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City Council pursues land for fire station Councilors hastily approve a plan to lease 30.5 acres on the city’s southwest side. PAGE A-6

Three die in Sydney hostage situation Australian authorities say two hostages and the gunman were killed when police stormed a cafe after a 16-hour standoff. PAGE A-3

Advantage Asphalt rests case in fraud trial No defense witnesses testified; lawyers say burden of proof on state

By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican

Advantage Asphalt and Seal Coating owner Joe Anthony Montoya won’t testify in his own defense against fraud and bribery charges, and neither will anyone else.

Montoya’s attorney Sam Bregman and Monnica Garcia, the attorney for the company, rested their case Monday without calling a single witness or Joe Anthony presenting one piece Montoya of evidence.

“The government didn’t even come close to proving any crime against Anthony Montoya,”

Bregman said Monday. “It’s their burden to do so, therefore we have no need to present any evidence.”

Closing arguments are scheduled for Tuesday, and then the case heads to the jury.

Montoya, his company and his wife, Marlene Montoya, were indicted in 2012 on dozens of felony counts of bribery, fraud, conspiracy and permitting or making false public vouchers.

The couple and their company were accused of bribing public employees

Ruling on casino talks appealed by U.S., pueblo

By James Risen and Matt Apuzzo The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Almost immediately after transferring the first important prisoner they had captured since the 9/11 attacks to a secret prison in Thailand, CIA officials met at the agency’s headquarters to debate two questions they had been discussing for months. Who would interrogate Abu Zubaydah, and how?

A CIA lawyer at the April 1, 2002, meeting suggested the name of a psychologist, James Mitchell, who had been on contract for several months, analyzing al-Qaida for the agency’s Office of Technical Service, the arm of the CIA that creates disguises and builds James Bond-like spy gadgets.

The lawyer, Jonathan Fredman, had heard the name from someone in the office, and within hours of floating it, counterterrorism officials were on the

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tate District Judge Sheri Raphaelson spent five weeks arguing that voters ousted her in an illegal election, but the New Mexico Supreme Court needed only 19 minutes Monday to rule against her.

In a 5-0 decision, the Supreme Court said November’s election results stand and that Raphaelson must relinquish her bench in the Santa Fe-based First Judicial District on Dec. 31. She primarily hears cases in Tierra Amarilla.

Raphaelson, 50, declined to comment as she left the Supreme Court building with her lawyer, Doug Perrin.

Perrin had tried to persuade the justices that state law specifies district judges are to stand for retention six years after

being elected. By this reasoning, Raphaelson would not have been on the ballot until 2016.

Assistant Attorney General Scott Fuqua, arguing to remove Raphaelson from office, said all district judges are on the ballot for retention every six years.

That system has been in place since 1990, after the passage of a constitutional amendment, and it had gone unchallenged until voters rejected Raphaelson last month.

Raphaelson was appointed as a district judge to fill a vacancy in 2009 and then won election in 2010. The judge she succeeded took office in 2008, and that bench was up for retention this year, Fuqua said.

Perrin stuck to his argument that “the plain reading of the statute” showed that Raphaelson was not due to stand for retention this year.

This brought a series of

tough questions from the court.

Justice Richard Bosson asked why Raphaelson didn’t raise her claim before the election occurred.

Instead, Bosson said, Raphaelson allowed her name to go on the ballot without any objection, putting the Supreme Court in “the rather ridiculous position” of being asked to overturn the voters’ decision.

Perrin said Raphaelson had no legal basis to complain before the election, and she had nobody to sue because she had not yet been wronged.

But Justice Petra Jimenez Maes said Raphaelson could have gone to the secretary of state to challenge her inclusion on this year’s ballot. Then, if Raphaelson had lost at that level, she could have asked for a court ruling before the

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Tribal leaders spent about $1.12 million to buy back tribal artifacts put up for sale at a contested auction Monday in Paris.

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Both the Pueblo of Pojoaque and the U.S. Department of the Interior have appealed a federal judge’s decision to stop the pueblo from negotiating a gambling compact with the federal government rather than the state.

The move is the latest development in a battle between Gov. Susan Martinez’s administration and the pueblo, which operates two large gambling operations north of Santa Fe — the Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino and the Cities of Gold Casino.

The tribe’s current compact with the state of New Mexico, under which the state receives a share of tribal gambling revenue while development of non-Indian casinos is banned, expires in June 2015. The two sides have been unable to come to terms over a new arrangement.

Martinez in August sued the Interior Department to stop Pojoaque from negotiating a compact with the federal government, arguing that the federal agency was trying to illegally supplant the state’s right to reach its own deal.

In October, U.S. District Judge James Parker agreed and ruled that the Interior Department didn’t have legal standing. Parker said a tribe can’t invoke Interior Department rules to seek a compact from the federal agency if the tribe has failed to negotiate a compact with the state.

Lawyers for Interior Secretary Sally Jewell filed a notice of appeal to the federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Dec. 11. Lawyers for the pueblo filed a similar notice the next day.

“The filing of the notices evidence that both the Secretary and the Pueblo disagree with the federal judge’s decision and is a strong show of support

to get work from the county, then billing the government for jobs using the county’s own labor and materials.

Some of the charges also related to allegations that the company had submitted fake invoices to the developers of the Rancho Viejo subdivision.

Three county employees also were charged in the case. Charges against one of them were dropped in 2013.

The other two pleaded guilty and took plea deals.

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Navajos buy back artifacts at auction Tribal officials get sacred items for $1.12 million after bidding war

By Thomas Adamson The Associated Press

PARIS — The Navajo Nation won its bid Monday to buy back seven sacred masks at a contested auction of tribal artifacts in Paris that netted over a million dollars.

The objects for sale at the Drouot auction house included religious masks, colored in pigment, that are believed to have been used in Navajo wintertime healing ceremonies.

The sale went ahead despite efforts to halt it by the U.S. government and Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

The sale — which totaled $1.12 million — also included dozens of Hopi katsinas and several Pueblo masks embellished with horse hair, bone and feathers, thought to be from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Associated Press is not transmitting images of the objects because the Hopi have long kept the items out of public view and consider it sacrilegious for any images of the objects to be published.

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NEW YORK — Falling oil prices pushed U.S. stocks down broadly on Monday, extending losses into a second week.

European stocks also fell, and the Russian ruble plunged to a record low against the dollar as the continuing collapse in the price of oil reverberated through global financial markets.

The stock losses in the U.S. were modest, but markets in Germany and France fell more than 2 percent.

The Russian ruble plunged, sending stocks sharply lower there, too. After U.S. markets closed, Russia’s central bank dramatically hiked a key interest rate in an effort to stop the ruble from dropping further.

Several commentators have noted that plunging oil prices could eventually help U.S. stocks. Doug Cote, chief market strategist at Voya Investment Management, said investors have overreacted to the oil drop and that he expects stocks to rise. “Every time the consumer goes to the gas pump, it feels fantastic,” he said. For the middle class, “it’s like getting a big tax cut.”

Investors may get a better sense of just how much oil is helping consumers when the Federal Reserve concludes a two-day meeting on Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON ore teens are trying out e-cigarettes than the real thing, according to the government’s annual drug use survey.

Researchers were surprised at how many eighth-, 10th- and 12thgraders reported using electronic cigarettes this year, even as regular smoking by teens dropped to new lows.

Nearly 9 percent of eighth-graders said they’d used an e-cigarette in the previous month, while just 4 percent reported smoking a traditional cigarette, said the report being released Tuesday by the National Institutes of Health.

Use increased with age: Some 16 percent of 10th-graders had tried an e-cigarette in the past month, and 17 percent of high school seniors had. Regular smoking continued inching down, to 7 percent of 10th-graders and 14 percent of 12th-graders.

“I worry that the tremendous progress that we’ve made over the last almost two decades in smoking could be reversed on us by the introduction of e-cigarettes,” said University of Michigan professor Lloyd Johnston, who leads the annual Monitoring the Future survey of more than 41,000 students.

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In brief Kerry, Netanyahu meet in Rome ROME — Secretary of State John Kerry met Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the U.S. and Israel developed their responses to a draft U.N. resolution that would set a two-year timetable for an IsraeliPalestinian peace accord.

A resolution proposed by France that hasn’t been formally introduced speaks of the 1967 Mideast borders as the basis for dividing the land, which President Barack Obama has publicly backed, but it doesn’t include key Israeli — and U.S. — conditions such as Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.

Thieves adopt ‘crash-and-grab’ CHICAGO— All the burglars use the same audacious tactics: A vehicle crashes through a storefront in the wee hours and up to six people in dark clothing and ski masks pour out, grabbing whatever they can with the speed of a NASCAR pit crew.

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new. But between 4 percent and 7 percent of students who tried e-cigarettes said they’d never smoked a tobacco cigarette, noted University of Michigan professor Richard Miech, a study senior investigator.

“They must think that e-cigarettes are fundamentally different,” he said.

E-cigarettes often are described as a less dangerous alternative for regular smokers who can’t or don’t want to kick the habit.

The battery-powered devices produce vapor infused with potentially addictive nicotine, but without the same chemicals and tar of

tobacco cigarettes.

E-cigarettes began to appear in the U.S. in 2006, but this was the first year that the Monitoring the Future survey asked teens about them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that during 2013, 4.5 percent of high school students had tried e-cigarettes during the prior month, a tripling since 2011.

The CDC reported last week that 10 states permit the sale of e-cigarettes to minors. The Food and Drug Administration has proposed regulating e-cigarettes, including banning sales to minors; there is no timetable for final rules.

Then the thieves dash out over the broken glass to a waiting getaway car. Since September, at least a dozen “crash-and-grab” burglaries have been reported at retail businesses in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. The thefts have made shop owners nervous, and police are still pursuing their first arrest.

multiple homes and the suspect remains on the loose.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman identified the suspect in the Monday shootings as 35-year-old Bradley William Stone. She says all of the victims have a “familial relationship” to Stone, including his exwife and her teenage niece.

Stone had recently been in court fighting with his ex-wife over custody of their two children, who are safe.

The shooting rampage started at the home of Stone’s former sisterin-law and ended about 90 minutes later at ex-wife Nicole Stone’s apartment, Ferman said.

France to ban Uber at start of 2015 PARIS — Uber’s low-cost ride-hailing service will be banned in France from the start of next year, the government said Monday as hundreds of taxi drivers blocked roads around Paris to protest what they claim are its unfair business practices.

A new law tightening regulations for chauffeured rides will effectively ban the UberPop service as of Jan. 1, said Pierre-Henry Brandet, spokesman for France’s Interior Ministry. France is the latest of several places where Uber has faced challenges to its service.

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The student-led protesters rejected Beijing’s plan to screen all candidates in the first-ever elections for Hong Kong’s top leader, but failed to win significant concessions from the government.

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Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE: WINTER FESTIVAL: Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place. Carols and Lullabies 2014, 8 p.m., $20-$70, tickets available online at desertchorale. org, runs Thursday to Tuesday, Dec. 18 to 23.

SCHOLA CANTORUM OF SANTA FE: Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail.

A-cappella performances of sacred music, Gregorian chants, and carols; program preview by William Turney at 6:30 p.m., concert at 7 p.m., $20, discounts available, tickets available in advance at schola-sf.org and at the door, visit the website for full schedule of concerts.

Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 CONCORDIA SANTA FE: St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico, Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. The Nutcracker (Swing!), music of Tchaikovsky, Duke Ellington, and Billy Strayhorn, jazz musicians John Gagan, Cal Haines, and John Rangel open, 7 p.m., $30, concordiasantafe.org, discounts available.

Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 DREAMS: From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Main Library, 145 Washington Ave., a free workshop titled “The Language of Dreams, Grammer and Vocabulary” will be presented by Jungian scholar Fabio Macchioni. Reservations required. Call 982-3214.

JEAN COCTEAU CINEMA GALLERY: 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528. Drawings, transfers, and oil paintings by Donato Giancola for George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire 2015 calendar, reception

More than one third of American adults report getting less than 7 hours of sleep on weekdays, and many of them try to sleep extra-long on weekends to make up for it.

This isn’t a particularly healthy way to live — insufficient sleep is associated with obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and a host of other physical ailments. Drowsy driving causes around 80,000 automobile accidents every year, 1,000 of which are typically fatal.

The simple reason for shortchanging sleep on the weekdays? Work. A team of researchers examined nearly 125,000 responses to the American Time Use Survey to calculate two things: first, how much sleep we’re getting, and second, what we’re doing instead of sleeping.

Compared to normal sleepers, socalled “short sleepers” — those who are getting 6 hours or less on weeknights — worked 1.5 more hours on weekdays and nearly 2 hours more on weekends. Perhaps not surprisingly, “the highest odds of being a short sleeper were found among adults working multiple jobs, who were 61 percent more likely than others to report sleeping 6 hours or less on weekdays,” according to a news release about the study. To the extent that we’re trading sleep for work, our jobs are literally killing us.

Aside from work, commuting was the activity most likely to compete with sleep, followed by socializing, sleeplessness and personal grooming. That latter finding led to this dry observation from the authors: “Although a certain level of body hygiene is important for social and physical well-being, excessive tim spent in these activities may reduce sleep time at both ends of the sleep period.”

TV-watching was ranked only ninth in the list of activities exchanged for less sleep.

The researchers found no difference in sleep time between private sector and government workers. But interestingly, the self-employed had significantly lower odds of being a short sleeper. This finding led to the researchers prescribing greater flexibility in work schedules, particularly in work start time, as one policy change that could help people sleep more: “making the work start time more flexible may help increase sleep time; even if total time spent working is kept constant,” they conclude.

They also found that for every work schedule or class started later in the morning, respondents’ reported getting 20 minutes more sleep. More flexibility in work start times would thus help people naturally disposed to night-owl hours.

Research suggests that this would lead not only to more productivity in the workplace, but also fewer instances of ethical lapses while on the clock.

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SANTA FE WOMEN’S ENSEMBLE: Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail.

Songs of Peace 2014 concert series, under the direction of Linda Raney, 7 p.m., $35, discounts available ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234.

A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS II: Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie.

Variety show including music by Melange, a short play based on Nasario Garcia’s book Grandma Lale’s Tamales: A Christmas Story, poetry readings, storytelling, and performances by young members of Santa Fe Danceworks and Teatro. Paraguas Children’s Theater; at 7 p.m., $5 to $20 suggested donation, ages 11 and under no charge, 424-1601, teatroparaguas.org, continues Friday to Sunday, Dec. 19 to 21.

HOLIDAY READINGS: Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226.

Selected stories and poems read by Santa Feans Ali MacGraw, Bob Martin, Carol McGiffin, and Jonathan Richards, 6 p.m.

NIGHTLIFE Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 ¡CHISPA! AT EL MESÓN: Argentine Tango Milonga, 7:30 to 11 p.m., no cover.

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COWGIRL BBQ: Local bluesman Kenny Skywolf, 8 p.m. to close, no cover. 319 S. Guadalupe St., 982-2565.

EL FAROL: Canyon Road Blues, 8 p.m., no cover. 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912.

LA FIESTA LOUNGE AT LA FONDA: Local country artist Bill Hearne, 7:30 p.m. to close, no cover. 100 E. San Francisco St., 982-5511.

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

SKYLIGHT: Tune-up Tuesdays, with Your Boy Re-Flex, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., call for cover. 139 W. San Francisco St., 982-0775.

TERRACOTTA WINE BISTRO: Jazz guitarist Pat Malone, 6 to 9 p.m., no cover.

304 Johnson St., 989-1166.

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

For more events, see Pasatiempo in Friday’s edition or view the community calendar on our website, www. santafenewmexican.com. To submit an events listing, send an email to service@ sfnewmexican.com.

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The decision to carry out the police raid was apparently In a blitz-style assault prompted by worries that the early on Tuesday, Australian gunman, identified as Iranianriot police ended a 16-hour born Man Haron Monis, was hostage crisis as frightened growing uneasy and had begun captives rushed onto the corralling some captives in a streets amid intense gunfire section of the cafe. that fatally wounded the self“They made the call because styled Muslim cleric who they believed that, at that time, held them. if they didn’t enter, there would A police statement said have been many more lives two people — a 34-year-old lost,” said Andrew Scipione, man and a 38-year-old woman commissioner of the New South — died during the predawn Wales state police. police operation in downThe long showdown captured town Sydney. The statement the world’s attention and raised also said that a third person, questions about whether it was described by police officials a “lone wolf” attack inspired by as the hostage-taker, was calls from militant groups such pronounced dead after being as the Islamic State. Earlier this taken to a hospital. month, when a woman in the Four others were injured, United Arab Emirates fatally including a police officer who stabbed an American teacher, suffered a gunshot wound to Abu Dhabi officials partially the face. blamed the slaying on the influThe motives for the hosence of radical Islamists. tage-taking at the Lindt ChocThe raid at the Lindt Chocoolat Cafe remain unclear. But lat Cafe began without advance the gunman was convicted warning. Suddenly, a series of last year of sending hate bangs sounded — possibly from mail to families of Australian stun grenades — and a bartroops killed in Afghanistan rage of gunfire followed. Police and was facing other charges, poured in, weapons drawn and including in connection with face masks in place. Hostages

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WASHINGTON — Sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law is off to a stronger start this year. But it’s not perfect, and Americans remain skeptical that the government’s newest social program is right for the country.

As one major enrollment deadline loomed Monday, officials granted a last-minute extension for some consumers facing long telephone hold times at the federal call center. They were being asked to leave a number to get called back starting Tuesday.

Public attitudes toward Obama’s signature law are only slightly less chilly than before the congressional midterm elections that saw Republicans, still clamoring for its repeal, win both chambers of Congress.

An Associated Press-GfK poll earlier this month found an uptick for the Affordable Care Act, with 29 percent saying they support it, compared with 25 percent in October.

Opposition to “Obamacare” was stable at 41 percent, while the rest were on the fence.

In most states, midnight Monday, Pacific time, was the deadline for new customers to pick a health plan to take effect Jan. 1. It was also the deadline for current enrollees to make changes that could reduce premium increases before the new year.

Open enrollment actually runs for another two months, until Feb. 15. People enrolling by that date will get coverage starting March 1.

Current customers can still make plan changes through Feb 15.

As recently as last week, administration officials were saying there was no plan to extend Monday’s deadline.

But late in the day, spokesman Aaron Albright said that because of long wait times at the call center, some callers were being asked to leave a number.

“We will call them back at a convenient time starting tomorrow, and if they select a plan, their coverage will still begin on Jan. 1,” Albright said in a statement.

Despite the deadline jam, the administration seems to be on the way to reaching its self-imposed target of 9.1 million people enrolled for 2015.

Based on early numbers, it’s looking like the majority of the 6.7 million current customers have opted to stay in their current plans and be automatically renewed on Jan. 1.

Making sure that happens as smoothly as it’s been advertised is the administration’s next major challenge.

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Detective Barbara J. Mattson of the Connecticut State Police holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, for a demonstration last year during a hearing of a legislative subcommittee reviewing gun laws, in Hartford, Conn. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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to the general population who are not trained to use it nor even The Associated Press understand the power of it,” he said.

HARTFORD, Conn. — The A 2005 law shields gun families of nine people killed in manufacturers from most lawthe Newtown school massacre suits over criminal use of their filed a lawsuit against the maker products, but it does include an and sellers of the Bushmaster exception for cases where comAR-15 rifle used in the shooting, panies should know a weapon saying the gun should not have is likely to be used in a way that been sold for civilian use because risks injury to others. A lawyer of its overwhelming firepower. for the Newtown families, Katie The lawsuit alleging wrongful Mesner-Hage, said the lawsuit death and negligence was filed appears to be the first of its kind in state court and announced against a manufacturer to claim on Monday — the day after the that exception. second anniversary of the shootBy Jill Lawless “I think it has the potential to ing, which left 20 children and The Associated Press have wide-ranging effect with six educators dead and became respect to this particular gun,” a rallying point for gun-control LONDON — A radical Mesner-Hage said of the AR-15. efforts.

Muslim killed a soldier outMarc Bern, a New York City In addition to Bushmaster, side Canada’s Parliament. A attorney, represents many victhe defendants are Camfour, a right-wing extremist opened tims of the 2012 mass shooting at firearm distributor, and Riverfire on buildings in Texas’ a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., view Gun Sales, the now-closed capital and tried to burn where 12 people were killed and East Windsor store where the down the Mexican Consulate.

70 injured. He said the 2005 law gunman’s mother purchased the was a barrier to legal action for An Al-Qaida-inspired assailBushmaster rifle in 2010. Mesant hacked an off-duty soldier his clients, and he believes the sages seeking comment from the Newtown families will have a to death in London. defendants were not immediPolice said all three were difficult case to prove. “There’s ately returned. terrorists and motivated by no way that they can anticipate The complaint says the gun ideology. Authorities and something like this can happen,” allows shooters to inflict “unpar- Bern said about Bushmaster. family members said they alleled civilian carnage.” may have been mentally ill.

The plaintiffs in the case “In order to continue profiting stemming from the Sandy Hook A growing body of research from the sale of AR-15s, defensuggests they might well have Elementary School massacre dants chose to disregard the been both. include the families of Sherlach, unreasonable risks the rifle posed Vicki Soto, Dylan Hockley, New studies have chaloutside of specialized, highly reg- Noah Pozner, Lauren Rousseau, lenged several decades of ulated institutions like the armed Benjamin Wheeler, Jesse Lewis, thinking that psychological forces and law enforcement,” the Daniel Barden, Rachel D’Avino problems are only a minor plaintiffs wrote in the complaint. and a teacher, Natalie Hamfactor in the making of terrorThe so-called AR-15 rifle was ists. The research has instead mond. first built by Armalite for milifound a significant link The lawsuit seeks unspecified tary use, but the design was later monetary damages. between mental problems acquired by Colt, which in the and “lone wolf” terrorism.

Nicole Hockley, the mother early 1960s began marketing the Now academics and law of 6-year-old Dylan, and Mark semi-automatic AR-15 rifle as the Barden, the father of 7-year-old enforcement officials are civilian version of its fully autoworking to turn that research Daniel, appeared at a news conmatic M-16. into tools to prevent deadly ference Monday morning with Many other companies have attacks.

U.S. Sens. Richard Blumensince begun manufacturing and “It’s never an either-or thal and Chris Murphy. They selling AR-15-type rifles. The in terms of ideology versus declined to comment on the weapons are popular in shootmental illness,” said Ramon lawsuit as they pushed for new ing competitions due to the light laws to restrict access to weapSpaaij, a sociologist at Austraweight of the gun and ammunions and improve mental health lia’s Victoria University. “It’s a tion and the weapon’s accuracy. treatment. dangerous cocktail.”

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raced in the other direction, some with hands raised.

Scipione said the gunman initially took 17 people hostage.

Five people later escaped as the drama unfolded, including scenes in which captives were forced to hold a black Islamic flag to the window.

Monis, 50, a self-proclaimed “spiritual healer,” was sentenced to 300 hours of community service for sending the threatening and harassing letters to the families of the fallen military personnel. He was later charged with being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. He was also charged with sexually assaulting a woman in 2002.

He was out on bail, the Reuters news agency reported.

Australia’s 9News said Monis — who also went by the names Sheik Haron and Mohammad Hassan Manteghi — moved to Australia in 1996 and was granted political asylum.

His website shows graphic images of children that the site claims were killed by U.S. and Australian airstrikes. The site insists that Monis “supports his Muslim brothers [and] sisters” but is not affiliated with specific groups.

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With groups like Islamic State spreading violence in Syria and Iraq — and bloodthirsty rhetoric on the Internet — authorities around the world have issued increasingly insistent warnings about the threat posed by lone wolf attackers.

They can be difficult to stop with a counterterrorism strat-

egy geared toward intercepting communications and disrupting plots.

Solo terrorism “doesn’t take an awful lot of organizing.

It doesn’t take too many people to conspire together. There’s no great complexity to it,” London Police Chief Bernard Hogan-Howe told the BBC recently.

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Torture: Adviser says CIA sought aggressive approach Continued from Page A-1

Chief Justice Barbara Vigil, left, on Monday announces the New Mexico Supreme Court’s decision that District Judge Sheri Raphaelson must vacate the bench by the end of the month. The high court’s decision to uphold November’s election results was unanimous. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

Rules: Justices level sharp questions Continued from Page A-1 election, Maes said.

“There was a remedy,” Maes said.

Perrin said that Raphaelson was in a difficult position before the election, trying to calculate whether she belonged on the ballot.

That brought another sharp question, this one from Justice Charles Daniels. “She didn’t know how many years she’s been in office?”

Daniels asked.

Both sides had 20 minutes to argue the case. Fuqua wrapped up five minutes early, stopping when it

seemed clear the justices were not swayed by Raphaelson’s claim that she was subjected to an improper vote of the people.

Raphaelson needed 57 percent voter approval to remain a district judge. She fell short by about 1 percentage point, or some 500 votes.

Perrin even tried to press that point with the justices, saying a majority of voters wanted to keep Raphaelson on the bench.

But that only brought more questions from Daniels, who asked if she was challenging the constitutional-

ity of a 57-percent threshold for a judge to be retained. Perrin had to admit he was not.

Chief Justice Barbara Vigil announced in open court the order that Raphaelson vacate her bench by year’s end. Vigil said the Supreme Court would later file a written decision in Raphaelson’s case.

Gov. Susana Martinez will appoint a judge to replace Raphaelson.

Contact Milan Simonich at 986-3080 or msimonich@sfnewmexican.com.

Follow his Ringside Seat column and blog at santafenewmexican.com.

Rests: Closing arguments are today Continued from Page A-1 The state put 13 witnesses on the stand in the past week and introduced hundreds of pieces of evidence, including allegedly doctored invoices and county records meant to show that Advantage billed for work that wasn’t done according to specifications or was done using the county’s own resources.

The state’s star witness was former Public Works Director James Lujan, who pleaded guilty in 2013 to demanding or receiving a bribe and eight counts of conspiracy to commit fraud. Under the plea deal, charges against him were reduced and he was required to testify against Montoya at trial.

Lujan testified last week that Montoya gave him three all-expense-paid trips to Las Vegas, Nev., and about $26,000 in cash in exchange for sending Advantage work and looking the other way when Advantage billed the county for work done using its labor and materials.

But Lujan also gave statements that could have been seen as helpful to the defense, saying for example that the quality of the work done by Advantage was good. But he admitted during cross-examination that he lied to defense attorneys during questioning at a deposition before the trial began.

James Martinez, a former county supervisor who pleaded guilty to demanding or receiving a bribe in the case immediately after he was charged in 2012, also testified for the state, admitting he had accepted two trips to Las Vegas that were paid for

by Advantage.

According to exhibits introduced by the state, the trips were booked

by Advantage co-owner Marlene Montoya.

She pleaded guilty to two counts of bribing a public official and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud hours before the trial was scheduled to begin last week.

Local criminal defense attorney Mark Donatelli said it’s not unusual for a defense attorney to forgo presenting his or her own case.

“The majority of the trials that I’ve won, we did not present a defense,” said Donatelli, who was speaking generally and had not examined the evidence in this case.

Donatelli said there are four main things that attorneys consider when deciding whether to present a case.

“The starting point is that there is an incredible burden of proof for the government to convict someone,” he said. “Proof beyond reasonable doubt is tantamount to moral certainty of guilt. This not a civil suit where someone is suing somebody for money damages. Someone’s freedom is at stake, so there is a high standard of proof set by the constitution for someone to get convicted. So that’s the first analysis: Have they come anywhere close to meeting the burden of proof?”

Secondly, Donatelli said, presenting a defense shifts the jurors’ focus from the quality of the state’s case to the quality of the defense’s case.

“So instead of the state’s case being put under a microscope, the defense case is examined,” he said. “And if the prosecution can poke a hole in the defense case, it’s often fatal to the defense. That’s just the way jurors are. It’s the way the psychology of the trial works.”

Donatelli said it’s also common for

attorneys not to present their own case when the state’s case hinges on witnesses — such as Lujan — who have taken a deal in exchange for their testimony.

“Jurors take that testimony skeptically,” he said. “And cross-examination of a witness like that is often successful at destroying the value of their testimony.”

Lastly, Donatelli said, defense attorneys might decide to rest without putting on a case if prosecutors fail to live up to promises made in opening statements about what the evidence will show.

During the presentation of its case last week, the state asked the judge to dismiss more than 30 of the 89 counts in the original indictment against Advantage Asphalt, without saying why. The state also dismissed several charges against Montoya and reduced other counts based on insufficient evidence to meet the burden of proof for the more serious charges.

Several charges of conspiracy to commit fraud over $20,000, for example, were reduced to conspiracy to commit fraud under $20,000.

Charges against Denice Sanchez — a county administrator who worked closely with Lujan — were dismissed in 2013.

District Attorney Angela “Spence” Pacheco, whose office has been working on building a case against Joe Anthony Montoya since indicting him two years ago, did not return calls seeking comment.

None of the defendants who have taken plea deals have been sentenced.

Contact Phaedra Haywood at 986-3068 or phaywood@ sfnewmexican.com.

Buy: Drouot refused to suspend sale Continued from Page A-1 The U.S. Embassy in Paris had asked Drouot to suspend the sale to allow Navajo and Hopi representatives determine if they were stolen from the tribes. But Drouot refused, arguing that the auction was in accordance with the law — and that a French tribunal had previously ruled that a similar sale was legal.

Navajo Nation Vice President Rex Lee Jim said the objects were not art but “living and breathing beings” that should not be traded commercially.

Jim, a medicine man who traveled to Paris for the auction with three other Navajo officials, said they were unable to determine the exact provenance of the artifacts but said they had to face the reality of the auction and buy them back.

