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Youths hang out Friday at the Malecon in Havana. For a generation that grew up believing the best way to pursue their dreams was to leave the island, the announcement that Cuba will open relations with the U.S. is prompting many to reevaluate their futures.

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Cuban, U.S. youth see chance to bridge divide Policy change opens doors for both sides

By E. Eduardo Castillo and Christine Armario The Associated Press

HAVANA — Daniela Martinez long figured that someday she would leave the struggles of daily life in Cuba and join her uncle in the United States, but after the events of the last few days, the 18-year-old medical student thinks exile may not be her only choice.

“He always tells me things are better there,” Martinez said, gesturing with her chin toward the sea leading

to Florida. Dangling her legs over the edge of the Malecon, the iconic concrete seawall where entertainmentstarved young Havanans gather each evening, she said, “I think things are going to get better.”

For a generation that grew up believing the best way to pursue their dreams was to leave the island, the announcement last week that Cuba will open relations with the United States is prompting many to reevaluate their futures. At the same time, Cuban Americans are considering what the changes will mean for their lives, with some even wondering whether they are signifi-

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After a 25-year career working to make the New Mexico Museum of Art fun and accessible for children, Ellen Zieselman is retiring.

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Children too often strike fear into their mothers, who don’t realize nurturing needs to be balanced with an equal portion of authority, writes columnist John Rosemond. FAMILY, E-13

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Compact fight raises stakes Pojoaque’s refusal to negotiate could impact how other tribes deal with state

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Lawyers in pursuit of big payday coax AGs to sue King defends alliances as tool to protect public, but critics say strategy blurs professional lines

By Eric Lipton The New York Times

WASHINGTON — When they met at the J.W. Marriott Hotel two blocks from the White House, Linda Singer, a former attorney general turned plaintiffs’ lawyer, approached Attorney General Gary King of New Mexico with an unusual proposition.

Singer wanted him to sue the owner of a nursing home in rural New Mexico that King had never heard of and Singer had never set foot in. She later presented him with a proposed lawsuit that did not cite any specific complaints about care.

What she shared with him were numbers on staffing levels gleaned from records suggesting that residents were being mistreated there and at other facilities.

“Do you have 10 minutes at any point today?” Singer, who had served as attorney general in the District of Columbia, wrote to King in a March 2012 email, to set up a meeting. “I finally got the numbers on the nursing home case and would love to discuss it with you briefly.”

“I’m in the lobby, near the recep-

Obituaries Phillip (Felipe) M. Archuleta, Dec. 16 Donna Gilcrease Cady, Dec. 3 Gilbert Edward “Ed” Gearheart, Oct. 24 Linda A. Fitzpatrick Delong Green, 65, Santa Fe, Dec. 12 John A. Martin, 92, Dec. 13 Albert Triny Padilla Jr., Nov. 10 Robert Jenne Stamm, 93, Albuquerque, Dec. 14 Harold Maurice Wit, 86, Dec. 14

tion desk,” King later replied, signing the message “GK.” The casual nature of the exchange between the two Democrats, which was among Gary King thousands of pages of emails obtained by The New York Times, belied the enormous potential payoff for Singer’s firm if she could persuade King to hire her and use his state powers to investigate and sue, which he did.

The partnership is part of a flourishing industry that pairs plaintiffs’ lawyers with state attorneys general to sue companies, a collaboration that has set off a furious competition between trial lawyers and corporate lobbyists to influence these officials.

Much as big industries have found natural allies in Republican attorneys general to combat federal regulations, plaintiffs’ lawyers working on a contingency-fee basis have teamed up mostly with Democratic state attorneys general to file hundreds of lawsuits against businesses that make anything from pharmaceuticals to snack foods.

The lawsuits follow a pattern: Private lawyers, who scour the news media and public records looking for potential cases in which a state or its

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Santa Fe Children’s Museum Winter Solstice Festival Celebrate the longest night of the year with drums, bonfires, a farolito labyrinth and storytelling, 5-7 p.m., 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $5 suggested donation.

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ver since Indian casinos first began popping up along New Mexico’s highways, relations between the tribes and the state, which collects millions in fees each year from the gambling operations, have been bumpy.

Many of the tribes object to the state’s share of winnings — which last year totaled over $68 million — and its measure of control over casino operations. The state in turn has sued tribes for nonpayment. A recent newsletter from the Legislative Finance Committee described it as “a litigious history.”

Now, with the current gaming compacts of five tribes set to expire in June — and two tribes that have never had casinos before seeking to join the others — the state Legislature finds itself dealing with the complex and often contentious issues involved with Indian gambling. The stakes

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Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino’s gaming floor on Thursday. The issues surrounding tribal gambling are complex and often contentious.

could be even higher as one tribe with a compact about to expire, the Pueblo of Pojoaque, is refusing to negotiate with the state, saying Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration has acted in bad faith.

The pueblo north of Santa Fe has gone to federal court seeking to negotiate a compact directly with the federal government. If successful, the deal could change how the tribes deal with the state in the future. Martinez’s staff has continued talks with the Navajo Nation, Acoma Pueblo, the Jicarilla Apache Nation and the Mescalero Apache Tribe, as well as Jemez and Zuni pueblos, which are seeking gaming compacts, though neither have immediate plans to build casinos. (Nine other tribes negotiated compacts in 2007. These won’t expire until 2037.)

Rep. Sharon Clahchischilliage, R-Kirtland, who is a member of the Committee on Compacts, said from

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Shu Ying Jin, Elizabeth Duran and Jeanette Tsosie run a craps table Thursday at Pojoaque Pueblo’s Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino. The pueblo refuses to negotiate a gaming compact with the state, saying the state has acted in bad faith. PHOTOS BY CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

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Evaluation finds funds being used on programs without proven success

By Anne Constable The New Mexican

A new evaluation of the Local DWI Grant program says New Mexico counties are not putting enough emphasis on proven methods for reducing drunken driving, such as increased patrols and tougher prosecutions. And all but six counties are not funding treatment at the level required under state law.

The report by the staff of the Legislative Finance Committee cites funds

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spent on media campaigns, outreach and safe-ride programs as examples of wasted money. And it says the Local DWI Grant program does not have procedures for cost oversight.

Charles Sallee, deputy program evaluation director for the LFC, said the counties have made progress on financial accountability in the last decade and can explain how they are spending the $18 million in liquor excise taxes they receive annually for DWI prevention. But he said, “We need spending to result in better outcomes.”

Counties need to do a better job prioritizing money on proven programs, but that is not happening in a “systemic way statewide,” he said, adding, “Statewide, we don’t need 33 different programs.”

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Drunken driving has been a persistent problem in New Mexico, even as alcohol-related crashes and deaths have steadily declined. The improvements in numbers coincide with the increase in the use of seat belts, new DWI laws, ignition interlocks and the closing of drive-up windows for alcohol sales, among other factors. Some also believe economic woes kept drunks off the roads and out of bars during the recession.

But the prevention community is troubled that the state seems to have reached a plateau and the improvements are leveling off.

For example, about 5 percent of crashes involve alcohol, a number that

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NATION&WORLD Ambush kills two N.Y. police officers

In brief Police-brutality protesters rally at Mall of America BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — A mass of demonstrators chanting, “Black lives matter,” converged in the Mall of America rotunda Saturday as part of a protest against police brutality that caused part of the mall to shut down on a busy day for holiday shopping.

The group Black Lives Matter Minneapolis had more than 3,000 people confirm on Facebook that they would attend. Official crowd estimates weren’t immediately available, but pictures posted to social media by local news organizations showed the rotunda was full. Organizer Mica Grimm estimated about 3,000 people participated.

The rally is part of protests happening nationwide after officers weren’t charged in the deaths of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York.

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Suspect made vow to kill cops; shoots self at subway stop

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NEW YORK — Two police officers sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn were shot at point-blank range and killed Saturday afternoon by a man who, officials said, had traveled to the city from Baltimore vowing to kill officers. The suspect then committed suicide with the same gun, the authorities said.

The officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were in the car near Myrtle and Tompkins avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant in the shadow of a tall housing project when the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, walked up to the passenger-side window and assumed a firing stance, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said. Brinsley shot several rounds into the heads and upper bodies of the officers, who never drew their weapons, the authorities said.

Brinsley, 28, then fled down the street and onto the platform of a nearby subway station, where he killed himself as officers closed in. The police recovered a silver semi-automatic handgun, Bratton said.

Brinsley, who had a long rap sheet of crimes that included robbery and carrying a concealed gun, is believed to have shot his former girlfriend near Baltimore before traveling to Brooklyn, the authorities said. He made statements on social media suggesting that he planned to kill police officers and was angered about the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases.

Authorities in Baltimore sent a warning that Brinsley had made these threats, but it was received in New York at essentially the same time as the killings, officials said.

The shootings, the chase, the suicide of Brinsley and the desperate but failed bid to save the lives of the officers — their uniforms soaked in blood — turned a busy commercial intersection on the Saturday before Christmas into a scene of pandemonium.

The manager of a liquor store at the corner, Charlie Hu, said the two police officers were slouched over in the front seat of their patrol car. Both of them appeared to have been shot in the head, Hu said, and one of the officers had blood spilling out of his face.

In this image provided by the Imperial War Museum, World War I German and British soldiers stand together during a Christmas truce on the battlefield near Ploegsteert, Belgium, in December 1914. IWM, Q11718/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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MOSCOW — In a sign of new limits on Facebook’s ability to serve as a platform for political opposition movements, Russian users appear to have been blocked from accessing a page calling for a protest in support of a prominent dissident.

In 2011, Facebook was hailed by opposition movements during the Arab Spring and in Russia as a powerful new tool to spread information beyond the control of repressive governments. That may no longer be the case, at least not in Russia. Russian Internet regulators said Saturday that they had sent Facebook a “demand” that it block access to a page calling for a demonstration in support of Alexei Navalny, the most prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The page was set up on Friday after prosecutors recommended that Navalny be sent to prison for 10 years in a criminal case that critics have said is purely politically motivated. Within hours, the page drew thousands of people who said they were planning to attend, and as of Saturday evening, the number stood at more than 12,300. But it was no longer visible to users inside Russia.

as gruesome as it was insignifiThe Associated Press cant, their dreams of a peaceful Christmas ignored and buried PLOEGSTEERT, Belgium in the cold mud. ith British and German The Dec. 19, 1914 “Birdcage” forces separated only by attack occurred on a bulge a no-man’s land littered of the German line about the with fallen comrades, size of a football field. Allied sounds of a German Christmas carol soldiers also had been thinking suddenly drifted across the frigid air: about Christmas, but for “Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht” (“Silent 80 of them it turned into disasNight, Holy Night”). ter in an area where a warren Then, during that first Christmas of barbed wire had given the Day in World War I, something magiGerman defenders a huge cal happened. advantage.

A letter from World Soldiers who had been killing each Little wonder so many solWar I soldier Pvt. other by the tens of thousands for Henry Williamdiers were pining for a glimmer months climbed out of their soggy, son to his mother of hope on Christmas Eve. muddy trenches to seek a shred of dated Dec. 26, 1914, Frank and Maurice Wray of humanity amid the horrors of war. details his life in the the London Rifle Brigade settled trenches and the Hands reached out across the narin to keep watch when they sudChristmas truce. row divide, presents were exchanged, denly heard a German band in HENRY WILLIAMSON SOCIETY and in Flanders Fields a century ago, a the trenches play songs “comTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS spontaneous Christmas truce briefly mon to both nations,” they later lifted the human spirit. wrote in an article. “Quite understandably a “Not a shot was fired,” Lt. Kurt Zehmisch of wave of nostalgia passed over us.” the 134th Saxony regiment wrote with amazeAt dawn, a German called out, “We good. We ment in his diary that Christmas. no shoot,” and the Wrays noted: “And so was On the other side of the front line, Pvt. Henry born an unofficial armistice.” Men walked out, Williamson of the London Rifle Brigade was extremely apprehensive at first, many fearing amazed by the goodwill among his enemies. some deadly trick. Then human warmth cracked “Yes, all day Xmas Day & as I write. Marvelous, the freezing cold. isn’t it?”

All that would change soon enough, and the Few could be believe their eyes, especially on 1914 truce would not be repeated. this mud-caked patch of Belgium and northern Once British Gen. Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien France where crimson poppies had long ago had heard of it on Dec. 27, 1914, he wrote in a shriveled in the cold. confidential memorandum that “this is only Peace allowed for corpses to be recovered illustrative of the apathetic state we are gradufrom the fields and given a proper burial. Fightally sinking into.” He threatened disciplinary ing continued in many other places on the front action to avoid a repeat. line. But it was a momentary peace in a war that “It was certainly remembered by the army would last for nearly four more years. commands because around Christmas in 1915, Near one of the spots where British and Ger1916, 1917, they see to it that there is no such thing man soldiers fraternized for the unexpected as a truce possible because then the shelling will truce, a dark, dirt track veers off the road and be deliberate and very intensive.” meanders into the gloom of the woods.

There, a cleared space has the graves of BritOne thing did continue — the relentless killish soldiers who died on Dec. 19, 1914, in a battle ing.

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MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberians trickled to the polls Saturday to vote in Senate elections that were delayed for more than two months because of the Ebola outbreak and legal challenges. Turnout is expected to be very low.

In the capital, special precautions were taken at polling places to minimize the risk of voters contracting Ebola, which is spread through physical contact with an infected person. The polling stations were equipped with extra cardboard voting booths and ballot boxes to ensure minimal contact between voters, who were separated by a space of 3 feet.

Elections workers took the temperature of voters with infrared thermometers and denied admission to those who registered over 99.5 Fahrenheit. Voters had their fingers dabbed with ink before they marked their ballots with pens or their fingerprints.

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Egypt’s powerful intelligence chief replaced by his deputy CAIRO — Egypt’s powerful intelligence chief, a longtime mentor of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, was removed and replaced by his deputy, security officials said Saturday Gen. Mohammed Farid el-Tohamy, in his mid-60s, was seen as a hardliner in the government crackdown against Islamists and secular dissidents.

El-Tohamy was put in charge of the general intelligence agency immediately after el-Sissi, then head of the military, led the ouster of the elected President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 following massive protests against his Islamist government.

El-Tohamy was el-Sissi’s mentor when they both served in military intelligence under longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak. El-Tohamy went on to head one of the most important government financial watchdog agencies, the Administrative Control Authority, where he served until 2012 when Morsi replaced him. Two days after Morsi’s ouster, el-Tohamy was named intelligence chief.

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A photo of Santa Claus in Generation Next, Page C-1 of the Dec. 19, 2014, edition of The New Mexican, incorrectly said Santa Claus was visiting with a baby at DeVargas Center. In fact, the photo of Santa with 2-month-old Silas Greenfield was taken at the Santa Fe Place mall.

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Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014 HOLIDAY TALKS: From 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Unity Santa Fe, 1212 Unity Way, the Rev. Brendalyn Batchelor of Unity Santa Fe will discuss “The Metaphysical Interpretation of the Christmas Story.” The public is invited to attend. For more information, visit www. unitysantafe.org or call 989-3648, ext. 3.

PLAZA CELEBRATION: From 3 to 4:30 p.m., a Hanukkah celebration with fire dancers, Rulelia Klezmer Band, a giant menorah lighting, with hot latkes, sufagniyot, hot cocoa and gelt. Join Mayor Javier Gonzales and the Chabad community for this free public event.

SANTA FE PRO MUSICA BAROQUE ENSEMBLE: Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail. Music of Telemann and Handel, and traditional carols, 6 and 8 p.m. nightly through Wednesday, $35-$65, check for availability at santafepromusica.com or ticketssantafe. org, 505-988-1234.

SCHOLA CANTORUM OF SANTA FE: Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 100 S. Guadalupe St. A-cappella performances of sacred music, Gregorian chants and carols, 7 p.m., donations accepted, schola-sf.org.

uuu A story on Page A-1 of the Dec. 20, 2014, edition incorrectly reported that beginning in 2015, $4 million in Medicaid money would be used to fund the SHOP program for small businesses to enroll employees in insurance plans under the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange. In fact, only $1.5 million in fees collected from major medical insurers in the state will be used for that purpose in 2015. Medicaid funds totaling about $4 million will be used to support the exchange beginning in 2016 under a plan passed Friday by the exchange’s board of directors.

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ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET: The Nutcracker at The Lensic, 211 W. San Francisco St., a holiday favorite, 1 and 5 p.m., $36-$72, check for availability 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe. org.

CLAN TYNKER: The Dream Train at Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, local vaudevillian circus troupe, 2 p.m., $10 to $12 in advance at brownpapertickets.com, runs Wednesday and again Dec. 27-28.

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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; 2 p.m., $5 to $20 uggested donation, ages 11 and under no charge, 424-1601, teatroparaguas.org, closing show.

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ISRAELI DANCE: Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Road. Traditional folk dances; 8 to 10 p.m. weekly, $5 suggested donation, santafe.israeli.dance.com.

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART ANNUAL HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE: 107 W. Palace Ave., 476-5072. Starring the Gustave Baumann Marionettes in two short plays for children of all ages, 1 and 2:30 p.m.; also, a photo op with Baumann’s Santa Claus marionette, 1:30 and 3 p.m., no charge.

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Stoic Pakistan gravedigger U.S. frees 4 from Guantánamo an effort to brought to tears over dead Move improve ties with new Afghan leader

Nation buries kids slain in massacre

By Riaz Khan The Associated Press

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — One of the gravediggers at Peshawar’s largest graveyard has a rule. He says he never cries when he buries the dead. He’s a professional, he says.

But as the dead bodies — mostly children — started coming in from a school massacre this week that killed 148 people, he began to weep.

“I have buried bodies of the deceased of different ages, sizes, and weights,” Taj Muhammad told The Associated Press.

“Those small bodies I’ve been burying since yesterday felt much heavier than any of the big ones I’ve buried before.”

Muhammad spoke during a break from the digging, as he drank green tea with one of his colleagues and his two sons who work with him in the Rahman Baba graveyard, named after a beloved Sufi poet, in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

Wearing a faded shalwar kameez, a traditional dress of baggy pants and a long tunic, the 43-year-old Muhammad was covered in dust from a freshly dug grave.

The school massacre on Tuesday horrified Pakistanis across the country. The militants, wearing suicide vests,

the Afghan government further detain the men, identified as Mohammed Zahir, Shawali Khan, Abdul Ghani and Khi Ali Gul. Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, a governmentThe Associated Press appointed group, confirmed WASHINGTON — The Pen- the transfer, but did not identify the men, saying that the tagon said Saturday that four four “will be reunited soon Afghans from the Guantánamo with their families.”

Bay detention center have been The move is the latest in a returned to their home country series of transfers during the in what U.S. officials are citing past two months. President as a sign of their confidence in Barack Obama has been pushnew Afghan President Ashraf ing to reduce the number of Ghani. detainees as he tries to make Obama administration offiprogress toward his goal of cials said they worked quickly closing the detention center. to fulfil the request from Ghani, Administration officials, in office just three months, speaking on a condition of to return the four — long anonymity because they are cleared for release — as a kind not authorized to discuss the of reconciliation and mark of matter publicly, say more transimproved U.S.-Afghan relafers are expected in the coming tions. weeks.

There is no requirement that Guantánamo now holds the

Pakistani gravedigger Taj Muhammad adjusts wreaths on a grave Saturday at the Rahman Baba graveyard in Peshawar, Pakistan. MOHAMMAD SAJJAD/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

climbed over the fence into a military-run school, burst into an auditorium filled with students and opened fire. The bloodshed went on for several hours until security forces finally were able to kill the attackers. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

For hours after, the dead, wrapped in white sheets, were brought to the cemetery. In Islam, the dead are generally buried quickly, so most funerals were held Tuesday and Wednesday.

This was the worst terrorist attack in years but it was hardly the first in Peshawar, a city near the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan where militants have their strongholds.

Muhammad has buried some

of the dead from those past attacks as well, like the Mina Bazaar bombing in 2009 that killed 105 people, and the Khyber Bazaar bombing, also in 2009, that killed nearly 50.

But Tuesday’s bodies were hard to take.

For the first time “I couldn’t control my tears. I cannot explain but I wept. I know it was against the rules of our profession but it was the moment to break the rules,” the father of eight children said.

Muhammed said he usually charges 2,000 to 5,000 rupees — about $20 to $50 — to dig a grave. And it is money he needs.

In the past six or seven months, his income has dropped with fewer bodies to bury, a sign of the lull in violence in the city until this week.

lowest number of detainees since shortly after it opened nearly 13 years ago in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Those remaining include 64 approved for transfer.

Although the four Afghans have long been approved for transfer, the move sparked debate in Washington. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel did not sign off after Gen. John F. Campbell, the top American commander in Afghanistan, raised concerns they could pose a danger to troops in the country. Administration officials say Campbell and all military leaders on the ground have now screened the move.

One administration official involved in the review said most, if not all, the terrorism accusations against the men had been discarded and each is considered a low-level operative at best.

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N. Korea proposes joint Sony inquiry

By Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea proposed a joint investigation with the U.S. into the hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, warning of “serious” consequences if Washington rejects a probe that it believes would prove Pyongyang had nothing to do with the cyberattack.

The proposal was seen by analysts as a typical ploy by the North to try to show that it is sincere, even though it knows the U.S. would never accept its offer for a joint investigation.

U.S. officials blame North Korea for the hacking, citing the tools used in the Sony attack and previous hacks linked to the North, and have vowed to respond. The break-in resulted in the disclosure of tens of thousands of confidential Sony emails and business files, and escalated to threats of terror attacks against U.S. movie theaters that caused Sony to cancel the Christmas Day release of The Interview, a comedy about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. On Saturday, an unidentified North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman in Pyongyang proposed the joint investigation with the U.S., saying the North knows how to prove it’s not responsible for the hacking. He also said Washington was slandering Pyongyang by spreading unfounded rumors.

“The U.S. should bear in mind that it will face serious consequences in case it rejects our proposal for joint investigation and presses for what it called countermeasures while finding fault with” North Korea, the spokesman said in a statement carried by Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency.

“We have a way to prove that we have nothing to do with the case without resorting to torture, as the CIA does,” he said, adding that the U.S. lacks any specific evidence tying North Korea to the hacking.

In Washington, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, Mark Stroh, said the U.S. stands by the FBI’s conclusion that “the North Korean government is responsible for this destructive attack.”

“The government of North Korea has a long history of denying responsibility for destructive and provocative actions,” Stroh said.

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DWI: Some question Finance Committee’s findings Continued from Page A-1 has remained about the same since 2007. And about 40 percent of total traffic fatalities are alcohol-related, a number that also has changed little in recent years.

Linda Atkinson, executive director of the Albuquerquebased DWI Resource Center, agrees with the findings of the report. “They don’t use the money well,” she said of the counties. DWI data are available to “tell us what works and what doesn’t,” she said, but counties don’t appear to be using those resources.

Atkinson said what works is enforcement — checkpoints and saturation patrols — as well as full prosecution, meaningful sanctions and follow through.

“As a policy person, I look at our results,” she said. “They are not what they should be for the money we’re putting in today.

We saw greater results 20 years ago with targeted enforcement and sobriety checkpoints.”

A recurring problem in the battle against DWI is repeat offenders, like Robert Ortiz of Santa Fe, arrested a year ago on what police said was his 11th DWI, and John P. Chavez, who racked up his 11th DWI charge in 2010 after serving an eightyear sentence.

Atkinson said too much of the DWI prevention money is spent on “gadgets, T-shirts and fans.” “How many lives will be saved by putting up a billboard?

Research would tell you zero.”

However, Thomas Clifford, the secretary of the state Department of Finance and Administration, said in a letter to the committee that he believes the program is “functioning well” and “is making a significant contribution to reducing DWI in New Mexico.”

In 2013, he pointed out, the total number of alcoholinvolved fatalities was down by 40 percent, to 132, from a peak of 225 in 2002.

Diane Irwin, who heads the Sandoval County Planning Council and chairs the state’s DWI coordinators, attended the LFC hearing on the evaluation and questioned its results.

