High, Santa Fe High School and Capshaw Middle School. He retired in 1988, but then taught at Santa Fe Indian School for the next 13 years. He also drove the SFIS school bus for students from Santa Clara Pueblo. He stopped teaching in 2001 but continued driving the bus for three more years. Priscilla began her career at Santa Fe High School teaching business classes. In 1971, she went to work for NorthernTechnical Vocational Institute in Española. She was instrumental in paving the way for the vocational school to become Northern New Mexico Community College, which is now Northern New Mexico College. Throughout the years, she served as business instructor, department chairwoman and dean of instruction. She retired in 1992 to help care for her first two grandchildren. She went back to work in August 1996, as executive vice president, a title

Faces & places Therese Martinez is the New Mexico State Karate Alliance State Champion in three categories — weapons, form and sparring. She recently earned the Triple Crown Award for being first in the state in all three categoTherese ries. She trains Martinez with Renshi Steve Flores of the Karate Academy in Santa Fe. Her style is Shotokan. Martinez is employed by the city in the Community Services Department at the Santa Fe Public Library’s Main Branch. Martinez has been training in martial arts for four years and has been competing for three years. She has placed in the top three for the last three consecutive years at the world level and for the last two consecutive years at the national and state levels in weapons, form and sparring. She was the world champion in forms for the United States Karate Alliance in 2011-12 and was the United States national champion in weapons the same year. Martinez also was the USKA national champion in the weapons and sparring categories and runnerup in forms for 2012-13.

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The New Mexico Book Association recently announced its awards for the Richard Harris Memorial Honor Celebrating the Great Literary City of Santa Fe. Among the honorees were: Nicholas Potter, Nicholas Potter Book Store; Camille Lannan, Lannan Foundation Literary Program; Patricia Hodapp, director, Santa Fe Public Library; Mary Charlotte Domandi, KSFR; New Mexico State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped; Perli Cunanan, Reading is Magic Camp. A special tribute was made to Richard Harris, whose lifelong commitment to writing and helping aspiring writers was commemorated. Harris died in 2011 in Santa Fe. He was widely considered the pre-eminent author of guides of the American Southwest and Mexico.

she holds in emeritus. She established the Child Development Center for students and staff on campus, increasing the outreach of branches to smaller northern communities, as well as the founding of the NNMC Scholarship Foundation, where she severed on the board and as chairperson for several years after her retirement. In 2001, she retired after 33 years in education. David and Priscilla raised three children, David, Randy and Lenore, at their home in Guachupangue. They have five grandchildren: Loryn, Zachary, Randy, Adrian and Oziah Trujillo.

The couple enjoy traveling. They recently took a trip to Italy and Vatican City with the Rev. Vitus Ezeiruaku and the members of the Sacred Heart church. During their trip to Rome, the Rev. Oscar Coehlo of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe celebrated a Mass with an anniversary blessing. The Trujillos also celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a blessing during the Thanksgiving Day Mass at the Sacred Heart of Jesus church. A luncheon hosted by their children and grandchildren was celebrated after the service.

David and Priscilla Trujillo of Guachupangue celebrated their 50th anniversary Thanksgiving Day. They were married Nov. 28, 1963, at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in Española. COURTESY PHOTOS

Sunday, December 1, 2013 THE NEW MEXICAN

The weather

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

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New Mexico weather

Santa Fe Airport through 6 p.m. Saturday Santa Fe Airport Temperatures High/low ......................................... 49°/25° Normal high/low ............................ 48°/22° Record high ............................... 61° in 1949 Record low .................................. 1° in 2004 Santa Fe Airport Precipitation 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 2.47”/12.39” Normal month/year to date ... 0.68”/12.73” Santa Fe Farmers Market 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 2.25”/12.05”

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Española 53/33 Los Alamos 48/31 40

Santa Fe 47/28 Pecos 48/27

Albuquerque 54/34

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Clayton 57/32

AccuWeather Flu Index

Las Vegas 53/30 40

The following water statistics of November 28 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons). Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.257 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 3.070 City Wells: 0.000 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 6.327 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.083 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 67.1 percent of capacity; daily inﬂow 2.65 million gallons. A partial list of the City of Santa Fe’s Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: • Irrigation water leaving the intended area is not permitted. Wasting water is not allowed. • Using water to clean hard surfaces with a hose or power washer is prohibited. • Hoses used in manual car washing MUST be equipped with a positive shut-off nozzle. • Swimming pools and spas must be covered when not in use. For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/waterconservation

Today’s UV index

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Ruidoso 59/39

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Las Cruces 65/38

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Today.........................................1, Low Monday.....................................2, Low Tuesday.....................................3, Low Wednesday...............................3, Low Thursday...................................4, Low Friday ........................................2, Low The AccuWeather Flu Index™ combines the effects of weather with a number of other known factors to provide a scale showing the overall probability of flu transmission and severity of symptoms. The AccuWeather Flu Index™ is based on a scale of 0-10.

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Albuquerque 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date .................. 0.90”/8.92” Las Vegas 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 1.00”/16.54” Los Alamos 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 1.40”/11.97” Chama 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 2.30”/17.59” Taos 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 2.04”/11.56”

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Weather history

Weather trivia™

The temperature soared to 65 degrees on Dec. 1, 1927, in State College, Pa. This was the highest December reading ever recorded there in the first half of the 20th century.

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Newsmakers Canine crowned world’s ugliest dog in 2007 dies

Elwood

SEWELL, N.J. — A New Jersey canine that was crowned the world’s ugliest dog in 2007 and later became the topic of a children’s book preaching acceptance has died. Elwood was 8. His owner, Karen Quigley, says the Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix died unexpectedly Thanksgiving morning. Elwood won his crown at the annual ugly dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin County Fair in California a year after he had finished second. After garnering the ugly dog title, Elwood became an online darling and developed a worldwide fan base.

Usher’s ex-wife holds run to honor son who died

Usher

ATLANTA — It’s been more than a year since the son of Usher’s ex-wife Tameka Raymond died in a boating accident on a Georgia lake. Raymond is working to keep the memory of son Kile Glover alive, honoring him with the first Give Thanks 5K run/walk Saturday morning at Chastain Park in Atlanta. She wants to raise money for the Kile’s World Foundation’s art initiatives and upcoming camps.

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top picks

6 p.m. on FOX The Simpsons Lisa suspects the worst when Homer doesn’t act like himself after attending a nuclear plant operators convention, so she calls on an intense FBI agent named Annie to help her get at the truth in “Homerland.” Kristen Wiig provides the voice of Annie. 6 p.m. CNN CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute Anderson Cooper hosts this salute to ordinary people doing extraordinary things. They include Dale Beatty, who lost both legs in Iraq and now works to provide housing for disabled veterans; Robin Emmons, whose Sow Much Good grows fresh produce for those who lack access to it; and Chad Pregracke, who’s made it his mission to get debris out of rivers. One of the 10 honorees will be named CNN Hero of the Year and receive $250,000 to continue his or her work. 8 p.m. on ABC Movie: Christmas in Conway Years ago, Duncan Mayor (Andy Garcia) proposed to his wife, Suzy (Mary-Louise Parker) on a Ferris wheel. Now Suzy is ailing, and Duncan wants to re-create that moment for her as a Christmas gift, so he arranges to build a Ferris wheel right in the couple’s backyard in this new Hallmark Hall of Fame drama.

LASTING IMAGES PERU M. Carlota Baca took this picture of little girls selling onions at the mercado or market in Cuzco, Peru.

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8 p.m. on CBS The Good Wife In the drama’s 100th episode, Alicia (Julianna Margulies) awaits a meeting with David Lee (Zach Grenier) and is surprised when Colin (Jason O’Mara) shows up instead, hoping she’ll sign her exit contract without reading it. Matt Czuchry and Chris Noth also star.

Photographers find new life in North Dakota ghost towns By Dave Kolpack The Associated Press

FARGO, N.D. — Two Fargo radio personalities who photographed the remains of western North Dakota’s pioneer towns for a coffee table book discovered a surprise when they returned for volume 2. Some of the “ghost” towns had come back to life, thanks largely to the oil boom. One of the images that Troy Larson and Terry Hinnenkamp had hoped to capture for the second volume of Ghosts of North Dakota was an abandoned church in Fortuna, near the borders of Montana and Saskatchewan. When they arrived, they found a recreational vehicle and semitrailer parked in front of the building, ruling out a photo shoot. And then there’s nearby Appam, which was featured in the first edition. The pair was surprised to find about 30 recreational vehicles and trailers set up behind a shelter belt that once guarded the town. “We were shocked to see that some of the towns we photographed in 2005 or 2006 had people living there now,” Larson said. “We always said it would be a happy day when we could say one of these towns turned the corner and starting coming back. We didn’t expect it to happen like this.” Larson knows that the rebirth is temporary and might be the makings of future ghost town photos. “If we’re still above the

ground, because Lord knows how long the boom will last out there, we fully intend to go back out there and photograph what is left,” Larson said. “It would be a very different type of ghost town. What is a man camp going to look like when nobody is left? Will there even be a man camp?” The second edition is 88 pages and features towns such as Bantry, Barton and Bentley, along with Raleigh, Roseville and Roth. Larson’s favorite photographs are one he took of a house in Sims, which is featured on the cover, and one by Hinnenkamp of a one-room schoolhouse in Clear Lake Township that is surrounded by rings of crops on a foggy morning. “There was no way we could have known there was going to be a crop circle around the school house or it was going to be all foggy and misty when we showed up there,” Larson said. “It seemed like the shot was just presenting itself to us when we got there.” The first book has sold about 3,000 copies, Larson said, and the pair had to backorder more books to meet demand. That allowed them to finance the second volume, which is available on the group’s website at Ghosts ofNorthDakota.com. “Being able to do one book was more than he hoped for, to be honest,” Larson said. “We’re poor radio guys and never had the money to do a book. We were pleasantly surprised that we were successful and it all worked out.”

10 p.m. on HBO Treme The drama series set in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina returns to wrap up its run with five episodes that span the period from November 2008 to Mardi Gras 2009. In “Yes We Can Can,” as the city celebrates Barack Obama’s election as president, Desautel, (Kim Dickens) opens her own restaurant, and LaDonna, pictured, (Khandi Alexander) rebuilds Gigi’s bar, while Batiste (Wendell Pierce) becomes invested in the lives of his students. Clarke Peters also stars.

An abandoned one-room school house in Clear Lake Township in Kidder County, N.D., above, and an abandoned house in Sims, N.D., left, are featured in Ghosts of North Dakota Volume 2. COURTESY PHOTOS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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At home in his habitat After leaving campsite where he lived for three decades, man seeks new place to settle down By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican

agemaya Dandi and Butterball are back in town, but they could be leaving again soon. For 31 years, Dandi squatted on city land adjacent to the national forest. His campsite was about a mile’s walk on a rough footpath south of Upper Canyon Road. He slept in a tiny, makeshift lean-to with a wood stove, surrounded by mounds of trash and a circular latrine he believed kept bears away. When forest fires threatened, authorities would clash with Dandi over his unusual living arrangements, and he would drop by The New Mexican to make his position known. “Don’t I have as much right to a habitat as a spotted owl?” he’d ask. Apparently so, because despite his cantankerousness — or maybe because of it — Dandi has become one of Santa Fe’s bestknown characters. Born in Elmhurst, Ill., he grew up in Florida and North Carolina, lived in Nashville, and arrived in Santa Fe in 1981. He began living in the woods the next year. He once was an avid bicyclist, but after several serious accidents, he gave it up. He doesn’t drive, either. He considers himself a freelance, unpaid lobbyist for bicyclists and pedestrians. About a dozen years ago, someone gave him Butterball, now a 15-year-old, sweet-tempered, female shepherd-pit bull mix. She is a service dog, according to letter from Santa Fe psychologist Elliot Rappaport, who says Butterball provides “emotional, physical and psychological assistance to Mr. Dandi.” Dandi, 69, recently was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and was told he might live longer at sea level. So in August, he and Butterball hopped a flight to Seattle. From there, they made their way to the Olympic Peninsula resort town of Port Townsend, Wash. Ten weeks later, they were back. Dandi seemed reluctant to

Santa Rosa staff earns top honors from State Parks for innovation

t’s not a pleasant memory, but if you recall last summer’s extreme dryness, you’ll appreciate the challenge of attracting visitors to state parks — where lake levels had fallen so low, the lakes could not be use for recreational activities. One such site, Santa Rosa Lake State Park, recently was recognized for the efforts of its staff to continue drawing visitors. The park received the Exemplary Park Award from the State Parks Division of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department during the division’s annual fall training Gussie and awards ceremony, held Nov. 6 Fauntleroy in Albuquerque. The Santa Rosa Public Works staff was praised for “creatively adding innovative park events,” including an Outdoor Youth Challenge and Acoustics Under the Stars, as well as continuing successful outreach education with surrounding communities. uuu

The division’s highest honor, the Governor’s Award, went to Robert McIvor of Sugarite Canyon State Park near Raton for “flawlessly stepping up and taking on” park superintendent duties. Among McIvor’s accomplishments in 2012 was overseeing the planting of 5,000 tree seedlings following the 27,000-acre Track Fire. He also increased visitation by instituting a new adventure race, Master of the Mountains, at the park. Cheryl Moline of Navajo Lake State Park received the second highest award, the Secretary’s Award, for spearheading the annual CAST for Kids program, which provides fishing and boating events for children with a wide range of special needs. uuu Sagemaya Dandi and his dog Butterball, shown Tuesday, are familiar faces around Santa Fe. The two headed to Washington state in August, due to Dandi’s health condition, but returned soon after. Dandi, who lived for 31 years on a city-owned site near the national forest in a makeshift lean-to, says he isn’t meant to live in a house. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

say why he had returned. The federal law allowing service animals to fly for free in the passenger cabin has been in the news lately. Asked about whether he had problems flying with Butterball, Dandi brushed aside the question. “You should never even ask that because you make yourself unintelligible about the issue,” he said. Later, he explained that he and Butterball were allowed to board their flight first and were seated in the front of the aircraft, where there was room for the dog to curl up on the floor. Dandi revealed his real name, but asked that it not be published. “My father was a tyrant, and I was an abused child,” he said. “He’d sit there and clear his throat at the dinner table, and then he’d criticize me, and I got where I couldn’t even stand to be around him.” He had already chosen his new name when he learned from the 1982 film Gandhi that Dandi was the coastal village where the Indian independence leader protested the British tax on salt in 1930. “When I saw it, a cold chill went down my spine,” he said. “You’re not here alone. There’s somebody here that’s directing

your life. That’s why he said, ‘leave Santa Fe and go to Port Townsend.’ ” He? “The spiritual force,” Dandi said. “He or she.” Port Townsend, population 9,000, was a mixed bag. Traffic was worse there than in Santa Fe, he said. People were even more inclined to let their dogs run off-leash and attack Butterball. Unlike Santa Fe, Port Townsend has no homeless shelters, so Dandi and Butterball slept outside, taking refuge where they could during frequent downpours. But the bus system worked well, the free health clinic was first class and the cops were polite. Back in Santa Fe, someone else had taken over Dandi’s camp, so upon returning, he stayed at St. Elizabeth Shelter — until he clashed over its curfew. He wanted to attend the public comment segment of the Santa Fe City Council hearing Nov. 13 to tell the councilors how Santa Fe compared to Port Townsend. But shelter staff warned him that if he left after 5 p.m., his bed would go to someone else. Dandi went to the council meeting anyway, to speak about how the shelter curfew infringed on his constitu-

tional rights. The city manager had a police officer drive Dandi and Butterball to St. Elizabeth to pick up their things, and then the officer took them to the Interfaith Community Shelter. But he soon ran into problems there. On Nov. 24, the day after a heavy snow, he said, he was kicked out. “People serving in the kitchen, wrapping plastic forks and spoons, are uncertified by the Health Dept.,” he wrote in a note to The New Mexican. “It’s getting dicey.” On Tuesday, he said someone had smuggled a knife into the shelter and that he feared for his life. Dandi is thinking about heading next to Tucson, Ariz., or Corpus Christi, Texas. “I’m really getting frustrated here,” he said. “I have to decide where that spirit is guiding me and where he wants me to go. I know he doesn’t want me to live in a house.” If you know someone whom you would like to see featured in this column, tell us about the person at neighbors@sfnewmexican.com.

Director’s Awards went to four division employees who “set and exceeded high standards” of job performance: Marcos Lopez, a park technician at Hyde Memorial State Park, State Parks fiscal officer Bryon Pippin, park technician Mark Leyba at Rio Grande Nature Center State Park and Park Ranger Blake Ingram of Bottomless Lakes State Park. Customer Service Awards were presented to Ramon Lopez of Brantley Lake State Park, State Park financial specialist Kim Sanchez and Julie Kulhan of Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park. uuu

Park Ranger Derek Drew of Navajo Lake State Park was honored as Ranger of the Year for his “excellence and diligence” in providing marine control and law enforcement at the park, as well as for becoming the local expert on the park’s complex water system. uuu

Life Saving Awards went to three Ute Lake State Park employees for leading the rescue of a woman who fell 30 feet off a cliff. The rescuers were Marine Enforcement Officer Rick Martin, Park Superintendent Rodney Paris and Regional Manager Jared Langenegger. At Elephant Butte State Park, Marine Officer Chris Bolen and Law Enforcement Ranger Jake Morales were recognized for rescuing two men in a sinking airboat during 25-mile-an-hour winds. If you have news about a public employee, contact Gussie Fauntleroy at gussie7@fairpoint.net.

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Santa Fe high-schoolers selected to perform with statewide ensembles The New Mexican

Eighteen Santa Fe Public Schools’ high school band, choir and orchestra students recently were accepted into the New Mexico Music Educators’ Association’s All-State performing ensembles. They auditioned for the positions. Students will perform under nation-

ally renowned conductors in Popejoy Hall at The University of New Mexico on Jan. 11, 2014, alongside other top high school performers from across the state. For performance times and further information, visit www.nmmea.com. Vocalist Gary Matthew of Santa Fe High was selected for participation in the High School Honors Performance Series on Feb. 9, 2014, at Carnegie Hall

El mitote Nerd worlds have officially collided. The folks over TMZ released a photo that shows George R.R. Martin, creator of Westeros, on the set of a different fantasy universe. Martin toured the set of The Lord of the Rings trilogy during his trip to New Zealand. The photo shows him hanging out in the The Shire with other tour-goers. Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/p58v744. uuu

In other Martin-related Mitote, the author sat down for an Internet chat via Empire magazine. Fans asked him all kinds of questions. Some of them were related to writing (the next installment of A Song of Ice and Fire

in New York City. Alexandra Esquibel was chosen as an alternate. The 2014 All-State Winners: Concert band trumpet: Joseph Lugo, Santa Fe High Symphonic band trumpet: Ben Montoya, Santa Fe High Tuba: Ian Davis and Chris Hunter, Santa Fe High Mixed choir soprano 1: Melody

Hett and Camille Sammeth, Santa Fe High Soprano 2: Kristin Mackowski, Santa Fe High Alto 2: Maren Woods, Santa Fe High Tenor 1: Marco Krebs, Capital High, and Joseph Lugo, Santa Fe High Bass 1: Aiden McQuillan, Gary Matthew and Paul Joe Trujillo,

It seems like more news surrounding Breaking Bad keeps coming up. Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and the upcoming spinoff Better Call Saul, was named one of Ra Paulette GQ’s Men of the Year in its December issue. The magazine called the uuu show’s finale a cultural event the likes of which aren’t supposed to happen anyA documentary about Northern New more — unless you’re talking about the Super Mexico artist Ra Paulette, who makes art Bowl. using sandstone cliffs, has been short-listed for In an in-depth interview Gilligan discusses an Academy Award in the Best Documentary his thoughts on the show and what it’s like to Short-Subject category. Cavedigger, directed be done with it. Other picks for Man of the by Jeffry Karoff, is one of eight films still Michael Douglas, director Year included in the running for an Oscar, narrowed down Steve McQueen , Justin Timberlake and from 40. Only five films can actually receive Kevin Spacey. a nomination though, so keep your fingers will be finished when it’s done), and some weren’t (George digs on cheese steaks). Either way, it’s pretty in-depth, and Empire marked all the spoiler alerts. Read the whole transcript here: http://tinyurl.com/ ccyq47s.

crossed. Watch the trailer here: http://tinyurl. com/n46mzhq. uuu

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Canadian author Joseph Boydon recently waxed poetic about Cormac McCarthy’s

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Santa Fe High Bass 2: Mike Manning and Nick Volkman, Santa Fe High Treble choir soprano 2: Tara Varnum, Santa Fe High Alto 2: Alina Castillo, Santa Fe High Concert orchestra violin I: Maddie Wiebe, Santa Fe High Violin II: Alexandra Esquibel, Santa Fe High

book The Road for a feature in The Independent called “A Book of a Lifetime.” Boydon called McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel his favorite. “McCarthy is never an easy read. His sombre and dramatic and delirious language, his characters’ propensity for bad, bad decisions, hell, even his refusal to use standard punctuation when it comes to dialogue, have always marked him as a literary outsider, a truly rebellious voice in the American tradition of what are too often fake rebel yells,” BoyCormac don wrote. Read the rest here: McCarthy http://tinyurl.com/kfqty9g. Send your celebrity sightings to elmitote@sfnewmexican.com. Follow the El Mitote blog at www.santafenewmexican.com/ news/blogs/neighbors.

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LOBOS MEN’S BASKETBALL

Williams lifts New Mexico past San Diego By Glen Rosales The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — Kendall Williams just could not miss from the foul line Saturday for New Mexico. Sixteen times he UNM 73 strode to the line, San Diego 66 and each time he knocked it down, setting a school record to help the Lobos beat San Diego 73-66. “It’s kind of the makeup of our team with our two big men,” said Williams, who finished with 28 points. “They’re

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getting doubled, I’m getting open lanes, open shots, so I’m just being aggressive, still trying to finish some plays, but if I can continue to get to the line, it’s just as productive.” Those big men, Alex Kirk and Cameron Bairstow, dominated inside. Kirk had his sixth double-double of the season, with 21 points and 11 rebounds, while adding four blocks and Bairstow had 16 points and two blocks in the closing minutes when the games was still in jeopardy. “Alex and Cam are playing at a high level and Kendall was phenomenal,”

New Mexico coach Craig Neal said. The trio needed to be at their best because no other Lobos contributed offensively until Hugh Greenwood knocked down a 3-pointer at the 8:16 mark of the second half. And outside of Williams, Kirk and Bairstow, who combined to go 19-for32, the rest of the Lobos went 2-for-17. “We really need help with our perimeter shooting,” Neal said. “But I have to get somebody else to score. Somebody has to get us some bench points.” But in this game, the Lobos (5-1) got just enough help to pull out the victory,

which came on the final minute of play. Eight of Williams’ free throws came in the closing two minutes, helping New Mexico break out of a 61-61 all tie. Johnny Dee scored 25 for the Toreros (7-2) and Duda Sanadze added 18 while Christopher Anderson had 12 assists. Dee hit a 3-pointer with 2:05 left to tie it at 61 before Williams went on a streak of eight straight points that included six points from the line and a fastbreak dunk. The Toreros used a 15-4 run midway through the first half to take their biggest lead at 27-15 but New Mexico

closed the first half with a 17-3 run, taking its first lead at 32-30 with 3.5 seconds left when Kirk slammed home a missed shot. Neither team took a lead of more than seven points in the second half. “The difference in the game was New Mexico’s ability to draw fouls and make the foul shots,” said Toreros coach Bill Grier. The Lobos went 26 of 29 from the line compared to 7 of 8 for San Diego. “They got us in foul trouble,” he said. “That makes things so much more difficult to guard.”