“They are sacred masks … and unfortunately they end up here.

Whether that is legal or illegal … we don’t know. What we do know is that they are for sale,” Jim said.

The Navajo Nation representatives bid for seven masks at the auction and won despite a bidding war with a private collector.

French art collector Armand Hui bid for several masks but said he backed down when he saw that tribal members had come in person

A protester holds a sign reading ‘Stop cultural genocide, Eve auction house must stop’ outside the Paris auction house where tribal artifacts were put up for sale Monday. FRANCOIS MORI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

to buy them back.

“I wanted to respect that,” he said.

The lawyer representing the absent Hopi tribe, Pierre ServanSchreiber, said the approaches of the Hopi and the Navajo were different and that the Hopi see the sale as sacrilege.

“Hopis were opposed to buying back their artifacts as they did not want to engage in the auction,” said Servan-Schreiber.

The two tribes have traditionally been feuding neighbors in the northeastern corner of Arizona. The Hopi

reservation is surrounded completely by the Navajo Nation, which also extends into Utah and New Mexico.

Navajo Nation spokesman Deswood Tome said it would be incumbent upon the leaders of the Navajo and Hopi tribes to discuss how to approach other sales of sacred items in foreign countries.

“If there are religious items that are sacred in the future, the leadership will have to determine what steps they will take,” Tome said.

“Buying these masks here today is a precedent that we’ve set.”

phone with Mitchell. By that evening, according to the report released last week by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the agency had incorporated Mitchell’s views into a classified cable ordering preparations for the interrogation of Zubaydah, a Qaida operative.

The cable called for constant lighting, loud music and an all-white room to keep Zubaydah awake. The setup would cause “psychological disorientation, and reduced psychological wherewithal,” the cable read.

With little debate or vetting of Mitchell and his approach, the CIA that day in 2002 started down a road to interrogation practices that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, last week called “a stain on our values and our history.”

In the months that followed, Mitchell, a former Air Force explosives expert and trainer, and later his partner, Bruce Jessen, another psychologist and former Air Force officer, designed, led and directed the interrogations and became the prime advocates for what is now widely considered to have been torture. In the process, they made tens of millions of dollars under contracts that their critics within the CIA warned at the time gave them financial incentives to repeatedly use the most brutal techniques.

The CIA has said it hired Mitchell and Jessen because their experience with “nonstandard” interrogation was “unparalleled.” But the government’s own experts favored the traditional approach to questioning prisoners. And the Senate report makes clear that the speed with which Mitchell was brought into the program — less than 24 hours elapsed between the time his name was floated and that first cable — meant there was no time to analyze whether his approach was best.

Former officials involved in the program attribute the speed to one thing: desperation. With the CIA under pressure to obtain information from its prisoners, Mitchell seemed to have the answer to how to do it.

That eagerness for a new, aggressive approach is reflected elsewhere in the Senate report. One CIA officer said the agency’s best intelligence justifying harsh interrogations came from a “walkin” source — someone who appeared one day and told the CIA that Allah permitted jihadists to cooperate only if they were threatened. There is no evidence in the report that the CIA ever corroborated those assertions.

In a lengthy interview last week after the CIA released him from an order forbidding his talking about his role in its program, Mitchell said the speed of his hiring was a surprise even to him.

“I never knew how that happened,” he said. “I just got a phone call.”

But, he said, it was not something he sought.

“I didn’t knock on the gate and say, ‘Let me torture people,’ ” he said.

Mitchell added that he disagreed with the conclusions of the Senate report and believes he has been unfairly demonized.

His role, he said, was more complicated than has been presented.

Mitchell and Jessen had worked as trainers at the Air Force Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape program, which subjected U.S. airmen to the kind of interrogation they might face if captured so they could learn to resist it.

Building on that experience, Mitchell proposed to the CIA a list of so-called enhanced interrogation tactics, including locking people in cramped boxes, shackling them in painful positions, keeping them awake for a week at a time, covering them with insects, and waterboarding, which simulates drowning and which the United States had considered torture.

Although the earliest mention of these tactics in the Senate report is July 2002, Justice Department documents released years ago show that CIA officials began discussing them within days of the April 1 meeting when Mitchell was brought aboard. John Rizzo, the agency’s top lawyer at the time, also placed those discussions in April in his memoir Company Man. He described some of the tactics as “sadistic and terrifying” but left it to Justice Department lawyers to decide whether they were legal. They ultimately decided they were.

Shortly after the April 1 meeting, the CIA dispatched Mitchell to Thailand, where he was to consult on the “psychological aspects” of the interrogation, according to a CIA cable cited in the report. Mitchell’s original contract with the agency had been to study al-Qaida’s strategies for resisting interrogation.

Later, Mitchell personally waterboarded Zubaydah in Thailand. But Mitchell said that at first, his job was to observe Zubaydah’s interrogation and assess whether he was using the Qaida techniques.

“I was making recommendations to a team who were doing the interrogation,” he said. “But there was intense pressure for results. There was a tremendous amount of pressure not to let other Americans die.”

That summer, as Justice Department lawyers and the White House finalized

the legal memos justifying the interrogations, Mitchell said he gave a presentation outlining an aggressive approach.

He disputes the notion that he pushed the agency down a road it did not want to go.

“It was clear to me from walking the halls that they were going to use coercive interrogations,” he said. “It was clear that was the direction they were going.”

The SERE techniques, he said, were an attempt to standardize the interrogation process and bolster it with research.

“I said, if you are going to use coercive techniques, then don’t let people just freelance,” Mitchell recalled. “Use something that people have a track record with.”

There was broad consensus among behavioral scientists, however, that torture did not work — subjects became so eager to stop the pain that they did not provide accurate information. And Mitchell was proposing to take techniques employed in simulations and use them for actual interrogations.

The Senate report indicates that at least some information suggesting that SERE methods were ineffective as interrogation tactics was never shared with the Justice Department. Nevertheless, the department authorized the techniques, and the CIA asked Mitchell to use them.

“After a lot of soul searching, I agreed to do it,” Mitchell said. “But I knew that at that moment, my life as I knew it was over. I went through my ethical obligations and decided, for me, the least worst choice was to help save American lives.

It felt like something was going to happen at any minute. I felt like you had to do something.”

Mitchell suggested that the CIA also hire Jessen, a friend and former colleague. In the Air Force, Jessen had helped screen the instructors who posed as interrogators. Occasionally, he played the interrogator himself and was once called out by colleagues for being too aggressive. Jessen did not respond to repeated interview requests.

In Thailand, only Mitchell and Jessen were allowed to use the new tactics.

For nearly a month, they interrogated Zubaydah, at one point waterboarding him until he lost consciousness. Some CIA officials said they were repulsed by the brutal methods, according to the Senate report, and cables showed that some wanted out of the program. Some officials, in fact, grew to resent the contractors, complaining that they refused to listen to alternatives, the report says.

“I would sometimes feel it,” Mitchell said. “It was nothing ever said to me, but I could feel it sometimes.”

Yet the Senate report shows that Mitchell and Jessen prevailed, backed by allies at CIA headquarters, including on the agency’s bin Laden team and at the Counterterrorism Center, who believed that Zubaydah — and later others — were holding back information.

It eventually became difficult to distinguish between the CIA and Mitchell and Jessen Associates, the Spokane, Wash.based company they formed, according to the Senate report.

In 2005, the CIA awarded the company a contract to provide interrogation services. Mitchell and Jessen hired psychologists, interrogators and security personnel as the program spread to secret prisons in Afghanistan, Romania, Poland and Lithuania.

By 2006, contractors made up 73 percent of the people at the CIA’s Renditions and Detention Group, the office in charge of interrogations. The majority were from Mitchell and Jessen Associates, according to the report.

Mitchell said the CIA made it clear that they wanted him to form the company as a way to combat the high turnover.

“They wanted to have people who had retired who knew the skills,” he said. In one example, the chief of the CIA division that supervised the interrogation program became the firm’s chief operating officer when he retired.

Mitchell and Jessen Associates had one central purpose, and when President Barack Obama shut down the interrogation program in 2009, it was over.

“The company didn’t last after they shut down the program,” Mitchell said.

The CIA terminated the contract after paying the company $81 million of a contract that could have been worth twice that much. That does not include the money Mitchell and Jessen made before 2005, when the CIA paid them a daily rate.

Both men are now retired —Mitchell to Florida and Jessen to Spokane. But both have faced continuing problems from their role in the torture program, and the CIA is obligated to keep paying the legal expenses of Mitchell and Jessen Associates through 2021.

Mitchell said he disagreed with the Senate committee’s conclusions, although he said he was “fascinated” by the report because it has revealed things to him that he did not know.

“I was just a cog in the machine, ” he said.

Above all, he disputes that he was in control of the interrogation program.

“The idea that I was managing things and running things is not true,” he said.

But, he added, “it would be a lie to say I didn’t have influence.”

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By Andrew Welsh-Huggins

state’s police training commission last week to study possible updates in the way officers learn COLUMBUS, Ohio — With their jobs. tensions running high over Elsewhere around the country: the killings of blacks by police, u In Missouri last month, a departments around the counfederal law enforcement team try are changing policies and held training for St. Louis-area procedures to curb the use of police, including top commanddeadly force, ease public disers from Ferguson, on how unintrust and protect officers from tentional bias affects police work. retaliation.

Similarly, St. Louis Police Chief New York City plans to issue Sam Dotson said he hopes to stun guns to hundreds of offiintroduce wider training for officers. The Milwaukee departcers about recognizing “implicit ment is making crisis-intervenbias” and making better decition training mandatory. And sions about when to shoot. in Akron, Ohio, police have u In Philadelphia, Mayor Police Chief Chris Magnus stands with demonstrators to probegun working in pairs on all Michael Nutter is urging police test police killings during a peaceful demonstration Dec. 9 in shifts for their own safety. in a video message to use force Richmond, Calif. BAY AREA NEWS GROUP FILE PHOTO Police departments are only “if absolutely necessary.” constantly updating training. u The Obama administration Protests, largely peaceful, have looking for ways that they can But some of the more recent issued guidelines this month that address not just use-of-force measures have been prompted flared across the country after restrict the ability of federal law grand juries in recent weeks issues but bias issues,” she said. by rising anger toward police. enforcement agencies to profile declined to indict white officers Two recent police shootings And in some cases, departon the basis of religion, national in the fatal shooting of 18-yearin Ohio started with reports of ments are making sure to let origin and other certain characold Michael Brown in Ferguson, people with guns: the killing last teristics. The Justice Department the public know about these Mo., and the chokehold death month of a 12-year-old boy carchanges. hopes those measures become a of Eric Garner in New York rying a pellet gun in Cleveland “It’s not a mistake or a model for local departments.

City. Both men were black and and the death last summer of a coincidence that a lot of these Several forces were updating unarmed.

22-year-old man holding an air departments are publicizing their practices even before the Lorie Fridell, a criminology rifle in a Wal-Mart near Dayton. their training or are perhaps Ferguson and New York deaths, professor at the University of In both cases, the officers said with some departments issuing revamping their training guidethey thought the victims had lines and things like that in the South Florida who operates a body cameras to officers. police training business, said she real guns. The officer who shot wake of these really high-proAfter Philadelphia Police file incidents,” said Kami Cha- has received nearly two requests the 12-year-old resigned from a Commissioner Charles Ramsey a day from chiefs since protests suburban Cleveland police force arrived in 2008, for example, the vis Simmons, director of the in 2012 after his supervisors criminal justice program at the erupted over the August shootdepartment began placing police decided he lacked the maturity to shooting statistics on the Web for Wake Forest University School ing in Ferguson.

“There’s a lot of well-meaning work in their department. of Law in North Carolina and the sake of openness and started a former federal prosecutor in chiefs out there that want to Ohio Attorney General Mike a pilot program involving body Washington. do the right thing, and they are DeWine responded by asking the cameras.

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Memories of crisis fading as risks rise

that banks would use federally insured deposits to gamble on derivatives.

WASHINGTON — Six years But last week, at the behest of after the collapse of Lehman bank lobbyists, the House slipped Brothers, the lessons of the finan- into a must-pass spending bill cial crisis may already be fading a repeal of the divide between from collective memory. traditional banks and derivatives Just last week: trading. Banks say the move will u Congress acted to loosen preserve their ability to help the regulation of the high-risk farmers and businesses hedge investments that ignited the against risks.

2008 crisis.

Lower down payments: u Housing regulators cut mini- Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and mum down payments on home Freddie Mac issued guidelines loans. last week allowing Americans to u The Institute of Internabuy homes with down payments tional Finance declared it “worri- as low as 3 percent, down from some” that global indebtedness, the current 5 percent minimum. as a share of world economic The new guidelines are meant output, has reached record levels. to make houses more affordable for low-income families and firstAll this comes as subprime time buyers. auto loans for financially Continued from Page A-1 But critics worry about a stretched buyers are surging. repeat of what happened in the And the so-called too-big-to-fail for the Pueblo in its dispute early and mid-2000s: Families banks that needed a taxpayer with the Martinez Adminiswere encouraged, through low bailout in 2008 now loom even tration’s handling of compact down payment requirements and larger than before the crisis: negotiations,” a Monday news loose credit standards, to buy America’s five biggest banks release from the pueblo said. homes they couldn’t afford. Milaccount for 44 percent of bank In an interview Monday, lions wound up in foreclosure. assets, up from 38 percent in Pojoaque Pueblo Gov. George “It is dubious housing policy 2007, according to SNL Financial.

Rivera reiterated his position to encourage moderate-income The trend toward pre-crisis that the Martinez administrapeople to take out mortgages on lending practices worries anation had not negotiated in which they are likely to default,” lysts who favored far-reaching good faith. He said the higher Dean Baker, co-director of the reforms to safeguard the system. slot machine revenue-sharing liberal Center for Economic and “We’re on a very dangerous rate proposed by the adminPolicy Research, wrote last week. trajectory,” said Simon Johnson, istration would be unfair and Rising global debt: The Instiprofessor of global economics take money away from various at the Massachusetts Institute of tute of International Finance, an community programs. industry research group, warned Technology.

The compact Martinez last week that global debt, Johnson said he fears that last wants would raise the week’s congressional vote shows excluding debt held by banks, revenue-sharing requirement that bank lobbyists still carry the had reached a record 244 percent to 9.5 percent from 8 percent of worldwide economic output. political clout to dilute financial of the tribe’s gross revenues Companies in emerging marregulations. from gambling machines. The kets such as China and India By all accounts, the system percentage would increase have been issuing bonds in isn’t as vulnerable as it was gradually to 10.5 percent over record amounts, many of which before the crisis. The Treasury the life of the compact.

Department’s Office of Financial must be repaid in U.S. dollars. If “Our position is very clear interest rates and the U.S. curResearch, set up after the crisis that the state cannot expect to monitor risks, said this month rency rise — and the dollar has the industry to keep paying surged over 10 percent against that “threats to financial stability a high tax while [the state is] major currencies since the end are moderate.” further restricting the growth U.S. banks have increased their of June — those companies may of the industry,” Rivera said. struggle to meet payments or capital defenses against loan “Many of the conditions they refinance their debt. losses by over 27 percent since put in [the compact] go right Risky auto lending: U.S. regu2007. against the things we need for lators are warning about slipping Richard Hunt, president of business development. We’re credit standards for auto loans. the Consumer Bankers Associalosing millions and millions The rating agency Standard & tion lobbying group, rejects any of dollars in opportunity as a Poor’s expects lenders to make notion that banks are weakening result of their restrictions.” $21 billion in subprime auto loans credit standards.

“Martinez continuously this year, up from $20 billion this “If you’re a banker who surinsists the Pueblo increase year and $18 billion in 2013. vived over the last five years,” the amount of revenue sharRepeating what they did Hunt said, “the last thing you’re ing it pays to the state despite before encountering trouble in going to do is return to that the fact that gaming revenues 2008, automakers and finance period of time. We’re nowhere nationwide have plateaued, companies are offering sixand close to returning to the type and in some regions like seven-year loans to ease buyers of loans” issued just before the New Mexico have actually into cars they otherwise couldn’t crisis. decreased,” the pueblo’s news afford.

Still, watchdogs fear the risks release said.

“We tend to forget financial are accumulating. Despite its Rivera said the major restrichistory,” said Frank Partnoy, a overall finding that threats are finance professor at the Univertion he wants lifted from any moderate, Treasury’s research sity of San Diego. compact is the prohibition on office warned of “excessive risktaking during an extended period of low interest rates.”

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customers having alcohol while on the gambling floor. He said the restriction has seriously hurt Pojoaque’s ability to compete regionally and nationally. Other states with casinos allow drinks on the floor.

“This isn’t about people wanting to get drunk at the slot machines,” he said. “It’s just something that customers want.”

Jessica Hernandez, Martinez’s chief of staff, who has handled negotiations with all the gaming tribes, said in a statement issued Monday night: “The Pueblo of

Pojoaque continues to distort the truth in an effort to play by a different set of rules than other New Mexico tribes. The State is confident that our position will stand on appeal, just as a similar case involving a Texas tribe attempting to circumvent the required negotiations with the state.”

The Tigua tribe of Texas has had a long-running legal dispute with that state over its Speaking Rock casino in El Paso.

Pojoaque Pueblo and the New Mexico Governor’s Office had

been negotiating since May 2012.

However, the talks broke down late last year, and in December 2013, Pojoaque sued the state, claiming bad faith and asking for a court-appointed mediator.

The administration is negotiating with four other tribes whose gaming compacts expire next year, as well as two others — Jemez and Zuni pueblos — that do not currently have any gambling operations.

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Council hastily OKs lease for south S.F. fire station Deal rushed over fears land commissioner may lose recount and office; process would have to begin anew

By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

In a hastily called meeting Monday, the City Council approved a plan to lease 30.5 acres of state land in southwest Santa Fe along N.M. 599 to build a fire station and attract new businesses in one of the fastest growing areas of the city.

The council rushed the measure through in hopes of completing the deal while State Land Commissioner Ray Powell, who favors the lease, is

still in office. Powell trails Republican challenger Aubrey Dunn in an election recount that could force Powell out of office by the end of the year.

“I hope the outRay Powell come of the recount is favorable,” City Councilor Joseph Maestas told Powell, who attended the meeting.

The council voted 6-0 in favor of

the deal. Mayor Javier Gonzales and Councilors Patti Bushee and Signe Lindell were absent.

Powell and city officials lauded the 25-year lease of land near South Meadows Road, but Dunn questioned the timing.

“If it’s all above board, I don’t know why they’re in a big hurry to do it,” Dunn said in a telephone interview before the council vote. “I’m sure if it’s right, we would carry on that same thing.”

Powell said the possibility of a new state land commissioner taking office “really wasn’t something that was even considered.”

“It’s in the best interest of the trust

and it’s in the best interest of the community to generate good new jobs and increase the tax base, so I think the closer anybody looks at this, the better everybody will look,” he said.

Matthew O’Reilly, the city’s asset development director, said the city and the state had been working to finalize the terms of the lease for months. But there wasn’t enough time to get the lease ready to put on the agenda for the council’s Dec. 10 meeting, which had been the only scheduled council meeting in this month.

“We were interested and the council was interested in not having all of this effort and time spent working with the State Land Office go for

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not,” O’Reilly said.

“It’s not that a different administration might not enter into the lease, but why chance that when we’re ready to go and the lease is prepared and all negotiations have taken place?” he said.

During a closed-door session as part of the council’s Dec. 10 meeting, O’Reilly presented the lease to city councilors, who decided to call a special meeting to consider it, he said.

The law allows the city to discuss the purchase, acquisition or disposal of real property behind closed doors.

Harry Relkin, general counsel for

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Congress eases up on medical pot crackdowns Budget bill sent to Obama calls for backing off state-run programs

By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

For the first time ever, Congress has gone on record opposing federal intervention against statesanctioned marijuana businesses in states like New Mexico that have medical marijuana programs.

The federal budget bill passed recently by Congress includes a short provision that says “None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used … to prevent such states from implementing their own state laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.”

Tom Udall The Huffington Post called the measure “a historic blow to the United States’ decades-long war on drugs,” while Business Insider called it “a strange sort of armistice … in its ongoing war on marijuana producers, sellers, and users.”

And a New Mexico drug-reform advocate called it “a huge step forward.” Emily Kaltenbach, executive director of Drug Policy Action’s New Mexico office, said, “What’s exciting is that this is the first time Congress has voted to let states set their own policies on medical marijuana …”

The bill is awaiting the signature of President Barack Obama.

Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., who voted for the budget bill, said through a spokeswoman that he supports the move to call off the dogs with regard to state medical marijuana programs.

“Except in cases where state action blatantly

Postal worker David Jaramillo, above, prints Polly Dement's receipt Monday for her nine packages at the main post office in Santa Fe. Monday was the busiest day nationally for the U.S. Postal Service, which is expecting to deliver 640 million Christmas letters and packages nationwide. To ensure delivery by Christmas, the Postal Service recommends packages be mailed by Saturday. Priority mail deadline for packages is Dec. 23. The Coronado post office on Pacheco will be open Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to noon to help customers.

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Santa Fe Institute names new leader Wisconsin Institute for Discovery director will assume new post on Aug. 15

By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

Two years ago, complexity scientist David Krakauer was named by the Wired UK magazine as one of 50 people who will change the world.

Now Krakauer will join another select group as the new president of the Santa Fe Institute, where scientists from around the world and many disciplines study complexity within systems from cells to cities. Krakauer will become the seventh president to head the 30-year-old, nonprofit institute beginning Aug. 1, 2015.

Krakauer is currently director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and codirector of the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a Santa Fe Institute faculty member beginning in 2002

and was faculty chair from 2009-11.

“I believe the institute is exquisitely well designed for 21st century,” Krakauer said.

“I believe it is even better designed than when it was launched.”

When a group of sciDavid entists, including chemist Krakauer George Cowan and Nobel Prize physicist Murray Gell-Man, launched the Santa Fe Institute in 1984, the Internet, cellphones and super-fast, data-crunching computers were still in their nascent stages. Sharing research and ideas with multiple people took some time. Now, technology allows people working across scientific disciplines, like Santa Fe Institute faculty, to quickly share data on complex problems.

“The world has caught up with the kind of organizational structure the Santa Fe Institute has developed,” Krakauer said.

The institute focuses on the borders between scientific disciplines, exploring the

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places biology intersects with physics or archaeology intersects with chemistry and urban planning, for example.

“I think the way Santa Fe Institute will change the world is by changing the way people think,” he said. “We bring to people an entire landscape of problems that people haven’t considered before.”

A new complex way of thinking about problems can lead to better solutions.

Michael Mauboussin, chairman of the board of trustees, said Krakauer was chosen from among dozens of candidates after an 18-month search.

Mauboussin said Krakauer is highly skilled at three areas needed to manage the institute: He has a broad background and interest in different scientific disciplines, administrative skills and can bring people together, and he is “able to communicate science effectively while encouraging financial support.”

Krakauer will replace archaeologist Jeremy Sabloff, who has been president since 2009.

“Jerry has been fantastic to work with,”

Search halts for missing S.F. man Vehicle found near ski basin, but no trace found during weekend effort

By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

After a two-day search for a 29-year-old Santa Fe man reported missing on Saturday morning, a search team halted its efforts to find the man near the Santa Fe ski basin.

Laurence Longwell, whose car was found parked at the Winsor Trailhead near the ski area, was reported missing by his mother, with whom Laurence he lives. She told police she had not Longwell seen her son since Friday morning when she left for work, a police report says.

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Family forced to move needs help paying rent The New Mexican

Betty and Joe are moving to a new home because the rental house where they and their six children are living is in foreclosure. Betty is an early childhood teacher and has a steady income, but did not expect to have to move. The family has some unexpected expenses associated with the move, including rent and utility deposits. They would appreciate $929 to help them pay a month’s rent on their new home.

Betty and Joe are among the many community members asking for help from The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund during the holiday season. The New Mexican is not publishing the applicants’ real names to protect their privacy. uuu The Empty Stocking Fund is a project of The Santa Fe New Mexican. The Santa Fe Community Foundation, 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. The information from the initial application will be verified if the applicant is selected for assistance.

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, N.M., 875041827. Donors can request to remain anonymous.

If you can provide a service such as roofing or home repairs, contact Roberta at Presbyterian Medical Services at 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 at 988-8054.

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Lease: Powell surprised public is unaware Continued from Page A-6 the State Land Office, said the city and the state have been working on the lease since about the beginning of the year.

“A lot of hard work by a lot of good people,” Relkin said.

Powell initially said he would be “astounded” if people weren’t aware of the lease.

“As far as I’m aware, it’s been scrutinized for a long, long time,” he said. “Not trying to slip in anything at the end that is inappropriate.”

When told that Monday’s special meeting was the first time the council had discussed it in public, Powell said he was surprised since the state had been working with the city on the lease “for a considerable amount of time.”

“This, I think, has been a very important and innovative proj-

ect that will help the community and the trust a great deal,” Powell said. “It’s one that needs to have ample sunshine and transparency.”

The 25-year lease allows for the construction of a future fire station at a location the Fire Department has deemed highly favorable, especially to serve the estimated 13,200 new residents who became part of the city with the annexation of 4,400 acres on Santa Fe’s southwest side in January.

“The property’s immediate proximity to N.M. 599 would allow rapid access to the Santa Fe Municipal Airport and to other points both south and north, and its adjacency to South Meadows Road and West Alameda, both important arterial roads, is also advantageous,” O’Reilly wrote in a

memo to the council.

The annual base rent of $10,000 a year increases by 3 percent annually. If the city builds a fire station, the city would pay an additional “annual sublease rent” at the rate of 3 percent of the appraised value of the fire station.

“When the city arranges for the use of the property for other economic development uses, the annual sublease rent for those uses would be at the rate of 5 percent of the appraised value of the property with improvements,” according to O’Reilly’s memo.

The city can relinquish the 25-year lease at any time, and all the improvements will be owned by the city at the end of the lease.

“Anybody that might have the wild idea of trying to acquire

that lease from them at the end of the 25 years would have to pay them the full fair market value of every single improvement out there, so the city would be made whole,” Relkin said. “The city is totally protected on its investment.”

The council approved the lease with two conditions.

First, the city won’t sign the lease until an existing grazing lease that’s set to expire in nine months has been “relinquished” by a lease holder. Second, the city will purchase a “negative easement” intended to prevent drilling on the state property.

The purchase price of that easement is yet to be determined.

Contact Daniel J. Chacón at 986-3089 or dchacon@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter at @danieljchacon.

Pot: Udall supports feds backing off states be have major drug-trafficking activity. Santa Fe and Rio Arriba deprives people of their concounties are among 16 New stitutional rights or puts them Mexico counties that are part of at risk, Sen. Udall doesn’t think the program. the federal government should Kaltenbach said that New attempt to overrule voterMexico dispensaries, licensed approved laws,” spokeswoman growing operations and regJennifer Talhelm said in a writistered medical marijuana ten statement. “Neither of those patients have not seen the type circumstances is the case with medical marijuana laws. Ameri- of federal crackdowns that other states like California and cans are having a conversation about whether to de-criminalize Montana have seen. But she marijuana at the state level, and said, Congress’ action means patients as well as dispensary Sen. Udall believes this provision lets that conversation con- and state Health Department employees can “breathe a sigh tinue.” of relief.”

Talhelm added that the proShe added, “It’s not a quesvision “will allow the Justice tion of ‘if,’ but when the federal Department to focus its efforts on criminal drug trafficking and government ends marijuana prohibition.” other serious crimes.”

The budget bill didn’t exactly The budget includes $245 million for the High Intensity Drug end the war on drugs. For one thing, the bill apparently Trafficking Areas Program, blocked Washington, D.C.’s which provides assistance to recent move to legalize recrefederal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies oper- ational marijuana, a measure ating in counties determined to approved by about 70 percent

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of voters.

The budget also earmarked $93.5 million for the Drug-Free Communities program, which, according to its website, strives to divert nonviolent drug offenders into treatment instead of jail, funds scientific research on drug use and expands access to substance abuse treatment through the Affordable Care Act. Other items in the budget that affect New Mexico include: u $324 million for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Of that, $104 million is for recovery from the radiation leak that occurred earlier this year. u $643 million B61 Life Extension Project at Los Alamos and Sandia national labs. The program maintains the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile, repairing and replacing components of nuclear weapons.

It also allows for the eventual elimination of the U.S.’s largest warhead, the B83, which was

developed in the 1970s. u $190 million for environmental cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory. u $25 million increase in funding for STARBASE, a Department of Defense science and technology education program for fifth graders. u $23.3 million for a Squadron Operations Facility at Cannon Air Force Base. u $20 million for Operationally Responsive Space at Kirtland Air Force Base. u $14 million for high energy laser research at Kirtland Air Force Base. u An additional $5 million for the Office of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general to help eliminate long waits for appointments.

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In brief Officer shoots man by mistake ALBUQUERQUE — Police say an officer accidentally shot a man during a burglary investigation.

Police spokesman Simon Drobik said the officer’s gun discharged as he climbed through a broken window of a second-floor apartment while investigating a burglary early Sunday.

Drobik says the bullet went through the apartment’s floor and into the unit below, where it struck a man in the back.

Drobik says the man, whose name was not released, was hospitalized in stable condition with nonlife-threatening injuries.

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Duke City road project finished ALBUQUERQUE — Gov. Susana Martinez and others are celebrating the completion of a $93 million project aimed at smoothing travel through a major Albuquerque traffic corridor.

A ribbon-cutting was planned for the reconstruction of the I-25 and Paseo del Norte interchange.

Crews are expected overnight to open the last piece — a flyover that takes drivers headed northbound on the interstate to westbound Paseo del Norte.