“There is always room to do things differently,” she said, “but most counties I work for regularly do a great job with every component” of DWI prevention.

Others in the DWI community also questioned the findings.

Rachel O’Connor, Health and Human Services Division director for Santa Fe County and the former DWI czar in Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration, said New Mexico has been “largely successful” in reducing impaired driving.

She agrees with the LFC that the state should be using proven strategies, but she said the standards should be more clear and the state should better define the outcome it expects from the counties.

She pointed out that the program was initially set up to reduce DWI, but over the years it has been amended to include the goal of reducing alcoholism.

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Prosecutors and law enforcement agencies also meet monthly to talk about how to best use resources.

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charges,” she said.

The law now mandates spending on treatment even though treatment does not necessarily reduce DWI crashes and fatalities, she said.

“I’m not saying it’s not the right thing to do,” she said. But “counties are torn between using evidenced-based strategies for DWI and evidencebased strategies to reduce alcoholism. There’s a lot of disagreement about what that means.”

The LFC report includes a number of proposals. Among other things, staff is recommending that the Department of Finance and Administration — working with the Department of Health — establish a way to identify high-risk counties.

The report also says the DWI Grant Council, which oversees distribution of funds for the program, should require that a minimum of 50 percent of each grant be spent on evidencebased programs, and that spending should be reported quarterly. And counties should work closely with their neighbors, the report says.

Currently, each county decides on its own how to spend its money.

It is not yet clear if members of the LFC or other lawmakers will introduce legislation to address the issues raised in the DWI program report.

Some in the DWI community believe legislators are actually eyeing the DWI funds to make up for budget shortfalls in other areas, and the report gives them ammunition.

Sallee said that is not the case. He pointed to the fact that in the 2014 session, the Legislature approved a temporary increase in funding for the program.

DWI prevention in Santa Fe County In Santa Fe County, the number of DWI crashes is running ahead of last year, with 106 in 2013 and 114 by the end of October 2014. Arrests are running ahead of last year, as well.

Six people have died so far this year in the county in alcoholinvolved crashes, the same as in 2013.

“People are getting lazy” about deciding to drive after drinking, said Ben Lewinger, state director for MADD New Mexico, an advocacy and prevention organization.

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Planning Council employs a variety of programs to combat drunken driving. It receives about $1.1 million annually from liquor excise tax revenues through the state program.

It also gets a $300,000 grant to run the Sobering Center and this year another $45,000 through the state Department of Transportation’s Traffic Safety Bureau for checkpoints and other enforcement actions.

The money covers the cost of mandatory screening for convicted offenders, pays for three monitors who make sure people are complying with their court-ordered sentences and funds a full-time deputy on the DWI unit at the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.

The DWI Planning Council also funds the Teen Court program and pays people to write grants and evaluate the program.

Tom Starke, chairman of the Santa Fe DWI Planning Council, said last June the county started doing urine tests to identify offenders who are using drugs in addition to alcohol.

Some money goes to the Prevention Alliance, an independent organization that works with students and alcohol

While the LFC report did not assess the Santa Fe program, it did cite shortcomings elsewhere. Catron County, for example, has two treatment providers covering 7,000 square miles and an insufficient number of counselors, and it has to refer offenders to either Grant or Socorro counties, it said.

Bernalillo County’s jail-based treatment program has had mixed results, according to the report. A study showed that out of 428 clients, only 11 percent received care both in and out of jail.

Socorro County, which focuses more than 50 percent of its Local DWI Grant Program funds on treatment, reduced its DWI crashes as a percentage of total crashes by two-thirds between 2007 and 2012.

In Taos County, the report said, DWI arrest rates spiked in 2010 but are currently about the same as in 2000. And there have been no gains in reducing the number of alcohol-related crashes as a percentage of total crashes. Taos does not fund treatment through its program, according to the report.

Lewinger said MADD sponsored a two-day training last month with prevention specialists from around the state. “A big part of the conference was to bring best practices and evaluative tools to the programs.

It’s definitely something we’re working on,” he said.

Those who attended received training in a program called Power of Parents, which teaches parents how to talk to kids about drinking and drug use, Lewinger said. One presentation by DWI consultant Peter DeBenedittis addressed the possibility of increasing sales taxes on alcoholic drinks, a strategy that raised a lot of money for DWI prevention in Maryland.

Lewinger is concerned that DWI fatalities might be higher this year than last year, and he is worried about the future, fearing that increased use of recreational marijuana will lead to an increase in impaired driving in the state. Already there are more DWIs involving prescription drugs, he said, and “I think that as alcohol DWIs decrease, other substances are filling that void.”

Atkinson said lower gas prices could also impact crash and death rates, but she said, “The Legislature needs to wake up and smell the roses.”

Contact Anne Constable at 986-3022 or aconstable@ sfnewmexican.com.

DWI BY THE NUMBERS u Prior to 1997, New Mexico had the highest rate of alcoholrelated crash deaths in the nation. u In fiscal year 2014, New Mexico counties spent $17 million in liquor excise tax revenues on DWI prevention efforts. u By statute, 65 percent of competitive grant funds must be directed to treatment. u Alcohol-related crash deaths dropped steadily in New Mexico between 1980 and 2012. u Between 2007 and 2011, alcohol-related crashes continued to be about 5 percent of total crashes. u Alcohol-involved fatalities have remained constant in recent years — at about 40 percent of total traffic fatalities. u Between 2010 and 2013, the number of DWI arrests in New Mexico decreased by 27 percent, and conviction rates dropped by almost half between 2003 and 2013. u In 2014, the Legislature increased the distribution of liquor excise tax revenues into the Local DWI Grant fund from 41.5 percent to 46.5 percent for fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2018. u In fiscal year 2013, local DWI programs screened 8,511 offenders, referred 4,130 offenders to treatment, provided 450 checkpoints and saturation patrols, provided prevention education in 352 schools, and monitored compliance of 8,788 offenders to ensure they met their courtordered sanctions. u For fiscal year 2016, an estimated $1.2 million in new revenue will be available for local DWI programs. u In fiscal year 2013, 10 counties did not spend any local DWI funding for treatment.

SOURCE: LEGISLATIVE FINANCE COMMITTEE

SANTA FE DWI FUNDING Prevention: $647,179.10 u Cab ride home: $100,000 u Public awareness: $250,483 u School-based prevention: $219,800 u Supplies: $11,000 u Operating costs: $64,896.10 u Travel (in-state): $1,000 Enforcement: $77,000 Screening: $16,081 Compliance: $142,529 Coordination, planning and evaluation: $271,159 Alternative sentencing (Teen Court): $30,371 DWI detox funding: $300,000 Community DWI grant: $42,743 Total: $1,184,319.10

SCREENING INFORMATION The DWI program screens every offender convicted of a DWI in Magistrate Court and District Court. Thus far in fiscal year 2015, the DWI program has screened 258 offenders. In fiscal year 2014, the DWI program screened 393 offenders, and in fiscal year 2013, a total of 388 offenders were screened.

In fiscal year 2014, the DWI program screened 84 percent of the offenders sentenced in Magistrate Court and 47 percent of offenders sentenced in District Court.

SOURCE: SANTA FE COUNTY DWI PLANNING COUNCIL

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Bridge: Change could narrow economic, psychological differences Continued from Page A-1 cant enough to present a once far-fetched chance for them to return.

The five decades of estrangement since Fidel Castro came to power in the Cuban revolution have created an economic and psychological gulf much wider than the 90 miles of the Florida Straits. But the opening of relations, with increased travel and communication, stands to narrow those differences and create new opportunities, especially for young people less burdened by the past.

For Cubans like Martinez, it may mean that becoming a doctor won’t limit her to a meager state salary. For others, there is the hope of Internet access and an end to the desperation that leads thousands to migrate each year. Cuban Americans, meanwhile, see the possibility of starting businesses in their homeland, connecting with their roots and putting aside the bitterness of parents and grandparents who were arrested, exiled or had property seized in the revolution.

“My family always said they weren’t going back until Fidel died,” said Vanessa Garcia, a 35-year-old writer in Miami whose parents left Cuba in the 1960s. “But it seemed like that was something that was hurting us rather than helping us in many ways. It’s lasted much

longer than anybody thought it would.”

Some change already has been in the works. Cuba did away with a longstanding restriction on overseas travel last year, and knowledge of modern culture has been making its way into the island via TV and flash drives brought from overseas — enough for people here to know what they are missing. Young people increasingly are on Facebook, even if they don’t manage to get online often. And in the other direction, Cuban Americans have been visiting in greater numbers, often helping to keep their extended families afloat.

Many in Florida grew up hearing their grandparents’ stories about fleeing from communism. The revolution, they were taught, brought an end to freedom and ushered in tyranny. Cubans on the island, meanwhile, learned from state propaganda that the Yankees were the enemy and capitalism was savage. Anybody who left was called a “worm.”

But Cubans and Cuban Americans find that when they meet, they have much more in common than expected. They share the same hand gestures, slang and even taste in music.

They love baseball with a passion. “Everybody says their grandmother’s flan is the best and nobody knows how to make a Cuban sandwich except

the place that they know,” said Dave Sandoval, a musician in Washington.

Even after years of propaganda, Cubans are fascinated with some of the most hyperAmerican aspects of U.S. culture. Paula Pineiro, a 14-yearold high school student and musician, is dying to see the skyscrapers of New York while classmate Otto Rivero wants to see Disneyland and Las Vegas, Nev., places he knows only from TV. “We want to have new experiences,” says the 14-year-old Rivero. “I love casinos. They say they are magnificent.”

Yusset Perez, 30, arrived in Miami 10 months ago to join his wife and found work at a college as an administrative assistant and computer lab manager.

But now he’s thinking about opening a business back home.

“I always wanted to maintain ties, not turn my back from Cuba entirely,” Perez said in Hialeah, the heavily Cuban Miami neighborhood where he passed out flyers for the college in front of a discount store specializing in clothing and housewares destined to be sent back to the island.

Nearly everyone in Cuba seems to have some familial connection to the United States, though people from the two countries can have cartoonish views of each other.

Many Cubans are envious of the lifestyle and wealth of their

relatives in the U.S., but can also consider them materialistic and arrogant. Many feel Americans don’t respect their accomplishments, such as in schools and medical care.

Beatriz Garcia, a 25-year-old who teaches Spanish to foreign students, said that while she hopes to see Cuba have greater access to affordable consumer goods, she bristled at the notion the U.S. is better. “Over there, they may have a better economy,” she said, “but here we have good education and health.”

Cuban Americans, on the other hand, sometimes see islanders as poor and unsophisticated, out of step with the modern world.

“It definitely feels like a frozen 1950s version of everything

my grandparents told me it looked like,” said Garcia, the writer.

Miami architect Jovan Rodriguez said he’s noticed improvements in Cuba, such as when he visited in February and found that a relative’s home was for sale — something only made possible by recent property reforms. It’s still not legal for foreign nonresidents to purchase real estate, but he’s hopeful that may become possible.

“This completely changed my whole outlook toward the future as far as my relationship with Cuba,” Rodriguez said. “I really made a profound connection with the people. I really hope to be able to go back soon, and I hope relations between our two nations make it easier for that to happen.”

At the University of Havana, several students said they are aware of problems in their country but are optimistic about the future.

Sitting on the same steps where Fidel Castro addressed jubilant crowds after rolling into Havana in January 1959, Ernesto Gutierrez Leyva, 20, said he would like to see Cuba move toward greater political tolerance, perhaps even a multiparty system, an idea that is still officially considered anathema.

The country “is broken, but you have to fix it from here,” he said.

And on the Malecon, Martinez noted there are advantages to staying in Cuba, such as a free university education.

“I want to go to see it,” she said of the United States, “but live in Cuba.”

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Payday: Private lawyers now often operate with power of the state

by The Times from attorneys general in 15 states show how consumers have been harmed, these alliances have scrambled approach attorneys general. The roles in the legal profession. attorneys general hire the private Private lawyers whose tradifirms to do the necessary work, tional work has been filing classwith the understanding that action tort claims or securities the firms will front most of the fraud cases on behalf of individucost of the investigation and the als or groups are now often operlitigation. The firms take a fee, ating with the power of the state, typically 20 percent, and the state substantially increasing their takes the rest of any money won chance for success by bringing from the defendants. claims on behalf of “the people.”

While prospecting for conState attorneys general defend tracts, the private lawyers have the practice, saying that with also donated tens of thousands of tight budgets, hiring outside lawdollars to campaigns of individyers is often the only tool they ual attorneys general, as well as have to achieve rough parity with party-backed organizations that the army of corporate lawyers they run. The donations often who are aggressively trying to come in large chunks just before blunt the lawsuits — in court, or after the firms sign contracts through legislation and in electo represent the state, campaign tions in which they target certain finance records and more than attorneys general for defeat.

240 contracts examined by The Overall, plaintiffs’ firms have Times show. donated at least $9.8 million “This has gotten out of hand,” directly to state attorneys general said Scott Harshbarger, a Demoand political groups related to crat who was the attorney general attorneys general over the last of Massachusetts in the 1990s, decade, according to an analysis when this practice first burst into of campaign finance data by The prominence as a result of the Times, with more than 76 percent litigation against tobacco compa- of that going to Democrats. nies. “And it seriously threatens The boom in the contingency the perception of integrity and law business has been driven in professionalism of the office.” part by former attorneys general like Singer who have capitalized Emails and contingency lawyer contract documents obtained on personal relationships with

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former colleagues that they have nurtured since leaving office, often at destination conferences where they pay to gain access.

Singer herself has made dozens of pitches, presenting attorneys general with a shopping list of possible litigation topics, like defective highway guardrails and abuses by for-profit colleges, emails show.

“I fear that I’m now stalking you with my voice-mail messages and thought I’d switch media,” Singer wrote in an email late last year to the Washington state attorney general’s office.

“Do you have time to talk in the next few weeks? I’d love to pick up the thread of our conversation and get your reaction to the cases we suggested.”

King and other attorneys general say lawsuits against major corporations or industry sectors can require the hiring of expert witnesses and produce thousands of pages of documents that must be reviewed. All of this comes at a high cost, and outside lawyers can foot the bills upfront.

“It’s one of the only tools I have to level the playing field on behalf of consumers, given the significant financial firepower that big pharma, big banking and any number of other industries have,” King said. “The attorney

general is virtually the only protection the consumer has against abuse by those industries.”

But some of his colleagues remain sharply critical of the practice.

“Farming out the police powers of the state to a private firm with a profit incentive is a very, very bad thing,” said Attorney General John Suthers of Colorado, a Republican and a former U.S. attorney.

The attempts to push back have come in federal and state courts as well. Companies as diverse as Diamond Foods, the snack food maker, and Merck, the pharmaceutical giant, have filed lawsuits or counterclaims arguing that the attorneys gen-

eral improperly turned over state law enforcement powers to private parties, citing their financial incentive to push ahead with cases against them, even if the facts did not support the claims.

The court challenges have yet to be successful, but some federal judges have at least been receptive to the argument.

Judge William Alsup of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, wrote last year that cases filed by attorneys general should not become “a vehicle for keeping elected officials in office by allowing them to extract campaign contributions from lawyers selected to serve as class counsel.”

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Resort & Sen. Benny Shendo, D-Jemez Casino in Pueblo, said getting the comPojoaque.

pacts signed is important for the gambling tribes because “they’ve made huge investments. They need long-term stability.”

Tensions over Indian gaming go back to the early 1990s. At one point in late 1995, Jacob Viarreal, the late governor of Pojoaque Pueblo, threatened to block U.S. 84/285 and N.M. 502.

This was after the state Supreme Court ruled that compacts signed by then Gov. Gary Johnson without legislative approval were illegal, and a U.S. attorney threatened to close down Pojoaque’s Cities of Gold Casino, which had opened not long before. A few months later, Viarreal threatened to install toll booths on U.S. 84/285 and charge motorists crossing pueblo land.

Current Pojoaque Pueblo Gov. George Rivera hasn’t made such dramatic threats during his tenure. But he’s adamant that the terms the state has insisted on go against the interests of his pueblo. “The state cannot expect the industry to keep paying a high tax while [the state is] further restricting the growth of the industry,” Rivera said. “We’ve got an obligation to keep our social programs going, keep our education and scholarship programs going. … We can’t just take $2 million out of these programs and hand it over to the state.”

Besides the revenue-sharing rate, Rivera said a major sticking point in negotiations was the state’s insistence that liquor not be served in the gambling area.

He said he’s spoken with tour operators who bring gamblers in from other states. “They’re saying we can get people here once, but they won’t come back because they can’t have their beer at the machine. They’re being treated silly. They’re adults and everywhere else in the country they can have that, but not here. … The bottom line is, all we’ve seen from the state is that they want more restrictions and a higher tax.”

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Legislators interviewed said they didn’t think Pojoaque Pueblo’s efforts to negotiate a better deal with the federal government will have much affect on the gaming compacts the Legislature will consider this year.

“If the courts rule in Pojoaque’s favor, then down the road it could have an effect,” Shendo said. “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. But I seriously doubt that will happen before this session’s done.”

The Martinez administration was hoping to have the newly negotiated compacts ready to present to the legislative Committee on Compacts by Friday, Dec. 19.

But the administration told committee Chairman Rep. James Roger Madalena that the compacts wouldn’t be ready by then.

“They said there wasn’t enough before Friday to draft the actual legislation in final form,” Madalena said in a telephone interview Thursday. He said he believes the actual negotiations are finished. He predicted his committee will meet to discuss the compacts sometime before the Legislature convenes Jan. 20.

Conroy Chino, a lobbyist for two of the tribes negotiating with the state (Acoma and Jicarilla), declined in a telephone interview last week to discuss details of the negotiations.

“It’s safe to say they are close,” he said. “They’re still meeting with the governor. Right now it’s in the hands of the lawyers.”

Chino predicted the compacts would be finished by the start of the 2015 session and said he’s optimistic the Legislature will approve them. “It’s been a long haul,” Chino said, “a very arduous process. We held our first meetings with the governor in November 2011.”

Both Madalena and Clahchischilliage said that the Navajo Nation Council must approve that tribe’s proposed compact before it goes to the Legislature.

Last year, the Senate rejected a compact that had been negotiated between Navajo leaders and the Governor’s Office. That compact had passed the House by a narrow vote.

The Navajo tribe currently operates two Las Vegas, Nev.style casinos and one Class II casino — basically a bingo parlor. Under the rejected agreement, the tribe could have opened a third Las Vegas-style casino within five years of signing the compact, then two more in the future.

Opponents — mostly other gambling tribes — expressed fear that the Navajos would open a casino in the Albuquerque area, where other Indianowned casinos already operate.

Additional casinos would saturate the gambling market in the state, opponents said.

Clahchischilliage said she doesn’t know how many Navajo casinos would be allowed in the new compact. “I think they were using that as a bargaining chip,” she said.

According to figures at the state Gaming Control Board website, the state’s total share of gambling revenue from the tribal casinos in the 2013 calendar year was $68,455,107.

That’s out of $758,622,683 “total win” (money bet in the gaming machines minus payouts.) In the first half of 2014, the tribes have paid almost $34 million to the state in revenue sharing.

This is up from just a few years ago. According to a study by the National Council of State Legislatures, New Mexico received an average of $53.1 million annually from gaming revenue sharing in the years 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Rep. Luciano “Lucky” Varela, D-Santa Fe, said he thinks the Legislature will approve the new compacts. But he noted several uncertainties. One is whether the problems some of the tribes had with the rejected Navajo compact would been ironed out. Varela also said he’s not sure what will be the effect of the new Republican majority in the House when legislators convene in Santa Fe in mid-January.

“It’s going to be a tough 60-day session,” Varela said.

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A TIMELINE OF TRIBAL GAMING IN N.M. 1988: Congress passes the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the law that presently governs Indian gaming throughout the United States.

1990: New Mexico governor appoints a task force.

1991: A task force appointed

by Bruce King to negotiate gaming compacts with Sandia Pueblo and the Mescalero Apache Tribe presents two negotiated Class III gaming compacts to King. However, he refuses to sign them.

1995: Gov. Gary Johnson signs compacts with 13 Indian tribes. But later that year, the state Supreme Court rules that the governor lacks the authority to sign the compacts on behalf of the state.

1997: The U.S. Court of Appeals in another case rules the governor doesn’t have the authority to bind the state to the compacts and thus did not comply with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. The 1995 gaming compacts are then introduced into the 1997 Legislature, which approves them.

Johnson signs the agreements.

1999: The Legislature adopts the Compact Negotiation Act, which formalizes the process for compact negotiations between the tribes and the state.

2000: State Attorney General Patricia Madrid sues the gaming tribes for nonpayment of “revenue sharing” under the 1997 gaming compacts.

2001: New gaming compacts are negotiated and

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approved by the Legislature. All tribes except Pojoaque Pueblo and the Mescalero Apaches agree to settle the 2000 case with the state as a precondition to signing the compacts.

2003: The Navajo Nation and the state enter into a compact with identical terms to the 2001 compacts.

2004: The Mescalero Apaches settle disputes with the state and enter into a compact with the same terms as the 2001 agreements.

2005: Pojoaque Pueblo settles disputes with the state of New Mexico and enters into a compact with the same terms as the 2001 agreements.

2007: Amendments to the 2001 compact are negotiated and approved by the Legislature. Nine gaming tribes sign the new amendments.

Two non-gaming tribes, the Pueblos of Nambe and Picuris, also sign on. Those compacts, which expire in 2037, have higher revenue-sharing rates than the 2001 compacts.

2014: Gov. Susana Martinez’s staff negotiates new compacts with four tribes whose compacts expire in 2015 as well as two other tribes who currently have no casinos but are looking toward possible future gaming enterprises. Meanwhile, Pojoaque Pueblo, which ceased its negotiations with the state, moves to get a compact with the federal government, saying Martinez’s office negotiated in “bad faith.”

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n keeping with the spirit of the holiday season, I have decided to spare my readers another cranky column and instead share some serendipitous experiences.

I have recently been introduced to a lively and interesting group of women who are the New Mexico State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Being completely ignorant, I did a little research on their website and learned that the National Museum, which is located in Washington, D.C., itself owes its inception to a bit of serendipity.

Wilhelmina Cole Holladay and her husband, Wallace F. Holladay, fell in love with a 17th-century Flemish still-life painting and were frustrated when they could find no information about the artist, Clara Peeters, in any of the standard texts on art Dorothy history. Nor did they Klopf find any mention of Commentary any other female artists.

In the 1960s, they began accumulating art by women, and their collection today comprises the core of the museum. The National Museum of Women in the Arts houses more than 4,500 works by more than 1,000 artists from the 16th century to the present. Highlights include works

by Mary Cassat, Berthe Morisot, Louise Nevelson, Helen Frankenthaler and Judy Chicago, just to mention a few.

Around the same time as I was beginning to learn about the Santa Fe representatives of the museum, I was also reading a very fine novel by Sue Monk Kidd titled The Invention of Wings. Set in slave-holding Charleston, S.C., during the years 1803 to 1838, the novel begins as an 11-year-old rich but horrified white girl, Sarah Grimke, receives a birthday present of a beribboned 10-year-old slave, named Handful by her black mother but Hetty by her white owners. The plot describes the girls’ resistance to the oppressive conditions of the South and eventual flight to the freedom of the North.

As I concluded the novel, I was thinking how well the author had captured the racial tension between friends who, despite their respect and affection for each other, are also uneasy, resentful, hurt and estranged. After I read the author’s note, I was astonished to learn that Sue Monk Kidd had been inspired to write her novel (Dear Reader! And you thought I would never end this digression and return to my subject!) after a serendipitous encounter with the work of feminist artist Judy Chicago.

When Kidd examined Chicago’s The Dinner Party, a monumental work celebrating the important contributions of more than a thousand women in Western civilization, the author found the names of Sarah Grimke and her sister. “As it turned out,” she writes, “I’d been driving by the Grimke sisters’ unmarked house [in Charleston] for over a decade, unaware these two women were the first female abolition agents and among the earliest feminist thinkers. … In the late 1830s, they were arguably the most famous, as well as the most infamous, women in America, yet they seemed only marginally known, even in the city of their origins.”