CLASS AAA FOOTBALL SEMIFINALS LAS VEGAS ROBERTSON 21, TAOS 16

Return of the Cardinals Win over Taos sends Robertson to state championship next week Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning chases a loose ball during a game Nov. 24 against the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Mass. ELISE AMENDOLA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Broncos, Chiefs ready for Round 2 at Arrowhead By Dave Skretta The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs are stumbling home to Arrowhead Stadium off two straight losses. The Denver Broncos are hobbling in off a disheartening letdown in New England. Much has changed in the two weeks since they played at Mile High Stadium. Much has stayed the same, too. The Broncos and Chiefs are both 9-2 and tied atop the AFC West, so it’s still a two-team race to the finish. But the Chiefs are no longer the NFL’s lone undefeated team — in fact, they’re the first to start with nine straight wins and then lose two in a row — while the Broncos squandered a chance to create some separation with their overtime loss to the Patriots last weekend. “I think just playing is the best medicine,” Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith said, “but no question, when you’re playing for your division, it raises the focus for sure.” The Broncos would have the tiebreaker over Kansas City and a twogame lead with four games to go with a win. The Chiefs would put themselves in position to win the division for just the second time in a decade, not to mention take a step toward home-field advantage in the playoffs. So it’s an easy argument that there’s even more on the line than the first time they met. “I don’t think you can just say, ‘Well, it was just a couple weeks ago that we played them,’ ” Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning said. “You have study them just as hard as you did the first time around. So from that standpoint, it doesn’t get any easier to prepare because they are such a diverse team scheme-wise and they have such good players.” The Chiefs could be without two of their best players, though. Leading pass rusher Justin Houston, who dislocated his elbow in a gruesome fall during the Chiefs’ 41-38 loss to the Chargers last week, will likely watch from the sideline. His running mate Tamba Hali hopes to play despite spraining his right ankle against San Diego. If neither of them can go, it doesn’t bode well against the Broncos’ highscoring offense.

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Taos’ Isaac Gonzales wrestles down Robertson’s Dominic Lucero on Saturday in the Class AAA semifinals. CODY OLIVAS/THE TAOS NEWS

Class AAA playoffs began. On a cool, crisp Saturday afternoon at Anaya Field, the Cardinals TAOS made their proclamation to the rest reams can come true. of state: Just don’t pinch Dominic The Cardinals are back. Finally. Lucero, Joe Armijo, James The program that won two Gonzales III and the Las straight state titles in 2005 and 2006, Vegas Robertson Cardinals just yet. then played for another in 2007, Those elementary school visions returned to hallowed ground, thanks that were harbored as they played to a 21-16 win over fifth-seeded Taos imaginary football games beyond in the AAA semifinals. The ninththe south end zone of Cardinal seeded Cardinals play No. 3 Silver Field, the place where actual state at Cardinal Field next week for football championship dreams were the state championship. This time, being fulfilled back in 2005 and Robertson (8-5) beat three teams in 2006, are as now as real as can be. a row in the playoffs that beat it durAnd the Cardinals can bring a foot- ing the regular season. ball program back to a time when When Armijo picked off Taos nobody thought of Las Vegas Robertson as an afterthought when the Please see CARDINALS, Page D-3 By James Barron The New Mexican

Loss of beloved teacher brought rivals together school West Las Vegas. Inside of it are the initials “MB,” for TAOS — The decals on the back of West Las Vegas vola football helmet often signify a good leyball coach Mary play or a big hit made by the player Bustos, who passed wearing it. away last month after But the new decals for Las Vegas battling an illness. Robertson represent a hit the city took Bustos’ death Mary Bustos just as the postseason began. reverberated On the back of the Cardinals’ helthroughout Las Vegas and even to mets for their Class AAA semifinal Robertson, where she coached volleygame against Taos is a round decal with the green-and-gold of rival Please see LOSS, Page D-3 By Edmundo Carrillo The New Mexican

COMMENTARY

NFL activist tries to stamp out use of ‘n-word’ The Jonathan Martin-Richie Incognito controversy didn’t shed light only on the culture of the Dolphins’ DAVIE, Fla. locker room, but also on the issue of ohn Wooten is 77 years old and racially charged language in the NFL knows there’s a segment of the in general. In a voicemail, Incognito population that will recoil at the directed the slur at Martin, his fellow slightest hint of what he is about offensive lineman, although Incognito to say. contends it was not meant in a hurtful Wooten, an activist and former way. NFL offensive lineman, recoils himWhile it’s understood that the self when he hears what many of the locker room never has and never will younger generation say of his opinbe G-rated, use of the n-word has ions. helped trigger a debate over when That’s the nature of the once— if ever — it’s acceptable in the reviled, now-polarizing, n-word, which Wooten argues has no place in sports world. Among those chiming in are Charles Barkley and journalist football in any context. By Hal Habib

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Michael Wilbon (who admit using it with African-American friends) and Cris Collinsworth and ex-Jets linebacker Bart Scott (who call the word “beyond painful” and “despicable”). The same forces are at work inside the Dolphins’ locker room, where opinions are as varied as the backgrounds of a roster 53 deep. Cornerback Nolan Carroll said he doesn’t use the word but “it’s different” to hear it in the locker room as opposed to in public. Tight ends Michael Egnew and Charles Clay agree it’s inappropriate no matter where it’s used. Cornerback Brent Grimes said times are changing and

so is the connotation of the word. “Just about everybody says it,” he added. That it’s tossed about inside the team’s training complex might surprise owner Stephen Ross, who said, “One thing that will not change: There will not be any racial slurs or harassing or bullying in that workplace, in that locker room and outside the locker room.” To those who argue that in an era of graphic rap lyrics, the n-word isn’t always a slur, Wooten objects. He said regardless of whether it’s pronounced with a “ga” at the end or any other

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FOOTBALL FOOTBALL NFL American Conference East New England N.Y. Jets Miami Buffalo South Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville Houston North Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland West Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland

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T’wolves 112, Mavericks 106

BASKETBALL BASKETBALL PF PA 288 230 186 287 229 245 236 273 PF PA 263 260 250 245 142 324 199 289 PF PA 275 206 249 235 263 278 203 265 PF PA 429 289 270 179 269 260 237 300

National Conference East Dallas Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Washington South New Orleans Carolina Tampa Bay Atlanta North Detroit Chicago Green Bay Minnesota West Seattle San Francisco Arizona St. Louis

W L T Pct PF PA 7 5 0 .583 329 303 6 5 0 .545 276 260 4 7 0 .364 213 280 3 8 0 .273 252 338 W L T Pct PF PA 9 2 0 .818 305 196 8 3 0 .727 258 151 3 8 0 .273 211 258 2 9 0 .182 227 309 W L T Pct PF PA 7 5 0 .583 326 287 6 5 0 .545 303 309 5 6 1 .458 294 305 2 8 1 .227 266 346 W L T Pct PF PA 10 1 0 .909 306 179 7 4 0 .636 274 184 7 4 0 .636 254 223 5 6 0 .455 266 255 Week 13 Thursday’s Games Detroit 40, Green Bay 10 Dallas 31, Oakland 24 Baltimore 22, Pittsburgh 20 Sunday’s Games Chicago at Minnesota, 11 a.m. New England at Houston, 11 a.m. Tennessee at Indianapolis, 11 a.m. Jacksonville at Cleveland, 11 a.m. Tampa Bay at Carolina, 11 a.m. Arizona at Philadelphia, 11 a.m. Miami at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m. St. Louis at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m. Atlanta vs. Buffalo at Toronto, 2:05 p.m. Cincinnati at San Diego, 2:25 p.m. Denver at Kansas City, 2:25 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Washington, 6:30 p.m. Monday’s Game New Orleans at Seattle, 6:40 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5 Houston at Jacksonville, 6:25 p.m.

NFL Calendar Dec. 29 — Regular season ends Jan. 4-5 — Wild-card playoffs Jan. 11-12 — Division-round playoffs Jan. 19 — Conference championships Feb. 1 — NFL Honors awards show at New York Feb. 2 — Super Bowl at East Rutherford, N.J.

NCAA FOOTBALL The AP Top 25 Saturday’s Games #4 Auburn 34 #1 Alabama 28 #2 Florida State 37 Florida 7 #3 Ohio State 42 Michigan 41 #5 Missouri 28 #19 Texas A&M 21 #10 South Carolina 31 #6 Clemson 17 #8 Stanford 27 #25 Notre Dame 20 #9 Baylor 41 TCU 38 #11 Michigan State 14 Minnesota 3 #13 Arizona State vs. Arizona Penn State 31 #14 Wisconsin 24 #22 UCLA 35 #23 Southern Cal 14 #24 Duke 27 North Carolina 25

College Football Schedule Saturday’s Games

Southwest Baylor 41, TCU 38 Mary Hardin-Baylor 59, Rowan 8 North Texas 42, Tulsa 10 Rice 17, Tulane 13 Sam Houston St. 51, S. Utah 20 UTSA 30, Louisiana Tech 10

Midwest Bethel (Minn.) 34, Wartburg 27 Grand View 44, Tabor 24 Indiana 56, Purdue 36 Kansas St. 31, Kansas 10 Michigan St. 14, Minnesota 3 Missouri 28, Texas A&M 21 Morningside 36, Baker 28 Mount Union 56, Wittenberg 21 NW Missouri St. 45, Minn. Duluth 21 North Central 52, Wis.-Platteville 24 Northwestern 37, Illinois 34 Ohio St. 42, Michigan 41 Penn St. 31, Wisconsin 24 St. Cloud St. 54, Minn. St.-Mankato 48 Tennessee St. 31, Butler 0 W. Texas A&M 34, Ohio Dominican 27 Wis.-Whitewater 33, Franklin 3

South Auburn 34, Alabama 28 Coastal Carolina 48, Bethune-Cookman 24 Cumberlands 28, St. Francis (Ind.) 14 Duke 27, North Carolina 25 Florida St. 37, Florida 7 Furman 30, SC State 20 Georgia 41, Georgia Tech 34, 2OT Lenoir-Rhyne 27, Carson-Newman 20 Louisiana-Monroe 31, LouisianaLafayette 28 Maryland 41, NC State 21 Middle Tennessee 48, UTEP 17 North Alabama 37, UNC-Pembroke 13 South Alabama 38, Georgia St. 17 South Carolina 31, Clemson 17 Southern Miss. 62, UAB 27 Southern U. 40, Grambling St. 17 Temple 41, Memphis 21 Tennessee 27, Kentucky 14 Vanderbilt 23, Wake Forest 21 Virginia Tech 16, Virginia 6 W. Kentucky 34, Arkansas St. 31

East Fordham 37, Sacred Heart 27 Iowa St. 52, West Virginia 44, 3OT New Hampshire 45, Lafayette 7 Shepherd 7, Winston-Salem 0 St. John Fisher 27, Hobart 6 Syracuse 34, Boston College 31 UConn 28, Rutgers 17 Wesley 23, Ithaca 15 West Chester 40, Bloomsburg 38

Far West BYU 28, Nevada 23 Carroll (Mont.) 27, Missouri Valley 3 Colorado St. 58, Air Force 13 Grand Valley St. 34, CSU-Pueblo 30 Linﬁeld 31, Hampden-Sydney 21 New Mexico St. 24, Idaho 16 S. Dakota St. 26, N. Arizona 7 Stanford 27, Notre Dame 20 Utah 24, Colorado 17 Utah St. 35, Wyoming 7

FCS PLAYOFFS First Round New Hampshire 45, Lafayette 7 Furman 30, South Carolina State 20 Cstl Carolina 48, Beth.-Cookman 24 Fordham 37, Sacred Heart 27 Tennessee State 31, Butler 0 Sam Houston State 51, S.Utah 20 South Dakota State 26, N.Arizona 7 Jacksonville State 55, Samford 14

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Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB San Antonio 14 3 .824 — Houston 13 5 .722 1½ Dallas 10 8 .556 4½ Memphis 8 8 .500 5½ New Orleans 7 8 .467 6 Northwest W L Pct GB Portland 13 3 .813 — Oklahoma City 11 3 .786 1 Denver 9 6 .600 3½ Minnesota 9 9 .500 5 Utah 3 15 .167 11 Paciﬁc W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 12 5 .706 — L.A. Lakers 9 8 .529 3 Golden State 9 8 .529 3 Phoenix 9 8 .529 3 Sacramento 4 10 .286 6½ Saturday’s Games Washington 108, Atlanta 101 Cleveland 97, Chicago 93 Brooklyn 97, Memphis 88 Minnesota 112, Dallas 106 Houston 112, San Antonio 106 Utah 112, Phoenix 104 Milwaukee 92, Boston 85 Friday’s Games San Antonio 109, Orlando 91 Charlotte 92, Milwaukee 76 Miami 90, Toronto 83 Boston 103, Cleveland 86 Atlanta 88, Dallas 87 L.A. Lakers 106, Detroit 102 Houston 114, Brooklyn 95 Okla. City 113, Golden State 112, OT New Orleans 121, Philadelphia 105 Indiana 93, Washington 73 Denver 97, New York 95 Phoenix 112, Utah 101 L.A. Clippers 104, Sacramento 98, OT Sunday’s Games Denver at Toronto, 11 a.m. Indiana at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Detroit, 1:30 p.m. Golden State at Sacramento, 4 p.m. Charlotte at Miami, 4 p.m. Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m. New Orleans at New York, 5:30 p.m. Portland at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m. Monday’s Games Orlando at Washington, 5 p.m. New Orleans at Chicago, 6 p.m. Atlanta at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. Houston at Utah, 7 p.m. Indiana at Portland, 8 p.m.

Jazz 112, Suns 104 UTAH (112) Jefferson 6-11 2-2 15, Williams 6-11 0-0 14, Favors 5-7 4-5 14, Burke 6-15 4-4 20, Hayward 3-11 7-8 13, Burks 5-9 2-3 13, Garrett 1-2 0-0 3, Evans 4-4 4-5 12, Kanter 3-6 2-2 8. Totals 39-76 25-29 112. PHOENIX (104) Tucker 5-7 1-2 13, Frye 7-12 0-0 17, Plumlee 4-8 1-2 9, Dragic 6-13 11-13 24, Green 5-9 0-0 14, Bledsoe 4-9 4-6 13, Mark.Morris 2-8 1-2 5, Goodwin 0-1 0-0 0, Marc.Morris 4-11 0-0 9, Christmas 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-78 18-25 104. Utah 28 21 29 34—112 Phoenix 23 30 24 27—104 3-Point Goals—Utah 9-18 (Burke 4-6, Williams 2-5, Garrett 1-1, Burks 1-1, Jefferson 1-3, Hayward 0-2), Phoenix 12-27 (Green 4-8, Frye 3-6, Tucker 2-3, Bledsoe 1-3, Dragic 1-3, Marc.Morris 1-4). Fouled Out—Green. Rebounds— Utah 47 (Favors 8), Phoenix 42 (Mark. Morris, Plumlee 7). Assists—Utah 21 (Burks 5), Phoenix 17 (Dragic 9). Total Fouls—Utah 23, Phoenix 28. Technicals—Utah Coach Corbin. A—12,957 (18,422).

Bucks 92, Celtics 85 BOSTON (85) Green 7-15 2-2 18, Bass 3-7 0-0 6, Sullinger 10-18 0-1 21, Crawford 6-15 5-6 18, Bradley 4-15 1-2 9, Wallace 0-0 0-0 0, Faverani 3-6 1-2 7, Humphries 1-4 0-0 2, Bogans 0-1 0-0 0, Pressey 0-1 0-0 0, Brooks 1-2 2-2 4. Totals 3584 11-15 85. MILWAUKEE (92) Middleton 2-6 2-2 6, Udoh 4-9 1-4 9, Henson 6-13 1-2 13, Knight 7-14 3-4 20, Mayo 9-14 2-2 22, Pachulia 0-4 2-2 2, Ridnour 2-6 1-2 6, Neal 2-6 0-0 4, Antetokounmpo 4-6 0-2 10. Totals 36-78 12-20 92. Boston 27 14 22 22—85 Milwaukee 19 28 23 22—92 3-Point Goals—Boston 4-19 (Green 2-6, Crawford 1-4, Sullinger 1-5, Pressey 0-1, Bogans 0-1, Bradley 0-2), Milwaukee 8-17 (Knight 3-3, Antetokounmpo 2-3, Mayo 2-4, Ridnour 1-4, Middleton 0-1, Neal 0-2). Fouled Out—Bradley. Rebounds—Boston 45 (Sullinger 14), Milwaukee 58 (Henson 13). Assists—Boston 17 (Green 6), Milwaukee 28 (Knight 8). Total Fouls— Boston 21, Milwaukee 16. Flagrant Fouls—Sullinger. A—15,471 (18,717).

Rockets 112, Spurs 106 HOUSTON (112) Parsons 9-21 3-4 25, Jones 4-10 1-1 10, Howard 4-6 5-8 13, Beverley 4-10 0-0 11, Harden 10-19 8-13 31, Brooks 1-8 1-2 3, Casspi 4-8 0-0 8, Asik 1-2 1-2 3, Garcia 3-6 0-0 8. Totals 40-90 19-30 112. SAN ANTONIO (106) Leonard 3-8 0-0 6, Duncan 8-13 4-5 20, Diaw 2-3 0-0 5, Parker 13-27 1-2 27, Green 3-8 0-0 7, Ginobili 4-9 0-0 9, Splitter 2-3 2-4 6, Bonner 2-5 0-0 6, Belinelli 7-13 0-0 18, Mills 0-2 2-2 2. Totals 44-91 9-13 106. Houston 30 27 26 29—112 San Antonio 24 22 34 26—106 3-Point Goals—Houston 13-30 (Parsons 4-8, Harden 3-5, Beverley 3-5, Garcia 2-4, Jones 1-2, Casspi 0-3, Brooks 0-3), San Antonio 9-26 (Belinelli 4-6, Bonner 2-4, Diaw 1-1, Ginobili 1-3, Green 1-5, Duncan 0-1, Mills 0-1, Parker 0-2, Leonard 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Houston 68 (Jones 16), San Antonio 44 (Duncan 8). Assists—Houston 24 (Harden 6), San Antonio 27 (Ginobili 11). Total Fouls—Houston 18, San Antonio 19. Technicals—San Antonio Coach Popovich. A—18,581 (18,797).

NBA Calendar Jan. 6 — 10-day contracts can be signed. Jan. 10 — Contracts guaranteed for rest of season. Feb. 14-16 — All-Star weekend, New Orleans. Feb. 20 — Trade deadline, 1 p.m.

MINNESOTA (112) Brewer 5-8 0-0 13, Love 6-14 7-11 21, Pekovic 10-13 1-2 21, Rubio 4-12 3-3 12, Martin 7-14 10-11 27, Cunningham 4-6 0-0 8, Barea 2-5 0-0 6, Mbah a Moute 2-5 0-3 4, Dieng 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 40-79 21-30 112. DALLAS (106) Marion 3-11 0-0 6, Nowitzki 10-13 2-2 23, Dalembert 6-7 0-2 12, Mekel 3-12 0-0 6, Ellis 9-15 5-5 26, Carter 4-12 1-1 10, Blair 5-8 1-1 11, Crowder 2-6 0-0 5, Larkin 2-6 0-0 4, Ellington 1-2 0-0 3, James 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 45-92 9-11 106. Minnesota 29 25 30 28—112 Dallas 24 23 30 29—106 3-Point Goals—Minnesota 11-26 (Brewer 3-5, Martin 3-6, Barea 2-4, Love 2-5, Rubio 1-5, Cunningham 0-1), Dallas 7-24 (Ellis 3-5, Nowitzki 1-1, Ellington 1-1, Carter 1-3, Crowder 1-5, Larkin 0-2, Mekel 0-3, Marion 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Minnesota 53 (Love 11), Dallas 44 (Blair 8). Assists—Minnesota 24 (Rubio 7), Dallas 29 (Mekel 7). Total Fouls—Minnesota 9, Dallas 26. Technicals—Martin, Dallas Coach Carlisle, Nowitzki. A—20,173 (19,200).

Nets 97, Grizzlies 88 BROOKLYN (97) Johnson 9-15 4-4 26, Garnett 4-9 0-0 8, Lopez 7-16 6-11 20, Taylor 2-5 2-2 6, Anderson 0-6 0-0 0, Blatche 7-10 4-5 21, Plumlee 1-2 2-2 4, Livingston 1-4 2-2 4, Shengelia 0-0 0-0 0, Teletovic 3-6 0-0 8. Totals 34-73 20-26 97. MEMPHIS (88) Prince 0-4 0-0 0, Davis 5-11 0-0 10, Koufos 5-10 0-0 10, Conley 7-14 2-4 16, Allen 5-12 3-4 13, Leuer 2-4 0-0 6, Bayless 1-6 1-1 3, Miller 2-3 0-0 6, Calathes 1-1 0-0 2, Pondexter 8-12 3-3 22. Totals 36-77 9-12 88. Brooklyn 24 24 25 24—97 Memphis 19 18 28 23—88 3-Point Goals—Brooklyn 9-18 (Johnson 4-7, Blatche 3-3, Teletovic 2-5, Lopez 0-1, Anderson 0-2), Memphis 7-15 (Pondexter 3-5, Leuer 2-2, Miller 2-3, Allen 0-1, Conley 0-1, Bayless 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Brooklyn 49 (Lopez 9), Memphis 40 (Koufos 11). Assists—Brooklyn 21 (Johnson 6), Memphis 20 (Conley 10). Total Fouls—Brooklyn 10, Memphis 19. Technicals—Brooklyn defensive three second, Memphis defensive three second. A—17,012 (18,119).