Initial plans called for a $360 million interchange. Those were scrapped due to dwindling funding, and work was started in October 2013.

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Leader: Krakauer finishing two books Mathematical Biology and Primers in Complex Systems. said Mauboussin. “He came He has authored more than in during rough time after the economy crashed. He’s been a 100 peer-reviewed papers and remarkably stable and thought- is completing two books soon to be published by Princeton ful steward of the institute.”

University Press. He has Krakauer earned a master’s worked collaboratively on degree in computer science projects with Google, Boeing, and mathematics from the Fidelity and Intel.

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986-9091 Continued from Page A-6 Search and Rescue team, said officials began looking for Longwell on Saturday after his sister found the man’s 1997 Honda Civic parked near the trailhead.

The search continued Sunday, but the search was suspended at 5:30 p.m. because of weather, Rodgers said.

Over the weekend, about 10 inches of snow fell on the basin, according to Ski Santa Fe’s website.

Longwell is a Santa Fe Community College student who also works in the school’s information technology department as a customer service representative.

Longwell didn’t show up to work on Friday afternoon, said Sasha Wilcoxon, his sister.

She described her brother as a homebody who loves to spend time with his family.

Wilcoxon said the family has not given up their efforts to look for Longwell.

A Santa Fe police report says Laurence Longwell left his cellphone at his house. However, his sister said the family didn’t think that was unusual.

As of Monday, Wilcoxon said, some of her friends were helping search for her brother, but hadn’t found any clues to his whereabouts.

A Santa Fe police report says Longwell left his cellphone at his house.

However, his sister said the family didn’t think that was unusual.

Wilcoxon said she found her brother’s car early Saturday after she went looking for him.

His mother told police that her son’s vehicle has an alien sticker on the front windshield and a monster logo sticker on the rear windshield.

Wilcoxon said her brother sometimes does go out on his own and that it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary if he went hiking on by himself.

State police described Longwell as 6-feet-5 and weighing about 200 to 240 pounds, with blue eyes and dark brown hair.

Police also said the man has a short beard. Longwell was last seen wearing a black jacket with white sleeves.

Police asked that anyone with information on Longwell to call at 827-9300.

Contact Uriel J. Garcia at 9863062 or ugarcia@sfnewmexican.

com. Follow him on Twitter @ ujohnnyg.

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Atari’s ‘E.T.’ game In brief burn joins Smithsonian Prescribed set in Caldera 800 cartridges were found this year in Alamogordo dump

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ALBUQUERQUE— One of the E.T. Atari game cartridges unearthed this year from a heap of garbage buried deep in the New Mexico desert has been added to the video game history collection at the Smithsonian.

Museum specialist Drew Robarge made the announcement Monday in a blog post.

He included a photograph of the crinkled cartridge along with the official serial number assigned to the game by the city of Alamogordo.

The game was one of hundreds recovered at the city’s landfill last spring as a team of documentary filmmakers investigated a decades-old urban legend that centered on Atari secretly dumping the cartridges.

The E.T. game had the reputation of being the worst game ever, and it contributed to the demise of the company.

Robarge said the Smithsonian has some amazing artifacts that represent big moments in video game history, including Ralph Baer’s “Brown Box” prototype for the first video game console and a Pong arcade cabinet.

However, missing was something that represented what he called “the darkest days” of the early 1980s when the U.S. video game industry crashed.

He describes the E.T. cartridge as a defining artifact, saying it tells a story about the

An Atari game cartridge unearthed earlier this year in the Alamogordo desert has been added to the video game history collection at the Smithsonian.

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challenges of adapting blockbuster movies to video games and the end of an era in video game manufacturing.

“All of these possible interpretations make for a rich and complicated object,” he said.

“As they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”

Members of the film crew that sparked the dig at the Alamogordo landfill said they were excited to get the call from the museum.

“Just saying the name Smithsonian resonates throughout the world, and to be part this dig and an iconic museum like the Smithsonian with something that we created and researched and actually had come to fruition is pretty amazing,” said Gerhard Runken of Fuel Entertainment.

The documentary debuted on Xbox last month, but it’s too soon to say when the E.T. cartridge might go on display or be worked into an exhibit at the Smithsonian.

The museum also has hard hats and a vest from the historic dig.

Texas family lockup will be nation’s biggest The Associated Press

DILLEY, Texas — The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a former oil field workers’ camp in rural South Texas that’s being converted into the nation’s largest family immigration detention center, as federal authorities brace for another possible influx of mothers and children pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson visited the 50-acre compound featuring 80 tan, two-bedroom, onebathroom cottages connected by dirt roads and newly laid grass sod in Dilley, an oil patch town about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio.

The first wave of about 30 immigrants will begin arriving in coming weeks and the cabins will eventually hold up to 480 people. Housing being constructed nearby will push capacity up to 2,400 by around May. Advocates say immigrant

families are often fleeing drug or gang violence in Central America and should be released to relatives already in the U.S., rather than being locked up. The daily cost of family detention is about $296 per person, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nearly double the average cost of holding adults as estimated by the National Immigration Forum advocacy group.

Women and children at Dilley will remain until they are deported, released on bond or begin immigration court proceedings that could allow them to stay in the U.S. ICE says 70 percent of immigrant families released into the U.S. never showed up for follow-up appointments — part of the reason they are adding detention capacity.

Dilly’s cottages include bunk beds and cribs that can sleep up to eight, a flat-screen TV and a kitchen — though cooking is prohibited to prevent fires.

Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department took the following reports: u Emilio E. Espinoza, 27, of Colorado Springs, Colo., was arrested on suspicion of larceny after an employee at Home Depot, 952 Richards Ave., told police he was shoplifting at about noon Sunday.

Police found Espinoza was wanted as fugitive in El Paso County in Colorado. u A burglar stole about 20 lug nuts and an empty wallet from a vehicle parked in the 3100 block of Primo Colores Street between 6 p.m. Saturday and 7:30 a.m. Sunday.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office took the following reports:

u Urian L. Ocana, 22, of Santa Fe was arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment and battery against a household member after a report that Ocana was seen grabbing a household member and forcing that person into a car Sunday night on N.M. 14 at Rancho Viejo. u A burglar stole jewelry from a house in El Rancho on County Road 84 on Saturday.

DWI arrest u Walt C. Lovato, 31, of Santo Domingo was arrested on suspicion of aggravated drunken driving, resisting arrest and an open container violation on Saturday night.

He wanted everything done so he could continue to work and send money back to his family,” she said.

He leaves behind a wife and three sons.

Dairy-rule hearing in Roswell OK’d

Fire crews plan to burn piles of woody materials Dec. 16-17 in the Valles Caldera National Preserve if weather conditions are favorable.

The burn is scheduled on about 75 acres north of N.M. 4 in the Banco Bonito area.

The goal is to reduce hazardous fuels and help return the area to an ecosystem adapted to periodic fires.

Smoke from the burn may be visible from all directions coming into the Jemez Mountains area and in neighboring communities including La Cueva, Sierra Los Piños, Jemez Springs and areas near N.M. 4.

A hearing on changes to a rule regulating dairy farm wastewater can be held in Roswell, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The high court also ruled the state Attorney General’s Office can participate in the hearing.

Environmental groups had argued the hearing must be People gather Monday to enjoy the 60th annual holiday tree held in Santa Fe under state and train display at First National Santa Fe, a bank on Lincoln law because it will affect dairAvenue. The trains run from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to ies operating statewide. The 4 p.m. weekdays through Dec. 27. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN state Environment Department argued the hearing should be held in southeastern New Mexico where most of the state’s had terminal Old San Ysidro Church in Cor150 dairies are located. cancer. In rales. A concert by Pura Fe and The environment departNovember, in The Ulali Project will follow ment had also tried to bar the failing health, beginning at 7:30 p.m. attorney general and a former he returned The artists include Navajo water quality bureau chief, Bill home with jeweler Tonya June Rafael, Zuni The Indigenous Fine Art Olson, from participating in the a Christus fetish carver and sculptor Gabe Market is teaming up with the hearing. Both will be allowed to St. Vincent Corrales Cultural Arts Council Sice, Navajo sculptor James Regional Medi- testify. to offer a pop-up show this Goodman, Santo Domingo Luis Alberto The dairy rule, crafted with cal Center weekend featuring Native artpainter and Without ReservaJuarez input from dairy producers, nurse, who ists. tions cartoonist Ricardo Lee environmentalists and others, agreed to accompany him.

The market was founded this Cate, San Felipe jeweler Roy was approved in December The St. Vincent Hospital year by several former employ- Tenorio, Contemporary Navajo 2010. The dairy industry wants Foundation paid for the airline ees of the Southwestern Associ- painter Rhett Lynch and Hopi more than two dozen changes. tickets and a month’s supply of ation for Indian Arts who staged potter Valerie Namoki.

Two of the biggest changes they medicine. a three-day festival on the Raiwant are in the requirements Nurse Paulina Chavez Scanlyard last August that partially for synthetic liners in waste land said Monday she had been coincided with the annual Santa ponds and in the placement of called by one of Juarez’s relaFe Indian Market. The organizagroundwater monitoring wells tives. He had been confined to tion, whose mission is to create designed to detect pollution.

Luis Alberto Juarez died early bed for the last week, she said. artistic economic opportunities A hearing on amendments Monday morning at his home But he had lots of good pain for sale and marketing of fine will be scheduled following the in Antigua, Guatemala, surmedications and “he didn’t sufart, also had a Holiday ShowJan. 13 meeting of the Water fer much.” case in Albuquerque last month. rounded by his family.

Quality Control Commission.

Juarez, 33, who worked in Scanland called him “brave.”

The free pop-up show will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Staff and wire reports Santa Fe for about five years, “He had cancer for two years.

Pop-up Fine Art Market planned

Cancer patient dies in Guatemala

Funeral services and memorials BUNNY CONLON BILLY FRANK ROYBAL Billy Frank Roybal, was born on August 29, 1936 in Santa Fe, NM and passed away on Thursday, December 11, 2014 at Stoughton Hospital in Stoughton, Wisconsin. The first son of Vidal and Mary (Gonzales) Roybal.

Billy was born and raised, lived most of his entire life in Santa Fe, NM. He moved to Stoughton, Wisconsin shortly after his second marriage. He married Ruth Ellen McCarthy on February 14, 1989 in Santa Fe, who also preceded him in death in 1998. He loved his Packers, enjoyed College Basketball, and all sports. He was well loved by all who had the honor to meet him.

He was a great story teller. He also enjoyed playing bingo at Azura Memory Care.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Clara Vigil; sister, Rachel Vigil; brother, Charles Roybal.

He is survived by his brothers, Phillip (Priscilla) Roybal, and David Roybal (Carmelina); sister, Mary Louise (Maynard) Salazar; step children, Tim (Terri) McCarthy, Mary (Roland Bagley) McCarthy, Nancy (Rodney) Boyes; he is also survived by his beloved grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and many other family and friends.

A rosary will be held on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 from 10:00 am to 11:00 am at St. Anne’s Catholic Church where a Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 am. The burial will take place at Rosario Cemetery immediately after the mass.

Pallbearers: Felipe Roybal, Marcus Avallone, Maynard Salazar, Vidal Salazar, Enrique Salazar and Rudy Herman.

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

VINCENT MICHAEL PEREZ, JR. Vincent Michael Perez Jr. of Picuris/Cochiti Pueblo, and lifelong resident of Santa Fe passed away on December 14, 2014 due to a battle with cancer.

He was born to Vicente and Isabel Perez on January 7, 1945 and was one of nine siblings within the Perez family. Mike will join his parents; sisters, Arlene Martin and Florence Trujillo; infant brothers, Howard and Charles; nephew, Christopher Keesing and niece Jessica Pabinquit in the happy hunting grounds of eternal happiness. Mike graduated from St. Michaels High School in 1963; he was a Caballeros De Vargas staff member portraying the Cacique in 1973 & 1974; he served in the Navy from 1965-1969 and was a master tailor by trade. He was loved by many and will be greatly missed. He is survived by his sister Mary Louise Keesing, husband John, brothers Robert Perez, Richard Perez and wife Ellen, Jamie Perez, brother in-law Antonio Trujillo, nephews J. Keesing, Zachary Perez, Matthew Perez, Jerrod Perez, Josh Sam and wife Erika, nephew and Godson Daniel Sam. Nieces Jonette Sam and husband Danny, Maria Sam, Marcelline Willard and husband David, Tiana Myers and husband Arthur, Kelly Cain and husband Ricky, Elena Perez and wife Katie, Martha Mauga and husband Lia and Yevette Price. He is also survived by numerous great nephews and nieces. Services will be held at Picuris Pueblo on Tuesday Dec. 16, 2014. Mass will begin at 9:00 AM at the San Lorenzo Church, Picuris Pueblo, NM.

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Bunny Conlon died peacefully at her home in Santa Fe early Thursday morning after a more than twenty year long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Bunny was born in El Paso in 1941 but was proud to say she grew up in Las Cruces, NM. She moved to Washington, DC in 1959, where she worked for senator Clinton Anderson and through him met and married Jack Conlon a major democratic political figure who passed away in 1968 shortly after she gave birth to their beloved son John. John and Bunny returned to New Mexico in 1970 and first lived in Truchas where she began her illustrious career in the arts. After a short stint at painting she realized her true strength was in representing the many young talented artists that lived in and around Taos. She moved to Santa Fe in 1975 where she quickly became one of the most important figures in Santa Fe’s rapidly growing contemporary art scene. She owned three galleries in Santa Fe during the 1980’s and 90’s representing some of the areas most distinguished artists. Bunny lived for art and more importantly for the artist’s who created it. Her exquisite beauty was only outmatched by her elegance, kindness and complete devotion to her artists. She was deeply loved by the all of her clients, artists and friends who understood that what she wanted above all was for her artists to prosper. If generosity can be possessed to a fault then Bunny was guilty as no one could ask anything of her and be turned down. Throughout her battle with Parkinson’s she remained optimistic, cheerful, open and loving. Her sense of humor was quick, charming and often incisive. During her twenty five year struggle with Parknison’s she never complained, became bitter or depressed by the countless indignities she had to endure. She will always remain an example of strength, humility and love to all that have known her.

Bunny was preceded in death by her much loved mother Anne and her adopted father Herschel Zohn. Bunny is survived by her son John and his partner Rebecca Silva and her daughter Veronica who so lovingly cared for her for the past fourteen months; her brothers Al and Buddy; sister Diane; her ex-husband Bill Siegal; stepdaughter Zia; sister in laws Karen, and Barbara, and brother in law Chuck and many nieces and nephews as well as countless dear friends who were like family to her. Bunny’s family would especially like to thank Delila and Ashley from Ambercare for the tender loving care they provided to Bunny.

A memorial service will be held at the William Siegal Gallery at 540 S. Guadalupe St. on Saturday January 16 at 6PM. Donations in honor of Bunny may be made to the Artists Emergency Medical Fund

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Katy Whitcomb removes needles at the end of Alison Schneider’s session at We the People Community Acupuncture earlier this month.

Schneider receives acupuncture twice a week. Most of the clinic’s patients pay $15 per treatment. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

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Clinic offers group treatments at an affordable price

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ix days a week, acupuncturists tiptoe in and out of two softly lit rooms in a building on Second Street, the only sounds a few whispers exchanged with men and women in the 11 reclining chairs and the soft shush of traffic outside.

It doesn’t look or sound like a revolution, but Santa Fe’s We The People Community Acupuncture has been a solid part of one since it opened in 2008. The clinic treats an average of 150 people each week, and most of those patients pay just $15 per treatment.

Owned by Santa Fe native Katy Whitcomb, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, it’s part of an international cooperative of community acupuncture clinics that began in 2002 when acupuncturists Lisa Rohleder and Skip Van Meter founded Working Class Acupuncture in Portland, Ore. In doing so, they turned the American model of acupuncture delivery on its head, offering affordable treatments in a group setting.

Whitcomb said the business model takes after the traditional, community-style treatment common in Asia. “People go to the acupuncturist for four or five days in a row when they feel the need, rather than waiting until they are in emergency mode. It’s affordable and the treatments build momentum. When the pain is gone or the issue is resolved, they stop going. Simple.”

Whitcomb explains that acupuncture is most effective in treating pain, anxiety, depression and trauma, and “for it to really be effective you have to go two, three or four times a week. In America, treatments run around $75, and it isn’t affordable for most people.”

Born and raised in Santa Fe, Whitcomb attended George Washington University for pre-med for two years, “and really got to see how the Western medical system worked.

Doctors had their hands tied, with insurance companies on one side and pharmaceutical companies on the other. The big missing piece was patient wellness.”

She then went to China on a study-abroad program at the School for International Training in southwestern China. “That changed my life. I dropped out of school and traveled for a year, went back to school at The University of New Mexico and got my degree in anthropology, moved back to Santa Fe and went to the International Institute of Chinese Medicine here, graduating in 2002.”

She opened a private practice in acupuncture and began adding work at the clinic in the fall of 2012. “The private practice never really felt right,” she said. “I wanted to help people but didn’t want them to have to pay $50 to $75 a treatment. It was uncomfortable.

This is very simple, and it feeds me in a very deep way because people are so grateful. It’s just lovely. It’s all about getting people the treatment they need.”

At the clinic, volunteers staff the front desk, and Whitcomb shares treatment hours with Thomas Hodge, a Tesuque resident and licensed Doctor of Oriental Medicine.

“We use points on the scalp and below the elbows and knees to treat the entire body, so there’s no need to undress — just remove your shoes and roll up your pants and sleeves,” Whitcomb said. “You are surrounded by other people quietly receiving treatment at the same time. This is not a lack of privacy but an opportunity to experience treatment with family, friends and community. The patients create the healing atmosphere as much as the practitioner — the shared state makes individual treatments more powerful.”

The 200th community acupuncture clinic opened in 2011, and the movement incorporated as the People’s Organization of Community Acupuncture. POCA offers membership and leadership to community acupuncture patients, licensed acupuncturists and those in training programs, community acupuncture clinics, and supporting groups, and also provides micro-loans to startup clinics. A central part of its mission is “a mode of direct delivery of inexpensive care for people of ordinary incomes regardless of insurance coverage …” and “a commit-

In brief Gas hits $2 in New Mexico It’s here — $2 gas has arrived in New Mexico.

After all the speculation last week about whether gas prices in New Mexico could hit that mark by Christmas, another big decline in the price of crude oil allowed sub-$2 gas to sneak into New Mexico this past weekend.

According to Gasbuddy.com, the price is now $1.98 at both Sam’s Cub and Costco in Albuquerque and $1.99 at the Fuel Stop on Comanche.

The lowest price in Santa Fe is showing $2.08 at Sam’s Club on Rodeo Road as well as Smith’s and Phillips 66. But there is no doubt it will go lower by the weekend.

Gas is now below $2 a gallon in 13 states.

According to CNNMoney, “Data from price tracker GasBuddy.com shows that three states — Oklahoma, Louisiana and Ohio — have at least one station each selling regular gas for less than $1.90 a gallon. Cheap gas is most frequently found at stations in Oklahoma, which was the first state to break the $2 a gallon mark on Dec. 3.

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ith the year almost in the books, it looks like home sales in Santa Fe County will be a notch better than 2013.

The year started out fairly strong, but summer saw a slowing of sales and then a recent uptick in the fall.

“As we wrap 2014, the real estate market seems to have lost its steam and lost its momentum. Sales are not increasing and median prices are not going up. That is not a tragedy, but it certainly bears watching,” writes Alan Ball, a broker at Keller Williams Santa Fe who blogs about Santa Fe real estate trends.

Residential sales for November came in at 142, almost the same as Bruce last year, so the market is now at Krasnow 1,667 residential sales through the Business Matters 11 months of 2014, up just 55 from a year ago.

Still, if the numbers hold, it would mark the fifth year in a row with more homes selling than the year before. And with interest rates still below historical norms, that bodes well for 2015.

Firefighter Erik Hickey receives acupuncture at We the People Community Acupuncture. Whitcomb says acupuncture is most effective in treating pain, anxiety, depression and trauma.

WE THE PEOPLE COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE Where: 1406 Second St. When: Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday; noon to 6 p.m. Friday, Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

More information: 982-3711 or www.we acupuncture.com

ment to social justice and the deconstruction of barriers to care and health care resources.”

POCA clinics use a sliding scale of $15 to $50, with no proof of income required or income guidelines used. Santa Fe’s clinic charges $15 to $40, and like all the others, doesn’t require proof of income or use income guidelines.

There’s also a one-time initial consultation fee of $10. No appointments are required, and drop-ins are encouraged. In New Mexico, there are three POCA clinics in Albuquerque and one each in Taos and Las Cruces.

If this is a revolution, said Whitcomb, it’s a very benign one: “Acupuncture is fundamentally different from so many other healing modalities in that it treats trauma and chronic stress. That’s the inspirational part of acupuncture for me — helping people clear the emotional component of stress out so it doesn’t form disease.

“Our goal is to have people say to us, ‘I’m getting better. I don’t need to come as often.’

My goal is to move the inflammation out, and then they don’t have to come back.”

“Another 10 states — Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas and Virginia — also have gas for less than $2.”

Construction jobs rise in county The construction industry in Santa Fe County has now seen 15 straight months of continuous employment growth.

The October analysis from the state Department of Workforce Solutions shows a year-overyear gain for the sector of 200 jobs, an increase of 6.2 percent. More interesting is that there was also an increase of 100 jobs from September.

So at a time when projects are usually starting to close down for the winter, mild weather might mean that they are moving forward.

The numbers show there are 3,400 construction jobs in the county, and the October employment levels are the strongest since October 2008, when there were 4,300 construction workers on the job.

The county may never return to the peak year for construction, when residential projects were booming — much of it fed by irrational mortgage lending and inflated home prices. The pre-bub-

With lower gas prices, one might expect a downward adjustment in the IRS reimbursement rate on mileage for business travel.

But the newly published rates actually show a slight increase.

Beginning on Jan. 1, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car, van, pickup or panel truck will be: u 57.5 cents per mile for business miles driven, up from 56 cents in 2014; u 23 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes, down half a cent from 2014; u 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations.

The reason for the modest hike is that gasoline is just a small part of operating a vehicle, and while that has come down, vehicle maintenance, repairs and insurance have not.

“The standard mileage rate for business is calculated using an annual study of the fixed and variable costs of operating an automobile, including depreciation, insurance, repairs, tires, maintenance, gas and oil while the rate for medical and moving purposes is based on the variable costs, such as gas and oil. That also explains why the rate for medical or moving purposes has dipped while the rate for business has gone up. Inflation is edging costs — other than gas — up a tiny bit,” explains Forbes. uuu

Before state employees panic over the collapse in oil prices, remember that many experts who have watched this commodity over the past several years have been just plain wrong. It wasn’t too long ago when the press was writing stories about “peak oil” and how the world’s available supply of oil had already been discovered — and the new reality would be a very limited supply.

The term was popularized in 2002, with the peak to occur somewhere around 2007. We know that did not happen.

The top economists in state government are now forecasting the average price of a barrel of oil at $66 for fiscal year 2016. That seems like a reach when Monday’s price was below $56 — but the fiscal year doesn’t start until July 1, and won’t end until the summer of 2016 — and a lot can happen in that time.

In the interim, there will be several more OPEC meetings as well as pressure on domestic producers to cut back on production here until prices can rise — and there is indication that is already happening.

And then there is cheaper gas — prices in Albuquerque hit $2 a gallon Monday, which is sure to inspire those long-postponed cross-country trips that are on everyone’s bucket lists. That will work to boost demand and bring prices back up.

Contact Bruce Krasnow at brucek@sfnewmexican.com.

ble peak for construction in Santa Fe was 2007, when about 4,800 people worked in the sector on average each month.

PR firm offers gift of marketing Just in time for the holidays, JLH Media Public Relations, a PR and marketing firm based in Santa Fe, is gifting one-month of public relations and marketing to four selected nonprofits in New Mexico.

“We wanted to create a way to give back to the communities that have been so good to us as a small business,” said JLH owner and President Jennifer Hobson-Hinsley. “There are many wonderful organizations doing great things for our citizens; the time, energy and knowledge to execute a media relations strategy may be what stands between them and the news cycle. We are looking forward to offering our expertise to nonprofits that might not have the budget to sustain long-term PR efforts.”

The giveaway is based upon an application process, and one organization will be chosen by JLH each quarter of 2015, beginning Jan. 1.

The chosen groups will receive a free consultation plus advising on generating media and one

news release as well as follow-up work by JLH and a “best-practices” list for working with the media.

There are some restrictions to the applicants, including that they must be in New Mexico and have “at least one major news item.”

For more information about JLH Media, please visit www.jlhmedia.com.

Century Bank deal approved Century Bank, headquartered in Santa Fe, announced Monday that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Financial Institutions Division of the state of New Mexico has approved its transaction with Valley National Bank of Española.

According to a previous agreement signed in August by the two banks, Century Bank agreed to purchase certain assets (specified loans, investments and property) and assume all deposits of Valley National Bank. The transaction is anticipated to close on Jan. 16.

Century Bank will have approximately $730 million in assets after the transaction closes.

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e-Voices Our Web readers speak out: New Mexicans deserve efficient and competent leaders, Dec. 15 We deserve efficient and competent leaders, do we? In my experience, voters always get exactly the government they deserve.” P.K. [Hanna] Skandera is a nightmare for public education, interested only in funneling taxpayer dollars to her out-of-state cronies. She has never been a classroom teacher, which makes her ineligible to be secretary of education under state law. The real abomination is that she continues to occupy the office. Anything Linda López or anyone else can do to send her packing would be of huge benefit to New Mexico children.” C.M. So you are saying that Skandera doesn’t have the qualifications to hold office? This, in a state where a blackjack dealer can become a congressman because he’s politically connected? Sounds like the patróns are throwing sour grapes at the whole process.” S.H. I don’t think it matters who is in charge of the Public Education Department. We were last in education before her and will continue to be last in education after her. This is regardless of what political party is in control. It’s just a New Mexico thing. We complain about everything up until we vote.” P.R.

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L.A. artist’s scantily clad ‘Guadalupe’ raises ire of local Catholic activist, Dec. 12 The same paper that invests in huge glitzy ads in praise of free speech prints a creepy, Arthur Dimmesdale-ish apology to readers who are offended by the sight of a female figure depicted in a painting. Hmmm, 21st-century American publications like The New Mexican should acknowledge the variance we are permitted to experience in our approach to religion and the concept of the Mother, and whether or not we even consider such things at all.” S.F. Would you like for your mother to be depicted like this?” S.S. So much shock and outrage over a victimless crime.

[José] Villegas said Thursday that ‘people are still hurting, the people of faith. That was a painful event that occurred in our city.’ And yet when the Catholic Church allows and covers up the rape of children, the stealing of babies from mothers, enslavement and forced labor of women, enormous amounts of financial corruption, not to mention all the historical atrocities and the general homophobic and misogynistic attitudes of an authoritarian patriarch. You know, the things that cause actual harm, then these people are silent or try to excuse it. If you don’t like the painting, don’t look at it. There are more galleries here full of things people don’t like than most cities have in total, but you don’t see people demanding everything they don’t like get removed.” B.J. Disgusting. This is not art, it is an abomination.

Burn it.” M.S.

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New Mexico needs better dental care

Dental therapists aren’t the answer

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e have a dental crisis in New Mexico. Our state is underserved, and many areas do not even have a practicing dentist.

Many across our state go without dental care, and those who do get care in rural areas have to travel a long way to get it. For several years, I worked as a dentist in Fort Sumner, and I treated patients from a lot of areas including Santa Rosa, Roswell, Santa Fe, Vaughn, Albuquerque and Texas border towns.

Many of my patients spent several hours in a car each way just to get care at our clinic.

Some came simply because they knew me. Others came because we used a sliding payment scale based on income and didn’t turn anyone away.

Still others couldn’t get an appointment elsewhere. There are so few dentists, and even fewer who accept Medicaid, and our clinic was their best choice.

By the time they arrived, some had advanced oral disease, and most were in desperate need of extractions, partially due to lack of education and poor access to dental care that many could not afford.

This is a sad situation and one that I still see in my current clinic in Artesia — which is located in a shortage area.

Because of our dental shortage, less than half of the children from families in poverty see a dentist. Poor oral health during these early years can create problems that last a lifetime.

Many do not make the connection that poor oral health leads to a multitude of overall health issues. This would be greatly improved by better dental education, which would be taken care of by a mid-level dental provider.

We are in desperate need of a change to make overall health care accessible to all across New Mexico and increase dental education. By creating a new kind of mid-

level practitioner called dental therapists, we can begin to combat our dental shortage and make sure New MexiHoward cans receive Rhoads dental health education and quality dental care.

For years, legislation to create such a health care provider in our state has been introduced. However, there has been opposition. Many dentists don’t like this idea, and I understand. I was one of them.

When I initially heard about dental therapists, I was incorrectly informed that they were untrained individuals. Luckily, I was afforded the opportunity to see what a dental therapist is, how they are trained and the quality of the treatment they provide.

Dental therapists are highly trained health care professionals. They typically are selected from their home communities, educated and then return to serve their communities.

They work as part of a team led by a dentist. They don’t do everything a dentist does, but they provide many of the most commonly needed services, starting with dental education, simple fillings and non-surgical extractions.

This legislative session, there will be a bill to make this happen. I call on my colleagues and the general public to join me in supporting dental therapist legislation. Let’s make this happen in New Mexico — for the overall health of our state.