Because I had failed to read the dust jacket or a review of her book, I had taken Sarah as Kidd’s invention and, let me confess, I thought it a stretch to attribute abolitionist and feminist sentiments to a 19th-century Charleston female. But that is why I love books: They surprise.

The importance of art rests in its ability to expose us to what we do not know, to show us what there is to discover and to teach us other perspectives from our own. The fine ladies of the New Mexico Committee do important work when they foster careers with their Women to Watch program, support our state’s galleries and museums, and reach out to the public.

If you are searching for the perfect Christmas present, here are my top three suggestions. Give someone Sue Monk Kidd’s The Invention of Wings. Take someone to Peters Projects, 1011 Paseo de Peralta, before the show ends to catch The Sixth Sense, a group show curated by Yllse Kessler. One of the artists featured in this show is the 2012 Women to Watch winner Ligia Bouton. Finally, try joining a wonderful organization (with the alphabetical title) the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

(Just one cranky observation? That title needs work!)

Dorothy Klopf writes her cranky observations from Santa Fe.

MY VIEW: JIM KLUKKERT

Dunn gets public lands wrong

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egarding Aubrey Dunn’s recent Looking In column (“Managing lands is best done locally, Nov. 11”), some clarifications are in

order.

First, while Teddy Roosevelt may have advocated protection through development, TR was outspoken in his belief that public lands belong equally to all Americans, not just those living in close proximity to those lands.

Second, as a sponsor of the Hunt Act and the Public Lands Renewable Energy Development Act, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich shares Dunn’s advocacy for local-centric conservation. Heinrich’s role in the Rio Grande del Norte, Valles Caldera and Columbine Hondo bills — which protect traditional uses — further emphasizes this point.

Third, Dunn’s contention that environmentalism is premised on excluding people from land ignores the huge number of citizens, including environmentalists, who understand that forest thinning, progressive grazing practices, and strategically regulated access are but tools for ensuring that the commons is managed for a multitude of societal needs.

Finally, while not the sexiest part of land management, activities conducted behind a desk in Santa Fe or D.C. — scientific modeling, economic forecasting or simple mathematics, to name a few — complement the on-the-ground conservation Dunn espouses. Now that he has won election as state land commissioner and will thus spend lots of time behind a desk, Dunn should embrace this fact as proudly as Teddy Roosevelt did.

It’s time for Dunn the politician to step aside and let Dunn the land commissioner take the wheel. Enough with divisive liberal baiting and baseless epithets. Let’s hear in detail how Dunn plans to manage our state lands, how he’ll reconcile development with the very real necessity of maintaining and strengthening ecological resilience, which affects hunters and anglers, agricultural and drinking water supplies, tourism, and other critical considerations. Better yet, let’s see Dunn do it, and root for him to do it well.

Also, since we are light years away from sub-

stantiating the claim that transferring federal lands to states is necessary or even feasible, let’s encourage Dunn to stick to the task at hand. Which, simply put, is to manage roughly 9 million acres of multi-use land. In fulfilling this Herculean responsibility, may he ignore the one-size-fitsJim Klukkert all ideologues who, from the safe distance of their anti-government think tanks, would leave our state chasing red herrings and Dunn with the bag in his hand.

Can New Mexico afford to fight a catastrophic wildfire on lands currently managed by the Forest Service? Can the state afford to graze a cow and calf for one dollar and change per month? Some say, “Thin and burn, reduce fire risk and grow grass, maintaining jobs and culture while we’re at it.”

But what if, as is predicted, our precipitation continues to lag? What if “thinning” is synonymous with clear-cutting, with watershed impacts just as devastating as the Las Conchas Fire? Our even-aged forests are evidence of past clear-cutting, a substantial cause of current fire danger. Will these same backward practices still be on the table? How much manpower and treasure do we have muster to make sure the right choices are made on forest health? On grazing? Our precious elk, Gila and Rio Grande cutthroat trouts? Energy exploration? For all the New Mexican livelihoods we aspire to improve, how many are we willing to risk?

I have yet to hear one pro-transfer argument that even remotely addresses these questions; it’s hard to fault anyone for the omission. To sincere people, they are uncomfortable, difficult questions about land, a core American value, that most of us hold dear. For that reason, I wish Aubrey Dunn the best, but I pray he will start at the beginning instead of the end.

Jim Klukkert is a resident of El Rancho and is descended from a long line of pioneers, farmers, hunters, anglers, strong women and other stewards of the land for many generations.

MY VIEW: GINO RINALDI

In nursing homes, holiday challenges

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olidays can be a challenging time for residents of long-term care facilities and their families. Two questions are often asked: Can I bring my loved one home or to a holiday celebration, and what can I do to ensure a successful visit that doesn’t feel awkward?

Regarding visits away from a nursing home, residents receiving skilled nursing care may participate in short visits away from a facility, without danger of losing their Medicare coverage. The Medicare Benefit Policy manual outlines rights of residents granted a short leave of absence to attend a family or religious occasion without jeopardizing their Medicare status. Visit www. medicareadvocacy.org/you-can-leave-the-nursinghome for more information.

Families wishing to optimize their visits with residents not physically able to leave a long-term care setting, may benefit from the following suggestions: Speak with facility staff. Is there a preferable date/time to visit so that your loved one can participate in holiday festivities? Ask about joining facility-sponsored events. Does your loved one have a time of day when they are more alert and able to enjoy a visit?

Gift choices. Does your family member have dietary concerns that might restrict holiday treats such as candy or nuts? What activities has your loved one enjoyed? Are there items such as slippers, a robe or pictures from home that he or she might find comforting? Might audiobooks or other technological items be enjoyed?

Children/grandchildren. Residents often

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enjoy visits from children or grandchildren, but it may be helpful to prepare young children or teenagers first. Brief visits for young children are preferable, whereas older children might enjoy a focused activity such as sharing a photo album.

If your loved one is cognitively impaired, remind children (and adults) that it is not important that your loved one recall certain dates or events. Simply be with them.

What else should I look for? Pay attention to appearance including how residents are dressed and groomed. Observe whether your loved one has chapped lips or dry skin, which may indicate signs of dehydration. Is a water pitcher within reach?

Observe environment, temperature and sounds/smells of the facility. Is staff responsive to residents? Notice staff interaction with residents — are nametags worn? Note response time to call lights or requests for assistance, and whether scheduled activities are actually happening in the facility.

If you have concerns, bring them to the attention of the administrator or contact the long-term care ombudsman who visits the facility. Ombudsmen advocate for the rights and wishes of residents living in long-term care settings. In New Mexico, 120 volunteer ombudsmen and eight staff visit 340 facilities statewide, and may be reached by dialing 1-866-842-9230.

Gino Rinaldi is the Cabinet secretary of the Aging and Long-Term Services Department.

ince 2008, the New Mexico State Legislature has allowed its members to file bills about a month before the next session starts. Last year, 247 bills were pre-filed, 135 in the House, 112 in the Senate. Theoretically, this gives the legislative staff a head start on all the bills.

Rep. Bill McCamley, D-Las Cruces, prefiled HB 11, which would eliminate some restrictions on liquor sales on Sundays and Christmas Day. But it was another McCamley bill, HB 13, that really caught my eye. This is one that would name a “State Children’s Song.”

There is about a half an album’s worth of official state songs of various types.

We’ve got the official state song, “Oh Fair New Mexico,” written

by Elizabeth Garrett (the daughter of SherSteve Terrell iff Pat) and the official translated version of Roundhouse the state song, “Asi Es Roundup Nuevo Mexico,” by Amadeo Lucero. Then there’s the official state bilingual song, “New Mexico Mi Lindo Nuevo Mexico,”

by Pablo Mares, the official state ballad, “The Land of Enchantment,” by Michael Martin Murphey, and the state cowboy song, “Under New Mexico Skies” by Syd Masters. So why not a children’s song?

McCamley has a specific song in mind for the state children’s song: “Green Chile,” written by Melanie Humphreys, who was a teacher at Mesilla Elementary when she wrote the song as part of a project on food her classes were working on, McCamley said.

McCamley included the lyrics in the text of the bill. The first verse goes: “How can you turn pizza into awesome?/How can you make macaroni sing?/How can you make your hamburger blossom?/The secret is to add just one more thing …”

The answer to these questions comes in the chorus: “Green chile! Green chile!/ Everything is better with green chile/ You think your food is tasty? Don’t be silly/’cause everything is better with green chile.”

A later verse even includes a little hometown jingoism for the kiddies: “When you think Las Cruces is too boring/When you think you’d like to try New York /The shopping and the shows may be rewarding/But something will be missing on your fork!”

Eat that, New York!

But one expert on kiddy songs doesn’t think the state should select a song without looking first at other possibilities.

Katie Stone, who has hosted The Children’s Hour on Saturday mornings on KUNM for 13 years, told McCamley in an email that “Green Chile” was cute, but “there are many songs to choose from … and I would love to see you consider choosing a song based on some kind of consensus in the state, kind of like how we chose the [New Mexico] state cowboy song.”

She suggested a few, including “On the Banks of the Rio Grande” by Santa Fe singer Joe West and one similar in theme to the Williams song, “Green Chili Jam” by a (now defunct) Albuquerque group called The Green Chili Jam Band.

The cowboy song actually was controversial and took a few years to get out of the Legislature. The lawmaker who originally suggested it in 2006, Rep. Gloria Vaughn, R-Alamogordo, wanted a song called “New Mexico,” by Calvin Boles and R.D. Blankenship.

But that bill stalled because nobody can find Blankenship’s heirs. For a song to be declared an official state song, the writers or their heirs must transfer the rights to that song to the state, officials said.

Then the Legislature decided to hold a competition, judged by the state Music Commission. Eventually, in 2009, the Legislature ratified the commission’s choice of the Masters song.

So choosing a children’s song could turn into a more complex process than McCamley first imagined.

Meanwhile, I’m still looking for a sponsor my choice of state psychedelic song.

That, of course would be “I Wanna Come Back from the World of LSD” by the The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2, an Albuquerque band who released the song on Lance Records in 1967. Unless someone has a better idea.

Contact Steve Terrell at sterrell@sfnewmexican.com. Read his political blog at www.santafenewmexican.com/news/ blogs/politics.

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Move fast to raise wages

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aising the minimum wage will be back on the legislative agenda next year, with Democrats determined to make a stronger stand for improving pay for workers. Two bills already have been pre-filed for the 2015 legislative session that would increase wages from the current $7.50-per-hour minimum.

Santa Fe state Rep. Luciano “Lucky” Varela is right that this issue shouldn’t have to wait any longer — workers deserve better pay. Whether that happens, of course, depends on whether Democrats can plot a successful strategy for moving legislation through a split state Legislature and then, persuading a Republican governor to sign on.

It doesn’t bode well, perhaps, that even among Democrats there are different approaches to how the minimum wage should be increased. One bill, by Sen. Clemente Sanchez, D-Grants, would increase wages to $8.30 an hour, while the second, Varela’s, would push the base hourly wage to $10.10 (which, by the way, is about where the minimum wage would be had it kept up with inflation). The higher minimum is also the federal wage that President Barack Obama has been supporting.

There’s no reason why workers of 2015 shouldn’t be at least as well off as workers in the 1960s, so we prefer a higher minimum. We like, too, that Varela’s bill indexes future wage increases to inflation. Linking the two means that legislators don’t have to revisit this issue every few years and that workers of the future won’t lose ground just because lawmakers are stuck in gridlock.

With the state House of Representatives now led by a Republican majority, winning a substantive increase will not be easy. GOP leaders say they might favor a higher wage, but not too much higher. There will have to be compromise. (Perhaps a lower minimum tied with the inflation index could work.) Then there’s the problem of winning the governor’s support. Gov. Susana Martinez vetoed an earlier bill that would have raised the state minimum wage to $8.50, saying too high of a wage would kill jobs.

That’s the wrong way to look at raising pay. While higher wages can be difficult for businesses — especially small businesses — to pay, the economic good they do cannot be underestimated. Businesses can even save by reducing employee turnover; spending on hiring to save on retraining.

There are savings across society, too. With higher wages, fewer people need federal aid to buy food, with estimates showing a savings of $44.5 million in New Mexico alone on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program should the minimum wage hit $10.10 an hour. Supporters of higher wages also argue that a $10.10-an-hour wage across the state would increase wages by more than $200 million.

Imagine those dollars being spent and circulated. That’s an economic boost New Mexico needs.

New Mexico’s cities already are leading the way. Both Santa Fe and Albuquerque already have mandated that employers pay more than the state minimum. Santa Fe has one of the higher minimum wages in the country, at $10.66, while Albuquerque’s wage is set at $8.60 an hour, or $7.60 if the employer offers some sort of health or child care benefits. Of course, in the oil patch area of the state, even without a mandated higher wage, hourly pay is higher because there aren’t always enough workers to fill demand. But rather than a patchwork, a state standard would be useful.

With nearly 70 percent of New Mexicans favoring an increase in the minimum wage, this is an issue that all sides should work to pass. Even in the deep South, the city of Louisville, Ky., just increased its minimum wage per hour to $9 an hour by 2017. (Interestingly, in Louisville, $9 was a compromise, down from the $10.10 the Metro Council wanted.) Seattle, of course, is setting the pace for the nation, going for an hourly wage at $15. Across the country, people know that for working Americans to keep their heads above water, wages need to rise.

A higher, uniform federal increase is the best answer, because that puts all states on the same footing. Until Congress acts, the next best solution is for New Mexico to pass a higher statewide wage. It’s important work that the Legislature should move on — quickly, and not at the end of the session.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 21, 1914: El Paso — unconfirmed reports have reached here that Carranza’s troops at Vera Cruz have got beyond his control and are arresting and executing citizens by the wholesale.

Mexicans who aided Funston during the American occupation are reported to be the first victims of the outbreak. The reports are mostly from Villista sources.

Dec. 21, 1964: Five people were injured early Sunday when their car struck and killed a deer on the Las Vegas Highway near Santa Fe then rolled down an embankment. Only one or the injured remained hospitalized Monday in fair condition. The car was demolished.

Dec. 21, 1989: A former College of Santa Fe basketball player and his girlfriend, a teller at a local savings and loan, have been indicted on multiple charges of stealing more than $56,000 from the woman’s employer this year.

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s there any element of U.S. foreign yearning for voting rights. policy that has failed more abjectly Our economic embargo hurt ordinary than our embargo of Cuba?

Cubans, reducing their living standards, When I hear hawks denouncing without damaging Cuban elites. The President Barack Obama for resolving to embargo kept alive the flames of leftism establish diplomatic relations with Cuba in Latin America, creating a rallying cry and ease the embargo, I don’t understand for anti-imperialists. the logic. Is their argument that The United States, over the our policy didn’t work for the years, considered bizarre assasfirst half-century but maybe will sination plots against Fidel Caswork after 100 years? tro, like an exploding seashell.

We probably helped keep There were also proposals to the Castro regime in power humiliate him by drugging him by giving it a scapegoat for its with a hallucinogen, or using a economic and political failures. depilatory to make his beard fall Look around the world, and out. Our tax dollars at work. the hard-line antique regimes Sen. Robert Menendez, a Nicholas that have survived — Cuba and Cuban-American Democrat, Kristof North Korea — are those that objects that “President Obama’s The New York have been isolated and sancactions have vindicated the Times tioned. Why do we think that brutal behavior of the Cuban isolating a regime is punishing government.” it, rather than protecting it?

Likewise, Sen. Marco Rubio, a Few initiatives failed more catastrophiCuban-American Republican, denounces cally than the American-backed Bay of the approach as “based on an illusion, Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. Yet while an on a lie, the lie and the illusion that more armed invasion failed, I bet that we would commerce and access to money and have done better if we had permitted invagoods will translate to political freedom sions of tourists, traders and investors. for the Cuban people.”

American tourists in Havana are The critics are absolutely right that already asking plaintively why Wi-Fi is the Cuban regime is both oppressive and so scarce — or why the toilet paper is so economically incompetent. But wishing rough. We need hordes of them, giggling unpleasant governments away doesn’t at ancient cars held together with duct have a great track record. tape, or comparing salaries with Cubans.

My views are shaped by having lived Sometimes the power of weaponry in China for a time in the 1980s when fades next to the power of mockery. the country was opening up to the West.

Waves of foreign visitors were deeply When I was a law student in the early unsettling to Chinese who believed in the 1980s, I financed a visit to the Soviet system.

Union by smuggling in bluejeans and Walkmans and selling them on the black In 1983, a British friend of mine market. My Russian customers regarded returned to his hotel to find his contact my goods with reverence, and me with lenses missing from their case. He asked jealousy. The craving for cool consumer the hotel staff, and one cleaner explained goods was perhaps as much a factor in proudly that he had washed out the conthe toppling of the Soviet empire as the tact lens case in the sink.

An uproar followed. Soon all the Chinese staff in that hotel learned, with wild surmise, that Westerners had access to tiny, invisible glasses that they could put on and take off. They absorbed this with astonishment and envy.

Rubio is right that encounters with new technology and wealth are not immediately lethal to authoritarianism.

After all, the Chinese Communist Party is still solidly in place, and even imprisoning the great Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

Yet these encounters are if not lethal, at least corrosive. China has become less monolithic because of its interactions with the world. There’s no political pluralism in China, but there is economic and cultural pluralism. Maoist days are forever gone.

Likewise, I’m struck how often North Korean defectors have told me that they had a change of heart simply by visiting China or Russia and seeing themselves patronized as backward.

During the North Korean famine in the 1990s, the government there tried to console the starving population with television programs about the dangers of overeating, including a documentary about a man who ate too much rice and exploded.

At the time, North Koreans would stare at the rare visiting foreigner, especially anyone a bit rotund, with a transparent range of emotions: jealousy, awe, and perhaps a bit of wariness in case of detonation.

So bravo for the new Cuba policy.

Sending in gunmen to liberate the Bay of Pigs failed. Maybe we’ll do better with swarms of diplomats, tourists and investors. Preferably plump.

Contact Nicholas Kristof at Facebook. com/Kristof, Twitter.com/NickKristof or by mail at The New York Times, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018.

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President Obama goes fuzzy on Cuba

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he U.S. embargo on Cuba — or what’s left of it after President Barack Obama’s dramatic Cuba policy announcement — may be a futile gesture. But it is, or was, not an empty gesture.

It put the United States firmly on record that it would have as little as possible to do with a regime whose misdeeds have included inviting Soviet nuclear weapons onto its soil, sponsoring violent guerrilla groups throughout the Western Hemisphere, harboring fugitives from U.S. justice and — last but certainly not least — systematically trampling its citizens’ most basic rights.

In place of this clear position, Obama has taken a stance that is more nuanced morally but, he assures us, more efficacious practically.

He might be right, too — if you believe that this administration, or its successors, will have the diplomatic smarts, and the attention span, to maneuver the Castro regime into letting its people have more freedom.

Count me among the skeptics. As Obama’s former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner used to enjoy saying, “Plan beats no plan” — and Havana has more of a plan than Washington.

To be sure, President Raul Castro is in a world of trouble, what with his failing economy and the likelihood that declining oil prices will force Havana’s Venezuelan sponsors to reduce their subsidies.

The one thing he does have is a clear goal, keeping himself and Cuba’s Communist elite in power, and a time-tested approach for doing so: permitting the minimum economic and political liberalization consistent with total control, and nothing more.

Greater engagement with the United States does pose risks to the regime, not

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the least of which is that incoming tourists and businessmen will start to erode a pervasive system of social and political control.

But Cuba’s authorities have years of experience manipulating foreign investors from Latin America, Canada and Europe and with controlling Cubans’ interactions with foreign visitors, who tend to be more interested in exploiting the local population than liberating it.

And on the plus side for Havana, Obama’s measures, particularly greater remittances from U.S.-based Cubans, promise to bring much-needed hard currency to the perennially cash-strapped island.

By contrast, Obama not only abandoned long-standing U.S. policy, he also denounced it, giving the regime a huge propaganda victory. “Long weeks of cheers and victory cries await us,” dissident journalist Yoani Sanchez observed ruefully.

The president traded these valuables for the wrongly imprisoned American Alan Gross — but no verifiable, irreversible democratic reform on Cuba’s part. To the contrary, Obama came dangerously close to endorsing the argument by Raul Castro and his brother, Fidel, that there’s a binary choice between the status quo and chaos.

“It does not serve America’s interests, or the Cuban people, to try to push Cuba toward collapse,” the president said.

“Even if that worked — and it hasn’t for 50 years — we know from hard-earned experience that countries are more likely to enjoy lasting transformation if their people are not subjected to chaos.”

In describing the reforms he does support, the president was vague: In particular, he made no forthright demand for free elections, just freedom for Cubans to “participate in the political process,” a right the

Castros already claim to guarantee.

Instead, the president spoke more loosely of “empowering Cubans to build an open and democratic country,” with the help of greater remittances from their stateside relatives, more contact with U.S. travelers and businesses and so on.

Raúl Castro can live with that. He knows that when the hoopla over this week’s big policy move is over, when Obama has finished collecting kudos from foreign policy mavens who have been clamoring for a more “rational” U.S. Cuba policy, Obama and most of the rest of official Washington will move on to other things.

Meanwhile, Castro and his fellow military officers will remain in firm control of the political and economic levers of power in Cuba, including the little things — jobs, visas, building permits, export and import licenses, court cases — that really determine whether and how Cubans and Americans get to interact and how much freedom seeps in to the deeply traumatized society.

Castro can look forward to dealing with second-tier U.S. diplomats, torn between their belief in democracy and the bureaucratic imperative to keep their bosses’ “engagement” project on track. When needed, a new Cuba lobby in Washington will help explain why it would be counterproductive to press Havana for immediate reform.

If this scenario sounds familiar, it’s because it has already worked for China and Vietnam, with which the United States once made war but now does business. As President Obama noted Wednesday, our policy toward Cuba is now more consistent with our policy toward those unfree states. For better or worse.

Charles Lane writes for The Washington Post.

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Christmas Truce shows way to peace

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uppose they gave a war and nobody came? It sounds like a holiday fantasy. But the truth is that human kindness is always waiting to break out, making “peace on Earth, goodwill to all” much more than a feel-good slogan or season’s greeting.

History proved it a hundred years ago, when a week before Christmas at Armentieres, German soldiers slipped a chocolate cake behind enemy lines and invited the Brits to attend a soiree — ceasing all hostilities.

By nightfall of Dec. 23, Christmas trees were appearing along the German lines, with placards proposing “You No Fight-We No Fight.” Soon the Belgians and the French were getting into the spirit. Albert Moren of the 2nd Queen’s Regiment remembered a beautiful, snowy moonlit Christmas Eve when a commotion stirred in the German trenches. “And then they sang Silent Night–Stille Nacht. I shall never forget it.”

Others would try to forget it.

The powers that be wanted to pretend the Christmas Truce never happened. In the French press, censorship was complete.

The English military’s official history of the war minimized the occurrence, and the Tägliche Rundschau for New Year’s Day of 1915 reminded its readers that, “War is no sport.” The idea that ordinary foot soldiers might simply put down their guns and refuse to kill was subversive, to say the least. And so the truce was treated with disdain by those in authority, leaving gaps in our historical knowledge. But what seems clear is that something remarkable happened.

“What a sight,” recalled one of the soldiers with the Seaforth Highlanders, “— little groups of Germans and British extending almost the length of our front!

Here we were laughing and chatting to men whom only a few hours before we were trying to kill!” That irony wasn’t lost on Sir Kingsley Wood, a major in the British infantry who later went to Parliament.

During a debate in the House of Commons in 1930, he not only recalled fraternizing with the enemy but declared, “If we had been left to ourselves there would never have been another shot fired.”

But of course, wars must go on, and when peace once again threatened to upset the grand strategy, the generals were ready. The following December, the British command ordered a slow, unrelenting artillery barrage leading up to Christmas, with trench raids by night.