Cavaliers 97, Bulls 93 CHICAGO (93) Deng 12-20 1-1 27, Boozer 5-13 2-2 12, Noah 2-10 0-2 4, Hinrich 5-10 1-2 12, Snell 7-12 1-4 18, Gibson 7-10 4-4 18, Dunleavy 1-6 0-0 2, James 0-1 0-0 0, Mohammed 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-82 9-15 93. CLEVELAND (97) Gee 2-4 0-0 5, Thompson 4-7 6-8 14, Bynum 8-14 4-4 20, Irving 7-21 4-5 19, Miles 2-5 0-0 6, Waiters 8-10 2-2 20, Jack 2-6 0-0 5, Varejao 3-7 0-0 6, Dellavedova 0-1 0-0 0, Bennett 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 37-78 16-19 97. Chicago 25 26 15 27—93 Cleveland 27 29 21 20—97 3-Point Goals—Chicago 6-15 (Snell 3-5, Deng 2-5, Hinrich 1-1, James 0-1, Dunleavy 0-3), Cleveland 7-15 (Waiters 2-2, Miles 2-3, Gee 1-1, Jack 1-2, Irving 1-5, Thompson 0-1, Bennett 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Chicago 45 (Noah 8), Cleveland 48 (Thompson 14). Assists—Chicago 31 (Deng 11), Cleveland 20 (Irving 6). Total Fouls—Chicago 22, Cleveland 18. Technicals—Chicago Coach Thibodeau. A—17,296 (20,562).

Wizards 108, Hawks 101 ATLANTA (101) Carroll 3-9 4-4 11, Millsap 9-14 1-2 23, Horford 7-13 2-2 16, Teague 5-18 5-5 15, Martin 4-7 2-3 12, Jenkins 1-1 0-0 2, Scott 2-7 2-2 6, Mack 4-9 3-4 11, Brand 1-1 3-4 5, Antic 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 36-81 22-26 101. WASHINGTON (108) Webster 6-11 2-4 19, Nene 4-12 5-6 13, Gortat 6-11 0-0 12, Wall 9-18 6-11 26, Ariza 7-10 5-5 24, Vesely 1-3 2-2 4, Singleton 2-4 0-2 4, Maynor 2-6 0-0 4, Seraphin 1-3 0-0 2, Temple 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-78 20-30 108. Atlanta 20 24 26 31—101 Washington 28 26 25 29—108 3-Point Goals—Atlanta 7-17 (Millsap 4-5, Martin 2-4, Carroll 1-2, Mack 0-1, Antic 0-1, Teague 0-2, Scott 0-2), Washington 12-24 (Ariza 5-6, Webster 5-9, Wall 2-6, Singleton 0-1, Maynor 0-2). Fouled Out—Mack. Rebounds— Atlanta 50 (Millsap 10), Washington 49 (Nene 12). Assists—Atlanta 19 (Mack 6), Washington 24 (Wall 12). Total Fouls—Atlanta 18, Washington 20. Technicals—Atlanta Coach Budenholzer, Washington Coach Wittman. A—14,280 (20,308).

NBA Leaders Through FRIDAY, Nov. 29, 2013 Scoring G FG FT Pts Durant, OKC 14 112 145 392 Anthony, NYK 15 141 99 398 James, MIA 16 150 95 419 Love, MIN 17 137 104 413 George, IND 16 133 74 378 Harden, HOU 13 88 98 299 Martin, MIN 16 119 90 366 Aldridge, POR 16 146 62 354 DeRozan, TOR 15 118 70 328 Ellis, DAL 17 132 91 369 Cousins, SAC 14 117 68 302 Grifﬁn, LAC 17 147 69 366 Turner, PHL 17 140 74 364 Afﬂalo, ORL 16 116 71 342 Curry, GOL 14 108 36 298 Lawson, DEN 15 103 87 314 Thompson, GOL17 128 44 354 Irving, CLE 16 123 62 332 Nowitzki, DAL 17 121 81 348 Lillard, POR 16 102 70 318 Davis, NOR 15 110 74 294 Gay, TOR 15 108 56 292 Paul, LAC 16 99 87 304 Wall, WAS 16 107 68 300 Conley, MEM 15 107 44 277 Parker, SAN 15 108 45 266 Deng, CHI 14 88 63 246 Teague, ATL 17 97 93 296 Lee, GOL 17 112 70 294 Horford, ATL 17 128 33 290 Thomas, SAC 14 76 66 238 Howard, HOU 17 99 90 288 Stuckey, DET 15 93 59 254 Parsons, HOU 17 109 41 285 Matthews, POR16 97 26 267 Green, BOS 18 101 74 299 Hayward, UTA 17 99 62 280 Hawes, PHL 15 95 29 247 Walker, CHA 17 98 55 272 Randolph, MEM15 97 46 240 Gasol, MEM 13 77 54 208 Boozer, CHI 14 96 32 224 Gordon, NOR 15 84 48 239 Redick, LAC 17 92 51 268 Crawford, LAC 17 98 34 268 Jennings, DET 14 81 37 219 Lin, HOU 16 78 66 245 Millsap, ATL 16 97 43 244 Bargnani, NYK 15 90 30 228 Johnson, Bro 16 85 39 240 Monroe, DET 16 96 48 240 Vucevic, ORL 16 101 38 240

Avg 28.0 26.5 26.2 24.3 23.6 23.0 22.9 22.1 21.9 21.7 21.6 21.5 21.4 21.4 21.3 20.9 20.8 20.8 20.5 19.9 19.6 19.5 19.0 18.8 18.5 17.7 17.6 17.4 17.3 17.1 17.0 16.9 16.9 16.8 16.7 16.6 16.5 16.5 16.0 16.0 16.0 16.0 15.9 15.8 15.8 15.6 15.3 15.3 15.2 15.0 15.0 15.0

COLLEGE COLLEGE NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL Division I Saturday’s Games

Southwest Arkansas St. 95, Lamar 89 Houston 78, Texas A&M-CC 67 Incarnate Word 75, Texas A&M International 56 North Texas 75, SE Louisiana 61 SE Missouri 102, Tulane 72 SMU 55, Texas A&M 52 Texas St. 70, N. Kentucky 61

South Berry 84, LaGrange 70 Campbell 75, Georgia Southern 73, OT Central St. (Ohio) 88, Lane 74 Davidson 86, Stetson 80 Detroit 65, South Florida 60 Dillard 54, Loyola NO 47 ETSU 88, Marshall 78 FIU 61, Georgia St. 60 Florida A&M 100, Florida Memorial 82 Furman 89, Brevard 72 George Mason 61, Rhode Island 54 Georgetown (Ky.) 115, CincinnatiClermont 65 Hampton 72, Ark.-Pine Bluff 65 LeMoyne-Owen 63, Xavier (NO) 62 Liberty 62, Sam Houston St. 58 Lindsey Wilson 95, Robert MorrisChicago 83 MVSU 90, Longwood 89 McKendree 84, Trevecca Nazarene 80 Middle Tennessee 65, South Alabama 55 NC State 75, E. Kentucky 56 Newberry 96, Tusculum 80 Northwestern St. 107, Niagara 100 Rhodes 70, Schreiner 67 Richmond 68, James Madison 53 SC-Upstate 73, Tennessee St. 64 St. Augustine’s 98, Washington Adventist 89 Tennessee Tech 74, Utah Valley 71 Va. Wesleyan 103, Emory & Henry 72 W. Kentucky 68, E. Illinois 53 West Alabama 90, The Citadel 77 William & Mary 84, Howard 79, OT Wingate 69, Barton 55 Wofford 90, Johnson & Wales (NC) 48

Tournament Mississippi 79, Penn St. 76 St. John’s 69, Georgia Tech 58 Kansas 67, UTEP 63 Tennessee 82, Wake Forest 63 Southern Cal 84, Xavier 78 Rice 67, Santa Clara 66 Indiana St. 73, Pepperdine 70 Denver 78, Alaska-Anchorage 71 Kentucky Wesleyan 92, Missouri S&T 83 Young Harris 106, Wilberforce 83 Concordia (Moor.) 81, St. Scholastica 55 Wis.-River Falls 63, Wartburg 59 Wis.-Stout 56, Ashford 41

Exhibition Wis.-Superior 86, Finlandia 46

East American U. 75, St. Francis (Pa.) 43 Boston U. 66, St. Peter’s 65 Brown 72, CCSU 61 Buffalo 65, Delaware St. 55 Caldwell 80, Holy Names 68 Delaware 86, Robert Morris 67 Georgetown 70, Lipscomb 49 Hilbert 96, Alfred 87 Holy Cross 63, New Hampshire 52 Houston Baptist 74, Army 72, OT Lafayette 79, Penn 76 Manhattan 66, Hofstra 59 Monmouth (NJ) 76, NC A&T 61 Pittsburgh 84, Duquesne 67 Princeton 66, Bucknell 53 Towson 74, Abilene Christian 47 Yale 54, Hartford 49

Midwest Adrian 75, Marygrove 46 Aurora 88, Concordia (Wis.) 80 Austin Peay 88, Youngstown St. 86 Baker 78, Missouri Baptist 74 Bemidji St. 78, Minn.-Crookston 63 Bradley 74, Texas-Pan American 54 Carthage 80, Wis.-Oshkosh 63 Cent. Michigan 66, Jacksonville St. 61 Chicago St. 88, S. Illinois 84 Cleveland St. 78, Ball St. 55 Edgewood 76, Benedictine (Ill.) 73 Grinnell 128, Beloit 120 Kalamazoo 93, Bluffton 86 Lake Forest 71, Ripon 68 Lakeland 96, Concordia (Ill.) 81 Marian (Wis.) 73, Dominican (Ill.) 63 Milwaukee 84, UMKC 79 Milw Engineering 77, Rockford 70 Minn. St.-Mankato 81, Concordia (St.P.) 64 Minn. St.-Moorhead 87, Northern St. (SD) 76 Minot St. 96, Mary 87, OT Nebraska 63, N. Illinois 58 Neb-Omaha 86, Iowa Wesleyan 36 Oakland 86, Rochester (Mich.) 51 Ohio 81, Evansville 59 Seton Hill 88, Ohio Dominican 76 Sioux Falls 87, SW Minnesota St. 83, OT South Dakota 112, Graceland 85 St. Cloud St. 86, Minn. Duluth 65 St. Olaf 72, Northwestern (Minn.) 45 Valparaiso 94, Cincinnati Christian 58 Virginia 83, Missouri St. 63 W. Illinois 76, Greenville 49 Wayne (Neb.) 86, Peru St. 68 Winona St. 93, Upper Iowa 86 Wis.-Eau Claire 87, Crown (Minn.) 73 Wis.-Parkside 77, Cardinal Stritch 64 Wright St. 85, W. Carolina 77

Far West BYU 85, Utah St. 74 Colorado 81, Air Force 57 Colorado St. 85, New Mexico St. 83 Drake 76, N. Arizona 56 Idaho 80, UC Davis 76 N. Colorado 63, Bethune-Cookman 62 New Mexico 73, San Diego 66 Oregon 91, North Dakota 76 Paciﬁc 73, Cal Poly 71 UNLV 85, UT-Martin 55 Vermont 73, Sonoma St. 61 Washington 92, Long Beach St. 89, 2OT Weber St. 72, San Jose St. 55 Wyoming 79, Montana St. 54

HOCKEY HOCKEY NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Boston Tampa Bay Montreal Detroit Toronto Ottawa Florida Buffalo Metro Pittsburgh Washington N.Y. Rangers New Jersey Philadelphia Carolina Columbus N.Y. Islanders

GP 27 26 27 27 27 26 27 28 GP 28 27 27 27 26 26 27 27

W 18 16 15 13 14 10 7 6 W 18 14 14 11 12 10 10 8

L OL Pts GFGA 7 2 38 75 55 9 1 33 76 66 9 3 33 73 57 7 7 33 74 71 10 3 31 75 73 12 4 24 76 86 15 5 19 59 91 20 2 14 48 85 L OL Pts GFGA 9 1 37 86 64 11 2 30 82 78 13 0 28 60 66 11 5 27 59 64 12 2 26 57 63 11 5 25 55 75 14 3 23 67 80 15 4 20 72 93

Western Conference Central GP W L OL Pts GFGA Chicago 28 20 4 4 44 102 76 St. Louis 25 18 4 3 39 89 57 Colorado 25 19 6 0 38 76 52 Minnesota 28 15 8 5 35 68 67 Nashville 27 13 11 3 29 62 75 Winnipeg 28 12 12 4 28 73 80 Dallas 24 12 9 3 27 68 70 Paciﬁc GP W L OL Pts GFGA San Jose 25 17 3 5 39 88 57 Anaheim 28 18 7 3 39 88 73 Los Angeles 26 16 6 4 36 69 56 Phoenix 26 15 7 4 34 85 84 Vancouver 28 13 10 5 31 74 75 Calgary 25 8 13 4 20 68 92 Edmonton 27 8 17 2 18 70 93 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 3, Nashville 2, SO Colorado 3, Minnesota 2, SO N.Y. Rangers 5, Vancouver 2 Boston 3, Columbus 1 Montreal 4, Toronto 2 Pittsburgh 5, Florida 1 New Jersey 1, Buffalo 0, OT Washington 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, OT Chicago 5, Phoenix 2 Calgary at Los Angeles Anaheim at San Jose Friday’s Games Washington 3, Montreal 2, SO Chicago 2, Dallas 1, SO Philadelphia 2, Winnipeg 1 Boston 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 3, Tampa Bay 0 Detroit 5, N.Y. Islanders 0 Anaheim 5, Calgary 2 San Jose 6, St. Louis 3 Colorado 3, Minnesota 1 New Jersey 5, Carolina 2 Columbus 4, Edmonton 2 Buffalo 3, Toronto 2, OT Sunday’s Games Vancouver at Carolina, 11 a.m. Detroit at Ottawa, 3:30 p.m. Edmonton at Dallas, 4 p.m.

Devils 1, Sabres 0 Buffalo 0 0 0 0—0 New Jersey 0 0 0 1—1 First Period—None. Second Period—None. Third Period—None. Overtime—1, New Jersey, Bernier 2 (Greene, Henrique), 4:19. Shots on Goal—Buffalo 3-7-3-2—15. New Jersey 9-6-8-1—24. Goalies—Buffalo, Enroth. New Jersey, Schneider. A—15,226 (17,625). T—2:23.

Rangers 5, Canucks 2 Vancouver 0 1 1—2 N.Y. Rangers 2 2 1—5 First Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, Kreider 4 (Nash, Stepan), 12:37. 2, N.Y. Rangers, Kreider 5 (McDonagh, Richards), 16:54 (pp). Second Period—3, N.Y. Rangers, Nash 4 (Stepan, Girardi), :17. 4, N.Y. Rangers, Del Zotto 2 (Zuccarello, Brassard), 11:04 (pp). 5, Vancouver, Booth 3 (Santorelli, Weise), 15:50. Third Period—6, N.Y. Rangers, Kreider 6 (Stralman, Nash), 9:38. 7, Vancouver, D.Sedin 10 (Kesler, Edler), 17:25 (pp). Shots on Goal—Vancouver 14-1112—37. N.Y. Rangers 9-11-4—24. Goalies—Vancouver, Luongo, Lack. N.Y. Rangers, Talbot. A—18,006 (18,006). T—2:27.

Blackhawks 5, Coyotes 2 Chicago 3 0 2—5 Phoenix 0 2 0—2 First Period—1, Chicago, Kane 16 (Hossa, Keith), 2:34 (pp). 2, Chicago, Shaw 8 (Seabrook, Keith), 9:18. 3, Chicago, Hjalmarsson 3 (Kane, Handzus), 11:04. Second Period—4, Phoenix, Klinkhammer 5 (Stone, Ekman-Larsson), 5:52. 5, Phoenix, Hanzal 8 (Vrbata, Ribeiro), 15:56 (pp). Third Period—6, Chicago, Bollig 3 (Kruger, B.Smith), 10:49. 7, Chicago, Hossa 11 (Toews, Seabrook), 19:14 (en). Shots on Goal—Chicago 16-6-14—36. Phoenix 8-17-9—34. Goalies—Chicago, Raanta. Phoenix, M.Smith. A—17,321 (17,125). T—2:20.

Flyers 3, Predators 2, SO Philadelphia 1 0 1 0—3 Nashville 1 0 1 0—2 Philadelphia won shootout 1-0 First Period—1, Philadelphia, Giroux 4, 16:49. 2, Nashville, Fisher 6 (Hornqvist), 17:49. Second Period—None. Third Period—3, Nashville, Wilson 4 (Bourque, Ellis), 5:05. 4, Philadelphia, Couturier 3 (Meszaros, Downie), 13:06. Overtime—None. Shootout—Philadelphia 1 (Lecavalier G, Giroux NG), Nashville 0 (Smith NG, Hendricks NG, Cullen NG). Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 11-8-41—24. Nashville 13-11-9-3—36. Goalies—Philadelphia, Mason. Nashville, Mazanec. A—17,136 (17,113). T—2:41.

Blackhawks 5, Coyotes 2

SOCCER SOCCER MLS CUP Saturday, Dec. 7 Real Salt Lake at Sporting KC, 2 p.m.

GOLF GOLF EURO TOUR Alfred Dunhill Championship Saturday At Leopard Creek Golf Club Malelane, South Africa Purse: $2.03 million Yardage: 7,287; Par: 72 Third Round Charl Schwartzel, SAf 68-68-67—203 Richard Finch, Eng 68-70-67—205 Victor Riu, Fra 68-71-67—206 Romain Wattel, Fra 70-69-68—207 Soren Hansen, Den 72-65-71—208

AUSTRALASIA TOUR Emirates Australian Open Adam Scott, Aus Rory McIlroy, NIr Max McCardle, Aus Matthew Jones, Aus Richard Green, Aus

62-70-68—200 69-65-70—204 68-71-69—208 68-68-72—208 69-66-73—208

Chicago 3 0 2—5 Phoenix 0 2 0—2 First Period—1, Chicago, Kane 16 (Hossa, Keith), 2:34 (pp). 2, Chicago, Shaw 8 (Seabrook, Keith), 9:18. 3, Chicago, Hjalmarsson 3 (Kane, Handzus), 11:04. Second Period—4, Phoenix, Klinkhammer 5 (Stone, Ekman-Larsson), 5:52. 5, Phoenix, Hanzal 8 (Vrbata, Ribeiro), 15:56 (pp). Third Period—6, Chicago, Bollig 3 (Kruger, B.Smith), 10:49. 7, Chicago, Hossa 11 (Toews, Seabrook), 19:14 (en). Shots on Goal—Chicago 16-6-14—36. Phoenix 7-17-9—33. Goalies—Chicago, Raanta. Phoenix, M.Smith. A—17,321 (17,125). T—2:20.

NHL Calendar Dec. 1 — Signing deadline for Group 2 free agents. Dec. 19-27 — Holiday roster freeze. Dec. 24-26 — Holiday break. Dec. 26Jan. 5 — IIHF World Junior Championship, Malmo, Sweden. Jan. 1 — NHL Winter Classic: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Detroit Red Wings at Michigan Stadium.

Penguins 5, Panthers 1 Pittsburgh 2 2 1—5 Florida 0 1 0—1 First Period—1, Pittsburgh, Kunitz 14 (Neal, Malkin), 10:45 (pp). 2, Pittsburgh, Vitale 1 (Megna, Engelland), 11:17. Second Period—3, Pittsburgh, Malkin 7 (Maatta, Letang), 7:23. 4, Florida, Upshall 6 (Huberdeau, Campbell), 17:53 (pp). 5, Pittsburgh, Neal 8 (Malkin), 18:22. Third Period—6, Pittsburgh, Jokinen 9 (Malkin), 6:10. Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 6-7-9—22. Florida 15-9-16—40. Goalies—Pittsburgh, Zatkoff. Florida, Thomas, Clemmensen. A—17,583 (17,040). T—2:29.

Capitals 3, Islanders 2, OT Washington 0 1 1 1—3 N.Y. Islanders 0 0 2 0—2 First Period—None. Second Period—1, Washington, Volpatti 2 (Wilson, Erat), 8:58. Third Period—2, N.Y. Islanders, Clutterbuck 3 (MacDonald, Cizikas), 3:59 (sh). 3, N.Y. Islanders, Vanek 8 (Tavares, Okposo), 18:09. 4, Washington, Backstrom 6 (Chimera, Alzner), 19:11 (sh). Overtime—5, Washington, Ovechkin 21 (Grabovski, Schmidt), 2:07. Shots on Goal—Washington 9-10-92—30. N.Y. Islanders 15-12-11-1—39. Goalies—Washington, Holtby. N.Y. Islanders, Nilsson. A—14,819 (16,170). T—2:20.

Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2 Toronto 0 2 0—2 Montreal 2 2 0—4 First Period—1, Montreal, Pacioretty 8 (Subban, Price), :58 (pp). 2, Montreal, Subban 4 (Pacioretty, Desharnais), 16:13. Second Period—3, Montreal, Plekanec 9 (Briere, Gionta), 15:05. 4, Montreal, Pacioretty 9 (Eller), 17:22 (sh). 5, Toronto, van Riemsdyk 12 (Bozak, Kessel), 18:10. 6, Toronto, Raymond 9 (Ranger), 18:32. Third Period—None. Shots on Goal—Toronto 9-15-12—36. Montreal 13-12-14—39. Goalies—Toronto, Bernier. Montreal, Price. A—21,273 (21,273). T—2:44.

Bruins 3, Blue Jackets 1 Columbus 0 0 1—1 Boston 2 0 1—3 First Period—1, Boston, Bergeron 8 (Hamilton, Marchand), 9:02. 2, Boston, Lucic 10 (Krug, Krejci), 14:58 (pp). Second Period—None. Third Period—3, Boston, Lucic 11 (Krejci, Iginla), 2:15. 4, Columbus, Johansen 10 (Umberger, Tyutin), 6:16 (pp). Shots on Goal—Columbus 2-7-5—14. Boston 9-16-11—36. Goalies—Columbus, McElhinney. Boston, C.Johnson. A—17,565 (17,565). T—2:27.

Avalanche 3, Wild 2 Minnesota 0 0 2 0—2 Colorado 1 1 0 0—3 Colorado won shootout 1-0 First Period—1, Colorado, Landeskog 9 (J.Mitchell), 2:22. Second Period—2, Colorado, MacKinnon 5 (J.Mitchell, O’Reilly), 12:56. Third Period—3, Minnesota, Cooke 4 (T.Mitchell, Brodziak), 16:33. 4, Minnesota, Koivu 6 (Parise, Pominville), 19:54. Overtime—None. Shootout—Minnesota 0 (Parise NG, Koivu NG, Pominville NG), Colorado 1 (Parenteau NG, MacKinnon NG, O’Reilly G). Shots on Goal—Minnesota 11-11-114—37. Colorado 11-8-3-3—25. Goalies—Minnesota, Harding. Colorado, Varlamov. A—17,857 (18,007). T—2:42.