Dr. Howard Rhoads is a dentist who has worked in New Mexico since 2009 and has more than 25 years of experience working in rural Wyoming. He has provided dental care in Fort Sumner and Farmington and is currently working in Artesia.

here’s a relentless push by an entity from outside New Mexico to create a new, mid-level dental health provider — the dental therapist — proposed to solve access to dental care needs for rural and lowincome families. Although characterized as “community driven,” the Kellogg Foundation actually is driving it.

Relative to years of exhaustive education required for a comprehensive dental education, with minimal training by comparison, the therapist model would license a person to perform a scope of practice that includes irreversible surgery — extractions and fillings.

Slanting it as “freeing up dentists to do the more complex procedures they’re trained for” is unsound. Dentistry is complex and difficult with no predictable “simple” surgical procedures. How then can we sensibly consider unleashing therapists onto outlying areas without a dentist physically present to handle post-operative emergencies that inevitably will arise?

This “simple solution” will not solve the access to care problem if we want to maintain a high standard of care for New Mexico’s underserved.

They deserve more than the quasi-dental care provided in third world countries and truly isolated areas of Alaska — they need the services of a complete dental team. Otherwise, we accept a double standard of care — one for those in urban areas and another for rural and tribal regions.

Editorials by an orchestrated PR campaign can be misleading, yet convincing, to an uninformed public. Example: in describing an existing “dental crisis,” supporters erroneously fault a shortage of dentists when clearly, the problem is an uneven distribution of dental providers.

The real crisis is about pre-

vention. Given current diet trends, one can drill, fill and extract forever and not solve the core problem. Unless preventive dentistry is paramount, we’ll never solve the real crisis.

And it needs to be said: gross cavities and gum disease don’t happen overnight.

We all — state legislators, too — have to accept the troublesome reality that too many people aren’t taking personal responsibility for valuing good dental health. Getting Medicaid benefits for dental care in New Mexico isn’t a problem — getting people to utilize their preventive care benefits is.

Instead of rushing to impose new layers of costly bureaucracy ripe with unintended consequences, we should invest and enhance interventions that already exist — with a serious commitment to preventing oral disease. Three years ago, the Legislature created the community dental health coordinator to address early education and prevention in underserved areas. The curriculum is underway at Central New Mexico Community College. We can strengthen this role to assess critical needs and routinely organize transportation to dental care facilities. Developing a wellequipped state mobile clinic system also is an option.

To truly increase access to high-quality dental care, legislators can increase funding for dental students. Lastly, instead of spending money pushing dental therapists, Kellogg could have better spent resources promoting prevention — reducing the amount of cereal sugar marketed to kids would be a start. And New Mexico and its taxpayers would be better served supporting a higher standard of care for the underserved.

Dr. Joe L. Valles is a dentist who practices in Albuquerque.

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Pojoaque, lenders complete casino deal that strikes over $80M in debt, Dec. 11 This story is appalling on every level. Based on how the pueblo handled the first one, this new ‘agreement’ isn’t worth the piece of paper it’s written on. And the players on both sides of this shady deal are well aware of that, just as they were the first time around. The ‘official acknowledgement’ of default means the investors can now start deducting their phony ‘losses,’ and the pueblo just made $80 million ‘invisible’ dollars. Yes, Mr. [George] Rivera … The New Mexican is right about you. You most certainly are someone who has ‘made a difference.’ ” G.L. I’ve always been baffled at the Northern New Mexico casino business model. Let’s see, stretching from the north side of Española to the south end of Pojoaque we have casinos all competing for a limited number of gambling losers in a relatively poor area.

Did anyone really expect that to work? Or is the business model really something else?” J.D.

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Congressman’s Native American remark causes outcry, Dec. 10 While this Republican’s remarks are offensive, they are not surprising. The GOP has very few minority members because this attitude is the norm among elected Republicans and extends to Hispanos, blacks, Asians and white people with progressive views.” T.R. We are going to see a flood of efforts to turn land that belongs to the people into private property. There are also more and more aggressive efforts to take our federal lands and put them into state ownership. Be on guard. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.” J.W.

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Most read stories on www.santafenewmexican.com 1. Congressman’s Native American remark causes outcry 2. L.A. artist’s scantily clad ‘Guadalupe’ raises ire of local Catholic activist 3. Grand jury: Española police shooting of teen justified 4. After drenching California, storm heads to New Mexico 5. Lawsuit: Man died after medical transport service ran out of oxygen 6. Commentary: U.S. must never torture again 7. Pojoaque, lenders complete casino deal that strikes over $80M in debt 8. Former county official takes stand in Advantage case 9. In wake of missteps, Udall says LANL manager’s contract needs ‘hard look’

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This Feliz Navidad, a few books worth giving

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ehold my annual Mexican Christmas and legendary cartoonista Lalo Alcaraz, guide, where I recommend the best this book is like a graphic-novel version Mexi-themed libros for you to give to of A People’s History of the United States your loved ones this Navidad instead of yet but far funnier. And don’t forget to buy all another tamale to unwrap. Buy of Lalo’s books, as they remain them at your local bookstore, or evergreen gifts. order online, but do buy!

Speaking of evergreens: Any of Lowriting: Shots, Rides & Stories the works of Sam Quinones, Danfrom the Chicano Soul: Stunning iel Hernandez, Carey McWilcollection of lowrider photos by liams, Jod Agius-Vallejo and Los Angeles-based librarian/phoWilliam Nericcio — each, in their tographer Art Meza combined own way, magnificent storytellwith essays and poems about ers of the Mexican experience.

Gusttavo Chicano car culture (yours truly Hispanic Folk Music of New Arellano has a piece about my 1974 CadilMexico and the Southwest: A Self¡Ask a Mexican! lac Eldorado convertible — thing Portrait of a People and New Mexihas more power than a B-17 Flycan Folk Music/Cancionero del ing Fortress). Publisher Santino Folklor Nuevomexicano: Treasures Rivera also has another awesome antholof a People/El Tesoro del Pueblo: Yes, these ogy — ¡Ban This! The BSP Anthology of titles by the always impressive University of Xican@ Literature, published in response to New Mexico Press are pricey. But anyone the attack on ethnic studies in Arizona and who’s a student of New Mexico or a lover of beyond. Order them at brokenswordpubliLatino music must own these tomes, which cations.com, and Rivera just might throw in examine the unique musical traditions of the a sticker that pays homage to the Sex Pistols Land of Enchantment, featuring corridos that and reads “Never Mind the Hispanics Here date back centuries. The latter comes with a CD, as well—you remember those, right?

Come the Xicanos!”

Latina/os and World War II Mobility, A More Imperfect Union: A Contrarian Agency, and Ideology: The other great uniHistory of the United States: The latest colversity press for Chican@ thought is the laboration between essayist Ilan Stavans

University of Texas Press, and their best effort this year was this anthology regarding the Mexican-American experience in the Good War. Yes, Ken Burns: Latinos fought in the conflict.

The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California: Released late last year by the University of Minnesota Press, this fluid ethnography reveals the Reconquista for all its nefariousness: Mexis are moving to the suburbs and joining the middle class. Run! Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens: University of Southern California sociology professor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo did a pioneering study of Latina domestic workers in 2001, so it made sense that her followup in the genre would focus on jardineros.

Featuring her usual trenchant analysis and a Studs Terkel ear for letting subjects tell their life story on their own terms.

Ask a Mexican!, Orange County: A Personal History, and Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America: Because DUH! Ask the Mexican at themexican@ askamexican.net. Be his fan on Facebook. follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellano.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

OPINIONS

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

COMMENTARY: NOAH SMITH

U.S. must improve infrastructure I t’s almost a cliché at this point — the United States needs to spend more on infrastructure.

Other countries are running circles around us in the infrastructure department. It’s fashionable to blame this on the Republicans’ scorchedearth tactics against President Barack Obama, and on conservative distrust of government spending in general.

And those are certainly factors. Problems with state and local government finances are another issue.

But there is a third big factor that many people ignore: America’s abnormally high infrastructure costs. As in the healthcare industry, we pay through the nose but get very little bang for our buck.

A recent example is the price tag of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York. The new train station’s cost has soared to double the original estimate, and is now almost at $4 billion, and still climbing. That’s $4 billion. For a train station.

If you think that’s an isolated example, think again.

Blogger Alon Levy has compiled an amazing list of rail projects in the U.S. and other countries, and found that U.S. costs are much, much higher than those of other rich countries. For example, New York’s East Side Access project in Manhattan and Queens — connecting the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal — has cost anywhere between $4 billion and $8.1 billion per kilometer (sixtenths of a mile) of rail line.

The 7 train subway extension to Manhattan’s west side has cost about $1.3 billion per kilometer.

By comparison, Tokyo’s Toei Oedo subway line cost only about $350 million per kilometer. A train line in Denmark, by the way, cost

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Robert M. McKinney Owner, 1949-2001 Inez Russell Gomez Editorial Page Editor

Ray Rivera Editor

OUR VIEW

Step forward for redistricting

T only about $170 million per kilometer.

With costs like these, you don’t have to be a small-government libertarian to throw up your hands and cancel an infrastructure project. If we don’t figure out how to bring these costs down, we’re going to continue suffering from subpar infrastructure and all the economic problems that result from that — slower growth, lower productivity and impaired urbanization.

What are the reasons for the insanely high costs? As with health care, there are a lot of causes. Blogger Scott Beyer rounds up a few suspects. These include: u The Davis-Bacon laws, which mandate high wages for infrastructure workers; u Government-labor agreements that mandate the hiring of union workers; u “Buy America” laws; u A torturous environmental review process that is used by opportunistic landowners to drive up the value of their property;

u The Transportation Alternatives Program, which mandates things like bike lanes; u Mysteriously high administrative costs; and u Toll bans on most interstate highways.

Some of these seem more important, some less, but three main themes emerge.

First, we force up wage costs intentionally. Second, we value the pocketbooks of landowners more than other countries. And finally, we have a more inefficient bureaucracy.

The first of these is something that conservatives and libertarians should want to attack, since they are generally opposed to unions and to wage floors. The second is something that liberals should want to curtail, since boosting property values isn’t on any liberal’s to-do list. And the third is something that should appeal to third-way moderates who want to make American government more efficient.

So I see room for a political bargain on infrastructure

costs. Democrats could agree to curtail union power, repeal wage-floor laws and slash administrative costs, while Republicans would agree to curtail the ability of NIMBYs to hold up review processes, and to spend a lot more on infrastructure in general. Of course, if that kind of bargain is going to happen under Obama, it will require the Republicans to overcome their impulse to engage in destructive partisan politics, and that’s reason for pessimism. But if we keep raising awareness and pushing for this issue, something might get done in the future.

Infrastructure is reaching the point where it’s too important to be used as a political football. As with health care, we can no longer afford not to cut costs.

Noah Smith, who wrote this for Bloomberg News, is an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University and a freelance writer for finance and business publications.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Civil asset forfeiture evidence of decline

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learly, the far right wing of this country would love to return to a medieval, feudal state with them (the 0.1 percent) as our feudal lords.

During those original good old times, the lords of the realm could confiscate any property accumulated by the lower classes arbitrarily at any time.

The article (“In seizure of civil assets, police look for ‘goodies,’ ” Nov. 11) about “civil asset forfeiture” shows this practice has now been resurrected. U.S. law enforcement and the Internal Revenue Service proudly admit to seizing millions of dollars worth of property and cash from private citizens when no laws have been broken and often where no criminality is even suspected.

A New Mexico city attorney gave a seminar in town for prosecutors and law officials providing instruction on this despicable practice. Throughout history, when a civilization is about to collapse, among the first to go rogue are often the law enforcers. It seems we are already there.

David King

Santa Fe

Reading tutors There is room for five more first-graders to take advantage of the after-school reading program at the Santa Fe Boys & Girls Clubs at 750 Alto St. Buses and vans pick up the children at their schools, and the program begins at 4 p.m and runs until 4:45 p.m.

Each day, there are five qualified adults

to help the children increase their reading skills.

The goal is to have every child reading well enough by the end of May to handle second-grade work. The program has been running for more than 12 years, and the coordinator has been a volunteer there for 17 years. Age-appropriate books are provided, as are worksheets and other materials. For more information about the first-grade reading program, contact Lou Finley at 988-7278.

Lou Finley

Santa Fe

A better way Your story (“Chairman: Governor could pick members to fix PRC,” Dec. 5) regarding appointing members to the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission failed to mention that, for many years, the members of one of the predecessor agencies to the PRC were appointed by the governor. I recommend that we go back to appointments, while retaining the criteria for qualifications. That would ensure that we have competent and independent commissioners who are not beholden to special interests.

Bruce Poster

Santa Fe

Failing policy People know they didn’t get to keep their plan and didn’t see their rates go down as promised. Millions lost their

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Section editor: Inez Russell Gomez, 986-3053, igomez@sfnewmexican.com, Twitter @inezrussell

doctor. Formerly vilified insurance companies never have been more entrenched in partnership with this leviathan government. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (Democrat) comes out saying Obamacare was a bad idea, and one of the chief architects recently was found on videotape on at least three occasions admitting supporters had to lie to get it through and were subsequently assisted by the stupidity of the American voter.

Since when is it acceptable to allow a top legislator to say, “We have to pass it to see what’s in it”? Given my deductible has gone up more than 200 percent and my monthly premium more than 90 percent, I’d say the only time U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (Democrat) above-referenced phrase should be used is when a doctor is taking a stool sample.

Patrick Walker

Santa Fe

he makeup of Santa Fe City Council districts will be changing, shifting power to the growing south side of town — with some 13,250 new citizens in the newly annexed portion of town, the current districts are no longer equitable.

With a redistricting commission bill passed by the council and signed by Mayor Javier Gonzales, it’s essential that the commission charged with altering the boundaries of current council districts be as representative of the city as possible.

An ordinance passed last week by the council lays out the process for appointing the commission members. They should start their work by Feb. 1 and have been asked to finish by June 2015. New districts will go into effect for the March 2016 municipal election. The ordinance doesn’t lay out an exact timetable for making appointments, merely saying, “the members of the first commission shall be elected as soon as practicable.”

With the rush of the holidays and approaching new year, we could get to mid-January without people being aware that the city is seeking citizens to serve on the commission.

To apply, interested people should pick up applications from the City Clerk’s Office; the clerk will review them and eventually will set a time and place to draw members by lot (or, extend the application period if not enough people apply for each position).

Of the seven commissioners, one will come from each current council district, and one from the annexed area.

The last two are supposed to be a statistician and a cartographer or geographer, respectively. The one universal requirement is that each member be registered to vote.

The ordinance goes into great detail about who can’t apply — that includes anyone who wants to run for city office in 2016, for example, or city elected officials or relatives of elected officials. Even someone who has served as an elected city official within the past five years is excluded. The council is determined to keep politics out of it. That’s smart policy.

But however carefully the ordinance is written, without smart, capable commission members, the whole redistricting process still could be a mess. The best way to ensure a solid process is for citizens who are ready and willing to serve to step forward. That way, even with chance determining the final selections, the pool of qualified candidates will be deep enough to ensure a solid commission.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 16, 1914: Washington — Copies of Arizona’s anti-alien employment law reached the state department today, where officials began a study of its provisions in the light of the protests lodged by the Ambassadors of Great Britain and Italy. Gov. George W.P. Hunt’s determination to put the law into effect by proclamation today will not affect the department’s investigation to determine if it violates treaty rights.

Dec. 16, 1964: Paris — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said today further large-scale investments in strategic nuclear weapons are unnecessary because the United States possesses enough power to bring 100 million quick casualties to the Soviet Union. In such an all-out nuclear exchange the Russians would expect to inflict the same number of deaths on the American population, he told the annual winter ministerial meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Dec. 16, 1989: Headlines — Sewer-hookup moratorium trips apartments. Santa Fe may jail Oregon inmates. Colombian kingpin dies in gun battle. Adoption agency ‘abuses’ children, lawmaker says. Panama hands Noriega total power, declares ‘war.’ Child’s car-seat safety ignored, group says.

Respect president I am grateful that you printed the opinions of Timothy Egan (“President deserves respect,” Commentary, Dec. 7) and Ted Freedman (“President Deserves Credit for Progress,” My View, Dec. 7) because, regardless of how anyone else may personally feel about President Barack Obama, both opinions seemed more balanced and respectful than I am used to seeing. I personally feel that we are blessed to have the man in the White House.

Jim Heath

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The weather

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

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The following water statistics of December 12 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 0.000 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 4.791 City Wells: 1.010 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 5.801 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.082 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 11.8 percent of capacity; daily inflow 1.16 million gallons.

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

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

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

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

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

Mon. High 63 .................................... Hobbs Mon. Low 9 ..................................... Capulin

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On Dec. 16, 1917, one of the worst ice jams occurred on the Ohio River between Warsaw, Ky., and Rising Sun, Ind. It lasted 58 days.

is the warmest it has been in Q: What Antarctica?

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Newsmakers Lawyer: Witnesses back Bill Cosby sex abuse suit

Bill Cosby

Judy Huth

LOS ANGELES — A lawyer for a woman who says Bill Cosby sexually abused her when she was 15 stated in a recent court filing that he has interviewed two witnesses who corroborate her story. Los Angeles police are investigating Huth’s allegations.

Attorney Marc Strecker wrote in a sworn declaration filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday that he has reviewed photographs of his client, Judy Huth, with Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s, the place and time she says the abuse happened.

Huth’s sexual battery lawsuit against Cosby comes amid a flurry of allegations that he drugged and sexually assaulted more than a dozen women. Cosby’s attorney Martin Singer is seeking to dismiss the suit and has called it an extortion attempt.

Strecker’s declaration does not provide details, but her lawsuit states she and a 16-year-old female friend were taken to the Playboy Mansion by Cosby sometime around 1974. Strecker’s filing also includes a declaration from Dr. Anthony E. Reading, a clinical psychologist who stated there is “a reasonable basis to believe that Ms. Huth has been subject to childhood sexual abuse.”

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top picks

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7 p.m. on NBC Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas The Will Ferrell-starring movie Elf always is popular at this time of year, and this tuneful new take on it revisits the story in the classic style of stopmotion animation. The Big Bang Theory Emmy winner Jim Parsons voices Buddy, who affects many people he encounters as he searches for his father. Ed Asner reprises his role from the film as the voice of Santa. Also heard are Jay Leno, Today co-anchor Matt Lauer and Mark Hamill (Star Wars).

7 p.m. on PBS Sacred Journeys With Bruce Feiler Locations around the world that, indeed, are held sacred by many people are visited by host Feiler in this new six-part miniseries. As indicated by the subtitle, the destination in the opening episode is “Lourdes,” where wounded American military personnel join Feiler at the Catholic shrine in France that’s widely believed to be a source of great healing.

7 p.m. on CBS NCIS There’s never a good time for the Internet to go haywire, but the Christmas season is particularly bad for it. The new episode “House Rules” finds cyberter-

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rorists engineering such a crisis at the peak of the holidays, with Gibbs (Mark Harmon, pictured) and the other team members wanting to know what they know. Gibbs also finds time for personal matters, writing a letter to his late father.

Former Los Angeles news anchor Kent Shocknek guest stars as a news anchor.

8 p.m. on TBS Ground Floor A humbled Brody (Skylar Astin) begins working on the ground floor, determined to show Mansfield (John C. McGinley) he’s willing to start at the bottom to get back to the top. Sadly, the only people who seem to notice are Harvard and Derrick (Rory Scovel, James Earl), who fret that Brody’s super-efficiency will cost them their jobs — until they come up with a scheme to get him to mellow out.

Spoiler alert: The title of this new episode is “Baked & Toasted.” Briga Heelan also stars.

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machine that administers sedatives recently began treating patients at a Seattle hospital. At a Silicon Valley hotel, a bellhop robot delivers items to people’s rooms. Last spring, a software algorithm wrote a breaking news article about an earthquake that the Los Angeles Times published.

Although fears that technology will displace jobs are at least as old as the Luddites, there are signs that this time may really be different. The technological breakthroughs of recent years are enabling machines to do service jobs, in addition to factory and clerical work.

And during the same 15-year period that digital technology has inserted itself into nearly every aspect of life, the job market has fallen into a long malaise. Even with the economy’s recent improvement, the share of working-age adults who are working is substantially lower than a decade ago.

Economists have long argued that, just as buggymakers gave way to car factories, technology would create as many jobs as it destroyed.

Now many are not so sure.

Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary, recently said that he no longer believed that automation would always create new jobs.

“This isn’t some hypothetical future possibility,” he said.

“This is something that’s emerging before us right now.”

Erik Brynjolfsson, an economist at MIT, said, “This is the biggest challenge of our society for the next decade.”

Brynjolfsson and other experts believe that society has a chance to meet the challenge in ways that will allow technology to be mostly a positive force. New technologies have complemented people’s skills and enabled them to be more productive — as the Internet and word processing have for office workers or robotic surgery has for surgeons.

More productive workers, in turn, earn more money and produce goods and services that improve lives.

“It is literally the story of the economic development of the world over the last 200 years,” said Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist and an inventor of Mosaic, a prototype Web browser. “Just as most of us today have jobs that weren’t even invented 100 years ago, the same will be true 100 years from now.”

Yet there is deep uncertainty about how the pattern will play out now, as two trends are interacting. Artificial intelligence has become vastly more sophisticated in a short time.

At the same time, the U.S. workforce has gained skills at a slower rate than in the past — and at a slower rate than in many other countries. Americans ages 55-64 are among the most skilled in the world, according to a recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and

Development. Younger Americans are closer to average among the residents of rich countries, and below average by some measures.

Self-driving vehicles are an example of the crosscurrents.

They could put truck and taxi drivers out of work — or they could enable drivers to be more productive during the time they used to spend driving.

The challenge is evident for white-collar jobs, too. Ad sales agents and pilots are two jobs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects will decline over the next decade. Flying a plane is largely automated today. And at Google, the biggest seller of online ads, software does much of the selling and placing of search ads, meaning there is much less need for salespeople.

There are certain human skills machines will probably never replicate, like common sense, adaptability and creativity, said David Autor, an economist at MIT. Even jobs that become automated often require human involvement, like doctors on standby to assist the automated anesthesiologist, called Sedasys.

Elsewhere, though, machines are replacing certain jobs. Already, Microsoft’s Kinect can recognize a person’s movements and correct them while doing exercise or physical therapy.

The inventors of facial recognition software from a University of California, San Diego, lab say it can estimate pain levels from children’s expressions and screen people for depression. Machines are even learning to taste.

Watson, the computer system built by IBM that beat humans on Jeopardy in 2011, has since learned to do other human tasks. This year, it began advising military veterans on complex life decisions like where to live and which insurance to buy. Now IBM is trying to teach Watson emotional intelligence.

Perhaps the most worrisome development is how poorly the job market is already functioning for many workers. More than 16 percent of men ages 25-54 are not working, up from 5 percent in the late 1960s; 30 percent of women in this age group are not working, up from 25 percent in the late 1990s.

For those who are working, wage growth has been weak, while corporate profits have surged. “We’re going to enter a world in which there’s more wealth and less need to work,” Brynjolfsson said.

Some say the nature of work will need to change. Google’s co-founder, Larry Page, recently suggested a four-day workweek, so as technology displaces jobs, more people can find employment. Others believe the role of the public sector should expand, to help those struggling to find work.

Many point to education, in new technologies and in the skills that remain uniquely human, like creativity and judgment.

“The answer is surely not to try to stop technical change,” Summers said, “but the answer is not to just suppose that everything’s going to be OK because the magic of the market will assure that’s true.”

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Lobos limp toward Wednesday match with winless foe

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New Orleans Saints outside linebacker Kasim Edebali, right, grabs Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler during the first half of Monday’s game in Chicago.

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CHICAGO — Turns out all Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints needed to solve their problems was to show up in Chicago.

Nothing like playing the Bears to break a slump. Even better, the Saints jumped into first place.

Brees threw for 375 yards and three touchdowns, and New Orleans beat Chicago 31-15 on Monday night to grab the NFC South lead.

The Saints (6-8) moved into first place ahead of Carolina (5-8-1) and Atlanta (5-9) after losing four of their previous five games.

They also rebounded from a 41-10 loss to the Panthers.

“I think we’ve shown a couple times we can handle adversity,” Brees said. “Let’s make sure we can handle success, too.”

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The Saints host the Falcons before finishing the season at Tampa Bay. “The tendency after success is to relax, and it’s not time to relax,” Brees said.

Brees completed 29 of 36 passes and reached the 4,000-yard mark for the ninth straight year. He threw two touchdown passes to Josh Hill and another to Marques Colston.

Pierre Thomas had five catches for 83 yards.

David Hawthorne had three of New Orleans’ seven sacks and the Saints intercepted Jay

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Exec doesn’t regret Peterson talks

By Will Webber The New Mexican

ALBUQUERQUE — In what has become an almost daily routine, University of New Mexico men’s basketball coach Craig Neal spent a good portion of his most recent meeting with the media discussing his team’s injury report.

The list of names ebbs and flows like the tide.

Out: Guards Cullen Neal (high ankle sprain), Arthur Edwards (dislocated finger) and Sam Logwood (shoulder strain).

Returning: Forward Jordan Goodman (concussion, pulled quad muscle, knee surgery).

If anything has defined the Lobos this season, it’s who Craig Neal is healthy and who isn’t.

More often than not, it’s who’s not who makes the most headlines.

With UNM set to host winless Central Arkansas on Wednesday night in The Pit, perhaps now is as good a time as any to have a few players take another night off. The Bears (0-8) — on paper, anyway — don’t seem to pose much of a threat.

And that’s good for the limpin’ Lobos. With a road trip to Las Cruces coming Saturday and the Mountain West opener slated for later this month, taking the slow and steady approach to getting healthier is what Neal prefers.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had to deal with this injury-plagued of a season as we’ve had this year,” Neal said.

“I thought we were going to have pretty good depth in the backcourt, but it’s kind of dwindling.”

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Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, center, stands Oct. 8 with his wife, Ashley Brown Peterson, center left, and mother Bonita Jackson, far left, as they listen to Peterson’s attorney Rusty Hardin, right, outside the courthouse after making his first court appearance in Conroe, Texas. The NFL Players Association filed a federal lawsuit Monday for Adrian Peterson, asking the court to dismiss an arbitration ruling that upheld the NFL’s suspension of the star running back. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Wednesday: Central Arkansas (0-8) at New Mexico (6-3), 8 p.m.

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roy Vincent said he visited Adrian Peterson at his Texas home, held one of his sons on his lap and offered guidance to open the door toward getting the former NFL MVP back on track and on the field after resolving child abuse charges.

But things spiraled out of control and now the NFL’s executive vice president for football operations finds his interactions with the Minnesota Vikings star at the center of a legal dispute between the NFL Players Association, the league and Peterson after their backchannel, informal conversations became public.

Peterson and the union argued unsuccessfully during an arbitration hearing that Vincent promised the running back would be suspended two additional games beyond those he missed. The arbiter ruled no promises were made and Vincent says he was simply trying to give Peterson information so he could make smarter decisions.

NFL executive Troy Vincent finds himself at the center of a legal dispute between the union, the NFL and Adrian Peterson after their back-channel, informal conversations.

“I visited Adrian, not from my position or title, but to talk about how he was doing, how his children were, whether he was getting the help he needed,” Vincent told The Associated Press on Monday. “My Christian faith tells me that when I see someone in need and it’s within my ability to reach out and lend a helping hand, I should do so. I felt like in speaking to Adrian, I might be able to help him get through this. I needed to touch him and look in his eyes and tell him we can get through this together.”

Vincent, a former All-Pro cornerback and union president, said he sat down with Peterson at his

home on Nov. 10, eight days before Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended him without pay for the last six games of this season and through at least April 15.

Peterson pleaded no contest in Texas to misdemeanor reckless assault Nov. 4 for physically disciplining his 4-year-old son with a wooden switch.

Peterson received probation time, community service and a small fine as part of a deal that will remove the misdemeanor from his record if he completes the requirements without incident.

An arbiter upheld the suspension Friday. The NFLPA filed a federal lawsuit Monday for Peterson, asking the court to dismiss that ruling.

“We obviously filed a lawsuit because those conversations were explicitly inconsistent with the discipline,” NFLPA spokesman George Atallah told the AP. Peterson couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

In the petition, 10 of the 74 pages are devoted to recorded conversations between Vincent and

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins wears a shirt Sunday calling attention to two black Ohioans killed during encounters with law enforcement before a game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Cleveland.

The Browns say they respect the police and their players’ right to protest.

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BEREA, Ohio — His eyes filling with tears, Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins spoke passionately about a decision he knew would bring backlash and possibly harm his reputation.

For Hawkins, there was no choice.

A day after he wore a T-shirt protesting two shootings in Ohio involving police and victims carrying fake guns, Hawkins said he was motivated out of fear that one day something tragic could happen to his 2-year-old son.

Hawkins wore the black shirt during pregame warmups and introductions Sunday before Cleveland hosted the Cincinnati Bengals. The messages read: “Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford” on the front and “The Real Battle for Ohio” on the back.

The 12-year-old Rice died Nov. 22 after he

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was shot by a rookie officer investigating a complaint about the youngster, who was carrying a fake gun. Crawford, 22, was fatally shot Aug. 5 while holding an air-pellet rifle inside a Wal-Mart in Beavercreek, Ohio.

“I have a 2-year-old little boy, that same 2-year-old little boy everyone says was cute when I jokingly threw him out of the house earlier this year,” Hawkins said, pausing to gain his composure. “That little boy is my entire world and the number one reason for me wearing the T-shirt was the thought of what happened to Tamir Rice happening to my little Austin scares the living hell out of me.”