But what if they gave a war and nobody came? What if a century ago the generals had been unable contain the spread of camaraderie across the battle lines? Not only would the First World War have ended amicably, but there might have been no Nazi Germany and no Third Reich. For Adolph Hitler was a corporal in the German army in 1914. He was serving as a field messenger in Flanders that December. Others in his unit crossed the no man’s land to share Christmas with the British, but Herr Hitler refused.

“Such a thing should not happen in wartime,” he raged.

“Have you no German sense of honor left at all?” Perhaps the future dictator would have remained a corporal, or gone back to painting picture postcards for a living.

The Christmas Truce was ultimately short-lived, a few days respite in a grueling war.

But the notable thing is not that the peace was brief, but that it happened at all. Though the truce didn’t change the world, it touched millions of lives while pointing toward what’s best and truest in human nature: not the desire for vengeance or annihilation, but the simple urge to lay down arms and live in peace.

The Rev. Gary Kowalski is the author of Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America’s Founding Fathers.

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Renting a room in county could be costly I n a slow economy, people look for extra money to make ends meet. Thinking about a roommate to cover monthly costs? Maybe you charge a college kid room and board for a month or two. How about accepting money from an elderly person who’s staying with you?

If you’re thinking about renting out a room in Santa Fe County, think twice. You could be visited by a county enforcement official. If you also live in an area with a Homeowners Association, you could be fined for violating association covenants and discover that a board member knocked on your neighbors’ doors asking questions about your activities.

Sound like a movie? It’s not — and it’s in a neighborhood near you.

I just finished serving two years on my HOA board south of town. Several months ago, some of my overzealous colleagues sent a non-compliance letter to a homeowner, accusing the owner of violating association rules and running a bed and breakfast. The

resident was told to stop, did so, and requested an appeal.

As it turned out, the resident was occasionally renting out a room — sometimes to friends and relatives or to visitors.

Teri Buhl Association documents do not expressly prohibit renting of a room and rules on home businesses are a bit gray. Nevertheless, the homeowner was told by the board majority that room rental was a violation, and the fine would be rescinded if the activity stopped. The resident complied — then received a visit from a county enforcement officer, who claimed the resident was violating county ordinances that prohibit running a bed and breakfast without a business license. After the offending room was inspected, the resident had five days to stop renting or face being taken to Magistrate Court.

The resident asked county officials which ordinance was being violated, whether a roommate is a renter and how to comply. Weeks later, the answer was that there was no ordinance violation, but the county suggested applying for a business permit at www.santafe countynm.gov/growth_management/ building_development_services/permit_applications. Make sure to read the “Development Permit Application” and requirements to notarize documents.

Business licensing involves protecting the public from fire, hazards, fraud and nuisances, such as noise and parking issues. People with computers in their home office but who don’t receive customers usually are exempt from extra inspections. Many states have shorter, less expensive applications for home-based businesses. Our process is cumbersome, costly and appears to include everyone. New county codes that tier business licensing costs have been delayed until late 2015. Does the county have enough

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staff to make all self-employed consultants, coaches, artists, teachers, landscapers, etc., spend $435 on business and development permits? No, so they rely on complaints.

Some of you may be asking, why is this an issue now and who cares if I rent a room? Answer: Websites like airbnb have made what you do with your home highly visible. A very courteous county official says that if you advertise on these sites, you are running a business that must be licensed.

Remember those HOA board members who reported the resident to the county? There’s an old saying about how “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” Several of them run home-based businesses.

Hmmm. Wonder if they have the right business permits.

Teri Buhl is a building science and engineering professional who works in the construction industry and is president of the Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association’s Green Building Council.

MY VIEW: ROBERT SHILLING

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here is not much about the case of Eric Garner — the New York man who died in a police chokehold — that doesn’t cause me grave concern, both as a retired law enforcement professional and as a citizen of this great country.

While I can find fault with so many components of this case that I lost count (including with Mr. Garner’s actions), the overriding and glaring fault that I find is with the government.

Every issue legitimately at play with this case is overshadowed and tainted by the role of government. It is tantamount to a citizen of Santa Fe dying while being forcibly taken into custody for unpaid parking tickets.

The cause of Mr. Garner’s death was a municipal ordinance prohibiting the sales of “loosie” cigarettes in New York City; goodness forbid the city doesn’t get its share of the horrendous taxes levied on cigarettes by the state and city.

The cause was furthered by a mandate from the mayor to the police department to crack down on these violations. The cause was exacerbated by the fact that six (six!) armed New York Police Department officers were dispatched to deal with this horrendous crime.

Was he big? Sure. Did he have a criminal history? Sure.

Welcome to the real world.

Give me one 5-foot-4 female state police officer with a ticket book, and this issue would be addressed with a summons in about five minutes. As Private Jackson told Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan, “Sir, this whole mission is a serious misallocation of valuable resources.” Someone, some-

one in government, should be held accountable. This is tantamount to Santa Fe police ignoring burglary and drug crimes and focusing all their energy on tourists jaywalking on the Plaza.

As New Mexico citizens, we would be remiss to not pay attention to incidents such as this. We have a citizen Legislature that only meets 30 days in even-numbered years and 60 days in odd-numbered years.

Yet this year alone, the House introduced 406 bills, with their Senate counterparts introducing over 379 pieces of legislation, not counting memorials and resolutions. Is our current body of law really in that bad of shape? Do we really need 785 new laws in New Mexico?

And, what every citizen and lawmaker should ask about every law passed in this state: What are the unintended consequences of enacting this law?

What I haven’t been able to reconcile is the calls from the left and progressives for more government in the wake of the Garner and Michael Brown cases. For crying out loud, the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Forest Service and Federal Drug Administration have SWAT teams! God forbid poor Fred forgets to inspect that piece of chicken or poor George spills a quart of used motor oil somewhere.

Eric Garner’s case was a case of armed tax collection at the end of a gun. Over a 25-cent cigarette. We need to wake up and engage our government.

Robert Shilling of Santa Fe is a retired chief of the New Mexico State Police.

MY VIEW: ISAAC PINO

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s I approach the end of my sixyear tenure as a regent at New Mexico State University, I’ve learned many valuable lessons along the way. I was encouraged by the engagement of our alumni across the state and country and the generosity of our donors who help New Mexico State University expand its caring community. I also was surprised by the sophistication of the students I’ve met, and I should not have been surprised by the warm and welcoming staff with whom I have had the honor of working since 2009.

I believe that a strong education pipeline is a necessity that leads to the employability of our graduates.

Higher education has the opportunity to collaborate with public education to start aligning processes to provide quality education from the elementary school level all the way through a college degree. NMSU is an important component in the educational pipeline in New Mexico. If higher education can play its role in this endeavor, we will see more enrollments in college.

We will see greater retention of students and higher graduation rates. Higher education is the last stage of the education pipeline. As the state’s only land-grant institution, NMSU Isaac Pino has a responsibility to the citizens of New Mexico to not only educate our students, but also prepare them to succeed in the modern workforce.

For the past 125 years, NMSU has worked to excel in teaching, research and public service. To support the education pipeline, NMSU has sponsored programs for many years to spark an interest for knowledge in K-12 students.

One example is the NMSU STEM Outreach Center in the College of Education, which provides both after-school programs and summer camps.

In the 14-year history of the Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy program, more than 29,000 children have participated.

In summer 2014, the STEM summer camps were available for the first time in Albuquerque and Truth or Consequences, and additional camps were offered in Las Cruces and Gadsden Independent school districts. In 2014, more than 1,300 children participated in the free summer camps.

If we can succeed in inspiring our youth to pursue the STEM fields, NMSU is always ready to welcome students and help them further their education. And my former home, the NMSU College of Engineering, is a center for both creativity and entrepreneurship. I know firsthand about the faculty in the College of Engineering who dedicate themselves to fostering ingenuity and imagination. For example, NMSU’s Bridge Inspection Program, which is in the Civil Engineering Department, teaches students the five elements of bridge engineering, which includes design, construction, inspection, evaluation and maintenance of bridges. In spring 2014, the Aggie Innovation Space Presented by Intel was officially opened.

Even though my time as a regent is concluding, I will not forget the amazing pride in NMSU that I’ve seen from students, faculty, administration, the Las Cruces community and the greater community of the great state of New Mexico. Being an Aggie is like being part of a family, and I’m humbled that I was entrusted to help move this great university forward.

I plan to stay connected to NMSU by becoming active in our Alumni Association, increasing my involvement in the Academy of Civil, Agricultural and Geologic Engineering, along with proudly donning my crimson and white at our Aggie athletic events.

NMSU truly provides opportunities for people to work to achieve goals, realize dreams and quench their hopes. Without higher education, the road in life would be more difficult and NMSU offers a quality avenue to overcome those challenges.

Isaac Pino is a regent of New Mexico State University. The Santa Fean’s term ends in December.

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Actor Stephen Collins denies he’s a pedophile in interview The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Former 7th Heaven star Stephen Collins declares he’s not a pedophile, and insists he has molested a minor on just one occasion and engaged in sexual misconduct with only three girls in all.

In an interview with Yahoo’s Katie Couric released Friday, the embattled actor described himself instead as someone

suffering from “exhibitionist urges,” ”big boundary issues” and “poor impulse control.”

Those issues prompted Stephen a physical Collins encounter with an underage girl in 1973. He was 25, she was 10.

According to Collins, the girl had come to visit and stay with him and his first wife. After his wife had gone to sleep, he and the girl were watching TV. “I took her hand and moved it in such a way that she was touching me inappropriately,” he recalled. Then, after about 45 seconds, “I took her hand and moved it back. I waited a couple of minutes, because I just didn’t know what to do or say. And

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then I got up and left the room.”

He called the incident “unthinkably wrong.”

He also said he exposed himself to a teenage girl in 1982 and another in 1994. There was no physical conduct with either of the girls, who were 12 and 13.

Collins is being investigated by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department on molestation allegations but has not been charged with any crime.

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Free parking brings holiday smiles Downtown retailers see slight uptick in weekend shopping

By Patrick Malone The New Mexican

Shoppers and merchants in downtown Santa Fe delighted Saturday over free parking, a gambit employed by Plaza-area retailers in cooperation with the city to bring more people to the heart of town during the height of the holiday shopping season.

“I think it makes sense if it’s not deferring too much revenue from the city,” said Jen Braswell, whose family of four found a con-

venient place to park on San Francisco Street when they attended The Nutcracker at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.

A scant two minutes passed before Jonah Katz of Los Alamos and his passenger, Barbie Maduro, swooped in to park in the spot the Braswell family had just vacated right in front of the entrance to the Plaza Mercado. Katz said he was pleasantly surprised to learn that parking downtown was free.

“I forgot to bring quarters,” he chuckled.

Between 50 and 60 businesses have contributed $100 each to defray the parking revenue the city would otherwise collect during the three weekends leading up to Christmas.

Alex Avery, a saleswoman at the home décor shop Nambé, said the volume of customers brought in by free parking gave the already busy store an added boost during the past few weeks.

“We’ve had very good days,” she said.

So good, in fact, that Avery said downtown merchants could benefit from similar parking amnesty periods during seasonal lulls in tourism, such as around Thanksgiving and during the winter months.

On the other side of the Plaza at Santa Fe Dry Goods, general manager Bethany Whaley also reported a strong sales season,

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Patrick Archuleta, with the city of Santa Fe Parking Enforcement Division, places bags over parking meters on Palace Avenue on Friday. The city is offering free weekend parking in the downtown area to encourage shopping. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

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By Bruce Krasnow The New Mexican

Kaltenbach said imposing such requirements intrudes on patients’ privacy and stigmatizes them, and it isn’t required of patients who use any other types of treatment.

Kaltenbach said the group also is concerned that the new rules contain “vague and ill-defined language” about disciplinary actions that could be taken against a patient, including a clause that could lead to a patient having his or license revoked without a hearing.

Kaltenbach said the alliance also takes issue with a requirement that patients — even those

Heading into the 2015 session of the New Mexico Legislature, there is at least one agreement between Republican Gov. Susana Martinez and Democrats: to raise the state’s $7.50-per-hour minimum wage.

Two bills have been pre-filed by Democrats to do just that. One by Reps. Luciano “Lucky” Varela of Santa Fe and Sheryl Williams Stapleton of Albuquerque would raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, with some exceptions.

The other bill is for an $8.30 minimum wage statewide, sponsored by Sen. Clemente Sanchez, D-Grants. It Rep. Luciano was Sanchez who cast the deciding Varela vote in the Senate Rules Committee during the 2014 session to raise the wage to $8.30, but that never made it to a floor vote.

House Democrats pushed for a measure to make the wage increase part of the state Constitution, an effort that would have bypassed the governor and gone directly to voters.

That initiative died and no compromise bill was advanced. After the session ended, Martinez said she in fact would have signed an increase that brought the wage to $8 an hour.

Martinez spokesman Enrique Knell said Wednesday that Gov. Martinez still supports that,” as long as it keeps us competitive in the region and it doesn’t hurt New Mexico small businesses.”

“The fact remains, Democrats rejected a compromise in the last session that would have raised the minimum wage, and we would have a higher minimum wage today if they hadn’t played politics with the issue,” Knell added.

Sanchez is hopeful this will be the session when there can be an agreement to raise the pay for some 85,000 residents estimated to be making $7.50 an hour.

“We’ll see,” he said.

The senator, a small-business development consultant in Grants, added, “Most of my businesses already pay more. They pay at least $9.”

On Friday, the Hispano Round Table of New Mexico said increasing the minimum wage will be the group’s top priority in the 2015 session.

“We strongly and fully support increasing the minimum wage in New Mexico to a living wage of $10.10 per hour,” Ralph Arellanes, chairman of the Hispano Round Table of New Mexico, said in a statement. “We will hold the governor accountable for her commitment of increasing the minimum wage in

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Xavier Arellano, 6, of Santa Fe hugs a box of Legos at the Wal-Mart checkout line Saturday with Santa Fe police Officer Jesus Rodriguez, left, Xavier’s mom, Andrea Arellano, and Sgt. Kyle Zuments during the Shop with a Cop program. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

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anta Fe Police officers were out shopping Saturday with children like Xavier Arellano, 6, at Wal-Mart and other stores through the department’s annual Shop with a Cop program, which provides resources to 70 children whose families would have gone without during the holidays. During the event, each child is paired with an officer who is given $75 to help the child purchase clothes, toiletries, food and a toy. Some

children, who selected for the program by an outside agency or by the officers, choose to buy presents for their family members instead of themselves. The department’s annual tradition started about eight years ago and is supported by residents and area businesses.

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Medical pot advocates laud rule changes Group says state’s latest version ‘much approved,’ but has room for improvement

By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican

Critics of proposed rule changes to the state Health Department’s Medical Cannabis Program say a revised version of the new regulations is a big improvement but still includes requirements that raise concerns about patient privacy, rural residents’ access to the program and other issues.

Emily Kaltenbach, state director of the Drug Policy Alliance,

which has been watching the rule-change process closely, said the group feels the latest version of the rules is “much approved.”

The department rewrote its proposed new rules for the medical marijuana program after a public hearing in June, when hundreds of people opposed changes that were being considered. A public hearing on the revisions is scheduled for 9 a.m. Dec. 29 at the Harold Runnels Building auditorium, 1190 S. St. Francis Drive.

Ellen Zieselman, who is retiring after 25 years as museum educator at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, is surrounded by some of the Gustave Baumann Marionettes during a rehearsal Friday for the museum’s annual Holiday Open House.

The event, from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, features the marionettes.

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“We applaud the department for their close review of the offered suggestions and their openness to accepting many of the recommendations that were made at the hearing in June by the patients,” Kaltenbach said.

“Nevertheless, there is still important work to be done.”

Kaltenbach said the alliance was pleased to see that the latest version of the rules doesn’t require patients to undergo criminal background checks, but it is still concerned about a rule that would require patients to submit “bio-metric identifying information,” such as fingerprints or retina scans, to get their medical marijuana cards.

Art museum educator takes final bow

By Robert Nott The New Mexican

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hen she was 5 years old, Ellen Zieselman wanted to be a shark.

A predatory part of her character does come out when she stands on the front steps of the New Mexico Museum of Art and acts like a sideshow barker to encourage people to come inside. “I harass everybody who passes by,” she said, explaining that she draws in dozens of visitors who otherwise might not come to the museum on Palace Avenue.

On Sunday, Dec. 21, Zieselman, 49, will pull her audience recruitment act for the last time as she works to usher people in

for the museum’s free annual Holiday Open House and a performance by the Baumann Marionettes in A Party for Papa Gus. A week or so later, she’ll have cleaned out her office and stepped away from a 25-year career with the state museum system, retiring as the Museum of Art’s curator of education. “It doesn’t feel real yet, probably because my office is complete chaos. I’m packing up 25 years of memories,” she said during an interview at the museum.

Born in New York City and raised in nearby New Rochelle, Zieselman studied art history at Brown University in Rhode Island and later earned her master’s degree at Williams College in Massachusetts. She stumbled into what she calls “museum edu-

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cation” as a student at Brown after volunteering to work for the education curator at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. She quickly came up with a creative activity to engage kids who came through the museum’s Dutch Gallery on school field trips: She gave them index cards with adjectives — cold, dark, sunny and so on — and told them to find a painting that fit those descriptions. She discovered this approach allowed kids to “plug in” to the work on the walls.

Her goal with school groups, she said, is to make a visit to the museum “easy and fun.”

But that job has gotten harder, not easier, in the past few years. Zieselman has

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City issues amnesty for Christmas Eve fires Santa Fe Fire Chief Erik Litzenberg and Fire Marshal Reynaldo Gonzales have issued the city’s annual “burn permit amnesty” for traditional luminarias in Santa Fe on Christmas Eve under certain conditions.

But “flying farolitos” — airborne paper lanterns containing candles — are still prohibited, the city announcement said.

The city bans open burning without a burn permit from the Santa Fe Fire

Department, but it’s tradition for the city to allow luminarias and farolitos from dusk Dec. 24 until dawn Dec. 25.

The city said the following seven conditions must be met: u The area within 10 feet of the fire shall be clear of all combustible materials, including grass and weeds.

u Fires shall be attended and supervised at all times. u Water or a fire extinguisher shall be “readily available.” u Only wood can be burned in luminarias, or bonfires. u The fire area cannot exceed 3 feet wide by 3 feet long by 3 feet high.

u People who start fires must have a way to notify the fire department immediately, such as a cellphone, in case of a problem. u All fires must be completely extinguished afterward.

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Funeral services and memorials HAROLD MAURICE WIT ROBERT JENNE STAMM

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A life well-lived has come to an end. Robert Jenne Stamm died December 14, 2014, at age 93. Bob was a life-long resident of Albuquerque, where he spent his adult life working to enrich his city and state. He was born November 17, 1921 to Roy Allen Stamm and Elizabeth Baldridge Stamm, whose families moved to New Mexico in the early 1880s. His older brothers, Allen Stamm and William Stamm, predeceased him.

Bob was interested in everything and everyone. He relished all good deeds, fair play, and achievements. Bob was a man of few words, but of tireless action and service. He was amazingly calm, yet he loved competition, whether it was playing tennis, skiing, poker, or bidding a job. It should be noted, however, that there was no win unless it was "fair and square." He played golf, but mostly because it was outside and he could bet on it.

From the age of 10, Bob had a tennis racket in his hand. In high school, he never lost a singles match and was a four-time State champion. At UNM, he was on the tennis and track teams, and on the first UNM Ski Team. UNM has lost its most devoted fan. He was still attending Lobo games. He went in a wheelchair to his last Lobo basketball game on December 3, 2014.

Bob earned his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from UNM in 1942. After college, he joined the Navy and attended the Naval Academy Graduate Architectural School. He served four years in WWII, including 22 months on a ship in the South Pacific. He continued in the Naval Reserves and retired with the rank of Commander USN in 1968.

In 1943, he married his childhood sweetheart, Florence Bradbury. After the war, he went to work for her father, OG Bradbury, in his construction company. Bob began as a laborer, and then was a timekeeper, an estimator, and eventually President of Bradbury Stamm Construction Co. He has been Chairman Emeritus since 1999. Bob was immensely proud of the many major buildings BSC built over the years. New Mexico Private 100 awarded BSC "Most Admired Company" seven times. Bob was a builder to his core. He loved seeing buildings and communities grow. He was a believer that people working together can do great things. He served on more than 30 professional and civic organizations throughout his career, which include, most notably: Albuquerque Community Foundation - Lifetime Trustee, Albuquerque Business Education Compact - Founding Chairman, UNM Development Fund - Chairman, Greater Albuquerque Community Educational Alliance - Founding Chairman, and on the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education, where he served 11 years by appointment of four Governors.

Bob was honored with more than 25 awards for service in the fields of education, business, arts, and civic development, which include, most notably: "UNM Regents Recognition Medal", "UNM Engineer of the Year," by the Albuquerque Chapter of the New Mexico Society of Professional Engineers, the State of NM "Lifetime Achievement, Distinguished Public Service Award", the "Centennial Alumnus for UNM," by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, State of New Mexico’s "Outstanding Leader in Philanthropy", UNM Engineering’s Distinguished Alumnus Award", UNM’s "Zimmerman Award", State of New Mexico’s "Ethics in Business, Individual Award", United Way of Central New Mexico’s "Lifetime Achievement Award", and Leadership New Mexico’s "Distinguished Leadership Award". In 2009, Bob received an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from UNM. He was blessed with a wonderful marriage to Florrie for 63 years until her death in 2006. He was blessed again when he married Mary Culver Herring in 2009, to the delight of his children and friends. Mary was by his side until his death.

Bob’s family who survive him are: son, Dr. R. Brad Stamm and wife, Victoria Stamm; daughter, Susan Stamm Evans and husband, Dick Evans - all of Santa Fe; his wife, Mary Herring, and her children and their families: Denny and Tonya Herring, Bill and Cheri Herring, Nancy Herring and Matthew Segura, and John and Debra Herring - all of Albuquerque; his grandchildren, Monique and Mark Rochester of Nambe, Karen Evans and Lisa Marchese of Albuquerque, and Kate and Eric Schwarz of Scottsdale, AZ; great grandchildren: Chase Rochester, Zoe and Sasha Evans, and Sarah Schwarz.

Bob was a total family man. Whether it was his children, their spouses, their children, nieces, nephews, stepchildren, or their children, he took a personal interest in each of them and was interested in their interests.

The family would like to thank Bob’s devoted caregivers from TakeCare. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to his professorships in advanced design and construction practices at UNM, care of Robert J. Stamm Professorships, University of New Mexico Foundation, Inc., Two Woodward Center, 700 Lomas Blvd. NE, Ste. 108, Albuquerque, NM 87102-9916, or consider a gift to the Albuquerque Community Foundation, www.albuquerquefoundation.org. There will be a Memorial Service on Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. at the UNM Continuing Education Building, 1634 University Blvd. NE. Please visit our online guestbook for Bob at www.FrenchFunerals.com.

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LINDA A. FITZPATRICK DELONG GREEN 01/19/1949 - 12/12/2014 Linda Green, age 65, passed away on the morning of December 12, 2014 at her home in Santa Fe with her family at her side. After enduring a lengthy illness, she was freed from her pain and suffering. She is now resting in peace with her family, friends and pets in heaven.

Linda started school at Salazar in the 50s thru Santa Fe High and graduated high school at Radford School for girls in El Paso, TX in 1967. Linda finished her education at UNM with a Master’s Degree in 1972. Linda obtained a teachers certificate, but no one was hiring. Linda finally found a job with the State of NM as an adjudicator for the Social Security Administration and when she retired she was the assistant administrator for the DDU N.M. Linda helped to draft a new manual for DDU on the national level and received many awards for her work.

Linda met her husband, Richard Green, in grade school in the 1950’s and was married on September 7, 1968 in Santa Fe, NM. During her childhood, Linda spent many vacations in Red River, NM at Tall Pine Resort. When she retired from DDU, a wonderful new business prospect presented itself and Linda convinced her husband to purchase Tall Pine Resort. Linda guided Tall Pine Resort to become a popular family fishing destination for people from all over the world. Her guests became her friends as well as friends with each other. Throughout the years, her guests returned to see her and their other new friends.