NHL Leaders Through Nov. 29 Scoring GP G Sidney Crosby, Pit 27 13 A. Steen, StL 25 20 Evgeni Malkin, Pit 27 6 Ryan Getzlaf, Anh 25 13 H.Zetterberg, Det 27 11 John Tavares, NYI 26 11 Alex Ovechkin, Was24 20 Patrick Kane, Chi 27 15 Corey Perry, Anh 28 14 Joe Thornton, SJ 25 4 Henrik Sedin, Van 27 7 Chris Kunitz, Pit 27 13 Logan Couture, SJ 25 8 Erik Karlsson, Ott 26 7 4 tied with 25 pts. AP-WF-11-30-13 1441GMT

A PTS 23 36 11 31 25 31 17 30 19 30 18 29 8 28 13 28 14 28 24 28 20 27 13 26 18 26 19 26

AHL Eastern Conference Atlantic GP W L OLSL Pts GFGA Manchester 22 15 3 1 3 34 70 53 St. John’s 23 11 9 1 2 25 66 67 Providence 20 10 7 1 2 23 71 69 Worcester 17 8 8 1 0 17 38 49 Portland 18 7 8 1 2 17 46 53 East GP W L OLSL Pts GFGA Binghamton 21 14 6 0 1 29 78 59 WB-Scranton 21 13 5 1 2 29 70 53 Syracuse 20 11 7 1 1 24 56 53 Norfolk 22 10 8 0 4 24 57 56 Hershey 18 7 7 2 2 18 55 56 Northeast GP W L OLSL Pts GFGA Springﬁeld 19 14 3 1 1 30 58 41 Albany 21 12 7 1 1 26 63 57 Adirondack 20 9 9 0 2 20 48 54 Hartford 21 9 10 0 2 20 55 69 Bridgeport 19 5 10 1 3 14 52 71

Western Conference Midwest GP W L OLSL Pts GFGA Gr. Rapids 21 15 4 1 1 32 81 51 Rockford 24 12 11 1 0 25 69 84 Milwaukee 19 9 5 4 1 23 49 54 Chicago 21 10 9 0 2 22 57 56 Iowa 18 7 11 0 0 14 40 49 North GP W L OLSL Pts GFGA Toronto 20 12 7 1 0 25 59 53 Hamilton 22 10 9 0 3 23 59 63 Rochester 21 9 8 2 2 22 64 71 Lake Erie 20 10 9 0 1 21 56 62 Utica 18 5 11 1 1 12 39 56 West GP W L OLSL Pts GFGA Abbotsford 24 17 6 0 1 35 80 66 Texas 23 11 8 2 2 26 78 68 San Antonio 21 10 10 0 1 21 57 58 Okla. City 22 9 10 0 3 21 56 64 Charlotte 20 7 12 0 1 15 53 65 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Saturday’s Games Toronto 3, Rochester 2 Albany 8, Bridgeport 6 Grand Rapids 5, Texas 1 Charlotte 4, Milwaukee 1 Hamilton 4, Lake Erie 1 Springﬁeld 3, Portland 0 Hershey 3, WB-Scranton 2, OT Manchester 3, Hartford 1 Syracuse 1, Adirondack 0 St. John’s 4, Binghamton 3, SO Providence 3, Norfolk 2 Oklahoma City 3, San Antonio 1 Rockford 4, Chicago 3 Utica at Abbotsford

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No. 2 Kansas survives, tops UTEP The Associated Press

Jordan Hooper led the Huskers with 24 points. Emily Cady had 13 points, Hailie Sample added 11 and Rachel Theriot and Tear’a Laudermill 10 apiece.

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Perry Ellis scored 15 of his 19 points in the second half, Wayne Selden Jr. scored 14 and No. 2 Kansas survived a stiff 2 Kansas 67 challenge before beating Texas-El Paso 67-63 UTEP 63 on Saturday night in the third-place game at the Battle 4 Atlantis. Naadir Tharpe added 11 for the Jayhawks (6-1), who never trailed. The Jayhawks won despite Andrew Wiggins being held to six points, nearly 10 below the freshman’s season average. McKenzie Moore scored 15 for UTEP (4-4), including three free throws with 6.8 seconds remaining to get the Miners within three. Justin Crosgile scored 14 points and Vince Hunter added 10 the Miners, who held Kansas to 39 percent shooting. NO. 14 OREGON 91, NORTH DAKOTA 76 In Eugene, Ore., Joseph Young scored 23 points and No. 14 Oregon remained perfect this season with a victory over North Dakota in the Global Sports Hardwood Challenge. The Ducks improved to 6-0, extending their best start since opening the 2006-07 season with 13 straight wins. Young, a junior transfer who was the leading scorer for Houston last season, has scored in double figures in all of Oregon’s games this season. Mike Moser, a transfer to Oregon from UNLV, had 13 points and 15 rebounds for the Ducks, who led by as many as 20 points. WOMEN NO. 2 DUKE 73, KANSAS 40 In St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Tricia Liston scored 19 points and Elizabeth Williams added 17 to lead No. 2 Duke to a 73-40 win over Kansas on Saturday at the Paradise Jam. Oderah Chidom added seven points and 14 rebounds for the Blue Devils (8-0). Duke led 29-20 at the half before scoring 17 of the first 21 points in the second half to blow the game open. Alexis Jones had five points and three steals during the burst which was capped by Williams’ layup with 14:27 left that made it 46-24. Kansas (4-3) never got closer than 20 the rest of the way. NO. 8 MARYLAND 84, OHIO 60 In Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, freshman Lexie Brown scored a season-high 16 points and Alyssa Thomas added 13 points and 10 rebounds to lead Maryland to a rout of

NO. 11 NORTH CAROLINA 87, ILLINOIS 51 In Cancun, Mexico, Stephanie Mavunga had a game-high 24 points and 12 rebounds as North Carolina defeated Illinois at the Cancun Challenge. Mavunga has her fifth double-double as North Carolina (6-2) bounces back from its overtime loss to Arizona State Friday. The Tar Heels defeated Arkansas State Thursday. Alisha Gray and Diamond DeShields also scored in double figures. Xylina McDaniel grabbed 10 rebounds and added seven points for the Tar Heels. Illinois (5-3) scored 19 second-half points and made just two of 15 from the floor during the last ten minutes. Sarah Hartwell and Amber Moore each scored in double figures, and Jacqui Grant scored eight points and had 12 rebounds to lead the Illini. UTEP’s C.J. Cooper, right, goes up for the basket as Kansas’ Conner Frankamp defends during Saturday’s game in Paradise Island, Bahamas. TIM AYLEN/BAHAMAS VISUAL SERVICES

Ohio in the San Juan Shootout. Malina Howard added 13 points, while Brene Moseley had 12 points and nine assists for the Terrapins (7-1). She had 18 assists over the two games. Maryland trailed 14-11 early on before taking over with a 26-5 run. The Terrapins led 44-25 at the half. The Terrapins’ next game is at home against Ohio State in the ACC/Big Ten challenge Wednesday night. WASHINGTON STATE 76, NO. 10 NEBRASKA 72 In Lincoln, Neb., Tia Presley scored 13 of her 17 points in the second half, and Washington State made a season-high 12 3-pointers in an upset of Nebraska. The Cougars (4-4) made 9 of 17 3s in the first half while getting out to a 45-38 lead. It was 58-40 early in the second after Lia Galdeira and Sage Romberg combined for three more early in the second, and the Cougars’ lead was 19 points with under 13 minutes. The Huskers (6-1) made it a one-point game late but couldn’t finish the comeback. Galdeira added 14 points and Taylor Edmondson and Dawnyelle Awa had 13 apiece for the Cougars, who beat a ranked opponent for the first time since last December.

NO. 20 CALIFORNIA 84, WAKE FOREST 61 In Reno, Nev., Justine Hartman scored 16 points and Afure Jemerigbe added 15 with six rebounds as California put away Wake Forest. For the Golden Bears (4-2), six players scored in double figures as Brittany Boyd had 13 points with six assists, Reshanda Gray scored 12 points, and Courtney Range and Hind Ben Abdelkader each contributed 10. Cal shot 55.6 percent from the field and overcame an early six-point deficit to take a 40-31 advantage into the break after a Hartman 3-pointer. The Golden Bears opened the second half with a 9-0 surge and led by as much as 24 at the 10:04 mark. The Demon Deacons (3-2) were just 22 of 58 on field goal attempts and shot 52.4 percent from the free throw line. They were paced by Dearica Hamby with 27 points and 10 boards. Chelsea Douglas had 16 points for Wake Forest. NO. 24 GONZAGA 81, COLGATE 31 In Spokane, Wash., Lindsay Sherbert score a career-high 22 points to help Gonzaga rout Colgate. It is the fewest points allowed in GU history. At one point early in the second half, Sherbert had 17 points and the Bulldogs (4-1) had a 44-16 lead. After Colgate (1-5) scored the first basket the Bulldogs scored the next 10 points. When Sherbert and Danelle Walters hit back-to-back 3s it was 18-6. An Ellie Tinkle basket and another Sherbert 3 — she had four in all — and it was 23-8. The margin was 32-13 at the half and Sherbert had 11.

Cardinals: 1st championship visit in 6 years Continued from Page D-1 quarterback Kevin McCarty’s desperation heave on the final play of the game, the Cardinals could finally celebrate a dream realized. But it seems to be taking them a while to understand the dream is now real. “It’s unbelievable,” Armijo said. “I feel very lucky for us to be in the state championship game.” The win was harder for Gonzales to digest, mainly because he is one of seven seniors on the team who have toiled as Robertson rebounded from the glory years. There was the stigma of a hazing incident in 2008 that lingered for several years, and the struggles of going through three coaches in a four-year stretch that ended when Leroy Gonzalez, the defensive coordinator on those Cardinals championship teams, took over in 2010. “We were a part of the stepping stones,” Gonzales recalled. “St. Mike’s beat us good a couple of times, and it was good to get back at them. Maybe we’re making progress with that tradition and stuff. I don’t know … I’m a loss for words. I don’t

know what to say.” While it’s a crystallizing moment for the Cardinals, their head coach wasn’t about to sound the trumpet of the program’s return to dominance. Relevance? Maybe. “We’re back when we win back-to-back state championships,” Gonzalez said. “Right now, its about getting to the next week, and we’re here at the end.” The end almost came too soon, and Gonzales felt that the blame was on his shoulders. He ran for a game-high 143 yards on 19 carries, but he also had two fumbles. The second one almost proved costly as it stopped a game-clinching drive in its tracks at the Taos 30-yard line as he tried to muscle his way out of a scrum in the middle of a pile. “It looked like big play to me and I got a little overexcited,” Gonzales said. “I tried to do too much and they popped the ball out.” Instead, it was a big play for the Tigers (10-2), who then took advantage of a pass interference call and a fourth-down off sides infraction by the Cardinals. When McCarty ran to the Cardinals 28 for a first

down on a scramble with 2:56 left, all signs pointed to a Tiger comeback. “Heart,” said Flavio Lopez, Taos head coach. “That describes everything. We wouldn’t be in this predicament — 10-1, or whatever it was — without heart. My kids have a ton of it.” It took all of that quality for Taos to muster, because Robertson stopped the Tigers from running the ball the way they wanted. After gaining 89 rushing yards in the first half that helped it fashion a 10-0 lead, Taos managed just 19 yards on the ground and 58 yards of total offense in the second half. Thirty of their offensive yards came on a two-play drive after Devin Ortega returned his first punt of the day for 38 yards to the Robertson 30. McCarty hit Jonathan Cordova for a 17-yard touchdown pass to make it 21-16 with 6:55 left. But when the Tigers needed more, they instead were hit hard by a desperate Cardinal defense. Isaac Gonzales, who was held to 16 yards on the ground, lost four yards on first down, then he had to prevent Lucero from making an interception in the end zone on a

McCarty pass. McCarty ran for three yards on third down to set up the climax of the afternoon. Both teams took timeouts before McCarty hit Larry Martinez for 9 yards, but the Tiger needed 11 for the first down. Gonzales laid on his back after the play. “It was big-time relief,” Gonzales said. But Gonzales was a big-time runner for most of of the afternoon. His 44-yard run to open the second half set his backfield mate, Lucero, for a 1-yard touchdown run to give the Cardinals a 14-10 lead. Gonzales did it again on the next drive, as his 30-yard scamper set up Lucero once more, this time for a 3-yard TD plunge for 21-10 with 11:13 left in the game. It was Lucero’s third touchdown of the game and he had 77 yards to boot. “[Gonzales is] a senior, and he knows what it takes to win a game,” Gonzalez said. “We gave him the ball, and we gave him the ball again when mattered the most.” And the Cardinals are back in the game that matters the most. It’s the stuff little boys’ dreams are made of.

Loss: Robertson driven by Bustos’ memory Continued from Page D-1 ball from 2010-12. “It hurt our town a lot,” Robertson football coach Leroy Gonzalez said. “She was a great lady.” Some of the people affected by her passing were the Robertson seniors, many of whom who had Bustos as a math teacher their freshman and sophomore years. Running back James Gonzales III was one of them, and he will never forget the day his younger brother called him with the news that Bustos had passed away. “I was driving up to the WalMart parking lot and I didn’t

even make it inside,” Gonzales said. For Gonzales and the rest of the town, Bustos’ death was difficult not only because she had ties to both high schools, but because she was a very likable person. “She’s contributed so much to both the east side and west side of Las Vegas,” Gonzales said. “A lot of people think highly of her. If you knew Mary, you’d love Mary. Everybody loves Mary. “When a lady like that passes, it’s devastating, not only for her family but also everyone she does things for.” The town came together after her death and, evidently,

so did the two rival schools. Gonzales says he has made more friends at West Las Vegas since Bustos passed away. The two schools have one of the biggest rivalries in Northern New Mexico, but if the West Las Vegas colors on the back of the Robertson helmets means anything, it’s that the whole town is now a stronger community. “If you really look at it, maybe it’s a way the red-andblack and the green-and-gold together,” Gonzales said. Now the ninth-seeded Cardinals will play for the AAA state championship next week against No. 3 Silver in Las Vegas, but there is a lot more on the

line besides Robertson’s first state championship since 2006. There is now the need to win something for a town that has just suffered a tremendous loss. “It’s not just for us, it’s for the community,” Robertson senior Joe Armijo said, one of Bustos’ former students. The passing of Bustos could have had another positive impact besides bringing the town together. It may also have something to do with the No. 9 Cardinals upsetting No. 1 St. Michael’s last week and beating No. 5 Taos on their home field this week. “It was a big hit to us, but it also motivated us,” Gonzales said. “We’re doing it for Mary.”

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Underclassmen propel Mora to 42-40 victory By James Barron The New Mexican

TAOS — In Class AA girls basketball, success is determined more often than not by underclassmen. The Mora Rangerettes got to see how their underclassmen handled the pressure of a tightly contested game on Saturday night. With one senior on the bench with a pink brace on her left leg and another in foul trouble, Mora had to navigate the final minutes of a nondistrict game against Taos with the help of sophomores and freshmen. They showed they could handle the heat from the Lady Tigers and pulled out a 42-40 win in Otero Gymnasium to improve to 2-0. Mora had to turn to its youth with Gerty Herrera on the bench for most of the game because of fouls, which she eventually succumbed to. Dressed up but not ready to play is Destiny Pacheco, who is waiting for the OK from her doctor to play after tearing her left anterior cruciate ligament. That left head coach Mark Cassidy, himself on the mend from shoulder and back surgeries, with the proposition of leaning on sophomores Brianna Pacheco and Carmelita Padilla as well as sophomore Maria Garcia. Pacheco was a better known quantity for the Rangerettes, since she performed well as a freshman. And she lived up to that billing with 12 points and six rebounds — four of which came on the offensive end. Padilla, though, saw limited action a season ago, but she came through with 12 points and five boards. She scored five straight points during a crucial stretch in the fourth quarter as Mora maintained a 38-35 lead after she scored off the glass with 2:22 left. “Brianna and Gerty and expected to do what they do,” Cassidy said. “I’m real pleased with the fact that we won with as much time that Gerty spent on the bench.”

Also making her presence felt was Garcia, who hit a big free throw with 5.15 seconds left and Mora clinging to a 41-40 lead. She missed the second, but the two teams scrambled for the ball and time ran out before Taos could get off a shot. Garcia is being asked to take on more of the point guard responsibilities to take some of the pressure off of Herrera. It could also give her teammates confidence to look to her in key moments. “It’s nice to know that we can let them know we have that confidence in them,” Brianna Pacheco said. “Because sometimes, the girls are scared out there, but we’re like, ‘You can do it.’ Then they get the mentality that they can do it and will do it.” Garcia demonstrated that she could do that against a strong AAA school, although one that is going through a youth movement itself. Taos lost three key seniors from last year’s District 2AAA championship team, but it was also missing sophomore Midnight Lujan, who was injured. That made the Lady Tigers a smaller team, and they relied heavily on junior Feliz Espinoza. She scored 18 points, including six of her team’s last seven point. She hit three free throws down the stretch, and her last one capped a three-point play that got the margin to 41-40. POJOAQUE VALLEY 62, LOS ALAMOS 60 Four of Miranda Martinez’s 16 points came from a fourpoint play with three minutes left in the fourth quarter that gave the Elkettes a sevenpoint lead over the Lady Hilltoppers in a nondistrict game. The Elkettes (2-0) only trailed Los Alamos (0-2) after the first basket of the game, but the Lady Hilltoppers kept it close as they often cut the lead to 2. They got close in the final frame, but the Elkettes were able to hunker down and maintain the lead. “We had some crucial turnovers in the fourth quarter, but we kept our poise,” Drake said.

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Davis’ return lifts Auburn past ’Bama

Rory McIlory wins Australian Open

By John Zenor The Associated Press

AUBURN, Ala. — That crazy tipped pass for a long game-winning touchdown is now the 4 Auburn 34 secondmost stun1 Alabama 28 ning and improbable play of Auburn’s wild season. Yes, the Tigers found a way to top “The Immaculate Deflection.” Chris Davis returned a missed field-goal attempt more than 100 yards for a touchdown on the final play to lift No. 4 Auburn to a 34-28 victory over No. 1 Alabama on Saturday, upending the two-time defending national champions’ BCS hopes and preserving the Tigers’ own. “We’re a team of destiny,” Davis said. “We won’t take no for an answer.” He delivered a play that deserves its own nickname. Say the Happiest Return? Or the saddest, depending on which side of the Iron Bowl you sit. Think of some of the most memorable plays in college football history — maybe Stanford-Cal, “The Band is on the Field” or Hail Flutie. This one by Auburn now has a place on that list. Davis caught the ball about 9 yards deep in the end zone after freshman Adam Griffith’s 57-yard attempt fell short. He then sprinted down the left sideline and cut back with nothing but teammates around him in a second straight hard-to-fathom finish for the Tigers (11-1, 7-1 Southeastern Conference). “I knew when I caught the ball I would have room to run,” Davis said. “I knew they would have big guys on the

Auburn linebacker Jake Holland, right, pushes Alabama wide receiver Amari Cooper out of bounds during Saturday’s game in Auburn, Ala. DAVE MARTIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

field to protect on the field goal. “When I looked back, I said, ‘I can’t believe this.’ ” Auburn clinched a spot in the SEC championship game with the stunning victory over the powerhouse from across the state. The Crimson Tide (11-1, 7-1) several times seemed poised to continue its run toward the first three-peat in modern college football, but couldn’t put the Tigers away. Asked if it was the biggest win of his career, Tigers coach Gus Malzahn said: “It ranks right up there.” But he said he’d “probably” still celebrate just like he has since his high school coaching days: With a Waffle House meal. “That’s what you coach for, that’s what these kids play for, to get a chance to win the SEC championship,” Malzahn said.

The Tigers put it away just when overtime on tap. The public address announcer in the stadium had already declared the game 28-28 at the end of regulation. But Alabama got 1 second restored and one more play after a review of T.J. Yeldon’s run to the Auburn 39. That gave the Tide coach Nick Saban a chance to try the long field goal — and now he probably wished he never did, given the stunning result. “It was a great game,” Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron said. “Sometimes luck just isn’t on your side. “It’s one of those crazy plays. It’s almost like a video game. That’s something you do on Madden or NCAA. It’s just a wild play.” The entire field looked like a sea of orange shakers as the celebration continued long

after the climactic finale of one of the biggest Iron Bowls in the bitter rivalry’s 78-year history. It lived up to the billing — and then some. According to NCAA records, it was only the fourth time that a missed field goal was returned for 100 yards. This finale even one-upped Auburn’s last-gasp win over Georgia two weeks earlier. A deflected 73-yard touchdown pass from Nick Marshall to Ricardo Louis dubbed “The Immaculate Deflection” with 25 seconds left set up only the second top-five Iron Bowl matchup and first since 1971. A team that went 3-9 last season and had been destroyed by Alabama 91-14 combined the past two seasons will play for an SEC title and perhaps a trip to the BCS championship game.