Hawkins spoke for six minutes Monday at his locker without taking questions. He said he wanted to address the situation after Cleveland police union president Jeff Follmer called his actions “pathetic” and told cleveland.com

Bill Foley is trying to bring an NHL expansion team to Las Vegas, Nev., and so far he’s marching in step with Commissioner Gary Bettman.

“I’m an ex-Army guy. I follow orders,” Foley told The Canadian Press by phone over the weekend from his home in Northern California. “We’ve been very careful in our meetings with the NHL administrative staff, just trying to make sure that we do things in the proper fashion.

We’re not pushy, we’re not demanding.”

So far, the 70-year-old millionaire businessman has received permission to run a season-ticket drive and isn’t pressing for anything more.

The league and its owners — and two-thirds would have to approve a bid — have many questions about a possible venture into the Las Vegas market. Foley points to the city’s growing business community.

“Nevada and Las Vegas in particular are no longer what they were 50 years ago or 40 years ago: A gambling city, kind of a weigh station in the desert,” Foley said. “A number of

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

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FBS Bowls PA 280 254 301 360 PA 317 277 390 376 PA 289 339 267 300 PA 303 254 294 381

National Conference East W L T Dallas 10 4 0 Philadelphia 9 5 0 N.Y. Giants 5 9 0 Washington 3 11 0 South W L T New Orleans 6 8 0 Carolina 5 8 1 Atlanta 5 9 0 Tampa Bay 2 12 0 North W L T Detroit 10 4 0 Green Bay 10 4 0 Minnesota 6 8 0 Chicago 5 9 0 West W L T x-Arizona 11 3 0 Seattle 10 4 0 San Francisco 7 7 0 St. Louis 6 8 0 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

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Week 15 Monday’s Game New Orleans 31, Chicago 15 Sunday’s Games Kansas City 31, Oakland 13 Pittsburgh 27, Atlanta 20 N.Y. Giants 24, Washington 13 New England 41, Miami 13 Indianapolis 17, Houston 10 Baltimore 20, Jacksonville 12 Buffalo 21, Green Bay 13 Carolina 19, Tampa Bay 17 Cincinnati 30, Cleveland 0 Denver 22, San Diego 10 N.Y. Jets 16, Tennessee 11 Seattle 17, San Francisco 7 Detroit 16, Minnesota 14 Dallas 38, Philadelphia 27 Thursday’s Game Arizona 12, St. Louis 6

Week 16 Thursday, Dec. 18 Tennessee at Jacksonville, 6:25 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 20 Philadelphia at Washington, 2:30 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 21 Baltimore at Houston, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Miami, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Green Bay at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

New England at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at St. Louis, 2:05 p.m.

Buffalo at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Dallas, 2:25 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 22 Denver at Cincinnati, 6:30 p.m.

NFL Calendar Dec. 28 — Regular season ends.

Jan. 3-4, 2015 — Wild-card playoffs.

NFL Summary Monday Saints 31, Bears 15 New Orleans 0 14 10 7—31 Chicago 0 0 0 15—15 Second Quarter NO—Hill 8 pass from Brees (S.Graham kick), 14:52.

NO—Colston 9 pass from Brees (S.Graham kick), :32.

Third Quarter NO—Hill 7 pass from Brees (S.Graham kick), 8:35.

NO—FG S.Graham 25, :16.

Fourth Quarter Chi—Wilson 1 pass from Cutler (Bennett pass from Cutler), 12:47.

NO—Ingram 15 run (S.Graham kick), 1:47.

Chi—Jeffery 7 pass from Cutler (Feely kick), :30.

A—60,996.

NO Chi First downs 25 16 Total Net Yards 443 278 Rushes-yards 26-83 20-125 Passing 360 153 Punt Returns 3-21 1-0 Kickoff Returns 0-0 6-162 Interceptions Ret. 3-55 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 29-36-0 17-31-3 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-15 7-41 Punts 5-43.4 6-49.8 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 3-25 9-74 Time of Possession 33:31 26:29 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—New Orleans, Ingram 17-59, Thomas 2-11, K.Robinson 3-10, Brees 3-2, Lorig 1-1. Chicago, Forte 16-78, Morgan 1-21, Cutler 1-20, Carey 1-4, McCray 1-2.

PASSING—New Orleans, Brees 29-360-375. Chicago, Cutler 17-31-3-194.

RECEIVING—New Orleans, J.Graham 5-87, Thomas 5-83, Stills 5-67, Colston 5-65, Toon 4-43, Hill 2-15, K.Robinson 2-10, Watson 1-5. Chicago, Jeffery 4-78, Bennett 4-36, Carey 3-39, Wilson 3-16, Forte 2-21, Rosario 1-4.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—New Orleans, S.Graham 51 (SH).

NCAA FOOTBALL FCS Playoffs Semifinals Friday, Dec. 19 Sam Houston State (11-4) at North Dakota State (13-1), 6 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 20 Illinois State (12-1) at New Hampshire (12-1), Noon Championship Saturday, Jan. 10 At FC Dallas Stadium Frisco, Texas Semifinal winners, 11 a.m.

Division II Playoffs Championship Saturday, Dec. 20 At Sporting Park - Kansas City, Kan. Minnesota State-(Mankato) (14-0) vs.

Colorado State-Pueblo (13-1), 2 p.m.

NAIA Championship Friday, Dec. 19 At Municipal Stadium Daytona Beach, Fla. Marian (Ind.) (11-2) vs. Southern Oregon (12-2), 1 p.m.

Division III Playoffs Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl Friday, Dec. 19 At Salem, Va. Mount Union (14-0) vs. WisconsinWhitewater (14-0), 5 p.m.

BASKETBALL

Saturday, Dec. 20 New Orleans Bowl Nevada (7-5) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette (8-4), 9 a.m. (ESPN) New Mexico Bowl - At Albuquerque UTEP (7-5) vs. Utah State (9-4), 12:20 p.m. (ESPN) Las Vegas Bowl Colorado State (10-2) vs. Utah (8-4), 1:30 p.m. (ABC) Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise Western Michigan (8-4) vs. Air Force (9-3), 3:45 p.m. (ESPN) Camelia Bowl - At Montgomery, Ala. Bowling Green (7-6) vs. South Alabama (6-6), 7:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 22 Miami Beach Bowl BYU (8-4) vs. Memphis (9-3), Noon (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 23 Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl Marshall (12-1) vs. Northern Illinois (11-2), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Poinsettia Bowl - At San Diego Navy (6-5) vs. San Diego State (7-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 24 Bahamas Bowl - At Nassau Western Kentucky (7-5) vs. Central Michigan (7-5), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Hawaii Bowl - At Honolulu Rice (7-5) vs. Fresno State (6-7), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 26 Heart of Dallas Bowl Illinois (6-6) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl - At Detroit Rutgers (7-5) vs. North Carolina (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl UCF (9-3) vs. N.C. State (7-5), 6 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

Stanford (7-5) vs. Maryland (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 31 Peach Bowl - At Atlanta Mississippi (9-3) vs. TCU (11-1), 10:30 a.m. (ESPN) Fiesta Bowl - At Glendale, Ariz.

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

Playoff semifinal: Oregon (12-1) vs.

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

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

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

Monday, Jan. 12 College Football Championship At Arlington, Texas Sugar Bowl winner vs. Rose Bowl winner, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 17 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 2 p.m. (NFLN) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl National vs. American, 2 p.m. (ESPN2) Saturday, Jan. 24 Senior Bowl North vs. South, 2 p.m. (NFLN)

ON THIS DATE December 16 1940 — Joe Louis knocks out Al McCoy in the sixth round at the Boston Garden to retain the world heavyweight title.

2007 — Brett Favre passes for 227 yards in Green Bay’s 33-14 win over St. Louis, eclipsing Dan Marino to become the NFL career leader in yards passing. Favre, in his 17th season, finishes the game with 61,405 yards.

Marino had 61,361 in 17 seasons.

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

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Raptors 95, Magic 82 GB — 7½ 9½ 14½ 16½ GB — ½ 6½ 9 11½ GB — ½ 2½ 7½ 10½

Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB Memphis 19 4 .826 — Houston 18 5 .783 1 San Antonio 17 8 .680 3 Dallas 17 8 .680 3 New Orleans 11 12 .478 8 Northwest W L Pct GB Portland 19 6 .760 — Oklahoma City 11 13 .458 7½ Denver 10 14 .417 8½ Utah 6 18 .250 12½ Minnesota 5 18 .217 13 Pacific W L Pct GB Golden State 21 2 .913 — L.A. Clippers 17 7 .708 4½ Phoenix 12 14 .462 10½ Sacramento 11 13 .458 10½ L.A. Lakers 8 17 .320 14 Monday’s Games Boston 105, Philadelphia 87 Indiana 110, L.A. Lakers 91 Cleveland 97, Charlotte 88 Atlanta 93, Chicago 86 Toronto 95, Orlando 82 Milwaukee 96, Phoenix 94 Portland 108, San Antonio 95 L.A. Clippers 113, Detroit 91 Sunday’s Games Golden State 128, New Orleans 122, OT Washington 93, Utah 84 Chicago 93, Miami 75 Oklahoma City 112, Phoenix 88 L.A. Lakers 100, Minnesota 94 Toronto 95, New York 90, OT San Antonio 99, Denver 91 Tuesday’s Games Minnesota at Washington, 5 p.m.

Miami at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Utah at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Dallas at New York, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Phoenix at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Utah at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Memphis at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Portland, 8 p.m.

Indiana at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Houston at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

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

Jan. 10 — Contracts guaranteed for rest of season.

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

NBA Boxscores Monday Cavaliers 97, Hornets 88 CHARLOTTE (88) Kidd-Gilchrist 0-4 1-2 1, Zeller 1-4 2-2 4, Jefferson 7-13 0-0 14, Walker 11-20 1-2 24, Stephenson 4-12 0-2 8, Henderson 4-7 0-0 8, Neal 3-10 1-2 8, Williams 4-6 0-0 10, Biyombo 1-1 2-4 4, Roberts 3-6 0-0 7. Totals 38-83 7-14 88.

CLEVELAND (97) James 11-19 3-4 27, Love 7-14 4-5 22, Varejao 4-12 0-0 8, Irving 6-14 3-4 16, Marion 2-4 0-0 4, Waiters 3-10 0-0 7, Thompson 4-6 2-4 10, Dellavedova 0-2 0-0 0, Harris 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 38-83 12-17 97.

Charlotte 17 28 23 20—88 Cleveland 34 20 26 17—97 3-Point Goals—Charlotte 5-16 (Williams 2-4, Roberts 1-2, Walker 1-2, Neal 1-5, Stephenson 0-3), Cleveland 9-24 (Love 4-9, James 2-3, Harris 1-2, Irving 1-4, Waiters 1-5, Dellavedova 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Charlotte 45 (Jefferson 8), Cleveland 57 (Love 18). Assists—Charlotte 22 (Neal 6), Cleveland 28 (James 13).

Total Fouls—Charlotte 14, Cleveland 14. Technicals—Henderson. A—20,562.

Celtics 105, 76ers 87 BOSTON (105) Green 4-8 5-8 14, Sullinger 2-10 0-2 5, Zeller 1-6 3-4 5, Rondo 2-3 1-2 5, Bradley 6-20 2-3 15, Olynyk 12-17 3-3 30, Turner 5-10 2-2 12, Bass 6-9 2-5 14, Wallace 0-0 0-0 0, Pressey 0-3 4-4 4, Powell 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 38-86 23-35 105.

PHILADELPHIA (87) Covington 4-15 3-3 13, Mbah a Moute 4-10 1-2 9, Noel 9-12 1-1 19, CarterWilliams 5-12 2-4 13, Thompson 1-3 0-0 2, McDaniels 2-10 2-2 6, Sims 1-8 3-4 5, Wroten 0-3 0-0 0, Grant 1-6 0-0 2, Shved 3-8 3-3 10, Aldemir 1-3 0-0 2, Sampson 2-3 2-2 6. Totals 33-93 17-21 87.

Boston 30 27 31 17 —105 Philadelphia 25 13 26 23 —87 3-Point Goals—Boston 6-25 (Olynyk 3-5, Green 1-3, Sullinger 1-3, Bradley 1-11, Turner 0-1, Pressey 0-2), Philadelphia 4-28 (Covington 2-8, Shved 1-2, Carter-Williams 1-5, Thompson 0-1, Grant 0-1, Sampson 0-1, Sims 0-1, Wroten 0-2, Mbah a Moute 0-3, McDaniels 0-4). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Boston 63 (Sullinger 11), Philadelphia 61 (Noel 8). Assists— Boston 26 (Rondo 7), Philadelphia 19 (Carter-Williams 6). Total Fouls—Boston 23, Philadelphia 28. A—12,903.

Pacers 110, Lakers 91 L.A. LAKERS (91) Johnson 4-7 2-2 13, Davis 0-5 0-0 0, J.Hill 2-7 2-2 6, Price 2-5 0-0 5, Bryant 8-26 3-3 21, Boozer 3-8 7-10 13, Lin 0-6 2-2 2, Sacre 0-2 1-2 1, Young 6-12 4-4 18, Ellington 3-5 0-0 7, Clarkson 1-5 2-4 5. Totals 29-88 23-29 91.

INDIANA (110) S.Hill 1-4 2-2 4, West 5-9 2-2 12, Hibbert 5-10 0-0 10, Watson 3-3 6-7 12, Stuckey 6-14 8-10 20, Allen 3-5 0-0 6, Miles 8-16 1-2 20, Scola 2-6 4-4 9, Sloan 7-12 0-0 17, Rudez 0-3 0-0 0, Copeland 0-0 0-0 0, Whittington 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 40-83 23-27 110.

L.A. Lakers 15 12 31 33—91 Indiana 34 26 29 21—110 3-Point Goals—L.A. Lakers 10-26 (Johnson 3-5, Young 2-6, Bryant 2-8, Price 1-2, Clarkson 1-2, Ellington 1-2, Lin 0-1), Indiana 7-17 (Sloan 3-4, Miles 3-8, Scola 1-1, S.Hill 0-1, Rudez 0-3).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Lakers 48 (Boozer 10), Indiana 64 (Stuckey 10). Assists—L.A. Lakers 14 (Bryant 3), Indiana 21 (Stuckey 7).

Total Fouls—L.A. Lakers 20, Indiana 20. Technicals—Bryant. A—15,261.

ORLANDO (82) Harris 8-15 2-2 18, Frye 1-6 0-0 3, Vucevic 6-13 1-3 13, Oladipo 6-12 0-0 12, Fournier 4-10 2-2 11, B.Gordon 7-11 0-0 16, Payton 2-3 0-0 4, Harkless 1-3 1-1 3, O’Quinn 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 36-74 6-8 82.

TORONTO (95) Ross 3-11 0-0 9, A.Johnson 5-8 1-2 11, Valanciunas 2-6 2-2 6, Lowry 6-12 1-2 17, Fields 3-6 1-2 8, J.Johnson 4-5 0-0 8, Patterson 4-6 0-0 10, Williams 6-14 5-7 18, Vasquez 2-9 0-0 4, Hansbrough 2-6 0-0 4. Totals 37-83 10-15 95.

Orlando 25 27 13 17—82 Toronto 28 16 27 24—95 3-Point Goals—Orlando 4-15 (B.Gordon 2-4, Fournier 1-3, Frye 1-4, Oladipo 0-2, Harris 0-2), Toronto 11-30 (Lowry 4-6, Ross 3-7, Patterson 2-4, Fields 1-1, Williams 1-5, J.Johnson 0-1, Hansbrough 0-1, Vasquez 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Orlando 43 (Vucevic 9), Toronto 48 (Valanciunas 8). Assists—Orlando 13 (Oladipo 4), Toronto 25 (Lowry 8). Total Fouls— Orlando 19, Toronto 14. A—19,800 (19,800).

Hawks 93, Bulls 86 CHICAGO (86) Dunleavy 4-9 1-2 11, Gibson 7-11 1-1 15, Gasol 6-15 1-2 13, Rose 6-21 2-3 14, Butler 8-17 3-3 22, Hinrich 0-7 0-0 0, Mirotic 1-7 1-2 3, Brooks 3-6 1-1 8.

Totals 35-93 10-14 86.

ATLANTA (93) Carroll 3-5 0-0 7, Millsap 6-16 4-6 17, Horford 10-19 1-2 21, Teague 5-12 2-2 12, Korver 4-9 0-0 12, Sefolosha 0-1 2-2 2, Brand 3-5 2-2 8, Schroder 2-6 0-0 4, Scott 2-5 0-0 5, Bazemore 1-5 3-3 5. Totals 36-83 14-17 93.

Chicago 22 22 20 22—86 Atlanta 28 22 23 20—93 3-Point Goals—Chicago 6-29 (Butler 3-5, Dunleavy 2-5, Brooks 1-4, Hinrich 0-4, Mirotic 0-4, Rose 0-7), Atlanta 7-21 (Korver 4-8, Millsap 1-2, Carroll 1-2, Scott 1-3, Schroder 0-1, Horford 0-1, Bazemore 0-2, Teague 0-2).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Chicago 68 (Gibson 17), Atlanta 44 (Horford 10). Assists—Chicago 18 (Rose 8), Atlanta 26 (Teague 7). Total Fouls— Chicago 17, Atlanta 17. Technicals— Carroll. A—16,805 (18,729).

Bucks 96, Suns 94 MILWAUKEE (96) Antetokounmpo 2-7 2-3 6, Parker 3-7 2-2 8, Sanders 0-2 0-0 0, Knight 7-18 6-6 20, Mayo 3-4 4-4 12, Bayless 4-8 2-2 11, Marshall 1-2 0-0 2, Dudley 3-7 1-2 10, Pachulia 6-9 1-3 13, Middleton 6-9 0-0 14. Totals 35-73 18-22 96.

PHOENIX (94) Tucker 2-6 0-0 6, Mark.Morris 9-13 5-5 25, Len 2-7 2-3 6, Bledsoe 4-9 3-4 11, Green 3-18 4-4 12, Thomas 6-12 4-5 20, Plumlee 1-1 2-4 4, Marc.Morris 2-6 0-0 5, Tolliver 1-3 0-0 3, Warren 0-0 2-2 2.

Totals 30-75 22-27 94.

Milwaukee 14 30 23 29—96 Phoenix 26 27 19 22—94 3-Point Goals—Milwaukee 8-16 (Dudley 3-5, Mayo 2-3, Middleton 2-3, Bayless 1-1, Marshall 0-1, Knight 0-3), Phoenix 12-38 (Thomas 4-7, Mark.

Morris 2-3, Tucker 2-4, Green 2-15, Tolliver 1-3, Marc.Morris 1-4, Bledsoe 0-2). Fouled Out—Len. Rebounds— Milwaukee 43 (Antetokounmpo 8), Phoenix 49 (Green 8). Assists— Milwaukee 23 (Pachulia, Dudley 5), Phoenix 17 (Tucker, Bledsoe 4). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 27, Phoenix 24.

Flagrant Fouls—Mayo, Len. A—17,327.

Trail Blazers 108, Spurs 95 SAN ANTONIO (95) K.Leonard 7-18 7-8 21, Diaw 4-9 1-3 10, Baynes 6-9 3-4 15, Joseph 5-10 1-2 12, Green 5-11 0-0 12, Ayres 2-2 0-0 4, Anderson 6-7 3-5 15, Belinelli 3-9 0-0 6, Daye 0-2 0-0 0, Bonner 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 38-78 15-22 95.

PORTLAND (108) Batum 3-8 0-0 7, Aldridge 10-21 3-3 23, Lopez 1-7 2-2 4, Lillard 8-18 6-6 23, Matthews 5-10 1-2 14, Blake 1-4 0-0 2, Kaman 4-6 3-4 11, Barton 1-3 0-0 3, Crabbe 3-4 1-1 8, Freeland 3-6 0-0 6, Robinson 2-2 3-4 7, M.Leonard 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-89 19-22 108.

San Antonio 20 23 25 27—95 Portland 23 25 28 32—108 3-Point Goals—San Antonio 4-11 (Green 2-4, Joseph 1-1, Diaw 1-4, Daye 0-1, Belinelli 0-1), Portland 7-18 (Matthews 3-5, Barton 1-1, Crabbe 1-2, Lillard 1-3, Batum 1-5, Blake 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—San Antonio 45 (Baynes, K.Leonard 9), Portland 53 (Aldridge 14). Assists—San Antonio 19 (Diaw 9), Portland 18 (Batum, Lillard 6). Total Fouls—San Antonio 21, Portland 19. A—19,441 (19,980).

Clippers 113, Pistons 91 DETROIT (91) Singler 2-9 0-0 6, Smith 4-11 0-2 8, Drummond 8-16 2-6 18, Jennings 2-6 1-1 6, Caldwell-Pope 1-5 0-2 2, Monroe 6-11 3-4 15, Meeks 5-10 7-7 20, Butler 3-4 0-0 7, Augustin 0-1 0-0 0, Jerebko 3-6 0-0 7, Dinwiddie 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 35-83 13-22 91.

L.A. CLIPPERS (113) Barnes 3-7 1-1 10, Griffin 7-16 3-4 18, Jordan 7-9 2-4 16, Paul 4-7 1-1 11, Redick 7-9 0-1 14, Farmar 6-12 0-0 15, Crawford 0-6 5-5 5, Davis 4-5 0-0 8, Douglas-Roberts 3-5 2-2 9, Turkoglu 2-3 0-0 6, Udoh 0-1 0-0 0, Cunningham 0-0 1-2 1, Bullock 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 4380 15-20 113.

Detroit 27 17 19 28—91 L.A. Clippers 29 26 31 27—113 3-Point Goals—Detroit 8-27 (Meeks 3-5, Singler 2-7, Butler 1-1, Jennings 1-3, Jerebko 1-3, Augustin 0-1, Smith 0-1, Caldwell-Pope 0-3, Dinwiddie 0-3), L.A. Clippers 12-24 (Barnes 3-6, Farmar 3-7, Turkoglu 2-3, Paul 2-3, Douglas-Roberts 1-1, Griffin 1-1, Redick 0-1, Crawford 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Detroit 51 (Drummond 13), L.A. Clippers 48 (Jordan 15). Assists—Detroit 23 (Jennings 6), L.A. Clippers 35 (Paul 8).

Total Fouls—Detroit 19, L.A. Clippers 21. Technicals—Drummond, Detroit Coach Van Gundy, Detroit defensive three second, Redick. A—19,060 (19,060).

NCAA BASKETBALL Men’s Top 25 Monday’s Games No. 2 Duke 75, Elon 62 No. 8 Gonzaga 93, Texas Southern 54 Tuesday’s Games No. 3 Arizona vs. Oakland, 7 p.m.

No. 9 Texas vs. Lipscomb, 6 p.m.

No. 11 Wichita State vs. Alabama, 7 p.m.

No. 15 Oklahoma vs. Oral Roberts, 5 p.m.

No. 24 North Carolina at UNC Greensboro, 5 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games No. 12 Ohio State vs. N.C. A&T, 5 p.m.

No. 16 Washington vs. Grambling State, 9 p.m.

No. 19 San Diego State at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.

No. 25 Michigan State vs. Eastern Michigan, 7 p.m.

HOCKEY Thursday’s Games No. 2 Duke vs. UConn at the Izod Center, East Rutherford, N.J., 6 p.m.

No. 6 Virginia vs. Cleveland State, 5 p.m.

Men’s Division I Monday’s Games Far West Gonzaga 94, Texas Southern 54 Grand Canyon 60, Bethune-Cookman 50 Pepperdine 78, South Alabama 68 South Austin Peay 73, Troy 70 Duke 75, Elon 62 Georgia Southern 68, South Florida 63 Georgia Tech 70, Appalachian St. 57 Howard 57, IUPUI 47 Memphis 81, NC Central 47 Norfolk St. 88, Virginia-Wise 49 Tennessee Tech 82, North Florida 80 Midwest Cleveland St. 86, Mount Vernon Nazarene 40 Drake 76, Jackson St. 66 UT-Martin 81, Ill.-Chicago 78, OT Southwest Lamar 128, Champion Baptist 54 Oral Roberts 80, Missouri St. 61 UTSA 73, Texas A&M-CC 60

Men’s AP Top 25 Poll Rec Pts Prv 1. Kentucky (65) 11-0 1,625 1 2. Duke 8-0 1,545 2 3. Arizona 10-0 1,505 3 4. Louisville 9-0 1,349 4 5. Wisconsin 10-1 1,331 5 6. Virginia 9-0 1,294 6 7. Villanova 10-0 1,215 7 8. Gonzaga 9-1 1,175 9 9. Texas 8-1 1,154 8 10. Kansas 8-1 1,102 10 11. Wichita St. 7-1 959 11 12. Ohio St. 8-1 838 12 13. Iowa St. 8-1 772 14 14. Utah 7-2 670 13 15. Oklahoma 6-2 647 16 16. Washington 8-0 598 17 17. Maryland 10-1 512 19 18. Miami 9-1 426 20 19. San Diego St. 7-2 424 18 20. St. John’s 8-1 353 24 21. Notre Dame 10-1 351 25 22. West Virginia 9-1 333 22 23. Butler 8-2 259 15 24. North Carolina 6-3 122 21 25. Michigan St. 7-3 116 — Others receiving votes: Baylor 97, TCU 80, Colorado St. 75, N. Iowa 65, Georgetown 41, California 37, Arkansas 19, Seton Hall 14, VCU 6, LSU 4, Oklahoma St. 4, Old Dominion 4, Penn St. 3, Davidson 1.

Women’s Top 25 Monday’s Games No. 10 Louisville 100, Old Dominion 46 No. 19 Oklahoma State 84, New Orleans 33 No. 21 Mississippi State 104, MVSU 41 Tuesday’s Games No. 6 North Carolina vs. No. 16 Oregon State, 4 p.m.

No. 11 Tennessee vs. Wichita State, 5 p.m.

No. 18 Michigan State vs. Alcorn State, 5 p.m.

No. 19 Syracuse vs. Canisius, 5 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games No. 1 South Carolina at Hampton, 5 p.m.

No. 3 Texas vs. McNeese State, 4 p.m.

No. 7 Stanford at Chattanooga, 4 p.m.

No. 13 Duke vs. Oklahoma, 4:30 p.m.

No. 21 Mississippi State at LouisianaLafayette, 10 a.m.

No. 25 DePaul at Loyola of Chicago, 10 a.m.

Thursday’s Games No. 10 Louisville at Grand Canyon, 7 p.m.

No. 19 Oklahoma State at Weber State, 7 p.m.

Friday’s Games No. 2 UConn vs. No. 25 DePaul at Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport, Conn., 5:30 p.m.

No. 6 North Carolina vs. Maine at Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Convention Center, 5 p.m.

No. 9 Baylor vs. No. 19 Syracuse at Harold & Ted Alfond Sports Center, Winter Park, Fla., 5 p.m.

No. 13 Duke vs. UMass-Lowell, 4:30 p.m.

No. 16 Oregon State vs. Southern Illinois at the Convocation Center, New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Women’s AP Top 25 Poll Rec Pts Prv 1. S. Carolina (25) 9-0 865 1 2. UConn (6) 6-1 828 2 3. Texas (4) 8-0 795 3 4. Texas A&M 11-0 768 4 5. Notre Dame 10-1 741 5 6. North Carolina 9-0 709 6 7. Stanford 6-2 636 7 8. Kentucky 10-1 609 8 9. Baylor 8-1 579 9 10. Louisville 8-1 553 10 11. Tennessee 7-2 518 11 12. Nebraska 9-1 437 12 13. Duke 5-3 423 13 14. Maryland 8-2 409 14 15. Georgia 10-0 378 16 16. Oregon St. 7-0 364 15 17. Rutgers 8-2 283 17 18. Michigan St. 6-2 251 19 19. Oklahoma St. 6-1 225 20 19. Syracuse 7-1 225 20 21. Mississippi St. 10-0 224 22 22. West Virginia 8-1 150 23 23. Iowa 8-2 90 24 24. California 7-2 80 18 25. DePaul 6-3 71 25 Others receiving votes: Green Bay 43, Northwestern 19, Arizona St. 18, St. John’s 17, Princeton 15, Oregon 14, Washington 8, James Madison 7, W. Kentucky 7, Oklahoma 5, Washington St. 5, Florida St. 4, Arkansas 2.

Women’s Division I Monday’s Games East Buffalo 51, St. Bonaventure 44 George Washington 63, Memphis 44 Quinnipiac 66, Albany (NY) 62 Midwest Ball St. 76, Charlotte 66 James Madison 67, Ohio 60 N. Kentucky 77, Marquette 68 Northwestern 62, Gonzaga 43 Oakland 109, Concordia (Mich.) 62 S. Dakota St. 65, Middle Tennessee 61 South Akron 81, Bethune-Cookman 63 Alabama St. 82, Bluefield St. 73 Louisville 100, Old Dominion 46 Mississippi St. 104, MVSU 41 Radford 60, Wofford 59 Southwest Oklahoma St. 84, New Orleans 33 Tennessee St. 72, Texas A&M-CC 61

NHL Eastern Conference GP Pittsburgh 30 Detroit 31 N.Y. Islanders 31 Tampa Bay 32 Montreal 31 Washington 29 Toronto 30 N.Y. Rangers 28 Florida 28 Boston 30 Ottawa 30 Buffalo 31 New Jersey 32 Philadelphia 29 Columbus 29 Carolina 29

W 20 17 21 19 19 14 18 14 12 15 12 13 11 11 12 8

L OL Pts GFGA 6 4 44 98 71 7 7 41 92 79 10 0 42 99 89 10 3 41 107 86 10 2 40 83 79 10 5 33 85 79 9 3 39 103 85 10 4 32 84 77 8 8 32 64 74 13 2 32 76 78 12 6 30 80 86 16 2 28 61 95 15 6 28 74 94 13 5 27 79 87 15 2 26 71 95 18 3 19 61 83

Western Conference GP W L OL Pts GFGA Anaheim 32 21 6 5 47 95 83 Chicago 31 21 9 1 43 95 61 St. Louis 30 20 8 2 42 89 70 Vancouver 30 18 10 2 38 89 86 Nashville 29 19 8 2 40 78 57 San Jose 32 17 11 4 38 90 82 Los Angeles 31 15 10 6 36 82 73 Winnipeg 31 15 10 6 36 73 74 Calgary 32 17 13 2 36 95 85 Minnesota 28 16 11 1 33 81 70 Dallas 29 11 13 5 27 85103 Colorado 30 10 13 7 27 78 98 Arizona 30 10 16 4 24 70 99 Edmonton 31 7 19 5 19 65104 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Monday’s Games Buffalo 5, Ottawa 4, SO N.Y. Islanders 3, New Jersey 2, SO Pittsburgh 4, Tampa Bay 2 Sunday’s Games Toronto 4, Los Angeles 3, SO Chicago 2, Calgary 1 N.Y. Rangers 2, Edmonton 0 Tuesday’s Games Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Anaheim at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Carolina at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Columbus at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Boston at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

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

Edmonton at Arizona, 7 p.m.