Linda was preceded in death by her father William Fitzpatrick, step-father Arthur DeLong and mother Mildred Clouthier Fitzpatrick DeLong, and her in-laws Vercie and James (Jim) Green. Linda is survived by Richard Green, her husband of 46 years, her cat Tango, her sister Leslie DeLong Bastik and husband Robert of Grants, NM, her brother-in-law James Green of Rio Rancho, NM and several cousins. Linda also left behind her best friends Frances Rivera of Santa Fe, NM and Melvin and Darlene Garcia of Questa, NM. The family would like to express our thanks to PMS Hospice Care for helping Linda pass peacefully. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, Linda would like donations made to the Santa Fe Humane Society in her name. If you are interested in Linda’s final arrangements, please contact Tall Pine Resort at 575-754-2241 in late January 2015.

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Harold Maurice Wit, 86: Died December 14, 2014, Born September 6, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts to Martha Basist Wit (deceased) and Maurice Wit (deceased), older brother Phillip Wit (deceased). The boys were known as "Big Moose" and "Little Moose."

Harold attended Buckingham Browne & Nichols, Harvard University (Phi Beta Kappa), and Yale Law School (Yale Law Review).

Harold’s marriages: Louise Untermeyer Frankel, Joan Rosenthal Sovern (deceased), Judith Ginsberg Wit, and Susan King Wit. He had two children with Joan Rosenthal Sovern: David Wit and Hannah Wit (deceased).

He worked as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP; was Managing Director of Allen & Company; and was on the Board of Directors at Toys ’R" Us, Inc. and MCI. He established the lecture series, "Living a Spiritual Life in a Secular World" at Harvard Divinity School. Harold was a Navy Captain in the Korean War (Battleship USS Iowa). He was a member of Pathworks: A Spiritual Center for Growth and Learning. Harold wrote poetry and authored the book A Shovel is to Dig With.

He lived in New York City, East Hampton, and Santa Fe New Mexico. Harold built the well-known tower on his property at 17 Cross Highway in East Hampton. He headed Watchdogs of the North Fork to stop commercial development in East Hampton.

Over his 40 years in East Hampton Harold planted specimen trees, acres of wild flowers, and vegetables. He farmed honey bees and harvested their honey. He loved riding his red tractor.

He drafted and sent to the Supreme Court a bill to allow residents of second homes the right to vote in cities where they owned second homes. He was an avid reader--reading a book a day and several books at one time. Harold was an ardent Republican, a loyal American, and a true patriot who deeply loved his country.

Harold was an eccentric dresser who didn’t care what others thought. He was an outstanding cook and baker whose "Holiday Booze Cake" will long be remembered. Harold will always be known for his acerbic wit, sense of fairness, brilliant mind, outspoken opinions, sensitivity, and generous kindness to others.

He will be loved and missed by those he leaves behind: David, Kathleen, Natasha, and Dylan Wit; Simon, Clare, Simone, and Clark Ginsberg; Greg, Enna, and Noah Roggin; Kevin, Jennifer, Jake, and Ryan Roggin; Kurt and Jimmy Serrano; Jesse and Keri Ryback; Luke, Ciara, Aibhlin, Rowan, and Nora Ryback; Petie Wit (his loving and faithful companion who sat on his lap until the very end) and Sue / his "Mighty Mouse", wife of seventeen years, who will carry his heart in her heart forever.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society (sfhumanesociety.org and 505-983-4309) would be greatly appreciated.

GILBERT EDWARD "ED" GEARHART Gilbert Edward "Ed" Gearhart died of pneumonia on October 24, 2014. Ed was born October 1, 1934 in York, Pennsylvania to William Edward Gearhart and Romaine Gilbert. After earning a bachelor of science from the University of Delaware, a master of engineering from Lehigh University, and a master of divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, he married Sue Anne "Suzy" Creamer in 1960 and had four sons. He enjoyed painting watercolor landscapes which the family cherishes. Ed held dual careers as a chemical engineer and ordained Presbyterian minister, serving several churches in Texas.

He proudly served for many years as plant manager of the Atochem plant in Beaumont, Texas. After retiring from Atochem, Ed and Suzy moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1995 where he worked for the environmental protection office of the State of New Mexico until fully retiring in 2007. They moved to Austin in 2013 to be close to family. He is survived by his wife, his sons Mark (Kristine Brantley), Scott (Vicki Gotcher), and Rob (Heather Cuevas), and his grandchildren, Joel and Zara Brantley-Gearhart.

The family held a memorial service in Austin, Texas. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in memory of Ed to the Children’s Defense Fund or the American Cancer Society.

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Passed away in her home December 3, 2014, in Lago Vista, Texas, after a long illness.

She is survived by her daughter Renee Manning and her children: Mia and Aiden, Angelica Cady (Chris), long time friend Jeff Hegedus and family, father Pete Gilcrease of Santa Fe, mother Gerry Rael Van Amburg and husband Steve of Belen, sisters: Cheryl Gilcrease (Tom Holder), Liz Gilcrease and son, brother Bobby Gilcrease and family, two nephews: Alan Weaver (Angie), Jason Weaver (Randi) and all their children, several uncles, aunts, and cousins.

A memorial service will be held on December 30, 2014, at 11:00 a.m., at St. Anne’s, with a reception following at Parish Hall.

ALBERT TRINY PADILLA JR. Albert Triny Padilla Jr., loving husband and father passed away November 10, 2014 at his home in San Diego, CA. He was born and raised in Santa Fe, NM. Albert was a pillar of strength, generosity and kindness. Those who knew him were fortunate and blessed. He is survived by wife Joan, daughter Dr. Sofia Padilla and her husband John.

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Services will be held on December 29, 2014 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi with rosary beginning at 10AM, mass at 11AM and funeral service following at the Santa Fe National Cemetery.

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Born on May 12, 1949 in Taos, NM. Felipe went to the Lord on December 16, 2014.

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Vigil and Rosary on 12/23/2014 at 5:00 to 6:00, Holy Cross Church, 1327 North Miranda Street with reception to follow at Beverly Hills Hall, 150 North Hermosa Street Las Cruces, NM. Memorial Service on January 8, 2015 at the NM State Capital from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, Santa Fe, NM. On January 9, 2015, Rosary at 10:00 am, followed by funeral mass at 11:00 am at San Francisco de Asis Church, followed by reception at Llano Quemado Community Center, Ranchos de Taos, NM.

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John A. Martin, a banker in Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Albuquerque for many years, passed away Dec. 13, he was 92.

He was born July 27, 1922 in El Rito, N.M. to George and Margaret Martin, one of five siblings.

He is survived by Barbara McCain Martin, his wife of 63 years; sons Meade and Christopher; daughters-in-law Jill and Robin; grandchildren Laura, Elliott, Sophie; and many other relatives.

Rosary will be at 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 21 at San Juan Nepomuceno church in El Rito. Funeral will be at 10 a.m., Monday, Dec. 22 at Cristo Rey church in Santa Fe. Friends and family are invited to a reception in his honor at La Fonda, 11:45 a.m. on Monday. Burial will be at 11:15 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 23 at the National Cemetery. Rivera Family Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements: 505753-2288. Instead of flowers, the family requests contributions to the Empty Stocking Fund, 986-3001

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ALBUQUERQUE — The union representing Albuquerque police officers is challenging a settlement between the city and the U.S. Justice Department to overhaul police procedures, saying the deal undermines its own agreement.

The Albuquerque Police Officers’ Association argued in a brief filed in federal court Thursday for involvement in the settlement terms.

Union attorney Frederick Mowrer said in court documents that issues such as how officers will be disciplined for misconduct are in conflict with a collective bargaining agreement, the Albuquerque Journal reported Saturday.

U.S. District Judge Robert C. Brack said Wednesday that the public would be permitted to submit friend-of-the-court briefs of up to 15 pages. So far, 25 people have filed briefs to intervene, including two men who each had a son fatally shot

by Albuquerque police. The Justice Department and the city of

Albuquerque filed briefs seeking the judge to approve the deal.

The deadline for briefs is Jan. 15.

The police department serving a city of about 560,000 people has faced scrutiny for 42 police shootings — 27 of them fatal — since 2010. The fatal shooting of a homeless man in March sparked protests around the city after video footage appeared to show the man surrendering during a standoff.

A Justice Department report found the police department had a pattern of using excessive force. The report led to months of negotiations between city and federal officials on overhaul plans.

The reform blueprint calls for new training and protocols for investigating officer shootings.

It also mandates the dismantling of troubled units.

A federal monitor will be chosen to keep tabs on whether the department is following the agreement once it’s approved.

The monitoring team will have access to all documents, personnel, facilities and information related to the settlement agreement and will engage with officers and community members on an ongoing basis, federal officials said.

For Inspired Living & Giving

By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

Every year, people near and far contribute to the Empty Stocking Fund, a holiday project that helps those in need with money to pay their rent or get firewood to stay warm on cold nights.

Donors play a critical role in the success of the project, which is spearheaded by The Santa Fe New Mexican.

But equally important are the many organizations in Northern New Mexico that refer applicants to the Empty Stocking Fund — not just for connecting those in need with some help during the holiday season but also for the work they do all year long.

For instance, local shelters, which offer emergency housing for homeless people, also offer services such as advocacy, career counseling, and life skills training throughout the year.

“What has struck me about all of the ongoing social services available is how much organizations do and how well organizations work with one another,” Annmarie McLaughlin of the Santa Fe Community Foundation said in an email.

The foundation is one of several organizations that help

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administer the Empty Stocking recognizes the extent of the Fund. “Very often the staffs need. know each other well and are “Anytime we’re able to help familiar with one someone and another’s protake the donation grams. That way that’s made by they can help a citizens in the client find what community who fund they really need are benevolent from child care to health treat- and want to see people who ment, food, job skills training, are suffering in the community et cetera. have an opportunity to have a “When we’re able to be good holiday season, I think we proactive as a community all feel there’s a great deal of and there are helping hands satisfaction,” he said. along the way, we really can For Martha Joy Hamblen, keep people from ever having executive director of Santa Fe to apply to a fund like Empty Need and Deed, which helps Stocking,” McLaughlin said. the homeless in Santa Fe, the In addition to the Comfund is “enormously impormunity Foundation, the other tant” because the fund not only groups that administer the fund provides financial help but are the First National Bank of demonstrates to people in need Santa Fe, The Salvation Army that the community cares, she and Presbyterian Medical Sersaid. vices.

“One thing that we feel about Larry Martinez, director of it is that this is a direct link to the north central region for the community for us because Presbyterian Medical Services, people can say, ‘Gosh, people in said part of the reason his orga- this community do help,’ ” she nization has been a longtime said. “We see the amount that partner in the effort is that it they give out every year, and

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I don’t mean just the board of directors and me as the executive director. Our folks see how much they give out and it’s like, ‘Wow, people here really do care.’ ” While the holidays bring out more generosity in people, Hamblem said organizations like hers provide a safety net 365 days a year.

“People are more gracious and kind because of Christmas, but we see this need yearround,” she said.

“Christmas urges us to think more about our neighbors, and thank God for that,” Hamblen added. “Thank Jesus Christ that during this time we are able to have a little bit more warmth in our hearts and a little bit more open-heartedness. As an executive director of a social service agency like Need and Deed, we wish that Christmas was every day.”

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

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Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department took the following reports: u Someone stole a silver Colt .25-caliber automatic pistol with a pearl handle from a residence in the 3100 block of Old Pecos Trail between Nov. 1 and Nov. 15. Its owner reported the theft Friday. u Someone kicked in the door of a residence in the 6600 block of Old Pecos Trail on Friday, causing $200 in damage. u A 54-year-old man was found dead on the bedroom floor of his residence in the 100 block of Huddleston Street on Thursday afternoon. Foul play is not suspected. u Between Dec. 12 and Thursday, someone broke into a storage area in the 1100 block of Siler Road and stole a chain saw and a concrete saw that belonged to the city of Santa Fe’s Parks and Recreation Department. u Someone entered a truck parked in the 1300 block of Corrida de Agua between 10 p.m. Thursday and 2 a.m.

Friday and stole an amplifier and speakers. u Between 3 and 5 a.m.

Friday, someone broke into a 2006 Lexus parked in the 6400 block of Paseo del Sol West. Nothing was reported stolen. u David Casey, 55, of Santa Fe was arrested Saturday on suspicion of resisting, evading or obstructing an officer. u Faron Coriz, 35, of Santo Domingo Pueblo was arrested Saturday by New Mexico State Police on suspicion of driving with a revoked license, driving without insurance and expired vehicle registration. u Josiah Joaquin Duran, 22, of Santa Fe was arrested on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia. u Raul Gutierrez, 35, of Santa Fe was arrested Friday on suspicion of criminal trespassing. u Morgan E. Honeycutt, 24, of Santa Fe was arrested Friday on suspicion of driving without headlights and resisting, evading or obstructing an officer. u Teresa A. Lovato, 45, was arrested by New Mexico State Police on Friday on suspicion of driving with a revoked license, driving without insurance and failure to use child restraints. u Dimas A. Perez-Mendez, 28, of Santa Fe, was arrested

by Tesuque police Saturday on suspicion of violation of a protection order and an opencontainer violation. u Alejandro Salas-Zamago, 24, was arrested Friday for driving with a revoked license after being stopped by police for failure to signal before a lane change.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office took the following reports: u Deputies were seeking 20-year-old Victoria Lopez on Saturday and obtained a warrant for her arrest on a charge of stabbing her boyfriend.

Lopez allegedly had fled from the scene of the incident in the Camino Cerrado area of Pojoaque before deputies arrived. Her boyfriend was transported to the hospital to be treated for a stab wound to the shoulder. u Someone stole $3,000 worth of property from a residence on Rancho Sin Vacas in the La Cienega area on Friday. Video from surveillance equipment at the victim’s residence captured footage of two women who drove onto the property in a silver Pontiac car. They broke into the home through a window and took clothes, electronics and cash. u Patrick Joel Benevidez, 35, of Santa Fe was arrested Saturday on suspicion of false imprisonment and battery against a household member. u Ronnie Chavez, 36, of Española was arrested Friday on suspicion of driving with a revoked license due to a prior DWI conviction. u Adam Wallington, 27, of Santa Fe was arrested Saturday on suspicion of robbery, battery and receiving stolen property. u Alissa Wallington, 23, of Santa Fe was arrested Saturday on suspicion of robbery and battery.

DWI arrests u Alicia Gasca, 36, of Española was arrested on suspicion of DWI after a Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputy stopped her Saturday on N.M. 76 for a headlight that was out.

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For the first time in at least two decades, fewer migrants from Mexico were caught crossing into the United States in 2014 than people from other countries, marking a major shift in illegal migration into the country, according to annual figures published by the Department of Homeland Security.

Total apprehensions by the Border Patrol increased 15 percent in the 2014 fiscal year to 486,651, driven by the surge last summer of migrants from three Central American countries into the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Of those, 257,473 involved migrants who were not Mexican, an increase of 68 percent over the past year.

Although Mexicans remained the single largest nationality among illegal crossers, their total of 229,178 was a decline of 14 percent this year, continuing a trend that signaled the end of a century-old cycle of migration to the United States by laborers from Mexico. Mexicans had outnumbered migrants from all other countries combined since immigration authorities began to tally non-Mexicans as a group in 1992, Homeland Security officials said.

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Bow: Focus on testing means fewer schools taking field trips Continued from Page C-1 noticed a decline in field trips, even when the museum offers to pay for the buses. Teachers tell her it’s just tougher to pull kids from school for such events when they are focused on providing instruction and preparing for tests. Plus, many local nonprofit arts groups can bring their programs — dance, theater, opera, visual arts — into the schools.

Laura Addison, curator of the North American and European Folk Art Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, has known her for 15 years. She said Zieselman has been successful as an education curator because “she makes education and art so accessible.

For her, the measure of success is that kids associate museums with fun and that they return to the museum with the families so they can teach their families what they have learned themselves. It’s a very unpretentious approach to art and art history.”

Zieselman said art museums suffer from people being afraid of what’s inside. “You don’t have to have a Ph.D. in art history to appreciate art,” she said.

For years, she has trained the museum’s docents — there are about 75 now — to help them make visitors feel comfortable and encourage questioning.

“My personal technique with kids is to have them talk as much as possible about the

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experience and what the art means to them,” she said.

Zieselman has a particular kinship to the museum’s Baumann Marionettes, crafted by the late Gustave Baumann sometime in the 1930s. She wrote the Museum of Art’s book The Hand-Carved Marionettes of Gustave Baumann in the late 1990s as part of an effort to raise funds to replicate the original marionettes so the museum could use them in theater shows.

In A Party for Papa Gus, the playful replica puppets plan a festive celebration for the title character, only to have unexpected antics ensue when a member of the marionette clan thinks he wasn’t invited to the party.

“I love the puppets,” Zieselman said. “I love that they were such an institution in the ’40s and ’50s and they are still an institution today.” Kids love

the puppets and return every year for the annual holiday show, though at least one of her friends considers them “icky little creeps,” Zieselman said.

In 2009, Zieselman — who moved to Santa Fe in the late 1980s — was named one of the recipients of the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

Among her other honors is an award from the New Mexico Press Women’s Association for education features in the Tumbleweeds family newspaper. She serves as director of youth programs for Temple Beth Shalom and will begin tutoring students at both Ortiz Middle School and Capital High School this coming January.

According to a former colleague of Zieselman’s, an ad hoc group playfully known as the “Department of Beautiful Men” once voted Zieselman’s hair “the best … in the Museum of New Mexico system.” Zieselman said she has no memory of that particular award.

She told The New Mexican she has no definite plans for the immediate future but feels confident something will turn up. But she also told at least one friend that she intends to become a pet psychiatrist, though the friend is not sure whether that means Zieselman will provide therapy for the animals or for their owners.

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“It’s a burden to people with low income who live in rural parts of the state,” she said.

“The department has put in a lot of time and energy since the June hearing … and made a lot of changes which have made [the rules] far better,” said Len Goodman, a statelicensed medical marijuana producer who strongly opposed many of the rule changes before the Health Department’s revisions.

“I think they’ve done a terrific job. I’m impressed. I didn’t think they were going to go that far in terms of taking into consideration the feedback,” Goodman said. “There are still things in my opinion that are problematic, but proportionately, they are small.”

On the positive side, Goodman said, rules for product testing that were overly stringent

Several of the changes were made “largely thanks to public input.” in the first proposal have been scaled back and are now more achievable and relevant.

Goodman gave a mixed review to a change in the amount of marijuana a patient can legally purchase. While the “adequate supply” restriction has been increased from 6 ounces to 8 ounces, the definition of “adequate supply” has been altered from meaning the amount a patient can legally possess at any given time to the amount a patient can legally purchase in a three-month period. Goodman said the new definition could be problematic for patients who need more medicine to treat their conditions.

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“It doubles the price and hassle for patients,” he said.

Department of Health spokesman David Morgan said Thursday that several of the changes were made “largely thanks to public input,” including the withdrawal of a proposed $50 yearly registration fee for patients and withdrawal of a proposed rule that would have cut the number of personal marijuana production licenses issued by half.

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SAN DIEGO — Electricity bills. Speeding tickets. Dentist records. Money order receipts.

The search for documents is on for immigrants who may qualify for a work permit and reprieve from deportation under measures President Barack Obama announced last month. Applicants must prove they were in the country continuously since Jan. 1, 2010 — a tall order for many accustomed to avoiding trails. For critics, conditions are ripe for fraud.

The administration has not said which documents it will accept, but advocates are taking guidance from a 2012 reprieve for immigrants who came to the country as young children. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, allows vehicle registrations, baptism records, mortgages, postmarked letters — and those are just some suggestions from the agency that vets applications.

Los Angeles immigration attorney Carl Shusterman uses social media postings. A Facebook photo at Disneyland might work.

“It’s not the first thing I would use, but if you’re here illegally and getting paid in cash, you may not have as good records as someone paying into Social Security,” he said. “How do you prove you were here?”

Laura Lichter, a Denver immigration attorney, has used movie rental receipts, veterinarian bills and customer loyalty programs that detail purchase histories.

“You use what you got,” she said.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told members of Congress this month that fraudulent applications could potentially “undermine the whole process” and he promised to review safeguards. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which vets applications and operates under Johnson’s watch, says it has grown its anti-fraud unit and increased “the scope and frequency” of vetting.

Some advocate a more aggressive approach.

Louis D. Crocetti Jr., who headed Citizenship and Immigration Services’ anti-fraud unit until he retired in 2011, recommends more random interviews of applicants and periodic home visits for recipients of immigration benefits.

He said his audits of various visa programs found doubledigit fraud rates, including 33 percent for religious workers in 2005 and 13 percent for hightech workers in 2008.

“Immigration benefits is a production-oriented agency that receives tremendous pressure from the public and the Hill to process applications as quickly as possible,” he said.

The government plans to begin accepting applications by mid-February for immigrants eligible for an expanded version of DACA and by mid-May for parents of U.S. citizens and legal residents. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Leon Rodriguez said the agency will hire as many as 1,000 officers to process applications.

The agency says hires will get several weeks of training.

Attorneys expect children’s birth certificates will be required for parents of U.S. citizens. School transcripts, bank statements and vaccination records also will be in demand.

Irwin Diaz, a San Diego construction worker who came to the country illegally in 1990, would use paycheck stubs if he applies but says employment records are tricky for anyone who worked under an assumed

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“Whatever everyone like me is trying to do is see if we’re eligible, see if they have any tickets they owed or things like that,” said Diaz, 31. “It’s people in the shadows.”

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FAILURE to have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading.[Cited on 4/12/2013] FAILURE to hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents.[Cited on 10/19/2012]

FAILURE to keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards.[Cited on 12/18/2013 and again on 8/29/2014] FAILURE to hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents.[Cited on 05/15/2012] FAILURE to write and use policies that forbid mistreatment, neglect and abuse of residents and theft of residents’ property.[Cited on 5/15/2012] FAILURE to develop policies that prevent mistreatment, neglect, or abuse of residents or theft of resident property.

[Cited on 5/15/2012]

*To view the full inspection results, the scope and severity of these deficiencies, additional surveys and the facility’s plans of correction, go to http://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/ search.html#.

POOR CARE AND UNDERSTAFFING CAN LEAD TO: BEDSORES, CHOKING, FALLS, BROKEN BONES, DEHYDRATION, INFECTIONS/SEPSIS, MALNUTRITION, OR UNEXPLAINED DEATH. If someone you love has been a resident of Casa Real or Santa Fe Care Center, call our attorneys for a free consultation.

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BEN LUJÁN TOURNAMENT LAGUNA-ACOMA 66, POJOAQUE VALLEY 41

LOBOS

Laguna-Acoma wins title

By James Barron The New Mexican

Laguna-Acoma’s David McGee, right, and Pojoaque’s James Garcia battle for a loose ball Saturday. For more photos, visit http://tinyurl.com/l9r79l8.

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JACONA — The Laguna-Acoma Hawks were bloodied and broken by the time they reached the Ben Luján finals on Saturday.

But they showed they were unbowed by the end of the evening.

With several players battling illness and Ben Luján Tournament

MVP Ryan Arkie dealing with a broken nose and a sprained ankle, the Hawks came through the three days in Ben Luján Gymnasium unscathed on the scoreboard with a 66-41 win over host Pojoaque Valley to win their second straight tournament title.

Laguna-Acoma ended its stay with a resounding win to answer the challenges it faced to get it.

“We just played through,

toughed it out, to see how much heart we have,” Arkie said. “We love this game and we want to keep on playing.”

The Hawks (8-0) made the outcome moot almost by the end of the first quarter. They forced eight Pojoaque turnovers, including a stretch of four straight possessions that turned a 4-0 Elks lead into a

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Murray expected to make his return

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UNM forward Jordan Goodman drives as New Mexico State forward Johnathon Wilkins defends Saturday in Las Cruces.