No. 2 Florida State remains unbeaten The Associated Press

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jameis Winston threw three touchdown passes to Kelvin Benjamin, 2 Fla. St. 37 and Florida State Florida 7 moved a step closer to playing for the national championship. The Seminoles improved to 12-0 for the first time since 1999 and likely will earn a spot in the Bowl Championship Series title game by beating Duke in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game next Saturday. Florida, meanwhile, ended its worst season since 1979. NO. 3 OHIO STATE 42, MICHIGAN 41 In Ann Arbor, Mich., Tyvis Powell intercepted Devin Gardner’s pass as Michigan went for a go-ahead 2-point conversion with 32 seconds left and Ohio State held on in one of the most thrilling games in the history of the storied Big Ten rivalry. Devin Gardner threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Devin Funchess to make it 42-41, but instead of kicking for the tie, Wolverines coach Brady Hoke went for the lead with his offense. NO. 5 MISSOURI 28, NO. 19 TEXAS A&M 21 In Columbia, Mo., Henry Josey broke loose for the goahead score on a 57-yard run with 3:34 to go and Missouri

McIlroy hit his approach to 10 feet and sank the putt to SYDNEY — Rory McIlroy claim victory by a shot. birdied the 18th hole to beat “I wanted to get a win and Adam Scott at the Australian finally I’ve been able to get one,” Open on Sunday, winning for McIlroy said. “But more satisfythe first time in 2013 and denying than that is being able to ing Scott the rare Australian take one of the best players in triple crown. the world down the stretch and McIlroy started the last round come out on top. four shots behind Scott but “Adam is a phenomenal golfer, drew even when he eagled the a great competitor and probably seventh and birdied the eighth. an even better guy and I feel a Scott went a shot ahead with a bit sorry that I was the one that birdie at the ninth, then the pair ruined the triple crown for him.” went shot for shot over the back Scott was attempting to nine before the tournament’s become only the second player dramatic finish on the final hole. after compatriot Robert Allenby Scott’s approach shot went in 2005 to win Australia’s triple over the back of the green and crown by claiming the Austrahis chip went well past the hole, lian Open, Masters and PGA with two putts bringing a bogey. titles in the same season. The Associated Press

wrapped up the SEC East. Missouri (11-1, 7-1 SEC) advances to the conference championship game against Auburn — a matchup of schools very lightly regarded before the season. Missouri has made a six-win improvement from its initial SEC season and fourth-ranked Auburn (11-1, 7-1) has topped last year’s total by eight after stunning No. 1 Alabama. NO. 10 SOUTH CAROLINA 31, NO. 6 CLEMSON 17 In Columbia, S.C., Connor Shaw threw for one touchdown and rushed for another as South Carolina won its record fifth straight over Clemson. The Gamecocks (10-2) won their 18th straight at home, extending a school record set earlier this year. For Shaw, it capped the senior’s home career at a perfect 17-0 as a starter in the sweetest way possible. The Tigers (10-2) had never lost five consecutive games to their rival in a series that began in 1896 — which they still lead 65-42-4 all-time. The loss also left record-setting quarterback Tajh Boyd 0-for-4 against the Gamecocks. NO. 8 STANFORD 27, NOTRE DAME 20 In Stanford, Calif., Wayne Lyons intercepted two passes from Tommy Rees late in the fourth quarter, and Stanford held off Notre Dame. The Cardinal (10-2) overcame two interceptions from

Kevin Hogan and a penalty that wiped away another touchdown to win their 16th consecutive home game. Stanford will play for its second straight Pac-12 title and Rose Bowl berth next week when it faces No. 13 Arizona State in the conference championship game. NO. 9 BAYLOR 41, TCU 38 In Fort Worth, Texas, Bryce Petty threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, and Baylor returned two interceptions for scores. The Bears (10-1, 7-1 Big 12) scored 21 straight points on either side of halftime with just 1 yard from their highpowered offense and bounced back from a blowout loss at Oklahoma State to maintain their hopes for a share of the conference title. NO. 11 MICHIGAN STATE 14, MINNESOTA 3 In East Lansing, Mich., Jeremy Langford ran for 134 yards and a touchdown, and Michigan State wrapped up an unbeaten regular season in Big Ten play. The Spartans (11-1, 8-0) finished a perfect Big Ten regular season for only the third time. They also did it in 1965 and 1966, when they only had to play seven conference games. PENN STATE 31, NO. 14 WISCONSIN 24 In Madison, Wis., Christian Hackenberg threw for 339 yards and four touchdowns, and Penn State pounced on a slew of blunders before holding off a late rally to upset

Wisconsin. Hackenberg, a freshman, showed the poise of a veteran in dissecting a tough defense. Eugene Lewis caught two touchdowns, including a 59-yarder for a 17-point lead with 13 minutes to go. NO. 22 UCLA 35, NO. 23 USC 14 In Los Angeles, Brett Hundley passed for 208 yards and rushed for two touchdowns, leading UCLA past Southern California and winning the crosstown showdown for the second straight season. Linebacker Myles Jack and defensive end Eddie Vanderdoes also rushed for touchdowns as the Bruins (9-3, 6-3 Pac-12) earned their first win at the Coliseum since 1997, retaining the Victory Bell by grinding out just their third victory over USC (9-4, 6-3) in 15 years. NO. 24 DUKE 27, NORTH CAROLINA 25 In Chapel Hill, N.C., Ross Martin kicked a 27-yard field goal with 2:22 left and Duke completed an improbable run to reach the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game. Anthony Boone threw for 274 yards and two touchdowns to Jamison Crowder as the Blue Devils (10-2, 6-2 ACC) clinched the Coastal Division championship with their eighth straight victory. DeVon Edwards’ interception with 13 seconds left clinched the long-suffering program’s first 10-win season.

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Garretson, Utah State roll over Wyoming The Associated Press

LOGAN, Utah — Darell Garretson threw for three touchdowns and the Aggie defense held Wyoming scoreless for three quarters as Utah State ran by Utah St. 35 Wyoming 35-7 SaturWyoming 7 day afternoon. Garretson was 20-of-29 passing for 156 yards in the game, which gave USU the Mountain Division championship of the Mountain West Conference. Joey DeMartino ran for 112 yards and one touchdown for the Aggies (8-4, 7-1 Mountain West Conference), his sixth 100 yard-plus game this season.

Bruce Natson scored on a 64-yard punt return with the Aggies leading 7-0 midway through the second. Natson also caught a 6-yard Garretson pass with 6:05 to play in the third to bring the score to 28-0. COLORADO 81, AIR FORCE 57 In Colorado Springs, Colo., Josh Scott scored 16 points, Askia Booker had 13, and Colorado routed Air Force for its seventh win in a row. Scott also pulled down 13 rebounds, helping Colorado (7-1) dominate the boards, outrebounding Air Force 42-25. Xavier Johnson added 11 points for the Buffaloes. Up by 10 at the break, Colorado stretched its lead to 51-30 by scoring

17 of the first 23 points opening the second half. BYU 28, NEVADA 23 In Reno, Nev., Taysom Hill combined for three touchdowns as BYU beat Nevada. The Cougars (8-4) scored all of their points in the second half and were led by Hill, who completed 14 of 18 passes for 98 yards with two touchdowns and ran for 154 yards and a score. The Wolf Pack (4-8, 3-5 Mountain West) led by seven at halftime and scored with 2:42 left in the game, but failed on a 2-point try and BYU ran the clock out to win it. Brandon Wimberly caught 10 passes for 117 yards, including a 4-yard TD strike late in the fourth quarter to narrow the gap.

New Mexico St. powers past Idaho LAS CRUCES — Andrew McDonald threw for two TDs as New Mexico State avoided the FBS-Independent cellar by beating Idaho 24-16 on Saturday. Idaho and New Mexico State — both trying to avoid the cellar position of FBS Independent schools — held nothing back in the first half trading passing TDs and field goals and Idaho (1-11) led 13-10 going in to the break. McDonald tossed a 7-yard TD to Austin Franklin and Adam Shapiro ran for another Aggie TD in the fourth quarter giv-

ing New Mexico State (2-10) an advantage Idaho could not overcome. In fact, the Vandals scored only three points in the second half. Idaho launched a final drive with two minutes left that ended with three incomplete passes from inside the New Mexico red zone. Idaho outgained the Aggies 459 to 371 yards, but New Mexico State had only one penalty while Idaho gathered eight for 95 yards. The Associated Press

Activist: Calls for players to stop use say it. But he recognizes the difference between “locker-room variation, “The word is the talk” and what’s acceptable same, created to disrespect and elsewhere. make us black people feel that “I know back in the day, peowe were inferior.” ple took it in the context of, ‘Oh, To Wooten, the n-word conslave days,’ ” Carroll said. “So jures up memories of when to take it from that, it’s bad. But he played for the Cleveland at the same time, guys [in the Browns in the 1960s and heard locker room] are just messing it shouted from the stands, around. They don’t really mean much like Jackie Robinson did anything by it.” in baseball stadiums. But in a locker room, sound “There was nothing you obviously travels. If one group could do about it,” Wooten said. of players is comfortable using “If you tried to do anything, the n-word, if one of their you’d get kicked out of the game neighbors is uncomfortable, or hurt what you’re trying to then what? And how willing do.” would offended players be to Wooten, chairman of the Fritz speak up? Pollard Alliance to promote Egnew said “it’s almost ignominority hiring in the NFL, no rant” for anyone to say it. Clay longer is voiceless. A week ago, said “it’s inappropriate, period,” his alliance, named for the first admitting that hearing it in conAfrican-American coach in the versation makes him pause and NFL and a Pro Football Hall of consider both the race of the Famer, issued a news release speaker and the context. calling for players to cease using Defensive tackle Jared Odrick any form of the word on the said if the n-word were directed playing field. at him as a slur, he’d ignore it. “The ‘N-word’ was the last “How am I going to get mad word that countless blacks at somebody so stupid enough across the country — in large to lower themselves to call me cities and small towns — heard that as a derogatory statement?” before being killed in racist Odrick said. “So it’s not really an attacks,” the alliance wrote. “To issue with me. You’re not worth use it so loosely now is a dismy time.” grace.” Bingo, wrote Jason Whitlock The sentiment was echoed on ESPN.com: “The debate surby Collinsworth, an analyst and rounding the n-word isn’t young former player who is white. people versus old people,” he Speaking on Showtime’s Inside wrote. “It’s intelligence versus the NFL, he said he has “zero ignorance.” tolerance” for white players Scott, speaking on CBS Sports using it, even if African-Ameri- Network’s pre-game program, can friends give them license to. blasted Incognito and anyone Then, addressing Africanelse who uses the word. American players, Collinsworth “How is that acceptable lanadded, “If I’m telling one group guage?” Scott said. “And if it of players, ‘You can’t do this, was acceptable language, Richie zero tolerance, we’re going to Incognito, did you use it [two kick you out of the league, we’re seasons ago] with Jason Taylor? going to publicly humiliate you Did you dare call Jason Taylor if you use the n-word,’ and now, a half n-word? I guarantee you on this side of the locker room, not because your teeth would there’s four or five guys havbe in the back of your throat.” ing a conversation and they’re Wooten is so passionate about throwing the n-word around it, he can cite the NFL bylaw everywhere, well, we’ve just that appears to address it: “Abubuilt a wall.” sive and derogatory language,” Alienation is not Grimes’ Wooten said. “Rule 12, Section 3, intent. Article 1B says this can’t be.” “It’s the context of when Wooten and his alliance simpeople say it,” Grimes said. ply want it enforced. “Nobody’s really offended by it. “The rule says ‘abusive’ or Just about everybody says it. It’s ‘derogatory,’ ” Wooten said. “I not like the ’60s. It’s not taken don’t know any language more like that.” derogatory than the n-word. Carroll can see it both ways. … What I’m always saying to He said he was taught never to young black people is underuse the n-word by his parents stand what this word is. It is the and grandparents, who would most despicable, vicious word “be shocked” if they heard him in the English language.”

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Sunday, December 1, 2013 THE NEW MEXICAN

NFL Week 12

Palmer finds redemption in Arizona

CARDINALS (7-4) AT EAGLES (6-5) Line: Eagles by 3 Time: 11 a.m. Bottom line: Philly, coming off a bye, finally snapped its 10-game home losing streak two weeks ago, but is still 6-20-1 ATS in its last 27 home games. Cards’ No. 8 will be big test for Philly QB Nick Foles. THE PICK: CARDINALS

TITANS (5-6) AT COLTS (7-4) Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer throws a pass as he is pressured by the Jaguars defense earlier this season in Jacksonville, Fla. After a difficult start, Palmer seems to have a grasp on Arizona coach Bruce Arians’ complicated offense with two superb performances to cap a four-game Cardinals winning streak. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

came back the following season to make the Pro Bowl and was MVP of that game, but his mobility has never been the same. After Cincinnati went 4-12 in 2010, Palmer asked to be traded and refused to report to training camp. Three months later, the Bengals sent him to Oakland for a first- and second-round draft pick. Last season, he threw for more than 4,000 yards for the third time in his career, but the Raiders went 4-12. So it was off to a fresh start in Arizona. After a learning period that was much longer than Arians wanted, Palmer has a grasp of the offense. Last Sunday, he became the first player in Cardinals history with a completion percentage of at least 70 percent, 300 or more yards passing and a quarterback rating of at least 110 in consecutive games. Palmer, who has passed the 30,000-yard mark in career passing, says he’s nowhere near as comfortable with Arians’

system as he knows he and his teammates can be. “We know where we need to get to make a run at the end of the year and we still have a lot of work to do,” he said, “and no way have we figured this offense out completely or mastered this offense. We still have a lot of work to do.” Through the bad times and good, Palmer’s temperament hasn’t changed. “He’s from Cali. You know how California guys are,” seventime Pro Bowl wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald said. “Nothing really ruffles their feathers. They’re very calm guys and it’s great to have that even-keeled disposition in the huddle. He kind of makes everybody like that when you talk to him and you’re around them.” Palmer’s success has coincided with the growth of a handsome mustache. “I hope he keeps it for the rest of the season,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s been working for us.”

One year later, Belcher shootings still hurt By Dave Skretta The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Andy Reid remembers hearing the news as it filtered out of Kansas City on a cold December morning. It was just bits and pieces at first, nobody able to separate fact from fiction. All he knew for sure was there’d been a shooting death at Arrowhead Stadium. It only came to light later that it had been a murder-suicide involving Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, who shot to death the mother of his infant child before turning the gun on himself. Reid was the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles one year ago this weekend, and his thoughts had drifted to his oldest son, Garrett, who had died of a drug overdose that August. He could relate to the pain that was being felt by so many people whose lives had been affected by a seemingly random act a violence that was almost too disturbing to comprehend. “Talk about a gut-wrenching experience, that’s what that is,” Reid said this week. “My heart went out to them. I understood what they were going through. As it was then, as it is today, my thoughts and prayers are with their families. But life moves on. That’s the reality of it.” As the Chiefs prepare to play the Denver Broncos on Sunday, on the one-year anniversary of one of the darkest days in franchise history, that nightmare has been replaced by something akin to a dream. Kansas City is off to a 9-2 start, barreling toward the playoffs, and Reid and new general manager John Dorsey have brought hope to a team — and a city — that had none a year ago. Still, the wounds remain for so many people close to Belcher and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins. Like Reid, they can’t help but remember where they were when they heard the news, nor can they can keep from asking the same questions they asked that day. Why would someone who

seemed to have everything — money, status, a beautiful baby daughter — shoot his girlfriend nine times? Why would he drive Jovan his bloodBelcher stained Bentley to the Chiefs’ practice facility, thank thencoach Romeo Crennel and GM Scott Pioli for all they had done for him, and then put the gun to his head and pull the trigger? In their own words, here are two stories from those whose lives were affected. uuu

There were only a handful of people in the Chiefs’ practice facility when Belcher arrived at about 8 a.m. They had done most of their preparation for that Sunday’s game against Carolina, and Saturday mornings tend to be sleepy around the NFL. Edgar Jones decided to go in early, though. It happened to be his birthday. “I was just going through my daily routine,” said Jones, a linebacker now with the Dallas Cowboys. “Got some information that we had some stuff going on outside. I really didn’t know what it was. And then from that, everything just happened.” Jones recalled that Belcher, a longshot from Maine who’d overcome great odds just to make it in the NFL, was one of the first people to welcome him to the Chiefs. They often talked about life, not just football, and Belcher seemed to glow in the days after baby Zoey was born. “I guess it’s one of those situations where you kind of say you would never see it happen around where you’re at,” Jones said. “I know as far as me, I try always to extend myself out to anyone and just see how they’re doing, how their day is going. Sometimes little stuff like that can be big support for people. But I have my days that I think

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Line: Jets by 2 Time: 11 a.m. Bottom line: The Jets and Miami are two of the six AFC teams muddled with 5-6 records. Unfortunately, the Jets have lost to three of the those teams this season — Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Tennessee — which means they have little room for error. Gang Green is 4-1 against the spread (ATS) at home this season and Miami is 2-7 ATS in its last nine road games. THE PICK: JETS

Former No. 1 pick coming on strong for streaking Cardinals

about it, I do.” uuu

Matt Cassel hadn’t yet arrived at the practice facility when one of his teammates called to say that something was going on. Details were sketchy. But as one of the team captains, Cassel knew from the helicopters flying overhead that there was something wrong. “Obviously, the facility itself was shut down. Police were everywhere,” recalled Cassel, now with the Minnesota Vikings. “Then, the team was sent up to Arrowhead.” Cassel remembers sitting in the stadium locker room, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop on the carpeted floor, for 45 minutes. It seemed like an eternity. Finally, Crennel walked through the door and delivered the news: Belcher and his girlfriend had passed away. The coach was easy on the details. He didn’t tell the team that Belcher had shot his girlfriend with his daughter in a nearby room, or that Crennel, Pioli and linebackers coach Gary Gibbs had pleaded with him to put the gun down in the parking lot. In fact, Crennel — the son of a military man who was credited with holding the team together during those difficult of times — never would discuss watching Belcher pull the trigger. “I think the intensity of the situation, the severity of it with domestic abuse and the violence and the tragic situation of a poor, young 3-month-old daughter being orphaned, there’s a lot of emotion that goes along with it,” Cassel said. “It was a tough day.” uuu

After finishing the year 2-14, one of those victories the day after the shootings, the Chiefs cleaned house in the offseason. Crennel and Pioli were let go, Reid and Dorsey brought in. There were countless personnel moves made. The entire franchise moved forward. Now, one year later, positiv-

ity abounds at Arrowhead Stadium, where the Chiefs are in the midst of one of the greatest turnarounds in NFL history. They’d take control of the AFC West by beating the Broncos on Sunday, and move one step closer to homefield advantage in the playoffs. But when they step on the field, those 22 remaining players who were part of the team last season will no doubt have a moment when they remember a day that will stick with them forever. “There are still two grieving families,” Chiefs linebacker Tamba Hali said, “and we want to let them go through their grieving process, and not keep talking about it. “This is a new day, a new year,” Hali added. “We try not to focus on the past right now. There’s a lot of positive things that are happening for our team.”

By John Boell Newsday

Line: Colts by 4 Time: 11 a.m. Bottom line: I know the Titans have covered five straight road games, but Indy (off a 40-11 roasting vs. Arizona) is 11-1 ATS in its last 12 games following a loss. THE PICK: COLTS

BEARS (6-5) AT VIKINGS (2-8-1) Line: Vikings by 1 Time: 11 a.m. Bottom line: Are the Bears still the Monsters of the Midway? Try the Minions of the Midway. Chicago, 1-6 ATS in its last seven games, needs to keep pace with first-place Lions (7-5). THE PICK: BEARS

PATRIOTS (8-3) AT TEXANS (2-9) Line: Patriots by 7½ Time: 11 a.m. Bottom line: I’m guessing the Texans will eventually win (after losing nine straight), but I can’t back them here against Tom Brady & Co. THE PICK: PATRIOTS

BUCS (3-8) AT PANTHERS (8-3) Line: Panthers by 8 Time: 11 a.m. Bottom line: The Bucs’ threegame win streak makes you pause a bit here, even against the red-hot Panthers, winners of seven straight. Nah. THE PICK: PANTHERS

JAGUARS (2-9) AT BROWNS (4-7) Line: Browns by 7 Time: 11 a.m. Bottom line: The Brandon Weeden Era returns to Cleveland to a chorus of boos. The

u Cardinals at Eagles, 11 a.m., FOX u Patriots at Texans, 11 a.m. CBS u Broncos at Chiefs, 2:25 p.m., CBS u Giants at Redskins, 6:30 p.m., NBC

Jags have covered two of their last three games. Worth a shot. THE PICK: JAGUARS

RAMS (5-6) AT 49ERS (7-4) Line: 49ers by 8½ Time: 2:05 p.m. Bottom line: St. Louis always plays the Niners tough (5-2 vs. San Fran in last 7 meetings). But San Fran is 7-1 ATS in last eight games. THE PICK: 49ERS

FALCONS (2-9) VS. BILLS (4-7) AT TORONTO Line: Bills by 3½ Time: 2:05 p.m. Bottom line: To the great people up North, our condolences for having to watch such a yucky game, ehh? THE PICK: BILLS

BRONCOS (9-2) AT CHIEFS (9-2) Line: Broncos by 5½ Time: 2:25 p.m. Bottom line: I think Denver rebounds from last week’s road loss vs. New England and begins locking down the AFC West. THE PICK: BRONCOS

BENGALS (7-4) AT CHARGERS (5-6) Line: Chargers by 1 Time: 2:25 p.m. Bottom line: I know the Chargers pulled off an impressive road win vs. KC, but the Bengals will earn a signature road win here en route to the AFC North title. THE PICK: BENGALS

GIANTS (4-7) AT REDSKINS (3-8) Line: Giants by 1½ Time: 6:30 p.m. If the Giants have any chance of winning the division they’ll have to run the table. Big Blue has dropped five straight covers against the Redskins, but Washington is 1-8 ATS in last nine games vs. NFC foes. Less talk and more action, G-Men. THE PICK: GIANTS MONDAY

SAINTS (9-2) AT SEAHAWKS (10-1) Line: Seahawks by 5 Time: 6:40 p.m. Bottom line: NFC’s game of year. I’ll follow Saints (5-0 ATS in last five Monday games) in what I expect to be a close one. THE PICK: SAINTS

VOLUNTEER

When the Cardinals hired Arians to replace the fired Ken Whisenhunt last offseason, they were in dire need of a quarterback. Oakland was ready to rebuild and Palmer was not part By Bob Baum of that plan. The Associated Press Arizona acquired him for a mere sixth-round draft pick, TEMPE, Ariz. — Carson then signed him to a three-year, Palmer has piled up some $16 million contract with impressive numbers in his $10 million guaranteed. 11-year NFL career. Arians, 61, said before the seaWins, though, have been hard son that the pairing with Palmer to come by. was “like a cowboy movie with Although he won’t say so, this two old guys. This is our last has the makings of a season of rodeo in the desert.” redemption for the 2002 HeisAs an assistant coach, then man Trophy winner and No. 1 as interim head coach last year overall draft pick by Cincinnati for Indianapolis, Arians worked in 2003. with the likes of Peyton ManAfter a rocky start with the ning, Ben Roethlisberger and Arizona Cardinals, Palmer is Andrew Luck. Palmer fit the coming off two strong perforprofile of the big, classic dropmances, throwing for 419 yards in back passer that Arians likes. a win at Jacksonville, then comBut he found his new coach’s pleting 26 of 37 for 314 yards and offense to be the most comtwo touchdowns in last Sunday’s plicated he’s dealt with in his 40-11 thrashing of Indianapolis. career. The early results weren’t A month shy of his 34th birth- promising. day, Palmer finds himself on Through seven games, Palmer a winning team 11 games into had eight touchdown passes and a season. The Cardinals (7-4) 13 interceptions as Arizona sputhave won four straight heading tered to a 3-4 start. In the curinto Sunday’s game at Philarent four-game winning streak, delphia. This for a quarterback he’s thrown for eight touchwho has had a winning record downs with two interceptions. only two times in his pro career. “To go through what he’s Coach Bruce Arians said he been through the last couple of thinks “it means the world” to years, it’s just good to see a guy Palmer to be playing for a winout there still playing at a high ner. “He can answer it better level,” offensive coordinator than I, but I know he comes to Harold Goodwin said. “It’s just work with a smile on his face, great to see him clicking with and he comes in real early and our offense right now.” leaves real late,” Arians said. Coming into this season, Palmer tends to avoid big-pic- Palmer was 54-68 as a starter in ture questions about his career. an NFL career that got off to a promising start. “I come in and look at last week’s game film and look at the A standout at USC, Palmer didn’t play at all as a rookie, but mistakes and look at the good in his second NFL season, he things that happened and get led the Bengals to an 11-5 reguready for the next one, because lar-season record. you can’t look at the past,” he said. “You can’t worry about anyThen on his second snap in a thing other than what’s going on playoff game, Palmer went down and what’s right in front of you.” with a severe knee injury. He