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

Jan. 22-26 — All-Star break.

NHL Summaries Monday Islanders 3, Devils 2, SO New Jersey 2 0 0 0—2 N.Y. Islanders 0 1 1 0—3 N.Y. Islanders won shootout 2-1 First Period—1, New Jersey, Zidlicky 4 (Gomez, Jagr), 12:15 (pp). 2, New Jersey, Gomez 2 (Jagr, Zidlicky), 15:20.

Second Period—3, N.Y. Islanders, Bailey 5 (Strome, Grabovski), 1:51.

Third Period—4, N.Y. Islanders, Martin 4 (Cizikas, de Haan), 10:45.

Overtime—None.

Shootout—New Jersey 1 (Ruutu NG, Gomez G, Severson NG, Zidlicky NG, Josefson NG), N.Y. Islanders 2 (Nielsen NG, Okposo G, Tavares NG, Strome NG, Bailey G).

Shots on Goal—New Jersey 12-7-72—28. N.Y. Islanders 7-11-13-2—33.

Power-play opportunities—New Jersey 1 of 2; N.Y. Islanders 0 of 3.

Goalies—New Jersey, Kinkaid 0-1-2 (33 shots-31 saves). N.Y. Islanders, Halak 16-6-0 (28-26).

A—13,408 (16,170). T—2:34.

Penguins 4, Lightning 2 Tampa Bay 1 0 1—2 Pittsburgh 1 2 1—4 First Period—1, Pittsburgh, Sutter 7 (Scuderi), 19:09 (sh). 2, Tampa Bay, Drouin 2 (Johnson, Kucherov), 19:33 (pp).

Second Period—3, Pittsburgh, Rust 1 (Ebbett), 2:55. 4, Pittsburgh, Downie 5 (Hornqvist, Malkin), 19:26 (pp).

Third Period—5, Pittsburgh, Dumoulin 1 (Downie, Spaling), 7:47. 6, Tampa Bay, Kucherov 12 (Filppula), 16:56.

Shots on Goal—Tampa Bay 12-810—30. Pittsburgh 5-10-11—26.

Power-play opportunities—Tampa Bay 1 of 3; Pittsburgh 1 of 4.

Goalies—Tampa Bay, Bishop (5 shots-4 saves), Nabokov 3-4-1 (0:00 second, 21-18). Pittsburgh, Fleury 17-4-2 (30-28).

A—18,487 (18,387). T—2:23.

Sabres 5, Senators 4, SO Ottawa 1 1 2 0—4 Buffalo 0 3 1 0—5 Buffalo won shootout 1-0 First Period—1, Ottawa, Ryan 7 (Hoffman, Zibanejad), 7:24.

Second Period—2, Buffalo, Ristolainen 2 (Stewart, Gionta), 4:11 (pp).

3, Buffalo, Moulson 7 (Meszaros, Ennis), 7:00. 4, Buffalo, Foligno 5 (Flynn, Myers), 7:32. 5, Ottawa, Stone 7 (Turris, Ceci), 13:42.

Third Period—6, Ottawa, Lazar 1 (Condra, Chiasson), 2:02. 7, Ottawa, Chiasson 7 (Borowiecki), 5:04. 8, Buffalo, Flynn 4 (Foligno, Benoit), 16:31.

Overtime—None.

Shootout—Ottawa 0 (Zibanejad NG, Turris NG, Ryan NG), Buffalo 1 (Moulson G, Ennis NG, Girgensons NG).

Shots on Goal—Ottawa 6-9-14-4—33.

Buffalo 9-10-13-1—33.

Power-play opportunities—Ottawa 0 of 5; Buffalo 1 of 3.

Goalies—Ottawa, Lehner 6-4-2 (33 shots-29 saves). Buffalo, Enroth 1010-1 (33-29).

A—14,578 (19,070). T—2:45.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Named Kristen Hudak director of public relations.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with Cs Brett Hayes and Adam Moore, OF Destin Hood and 1B/OF Jerry Sands on minor league contracts.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with SS Jed Lowrie on a three-year contract.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Yohan Pino on a oneyear contract. Designated RHP Casey Coleman for assignment.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with 3B Chase Headley on a four-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MIAMI HEAT — Recalled G Shabazz Napier and C Hassan Whiteside from Sioux Falls (NBADL).

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed F/C Furkan Aldemir.

SACRAMENTO KINGS — Fired coach Michael Malone. Promoted assistant coach Tyrone Corbin to interim coach.

SPORTS

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

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James, Love lead Cavs over Hornets The Associated Press

CLEVELAND — LeBron James scored 27 points with 13 assists, Kevin Love added 22 points and 18 rebounds, and the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated Cavaliers 97 the Charlotte Hornets 97-88 on Monday night.

Hornets 88 The Cavaliers jumped to a 21-0 lead, but the Hornets regrouped and got within two points early in the third quarter before the Cavaliers pulled away.

The Cavaliers ended the third on a 21-9 run. Kyrie Irving scored 16 points for the Cavaliers, who were coming off consecutive road losses to Oklahoma City and New Orleans after winning eight in a row.

Kemba Walker led Charlotte with 24 points while Al Jefferson added 14.

CELTICS 105, 76ERS 87 In Philadelphia, Kelly Olynyk scored a career-high 30 points, leading the Celtics to a victory over the 76ers.

Avery Bradley had 15 points, and Brandon Bass and Jeff Green added 14 apiece for Boston (8-14), which snapped a threegame skid.

Rookie Nerlens Noel had a career-high 19 points for the 76ers (2-22), who dropped to 0-13 at home this season. Philadelphia moved closer to the NBA mark for worst home start to a season, set in the 1993-94 season when the Mavericks began 0-19.

RAPTORS 95, MAGIC 82 In Toronto, Lou Williams scored 18 points, Kyle Lowry had 17 and the Raptors won their 10th straight game over the Magic.

Amir Johnson scored 11 points and Patrick Patterson had 10 for the Raptors, who improved to 11-1 this season against opponents with losing records. This was Toronto’s third of six straight games against teams below .500.

Tobias Harris scored 18 points, Ben Gordon had 16, Nikola Vucevic had 13 and Victor Oladipo 12 for the Magic, who have not won in Toronto since March. 26, 2012.

PACERS 110, LAKERS 91 In Indianapolis, Rodney Stuckey scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Indiana over the Lakers 110-91.

Los Angeles shot 33 percent from the floor and trailed by 39 points during the game.

CJ Miles scored 20, David West and C.J. Watson each scored 12, and Donald Sloan scored 17 points for Indiana. Kobe Bryant led the Lakers in scoring with 21 points, shooting 8 of 26 from the floor.

Nick Young scored 18 points and Carlos Boozer recorded a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds. The Pacers bench outscored the Lakers bench 52-46.

HAWKS 93, BULLS 86 In Atlanta, Al Horford scored 21 points, including a huge jumper with just under a minute remaining, and the streaking Hawks won for the 10th time in 11 games with a victory over the Bulls.

The Hawks led most of the way, but never by more than 10 points. After Taj Gibson’s dunk with 1:13 remaining brought the Bulls to 87-84, Horford got loose for a 19-footer on the wing and knocked it down.

Jimmy Butler led the Bulls with 22 points.

The Bulls had won six straight over the Hawks.

BUCKS 96, SUNS 94 Khris Middleton hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer, giving Milwaukee a win over Phoenix.

Middleton’s shot bounced off the backboard and curled into the net for the game winner. It was the biggest three points of the 14 he scored on the night. The Bucks trailed 94-93 after Markieff Morris knocked down a 14-foot jumper from inside the freethrow line with 3.9 seconds left.

Morris led the Suns with 25 points, including two buckets in the last 24 seconds of a back-and-forth final five minutes.

Brandon Knight dropped in a running jump shot with 7.2 seconds left, part of his team-high 20 points for the Bucks (13-12).

Isaiah Thomas scored 11 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter. Thomas hit three 3-pointers and a layup between the 9:41 and 8:03 marks of the fourth.

But the Suns (12-14) dropped their sixth straight game, despite the Bucks losing prized rookie Jabari Parker to injury early in the second half.

TRAIL BLAZERS 108, SPURS 95 In Portland, Ore., Damian Lillard had 23 points and a career-high 10 rebounds, and the Trail Blazers downed short-handed San Antonio.

LaMarcus Aldridge added 23 points and 14 rebounds for the Blazers, who have won seven of their last nine games. But starting center Robin Lopez injured his right hand early in the second half and did not return.

Kawhi Leonard had 21 points and nine rebounds for the Spurs, who had just 10 players available. Tim Duncan, who had 15 points and nine rebounds in a 99-91 victory the night before, was given the night off.

CLIPPERS 113, PISTONS 91 In Los Angeles, Blake Griffin scored 18 points, DeAndre Jordan had 16 points and 15 rebounds, and the Clippers breezed to a victory over Detroit.

Chris Paul had 11 points and eight assists.

He committed one turnover in 24 minutes, after getting six in each of his previous two games. Paul finished last season with a league-best 4.57 assist-to-turnover ratio.

Jodie Meeks had 20 points for Detroit.

J.J. Redick scored 14 points, and his streak of 29 games with a 3-pointer ended one game shy of teammate Matt Barnes’ franchise record.

Kobe talks about the fire needed to catch Jordan

By Jon Krawczynski The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — All these years, Kobe Bryant has been chasing Michael Jordan.

The bar doesn’t get any higher than that. And after Bryant passed Jordan for third on the NBA’s career scoring list in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 100-94 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday night, he offered a glimpse into the relentless mentality it takes to run down a legend.

“I think the competitive nature is something that frightens a lot of people when you peel back truly what’s inside of a person to compete and be at that high level,” Bryant said. “It scares a lot of people that are just comfortable being average.”

Bryant has been compared to Jordan for a long time, in part because he dared to chase him. Where Bryant is every bit Jordan’s equal is in the tenacity that has kept him going through a torn Achilles tendon, bone-on-bone friction in his knees and now the painful rebuilding of a proud franchise.

“His competitiveness drives him in the offseason to work to be able to play at the level he plays,” Timberwolves coach Flip Saunders said. “His competitiveness during the games to dominate offensively and defensively and then his competitiveness of wanting to win.

He’ll challenge teammates if

need be and will do whatever it takes to try to get that edge.”

It’s the only way Bryant knows. And he learned by Kobe Bryant studying the best.

“I think when you look at Michael’s [Hall of Fame] speech,” Bryant said, referring to a speech in which Jordan cited those who he perceived to have gotten in his way over the years. “People really got a chance to see how he ticks and it scared a lot of people, right?

But that’s just the reality of it.

You can’t get to a supreme level without channeling the dark side a little bit.”

Bryant’s willingness to embrace the darkness has, in his own eyes, cast him as one of the league’s villains. It also likely ensures that his farewell tour, whenever that comes, will not be of the warm and fuzzy variety that New York Yankees star Derek Jeter enjoyed last season.

“Derek and I are different people,” Bryant said. “He hides it a lot better but I guarantee you our competitive spirit is exactly the same. He just hides it better or chooses to hide it. I don’t choose to hide it.”

Then again, maybe he overestimates the animosity out there. Maybe that’s another mind trick that he plays on

himself to get him out of bed in the morning and to the gym for another workout.

When No. 24 stepped to the free-throw line midway through the second quarter on Sunday night — with 5:24 remaining and 24 seconds on the shot clock, to be exact — needing both shots to move past Jordan, a Lakers-heavy crowd at Target Center stood and serenaded him. Cellphone flashes flickered as the first and second shots swished through and the Timberwolves stopped the game, with owner Glen Taylor presenting Bryant the game ball to a thunderous ovation.

“I’m used to being the villain, man,” Bryant said with a sheepish smile. “To have moments like that, when you’re not expecting a hug and you get a hug, this feels pretty damn good.”

Once it was finally over, the weight lifted and Bryant found another gear against a young Timberwolves team that includes 19-year-olds Andrew Wiggins — the No. 1 overall pick in the June draft — and Zach LaVine, who wears No. 8 in honor of Bryant.

He finished the night with 26 points, including a dagger of a 3-pointer over Wiggins’ outstretched hand with just over a minute to play that helped seal the win.

“I witnessed greatness tonight,” a star-struck Wiggins said. “A living legend passed

Michael Jordan, who everyone thinks is the best player of alltime. That’s a big accomplishment. I’m glad I was there to witness it.”

Wiggins was 1 when a wideeyed Bryant entered the league in 1996, and that wasn’t lost on him in the afterglow on Sunday night.

“It was a strange feeling,” Bryant said. “I remember being Andrew Wiggins. I remember playing against Michael my first year. To be here tonight and playing against him and seeing the baby face and the little footwork and little technique things that he’s going to be much, much sharper at as time goes on. It was like looking at a reflection of myself 19 years ago. It was pretty cool.”

Now that Bryant has bumped Jordan from the scoring podium, only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) and Karl Malone (36,928) are in front of him.

Even if he remains in third place, which appears likely, it won’t really matter. Vaulting over Jordan, whose Jumpman logo is as synonymous with the NBA as Jerry West’s silhouette, is its own reward.

Maybe that’s why the insatiable Bryant wore the unfamiliar smile of satisfaction on Sunday night.

He’s been trying for almost two decades. And now he can finally say he’s beaten Jordan at something.

Lobos: Devon Williams a solid performer Continued from Page B-1 Cullen Neal was the starting point guard and Edwards was the first player off the bench. Both were lost during the team’s trip to the Puerto Rico Tip-Off between Nov. 20-23.

Logwood, a true freshman whose playing time has grown steadily, went down with a shoulder injury in the last game, a win over the weekend against LouisianaMonroe. He is expected to miss at least 10 days, meaning he will not return until the MWC opener on Dec. 31 against Fresno State — the same time Neal hopes Edwards will be back.

Edwards was expected back on Wednesday, but will instead have X-rays and be re-examined by team doctors to gauge the flexibility in his shooting hand.

“You’ll probably see a lot of different lineups that you weren’t used to,” Neal said. “We’ll play a lot of different lineups.

We’ll play a big lineup. We’ll play a small lineup. So, it’ll be interesting.”

It has gotten so bad that the coaching staff had to consult with the athletic department’s compliance officers to see if they could bring in fresh bodies during workouts.

“I even checked if I could have a man-

ager practice [Monday], which I can’t.,” Neal said.

The starting backcourt currently consists of seniors Hugh Greenwood and Deshawn Delaney, as well as freshman Xavier Adams. The biggest surprise in the entire rotation, however, has been one player who has completely avoided the injury bug.

Sophomore forward Devon Williams is in his third year in the UNM program. A quiet, hard-working player who does all the little things, he has clearly won over the coaching staff with his determination and never-quit attitude.

“We’ve had Cam Bairstow; never said a word for three years,” Neal said. “Never boo. Never said a word. Bought his time instead of ‘I gotta play as a freshman, I gotta — .’ He just did what he was supposed to do and look what happened.

That’s what I’ve tried to tell guys, and I think Devon’s one of those kids.

“I think one thing that helps coaches and programs is for a kid like him to buy his time, to keep his mouth shut, do what we ask him to do, go to class, work his butt off, develop and then you see what happens.”

Now if Williams could just pass along his injury free ways to the rest of the team, Neal would be perfectly happy.

If nothing else, it would certainly cut short his gab sessions with the media.

NOTES u Winless in eight games this season, Central Arkansas has been outscored by double digits in all but one outing — a 74-68 loss at home against Southeast Missouri State.

The Bears are one of only three winless teams still remaining in Division I basketball. Florida A&M (0-9) and Delaware (0-7) are the others. u Neal said he and his son will have to make a decision about Cullen’s redshirt status by Jan. 5, the eve of a road trip to San Diego State. “My biggest thing is his mobility’s not very good,” Craig Neal said. “His lateral movement’s not very good. That plays a key because it’s key with him just to have his feet and his ankles and his legs have to be good for the way he plays.” u The coaching staff has allowed current redshirts Elijah Brown and Tim Williams to return home for the holidays. The pair is sitting out this season after transferring into the program. Each is allowed to practice but not play. u SDSU remains the only MWC team in the national polls. The Aztecs (7-2) are No. 17 in the coaches’ poll and No. 19 in the media poll. Colorado State (10-0) is receiving votes and sits just outside each top 25 tabulation.

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

Today Boys basketball — Academy for Technology & the Classics at N.M. School for Deaf, 6:30 p.m.

Santa Fe Waldorf at Monte del Sol, 6:30 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Cuba, 6:30 p.m.

Española Valley at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Academy for Technology & the Classics at N.M. School for Deaf, 5 p.m.

Santa Fe Waldorf at Monte del Sol, 5 p.m.

Capital at Moriarty, 7 p.m.

St. Michael’s at Bernalillo, 7 p.m.

Valencia at Española Valley 7 p.m.

Taos at Santa Fe Indian, 7 p.m.

Wednesday Boys basketball — Springer at Desert Academy, 5 p.m. (at Genoveva Chavez Community Center) St. Michael’s at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Dulce at Escalante, 7 p.m.

Thursday Boys basketball — Academy for Technology & the Classics at East Mountain JV, 5:30 p.m.

Taos at Grants Tournament, pairings TBA Ben Lujan Tournament (at Pojoaque) — first round Santa Fe Indian vs. Laguna-Acoma, 10 a.m.

Socorro vs. Mora, 2:30 p.m.

Silver vs. Monte del Sol, 4 p.m.

Tularosa at Pojoaque Valley, 8:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — Academy for Technology & the Classics at East Mountain, 4 p.m.

Bernalillo at West Las Vegas, 6 p.m.

Española Valley at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Ben Lujan Tournament (at Pojoaque) — first round St. Michael’s vs. Mora, 11:30 a.m.

Peñasco vs. Tularosa, 1 p.m.

Santa Fe Indian vs. Socorro, 5:30 p.m.

McCurdy at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m.

Friday Boys basketball — Cimarron at Questa, 5:30 p.m.

Escalante at Shiprock Northwest, 5:30 p.m.

Wagon Mound at West Las Vegas, 6 p.m.

St. Michael’s at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Las Vegas Robertson at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Abq. Rio Grande at Los Alamos, 7 p.m.

Pecos at Melrose, 7 p.m.

Taos at Grants Tournament, pairings TBD Ben Lujan Tournament (at Pojoaque) — semifinals Silver-Monte del Sol winner vs. SFIS-Laguna winner, 5:30 p.m.

Mora-Socorro winner vs. Pojoaque-Tularosa winner, 8:30 p.m.

Consolation bracket Silver-Monte del Sol loser vs. SFIS-Laguna loser, 10 a.m.

Mora-Socorro loser vs. Pojoaque-Tularosa loser, 11:30 a.m.

Girls basketball — Escalante at Shiprock Northwest, 4 p.m.

NACA at Monte del Sol, 5 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Tucumcari, 5 p.m.

Pecos at Melrose, 5 p.m.

Jemez Valley at Coronado, 5:30 p.m.

Cimarron at Questa, 5:30 p.m.

Grants at Capital, 7 p.m.

Portales at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m.

Ben Lujan Tournament (at Pojoaque) — semifinals SFIS-Socorro winner vs. Peñasco-Tularosa winner, 4 p.m.

St. Michael’s-Mora winner vs. McCurdy-Pojoaque winner, 7 p.m.

Consolation bracket SFIS-Socorro loser vs. Peñasco-Tularosa loser, 1 p.m.

St. Michael’s-Mora loser vs. McCurdy-Pojoaque loser, 2:30 p.m.

Wrestling — Capital at Northern Colorado Christmas Tournament (Loveland, Colo.), 3 p.m.

Saturday Boys basketball — To’Hajiilee at Escalante, 2:30 p.m.

Pecos at Texico, 4 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Santa Rosa, 6:30 p.m.

Las Cruces at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Taos at Grants Tournament, pairings TBA Ben Lujan Tournament (at Pojoaque) — final round 7th place, 10:30 a.m.

5th place, 1:30 p.m.

3rd place, 4:30 p.m.

Championship, 7:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — To’Hajiilee at Escalante, 1 p.m.

Pecos at Texico, 2 p.m.

Artesia at Los Alamos, 3:30 p.m.

Portales at West Las Vegas, 4 p.m.

Santa Fe High at Las Cruces Oñate, 5 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Santa Rosa, 5 p.m.

Abq. Hope Christian at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m.

Ben Lujan Tournament (at Pojoaque) — final round 7th place, 9 a.m.

5th place, noon 3rd place, 3 p.m.

Championship, 6 p.m.

Wrestling — Capital at Northern Colorado Christmas Tournament (Loveland, Colo.), 8 a.m.

St. Michael’s, Los Alamos, Pecos, Las Vegas Robertson at Tucumcari Invitational, 9 a.m.

Santa Fe High at Piedra Vista Duals, 9 a.m.

Taos at Walsenburg (Colo.) Tournament, 9 a.m.

Swimming & diving — Los Alamos at APS Meet (at West Mesa pool), 8:30 a.m.

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NFL

Bronco Trevathan’s season over Linebacker disclocated left kneecap in Sunday game

By Arnie Stapleton The Associated Press

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos linebacker Danny Trevathan promised not to hold back when he returned from a second fracture in his left leg and “if I break something else,” then so be it. “But I’m going to be back out there on that field rocking with them till it’s over.”

Trevathan’s season is over.

An MRI on Monday confirmed he dislocated his left kneecap in Denver’s 22-10 win at San Diego on Sunday that clinched a playoff spot for the Broncos (11-3).

It was his first game since Oct. 12, when he fractured the bone near his left kneecap — but in a different area than the original fracture, which occurred when center Will Montgomery rolled over him Aug. 12 in training camp.

“Danny’s had a rough season,” coach John Fox said. “Sometimes setbacks are setups for better things to come and that will be his mindset as he gets ready for surgery and then gets ready for the pretty strenuous rehab.”

Linebacker Brandon Marshall is expected to miss the rest of the regular season with a sprained right foot, and both Peyton Manning and left tackle Ryan Clady are dealing with thigh injuries.

Manning attributed his injury to dehydration after he caught a nasty stomach bug Saturday night.

“He feels much better today,” Fox said.

Still, Manning can sure use the threeday respite from practice with the Broncos reconvening Thursday to begin preparations for their game at Cincinnati (9-4-1) Monday night.

When Marshall and Trevathan went out Sunday, Denver’s linebacker corps was reduced to Steven Johnson and special teamer Todd Davis, signed off waivers last month from New Orleans. The Broncos will turn to those two, second-year pro Lerentee McCray and rookies Lamin Barrow and Corey Nelson now.

“When we form up back on Thursday, I’m sure we’ll have a plan,” Fox said. “It’s not there quite yet.”

Fox said it was “way too far ahead” to say who would have the green sticker on his helmet against the Bengals to relay Jack Del Rio’s defensive calls, something the Broncos couldn’t do once Trevathan joined Marshall in the trainer’s room in San Diego.

“I thought they did a tremendous job” given the limitations on communications and personnel, Fox said. “I thought it was a pretty gritty performance with all that

Dallas Cowboys’ DeMarco Murray, left, tries to break free from a tackle by Philadelphia Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins during the first half of Sunday’s game in Philadelphia.

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Cowboys’ Murray has broken hand

By Schuyler Dixon The Associated Press

Denver Broncos outside linebacker Danny Trevathan, center, is helped off the field in the first quarter of the Oct. 12 game against New York Jets in East Rutherford, N.J. Trevathan’s season is over after an MRI on Monday confirmed he dislocated his left kneecap in Denver’s 22-10 win at San Diego on Sunday that clinched a playoff spot for the Broncos (11-3). ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

happened.”

This is starting to look like last year, when the Broncos withstood an injury epidemic to win the AFC championship.

“We faced a lot of adversity last year and still made a Super Bowl,” Terrance Knighton said. “Coach Del Rio does a great job of putting guys in position to make plays. We have a lot of depth. We don’t have a lot of guys who have played a lot of football, but Todd can come in and make an impact. Corey, he proved that he can” do the same.

Knighton said the injuries put “the onus on the D-line and we’re ready for that pressure.”

It wasn’t all dour at Dove Valley on Monday.

The Broncos held a news conference to talk about re-signing cornerback Chris Harris Jr. to a five-year, $42.5 million contract over the weekend. His wife and newborn daughter were in the front row.

“He’s the type of Denver Bronco that we want, because of what he does, how he plays, how he attacks the field and his

competitive nature when he plays,” GM John Elway said. “But also, his giving back to the community. So he represents us tremendously both on and off the field.”

Harris gave the Broncos a significant hometown discount.

“I definitely could have gotten more [money in] the open market,” Harris said with a laugh. “I know that, we all know that, but it’s not all about money at the end of the day. It’s about being happy, and I’m satisfied.”

Elway now turns his attention to resigning Demaryius Thomas and Julius Thomas, among others.

He told The Associated Press that resigning Harris “shows our commitment to our guys. We won’t be able to keep everybody, but hopefully we can keep the right combination.”

Knighton suggested he would take less to stay in Denver.

“Sometimes winning overshadows how much money you make,” he said. “I don’t want to leave. I want to be here. … If they’re in the ballpark, I’ll be a Bronco.”

Lindley to start for Cards against Seahawks

By Bob Baum The Associated Press

TEMPE, Ariz. — Five weeks removed from the San Diego practice squad, Ryan Lindley will start at quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals against Seattle on Sunday night.

Coach Bruce Arians announced the decision Monday following the team’s practice, with experience the deciding factor in choosing Lindley over rookie Logan Thomas in what figures to be the biggest game of the Cardinals’ season.

Arians said he will have a package for Thomas in the game plan and both quarterbacks might see action.

Lindley came on in relief when Drew Stanton went down with a knee injury in Thursday night’s 12-6 victory at St. Louis.

Asked what he said to Lindley when he told him he’d start against Seattle, Arians said, “Go sling it, baby. Go have fun. You’re here for a reason. You’re only on this team because you’re talented enough to be here.

You have everything it takes to win the game.”

The stakes for Sunday night’s game are enormous.

The Cardinals, a playoff berth already assured, can clinch the NFC’s No. 1 playoff seed with a win. That would mean all potential playoff games would be at home, including the Super Bowl, since it’s to be played at University of Phoenix Stadium.

A loss would leave the teams tied for first in the NFC West, with Seattle holding the tiebreaker by virtue of two wins over Arizona. If the teams were still tied at the

Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians, left, talks with quarterback Ryan Lindley during the second half of Thursday’s game against the Rams in St. Louis. Arizona won 12-6.

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end of the regular season the following week, Arizona would be relegated to a wild card berth.

“Knowing that we’re in, there’s some comfort,” Arians said, “but knowing what’s at stake, we don’t want to travel to play.”

With their quarterback issues, the Cardinals are 7½-point underdogs at home against the Seahawks.

Arians said he couldn’t care less what others think about this game.

“The only one that needs to believe is that locker room,” he said, “and they

believe it. They saw it on the practice field today, and they’ll see it all week. Like I said, it’s easy to be written off. We’ve been written off all year.”

Arizona is 7-0 at home this season and 13-2 since Arians arrived.

Stanton’s sprained right knee is the latest in a long list of injuries that have hit the team.

Arians estimated Stanton would be back in two to four weeks. The quarterback was riding an exercise bike in the brief portion of practice open to reporters.

Stanton took over as starter after Carson Palmer went down with a season-ending knee injury, also against St. Louis, on Nov. 9. Two days later, Arizona signed Lindley off the Chargers practice squad.

Lindley was Arizona’s No. 3 quarterback, behind Palmer and Stanton, last season.

But the team drafted Thomas in the fourth round and he took the No. 3 spot from Lindley in the preseason.

Now, Thomas finds himself playing behind the quarterback he had beaten out.

“Obviously, you’ve got to be a little disappointed,” he said. “You’ve waited your entire time to be that person. I understand completely that it’s Ryan’s time, Ryan’s turn, whatever it may be, but I’ll be the No. 1 fan and then when it’s my turn I’ve got to make my plays.”

Lindley was not in the locker room when reporters were allowed there on Monday.

Safety Tyrann Mathieu practiced and is expected to play after missing two games with a broken thumb. He will play with a cast.

Hawkins: Team supports player’s protest Continued from Page B-1 Hawkins is “disrespecting the police on a job that we had to do and make a splitsecond decision.”

Hawkins’ one-man protest was supported by the Browns, who said in a statement that they respected both the police and their players’ rights to take on causes.