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ARLINGTON, Texas wo questions are at the heart of Andrew Luck’s first game against the Dallas Cowboys in the Indianapolis quarterback’s visit to his home state.

Will NFL rushing leader DeMarco Murray play with the Cowboys needing to win at least one, if not both, of their final two games to end a fouryear playoff drought?

Murray was listed as questionable Friday a few hours after Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on his radio show that the team “should be able to count on” him playing.

And what exactly are Luck and the Colts playing for Sunday with their postseason spot secure, but not a great chance to improve their seeding?

First things first: Murray, who has 1,687 yards rushing and needs 87 to break NFL rushing leader Emmitt Smith’s franchise record of 1,773.

The fourth-year running back went through some individual drills in the first day of practice Wednesday after breaking the bone above the ring finger in his left hand in last week’s 38-27 win at Philadelphia.

The victory gave Dallas sole possession of first place in the NFC East. He had protective padding on the hand.

“Really what we want to do is just see how he responded to that work that he did today and then see how he is as the week progresses, and hopefully he can be functional for the ballgame,” coach Jason Garrett said. “If he can’t be, we won’t allow him to play,

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UNM owns Aggies’ court From staff reports

wins is really impressive for that,” said safety Malcolm Jenkins, echoing the mood of a locker room hit with a communal reality check. “And really we were on borrowed time playing that style of football. If we had run the table in December with that kind of football, it would have been surpris-

LAS CRUCES —This was supposed to be the year the Aggies snapped the streak.

Better luck next year.

Behind another strong effort from senior guard Deshawn Delaney and the steady play of of the team’s slew of big men, the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team continued its road mastery of its rivals to the south with a 69-67 over New UNM 69 Mexico State on NMSU 67 Saturday night.

It extends UNM’s winning streak over the Aggies in the Pan American Center to seven. NMSU has won 40 of its last 43 games at home; all three losses have been to the Lobos.

Delaney had a team-high 15 points with six rebounds and three steals, helping New Mexico (8-3) open a commanding 19-point lead in the second half before a late NMSU surge made things close. The Aggies’ Ian Baker hit a 28-foot 3-pointer at the final buzzer to close out the scoring, but it was as close as they would get after spotting UNM its big lead.

“We didn’t finish the way we wanted to finish,” said Lobos head coach Craig Neal.

New Mexico has won five straight overall and 13 of their last 16 against New Mexico State (4-8). They have one final nonconference game remaining — Tuesday at Grand Canyon — before facing Fresno State on New Year’s Eve in the Mountain West opener.

UNM opened the second half on a 22-13 run to stretch its lead to 52-33 with 11:23 remaining. It had been a 10-point margin in the first half as NMSU again struggled to generate any offense against the Lobos’ 2-3 zone defense. It was that same defensive alignment that caused the Aggies fits in the teams’ previous meeting on Dec. 3 in The Pit. Stagnant until midway through the second half, New Mexico State began chipping away after its defense forced seven turnovers while

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REDSKINS 27, EAGLES 24

Philadelphia’s defeat puts Dallas in driver’s seat

By Joseph White The Associated Press

LANDOVER, Md. — The Philadelphia Eagles have proved themselves to be a mirage, a team that got away with its faults until it couldn’t any longer. Leaders in the NFC East as recently as a week ago, they’re now just about done in the playoff race,

UTEP’s Jameill Showers, front, is tackled

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and they’re in no position to argue that they deserve any better.

Penalties, missed field goals, two more turnovers by Mark Sanchez and

an inability to keep track of former teammate DeSean Jackson turned into a 27-24 loss to the lowly Washington Redskins on Saturday night, the Eagles’ third straight defeat and one that gives Dallas two chances to clinch the NFC East.

“We’re currently minus-9 in the turnover margin, so us having nine

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ALBUQUERQUE — Aaron Jones and UTEP got ground down in the New Mexico Bowl.

Jones, one of the Utah St. 21 nation’s top runners, UTEP 6 was limited to 88 hard yards Saturday and the Miners never developed any offensive

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cohesion in a 21-6 loss to Utah State.

“We shot ourselves in the foot because we didn’t execute this game at all in the run game,” UTEP quarterback Jameill Showers said. “They had too much penetration up front. That was pretty much the tale of the game.”

Jones was held to 3.5 yards per carry.

He came into the game ranked 23rd in the country, rushing for an average of 112 yards

a game.

It was an uncharacteristic performance offensively for the Miners, coach Sean Kugler said.

“Penalties, negative plays, drops, those types of things that put you behind the chains, that’s what we’ve been relying on doing well all year and we didn’t do a great

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THE NEW MEXICAN Sunday, December 21, 2014

Redskins 27, Eagles 24

FOOTBALL NFL American Conference East W y-New England11 Buffalo 8 Miami 7 N.Y. Jets 3 South W y-Indianapolis 10 Houston 7 Jacksonville 3 Tennessee 2 North W Cincinnati 9 Pittsburgh 9 Baltimore 9 Cleveland 7 West W y-Denver 11 San Diego 9 Kansas City 8 Oakland 2

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National Conference East W L T Dallas 10 4 0 Philadelphia 9 6 0 N.Y. Giants 5 9 0 Washington 4 11 0 South W L T New Orleans 6 8 0 Carolina 5 8 1 Atlanta 5 9 0 Tampa Bay 2 12 0 W L T North x-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 8 0 St. Louis 6 8 0 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

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Week 16 Saturday’s Games Washington 27, Philadelphia 24 San Diego 38, San Francisco 35, OT Thursday’s Game Jacksonville 21, Tennessee 13 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.

Week 17 Sunday, Dec. 28 Indianapolis at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Dallas at Washington, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at New England, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

Oakland at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

NFL Calendar Dec. 28 — Regular season ends.

Jan. 3-4, 2015 — Wild-card playoffs.

Jan. 10-11 — Divisional playoffs.

Jan. 18 — Conference championships.

Jan. 25 — Pro Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.

Feb. 1 — Super Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.

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

Feb. 17-23 — NFL combine, Indianapolis.

Philadelphia 7 7 0 10—24 Washington 10 0 14 3—27 First Quarter Was—FG Forbath 25, 6:04.

Phi—McCoy 11 run (Parkey kick), 1:49.

Was—Morris 28 run (Forbath kick), :19.

Second Quarter Phi—Cooper 3 pass from Sanchez (Parkey kick), 3:39.

Third Quarter Was—Young 1 run (Forbath kick), 6:46.

Was—Young 1 run (Forbath kick), :26.

Fourth Quarter Phi—Cooper 16 pass from Sanchez (Parkey kick), 10:27.

Phi—FG Parkey 22, 6:17.

Was—FG Forbath 26, :05.

A—78,897.

Phi Was First downs 30 21 Total Net Yards 495 305 Rushes-yards 31-134 29-100 Passing 361 205 Punt Returns 2-10 0-0 Kickoff Returns 4-65 4-95 Interceptions Ret. 1-1 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 37-50-1 16-23-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-13 2-15 Punts 2-36.0 3-44.3 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-1 Penalties-Yards 13-102 3-15 Time of Possession 32:04 27:56 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Philadelphia, McCoy 22-88, Sproles 4-24, Sanchez 5-22. Washington, Morris 21-83, Griffin III 5-11, Redd Jr. 1-4, Young 2-2.

PASSING—Philadelphia, Sanchez 37-50-1-374. Washington, Griffin III 16-23-1-220.

RECEIVING—Philadelphia, Ertz 15-115, Sproles 6-43, Cooper 5-53, Maclin 4-62, J.Matthews 3-58, McCoy 3-28, Celek 1-15. Washington, Jackson 4-126, Garcon 4-61, Thompson 3-5, Reed 2-5, Roberts 1-14, Paulsen 1-6, Young 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Philadelphia, Parkey 34 (WR), 46 (WR).

Chargers 38, 49ers 35, OT San Diego 0 7 14 14 3—38 San Francisco 7 21 7 0 0—35 First Quarter SF—Gore 52 run (Dawson kick), 13:12.

Second Quarter SF—Ellington 8 pass from Kaepernick (Dawson kick), 13:36.

SF—Bethea 49 interception return (Dawson kick), 10:20.

SD—Royal 15 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 5:09.

SF—Ellington 1 run (Dawson kick), :06.

Third Quarter SD—Gates 1 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 5:49.

SD—Liuget fumble recovery in end zone (Novak kick), 3:26.

SF—Kaepernick 90 run (Dawson kick), 2:26.

Fourth Quarter SD—Gates 21 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 5:15.

SD—Floyd 11 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), :29.

Overtime SD—FG Novak 40, 10:06.

A—70,699.

SD SF First downs 28 21 Total Net Yards 446 447 Rushes-yards 24-98 40-355 Passing 348 92 Punt Returns 0-0 3-34 Kickoff Returns 4-106 7-163 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 3-73 Comp-Att-Int 33-54-3 15-24-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-8 2-22 Punts 4-50.3 4-38.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 3-3 Penalties-Yards 8-38 9-92 Time of Possession 34:19 30:35 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—San Diego, Oliver 13-53, R.Brown 7-33, D.Brown 4-12. San Francisco, Gore 26-158, Kaepernick 7-151,

Patton 1-20, Alf.Smith 2-14, Ellington 3-12, Miller 1-0.

PASSING—San Diego, Rivers 33-543-356. San Francisco, Kaepernick 15-24-0-114.

RECEIVING—San Diego, Royal 10-94, Gates 7-92, Inman 7-79, Floyd 4-50, Oliver 3-28, R.Brown 1-9, D.Brown 1-4. San Francisco, Boldin 7-61, Miller 2-22, Patton 2-9, Alf.Smith 2-9, Ellington 1-8, Crabtree 1-5.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—San Francisco, Dawson 60 (SH).

NCAA FOOTBALL FBS Bowls

Saturday, Dec. 20 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 16, Nevada 3 New Mexico Bowl - At Albuquerque Utah State 21, UTEP 6 Las Vegas Bowl Utah 45, Colorado State 10 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl - At Boise Air Force 38, Western Michigan 24 Camelia Bowl - At Montgomery, Ala. Bowling Green 33, South Alabama 28 Monday, Dec. 22 Miami Beach Bowl BYU (8-4) vs. Memphis (9-3), 12 p.m.

(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 (7-5) 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 St. (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. UNC (6-6), 2:30 p.m.

(ESPN) St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl UCF (9-3) vs. N.C. State (7-5), 6 p.m.

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Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB Memphis 21 5 .808 — Houston 19 7 .731 2 Dallas 20 8 .714 2 San Antonio 17 11 .607 5 New Orleans 13 13 .500 8 Northwest W L Pct GB Portland 22 6 .786 — Oklahoma City 13 14 .481 8½ Denver 12 15 .444 9½ Utah 8 20 .286 14 Minnesota 5 20 .200 15½ Pacific W L Pct GB Golden State 22 3 .880 — L.A. Clippers 19 8 .704 4 Phoenix 14 14 .500 9½ Sacramento 11 15 .423 11½ L.A. Lakers 8 18 .308 14½ Saturday’s Games Phoenix 99, New York 90 Portland 114, New Orleans 88

Bowl: Utah wins Vegas game Continued from Page D-1 job of it today,” UTEP coach Sean Kugler said.

UTEP (7-6) is 0-6 in postseason play since winning the 1967 Sun Bowl. The Miners, coming off their first winning season since 2005, are 5-9 in bowl play.

A pair of errors late in the first half typified UTEP’s struggles.

The Miners faced a second-and-1 at the Utah State 5, but a holding call pushed them back.

On fourth down, holder Mike Ruggles dropped the snap on a 25-yard field goal try.

“Then we laid one on the turf and . it should have been 7-6 going into half and it wasn’t,” Kugler said. “We were our own undoing down there in the red zone and we have to do better than that.”

Jameill Showers passed for 126 yards for UTEP, completing 13 of 24. Too often, he said, the Miners couldn’t finish off drives against the Aggies (10-4).

Las Vegas Bowl UTAH 45, COLORADO STATE 10 In Las Vegas, Nev., as he walked off the field Saturday night, Colorado State interim coach Dave Baldwin paused in front his team’s fans and applauded.

It was his way of saying thanks. It might have been his last chance.

“The fans came out and supported us,” Baldwin said. “We love them for that.”

After their 45-10 loss to No. 23 Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl, no one knows what the future holds for the Colorado State program. Certainly not Baldwin, who said he and the team’s coaches have received termination paperwork as a formality.

But he didn’t want the defeat to be the Rams’ lasting memory of a 10-3 season.

The Utes (9-4) won for the 11th time in their last 12 bowls. They scored on their first three possessions and used big plays that measured 36, 49 and 60 yards.

New Orleans Bowl LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 16, NEVADA 3 In New Orleans, Terrance Broadway walked into a hotel meeting room at around 5:45 a.m. and knew immediately that an unusual 10 a.m. kickoff in the New Orleans Bowl wouldn’t be a problem for Louisiana-Lafayette.

“It looked like people were partying in the

meeting rooms, like the music was blasting,” the Ragin’ Cajuns quarterback said, grinning at the memory. “It was like it was 3 o’clock in the afternoon. It didn’t look like it was 5:45, and our team was ready.”

Broadway set an NCAA Division I bowl game record by completing his first 14 passes, finishing with 227 yards and a touchdown to lead Louisiana-Lafayette past Nevada 16-3 on Saturday.

Hunter Stover made a career-long 46-yard field goal in the first half and added kicks of 35 and 30 yards for the Ragin’ Cajuns (9-4), who completed their fourth consecutive nine-victory season with their fourth straight New Orleans Bowl win.

Potato Bowl AIR FORCE 38, WESTERN MICHIGAN 24 In Boise, Idaho, Shayne Davern ran for a career-high 101 yards and two touchdowns and Air Force beat Western Michigan in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

Air Force finished the season 10-3 after going 2-10 last year. Miami of Ohio was the last previous team to follow a 10-loss season with 10 victories, going from 1-11 in 2009 to 10-4 in 2010.

Dexter Walker returned a fumble 60 yards for a touchdown for Air Force.

Western Michigan finished 8-5 after going 1-11 last season. Zach Terrell threw three touchdown passes to Corey Davis for the Broncos, 0-6 in bowl games.

Camelia Bowl BOWLING GREEN 33, SOUTH ALABAMA 28 Roger Lewis caught a 78-yard touchdown pass from James Knapke with 1:04 remaining to lift Bowling Green to a 33-28 victory over South Alabama.

The Falcons (8-6) responded one play after the Jaguars (6-7) took their first lead. Lewis, Bowling Green’s freshman star, got several yards beyond Roman Buchanan downfield, and Buchanan came up clutching his right hamstring.

The Jaguars, playing in their first bowl game since starting the program in 2009, moved 73 yards in just under three minutes to momentarily move ahead. Brandon Bridge hit Danny Woodson Jr. for a 44-yard strike. Terrance Timmons ran for a 3-yard touchdown after converting two third-down plays with runs.

Game MVP Knapke was 25-of-39 passing for 368 yards and two long touchdowns to Lewis.

Charlotte 104, Utah 86 Atlanta 104, Houston 97 Dallas 99, San Antonio 93 Denver 76, Indiana 73 L.A. Clippers 106, Milwaukee 102 Friday’s Games Charlotte 109, Philadelphia 91 Utah 101, Orlando 94 Washington 105, Miami 103 Toronto 110, Detroit 100 Boston 114, Minnesota 98 Cleveland 95, Brooklyn 91 Chicago 103, Memphis 97 Portland 129, San Antonio 119,3OT Denver 109, L.A. Clippers 106 Oklahoma City 104, L.A. Lakers 103 Sunday’s Games New York at Toronto, 1:30 p.m.

Memphis at Cleveland, 2:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, 4 p.m.

Phoenix at Washington, 4 p.m.

Boston at Miami, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Detroit at Brooklyn, 4 p.m.

New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

NCAA BASKETBALL Men’s Top 25

Saturday’s Games No. 1 Kentucky 83, UCLA 44 No. 4 Louisville 76, Western Kentucky 67 No. 7 Villanova 82, Syracuse 77, OT No. 8 Gonzaga 63, Cal Poly 50 No. 9 Texas 78, Long Beach State 68 No. 10 Kansas 96, Lafayette 69 No. 24 North Carolina 82, No. 12 Ohio State 74 No. 13 Iowa State 83, Drake 54 No. 14 Utah vs. UNLV No. 16 Washington 69, No. 15 Oklahoma 67 No. 19 San Diego St. vs. Ball St. No. 21 Notre Dame 94, Purdue 63 No. 22 West Virginia 83, N.C. State 69 Indiana 82, No. 23 Butler 73 Texas Southern 71,No. 25 Michigan State 64 Friday’s Games No. 3 Arizona 60, UTEP 55 Eastern Kentucky, No. 18 Miami 44 No. 20 St. John’s 53, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 47 Sunday’s Games No. 6 Virginia vs. Harvard, 10 a.m.

No. 17 Maryland at Oklahoma St., 12 p.m.

NCAA Men’s Division I Saturday’s Games Far West Boise St. 77, Abilene Christian 33 CS Bakersfield 59, Idaho St. 50 Gonzaga 63, Cal Poly 50 Grand Canyon 81, St. Edward’s 55 Lehigh 84, Arizona St. 81, 3OT N. Colorado 69, Jacksonville St. 60 New Mexico 69, New Mexico St. 67 Northeastern 78, Santa Clara 72 Oregon 83, Delaware St. 70 Pacific 71, Fresno St. 68 Portland 87, Montana St. 60 S. Dakota St. 68, Utah St. 65, OT San Diego St. 70, Ball St. 57 Texas A&M-CC 75, CS Northridge 68 UC Davis 81, Air Force 75 UC Riverside 78, Houston Baptist 67 Washington 69, Oklahoma 67 Weber St. 73, Utah Valley 61 Wyoming 57, Southern U. 39 Southwest Arkansas 84, SE Missouri 67 Arkansas St. 67, Marshall 58 SC State 71, Houston 63 Sam Houston St. 61, Prairie View 44 Stephen F. Austin 94, Arkansas Tech 57 TCU 88, UTSA 57 Texas 78, Long Beach St. 68 Texas St. 90, Huston-Tillotson 56 Texas-Arlington 89, Howard Payne 50 South Auburn 89, Xavier 88, 2OT Campbell 90, Montreat 64 Davidson 80, Coll. of Charleston 68 Elon 71, UNC Greensboro 64 Florida 63, Wake Forest 50 Florida St. 75, South Florida 62 George Mason 86, Iona 81 Georgia Tech 65, Vanderbilt 60

High Point 80, James Madison 71 Jacksonville 84, Truett McConnell 55 Kentucky 83, UCLA 44 Louisville 76, W. Kentucky 67 Memphis 78, Oral Roberts 63 Murray St. 89, Illinois St. 77 NC Central 94, MVSU 60 Northwestern St. 89, LouisianaLafayette 85 SC-Upstate 53, Mississippi St. 51 Toledo 83, McNeese St. 69 UMBC 66, Kennesaw St. 53 UNC Wilmington 66, East Carolina 54 UT-Martin 77, Presbyterian 60 Virginia Tech 64, The Citadel 61 Midwest Akron 92, Bluffton 53 Chicago St. 76, St. Joseph’s (Ind.) 54 Dayton 78, Boston U. 62 E. Illinois 60, Indiana St. 56 E. Michigan 77, Missouri St. 65 IUPUI 71, South Alabama 65, OT Illinois 62, Missouri 59 Incarnate Word 110, UMKC 104, 3OT Indiana 82, Butler 73 Iowa St. 83, Drake 54 Kansas 96, Lafayette 69 Kansas St. 71, Texas A&M 64 N. Iowa 56, Iowa 44 North Carolina 82, Ohio St. 74 Northwestern 67, W. Michigan 61 Notre Dame 94, Purdue 63 SIU-Edwardsville 61, Milwaukee 56 SMU 62, Michigan 51 Texas Southern 71, Michigan St. 64, OT VCU 68, Cincinnati 47 Valparaiso 75, IPFW 72 East Albany (NY) 64, Yale 60 American U. 46, Mount St. Mary’s 45 Belmont 73, Fairfield 61 Columbia 82, Hofstra 77 Duquesne 79, Mass.-Lowell 63 Fairleigh Dickinson 76, Delaware 74 Georgetown 81, Charlotte 78 La Salle 67, Towson 53 Manhattan 73, Morgan St. 69 Monmouth (NJ) 74, Wagner 66 NJIT 84, CCSU 76 Penn St. 73, Drexel 68 Pittsburgh 81, Oakland 77, OT Providence 85, UMass 65 Rhode Island 69, Detroit 55 Richmond 65, Pepperdine 63 Sacred Heart 73, New Hampshire 60 Saint Joseph’s 75, Marist 58 St. Bonaventure 69, Binghamton 51 St. Francis (NY) 61, FAU 56 St. Francis (Pa.) 73, Rutgers 68 Villanova 82, Syracuse 77, OT West Virginia 83, NC State 69

Women’s Top 25 Saturday’s Games No. 1 S. Carolina 80, Central Michigan 45 No. 11 Tennessee 59, No. 7 Stanford 40 No. 9 Baylor 84, No. 18 Michigan State 65 No. 12 Nebraska 83, High Point 57 No. 15 Georgia 58, Furman 51 No. 16 Oregon St. 73, Nevada 50 No. 17 Rutgers 66, Iona 58 No. 21 Mississippi State 73, IllinoisChicago 36 No. 22 West Virginia 69, Marshall 56 Friday’s Games No. 2 UConn 98, No. 25 DePaul 64 No. 6 North Carolina 65, Maine 36 No. 9 Baylor 74, No. 19 Syracuse 72 No. 13 Duke 95, UMass-Lowell 48 No. 16 Oregon State 71, Southern Illinois 55 Sunday’s Games No. 1 South Carolina vs. Liberty at Williams Arena, Minneapolis, 11 a.m.

No. 2 UConn vs. UCLA at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Conn., 3 p.m.

No. 3 Texas vs. No. 4 Texas A&M at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock, Ark., 11:30 a.m.

No. 5 Notre Dame vs. Saint Joseph’s, 11 a.m.

No. 6 North Carolina vs. Elon at Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Convention Center, 1 p.m.

No. 8 Kentucky at No. 13 Duke, 1 p.m.

No. 10 Louisville at No. 24 California, 3 p.m.

No. 14 Maryland at Coppin St., 1 p.m.

No. 18 Michigan State vs. No. 19 Syra-

cuse at Harold & Ted Alfond Sports Center, Winter Park, Fla., 2 p.m.

No. 19 Oklahoma St. at Southern Cal, 1 p.m.

No. 21 Mississippi State vs. Miami (Ohio) at South Point Arena, Las Vegas, 3 p.m.

No. 23 Iowa at Drake, 1:05 p.m.