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THE NEW MEXICAN Sunday, December 1, 2013

NBA

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Rockets hand Spurs 1st home loss

Kreider fuels Rangers’ rout in Tortorella return

The Associated Press

SAN ANTONIO — James Harden scored 31 points, Chandler Parsons had 25, and the Houston Rockets 112 Rockets overcame Spurs 106 a furious second-half rally to beat San Antonio 112-106 on Saturday night, handing the Spurs their first home defeat. Dwight Howard had 13 points and 11 rebounds, Terrence Jones added 10 points and 16 boards, and Patrick Beverly had 11 points for Houston (13-5). Tony Parker had 27 points, Tim Duncan added 20 and Marco Belinelli scored 18 for San Antonio (14-3), which has lost two of three. San Antonio outscored Houston 39-26 to open the second half, with Belinelli scoring 13 points after halftime to set up a furious finish. TIMBERWOLVES 112, MAVERICKS 106 In Dallas, Kevin Martin had 27 points with some key baskets late, Kevin Love had his usual double-double and the Timberwolves snapped a three-game losing streak with a victory at Dallas. Martin made two free throws with just under 6 minutes left to put Minnesota up 94-90. Ricky Rubio then had a steal that led to a long fastbreak jumper by Martin, who later beat the shot clock with a jumper and then added a 3-pointer. That stretched the lead to 103-92, matching its largest, with 3:12 left. Love finished with 21 points and 11 rebounds. All five starters scored in double figures for Minnesota, which had lost five of its previous six games. Monta Ellis scored 26 points and Dirk Nowitzki had 23 for Dallas. WIZARDS 108, HAWKS 101 In Washington, John Wall had 26 points and 12 assists, Trevor Ariza scored 24 points and made five 3-pointers, and the Wizards beat the Hawks. The Wizards have won six of their last eight, and have won eight games in November for the first time since 1984. Martell Webster added 19 points for Washington and also had five 3-pointers. Nene, who returned after missing Friday’s game at Indiana with a right Achilles tendon injury, had 13 points and 12 rebounds. Paul Millsap had 23 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta, which cut an 18-point, thirdquarter deficit to 81-79 with 9:42 left, but could not get closer. CAVALIERS 97, BULLS 93 In Cleveland, Andrew Bynum and Dion Waiters each scored 20 points, and the Cavaliers held off a late rally by the Bulls. Cleveland, which had lost five straight and eight of nine, built a 12-point lead in fourth quarter, but the Bulls rallied for

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NEW YORK — Chris Kreider scored three goals, and Rick Nash added a goal and two assists Rangers 5 as the New York RangCanucks 2 ers spoiled the return of former coach John Tortorella by rolling to a 5-2 victory over his Vancouver Canucks on Saturday. Kreider netted two in the first period for his first NHL multigoal game, and finished his hat trick by tipping in Anton Stralman’s shot with his back to the net at 9:38 of the third. Kreider had scored only five goals — three this season — in his first 43 career games. His effort brought a rain of hats onto the Madison Square Garden ice. BRUINS 3, BLUE JACKETS 1 In Boston, Milan Lucic scored a pair of goals and Patrice Bergeron added another, lifting the Bruins to a victory over the Blue Jackets. David Krejci added two assists for Eastern Conference-leading Boston, which is 10-2-2 in its past 14 games. Boston’s Chad Johnson needed only 13 saves for the win in just his fifth start. No. 1 goalie Tuukka Rask was given the night off.

Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginobili, right, shoots against Rockets center Dwight Howard during the first half of Saturday’s game in San Antonio. DARREN ABATE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

an 88-87 edge on Tony Snell’s basket with 3:59 remaining. Bynum’s jumper put Cleveland ahead again with 3:35 left, and Kyrie Irving scored after stealing the ball from Kirk Hinrich. Waiters converted another turnover into a layup to put the Cavaliers ahead 93-88 with 2:09 to play. Luol Deng scored 27 points for the Bulls, who finished 1-5 on their road trip in which they lost point guard Derrick Rose for the season with a knee injury. Irving added 19 points for Cleveland.

not played in the Grizzlies’ two previous games, scored a career-high 22 points. Mike Conley had 16 points and 10 assists, while Tony Allen had 13 points. The Nets led by as many as 16 and withstood a fourthquarter rally led by Pondexter that pulled Memphis within one.

BUCKS 92, CELTICS 85 In Milwaukee, O.J. Mayo rebounded from a subpar game with 22 points and the Milwaukee Bucks snapped an 11-game losing streak with a 92-85 victory over the Boston NETS 97, GRIZZLIES 88 Celtics on Saturday night. In Memphis, Tenn., Joe JohnTwo of Milwaukee’s three son scored 26 points, Brook victories this season have Lopez added 12 of his 20 in the come against Boston. The fourth quarter, and the Nets Bucks beat the Celtics, beat the Grizzlies. 105-98, on Nov. 1 in Boston. Andray Blatche scored Jared Sullinger scored 21 off the Nets bench, making 21 points and had 14 rebounds, all three shots from beyond while Jeff Green and Jordan the arc. Blatche entered the Crawford added 18 points game 1 for 7 from 3-point apiece for the Celtics. range this season. Boston missed its first nine The Nets snapped a twoshots of the fourth quarter, game losing streak and handed allowing Milwaukee to go on Memphis its fourth straight a 10-0 run and take an 80-63 home loss. lead on Gary Neal’s short Quincy Pondexter, who had jumper with 7:24 to go.

Milwaukee’s Brandon Knight had his second consecutive solid game, scoring 20 points with nine rebounds and eight assists after scoring 17 points against Charlotte. JAZZ 112, SUNS 104 In Phoenix, rookie Trey Burke had the biggest game of his young NBA career, scoring 20 points to lead seven Utah players in double figures and the Jazz to their first road victory of the season, 112-104 over the Phoenix Suns on Saturday night. Richard Jefferson added 15 for the Jazz, who were 0-9 on the road entering the contest and lost 112-101 at home to Phoenix on Friday night. Marvin Williams and Derrick Favors added 14 apiece. Goran Dragic had 24 points and nine assists for the Suns. Channing Frye added 17 points for Phoenix. Utah has won two of three but has just three victories in 18 games this season. Burke’s previous high was 14 in the Jazz’s overtime win over Chicago two games ago.

PENGUINS 5, PANTHERS 1 In Sunrise, Fla., Evgeni Malkin scored a goal and had three assists to lift the Penguins over the Panthers. Jussi Jokinen, James Neal, Chris Kunitz and Joe Vitale also scored goals for Pittsburgh, who won its third straight game. Jeff Zatkoff stopped 39 shots, including 15 in the first period. Malkin has four goals and 13 assists during an eight-game point streak. DEVILS 1, SABRES 0 (OT) In Newark, N.J., Steve Bernier scored at 4:19 of overtime and Cory Schneider made 15 saves and the Devils shut out the Sabres. Schneider has won back-toback games after beating Carolina on Friday night. Andy Greene stole the puck and passed it to Bernier, who beat Jhonas Enroth with a high shot for the Devils.

as guarded, even cold. She was light and playful as the sometimes CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Danica Patrick scantily clad “GoDaddy traditionally winds down each season Girl” in all those Super with a series of interviews designed to Bowl commercials, but reflect on the past year and look ahead at she was strictly business what’s next for one of the most recognizat the race track, where able figures in sports. she has struggled to Danica She deliberately left something out of put together results to Patrick her 2012 exit interviews, waiting until two match the hype. days after the season ended to announce Patrick was, in all she was divorcing her husband after regards, an enigma. seven years of marriage. She spent five seasons driving for So as she relaxed earlier this month Michael Andretti in the IndyCar Series, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in a and the team owner saw a seismic shift in motorhome, it was imperative to get the Patrick as her superstar status exploded important stuff out of the way first: Was far beyond the small world of open-wheel she planning any bombshell announceracing. ments in the next week? Pregnant? She began dabbling in NASCAR in Engaged? 2010, and left Andretti behind when she “Pregnant? No. I can promise you not,” made the full-time jump to stock cars in Patrick laughed. “The other one? I don’t 2012. know. I’m the girl. It could be never, it He has followed her from afar since, could be tomorrow.” and thought he recognized Danica from Patrick, who disclosed two months simpler times when he saw her become after announcing her divorce that she and the first woman in history to win the pole fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. were at the Daytona 500 earlier this year. dating, is open to getting married again. “Now that her husband’s out of there “I would, absolutely. I love love,” she — he was not a good influence on her, I told The Associated Press in a wide-rang- can tell you that,” Andretti said in March, ing interview. “But if I’m getting married two months after Patrick’s historic run at is not a question I know the answer to. Daytona. “That’s when things went south Should we go get Ricky and you can ask with us when he started getting involved. him yourself?” He was very controlling. Had her think in This is the new Danica Patrick, who funny ways. She was getting out of confor most of her career has been viewed trol. Her head was getting so big. You just By Jenna Fryer

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couldn’t talk to her. I’m hoping she’s coming back down to Earth a little bit.” If Patrick needed to become more grounded, her two years in NASCAR have given her that, cowboy boots and all. Stenhouse, a Mississippi native who’d never visited New York City before he began dating Patrick, has had a total transformation on the one-time diva in the designer heels. Asked how Stenhouse has changed her, she flips rapidly through her phone showing pictures of the couple at various country music concerts. Her taste in music has changed so much that Patrick will join Trace Adkins as co-host of the American Country Awards on Dec. 10. She watches dirt track racing, goes to Professional Bull Riding events and has taken up golf, improving from an inability to hit the ball to trash-talking with Stenhouse and confidently wagering with him there will come a day she will beat him on the links. “I’d say I have a lot more fun doing a lot of different things,” Patrick said. “There’s a lot more things that I’ve tried for the first time this year and I’m open to doing, whether it’s going skeet shooting or learning how to play golf. The fun we’ve had having our families here on the weekend, just having everybody stay on the buses and be with us. It’s just been a great year.” And that goes for the track, too, regardless of what the statistics show.

CANADIENS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 2 In Montreal, Max Pacioretty scored twice and added an assist and Montreal defeated Toronto. P.K. Subban and Tomas Plekanec also scored for the Canadiens and Carey Price stopped 34 shots. James van Riemsdyk and Mason Raymond scored for the Leafs, while Jonathan Bernier made 35 saves. FLYERS 3, PREDATORS 2 (SO) In Nashville, Tenn., Vincent Lecavalier scored the only goal in the shootout, and Philadelphia started a six-game road trip by edging Nashville for its second straight win. Claude Giroux scored in the first, and Sean Couturier’s goal at 13:06 of the third tied it up at 2-2 to help the Flyers reach the shootout. Steve Mason made 34 saves and stopped Craig Smith, Matt Hendricks and Matt Cullen in the shootout for the win.

São Paulo only one of the problems accident happened. It was one of the most advanced venues among the six that must be SÃO PAULO — Even before delivered this year. a crane dramatically collapsed The story is different in Curiand killed two workers at the tiba, Cuiaba and the jungle city Sao Paulo stadium, it was clear of Manaus, where there are World Cup organizers would signs they might not make it have their hands full trying to in time despite claims by local deliver all 12 venues by FIFA’s organizers that all three venues end-of-December deadline. will be ready as expected. The giant crane buckled FIFA says it will have a better when hoisting a 500-ton metal idea of what will be delivered structure that came crashing on next week, just ahead of Friday’s top of the stadium, clipping part World Cup draw in Costa do of the roof and cutting through Sauipe. a huge LED panel that runs “Next week the preliminary across the venue’s outer facade. updates on the operations of the The ravaged crane was 2014 FIFA World Cup will be seen resting on the ground provided for all operational and outside the stadium, while the infrastructural areas,” football’s enormous metal roofing piece governing body said. “Following stayed atop part of the stands. these assessments and presenClearly it wasn’t just a minor tations FIFA will provide an setback for the venue that will update.” host the 2014 World Cup opener Skepticism about Brazil’s abilon June 12. ity to deliver the stadiums intenWednesday’s accident imme- sified after organizers failed to diately raised doubts about keep their promise ahead of Brazil’s preparedness to host the Confederations Cup, when football’s showcase event. The only two of the six venues were timing could not have been completed by the original FIFA worse, putting the country deadline. under even more pressure just FIFA made it clear it would days before the international not tolerate the same delays that soccer community begins arriv- plagued the warm-up tournaing for a high-profile World Cup ment and, with about 1 million draw. tickets already sold, soccer’s But as bad as the tragedy was governing body says there is no at the Arena Corinthians, Sao Plan B for the World Cup. Paulo is not the only problem “Further inspections and for World Cup organizers just assessments will occur in weeks before all stadiums must December and January to assess be delivered. the stadiums, along with the Actually, work in Sao Paulo months leading up to the FIFA World Cup,” FIFA said. was almost finished when the The Associated Press

Patrick happier than ever, on and off track

BLACKHAWKS 5, COYOTES 2 In Glendale, Ariz., Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist in a dominant first period, Antti Raanta made 32 saves for his second NHL win, and Chicago beat Phoenix to complete an impressive road trip. After watching a 3-0 lead become 3-2 after a sloppy second period, Brandon Bollig’s goal with 9:11 left put it away for Chicago. Andrew Shaw and Niklas Hjalmarsson also scored for the Blackhawks, and Marian Hossa added an empty-net goal in Chicago’s sixth straight win to wrap up a seven-game, 13-day trip that saw them cement their status as one of the NHL’s top teams. Rob Klinkhammer and Martin Hanzal scored for the Coyotes, who lost for the fourth time in five games.

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CAPITALS 3, ISLANDERS 2 (OT) In Uniondale, N.Y., Alexander Ovechkin scored at 2:07 of overtime to lift the Capitals to a victory over the Islanders. Ovechkin’s goal came after Washington tied the game with a short-handed goal by Nicklas Backstrom 49 seconds left in the third period. The Islanders seemed poised for their first win in six games after Thomas Vanek gave them a 2-1 lead with just under two minutes left.

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any people flock to Santa Fe from distant, crowded cities in search of blue skies, fresh air, quiet and a spectacular view. To Santa Feans, it is no surprise that newcomers want to trade in their city life for a piece of our treasured landscape. But as we provide the housing in these pristine places, how can we assure the preservation of the natural beauty that draws people here? Land development is a leading driver of changes in biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystems. Nationally, land is converted to residential and urban development exponentially compared to land being protected. In land conservation,

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governments play an integral role through land-use planning, establishment of parks and by offering tax incentives for con-

servation easements. Nonprofit organizations such as the Trust for Public Land and The Nature Conservancy have successfully relied on philanthropic capital and government incentives to secure millions of acres in land conservation. But there are limitations to the public and nonprofit models. Where traditional methods of land preservation fail, innovators are utilizing the free market. By marrying the goals of nonprofit conservation groups with for-profit business models, land conservation can be financed through conscientious development. Such endeavors use an environmentally appropriate master plan, combining residential and/or commercial development with permanent land conservation. This hybrid

approach has been proven successful in securing large areas of land into permanent preservation while allowing smart development to happen in concentrated and well-designed areas within. The effect is that large tracts of natural habitat remain undisturbed by permanent development, and offer sanctuary to both wildlife and human visitors. The alternative, in many cases, is the development of roads to subdivided lots or larger ranch properties, leaving the natural habitat segmented and vulnerable to further degradation. One development here in Santa Fe County has fully embraced the conservation development model with success. The Galisteo Basin Preserve is a nationally acclaimed 13,222-acre development that

was conceived by the nonprofit Commonweal Conservancy. More than 96 percent of the acreage will be placed into permanent nondevelopable conservation easements and/ or public open space, while a small portion of the land will be devoted to development uses. The sale of home sites provides capital to underwrite the preservation goals of the project. This approach enables the nonprofit and its for-profit subsidiary to leverage private conservation investment with traditional public and philanthropic sources of conservation funding. In a political environment where people are quick to judge issues in black-andwhite terms, it is important to remember that they often are more complicated than they

appear. When balancing the needs of economic development, demand for new housing, and the need to preserve the open space that makes Santa Fe so desirable, innovative approaches to development and conservation may offer the community its best opportunity for a sustainable future. Leslie Giorgetti is an associate broker with Santa Fe Properties. Mark Giorgetti holds a master’s in climate change management, and they are both principals of Palo Santo Designs LLC, a construction company that specializes in high-performance homes. Contact Mark Giorgetti at 6704236, mark@palosantodesigns. com and Leslie Giorgetti at 6707578, leslie.giorgetti@sfprops. com, and visit www.palosanto designs.com.

INTERIOR DESIGN THE GUEST ROOM

A suite at the Mayhew Hotel By Elizabeth Mayhew Special to The Washington Post

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Designer Elizabeth Mayhew transformed a cinder-block addition to her home into a guest room with all the amenities of a hotel suite. PHOTOS BY DYLAN CHANDLER/THE WASHINGTON POST

The guest bathroom is outfitted with anything a guest could want, including a hair dryer, extra toilet paper, toothpaste and shampoo.

Mayhew had the light fixture in her guest room altered to fit in Anthropologie’s Italian Campaign canopy bed.

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or the first time ever, my husband and I have a proper guest room. Even better, our new house has a designated “guest wing.” That of course makes it sound fancier than it is, when in reality it is a circa-1960s cinder-block addition of a couple of rooms and one bathroom, all with low ceilings, flimsy woodwork and electric heat. On the positive side, it is quiet and private. In a perfect world where money is no object, we would have done what our architect prescribed: tear it down and rebuild. But since money is an object, my job was to transform it from a scrubby, pre-Cinderella-at-the-ball room into one that would be fit for a princess — or at least a houseguest. My quick and somewhat inexpensive fix started with a paint job (walls were covered in my favorite color, Benjamin Moore’s Gray Owl, and woodwork in Benjamin Moore’s Decorators White). I ripped up the old linoleum flooring and replaced it with wall-to-wall sea grass, and I had an electrician cap the overhead light fixture, so my favorite bed, Anthropologie’s Italian Campaign Canopy Bed, would fit. The wrought-iron canopy gives the room a much-needed bit of architecture. I splurged on what I think is the most comfortable mattress around (Aspire Ribbon by Aireloom) because I wanted my guests, many of whom have suffered sleepless nights on a punctured, self-deflating air mattress in our past homes, to be comfortable. On either side of the bed, I placed an Affole Floor Lamp from Interieurs. These squiggly designs have always been one of my favorites. They add a whimsical touch to any room, and, like the bed, they draw attention away from the baseboard heaters around the perimeter of the room. For the windows, I had simple Roman shades made with blackout lining, and I used a horizontal variegated blue-and-black-striped Designer’s Guild fabric (Peyron in Marine from the Mazan collection) that coordinates well with John Robshaw’s Lapis Quilt, which I folded at the foot of the bed should a guest get cold at night. The white sheets from Pottery Barn are all cotton, as are the

two matching Restoration Hardware bathrobes that hang in the nearly empty closet. The only other items in the closet are two PureLoft hypoallergenic pillows (www.landsend.com) in case my guest is allergic to the feather ones on the bed, and some Chinese slippers (www.pearlriver.com). The drawers of an antique Swedish dresser are empty, and there are no other knickknacks in the room save a couple of Country Life back issues, a collection of humorous essays from the New Yorker, an alarm clock and a fresh bottle of water (which I replace nightly during visits) on the bedside table. There is nothing objectionable on the walls, only a collection of blueand-white Willow Ware plates and platters that belonged to my mother that I hung in a symmetrical arrangement and an antique Dutch ebony mirror. The room is meant to be restful, uncluttered and welcoming — as close to a nice hotel room as I could make it. The bathroom is equally well appointed with a Restoration Hardware medicine cabinet that I filled with everything a guest could possibly need: a sewing kit, toothpaste, two extra toothbrushes, dental floss, a razor, sunscreen, cotton swabs, a mini flashlight, a mini first aid kit, body lotion, Advil, a shower cap and an emery board. Inside the vanity there is a hair dryer, extra toilet paper and a box of tissues. I double-hung towel rods so that there are plenty of white terry towels available. And just like a boutique hotel, I selected my signature brand of hair products, Fekkai’s Glossing shampoo and conditioner; a bottle of each tidily stands in the shower caddy. All in all, the room can rival just about any decent hotel suite, so it has come as no surprise to me that several house guests later, a robe is missing (really!), the hair dryer is gone and one guest’s late-night raid of our freezer left a permanent chocolate ice cream stain on the quilt. I guess I could look on the bright side and say that I am flattered that my guests felt our home so resembled a hotel that they forgot that they were at someone’s house.