“My wearing of the T-shirt wasn’t a stance against every police officer or every police department,” Hawkins said.

“My wearing of the T-shirt was a stance against wrong individuals doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason to innocent people.”

Hawkins said he was “scared” of the reaction to his demonstration, but the

28-year-old chose to wear the shirt “because deep down I felt like it was the right thing to do.”

“I utterly respect and appreciate every police officer that protects and serves all of us with honesty, integrity and the right way,” he said. “And I don’t think those kind of officers should be offended by what I did. … If I was to run away from what I felt in my soul was the right thing to do, that would make me a coward and I couldn’t live with that.”

Hawkins said his mother raised him to respect law enforcement and he has family and close friends who are police officers. She also taught him to stand up for his beliefs.

“My heart was broken for the parents of Tamir and John Crawford, knowing they had to live that nightmare of a reality,” he said. “I felt like my heart was in the right place, I’m at peace with it and those who disagree with me, this is America. That’s the point. Everyone has a right to their First Amendment rights.”

Browns linebacker Craig Robertson said he did not have any issue with his teammate’s choice to protest before the game.

“You can’t fault a person for standing up for something that he believes in,” Robertson said. “You can’t get mad at somebody if they don’t believe in Christmas, so you can’t get mad at somebody for wearing a T-shirt.”

IRVING, Texas — NFL rushing leader DeMarco Murray has a broken left hand in what could be a damaging blow to the playoff hopes of the Dallas Cowboys.

Murray was set for surgery Monday and might be sidelined Sunday at home against Indianapolis, already a playoff qualifier. Even though the Cowboys just beat Philadelphia to take the NFC East lead, they might have to win both of their remaining games to end a four-year postseason drought.

If the Eagles beat division also-rans Washington and the New York Giants in their final two games, Dallas (10-4) could be knocked out by a loss to the Colts even with a win against the Redskins in the regular-season finale.

Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said on his radio show Monday that it was “probably a tough expectation” that Murray would play against Indianapolis (10-4), though he wouldn’t rule it out. Neither would coach Jason Garrett.

“The biggest question we have to ask ourselves is, is he functional to do his job,” Garrett said. “Can he hold the football, can he carry it under duress, can he block, can he do the things necessary to play the position. He’s as strong-willed and determined an individual as I’ve ever been around. If anybody has a chance to come back, he does.”

Murray has 1,687 yards rushing and needs 87 yards to break all-time NFL rushing leader Emmitt Smith’s franchise record of 1,773 yards.

The fourth-year back is 409 yards ahead of Pittsburgh’s Le’Veon Bell in the race for the rushing title.

Lance Dunbar and Joseph Randle split carries as Murray’s backup in Sunday’s 38-27 win over Philadelphia. Mur-

ray was injured near the end of the game. Television footage showed him leaving the field while wincing in pain.

The Cowboys have had Ryan Williams on their practice squad all season. He was taken 33 picks ahead of Murray by Arizona in the 2011 draft. The Cardinals released him after three mostly injuryplagued seasons. Randle, a fifth-round pick last year, has 34 carries for 237 yards and two touchdowns, including a 17-yarder on his only carry against Chicago two weeks ago.

Dunbar has 26 carries for 91 yards but has done most of his damage as a receiver with 16 catches for 207 yards. He doesn’t have any touchdowns.

An undrafted free agent in his third season, Dunbar had a breakout game on Thanksgiving last year with a team-high 82 yards before sustaining a knee injury in that game against Oakland, knocking him out for the rest of the season.

“Lance has done a number of different things for us on third down as a receiver, split out,” Garrett said. “Joseph has been a guy that we’ve brought into games just to give him the ball and he’s done a real nice job with that. I have a lot of confidence in both of those guys.”

Murray has a league-high 351 carries, so the question of a No. 2 back has never really been an issue for the Cowboys. Murray has yet to make it through a full season without missing at least two games because of injuries that included a broken ankle, a sprained foot and a sprained knee.

Emmitt Smith sustained a similar injury for Dallas in 1999, had surgery and missed one game. He had 127 yards rushing in his first game back.

“We’ll take the surgery first,” Garrett said. “We’ll see how he feels coming out of the surgery and make our next best decisions.”

Saints: 10,749 no-shows at stadium Continued from Page B-1 Cutler three times to bring his NFL-leading turnover total to 24.

“We were not in unison tonight collectively on the offensive side of the ball and that starts with me,” Chicago coach Marc Trestman said.

For the Bears (5-9), the loss comes after a week in which they were again engulfed in controversy.

Offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer acknowledged he was a source behind a critical report by the NFL Network about Cutler, owning up to it in public Friday after earlier asking players and coaches for forgiveness.

Cutler completed 17 of 31 passes for 194 yards, and the Bears couldn’t get anything going. They managed only 278 yards against one of the league’s worst defenses on a soggy night in which thousands of seats went unused.

There were 10,749 noshows, and that might not have been a bad thing for the Bears, the way they played.

The Saints went ahead in the second quarter after wasting several opportunities in the opening period.

Bears cornerback Kyle Fuller was called for a 17-yard passinterference penalty trying to defend Jimmy Graham, setting up New Orleans with a first down at the 8.

Brees then rolled to his right on the first play of the second quarter and found an open Hill, who lunged across the goal line.

The first half was so bad for Chicago that its best play might have been Patrick O’Donnell’s 56-yard punt that went out of bounds at the New Orleans 5 with about four minutes left in the second. But the Saints responded with a 10-play, 95-yard drive.

Brees threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to Colston with 38 seconds left, giving the Saints a 14-0 lead. Cutler’s pass was then picked off by Pierre Warren on the final play in the half.

Brees and Hill connected for a 7-yard TD on their first possession in the third on a similar play as their first score, making it 21-0.

It was 24-0 early in the fourth when Cutler hit Marquess Wilson with a 1-yard touchdown pass, denying New Orleans its first shutout since 2012.

SPORTS

Italian Premier Renzi announces Rome bid for 2024 Olympic Games ROME — Italy announced Monday that Rome will be a candidate to host the 2024 Olympics, a decision that comes two years after the government scrapped plans to bid for the 2020 Games because of financial reasons.

“The Italian government, together with CONI, is ready to do its part for a project that isn’t based on great infrastructures or big dreams but rather great people,” Premier Matteo Renzi said at Italian Olympic Committee headquarters. “We will be at the vanguard for all the spending controls.”

Italy, which hosted the 1960 Olympics, planned to bid for the 2020 Games but the project was withdrawn after then-premier Mario Monti refused to provide financial backing at a time of economic crisis.

The new bid comes with Italy’s economy still stagnant and amid a widening corruption scandal in the capital.

“Our country too often seems hesitant,” Renzi said. “It’s unacceptable not to try … or to renounce playing the game.”

Taking into account the costcutting measures approved last week by the IOC, the Rome bid is expected to include many of the venues used for the 1960 Games — notably the Foro Italico complex that includes the Stadio Olimpico athletics and football stadium, plus swimming, diving and tennis facilities.

The Rome bid could also propose holding several events outside the capital, including sailing in Sardinia and preliminary basketball and volleyball rounds scattered in cities up and down the peninsula.

Italy is the second country to declare its intention to bid. Germany has already announced that it will submit a bid from either Berlin or Hamburg, with the choice to be made in March.

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Peterson: Vincent says he didn’t know talks were recorded Continued from Page B-1 Peterson. Vincent said those conversations occurred Nov. 12 and he didn’t know Peterson recorded them.

“I don’t want to see this young man ruin his life,” Vincent said. “I would never lead him down the wrong path.”

Vincent, who told Peterson he wouldn’t disclose their conversations without his permission, said he didn’t tell anyone at the league office they were talking.

Based on transcripts of the phone call, which were used in Peterson’s appeal and obtained

by The Associated Press, Vincent and Peterson clearly had different motivations during their conversation.

Vincent tried to convince Peterson to come to New York on Nov. 14 to meet with Goodell and other league officials to discuss personal progress and expectations for moving forward.

Peterson repeatedly tried to firm up the length of his suspension, and tried to bargain it down.

“I asked Adrian to come because nobody had talked to this man,” Vincent said. “We had a group of experts and educators asking us questions about the welfare of Adrian’s other children and we didn’t know the answers. He needed to come talk so they could hear from him.”

Peterson has five children.

Only one child, a son, lives with him.

Vincent said Peterson suggested a two-game suspension to him in their meeting at

his house. In the transcripts, Vincent told Peterson he took Peterson’s suggestion, upon permission from the player to reveal their discussions, to others in the NFL. He said they responded favorably and discussed meeting with Peterson to get things moving forward.

Vincent also warned Peterson he could receive a longer suspension and gave examples, including Adam Jones, Tank Johnson and Donte Stallworth.

“Adrian had no clue what was going on,” Vincent said. “He wasn’t getting help from the people around him.”

Peterson skipped that meeting with Goodell and the NFLPA claims the lengthy suspension he received was in “retaliation” for him not going.

But arbiter Harold Henderson, in his ruling, dismissed the contention that Peterson was retaliated against for not meeting with Goodell.

Said Vincent: “My testimony was undisputed and there was no evidence presented to challenge it.”

Vincent has no regrets about how everything went down.

“I cannot and will not regret reaching out to help someone, to guide them in prayer, and give them words of encouragement,” Vincent said. “If people want to judge my sincerity by the content of their own hearts, I cannot change that. But when I see a young man like Adrian, I don’t want to see him give up on his dreams because of a bad decision. No regrets. I will continue to pray for Adrian and the welfare of his children.”

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CHICAGO — Jon Lester insisted there’s no reason the Chicago Cubs can’t contend next year and even capture their first World Series title since 1908, around the time the Model T was rolling off the assembly line.

“I’m going in with the intention of winning in 2015,” he said.

The Cubs are, too.

“This signing really marks the start of a transition for the Cubs, the start of a period where we are clearly very serious about winning the World Series,” President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein said Monday, when the team and Lester finalized a $155 million, six-year contract. The deal, agreed to during the winter meetings last week, set baseball records for largest signing bonus and biggest upfront payment.

Chicago hired one of the game’s top managers in Joe Maddon, then added Lester, a three-time All-Star who won two World Series with Boston.

“We’re not hiding the ball,” Epstein said. “The fact that we haven’t won in so long helps define who we are. … I think it attracts players who aren’t afraid of that challenge and want to be here for the right reasons. It definitely attracted Jon Lester.”

Lester receives a record $30 million signing bonus, of which $15 million is due by April 1, $2.5 million each by Dec. 31 in 2018 and 2019, and a final $10 million installment by Sept. 15, 2020.

He gets salaries of $15 million next year, $20 million each in 2016 and 2017, $22.5 apiece in 2018 and 2019 and $15 million in 2020. There is a $25 million mutual option for 2021 with a $10 million buyout, and the option would become guaranteed if Lester pitches 200 or more innings in 2020 or 400 or more in 2020-21 combined.

Lester’s deal includes a hotel suite on the road, a provision that he can’t be traded without his consent and the right to 25 hours of private-plane use for him and his family annually.

His wife and two young children joined him at Restaurant Spiaggia along with other family members and agents Sam and Seth Levinson. His 4-year-old son Hudson took a

Pitcher Jon Lester speaks to the media Monday as his son Hudson, 4, looks on after Lester was introduced as a member of the Chicago Cubs during a news conference in Chicago.

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Francisco and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Lester is headed to a team that hasn’t made the playoffs since 2008, but he knows Epstein, general manager Jed Hoyer and senior vice president of player development and amateur scouting this bucket tend to perform throughout their contracts bet- Jason McLeod from their time ter than right-handed pitchers,” together in Boston. He had a Epstein said. “He’s got the right chance to talk to pitchers Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hamamount of pitch mix that will mel about the Cubs after they allow him to age gracefully got traded to Oakland. He also because he doesn’t get hitters spoke with Ryan Dempster, his out just one way.” teammate in Boston and now A total of 1,686 players have a member of Chicago’s front appeared for the Cubs since office.

Orval Overall retired Detroit’s Lester will be joining a rotaBoss Schmidt for the final tion that includes Hammel, out of the 1908 World Series, who agreed to a $20 million, according to STATS, and all two-year contract last week. have failed to bring another The Cubs also acquired twotitle to the North Side.

Lester hopes he and a prom- time All-Star catcher Miguel ising core of young players can Montero from the Arizona Diamondbacks. end the slide along with MadLester has worn No. 31 for don, who left Tampa Bay for a most of his career, but the Cubs $25 million, five-year contract retired that number in honor of with the Cubs.

“When you make a statement Greg Maddux and Fergie Jenkins. He’ll wear Kerry Wood’s like bringing in Joe Maddon, old No. 34 in Chicago — with that adds to the decision-makWood’s blessing, according to ing, makes it that much more Epstein. interesting,” he said.

“It’s always been one of Lester went 16-11 with a my favorite numbers other career-best 2.46 ERA and than No. 31,” said Lester, who 220 strikeouts last season and is 116-67 with a 3.58 ERA in nine pointed out that Nolan Ryan big league seasons. He also had and Chicago Bears great Walter Payton also wore 34. “I just feel been sought by the Red Sox, like it was a good fit.”

World Series champion San

Lester’s $155 million, six-year contract sets baseball records for the largest signing bonus and biggest upfront payment. seat on his lap during the news conference.

The no-trade clause is a break from the norm for Epstein. He said the Cubs initially resisted but conceded because it would have been difficult to land Lester without one, particularly after he was dealt from Boston to Oakland last July.

Epstein also acknowledged the deal carries a risk for the Cubs, considering Lester turns 31 next month.

“I know exactly what shoulder program he’s been on since he was 18,” Epstein said. “I know how well he’s executed that shoulder program. How diligent he’s been. I know what his MRIs look like. I already signed him to a contract extension in the past; that comes with MRIs. His work ethic didn’t change one bit. His passion didn’t change one bit after signing that first contract.”

The fact that he’s a lefty is another plus to Epstein, and he thinks Lester can pitch well deep into his 30s like former Yankee Andy Pettitte.

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Debbie eh Maestas is first woman to head arty in more than a decade a d i prove t e GOP’s socia media strateg .

She sa d she a so hopes to ex a d t e appea of Republica s. “We need more Hispa ics. We need more women. We need more young fol s. You k ow, it’s not just about t e t ica Republica Pa . We must evolve.”

She ta es over at a auspicious ti e for t e pa a ter Republica Gov. Susa a Ma ti ez ha di y won re-election a d t e GOP took over t e state House of Representatives for t e f st ti e i more t a 60 yea s. At t e sa e ti e, however, t e pa ’s f d a si g has dwi d ed compa ed to upsta PACs a d i dependent groups.

In its most recent repor to t e Federa Election Comm ssion f ed Oct. 1 , t e state Republica Pa repor ed ra si g $301,81 i contributions du i g t e 2014 election cycle, compa ed to $928,342 i t e 2002 election cycle. T e state Democratic Pa has seen a si a decli e i f dra si g.

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A BU ERQUE — New Mex co publica s, feeli g stron , appy a d con dent owi g t ei best election per orma ce i yea s, picked a new pa leader Satu day.

Debbie Weh Maestas, 42, the daughter of a forDebbie Weh mer pa ty chairman, Allen Weh, was elected chairwoma by a big ma gin over two cha lengers.

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Though he lives part-time in California and Whitefish, Mont., software companies, developand has business ventures in ment companies have located in Jacksonville, Fla., Foley and his Las Vegas. … Those companies associates seem well aware of and those people who work the intricacies of the Las Vegas for those companies, that’s our market. target. Those are the people that “We feel like if we can demwe want to have come to these onstrate the strong local supgames.” port for a team, that will go a Foley said that after two days long ways toward convincing of an initial website launch that the NHL or persuading the 1,500 people had expressed NHL that hockey’s viable in Las interest in buying season tickVegas,” Foley said. “Our mission ets. is simply that.”

“I think what the ownership A 20,000-seat state-of-thegroup is looking for, and ultiart arena is being built by AEG mately what I think what would and MGM on the strip and is be important to the board, is scheduled to open in the spring that local people in Las Vegas of 2016. are going to support this fran“It’ll be as good as it gets chise, not just the local busiin terms of hockey visibility,” nesses,” deputy commissioner Foley said. “The arena is being Bill Daly said last week in Boca designed around not just conRaton, Fla. “Because I’m not certs and fights and so on. It’s sure it’s the same thing.” being designed around hockey.”

In hockey circles, the prosAnother front-runner for pect of a Las Vegas team adds expansion, Seattle, doesn’t have a touch of glamor. Locally, the an arena for an NHL team. notion of finally attracting a Barclays Center in Brooklyn, team in one of North America’s where the New York Islanders major four sports leagues is are moving next season, has enticing. an awkward setup for hockey.

To bring the NHL to Las Quebec City has the sparkling Vegas, Foley could partner with Quebecor Arena set to open the Las Vegas-based Maloof this fall, but Bettman stresses family, which previously owned that the building is no guarantee the NBA’s Sacramento Kings. of an NHL team.

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

Off-street parking, carport.

All appliances. $900 utilities included.

No pets. References a must. 505-9825232.

1 BEDROOM APARTMENT

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

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* View lots, $159,000 * Financing available, 10% down * 2,300 sq.ft. homes, from $340,000

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

Move-in today. 804 Colbert. $49,000 Price, $1550 down payment. $422 monthly payment. Owner financed 480-392-8550

574 acres, Spectacular vistas over valley, High wooded ridges, Well & corrals. Great horse or hunting property. Easy drive from Santa Fe. $499,000. 802-483-6060

104 FAITHWAY: Downtown 7-plex $1,200,000.

1425 PASEO DE PERALTA: Downtown 9-plex $1,350,000. 813 CAMINO DE MONTE REY: 8-plex $750,000, 1 3 0 1 - 1 3 0 3 RUFINA LANE: 9-plex, $1,050,000.

1616 BRAE: Triplex $350,000. Lot for Sale: Puesta del Sol, 2.5 Acres, water well, electric near, $185,000. Fo r Details: 505-471-4405.

Investors Only, NO Realtors , NO Owner Financing.

Opportunity Cash Buyer - $500K-$1M.

FSBO 3 BEDROOM HOME, 1 BATH, 1 GARAGE.

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NEWLY REMODELED ADOBE HOME FOR SALE!

941 Rio Vista. Casa Solana area. $695 monthly plus deposits. Water paid.

No pets. Non-smoking. 505-470-0396

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

FO R RENT in Pojaque. 1 bedroom apartment. $650. Utilities included.

No pets. 505-455-2130, 505-699-0375.

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145.00 pick up load.

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CARETAKING FLOORING

CAREGIVER WILL PROVIDE NONMEDICAL CARE, COMPANIONSHIP & HOME HELP. Experienced, compassionate, mature, & dependable. 505603-4045

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

Handyman, Landscaping, Roofing.

FREE estimates, BNS. 505-316-6449.

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

PREPARE FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

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

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RM FLOORING Re-finishing of wood floors. Installation of wood, tile, brick and flagstone flooring. Licensed, Bonded.

Senior Discount 15%.

505-469-6363

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

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

Reasonable, reliable, punctual. 505670-6100

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

A+ Professional Cleaning Service Homes, Office, Move-ins- Move-outs.

Also, House and Pet sitting.

Dependable, Experienced. $18 hourly.

Julia, 505-204-1677.

MENDOZA’S & FLORES’ PROFESSIONAL MAINTENANCE

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

ISN’T IT TIME TO COME CLEAN? HOUSECLEANING. 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. $15 AN HOUR. Flexible * Reliable * References .

505-316-4579

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Housecleaning, garage cleaning, hauling trash.

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

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

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

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

Free estimates. 505-470-5877

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

Licensed, bonded, insured.

References available. 505-795-9062.

HOUSE SITTING

IT’S THE perfect time of year to clean up your property. Fuel Mitigation for potential wildfires, tree cutting, mulching, hydro-seeding, bobcat services, fencing, snow removal. Local Firefighter owned and operated.

505-500-6106

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

PAINTING ANDY ORTIZ PAINTING

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foam roof maintenance. Painting.

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

YARD MAINTENANCE

Seasonal planting. Lawn care.

Weed Removal.

Dump runs.

Painting. Snow Removal. Honest & Dependable.

Free estimates.

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Children’s Services Coordinator for Family Services NORTHSIDE CASITA. Furnished one bedroom. 750 sq.ft. Quiet. Private yard. DSL. Cable. $1000 monthly. Utilities included. 1-year lease. Nonsmoker. 505-412-1074.

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

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

HOUSES UNFURNISHED

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

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

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

ROOMMATE WANTED

2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH CASITA

Clean, ready to move-in.

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

Private parking, yard.

No smoking or pets. 505-231-0010 2 BEDROOM, 2 bath Home in Rowe.

Fenced yard, secure compound.

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

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

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

WAREHOUSES

3000 SQ.FT. ULTIMATE SERENITY & VIEWS 5 bedrooms, 4 baths. Old Las Vegas Highway. $1900. NM Properties & Homes, 505-989-8860

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

505-470-9213.

Full-time position in Santa Fe with Head Start and Early Head Start programs.

Requires degree and experience working with families. See website for specific job requirements.

CONSTRUCTION LOADER, BACKHOE, TRACKHOE OPERATORS & PIPELAYERS with experience, needed. Santa Fe, Espanola, Taos area. Good pay, steady work. Health Insurance, 401K, Salary DOE/EOE, Drug testing.

Office: 505-821-1034. 8900 Washington NE, Albuquerque, NM. Fax resume: 505-821-1537. E-mail: frontdesk@sparlingconstruction.net

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3 BEDROOM, 2 bathroom, Modular home. 15 miles from town on Highway 14. $800 monthly, $500 deposit.

505-471-4290 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH. Rowe. Fireplace, woodstove, all appliances, 3/4 acre fenced yard. $900 monthly, first, last, security deposit. 505470-0409

TEACHER I

LOST

Full and part-time positons working with Early Head Start (children 0 to 3) in classroom.

TEACHER II Full-time positon managing Head Start program operations (children 3 to 5).

Includes classroom duties.

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

"NALA" WEST ALAMEDA/599.

Nala is a 1.5 year old German/Australian Shepard mix. Please help bring Nala home! Call or text 505-7955301. Lost Sunday, Nov. 30.

BEAUTIFUL COMPOUND on Garcia Street, Eastside. 1-bedroom casita, quiet. On site parking, private yard. $1350 plus utilities. A must-see. 505982-5122

SET of toyota keys. Lost December 13. reward. 983-6676.

CASA SOLANA. Stamm built. 3 bedroom, 2 bath. 1900 sq’ ft’ heated space. Includes large studioworkshop, ideal for artist or craftsman. $1200 monthly with fantastic purchase terms. 505-982-2342 or 505-570-9784

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

ELDORADO 1750 SQ.FT. 3 Bedroom 2 Bath,

Excellent benefits. Apply online at pmsnm.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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Double car garage. Vigas, tile, fireplace. Open concept. A must see; Very clean. No pets, non-smoking. $1300 monthly. Russ, 505-470-3227.

LAMBERTS OF TAOS is looking for talented and inspired professional CHEFS & LINE COOKS. Send resume trg.lamberts@yahoo.com

IN HOME CARE

MANUFACTURED HOMES 3 BEDROOM, 2 bath mobile home.

Pojaque area. Newly remodeled. $900 monthly. $900 deposit. 505-455-7581

OFFICES IMMACULATE SMALL OFFICE SUITE

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

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

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE

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

Please call (505)983-9646.

FINANCE ACCOUNTANT The Santa Fe Institute seeks a fulltime accountant to manage and maintain accurate and reliable general ledger accounting transaction records and all nonprofit financial management reports and financial statements.

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance with five years of relevant experience required; CPA preferred. Must have knowledge of non-profit accounting principles and applications, experience in non-profit accounting, and experience with zero-based budgeting and forecasting. For a list of the full job requirements, the job description, and instructions on how to apply, see our web site www.santafe.edu/about/jobs/.

No phone calls please.

Application deadline extended to December 15, 2014. Position available immediately. EEO.

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

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

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

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EDUCATION

3 BEDROOM, 2.5 BATH. 1840 sqft.

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

We are looking for a qualified person to manage a home repair, rehab program.

Good organizational, computer skills and the ability to competently manage federal grants is required. Constructions knowledge, experience preferred but not required. Position is 20 hours per week.

Email resume to ted@sfhfh.org .

COMFORT KEEPERS SEEKING COMPASSIONATE

Caregivers

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

Please call 505-988-8851 to inquire.

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

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

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CALL 986-3000 MEDICAL DENTAL EIGHT NORTHERN INDIAN PUEBLOS COUNCIL, INC. SENIOR CENTER SITE MANAGER

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

Will provide transportation using the programs vehicle as needed.

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

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

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

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

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIANS NEW MOON LODGE

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

LICENSED MASTER LEVEL THERAPISTS

ALBUQUERQUE and ESPANOLA OPENINGS Immediate openings.

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

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

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

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

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

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

General clerical experience preferred, HS Diploma or equivalent.

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

Positions close when filled, unless otherwise noted.

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

MDS Coordinator (Santa Fe Care Center)

We are currently looking for a Fulltime MDS Coordinator. Hours will flexible according to census.

R e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s : Would be to complete MDS according to State and Federal Regulations.

Q u a lific a tio n s : Licensed Nurse, experience in completing MDS. If interested please come by 635 Harkle Rd Santa Fe, NM 87505

PMS Community Home Health Care and The Hospice Center RN Full and part-time positions.

See website for details.

Most positions benefits eligible.

Apply on-line at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Tollfree hotline 1-866-661-5491.

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MISCELLANEOUS JOBS MACHINE ATTENDANT SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

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

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

No phone calls please.

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

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SALES MARKETING BILINGUAL (ENGLISH, Spanish) Salesperson needed! Positive attitude and excellent customer service skills required. Sales experience preferred.

Background check and drug screen required. Call 505-780-8720 for more information. EOE.

The Santa Fe New Mexican is seeking a dynamic media sales executive to represent its award winning publications and state of the art digital platforms to existing and future advertising clients.

This position manages relationships with clients to grow and develop their business needs. Maintains a thorough understanding of each customer’s business goals, products and services. In addition, is aware of client’s industry and provides appropriate advertising solutions. Will be expected to maintain comprehensive understanding of competitive media and understand how the utilization of other media sources fit with customer’s strategic business objectives. Actively seeks out new business to meet or exceed sales goals.

Qualifications Requires a college degree or equivalent sales experience. Must have a minimum of two years plus consultative sales experience. Must have demonstrated ability to prospect qualified leads. Ability to sell a wide range of products. Must have knowledge of sales process, the ability to establish product value and close a sale in a timely manner. Understands strengths and weaknesses of competitive media.

Must have demonstrated team sales experience. Must have strong negotiation and problemsolving skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills and be proficient in Microsoft Office applications. Must be driven, proactive and have a strong desire to achieve results and be successful.

Must have proof of valid driver’s license, auto insurance and have reliable transportation.

Base salary, team bonus and commission plan are offered with an excellent benefits package.

Apply with cover letter and resume to: Wayne Barnard, Classified Advertising Manager The Santa Fe New Mexican, 202 East Marcy St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 or e-mail wbarnard@sfnewmexican.com No phone calls, please.

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SALES ASSOCIATE Full or Part-time.

Women’s fashion & jewelry experience required, be energetic, computer literate, team player. Base, highest commissions in town, bonuses, parking, vacation benefits.

Fax resume: 505-989-8288.

Seeking Motivated Commissions Sales Reps Competitive Pay with No Door to Door or Cold Calling. Must have Reliable Transportation & a Smart Phone.

Call Justin at 517-574-1415.

TRADES ELECTRICAL APPRENTICES needed. 2 years experience required. Immediate opening. Call 992-1384.

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THOMASVILLE DINING TABLE and 8 Chairs. 44" by 68" oval table with two 20 inch leaves. Excellent Condition. $2,900. Call 505-670-3538

Santa Fe Animal Shelter PET ADOPTION EVENTS Meet Adoptable Animals

MISCELLANEOUS 93,000 COLOMBIAN Pesos for sale at 2,000 = $46.50. 505-310-1829

ANTIQUES

50% OFF!! ALL EXERCISE Equipment. DONATIONS AND Purchases Support Santa Fe Habitat! OPEN MONDAY thru Saturday - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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

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

APPLIANCES PANASONIC MICROWAVE, 3.5 CUBIC FEET. GOOD CONDITION. $60. 505-4382424.

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

ART ANSEL ADAMS poster, framed $15.

Call 505-471-6634 LARGE HAND Carved Mike Ortega ’ANGEL’ Signed. BEAUTIFUL SCULPTURAL ’Angel’, measures 32" and can hang on the wall. $225. 505-982-0975.

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

SUPERB RARE Museum Quality Ben Ortega Large ’Nativity’ Scene. Signed. 38". Depicts Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, Wise Men, animals. $3,500.00 505-982-0975.

TOTAL GYM 1800 Club Exerciser, hardly used, original box with instructions and all accessories. Folds up compactly. $250. 505-467-8820 WEIDER WEIGHTBENCH, brand new, pro 255L. Adjustable. Fully assembled. Four roll leg lockdown.

54" x 18.25". Reduced! to $60 firm.

505-474-9020.

BUSINESS EQUIPMENT INDUSTRIAL PALLET Rack Shelving as well as smaller steel shelving units.

Pallet racks: 8’ uprights, 8’ beams, 3’x4’ wire decking. Full units $200.00 Add-ons $160.00. Also 8’ x 4’ x 18" steel shelf units: $50.00. If interested call or come see. Bisbee Industrial Park HWY 14 just south of I-25. 505670-9667

FIREWOOD PINON and cedar 16" long $220 cord. 10" 20" stovecut, $240 cord. Well seasoned. Free delivery with minimum 2 cords. 505259-3368, 505-832-4604 SEASONED FIREWOOD: P ONDEROSA, $100 PER LOAD. J u niper, $120 per load. CALL: 508444-0087. Delivery FREE TO ALBUQUERQUE & SANTA FE !