NCAA Women’s Division I Saturday’s Games Far West CS Northridge 65, San Diego St. 54 Gonzaga 70, S. Utah 51 Hawaii 85, Loyola Marymount 76 Idaho 74, Lewis-Clark St. 48 Long Beach St. 53, Pacific 43 Mississippi St. 73, Ill.-Chicago 36 Montana 83, Austin Peay 62 New Mexico St. 57, FAU 44 Old Dominion 69, Miami (Ohio) 63 Saint Louis 68, Utah Valley 66 San Francisco 77, San Jose St. 62 Utah 67, Louisiana Tech 52 Washington 74, UC Riverside 71 Washington St. 82, Montana St. 61 Southwest Abilene Christian 80, Air Force 44 Houston 65, Nicholls St. 47 Stephen F. Austin 72, Arizona 60 Texas A&M-CC 68, Texas Southern 63 Texas Tech 64, UTSA 48 UTEP 86, Prairie View 48 South American U. 64, Md.-Eastern Shore 52 Baylor 84, Michigan St. 65 Campbell 66, Bethune-Cookman 55 East Carolina 65, Norfolk St. 36 Georgia 58, Furman 51 Jackson St. 62, Northwestern St. 61, OT Jacksonville St. 57, ETSU 56 La Salle 76, Georgia St. 68 Middle Tennessee 79, UCF 57 Mississippi 71, Alabama A&M 47 Missouri 79, Wake Forest 64 Murray St. 80, Jacksonville 62 NC A&T 54, Tennessee Tech 49 North Florida 68, Wofford 60 Ohio 59, UMass 52 Oregon St. 73, Nevada 50 Presbyterian 45, NC Central 33 Tennessee 59, Stanford 40 Toledo 64, S. Illinois 48 UNC Wilmington 80, Charleston Southern 70 W. Carolina 83, FIU 69 Midwest Cincinnati 67, Delaware 59 Creighton 67, Nebraska-Omaha 50 George Mason 65, Louisiana-Monroe 53 Green Bay 60, Vermont 40 Kansas St. 61, Grambling St. 38 Minnesota 74, Liberty 60 Nebraska 83, High Point 57 Purdue 65, Denver 51 SIU-Edwardsville 77, Valparaiso 65 South Carolina 80, Cent. Michigan 45 W. Michigan 71, Detroit 57 Wichita St. 66, Winthrop 20 William Jewell 59, UMKC 51 Wisconsin 70, Oral Roberts 52 Wright St. 80, UC Irvine 42 Xavier 62, Lipscomb 38 East Army 70, St. Thomas Aquinas 45 Georgia Tech 65, St. Francis (NY) 59 Loyola (Md.) 59, St. Peter’s 49 Rutgers 66, Iona 58 Sacred Heart 72, Villanova 49 St. Bonaventure 72, Niagara 60 West Virginia 69, Marshall 56 Tournament

ASU Classic First Round Arizona St. 81, Lehigh 61 Northwestern 92, E. Illinois 44

SJU Chartwells Holiday Classic First Round Indiana St. 64, SMU 55 St. John’s 56, Auburn 49 Exhibition UNC-Greensboro 81, Livingstone 77

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Kentucky destroys UCLA The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Devin Booker had 19 points and No. 1 Kentucky scored the game’s first 24 points in an 83-42 victory over UCLA on Saturday.

Aaron Harrison added 15 points, and the Wildcats (12-0) handed the Bruins (8-4) one of their most-lopsided losses ever.

The first meeting between the storied 1 Kentucky 83 programs in eight years UCLA 42 turned ugly as soon as the game started, with Kentucky dominating UCLA in every possible way.

The 24-0 run at the start of the game was eight shy of the record between two Division I teams, set by Connecticut against New Hampshire on Dec. 12, 1990. And the 41-point margin was seven shy of the Bruins’ record.

NO. 4 LOUISVILLE 76, WESTERN KENTUCKY 67 In Bowling Green, Ky., Terry Rozier took charge after the first-half ejection of Montrezl Harrell to score a career-high 32 points, including 26 in the second half for Louisville.

Rozier closed Louisville’s scoring with five free throws to finish 11 of 13 from the line and made three 3-pointers that quashed the Hilltoppers’ hopes of seizing momentum following Harrell’s exit with 38.7 seconds remaining in the first half.

NO. 7 VILLANOVA 82, SYRACUSE 77 (OT) In Philadelphia, JayVaughn Pinkston had 25 points and 10 rebounds, Darrun Hilliard scored 23 points and Villanova beat Syracuse to improve to

11-0. The Wildcats never led until overtime and rallied from a 15-point hole to stun their former Big East rival.

NO. 9 TEXAS 78, LONG BEACH STATE 68 In AUSTIN, Texas, Javan Felix scored a season-best 17 points, helping Texas beat Long Beach State.

Felix made 6 of 9 shots, including three 3-pointers. The reserve guard’s previous high this season was 11 points. Jonathan Holmes added 14 points for Texas (10-1) and Cam Ridley had 13.

NO. 10 KANSAS 96, LAFAYETTE 69 In Lawrence, Kan., freshman Kelly Oubre Jr. had 23 points and 10 rebounds and Frank Mason added 14 points and nine assists for Kansas.

Wayne Selden Jr. finished with 12 points, all in the second half for Kansas (9-1). Freshman Svi Mykhailiuk and Jamari Traylor each had 11 points, and freshman Cliff Alexander had 10.

NO. 13 IOWA STATE 83, DRAKE 54 In Des Moines, Iowa, Naz Long scored 13 points, Monte Morris had 12 for Iowa State.

Dustin Hogue added 10 points to help the Cyclones (9-1) run their winning streak to six following a loss to Maryland last month. Iowa State pushed a 16-point halftime lead to as much as 35 in the second half.

The Cyclones shot 12 of 23 from 3-point range and had 25 assists on 32 field goals.

NO. 24 NORTH CAROLINA 82, NO. 12 OHIO STATE 74 In Chicago, Brice Johnson had 18 points on 8-for-10 shooting and nine rebounds, and North Carolina used its stout defense

to hold off Ohio State.

Marcus Paige added 16 points for the Tar Heels (8-3), and Kennedy Meeks finished with eight points, 13 rebounds and two blocked shots. Meeks and Johnson led North Carolina to a 53-40 rebounding advantage.

NO. 21 NOTRE DAME 94, PURDUE 63 In Indianapolis, Pat Connaughton had 19 points and 14 rebounds, leading Notre Dame past Purdue in the Crossroads Classic. Demetrius Jackson scored 22 points for the Irish (11-1). Steve Vasturia and Austin Torres each contributed 11 for Notre Dame and Jerian Grant and Zach Auguste both added 10.

INDIANA 82, NO. 23 BUTLER 73 In Indianapolis, Troy Williams matched his career high with 22 points and Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell added 20 to help Indiana beat Butler in the Crossroads Classic.

Coach Tom Crean earned his 300th victory. Indiana (9-2) beat a ranked opponent for the 17th time since 2011-12, the most in the Big Ten. Kellen Dunham led Butler (8-3) with 23 points. The Bulldogs lost their second straight to a power conference foe.

TEXAS SOUTHERN 71, NO. 25 MICHIGAN ST. 64 (OT) In East Lansing, Mich., Chris Thomas scored 22 points, and unheralded Texas Southern outlasted Michigan State in overtime.

The Tigers (2-8) were coming off a 40-point loss to Gonzaga, but coach Mike Davis’ team was poised throughout against Michigan State, becoming the second team this month to score a shocking win in Michigan. New Jersey Institute of Technology won at Michigan.

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Road-weary Demons fall short SCOREBOARD The New Mexican

No rest for the weary. And it showed.

Just 17 hours after using a late surge to knock off St. Michael’s on Friday night at home, the Santa Fe High boys basketball team made the four-hour bus ride to Las Cruces for a nondisLas Cruces 79 trict game Saturday afternoon at Las Cruces SFHS 60 High.

It didn’t go too well.

Spotting the host Bulldawgs a big lead at halftime, the Demons never fully recovered en route to a 79-60 loss. Vito Coppola had 22 points for Santa Fe High in the loss.

Keanyn Evans added 11 and Julio Rivera nine.

“It was ugly,” said head coach David Rodriguez. “We turned the ball over quite a bit and let them get too far in front.”

The Demons (6-5) did cut the deficit to eight in the third quarter and were within nine in the final few minutes.

Cody Murillo led four Las Cruces players in double figures with 15 points.

GIRLS LOS ALAMOS 64, ARTESIA 29 In Los Alamos, the Lady Hilltoppers got 19 points from Ashlynn Trujillo and 27 combined points from the Logan sisters in a nondistrict rout of the visiting Lady Tigers.

Point guard Amber Logan had 12 points and 12 assists while sister Ahsley Logan had 15 points. Los Alamos led 11-5 after one

quarter, then used a 21-8 run in the second period to begin pulling away.

The Lady Hilltoppers are now 8-1 heading next week’s game against West Las Vegas.

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PORTALES 65, WEST LAS VEGAS 36 The Lady Dons (6-3) were within 27-21 at the half of a nondistrict game in Gillie Lopez Memorial Gymnasium before a third-quarter scoring barrage by the visiting Lady Rams did them in. Portales went on a 25-5 spurt to take a 52-26 lead into the final 8 minutes.

Bailey Rowley scored eight of her 10 points in the quarter for Portales (5-1), while Brooke Lopez had six of her in the same span. Kambrey Blakely led the Lady Rams with 19 points, and Sheraya Cox chipped in 15.

Celeste Trujillo had six for the Lady Dons, while a quartet of teammates each had five.

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the third.

The Lady Horsemen got away from what they had done to build a double-digit halftime lead: Work the ball inside and take care of the ball. They had four of their 10 turnovers during that stretch while hitting just 1 of 8 from the field. Most of those shots were from the perimeter.

“We had wide-open looks from the 3-point line, but we wanted to make a better effort at getting to the basket,” Romero said.

St. Michael’s did just that, as Groenewold scored nine straight points, on her way to a teamhigh 19 that cemented MVP honors for her for the second straight weekend (she won it at the Capital City Tournament).

Her two free throws with 3:55 left made it 52-37, and Tularosa (9-1) only made four free throws the rest of the game.

12-4 disadvantage for the home team.

“We started off all right, and then they hit a little burst,” said Joey Trujillo, Elks head coach.

“They hit some shots and we made a couple of turnovers and then we were playing on our heels.”

It stayed that way until the opening minutes of the second half, when Pojoaque (8-4) scored 10 straight points to get within 30-24 on Derrick Grasmick’s 3-pointer with 5:42 in the third quarter. But a quick timeout by Laguna-Acoma head coach Ryan Peil fixed everything.

“Sometimes we just come out at halftime and we’re just kaput,” Arkie said. “We just had to get going again and rev it back up.”

And how. The Hawks hit their last seven shots of the third and nine of 11 during a 28-9 run that put the game out of reach. Arkie finished with 15 points to lead Laguna-Acoma.

Ryan Maestas led the Elks with nine.

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THIRD PLACE SILVER 66, MORA 56 Free throws were the Rangers’ undoing in the fourth quarter, as the Colts outscored them 25-10 to take third place. Silver (4-4) hit 17 of 24 free throws in the fourth quarter and were 31-for47 overall. Josh Saenz hit 10 of 14 in the fourth and was 12-for16 overall as he finished with 18 points, while Garrett Laney added 14.

Casimiro Fresquez led Mora (2-3) with 14 points, Curtis Vasquez added 13 and Emmerick Martinez 11.

FIFTH PLACE SOCORRO 84, SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL 79 (OT) The Warriors (5-3) outscored the Braves 16-11 in the extra period to secure fifth place.

Dennis Woods led a quarter of double-digit scorers with 23 points. SFIS (7-6) had Francis Calabaza with 15 points, Isaiah Duran with 14 and Daniel Aquino

added 10.

SEVENTH PLACE TULAROSA 48, MONTE DEL SOL 43 (OT) The Dragons (4-5) could not hold on to a 32-27 lead entering the fourth quarter, as the Wildcats (3-7) outscored them 12-7 in the final 8 minutes of regulation to force overtime. Joe Perez had four of his 10 points in the overtime for the Wildcats, while Cameron Sheppard led the way with 11. Omar Ndiaye led Monte del Sol with 12 points, and Ryan Vander Ham added 11.

Girls CHAMPIONSHIP ST. MICHAEL’S 60, TULAROSA 41 The Lady Horsemen (6-2) got some state tournament practice, when they were presented

the placard with the finished bracket for winning their second straight tournament title this year and at the Ben Luján tourney. They still need practice in some finer points, as they were locked out of their locker room after taking a team picture.

Still, it was just one moment in a season that is barely a month old.

“There’s still a lot of basketball in the season left and everyone is getting better,” said St. Michael’s senior forward Alex Groenewold. “No team stays the same; you either get better or worse.”

That might be the case, except when it comes to defense at St. Michael’s. It has been its calling card under head coach Martin Romero, and the second half showed why. The Lady Wildcats, winners of their last 25 games, came out with renewed vigor on defense and it led to a 13-4 spurt that cut a 38-24 deficit to 43-37 on Cassie Vickery’s drive with 1:44 left in

SFIS 41, POJOAQUE VALLEY 30 The Lady Braves (6-4) broke an 18-all tie by outscoring the host Elkettes 11-4 in the third quarter to take a 29-22 lead and padded it the rest of the way to take third place.

Milan Schimmel had nine of her 15 points in the second half, with seven coming in the third. Kayla Joe added 10. Aaliya Casados had eight points to lead Pojoaque (3-6).

FIFTH PLACE MORA 48, SOCORRO 28 The Rangerettes (3-4) jumped out to a 27-9 halftime lead to take fifth place over the Lady Warriors (1-8). Brianna Pacheco had 12 of her 16 points in the second quarter, while Maria Garcia had eight of her 13 in the first half. Aracely Alderete led Socorro with 13 points.

SEVENTH PLACE MCCURDY 41, PEÑASCSO 36 The Lady Bobcats (2-3) won the between District 5AA foes, as Amanda Romero scored eight points in the first quarter to help McCurdy build a 21-17 lead at the half. Romero finished with 15 points, while Karla Santos added 10. Kaylanna Gonzales led Peñasco (2-5) with 12 points, while Megan Martinez added 11.

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“They hit some big shots at the end that shouldn’t have happened,” Neal said. “We made some not-so-good plays at the end that we’re not supposed to make. But it’s a learning process and we’ll get better.”

Neal said his club stemmed the tide when Jordan Goodman was inserted into the middle of the Lobos’ zone-breaking offense. The 6-foot-9 junior had nine points in 15 minutes while fellow big men Obij

Colorado State-Pueblo wins Division II crown KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Colorado StatePueblo didn’t have a football program seven years ago.

Now, there is none better in Division II. Chris Bonner threw for 191 yards and a touchdown, Cameron McDondle ran for 113 yards and the ThunderWolves relied

Aget (12 points, seven rebounds), Joe Furstinger (6 points, three rebounds) and J.J. N’Ganga (six points on 3-for-3 shooting).

Aget helped hold the Aggies off late when he blocked Travon Landry’s layup attempt in the final minute, leading to a Delaney 3 to push the lead to 65-54 with 50 seconds left.

Delaney’s bucket came from the wing when he found himself all alone on the perimeter. He took a pass, paused for a second as he set his feet, then let the ball sail over Siakam’s outstreched hand.

Baker, who hit two 3-pointers in the final 43 seconds, finished with 21 points. Siakam had 16 and Remi Barry 15. The rest of the

team combined for just 15 points.

The Lobos suited up just nine players and all nine got double-digit minutes. That included walk-on point guard Tim Jacobs, who logged 26 minutes and had six points and a team-high four assists.

In two games against the same NMSU team that didn’t recruit him out of Las Cruces Oñate High School, he had 15 points and eight assists.

“Timmy’s done exactly what I’ve asked him to do and that’s why he’s good,” Neal said. “When he starts doing the things he shouldn’t be doing, then that’s when he gets in trouble.”

on some stingy defense to knock off previously unbeaten Minnesota State 13-0 on Saturday for their first national championship. Paul Browning had five catches for 84 yards and the game’s lone touchdown for Pueblo (14-1), and Greg O’Donnell bounced back from an early miss to connect on his next two field goals.

“To be able to come through and end it like this, it’s beautiful,” Browning said.

“Thank you to Pueblo for allowing us to

have a football program. To do this, it’s just a mind-blowing experience.”

The victory capped a remarkable rebuilding job by ThunderWolves coach John Wristen, who played quarterback for the school when it was known as Southern Colorado in the early 1980s.

The program was disbanded along with several others in cost-cutting moves in 1985.

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Mavs, Rondo defeat Spurs The Associated Press

DALLAS — Monta Ellis equaled his season high with 38 points, including 11 during the final four minutes, to spark a late rally as the Dallas Mavericks beat the depleted San Antonio Spurs 99-93 Saturday in Rajon Rondo’s debut with the Mavericks.

Ellis broke a 91-91 tie with a basket from the right corner that sailed over the corner of the backboard to give Dallas the lead for good.

Rondo, the four-time AllStar who played his first eight-plus seasons with the Boston Celtics, finished with six points on 3-for-11 shooting. He had nine assists and seven rebounds. Acquired in a multi-player trade Thursday, he went into the game leading the league averaging 10.8 assists.

Marco Belinelli led San Antonio with 21 points. Aron Baynes added a career-high 16 points.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich dressed 10 players and played only eight after his team played triple-overtime games on Wednesday and Friday. Veterans Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili, who logged 90 and 71 minutes, respectively, in those two games, were left home.

Danny Green and Tiago Splitter dressed but didn’t play.

SUNS 99, KNICKS 90 In New York, Eric Bledsoe had 25 points and 10 rebounds, Isaiah Thomas scored 22 points, and Phoenix beat New York.

Markieff Morris added 19 points for the Suns, who won their second straight after a six-game skid.

Thomas made a 3-pointer to open the fourth quarter, giving Phoenix the lead for good and triggering an 8-0 burst. Marcus Morris made another and Alex Lin tipped in a miss for a 75-68 lead, and the Knicks were playing catch-up from there.

TRAIL BLAZERS 114, PELICANS 88 In New Orleans, LaMarcus Aldridge scored 27 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead Portland over New Orleans.

While Portland (22-6) was coming off a triple overtime win at San Antonio a night earlier, it was New Orleans that appeared tired. Including Anthony Davis’ 3 of 14 shooting, the Pelicans (1313) made only 35 percent of their shots. Davis finished with seven points and six rebounds.

Portland showed no signs of slowing down from the 15 extra minutes against the Spurs. The Trail Blazers shot 53 percent and forced 17 turnovers.

HORNETS 104, JAZZ 86 In Charlotte, N.C., Kemba Walker had 20 points, Al Jefferson added 19 points and 10 rebounds and Charlotte beat Utah.

Jefferson nearly registered his third straight game with at least 20 points and 10 rebounds but left the game with six minutes remaining with a mild groin strain and did not return. Jefferson was available to play, but the Hornets had the game in hand and didn’t want to risk further injury.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had 13 points and 11 rebounds for the Hornets, who have won back-to-back games for only the third time this season.

The Hornets (8-19) had lost 10 straight games against the Jazz with their last win coming on Nov. 14, 2008.

Gordon Hayward had 14 points to lead Utah (8-20).

Rudy Gobert had 11 points and 12 rebounds as the Jazz had its two-game winning streak snapped.

HAWKS 104, ROCKETS 97 In Houston, Kyle Korver scored 22 points, including seven points late, to help Atlanta Hawks hold on to beat Houston.

The game was tied with three minutes left before Atlanta used a 7-0 run to make it 97-90 with just under a minute to go. Korver hit one of his four 3-pointers during that run.

Atlanta made seven free throws down the stretch, with four from Korver, to secure the victory.

The Hawks led by 16 points, but Houston used a big third quarter to tie it entering the fourth. The teams stayed close throughout the fourth quarter, with the lead changing or the game being tied several times before Atlanta put it away in the final minutes.

NUGGETS 76, PACERS 73 In Denver, Danilo Gallinari scored 19 points, including a 3-pointer to spark a key fourth-quarter run, and Denver hung on to beat Indiana.

Ty Lawson added 15 points and 10 assists for the Nuggets, who won games on successive nights after losing six of seven coming into the back-to-back set.

David West had 19 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Pacers, who lost for the 10th time in 11 games. Indiana also dropped its sixth straight game in Denver.

Both teams were held to season lows in scoring with Indiana hitting just 30.7 percent of its shots from the field and Denver making 36.6 percent.

With 27.5 seconds remaining in the third quarter, C.J. Miles, who finished with 16 points, made a 3-pointer to even the score at 55-55 heading into the fourth quarter.

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PLAYOFF HOPES

CHARGERS 38, 49ERS 35 (OT)

Super Bowl champs need 49ers squander 21-point lead win, help; scenarios for all The Associated Press

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Colin Kaepernick jumped into the open arms of his leaping coach and all seemed right with the San Francisco 49ers for a few hours Saturday night.

Then, in a matter of minutes, a matter of three clutch completions by Philip Rivers, the good feelings were gone.

Just when San Francisco seemed poised for a rare celebratory moment between

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Let’s see, if these guys beat those guys, and that team over there loses its game …

Tiebreakers and scenarios.

It must be the final two weeks of the NFL schedule.

SEATTLE (10-4) AT ARIZONA (11-3) While Arizona is in, the defending Super Bowl champs, who are beginning to look like the 2013 version on defense, have several ways of earning a playoff berth Sunday. The easiest is by winning and having either the Eagles, Lions or Packers lose.

Seattle protects the ball well with a league-low 12 giveaways, tied with New England. And the Seahawks have gotten healthier and stingier on defense in the past month, winning four straight while allowing a total of 27 points.

INDIANAPOLIS (10-4) AT DALLAS (10-4) Indy isn’t likely to get a firstround playoff bye, but the Colts would like to cut down on the giveaways — 28, most in the AFC, including 14 lost fumbles — before heading into January.

The Cowboys would love to have the comfort zone, slight as it is, that Indy holds. Dallas takes the NFC East with a win and a Philadelphia loss, and gets at least a wild card by winning and seeing the Packers and Lions lose.

PHILADELPHIA (9-6) AT WASHINGTON (4-11) Philadelphia is out of the wild card race after losing Saturday to the Redskins.

DENVER (11-3) AT CINCINNATI (9-4-1) Cincinnati takes the AFC North with a victory and losses

by Pittsburgh and Baltimore, making that midseason tie with Carolina helpful. A win even if the Steelers and Ravens do the same secures a wild-card spot for the Bengals.

It won’t be easy given the opponent and how much Denver is playing for.

The Broncos must win out and see New England stumble, or the top seed in the AFC belongs to the Patriots.

KANSAS CITY (8-6) AT PITTSBURGH (9-5) The Steelers will make the postseason with a victory.

The Chiefs will forever rue their loss to Oakland if they

embattled fourth-year coach Jim Harbaugh and his highly criticized quarterback, Rivers changed everything and sent the 49ers to a fourth straight defeat.

After Rivers led a 21-point rally in the second half, Nick Novak kicked a 40-yard field goal nearly 5 minutes into overtime to give the Chargers a 38-35 victory over the 49ers on Saturday night.

Rivers completed his fourth touchdown pass with a tying

11-yard TD pass to Malcom Floyd with 29 seconds left in regulation after completing a pair of fourth-and-longs as the Chargers (9-6) forced overtime.

Phil Dawson’s 60-yard field goal attempt for San Francisco as regulation ended fell way short. Quinton Patton then fumbled in overtime to set up San Diego’s winning drive.

A lot went right for San Francisco when it really didn’t matter.

Defeat: Griffin steps up for win “I’m not going to throw a party and watch it,” receiver ing, and it’s something we didn’t Jeremy Maclin said. “I’m going fix.” to watch it at home.”

Sanchez’s interception with The loss also knocked Phila1:31 remaining — his 13th turndelphia from the wild-card race over in seven games — led to and clinched a playoff berth for Kai Forbath’s winning 26-yard Detroit. field goal with 5 seconds Sanchez set an Eagles record remaining as the Redskins with 37 completions in (4-11) snapped a six-game losing 50 attempts for a career-high streak.

374 yards with two touchdowns The Eagles (9-6) will now be to Riley Cooper, and tight end rooting for Indianapolis to beat Zach Ertz set a franchise game the Cowboys (10-4) on Sunday. record with 15 catches.

A Dallas win eliminates PhilaBut Sanchez lost a fumble delphia. for the third time this season A Dallas loss keeps a modiand threw his 10th interception to put the Eagles’ NFL-leading cum of hope alive.

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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown celebrates making a first down Dec. 14 against the Atlanta Falcons. If the Steelers beat the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, they are in the playoffs. CURTIS COMPTON/ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

fall short of the playoffs. They can take down the Steelers and Chargers and still not get in.

BALTIMORE (9-5) AT HOUSTON (7-7) The Ravens clinch a playoff spot with a win plus help from other teams. The Texans aren’t officially eliminated, but need to win if they have a hope.

DETROIT (10-4) AT CHICAGO (5-9) A Detroit win and Packers loss on Sunday would give the division to the Lions.