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81 BLUESTEM DRIVE $1,150,000 Custom-built main house and guesthouse with mountain views in a gated community. #201204510 ANN BRUNSON & ED SCHROEDER 505.690.7885

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2 Estrella de la Manana - The Ridges - This elegant light-filled home has a cozy separate casita. There are high ceilings and clean lines throughout, creating a pleasant sunny atmosphere that flows to lovely landscaped patios, plus there is a two-car garage with a heated third bay. This home truly has something for everyone. 4 br, 4 ba, 3,149 sq.ft., 4 acres. SantaFeProperties.com/201304840

7 Dovela Place - This home offers a variety of living spaces, and is privately sited on a 121-acre greenbelt. The chef's kitchen has stainless steel appliances and opens to formal dining. This home has a unique, artistic atmosphere with natural light and a fenced back yard. There are new Pella windows plus a private well. 4 br, 2 ba, 3,118 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 1.65 acres. SantaFeProperties.com/201305481

110 Camino Los Abuelos - This inviting adobe and frame home sits on 12-plus acres with unobstructed mountain views, and horses are allowed. The passive solar orientation adds plenty of natural light and offers majestic views from nearly every room. There is a private well, and no covenants. 3 br, 2 ba, 2,700 sq.ft., 2-car garage. SantaFeProperties.com/201301634

1 Camino Caballos Spur - Tierra De Casta - A private and lush property in the Highway 285 corridor, this home overlooks Ortiz Mountain views. The classic pueblo style home offers a detached studio/guesthouse with bath on five acres, so bring your horses and create your own ranchette. 3 br, 3 ba, 2,633 sq.ft., 2-car garage. SantaFeProperties.com/201300671

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3 Ladera Place - Perched high on a park-like, almost twoacre setting sits this lovely custom designed home built by Marsh Homes. There are high ceilings and Santa Fe details throughout, plus portals with awnings and mature landscaping. A large private master suite features a separate patio door. 3 br, 3 ba, 2,236 sq.ft., 3-car garage. SantaFeProperties.com/201304930

6 Marcellina Lane - Private and endearing best describe this rare offering. This is an incredible opportunity with a possible owner carry option. This is a timeless and historic compound offering in the Village of Galisteo. The 1,680 sq.ft. main house dates back to the 1800s and has been lovingly cared for. 3 br, 3 ba, 2,368 sq.ft., 0.52 acre. SantaFeProperties.com/201302115

8 Domingo Court - Eldorado - Santa Fe character and ambiance abound throughout this delightful rammed earth, energy-efficient custom design home. Located on a greenbelt, this home has only a few steps between the entry way and the living areas, kitchen and sunroom. 3 br, 2 ba, 2,239 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 2.17 acres. SantaFeProperties.com/201302826

11 Monte Alto Place - Eldorado - Tucked down a quiet culde-sac and protected by a green belt lies this charming, light-filled home with two separate living areas; one for living and the other for your imagination. This traditionally-styled home has clerestory windows and incredible views. 3 br, 3 ba, 2,683 sq.ft., 1.69 acres. SantaFeProperties.com/201304714

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40-A Camino Cerrado - Just 20 minutes from the historic Santa Fe Plaza, this elegant compound has equestrian facilities, a riding arena, and a 200-year-old restored adobe main house. See this true paradise in the Pojoaque Valley. 6 br, 6 ba, 6,345 sq.ft., 3-car garage, 12.27 acres. Directions: 285/84 North to CR 103 - Camino Cerrado. SantaFeProperties.com/201301980

2323 Old Arroyo Chamiso Road - This exquisite northern New Mexico pitched-roof home has views of two mountain ranges and city lights. It is close to restaurants, schools, shopping and the hospital, with easy access to I-25. 3 br, 3 ba, 3,541 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 1 acre. Directions: Old Pecos Trail, right on West Zia, left on Old Arroyo Chamiso Road. SantaFeProperties.com/201303862

215 Camino Encantado - This classic Bill Lumpkins 1950s-era home has been refurbished with integrity on two acres. It offers 100-mile views, but is only two paved miles from downtown Santa Fe off Bishops Lodge Road. 3 br, 2 ba, 3,600 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 2 acres. Directions: Bishops Lodge Road to Camino Encantado. SantaFeProperties.com/201200650

942 Paseo Del Sur - The light is invited into this home through banks of Palladium windows and skylights. Fling open the French doors and dine al fresco in the courtyard garden. Here is your opportunity to enjoy true ‘in-and-out’ living. 4 br, 4 ba, 3,126 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 1.7 acres. Directions: Hyde Park to Gonzales Road to Paseo Del Sur. SantaFeProperties.com/201201714

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23 Plaza Del Corazon - Las Campanas - With its spectacular view of the two finishing holes, the enormous lake and inspiring sunset mountain views, this end unit casita has arguably one of the nicest settings in the Community of Las Campanas. Membership to the Club at Las Campanas is not required. 2 br, 3 ba, 2,180 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 0.25 acre. SantaFeProperties.com/201300021

153 West Zia - A gracious classic casa in Sol y Lomas, this home has a walled courtyard entry reminiscent of a Mexican Hacienda, with a guest casita and plenty of land with views. The home features a formal dining room, an enormous living room and an attached guest suite with its own separate entry. 4 br, 3 ba, 3,750 sq.ft., 1 acre. SantaFeProperties.com/201304171

274 El Duane Court - This free-standing townhouse is situated on a greenbelt with sunset views and an exceptional sense of privacy. This lovely home is located within one mile of the Plaza, yet feels like living in a quiet rural setting. It features an open concept floor plan and a patio terrace. 2 br, 2 ba, 1,400 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 0.12 acre. SantaFeProperties.com/201305085

Unit 14 Tres Lagunas - Come build your dream cabin on the last cabin site in the heart of the majestic Tres Lagunas, on the Pecos River. This condominium unit site overlooks the stocked fishing ponds and there are fishing rights in the Pecos River. The community of Tres Lagunas is located only 45 minutes from Santa Fe. SantaFeProperties.com/201305015

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400 Cortez Place - Minutes from the Railyard area and Farmer's Market, this charming home brings back a longing for days gone by. Classic features include a built-in china cabinet, hardwood floors, and a backyard studio. 3 br, 3 ba, 2,415 sq.ft. Directions: Agua Fria west, past St. Francis turn right on the 3rd street (Cortez Place) last house on left side. SantaFeProperties.com/201303794

17 Old Santa Fe Way - Features in this spacious home include brick floors, a kiva fireplace, beams, and a detached 659 sq.ft. art studio with a large deck. There is a new private well, new roof, stucco and double pane windows. The lot is on a hillside with mature trees and large rock outcroppings. 2 br, 2 ba, 1,793 sq.ft., 1.9 acres. SantaFeProperties.com/201305247

824-1/2 Manhattan Avenue - A private pied-à-terre in the Railyard District, this home has great outdoor entertaining areas with landscaping, lighting and a fireplace. There are also two offstreet parking spaces. 2 br, 1 ba, 880 sq.ft., 0.1 acre. Directions: From St. Francis turn onto Manhattan and go down the little lane to the very end. The lane is just after Juanita Street. SantaFeProperties.com/201305351

845 Rio Vista Street - This spotless Stamm home features real hardwood floors in the living areas and bedrooms. There is new tile in the kitchen, a new water heater and a new bathtub. 3 br, 1 ba, 1,029 sq.ft., 1-car garage, 0.17 acre. Directions: St. Francis Drive, north to Alamo, left on Alamo to Rio Vista. Property on left. SantaFeProperties.com/201304904

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1127 OLD SANTA FE TRAIL $950,000 Old Santa Fe Trail Compound. Located on 1.2 acres across from Museum Hill, this 2 bedroom main home, 2 bedroom guest house and studio are now available and represent the extraordinary opportunity for expansion and embellishment.

1105 MANSION RIDGE ROAD $865,000 This elegant Mansion Ridge estate, just minutes to the Plaza, combines the pleasure of quiet living with the convenience of location. Entertain all summer long with a luxurious heated in-ground pool.

581 CAMINO MONTEBELLO $849,000 Lovely custom home minutes to town. Many features including a gourmet cook’s kitchen, oak ﬂoors, high viga ceilings and great light. Includes three bedrooms plus a media room/den. Walk to town on nearby hiking trails.

851 MAGEE LANE $849,000 Tucked away on a downtown street and nestled up in the hills is this extraordinary three bedroom, three bath property renovated by acclaimed designer David Naylor with a contemporary feel. An oasis of peace and tranquility.

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1204 GONZALES COURT $679,000 NEW LISTING. Magniﬁcent views abound from this lovely home on a private hilltop. A front portal entry offers beautiful Jemez views and sunsets with enchanting landscaping. This 3BR, 2BA residence offers an office/studio space and 2-car garage.

11 VISTA PRECIOSO $580,000 Incredible luxury and easy Aldea living. This custom 3BR, 3BA home features unique details by Santa Fe craftsman and artisans. Masterfully executed by one of Santa Fe’s top luxury builders. Comfort, elegance and convenience.

750 WEST MANHATTAN AVENUE $495,000 Downtown Railyard residence on beautifully landscaped lot. Walled front brick courtyard, and walled backyard with patios and fountain. Study/den with French doors to the living room, Saltillo tile ﬂoors, plaster walls, and solid wood doors.

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4 ENTRADA EMPINADA $449,000 This gem of a property sits on over 2 acres of meadowlike land with gorgeous Sangre de Cristo views. Passive solar design with an open floor plan, tile and brick floors, vigas, beams, and a kiva fireplace. Includes a horse corral and stall.

4 CONCHAS COURT $359,000 Lovely Eldorado home with a wonderful ﬂoor plan and Contemporary ﬂair. Features include 4BR, 3BA, an open kitchen dining area, a large living room with high wood beamed ceilings, and numerous outdoor areas.

4 PAJARITO DE AZUL $305,000 This delight of a home, located in the charming village of Chupadero, features 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and approx. 2,177 sq ft. Infused with the charm of Northern New Mexico in a pastoral setting only 20 minutes from downtown Santa Fe.

3101 OLD PECOS TRAIL, #228 $295,000 Lovely Quail Run Plaza home near the clubhouse and spa. Features 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, designer touches, nice interior ﬁnishes, 24-hour hosted security gate, restaurant, golf, tennis, and spa ﬁtness center just 3 miles from the Plaza.

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9 Sendero Centro A beautiful home in a private and spectacular setting in Las Campanas. This home and guesthouse are part of the Las Campanas Club Casitas, with a setting that overlooks the lake and the ﬁnishing holes of the two Jack Nicklaus courses. 3 br, 4 ba, 3,609 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 0.4 acre. $1,495,000 MLS# 201304806

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17 Green Meadow Loop Immaculate, Surrounded by Views, Artist Studio - Las Campanas - Beautifully remodeled home with an open living area and big views to the west and east. Three bedroom suites, study, large studio. ‘Corn Maiden’ sculpture by Frank McGuire in the backyard is included. 3 br, 5 ba, 3,481 sq.ft., 3-car garage, 1.78 acres. $1,125,000 MLS# 201305746 LAURIE FARBER-CONDON (505) 412-9912 • Laurie.Farber@sfprops.com Santa Fe Properties • (505) 982-4466 1000 Paseo de Peralta • Santa Fe, NM www.SantaFeProperties.com

1234 La Entrada Santa Fe style house + casita located in Hyde Park

5 minutes from the hospital. Drop dead Sangre views, walled courtyards front & back. New roof, stucco, & carpet. High ceilings, tall windows, light & bright throughout, granite countertops, vigas with T&G, nichos, diamond plaster, open ﬂoor plan, 0.25 acre lot, quiet cul-de-sac street, master bedroom separation from other bedrooms. $499,000 MLS# 201304592

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Beautifully landscaped courtyard leads into the single level home with flexible open floorplan. East-facing portal with kiva extending the length of the home. Remodeled kitchen, master with renovated bathroom, new windows, bonus room for office or studio located off the heated 3-car garage, new stucco and more!!! $790,000 MLS# 201305260

JENNIFER TOMES (505) 690-6477 • jentomes@me.com Dougherty Real Estate Co., LLC • (505) 989-7741 433 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, NM dresf.com

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1391 Vista Colorado Custom 3B/2 1/2B home in La Mariposa.

acres. 3-car carport & surrounded by beautiful trees. New septic for casita + new furnace in main house! Great opportunity about 5+/- minutes from the Plaza, close to skiing & hiking! $410,000 MLS# 201304251

TANYA L CLOKEY (505) 670-5154 • tlc.coldwellbanker@yahoo.com Coldwell Banker Trails West • (505) 988-7285 2000 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM www.cbsantafe.com

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254 Plaza Canada Only minutes to town this pristine Townhome offers 2 Bedrooms, 2 baths on a quiet cul-de-sac. Large great room with refinished brick flooring, clerestory windows, vigas and a kiva fireplace. A separate family room off the kitchen for family living. Large back yard, walled in for pets and privacy. Off Camino Alire - Follow Signs 12 to 3. $275,000 MARY GUZMAN (505) 570-1463 • maryguzman@hotmail.com Keller Williams Realty Santa Fe • (505) 988-3700 130 Lincoln Avenue Suite K, Santa Fe, NM www.kwsantafenm.com

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1103 Bishops Lodge Road The Home You’ve Been Waiting For is Here! With mesmerizing views, this completely remodeled adobe is less than two miles to Plaza. There are stunning ﬁnishes throughout and top-of-the-line appliances in the kitchen. 4 br, 4 ba, 3,164 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 2.34 acres. $1,250,000

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CANYON ROAD GALLERY SPACE OR RESIDENCE 602 A CANYON ROAD In the heart of the Canyon Road arts district, this light-filled property designed by Doug Atwill currently functions as a gallery but would make an exquisite private three-bedroom, three-bath residence. The main property has been elegantly updated with top-of-the-line fixtures, appliances and materials. The flexible property also includes a historic one-bedroom casita, walled drip-irrigated gardens with mature plantings, and parking for up to seven cars. Meticulously maintained and cared for, this is a gem nestled in the heart of Canyon Road. MLS# 201304033

Offered at $1,950,000 The Santa Fe Team 505.954.5548 jeff.harakal@sothebyshomes.com Sotheby’S InternatIonal realty • 505.988.2533 sothebyshomes.com/santafe

Easy Access To All That Is Santa Fe & Northern New Mexico 38 Centaurus Ranch Road Aldea De Santa Fe – A custom and classic Santa Fe style casa. Features include a double-door entry, an Anasazi-style kiva, custom ceiling treatments, four sets of French doors accessing the back portal, open concept living/ dining, chefs kitchen with generous farm sink, granite, stainless and Alder ﬁnishes, and a split bedroom ﬂoorplan that includes a private owner’s suite. Outdoor living feels expansive with a large portal, terraced gardens, green space and a generous corner lot. The house is plumbed for the following upgrades: refrigerated air conditioning, a whole house vacuum system and a steam shower. 3 br, 2 ba, 2,499 sq.ft., 2-car garage MLS #201304135

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OWNER FINANCING - 10%-15% down. Fantastic larger townhome, three bedrooms, three baths, near Ragel Park and Geneva Chavez Center. Gourmet kitchen with hardwood floors. Larger lot with enclosed flagstone patios, fireplaces, bancos, exposed adobe walls. New carpet. MUST SEE! Only $273,000. Call 505204-1900.

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CORONADO CONDOMINIUMS for Rent, 1 bedroom $600 monthly, 2 Bedroom $675 monthly, $400 deposit. 505-465-0057 or 505-690-7688 COZY STUDIO, $750 monthly, $500 deposit, includes utilities, washer, dryer. Saltillo tile, great views. No Smoking or Pets. CALL 505-231-0010. E. PALACE. Two blocks from Plaza. One Bedroom, No Pets, Non-Smoker. $790 plus deposit. Washer, dryer. Utilities paid. 505-983-3728, 505-4701610.

TESUQUE 1 Bedroom Apartment, Fenced in yard, big lot, lots of hiking trails, $900 monthly utilities included. 505-982-9850

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Large one bedroom including loft two bath $1350. One bedroom one b a t h $900. Modern kitchens and appliances, New carpet and paint. 505-603-0052.

1 BEDROOM Coronado Condos. $550 monthly plus utilities, $400 deposit. Clean, fresh paint, new floors. No pets, non-smoking. 505-670-9867, 505473-2119.

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CAMINO CAPITAN, one bedroom, one bath in quiet fourplex, fireplace, off street parking. $650 Western Equities 505-982-420.

FULLY FURNISHED STUDIO, $750. Utilities paid, charming, clean, fireplace, wood floors. 5 minute walk to Railyard. Sorry, No Pets. 505471-0839

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BELLEMAH 3 bedroom 1.5 bath. Carport, fenced back yard. 1 year lease, $900 monthly plus utilities, $500 deposit. 505-852-2589.

MUST SEE! Large Remodeled 3 bedroom, 2 bath plus den. 1,777sq.ft $1,350 monthly + electric, $1000 deposit. 3108 Jemez Road, Santa Fe, NM. 505-412-2377 NAVA ADE 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH. Garage, all appliances. Fireplace, storage unit, Access to clubhouse (workout, pool). Low maintenance. 1500 sq.ft. $1200. 505-660-1264

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FAMILY SERVICES ASSISTANT Full-time position working with Head Start & Early Head Start programs. Excellent benefits. Apply on line at www.pms-inc.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491. EOE /M /F /D /V /AA Follow us on Facebook.

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WAREHOUSES 2000 SQUARE foot space with high ceilings & 2 overhead doors. Office, bath. Great for auto repair. $1600 monthly. 505-660-9523 COMMERCIAL WAREHOUSE Space with big garage door. Ideal for storage. Includes heat, security and auto wrought iron gate with plenty of parking. 1550 Squ.ft., $ 900.00 plus utilities. Month of November Free, sooner you move in the better the savings. Year lease No Live In. Please call 505-216-1649 7504 Avenger Way Suite C. Warehouse for lease 40x60 2400 sq.ft. heated, security system, full bath with shower, 1544 Center Drive. $1700 monthly. 505-670-6910

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INTAKE COORDINATOR Full-time position at Valley Community Health Center in Espanola. Requires independent NM behavioral health professional license & 3 years experience in behavioral health treatment. MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIST - MST Full-time positions in Espanola, Santa Fe & Taos areas working with adolescents & their families in home-based & community settings. Has on-call responsibilities. Program administered thru Santa Fe Community Guidance Center. RN & RN - Lead Part-time positions working weekends 20 hours per week with Community Home Health Care & The Hospice Center. Excellent benefits. Apply online at www.pms-inc.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491 EOE/ M/ F/ D/ V/ AA. Follow us on Facebook.

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GLORIETA, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, studio, 4 acres. $1050 monthly plus security deposit, references required. Mid-December. 303-9134965

EXPERIENCED BILINGUAL tax preparer wanted. Must have prior experience and be willing to work Saturdays. Directax 505-473-4700.

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Home- 3 bedroom, 2 bath, A/C, gazebo with hot tub, storage shed with electricity, fenced backyard, 2 car garage $1400 plus utilities

ELDORADO, DRAMATIC Artists Solar Home. 3, 2, office, studio. Vigas, vaulted ceilings, radiant heat, custom finishes. Double garage. $1,495. 719-201-3639.

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MANAGER FOR day-to-day operations of non-profit homeowner’s associations. HOA management experience or related background desired (real estate, property management, escrow, title experience). Background, drug screens apply. Submit cover letter, resume, salary requirements to hr@hoamco.com with subject "Manager-SF".

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3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2000 square feet. Minutes to Plaza. Mountain & city light views. 2 Kiva Fireplaces, fabulous patio, A/C, washer & dryer, freezer, brick style floors, garage. $1,950 monthly, includes water. 1 level private end unit. 214-491-8732

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986-3000 CENTER SUPERVISOR II Full-time, year-round position with Head Start program (children ages 3-5). TEACHER I Summers off position working 40 hours week with Head Start (children ages 3 to 5). Year round positions working part-time with Early Head Start (children ages birth to 3). Excellent benefits. Apply online at www.pms-inc.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491 EOE/ M/ F/ D/ V/ AA. Follow us on Facebook.

with experience in acute care and home care. Full time salary position with full benefits. Send resume to (505) 982-0788 Attn: Brian or call (505) 982-8581.

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REGISTERED NURSE / PACU-Holding Area REGISTERED NURSE / OPERATING ROOM Santa Fe Surgery Center Eye Associates of New Mexico is the largest ophthalmology and optometry practice in the Southwest. We currently have the above-listed positions open at our Santa Fe Surgery Center. These are Casual/prn positions. To learn more about these positions and our organization, see the expanded information on www.jobing.com.

HOSPITALITY EL MESON Hiring Part-time night Bartender. Please apply in person 213 Washington Avenue between 2 and 5 p.m., call 505-983-6756. EL PARAGUA is currently looking for an experienced bar tender. Please call, 505-927-2835.

Please send resume and cover letter stating the specific POSITION and LOCATION for which you are applying to: Eye Associates of New Mexico, 8801 Horizon Blvd. NE #360, Albuquerque, NM 87113 Attn: Human Resources; fax to (800) 548-5213 or email to employment@eyenm.com. No phone calls please. Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug-FreeWorkplace.

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Eye Associates of New Mexico is the largest ophthalmology and optometry practice in the Southwest. Responsible for the management of two eye surgery centers (Albuquerque and Santa Fe). Successful candidate will be able to demonstrate proven experience with physician relations, staff development, regulatory compliance and patient experience management. O.R. nursing supervisory experience highly desirable. To learn more about these positions and our organization, see the expanded information on www.jobing.com.

OPTICAL RECEPTIONIST Santa Fe Optical

Eye Associates of New Mexico is the largest ophthalmology and optometry practice in the Southwest. We currently have the above-listed positions open at our Santa Fe Clinic and Optical Shop. Some positions require travel between our Northern New Mexico locations, please check the listing. To learn more about these positions and our organization, see the expanded information on www.jobing.com.

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Santa Fe Public Schools Turquoise Trail Charter School 2013-2014 Accepting applications for the following: 1st Grade Teacher (Bilingual / TESOL endorsements preferred) Bilingual Teacher / Coordinator

New Mexico Highlands University is accepting applications for Adjunct Nursing Faculty. The individual in this position will be responsible for the teaching and coordination of selected nursing courses. The individual will need to be able to work with faculty, students and outside clinical agencies to arrange for student experiences.

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Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing. Experience: Two years working in community health, public health or a community based clinic as a professional nurse. Preferred: Master’s Degree in Nursing and demonstrated experience in teaching adult students. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Must hold and maintain current RN licensure issued by the state of New Mexico or place of residence. Must be willing to work evenings, weekends and odd hours. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Candidates must submit 1) a detailed letter of interest, 2) curriculum vita, 3) University Employment Application; 4) copies of transcripts, 5) names/address/phone numbers of 3 professional references. References will be contacted in conjunction with on campus interviews and official transcripts should be requested upon acceptance of the on campus interview.

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APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Candidates must submit a University Employment Application. References will be contacted in conjunction with interviews. Submit Application to:

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We are looking for Teachers for the following positions: Adaptive P.E. Gifted (Full and Part Time) Visually Impaired SPED (Full and Part Time)

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4X4s 2006 Acura TL. Another lowmileage Lexus trade! 63k miles, navigation, 2 DVDs, leather, moonroof, clean CarFax. $15,871. Call 505-216-3800.

AUTO PARTS ACCESSORIES MAPLE-TOP FARM Table, 34x60. With white legs plus four matching chairs. Excellent condition. 505- 4714713. $250

MISCELLANEOUS FAROLITOS. $7 per dozen pick up, $9 per dozen delivered. 505-660-2583. FSBO: CEMETERY PLOT Santa Fe Memorial Gardens. Double-depth plot, 2 vaults, 1 companion marker. $4,000 OBO ($5,800 value). 505-473-2905, 505501-2335.