3 PAIRS of Rio Mercedes Ostrich Cowboy Boots, (1)Black, (1)Tobacco, (1)Tan colored. Brand New. $350 each. 505-553-0143.

COLLECTIBLES 1977 HESSTON NFR RODEO BUCKLE with Tony Lama matching belt, size 34 waist, $95. More COLLECTIBLE BUCKLES from 1976-1984. 505-4666205

1984 HESSTON RODEO JR. BUCKLE & BELT, size 26" waist. $95 for set.

REDMAN BELT BUCKLE, solid brass, $30. 505-466-6205 2 BOONES FARM BUCKLES: Strawberry Hill, $25; Apple Wine, $20. 505-4666205

LARGE ROCKY MOUNTAIN BULL ELK.

Large antler spread: six points per side, 46" length, 38" spread, nice for home, office, lodge, conference room, gallery, casino, lounge or other. $850. Santa Fe, 520-906-9399 CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED!

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BRAND NEW Zojirushi ’ZUTO’ Coffee Maker. In Original Box. Makes 5 Cups of the most delicious coffee! Beautifully designed. $75. 982-0975.

FOOD FRUIT ***HOLIDAY*** foods for sale. Meat empanaditas, pumpkin rolls and biscochitos. Homemade & Delicious!

Taking orders now for the holidays.

505-471-0163.

TOPPS Baseball cards sets. 1986 thru 1993. $30 per set. 505-474-0312 , Unique Santa in a canoe, Lynn Haley Santa. Style 1110, "Winter Crossing."

In original box, signed Lynn Haley. $350 OBO.

COMPUTERS 2011 (EARLY) MACBOOK PRO 13-INCH LAPTOP in excellent condition with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, OSX 10.10.1, brand new 1TB hard drive and 16GB Ram $800. Call 505470-4371 after 6 pm.

AAA T-CUP POODLES 575-910-1818 txt4more pics. Papers, shots, health guarantee, POTTY PAD trained and GROOMED. Non-shedding, Hypoallergenic. $600 SALE! cingard1@hotmail.com GREAT PAYMENT PLAN. We take CREDIT/DEBIT cards. PAYPAL. USDA licensed, FREE delivery. Financing available

SYLVANIA TV, 32". FLAT FACE, two front vertical speakers, all input jacks, remote control, very good condition, $100 OBO. CREDIT CARD ACCEPTED. Eldorado area. 520-9068399.

DOWN COMFORTER full size, very good condition $20. Call 505-471-6634

TV, Box style, flat screen, SONY 24" $30.

505-986-9765. If no answer, leave message.

FAROLITOS FOR SALE Perfect for your holiday parties and Christmas Eve. $8 per dozen pick-up, $10 per dozen delivered, $12 per dozen delivered and set-up. Please call 505-660-2583

MEN’S FLEECE jacket. Size large. Gray and sage. Brand, Lowalpine, $15. 3 fluffy pillows, $10 for all. Christmas tree, 3 feet, pre-lit, $10.

PANCHINKO GAME. Nishijin brand.

Good condition. 20"Wx32"H with cover. Hours of fun! $40. 505-984-2646

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2 MEXICAN TIN MIRRORS, floor length. $300 each. 505-988-1715

ELECTRIC DRYER. White. Good condition. $115. 505-231-2665.

ELECTRIC HOSPITAL BED. Invacare.

Full-electric, low bed with mattress, cover and side rails. $499. 505-6906962 FEATHER BED MATTRESS TOPPEr, full size, excellent condition. $25. Call 505-471-6634.

BLIZZARD, 175CM with Solomon bindings, $60. Rossignol, 185CM with Tryolia bindings, $60. Nordica Ski Boots, size 27.5/315M (Mens9), $60.

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CHRISTMAS GAMBLERS: Very nice poker table "straight" from Las Vegas! Greenfelt, chip holders, beverage holders! $300 ONLY. MERRY CHRISTMAS! 505-438-2424

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

TREK BICYCLE, 26". Antelope 820 Mountain Bike. 20" frame, blue. Recently tuned, in perfect working condition. $150. 505-424-1771.

LAZY BOY RECLINER. "Maverick Reclina". Brown leather- like new.

New $600, now $300. 505-690-6962

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NEARLY NEW pool table. Includes ping pong table and hockey table inserts. Can also be used for a dining table. Includes all accessories for all games. $1200 is a great deal for this item. Please call 660-8311 with any questions.

21" SINGLE-STAGE SNOWBLOWER clearing width 10" intake height.

123cc POWERMORE OHV 4-cycle engine. E-Z Chute rotation. Used once. $200. 505-220-0355.

ROCKING CHAIR. Log post rocker.

Dark walnut stained. Thick wood and two large cushions (tan). Good quality. $60. 986-9765 SLEEPER SOFA with matching pillows, comfortable mattress. Good condition. $200. CALL ME, let’s make a deal. 505-927-5428

Sunday, Dec. 21 Pooch Pantry 301 N. Guadalupe St. 1-4 p.m. (bring in a toy or pet-food donation for the shelter and get 10 percent off any single item at our Pooch Pantry store) Adult Pet adoption fee only $25 through December.

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DARWIN, 4-YEAR old Mustang gelding. Gentle, pack-horse trained. $125 adoption. John 505-419-9754.

SEE TONY at Small Dog Rescue adoption event. Saturday, November 22nd, Teca Tu in Sanbusco, Noon 3:00 PM. 505-438-3749.

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LUGGAGE 3 piece set: garment bag, small bag and toiletry bag. $10. Call 505-471-6634

1922 KNABE Baby Grand has been restored inside and out. Original ivory keys. Excellent condition. $12,000.

Negotiable. 505-690-5930.

Custom made 40" Round Southwest Pine Table with bullet carvings by local craftsman, $250. Matching chairs, $125. Choose finish, upholstery, 505-982-3214.

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COOKING DISCO, Discadas for Sale.

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3 MATCHING SWIVEL STOOLS with wood armrests, good quality, $60 for all 3. Call me, let’s make a deal. 505927-5428

3561 Zafarano Drive 1-4 p.m.

BEAUTIFUL CHOCOLATE B R O W N LABRADOODLES. 9 weeks old. 1 boy, 1 girl. Sweet, non-shedding. 575-6132309

RARE NATIONAL JAPANESE SPEAKING Rice Cooker. Steam Cooking - Top-ofthe-Line 10 Cup. Speaks clearly in Japanese. National SS-SS18. Cost $600. Sacrifice $175. 982-0975.

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CHICKENS FOR SALE. 5 year old for $10 each. 10 months, $15 each. All layers. 505-507-4350

COMFORTER SET full size 7 piece plus 2 sets of sheets, luxurious, used little $35. Call 505-471-6634

DELTA CONTRACTOR’S 10-inch table saw. 18 years old but completely functional. $125 OBO. David Huntley, Call 505-795-2268, or email David.huntley8@gmail.com STEEL TRUCK TOOLBOX. Never used.

Fits full-size pick-up. White. $300.

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MALVINA REYNOLDS. Autographed "Little Boxes" songbook. $20. 505474-9020

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GREAT CHRISTMAS PRESENT! 20 miscellanous items and tools. All new, in packages. $30 for all. Call for information 505-310-4179.

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BY Vogelzang. Box woodstove with pipes. $275, OBO. 505-507-4350.

HEREFORD BRAND TEX TAN WESTERN SADDLE 15". Mule Skinner design, sturdy construction, modern seat, leather latigo strap, cinch, tie strings, stamp design. Excellent condition, $350. www.textan.com 520-906-9399 (Santa Fe). CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED!

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FIRST EDITION book collection. Only $8 each. Great holiday gifts. 505-4749020.

CLOTHING 2 PAIR of Ostrich Cowboy Boots, $250 each. Worn about ten times. 505-5530143.

ATTENTION! WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE SALE! VINYL AND STEEL SIDING, skirting for mobile homes (cheap), miscellaneous tools, new double pane vinyl windows, 12.5’ metal brake, metal coil stock. 2 30’ metal walk boards with ladder jacks. 2 shell campers for 8’ pickup bed. 1 tool cap with ladder rack for 8’ pickup bed. 2 desks with chairs and file cabinets. All in Arroyo Seco. Call 505-690-1133 for appointment.

FIREWOOD PINON and cedar 16" long $220 cord. 10" 20" stovecut, $240 cord. Well seasoned. Free delivery with minimum 2 cords. 505259-3368, 505-832-4604

THOUSANDS OF PICTURE FRAMES (EMMANUELS) . New Shipment arrived. 20-50% off Everything!

1807 CERRILLOS ROAD, SANTA FE, 505-438-0640.

PRO-PANELS: 3’X31’ 26 gauge ProPanel for roofs. Barn red. $70 per sheet. Have 30 panels. (List $101).

505-795-0007

LXI PICTURE-IN-PICTURE 27" TV. NOT HD, and OLDER FLAT SCREEN. $60.

CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED. Eldorado area. 520-906-9399

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Art Books Plus: Large Selection, with dust covers. GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS! Only $3- $12. Other reasonable books. First editions. 505-474-9020

is a happy, goodnatured, affectionate year old spayed female Anatolian Shepherd mix.

She is strong and energetic in a delightfully goofy way that can be quite amusing. She would love to be adopted by an outdoor loving family who would enjoy taking her on frequent walks or jogs. Honey loves her people once she has bonded with them and gets along with other dogs when there aren’t too many of them in her space. $75. Call 505-501-0790 for information.

For more information contact the Espanola Valley Humane Society at 108 Hamm Pkwy, Española or call (505) 753-8662. More animals are available on the website at evalleyshelter.org.

Chevrolet 10-bolt posi-Trac. Rear End...with Ladder Bars!! $300 ONLY! MERRY CHRISTMAS! 505-438-2424

FEED EQUIPMENT SERVICES FOR SALE ALFALFA, San Acacia. 2strand heavy bales. $12 per bale.

Available in Santa Fe, Mondays only, corner of Cerrillos and Airport. 505220-4441. Leave message.

ACROSS 1 __ excuse for: hardly the best example of 6 Largest city in Belarus 11 Reg. 14 “__ Rae” 15 Political convention setting 16 Golfer’s peg 17 *Actor Sydney of “Casablanca” 19 Crazy way to go 20 “Dallas” matriarch Miss __ 21 Brought up 23 Boiling mad 27 Takes advantage of 28 Shower offering 31 Waiter’s carrying aid 32 Get on in years 33 Pioneering ISP 34 Break down, as a sentence 35 “It’s the __ I can do” 38 Hidden loot 40 Superman’s symbol 41 Bug in a program, say 42 Tomato concentrate 43 Kitchen appliance 45 Activist Guevara 46 Hem and __ 47 Ripped 48 Word with horse or track 49 Tender-hearted 51 Slander 53 Throbbed 55 Things that shouldn’t be done 58 DDE’s WWII command 59 Understand (and a hint to both parts of this puzzle’s answers to starred clues) 64 Bustle 65 Like a fifth tire 66 Youngest Jetson 67 Curtain holder 68 Furry swimmer 69 Trickles (through)

YORKIES! Full-Blooded & Yorkiepoos, Morkies, Shorkies. Reg, shots and guaranteed.

POTTYPAD trained. $500-1800 CreditCards, PAYPAL PAYMENT plan 575-910-1818 txt4pics cingard1@hotmail.com

4 CHEVY 4x4 Custom 10"wide Chrome Wide-spoke Wheels. $100 for the set. 505-438-2424.

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DOWN 1 Zambia neighbor: Abbr.

2 Tiny skin opening 3 Sports analyst Hershiser 4 Folded eggs dish 5 Took to jail 6 Gym cushion 7 Like some outlet store mdse.

8 Maiden name indicator 9 Dummy Mortimer 10 “Kiss Me, __” 11 *Talent show hosted by Ed McMahon 12 Conical dwelling 13 Homeowners’ documents 18 Sealy rival 22 Hole-boring tool 24 Takes to jail 25 *Break for fuel 26 Dilapidated building, e.g.

28 Quick intake of breath 29 Greek “i” 30 *Danger after a heavy rainfall 32 Protected, at sea 34 “That was close!”

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36 Arty NYC locale 37 Shade provider 39 Sports page numbers 44 Jules who created Captain Nemo 48 Forgetful, maybe 49 Asparagus serving 50 Perform better than 51 Handy

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2004 CHEVROLET Blazer, 4x4, automatic, 4 doors, 108,000 miles. Asking $4,600 OBO 505-204-2921.

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2002 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY II 2002.

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Great in snow or mud. Bridgestone Dueler H/L tires. Dual moonroofs, great stereo. ’Special Projects’ vehicle. Clean title. 575-779-3368. 143K miles.

2013 Kia Soul ! recent trade-in, local vehicle, back-up camera, super nice, single owner clean CarFax $13,951 505913-2900

2000 HONDA ACCORD EX. Excellent condition. 5 speed loaded 234,00 miles. Timing belt,idlers and water pump(OEM Honda parts) replaced at 100,000 and 200,000 miles. New Dunlap tires. $3995. Call Eric 505-2311225.

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LEGALS LEGAL # 97639 The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is accepting proposals for Professional Legal Services

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

This request for proposals will result in a multiple source award through which contracts may be awarded to one or more lawyers and or law firms in all of the practice areas listed in the Scope of Work.

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

Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on October 27-31 and November 3-7, 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, December 1-5, 8-12, 15-19, 22-26, 2014 LEGAL # 97808 NOTICE

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p y p Store Front Operations to the public from 9:00am to 4:00pm; at 1990 Siringo Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87505.

Items for sale will include: Vehicles ranging from $700.00 to $5,000 Computer equipment ranging from $10 to $300 Office furniture ranging from $5 to $300 Grab Bags $30.00 Items are subject to change. All items are used items they are "as-is" "where-is" with no guarantee or warrantee.

Inspection of items will be on day of sale. All sales are final no refunds or exchanges.

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against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof being to foreclose a mortgage on property located at 48 Pinon Rd., Edgewood, NM 87015, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, said property being more particularly described as: LOT 66B, EDGEWOOD ESTATES SUBDIVISION, AS SHOWN ON PLAT ENTITLED "LAND DIVISION OF LOT 66, EDGEWOOD ESTATES BEING THE SE 1/4, SE 1/4, SW 1/4, NE 1/4 OF SECTION 27, T10N, R7E…", FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, ON NOVEMBER 25, 1997, IN PLAT BOOK 179, PAGE 050, AS DOCUMENT NO. 637,162.

Unless you serve a pleading or motion in Published in The San- response to the comta Fe New Mexican on plaint in said cause December 15, 16, and on or before 30 days 17, 2014. after the last publication date, judgment by default will be enLEGAL # 97809 tered against you.

STATE OF NEW MEXIRespectfully SubmitCO COUNTY OF SANTA FE ted, FIRST JUDICIAL DIS- WEINSTEIN, PINSON & RILEY, P.S. TRICT D-101-CV- By: _/s/Elizabeth Mason Elizabeth Mason MGC MORTGAGE, 20 First Plaza NW, Suite 303 INC., Albuquerque, NM Plaintiff, 87102 (206) 438-1031 v. elizabethm@ MICHAEL P. CASTILLO, w-legal.com JUAN HERNANDEZ, Attorney for Plaintiff STEVAN J. SCHOEN, NEW MEXICO EM- Published in The SanPLOYMENT SECURITY ta Fe New Mexican on DEPARTMENT, NEW December 9, 16 and MEXICO DEPART- 23, 2014 MENT OF TAXATION AND REVENUE, INTER- LEGAL #97826 NAL REVENUE SERVICE, FORD MOTOR 4B-302 CREDIT COMPANY, LLC, THE UNKNOWN STATE OF NEW SPOUSE OF MICHAEL MEXICO P. CASTILLO, FT IN THE PROBATE MORTGAGE COMPA- COURT NIES D/B/A CARLI I. SANTA FE COUNTY BROWN MORTGAGE AND KERRY KIRKPA- IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF TRICK, Joann M. Herrera, Defendants.

DECEASED. NOTICE OF SUIT No. 2014-0152 STATE OF New Mexico NOTICE TO to the above-named CREDITORS Defendants Juan Hernandez and Kerry NOTICE IS HEREBY Kirkpatrick.

GIVEN that the undersigned has been apGREETINGS: You are hereby noti- pointed personal repfied that the above- resentative of this esnamed Plaintiff has tate. All persons havfiled a civil action ing claims against Case No. 2011-01092

LEGALS g g this estate are required to present their claims within two (2) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, located at the following address: 102 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

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R. Alfred Walker Assistant City Attorney City of Santa Fe 200 Lincoln Avenue P.O. Box 909 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0909

pp y New Mexico Finance Authority (the "Finance Authority") on December 11, 2014.

Complete copies of the Resolution are available for public inspection during the Published in The San- normal and regular ta Fe New Mexican on business hours of the December 9, 16 and Finance Authority at 23, 2014.

207 Shelby Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Legal #97827 The Title of the Resolution is: STATE OF NEW MEXICO APPROVING AND ESCOUNTY OF TABLISHING THE RIO ARRIBA PRINCIPAL AMOUNTS, FIRST JUDICIAL MATURITIES, INTERDISTRICT COURT EST RATES, PREMIUMS AND DISCOUNTS IN THE MATTER OF OF THE $61,380,000 A PETITION NEW MEXICO FIFOR CHANGE NANCE AUTHORITY OF NAME OF Noah Ryan Roybal- STATE TRANSPORTATION REFUNDING REVCarmona, A CHILD. ENUE BONDS (SENIOR Case No.: D-117-CV- LIEN), SERIES 2014B-1 AND $18,025,000 NEW 2014-00400 MEXICO FINANCE AUTHORITY STATE NOTICE OF CHANGE TRANSPORTATION OF NAME REFUNDING REVENUE (SUBORDITAKE NOTICE that in BONDS accordance with the NATE LIEN), SERIES provisions of Sec. 40- 2014B-2; APPROVING 8-1 through Sec. 40-8- THE FORM OF AND THE 3 NMSA 1978, et. seq. AUTHORIZING the Petitioner Ariana EXECUTION AND DEL. Roybal will apply to LIVERY OF A NINEthe Honorable Sheri TEENTH SERIES INA. Raphaelson, Dis- DENTURE OF TRUST trict Judge of the First AND A TWENTIETH Judicial District at the SERIES INDENTURE OF APPROVING Rio Arriba County TRUST; Courthouse, 7 Main AND AUTHORIZING A PURCHASE St., in Tierra BOND Amarilla,, New Mexi- AGREEMENT FOR THE co at 1:15 p.m. on the BONDS; APPROVING AUTHORIZING 12 day of January, AND 2015 for an ORDER THE FORMS OF A FOR CHANGE OF CONTINUING DISCLONAME of the child SURE UNDERTAKING from Noah Ryan AND A DISSEMINARoybal-Carmona to TION AGENT AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT Noah Ryan Roybal.

TO THE BONDS; APSTEPHEN T. PACHECO, PROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE DISDistrict Court Clerk TRIBUTION OF AN OFSTATEMENT By: Deputy Court FICIAL FOR THE BONDS; APClerk PROVING THE FORM OF AND AUTHORIZING Submitted by: THE EXECUTION OF Ariana L Roybal AN ESCROW AGREEPetitioner, Pro Se MENT WITH RESPECT Published in The San- TO THE BONDS; AND THE ta Fe New Mexican on AUTHORIZING December 16 and 23, TAKING OF ALL OTHER ACTIONS NECES2014.

SARY TO THE CONSUMMATION OF THE LEGAL# 97842 TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS NOTICE OF RESOLUTION, THE ISADOPTION OF SUANCE OF THE RESOLUTION OF BONDS, AND ALL RETHE NEW MEXICO LATED MATTERS. FINANCE AUTHORITY Published in The SanNotice is hereby giv- ta Fe New Mexican on en of the title and of a December 16, 2014 general summary of the subject matter contained in a ResoYou can view your lution duly adopted and approved by the Legal Notice online

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Dated: 11-26, 2014.

Cathy Herrera Personal Representative 315 E. Solano Espanola, NM 87532 505-927-6907 Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 9 and 16, 2014.

Legal #97827 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE CITY OF SANTA FE ex rel.

SANTA FE POLICE DEPARTMENT, Petitioner, vs.

No. 03212

D-101-CV-2013-

ONE (1) 2003 BLUE CADILLAC DEVILLE V .

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1G6KF57933U279159 NEW MEXICO LICENSE NO. NONE, Respondent, and RALPH D. ORTIZ, Claimant.

NOTICE TO RALPH D. ORTIZ: The above-captioned action has been filed to seek forfeiture of the above-described motor vehicle. If no response is filed, default judgment may be entered in favor of the Petitioner.

The name, address and telephone number of Petitioner’s attorney are:

Telephone: (505) 9556967 Facsimile: (505) 9556748 E m a i l : awalker@ci.santafe.nm.us

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

Horoscope ACROSS 1 And so forth: Abbr.

4 Halfway decent 8 Home of Plato’s Academy 14 “Your point being …?”

15 Ancient South American 16 Complete mess 17 Powdered lunch product from Lipton 19 Moon of Neptune 20 Digital device used to access Hulu and Netflix 21 Bird bill 22 Fishing device 23 Just marvelous 28 Birdcage swing, e.g.

30 Skip, as a sound 31 Poet’s “before” 32 Former Time Warner partner 34 Commercial suffix with Tropic 35 Mouth, slangily 36 Alcoholics Anonymous and others 40 Seamen 41 Contend (for) 42 When repeated, a popular puzzle 43 Acid

44 “The Hangover” setting 46 Hollywood director Sam 50 Confectionery brand with a logo designed by Salvador Dalí 53 “Chestnuts roasting ___ open fire” 54 Eight, to Dieter 55 Stand-up comedian with multiple Emmys 57 Drink that gets its name from the Tahitian word for “good” 60 Share a single bed … or a hidden feature of 17-, 23-, 36- and 50-Across 61 Town with Yiddish speakers 62 In ___ (actually) 63 In the style of 64 Pooped 65 Blacken on a grill 66 “Spy vs. Spy” magazine DOWN 1 Steep slope around a rampart 2 “Rug”

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014: This year you have good luck gracing your thoughts and actions. You naturally seem to follow the correct path.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Unexpected developments could point to a different response. Be creative and optimistic. Tonight: Go along with a suggestion.

3 Statue of Liberty material 4 River to the Seine 5 Units of nautical speed 6 Contact lens brand 7 Annoying bark 8 Under the cloak of night 9 Angry rant 10 Three-line verse 11 N.H. winter setting 12 Sarge, e.g.

13 Junior 18 WHAT THIS IS IN 21 Existence 24 Stop getting any higher 25 One chased in a car chase, for short

26 Parts of history 27 John Boehner, e.g., in two ways: Abbr.

29 Use a pogo stick 33 1968 #1 hit for Diana Ross & the Supremes 35 Good source of omega-3 fatty acids 36 Where a Brownie’s merit badges are attached 37 Language of Pakistan 38 “I know, ___?”

39 “___ the land of the free …”

40 Nurse’s focus, in brief 44 Move out

45 Quiet sound of water on the side of a pail, say 47 Clothes line?

48 Eye part subject to degeneration 49 What gets rubberstamped?

51 Hors d’oeuvres toppings 52 “Minnesota March” composer 56 Modern cab service alternative 57 Asian food additive 58 “Got it!”

59 “___ your call” 60 Kwanzaa time: Abbr.

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Chess quiz BLACK WINS MATERIAL Hint: Target a key defender.

Solution: 1. ... Kb5! (attacks the rook that defends the bishop).

If 2. Kd5, ... Rd2ch!

3. Ke5 Kxc4.

Hocus Focus

Super Quiz Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER. Most questions are based on the 1964 TV film. (e.g., Rudolph is popularly known as Santa’s ____ Reindeer. Answer: Ninth.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. Rudolph made his first appearance in (a) 1939, (b) 1949, (c) 1959.

Answer________ 2. Who plays Sam the Snowman, the narrator of the story?

Answer________ 3. The Abominable Snow Monster of the North is also known as _____.

Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 4. What does the elf named Hermey dream of becoming?

Answer________ 5. What is the name of the doe that is attracted to Rudolph?

Answer________ 6. What does Coach Comet prohibit Rudolph from taking part in?

Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. What is the name of the boisterous prospector whose goal is to get rich quick?

Answer________ 8. Which of Santa’s reindeer is Rudolph’s father?

Answer________ 9. What is the name of the island where unwanted toys live?

Answer________ ANSWERS: ANSWERS: 1. (a) 1939. 2. Burl Ives. 3. “The Bumble.” 4. A dentist. 5. Clarice. 6. “Reindeer games.” 7. Yukon Cornelius. 8. Donner (Donder). 9. Island of Misfit Toys.

Jumble

SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2014 Ken Fisher

Today in history Today is Tuesday, Dec. 16, the 350th day of 2014. There are 15 days left in the year.

The Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, begins at sunset.

Today’s highlight in history: On Dec. 16, 1944, the World War II Battle of the Bulge began as German forces launched a surprise attack against Allied forces through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg (the Allies were eventually able to turn the Germans back).

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Pace yourself, as you could have a lot of ground to cover. You won’t hesitate to let others know when you have had enough. Tonight: Note what is not being said.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH You might discover that a friend is not as stable as you previously had thought. Tap into your sense of humor to deal with this person. Tonight: Have an important discussion with a loved one.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH You wouldn’t be as in demand as you are if you did not excel in a certain area. You might want to spend more time at home if you are feeling overwhelmed. Tonight: Happy at home.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You have a way of drawing people to you and identifying with them. This sense of understanding creates more give-and-take.

Tonight: Your treat.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Your creativity with taking risks might work well on paper, but it won’t play out the way you would like it to. Tonight: Indulge a friend.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Friend’s mistakes are her decisions Dear Annie: My 18-year-old cousin, “Rick,” has been seeing a friend of mine for some time.

Now I am in an awkward position.

My friend “Joanie” told Rick she liked him, but he told her he didn’t feel the same way about her. They were together for a short time, but even then, Rick was talking to other girls. He now has an actual girlfriend. But it seems that Rick and Joanie still have something going on.

Do I ignore their weird relationship, knowing he has a girlfriend?

Do I tell them straight up to talk things out because I’m confused about their relationship? Joanie is my friend, and I don’t want her to be heartbroken because my cousin is leading her on. How should I advise my friend? — Confused Dear Confused: You need to stay out of this before you are blamed for everything that goes wrong. It sounds as though Joanie is well aware that Rick is seeing someone else. That means however she chooses to handle it is up to her. Your confusion is not her problem. You can tell her you don’t think she and Rick are good together, but you cannot protect her from her own poor choices.

You can listen and sympathize, but that’s it. And it’s OK to say directly that you have no intention of getting involved in her love life.

So please don’t.

Dear Annie: Every year, my husband and I host a couple of family holiday gatherings. We exclude two family members because they are not pleasant to be around. One is an obnoxious alcoholic, and the other has psychological problems and is antisocial. I decided years ago never to have them in my home again.

The problem is, my great-aunt, “Betsy,” insists that these two be included and, against my wishes, invites them herself.

I’m outraged by this rude behavior and have told her repeatedly not to do this. But Aunt Betsy recently informed me that she has invited them again this year. She’s determined to have it her way, and I’m at my wits’ end. What should I do about her? — Fed Up with Family

Dear Fed Up: You have three choices: Tolerate it, stop inviting Aunt Betsy or stop hosting family events. We understand that she wants the entire family included, especially for holidays, and we sympathize. Normally, we recommend tolerating the relatives for the few times a year that this happens. But it’s your home and your guest list, and, right or wrong, no one else gets to make those decisions. For the next gathering, you might suggest to Aunt Betsy that she host the event and invite whomever she wishes. Or perhaps one of the other relatives would be willing to take on this responsibility. Then your choice is simply whether or not to attend.

Dear Annie: I found the letter from “Fed Up” to be heartbreaking, partly because I, too, have suffered from depression and anxiety most of my life. I went from one doctor to another, being medicated with “the latest thing out there,” only it didn’t work for me.

More than once I was put on multiple medications that rendered me unable to function properly. I felt like I was walking around in a daze.

My life changed the day I saw a psychiatrist/pharmacologist. The added knowledge of pharmacology is remarkable. These doctors know about specific medications, their side effects and what medications don’t mix well. The wrong medications cost me my career, and even though I am back to “normal” now, my career cannot be restored.

Seeing the wrong doctors nearly turned my life into a total loss. The right one changed my life in a fabulous way. Please pass along the information to “Fed Up”. The right doctor just might help him find the quality of life he so desperately needs.

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

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

Sheinwold’s bridge

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You could see that a situation seems to be taking on a new twist. Ask questions and listen well to the answer. Tonight: Go for what you want.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH You will want to keep your own counsel for now. A hunch you have about someone else could pay off. Tonight: Follow your instincts.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You might be in the mood to do some shopping, especially for a very special loved one. What you choose could delight this person to no end. Tonight: Where your friends are.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You have an endearing quality about you that draws many people toward you. You might decide to become even more verbal in the next few weeks. Tonight: Out and about.

Cryptoquip

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You are prone to do research rather than take anyone’s advice. You trust hard facts more than opinions. Tonight: Choose your company with care.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You could see a personal matter much differently from how another party sees it. Why not just respect the differences in your experiences? Tonight: Opt for togetherness.

Jacqueline Bigar

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. © 2014 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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