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2010 BMW X5d TURBO DIESEL. White with grey & black leather interior. 59,000 miles. Great stereo, GPS, bluetooth, satellite, heated seats, moon roof, running boards. Perfect condition. Service and extended warranty valid to 100k miles. BMW Dealership maintained. 505-690-1984.

AUTOS WANTED MINI-VAN WITH low miles. Under $4,000. Have Cash. 505-603-3283

CLASSIC CARS 1962 MERCEDES Unimog 404 . 23,000 original miles. Completely rebuilt. Gas engine. $16,000 OBO. 505-982-2511 or 505-670-7862

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WENT MISSING from Seton Village 11-21 "Cochise" white SharPei, Lab, medium, large, small ears, male. "Hoolie" brown, brindle, mix, medium, large, short tale, female. Any information! Call Paige: 505-983-0015.

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95 MITSUBISHI Montero, mechanically and everyway great. Second owner, service records, 264,000 miles, excellent work vehicle. $2,800. 505-2314481.

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ARTS CRAFTS SUPPLIES SINGER INDUSTRIAL Sewing Machine. Mounted on table with metal stand. $100, firm. 505-474-5450.

PERSONALS FURNITURE LOOKING FOR relatives of Marie Teresita (Cruz) Reeves, born 1926, San Juan Pueblo, lived in Wyoming. Parents, Bernardita (Cata)and Avelino Cruz. 307-277-5969

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BLACK LABS: READY DECEMBER 14th. Socialized, Dew Claws, Vet check. See them at Cactusmoon labs on Facebook. 505-614-4140 DOUBLE YOUR

The Santa Fe New Mexican is seeking a motivated candidate to join the Pre-Press team working behind the scenes in the daily production of the newspaper. Selected candidate will operate, troubleshoot and maintain platemaking equipment, Newsway and PageImposer production systems; RIPs, imagesetters, processors and printers as needed in the daily production of the newspaper; layout classified and obituary pages using QuarkXpress; and download files from SFNM FTP site and enter them into Newsway/PageImposer.

BEAUTIFUL COUCH WITH LOVELY ACCENTS. FROM A SMOKE AND PET FREE HOME. $350. PLEASE CALL, 505-238-5711 TO SCHEDULE A VIEWING.

CHRISTMAS PRESENT! BEDROOM SUITE: example pictures. King bed, armoire, night stands. Many drawers, marble tops.

Candidate must have a high school diploma or equivalent; (Associates degree preferred); be computer proficient on MAC OS9/OSX; have experience with Adobe InDesign, QuarkExpress, Photoshop and Acrobat and CMYK seps; be knowledgeable in graphic files (EPS, PDF, TIF, ETC.); have complete understanding of 2-up, 4-up and 8-up page imposition; and previous film & CTP output.

Adopt one animal - like Sasparillo and we’ll waive the adoption fee on the second pet during the Santa Fe Animal Shelter’s Black Friday Adoption Event, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 11a.m. - 4p.m. Saturday at PetSmart Santa Fe! sfhumanesociety.org.

PEMBROKE WELSH CORGI, AKC, 5 females, 1 male. ROMX, background, 7 weeks, great confirmation and marks, socialized. $400, $600. 505304-8865.

This position is located at our southside location off the frontage road by I25. Pay rate is dependent upon experience. Selected candidate will be eligible to participate in our insurance and 401k plans after waiting period. Apply in person or send application/resume to: Geri Budenholzer Human Resources Manager The Santa Fe New Mexican 202 East Marcy St. Santa Fe, NM 87501 Or e-mail gbudenholzer@sfnewmexican. com Application deadline: Friday, December 6, 2013.

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Transportation Broker Seeking Owner Operators for Immediate Seasonal Work! Seeking Owner Operators with cargo vans or sprinter vans in the Santa Fe Area! Seasonal work immediately available. Additional scheduled routes available. Excellent rates!

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COUCH, QUEEN makes into bed. Like new. $475, 505-983-5260

Requirements for contracting are: Cargo or Sprinter van availability, Valid Driver’s License, Auto liability insurance, Motor Vehicle Record review, Background Check review. Don’t pass up this business opportunity! For more information please call: 888-403-1977

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ELABORATE WOOL PERSIAN TRIBAL RUG. 5’3"x13’10". $999 OBO. 808-3463635.

POMERANIAN PUPPIES: Tiny, quality double coat. $600 to $800. Registered, first shots. POODLES: White male $350, white female $450. Tiny cream male, $450. Docked tails and dew claws removed. First shots. 505-9012094.

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The Classified Sales Consultant position offers great benefits and pay with base pay and commission based on a team sales structure. Please email Amy Fleeson at afleeson@sfnewmexican.com

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WEST HIGHLAND Terriers, 7 weeks, 1 male, 2 females, all white coats. First shots, AKC registered. $600 each. 505-699-1550.

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Local Owner, Carfax, Service Records, Garaged, Non-Smoker, XKeys, Manuals, All Wheel Drive, Heated Steering, Navigation, So Many Options, Totally Pristine Soooo Beautiful $23,750.

2007 MERCEDES C280 4matic. Only 65k miles!, All wheel drive, loaded, recent trade, clean CarFax, must see $15,471. Call 505-2163800.

2010 Subaru Impreza 2.5i Premium. Only 24k miles!, AWD, heated seats, moonroof, 1 owner clean CarFax $16,951. Call 505-216-3800.

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Another one Owner, Carfax, Garaged, Non-Smoker, 14,710 Miles, Remaining Factory Warranty, Navigation, Loaded, 53 City 46 Highway, Why Buy New Pristine $19,450.

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Another One Owner, 54000 Miles, Carfax, Garaged, Non-Smoker, Service Records, Manual-6Spd, Gas saver Mpg 36-45, Loaded, Pristine $19,650.

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2012 Honda Odyssey EX-L. Another 1-owner trade! Loaded with leather and navigation, like new condition, clean CarFax. $29,911. Call 505-216-3800.

2011 VOLKSWAGEN JETTATDI WAGON

Another One Owner, 36,974 Miles, Every Service Record, Carfax, Garage, Non-Smoker, Manuals, XKeys, Loaded, Convertible Fully Automated, Press Button Convertible Or Hardtop. Soooooo Beautiful, Pristine. $17,450.

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2010 Toyota RAV 4 Sport

Excellent condition with only 41k miles. This one owner, nonsmoker 4 cylinder Sport Package is ready for winter with all wheel drive. Priced to sell quickly $19,877. 505-954-1054

2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser 4x4. Only 50k miles, clean CarFax, new tires, just serviced, immaculate! $24,331. Call 505-216-3800.

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2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid. Another 1-owner Lexus trade-in! Super clean, recently serviced, clean CarFax $13,781. Call 505-216-3800.

TRUCKS & TRAILERS 2005 Volkswagen Toureg V6 AWD. Amazing only 45k miles!, loaded, leather, moonroof, clean CarFax. $15,171. Call 505-216-3800.

PICKUP TRUCKS 2006 Honda Element EX-P 4WD. Another low-mileage Lexus trade! Only 55k, 4WD, sunroof, super nice. $14,471. Call 505-216-3800.

RARE! 1955 GMC From old Chez Renee Restaurant, runs good, 6cylinder. Not sure if original engine. 1 owner. $5,000 obo. 505-288-8180

2009 TOYOTA Corolla LE. Only 53k miles! Another 1 owner clean CarFax trade-in! Super nice, fully serviced $12,961. Call 505-216-3800. 2006 Toyota Prius III. Only 45k miles! Hybrid, back-up camera, great fuel economy, immacualte, clean CarFax. $12,871. Call 505-2163800.

2012 Subaru Outback 2.5i Premium. 25,321 miles, AM/FM stereo with CD player, Bluetooth hands-free. $23,771. Call 505-216-3800.

VANS & BUSES 2007 KIA Sedona, 86,000 highway miles, 4 bucket seats, roof rack, white. Excellent Condition. $7,250. Harry, 505-718-8719 or Fred 505-4253126.

2011 FORD F150 XLT 4X4 CREWCAB

Spotless, no accidents, 38k miles, family truck.Satellite radio, bedliner, alloys, running boards, full power. Below Blue Book. Was $29,995. REDUCED TO $25,995. 505954-1054.

2008 Land Rover LR2 HSE SUV. Bluetooth and Sirius Radio, tires are in excellent condition. 52,704 miles. Very clean interior. No accidents! Well maintained. $17,995. Call 505-474-0888.

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2012 Subaru Outback 2.5i Premium. 25,321 miles, AM/FM stereo with CD player, Bluetooth hands-free. $23,771. Call 505-216-3800.

2008 TOYOTA Sienna LE. Just 59k miles, another 1-owner Lexus trade-in! clean CarFax, immaculate condition $15,941. Call 505-2163800.

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2009 Volkswagen Tiguan SEL AWD Turbo. Navigation, panoramic roof, NICE, clean CarFax. $16,271. Call 505-216-3800.

1985 NISSAN Kingcab, new $1,500 OBO. 505-780-8988.

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YOUR MORNING FIX. 2008 Land Rover Range Rover Sport Supercharged SUV. 86,695 miles, Rear Seat Entertainment, Bluetooth and Sirius Radio, Roof Rail System, and much more. $29,995. Call 505-474-0888.

Daily headlines from santafenewmexican.com and Fridays from pasatiempomagazine.com. 2006 LEXUS GS 300 AWD. Just in time for winter, AWD sports sedan, recent trade, absolutely pristine, Lexus for less $17,891. Call 505216-3800.

1999 LEXXUS RX300. 127,000 miles. Well maintained, good condition. $3,800. Below blue book value. Must see! 505-995-9900.

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Horoscope HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013: This year you will have a new beginning. Not only will your luck be accelerated, especially in the summer and the period thereafter, but your creativity and magnetism also will heighten. Who can say “no” to you? If you are single, you may be wading through suitors. Know that you will make good choices. If you are attached, a newfound closeness marks your interactions. Be mindful of your sweetie, as you could have a tendency to be unusually meoriented this year. Sagittarius is a soul mate. The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Have you neglected someone because of the recent holiday flurry? Use today to make up for lost time. You could be surprised how fast you get back into the groove of things. Give 100 percent to make this person’s day. You both will gain. Tonight: Tap into your imagination. This Week: Everyone thinks he or she has a better idea. Sit back and listen.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Understand that everyone needs time onstage as the lead actor. Like it or not, a close friend or loved one might steal the scene. This person has been sitting back a lot; it is his or her time to shine. Go along with a request. Tonight: Act as if it were Friday night. This Week: Relate to individuals directly. Do not use anyone as a go-between right now. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH The issue is one of choices. Do you want to go out, party and play the day away? Or do you want to be practical and start cleaning up from recent festivities? Either way, you will be tired. Tonight: Go for an early bedtime. This Week: You have very little say presently, but you do get a lot of attention. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Your popularity has no effect on your plans, and there is very little you can do about it but adjust. Others mean well, and they want to use this extra time to be with you. In order to be successful, it is important to recognize a lost cause. Join friends! Tonight: Forget about tomorrow.

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This Week: You will have the freedom to pursue a distraction. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Understand that there are many ways to approach a situation. Each one has pros and cons. Decide which set of pros and cons works best for you, and move forward. Your dynamic personality could carry you across the finish line with ease. Tonight: Live it up, Leostyle! This Week: Your concentration builds until you can clear out some work. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You can be subtle, but today is not one of those days when others will experience you in that way. Be aware of how critical and abrupt you can be, and as a result your communication will be more effective. Touch base with a neighbor or close relative. Tonight: At home. This Week: Do your research. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH The good news is that stores still have merchandise on sale, and you could make a point of finishing your holiday shopping. Make today about eliminating one of the many tasks attached to Christmas. You don’t need more stress. Tonight: Celebrate over freshly made eggnog. This Week: Return calls and schedule meetings for Monday and Tuesday. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Understand your options before you decide on any plans.

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You might just decide to put on some Christmas music and do your own thing. Before you know it, you could have a choir at your house, as friends and neighbors drop by. Tonight: Make it your treat. This Week: Just because it is December does not mean you need to go hog wild! SAGITTARIUS(Nov.22-Dec.21) HHHH You’ll want to deal with different matters than what is being dropped on your plate. Deal with them, as you will want some free time in the next 24 hours. A delightful offer could be just around the corner. Schedule plans for late afternoon. Tonight: Like a magnet, you attract others. This Week: You blossom Monday and create a good start to the next few days. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Listen to a family member or friend’s set of plans carefully, as there could be a problem. How you express your thoughts could be directly reflected in how they are received. A discussion needs to happen. Tonight: Opt for some peace and quiet. This Week: Not until Wednesday do you feel up to snuff. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Be considerate and check in with a friend who might not have had a good few days. You might want to consider including this person in your plans. At first he or she might seem aggressive, but you’ll quickly learn otherwise. Tonight: Find your friends. This Week: Meetings occupy your time and your thoughts. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Instead of thinking about someone at a distance, why not pick up the phone and say “hello”? That act will mean a lot. Be imaginative when it comes to a loved one, especially if you’re making plans. Life is for living, and you do that well. Tonight: Get a head start on tomorrow. This Week: Accept the lead role.

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am reading Schottenfreude, a new book by Ben Schott in which he identifies familiar phenomena that don’t have names, but should. Then he invents one for each, in elaborate German. For example, Eisenbahnscheinbewegung is “the false sensation of movement when, looking out from a stationary train, you see another train depart.” Interestingly, just about every unnamed phenomenon in the book makes me think of at least one more. Clearly, our language is woefully deficient. Ben: Stepping down heavily on a stair that isn’t there. Me: The disorienting sensation you get when stutter-stepping onto or off a broken escalator. (I first identified and Gene wrote about this experience 20 years Weingarten ago; it has since become the subject of scientific studies involving electroenThe Washington cephalograms, control groups and stanPost dard deviations.) Ben: Sneaking sly looks at the physically disabled. Me: Elaborately pretending to scan the entire population of a bus or subway car so that, without arousing suspicion or giving offense, you can momentarily scope out the hottie. Ben: Returning to your old school and finding that everything feels so small. Me: Attending a high school or college reunion and feeling sorry for all the others, who seem so old, followed by a moment’s pause, followed by a dawning sense of horror. Ben: The smug self-satisfaction of those behind the wheel of a vintage car. Me: The smug self-satisfaction of those who pronounce ordinary words pretentiously, such as “vahze” or “ONdeeve” or “ma-toor” or “neg-oh-see-ate.” Or, God help us all, “foy-YAY.” (In a related development, I propose that henceforth the word “pretentious” be pronounced “pre-tensee-ous.”) Ben: The usually futile attempt to return to the plot of a dream after having been woken. Me: The always futile attempt to return to the plot of a sexy dream after having been woken. Ben: That awkward feeling of discovering an indecipherable note in your own handwriting. Me: That awkward feeling, drenched in the shame of betrayal, when you momentarily lose track of the game and find that you have mistakenly cheered a development that was, in fact, bad for your team. Ben: The pressure to make bantering small talk with people you interact with every day. Me: When you see a crazy person talking to himself, only to realize it is a Bluetooth conversation, and then feeling not relief but disappointment. Ben: The god-awful mediocrity of organized fun. Me: The split-second of dread, and butt-clenching panic, accompanied by silent prayer, when, nearing the end of a way-too-long business meeting, the boss asks if anyone has anything else. Ben: Feeling that the thermometer is still under your tongue after it’s been removed. Me: That weird, electric, full-body, quasi-sexual shudderthrill you sometimes experience at the apex of a big stretch. Ben: Pretending you haven’t been accidentally spat on in conversation. Me: That dishonest, smiling nod you give when someone is discussing a topic with which you should be familiar, but aren’t. Ben: Enjoying emotionally manipulative mass culture, despite knowing you are being manipulated. Me: The dilemma of whether to write something that is kind of trite and obvious and formulaic, just because you know that people are not that discriminating, and will enjoy it and talk about it.

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Statin Drugs – Energy Zappers Most of the nutritionally oriented physicians I know are wary about the dangers of statin drugs, of which Lipitor is the best known. These drugs reduce cholesterol levels, although elevated cholesterol is at best a symptom and not a cause of heart disease. Some 30 million Americans take statins, enabling drug makers to rake in more than $34 billion a year for treating a symptom, not a cause. Statins work by inhibiting an enzyme involved in cholesterol production, but the same enzyme is involved in the body’s production of coenzyme Q10, a vitamin-like substance involved in breaking down food for energy. If you can’t make or get enough CoQ10, your body can’t make any energy. CoQ10, by the way, was the basis of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The latest report, in the American Medical Association’s June 11 Archives of Internal Medicine, described a controlled study in which 1,016 men and women took one of two different statin drugs or placebos daily for six months. The drugs increased fatigue and post-exercise fatigue in both men and women. However, women were affected to a greater degree, and the higher dose (with greater cholesterol-lowering effect) of Zocor had a huge impact on their energy levels. Four of every 10 women taking the drug reported lower energy levels and more post-exercise fatigue, and two of every 10 women said both their fatigue and post-exercise fatigue were considerably worse. It’s not like the drug companies haven’t known about these dangerous side effects of statins. In 1990, Merck (the maker of Zocor) was granted two patents (#4,929,437 and 4,933,165) for combining the company’s statin drug with CoQ10. One of my medical advisors, Peter Langsjoen, MD, has published extensively on the dangers of statins and how CoQ10 can counter them. If you’re concerned about elevated cholesterol, there are plenty of safer ways to reduce it. You could exercise more, cut back on sugary and carb-rich foods, or take plant sterol (phytosterol) supplements, which reduce cholesterol absorption. There’s no reason why millions of people need to damage their health with statins.

N-Acetylcysteine Show Promise in Easing Autism Symptoms The omega-3 fish oils are well established for their multifaceted roles in reducing the risk of heart disease. Chinese researchers analyzed data from 16 studies, including 901 subjects who took fish oil supplements, ranging from 450 mg to 4.5 grams daily. The subjects blood vessel tone—the blood vessels’ ability to relax—was measured using a technique known as flow-mediated dilation. The supplements led to dose-related improvements in blood vessel tone. Wang Q. Atherosclerosis, 2012;221:536-543..

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Optimizing Neurotransmitter Production with Nutrients By Jack Challem

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docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), are required for the normal development of the brain, eyes, and nervous system. Arachidonic acid, which can be pro-inﬂammatory, is also needed for normal brain development in infancy.

affects our risk of heart disease and many other health problems. But it’s easy to miss the connection between food, certain nutrients, and brain health. Quite simply, nutrients form the foundation of our brain chemistry and, speciﬁcally, the neurotransmitters and other compounds that govern our moods.

EPA and DHA, abundant in ﬁsh oils and some types of vegetarian omega-3 supplements, are incorporated into the membranes (walls) of brain cells, where they enhance the activity of genes involved in neurotransmitter activity and connections between brain cells. Considerable research has found that EPA and DHA beneﬁt a wide range of mood problems, including depression, bipolar disorder, poor memory, impulsiveness, hostility, and physical aggressiveness. Try: 1-3 grams of omega-3s daily.

Neurotransmitters are the chemicals that keep our moods on an even keel. They also help us adapt to changing situations. For example, experiences from sex to grief affect neurotransmitter levels. However, if our neurotransmitters are out of balance, they can lead to depression, anxiety, or addictions. Most of the major neurotransmitters— serotonin is perhaps the best known one— are built on a foundation of amino acids (protein building blocks) and vitamins and minerals. Fats also play a huge role in brain chemistry and neurotransmitters. I refer to all of these nutritional building blocks as “neuronutrients.”

Phospholipids. The two principal dietary phospholipids are phosphatidylserine (combining a phosphorus-containing fat with theaminoacidserine)andphosphatidylcholine (combining a phosphorus-containing fat with the B-vitamin choline). Both phospholipids are incorporated into the fatty membranes of brain cells, where they enhance communication between cells. They can also improve memory and mood and might slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. A recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported that a combination of EPA, DHA, and phosphatidylserine improved attention span in hyperactive children. Try: Lecithin granules contain large amounts of phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylcholine, although both phospholipids are available as standalone supplements.

FATS ARE GOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN Used as a putdown, the term “fat head” should actually be a compliment. That’s because the brain consists of 60 percent fat, including cholesterol, phospholipids, and essential fatty acids. Myelin, the protective sheath that wraps around neurons and nerves, consists of 70 percent fat. In fact, one of the myelin fats is oleic acid, which is also found in olive oil and avocados. Cholesterol. So often maligned, cholesterol is essential for brain development and normal brain function. The blood-brain barrier prevents the transport of dietary cholesterol into the brain, so the brain must make its own. One of the key building blocks of cholesterol is coenzyme A, which itself is dependent on the presence of adequate pantothenic acid (vitamin B5).

CALMING NEUROTRANSMITTERS The ideal state of mind is probably one in which we respond appropriately to different situations, without experiencing extremes or mood disorders. Supplements can serve a number of important roles. They form the chemical substrates, or foundations, for more complex brain chemicals. They can enhance weak biochemical pathways, what some nutritionally-oriented physicians have called “precursor therapy.”

The brain is actually the most cholesterol-rich organ and contains about 20 percent of the body’s total cholesterol. It is needed to form dendrites (the branches that extend outward from neurons) and synapses (the connections between neurons). A lack of brain cholesterol leads to the breakdown of dendrites and synapses, blocked communication between neurons, and decreased plasticity (or adaptability) of synapses.

Serotonin. This neurotransmitter has antidepressive, anti-anxiety, and sleep-promoting beneﬁts—it is one of the body’s key calming neurotransmitters. Serotonin is built on the amino acid L-tryptophan. With the help of vitamin B6, L-tryptophan gets converted to 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP). In the next step, vitamins C and B3 help complete 5-HTP’s conversion to serotonin. Try: 500 mg of L-tryptophan, or 50 mg of 5-HTP, one to three times daily.

Essential Fatty Acids. Both omega-3 and omega-6 fats play essential roles in the developing brains of infants, but the omega3s appear to exert a more positive effect in adulthood. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and

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GABA. Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) is both an amino acid and a calming neurotransmitter. The brain can make it from either glutamate or L-glutamine, and GABA production depends on vitamins B3, B6, and B12. GABA helps the brain ﬁlter out nonessential sensory information, sort of like blocking out background noise. By doing this, it allows the brain to deal with the most important sensory information, leading to improved mental focus and reduced anxiety. People with anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia, epilepsy, and schizophrenia often have low levels of GABA. Try: 500 mg one to three times daily.

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