GREEN BAY (10-4) AT TAMPA BAY (2-12) The Packers need to start showing more on the road; unless they sweep this one and their home game with the Lions, they won’t have homefield advantage in the NFC. ATLANTA (5-9) AT NEW ORLEANS (6-8) If either team wins its final two, it gets the division title — and a home playoff game. The Saints could save themselves, their fans and the NFL itself some embarrassment by doing that and winding up at 8-8.

Even so, some team with a winning record will be left out in the NFC. “It’s a playoff-type mentality,” Falcons QB Matt Ryan said.

CLEVELAND (7-7) AT CAROLINA (5-8-1) If Carolina wins out and New Orleans loses one of its remaining two games, the Panthers

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SAN DIEGO (9-6) AT SAN FRANCISCO (7-8) The Chargers almost certainly must win out to get into the postseason, and they won Saturday against the Niners.

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BUFFALO (8-6) AT OAKLAND (2-12) Even though ending their league-high 14-season playoff drought is unlikely, the Bills are formidable.

Oakland is in position to earn the top overall draft pick by losing out. But the Raiders have endangered that with wins in two of their past four games.

NEW ENGLAND (11-3) AT NEW YORK JETS (3-11) The Patriots can secure AFC home-field advantage with a win and a Denver loss. Considering that New England is 7-0 at home, which would be huge.

New York is playing out the string, but a win over its biggest rival might actually get owner Woody Johnson thinking about keeping Rex Ryan.

MINNESOTA (6-8) AT MIAMI (7-7) Miami hasn’t officially been eliminated from the postseason chase, but its chances are virtually nonexistent. Beating the Vikings is a must.

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Robert Griffin III, back from his recent benching after a season-ending neck injury to Colt McCoy, went 16 for 23 for 220 yards with one interception for the Redskins to win in his first complete game in 13 months.

Griffin’s only other win as a starter this season came when he was injured in the first quarter against Jacksonville in Week 2.

First-year coach Jay Gruden, who has frequently been critical of Griffin, gave a glowing assessment, saying RG3 “did an outstanding job of managing the football game.”

Cowboys: Little at stake for Colts Continued from Page D-1 and if he can, we’ll give him a chance.”

The Colts (10-4) wrapped up the AFC South with last week’s 17-10 win over Houston and need help trying to catch either New England or Denver for a first-round bye in the playoffs.

But Indianapolis isn’t taking kindly to the word “tuneup.”

“We’re not taking our foot off the pedal by any means,” said Luck, who plays in his hometown of Houston every year.

“There’s a lot on this game. I know we’re fired up for it.”

Things to consider in the first meeting between these teams since 2010, when Romo was out with a broken collarbone but the Cowboys beat Peyton Manning anyway:

What about Hilton? Perhaps the biggest decision for the Colts with their postseason spot secure is whether to play T.Y. Hilton, who is fourth in the NFL with 1,345 yards receiving. He’s nursing a hamstring injury and didn’t practice Wednesday.

“I want to be at 100 percent giving it my all, but nobody’s 100 percent during this time of year,” Hilton said. “So if I’m 60, 70, I’m out there.”

Murray’s blockers: The Cowboys could be without both starters on the right side of their offensive line in tackle Doug Free and rookie guard Zack Martin, who grew up in Indianapolis.

Both are battling ankle injuries, and Free also has an issue with his left foot after missing three games earlier this season with a broken right foot.

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came out this week describing how Luck sometimes compliments opposing players after getting sacked.

Dallas defensive end Jeremy Mincey said he experienced it as an AFC South rival in Jacksonville. “He kind of got to me by saying, ‘That was excellent,’” said Mincey, who had two sacks last weekend against the Eagles.

“I’m like, ‘Dude, don’t talk to me. Please.’ But I respect him so much.”

Dez on a roll: Dallas receiver Dez Bryant had a career-high three touchdowns against Philadelphia to take over the NFL lead in TDs receiving at 13.

He needs 235 yards in the final two games to beat his career high of 1,382 yards receiving in 2012. “He’s a nightmare,” Colts coach Chuck Pagano said.

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e have witnessed an amazing few years in real estate, moving from the national mortgage/real estate crisis to the housing recovery in many parts of the country. In recognition of that recovery, the Federal Reserve Board ended its aggressive $85 billion-a-month government bondbuying program in October. However, the world is waiting to see how well the U.S. recovery continues without the Fed pushing funds into the bond markets in order to keep rates artificially low to help stimulate the economy.

In 1937, the Fed made a huge policy blunder by raising interest rates on the assumption that what we now call the Great Depression was over. Instead, the brief recovery ended, and the rate increase caused a setback leading to a recession that lasted into the Second World War. The Fed governors are well aware of this history: They will keep the rates as close to zero as they have since 2008 to help keep the economy stable. They have commented that if there is a rate tate Guide Santa Fe Real Es increase in 2015, they’ll keep a close eye on the economy to ensure that a double-dip 4 recession does not occur.

Dec em ber 201 Mortgage bankers have seen “15 become the new 30.” Americans have been refinancing their higherrate 30-year fixed-rate loans to lower-rate 15-year fixed-rate loans. The annual percentage rates (APRs) on these loans are currently in the 3’s, and they offer the opportunity to pay off | Homewise a the home faster. We have R.E. Commission moved from the interestonly, highly leveraged environment of 2007 (and before) to the pay-cash, MORE HOME own-it-free-and-clear, payThis column runs it-off-ASAP environment of regularly in Home, today.

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I recently visited with Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales, who shared his views about Santa Fe becoming a more affordable housing market.

“We’ve made some progress but are constantly working to move forward,” he said. “Housing assistance programs in the community, along with city efforts, have been real catalysts to bring about more affordable options for people here in Santa Fe. We have to do more to make housing available to firsttime homebuyers and our workforce. People are still struggling to secure loans and find good, affordable housing — for homeowners and for renters. We will continue working with housing-assistance programs like Homewise and the Santa Fe Community Housing Trust to make a difference.”

If the affordable housing market has improved, there’s still one segment that has stalled significantly in Santa Fe since the real estate crisis: the secondhome market. Although we have seen an increase in home purchase activity in 2014 compared to 2013, we still see Santa Fe lagging behind both the nation and its own 2005 highs. This is a puzzling situation.

Several years have passed and many states have seen great recoveries, but not Santa Fe. This leads one to a question: Is Santa Fe still the city that attracted vacationers in 1990-2006 who fell in love with the area and chose to relocate, retire or buy a second home in our City Different?

Are we effectively appealing to the 35- to 49-yearold demographic, the group known for having the highest discretionary income? Sixty percent of our population is over the age of 60. Has Santa Fe become more conservative, spending less to attract visitors?

Has the allure of Santa Fe decreased? I asked Mayor Gonzales and he responded, “The city needs to work closely with the real estate and tourism industries to market Santa Fe in cities across the country. We are focused on growing our economy year after year in industries outside the traditional areas of government

9 BONITA VISTA TRAIL | $399,000 Custom built home with a great art studio overlooking Heron Lake. Getaway! #201401424 Abigail Davidson | 505.570.0335

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23 CAMINO BARRANCA | $525,000 Situated on a large elevated lot in Aldea with views of the Jemez and Sandia Mountains. #201404497 Darlene Streit & Rey Post | 505.920.8001

604 SUNSET STREET, UNIT C | $625,000 Beautifully appointed condominium just three blocks from the Plaza. #201303327 Team Brunson & Schroeder | 505.690.7885

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LAS CAMPANAS: Villa de Piedra, Penasco Circle $4,850,000 One of the most extraordinary custom estates in Santa Fe, Villa de Piedra is located in the renowned Las Campanas community known for its unrivaled and unsurpassed recreational and lifestyle amenities. Located midway between the Hacienda Clubhouse and the Equestrian Center, magnificent views of surrounding mountain ranges and inspired architecture and design on one level appealing to the most sophisticated tastes provide outdoor living / dining / entertaining areas with private courtyards, portals, and exciting landscaping incorporating fire and waterfall features that guests will cherish and owners will embrace, double master suites with double closets / double libraries, and a magnificent cook’s kitchen styled by an Italian Nonni, suited perfectly for the most extravagant parties and boisterous family gatherings.

Privacy, integrity, and serenity at the end of this secret lane just off Canyon Road define this adobe home and casita, hand built by esteemed northern New Mexico craftsmen and artisans using only the highest quality materials. Two separately deeded lots provide beautiful sunset vistas overlooking Santa Fe, with the Jemez Mountains beyond.

Additional features include hand adzed antique beams and split cedar latillas, flagstone and traditional hardened dirt floors, interior plaster wall finishes, 6 fireplaces, stone countertops, custom wooden cabinetry, extraordinary antique wooden doors, an office, wine tasting room, media room, private well, and outdoor hot tub. Meticulously created by one of Santa Fe’s preeminent Western art dealers and collectors, this classic Eastside estate has never before been available and is priced under current appraisal.

EASTSIDE: Camino Militar $2,225,000 Three homes situated on over 7.4 acres with majestic views of distant mountain ranges, a private pond, stables with riding arena, plus a swimming pool perched atop the ridge, offer endless possibilities to a Buyer seeking their own luxurious enclave. This classic compound is flanked by verdant grounds surrounding three large family residences that have seen three generations of successful dynamos go forth as community leaders, generous philanthropists, talented tycoons, and rip roaring cowboys and cowgirls. An opportunity awaits a creative spirit to enjoy a lifestyle unique in modern day Santa Fe. Amenities that were created years ago remain unprecedented 5 minutes from the historic downtown Plaza. Never before on the market.

NORTHSIDE: Incomparable Family Compound, Brownell Howland Road $8,400,000

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4 BIG TESUQUE CANYON $1,675,000 This northern New Mexico Territorial-style pitchedroof adobe home is nestled in an Idyllic Tesuque setting with an orchard and a stream. The architecture and decorative details distinguish the home.

Stedman/Kehoe/Hirsch 505.501.8002 #201403122

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64 RANCHO DE SAN JUAN ROAD $1,100,000 Retreat to a contemporary sanctuary with sophisticated finishes and magnificent views on 15 acres.

Built in 2004 with 3,526 sq ft, custom furnishings, portales and patios in gated Rancho de San Juan.

Emily Garcia 505.955.7963 #201405460

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607 MILLER STREET $1,567,000 Tucked at the end of a charming Eastside lane sits this classic home full of Santa Fe style with thick, undulating adobe walls, and ceilings with vigas and latillas that look like art objects placed with pride.

Chris Webster 505.780.9500 #201405421

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31 CAMINO DE LOS MONTOYAS $925,000 Gorgeous 4BR, 5.5BA home on 5.4 acres. Big Sangre views, master with fireplace and gym, superb kitchen, family room, huge media/game room; amazing outdoor areas. One level + upstairs 4th BR/study.

Shane Cronenweth 505.984.5158 #201405562

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86 ESTATES DRIVE $1,395,000 Beautiful 4BR, 5,000 sq.ft. Las Campanas home sparkles like new with recent renovation of over $100,000.

The ultimate in protected, forever mountain views and privacy in an incredibly peaceful setting.

Team Burbic Yoder 505.670.9399 #201405469

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7 SHORTHORN $1,175,000 Sparkling city lights, 360-degree views of Jemez, Santa Clara, Sangre de Cristo, Ortiz, and Sandia Mountain ranges. Swim by day, gather by night at the stunning pool. Amazing 10+ acre lot is private.

Maureen Mestas 505.984.5130 #201403398

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7 CROSSROADS COURT $729,000 On 2.5 acres, this custom Sundance Estates home has four bedrooms; two and one-half baths; a backyard with a fire pit; and open living, dining, and kitchen areas; and portales with expansive views.

Gary Bobolsky 505.984.5185 #201403643

2379 SANTA BARBARA DRIVE $675,000 Formal dining room, great room, open concept kitchen with breakfast nook, covered portal, 3-bay garage, tile flooring, covered portal, lush landscaping with fruit trees, private wall and large laundry room.

James Overton 505.660.2375 #201405518

Wishing you a Wonderful Holiday Season Our wish this season is to give back to our Santa Fe community.

It is with this wish in mind, that the associate brokers and staff of Sotheby’s International Realty support the following organizations.

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22 IMMANUEL $579,000 Gorgeous home, fabulous feeling. Enter a brick walkway nestled with trees through a portal to the residence, beautifully sited on a ridge, to see wonderful views. Owner is NM Real Estate Broker.

David & Bonnie Sorenson 505.954.0735 #201404728

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320 DON FERNANDO $487,000 Cheerful, well-maintained home with land for expansion plus 1-car garage is surrounded by gardens and inviting patios. Contemporary upgrades include a cook’s kitchen with stainless appliances. #201404447 Santa Fe Real Estate Consultants 505.231.4046

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727 VIENTO CIRCLE, A $360,000 The perfect getaway. This 3BR, 3.5BA condo is close to the Plaza with mountain views. Includes 1-car detached garage, downstairs master, 2BR upstairs each with their own French doors and balconies.

Brunson & SchroederTeam 505.690.7885 #201405501

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285 CALLE CACIQUE $339,000 Single-level residence is close to Quail Run and has easy I-25 access. Tile throughout, no carpet, kiva fireplace, large vigas in living room, separate dining room, A/C even in the sunroom.

Karin Baxter 505.930.1468 #201404040

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22 CAMINO DE VECINOS $325,000 This bright 1,912-square-foot Aldea townhome offers an open-concept living space, a charming kitchen, a lovely patio and garden, and three bedrooms, including a master suite with mountain views.

Katherine Blagden 505.955.7980 #201401552

4521 CONTENTA RIDGE $315,000 Very livable floor plan in this move-in ready home with views and great access to shopping, restaurants and I-25 for commuting. Vaulted ceiling makes for a light, bright and open feel.

Susan Shields 505.954.5510 #201405491

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4136 BIG SKY $225,000 3BR, 2BA, 1,219 sq.ft. home in Nava Ade. Great views and walking paths from the front door. End unit with some views and lots of space. Large fenced yard.

Work out facilities available as part of the HOA. Darlene Streit 505.920.8001 #201405492

23 CAMINO BARRANCA $525,000 Large elevated lot in Aldea with mountain views.

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Hill, With 360-Degree Views – This Adobe Territorial on 3.46 acres just off OSFT is mere blocks to Canyon Road. It has classic Santa Fe features, stunning gardens and breathtaking views. Library, offices, gym/media room, studio, guesthouse and spa. Extensive entertaining spaces. 4 br, 4 ba, 7626 sq.ft., 2-car garage. $2,700,000 MLS# 201404519

Contemporary? Sleek light-filled home with sunset and some mountain views. Sophisticated design, walls of glass maximize natural light and solar gain. Large studio with loft. On 1.7 acres and only a 3-minute drive downtown. 3 br, 3 ba, 3342 sq.ft., 3-car garage. $1,145,000

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5 Remedios Road Thoughtfully Designed. Best in Quality Finishes, Stylish Owners Suite, Open Concept Filled with Natural Light. 3 Bed 2 Bath Plus Office, Brick Floors, Vigas, 2 Kivas, Tinted Plaster interior walls and Courtyard walls on 3.1 Acres. Views to the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range. Split Bedroom Plan. Located in East Ranch Neighborhood near World Class Equestrian Facilities. $599,500 MLS# 201402020

GAVIN SAYERS (505) 690-3070 • GavinSayers@juno.com Santa Fe Properties • (505) 982-4466 216 Washington Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501 SantaFeProperties.com

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46 TESUQUE VILLAGE ROAD A wonderful home surrounded by beautiful homes in the San Ysidro de Tesuque subdivision, outside of the gated area and accessed directly off Tesuque Village Road. Large five-acre lot, provides privacy and quick access to Santa Fe and Tesuque Village. The studio guest house over the garage is an added bonus.

0 Vallecita 10.71 acres of land at the end of Valley Drive not far from Ft. Marcy Park and the Plaza. Zoned R-1 (one house to the acre). Ideal for a contemporary state-of-the-art-designed residential compound. Adjacent to 800 East and City maps show that both the sewer and water run through the property. $595,000

963 Los Lovatos Santa Fe charmer! North Hills condo with open spaces, but no steps. Completely renovated, worry-free living in Santa Fe! 2 br, 2 ba, 1,496 sq.ft., 2-car garage. Directions: Old Taos Highway, left turn on Los Lovatos and very quickly turn into the first placita. All the way back to the end of driveway. Condo is last unit on right.

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And Castro Convertibles offers a clever option: an oversize ottoman that converts into a single or twin bed. You can choose from a wide range of slipcovers. (www. castroconvertibles.com) Hertel Klarhoefer’s cleverly designed stacking bed is available at Suiteny.com.

Two twin beds stack on top of each other without the need for any hardware; when night comes, just lift the top one off and position it to make a nice big bed for one or more guests. The bed, which can be used as a sofa during the day, is available in a variety of solid wood frames.

For regular 84-inch sofas that don’t pull out, provide nice crisp sheets; Griffin makes sure hers are starched and ironed to give a luxe touch.

There’s no denying the convenience of an inflatable mattress that can be stored away easily. Aerobed has a new luxury version that stands 22 inches high instead of the standard 9 inches, making it more like a real bed, and easier to get on and off. The raised headboard adds extra comfort, and helps keep pillows in place for late-night lounging and reading. (www.aerobed.com) Griffin advises making some closet space available to guests, as well as a small table.

A nice floor basket can corral essentials.

Include a few toiletries and some bottled water. And prepare a binder with instructions on how to work the tech appliances in your home in case you’re out or asleep; include Wi-Fi passwords, too.

Wal-Mart’s armless flannel-upholstered futon sofa comes in a variety of colors including pink, chocolate, blue and orange in a black base. AP/WAL-MART

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Prosperity: Is Santa Fe running on auto pilot to attract tourists? buyers across the country are: What can we do to grow our events so our and tourism. As we get more investvisitors fall in love with Santa Fe even ment into Santa Fe in industries such more? How can we create full-week as film, health care and renewable events with activities that appeal to energy, we’ll see demand for homes families, senior citizens and that demorise and value rise with it.” graphic of people ages 35 to 49?

I recently completed a marketing The film festivals of Telluride and research project for the village of Sundance have gained international Angel Fire. They were looking for ways appeal. What can we do to support to increase revenue. We circled back to and grow our Santa Fe Film Festival one topic: What is the appeal of Angel to attract a larger audience, including Fire and what events can be created more international travelers? The same or expanded to increase city revenue? question applies to events like Santa The Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta is a Fe Pride, Fiesta, Winter Indian Market, great model of a weeklong event that the Souper Bowl and Santa Fe Restautakes place in many locations, culmirant Week. Can we create three, four, nating in the grand finale tasting party five or six days of events by linking up under the tents at The Santa Fe Opera. with our farmers market, the gallery The events leading up to the finale walks on Canyon Road, in the Railyard include special wine dinners, auction and the Plaza area, and our museums? events, cooking school classes and Can we drive traffic to the Plaza merdemonstrations, and a poster party. chants, the hotels and restaurants by Multiple events in one week bring appealing to families, seniors and the revenue to the city merchants and the 35- to 49-year-old market for our next hospitality industry, and also provide Santa Fe generation of buyers? an extended opportunity for our guests I spoke with Cyndi Conn, executo fall in love with Santa Fe and contive director of Creative Santa Fe, on sider relocating, buying a second home the issue of bringing younger visitors or retiring here. to our town. “Santa Fe is facing a sigAs we look at Santa Fe today, are we nificant challenge in attracting and running on auto pilot, resting on the retaining youth — we currently have same laurels we have used over the a negative population growth from years to attract vacationers? Are we too ages 5 to 54. This directly impacts the focused on summer’s big events, like homebuying market,” Conn said. “It is Indian Market, Spanish Market, Intercritical for Santa Fe to actively recruit a national Folk Art Market, The Santa Fe younger demographic to our city, often Opera season and the music festivals? referred to as millenials. This group Questions we may ask as a commurepresents a robust demographic of bright, diverse, tech-savvy and connity, as well as a city looking to regain our market share of visitors and home- nected young people who truly care

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The film festivals of Telluride and Sundance have gained international appeal. What can we do to support and grow our Santa Fe Film Festival to attract a larger audience, including more international travelers? about the cities in which they choose to live. We must actively promote aspects of our city that extend beyond Santa Fe’s current established international brand and renown. Millennials are choosing to live in cities that offer cultural attractions, affordability, walkability, entrepreneurship, technology and a great quality of life.

“Santa Fe has so many of these assets and is home to internationally celebrated innovators, inventors, artists, filmmakers, diplomats, political leaders, fashion designers, social scientists, CEOs, musicians, dancers and other creators. We must leverage our assets and extend our brand beyond traditional ‘Santa Fe Style’ to effectively grow Santa Fe young.”

There’s always a question about nightlife in Santa Fe. Too often we hear that there’s nothing to do after 9 p.m. I’m happy to say that there’s a resurgence of the nightlife scene, with Christine Wilshire as co-owner of The Palace, Doug Nava taking the reins at the Blue Rooster and the team led by Joe Ray Sandoval and Sol Bentley at Skylight promoting lively evenings in town.

One area of the city to watch is the coming revitalization of the St. Michael’s Drive area, which includes the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Here’s an inspiration to consider. In 1978, there was a small vision in Georgia called SCAD — Savannah College of Art and Design, a private institution that opened its doors by renovating one Savannah Armory Building. Today, SCAD has renovated almost 20 buildings, bringing new life to the city along with 1,700 jobs, students and faculty from all 50 states and 100 countries, and offering 40 majors and 60 minors for 11,000 students, with annual tuition close to $32,000. Can this inspire a new growth segment for Santa Fe? It’s the holiday season, so let’s close by thinking about December and January. We take great pride in our City Different as a Christmas wonderland.

There’s something magical about Santa Fe during the holidays. Tourists flock here to enjoy the cold clear nights, bright sunny days and soft, snowy mornings. What can we do to expand and create events? We have our famous Canyon Road Farolito Walk on

Christmas Eve. The Santa Fe Botanical Garden added GLOW last year, a December-January event at the garden. The museums on the Plaza hold holiday events, including Christmas at the Palace and a moving Las Posadas.

What if we emulate European cities like Brussels, Copenhagen, Dresden, London, Munich, Prague, Rome, Salzburg, Strasbourg, Vienna and Paris, which not only host multiple events but also hold Old World holiday markets? Imagine the sparkling lights on the Plaza with merchants, food, crafts and music! Like other ski destinations, can we hold Santa Claus runs, torchlight runs and New Year’s Eve fireworks on the mountain? How can we link these events to attract a variety of guests from all over the world to our merchants, galleries, restaurants and hotels?

It’s your turn. What can we do as a city and citizens to bring a new spark to the City Different? Can we create a new direction in real estate growth?

I have faith that great, new things are to come and even better things will be built on our existing traditions as we catch up with the rest of the nation’s rebounding real estate recovery. After all, there is only one Santa Fe! Francis Phillips (FPhillips@fcbmtg.com) is senior mortgage loan originator with First Choice Loan Services in Santa Fe. He has served as director of business development for national mortgage companies. He and his mortgage partners have funded and built three homes for Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity.

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2:30p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 7 Shorthorn - Sparkling city lights, 360-degree views of Jemez, Santa Clara, Sangre de Cristo, Ortiz, Sandia mountain ranges. Swim by day, gather by night at the stunning pool. Amazing 10+ acre lot is private. $1,175,000. MLS 201403398. (Camino La Tierra west to entrance of La Tierra Nueva.) Maureen Mestas 505-310-1050 Sotheby’s International Realty.

1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 4 Big Tesuque Canyon - This northern New Mexico Territorial-style pitched-roof adobe home is nestled in an Idyllic Tesuque setting with an orchard and a stream. The architecture and decorative details distinguish the home. $1,675,000. MLS 201403122.

(Bishops Lodge Road to Big Tesuque Canyon. First house on right.) TaRa Bloom 505-699-6773 Sotheby’s International Realty.

N-13 1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 13 Calle Ojitos - This stunning contemporary home has a view of the Sunset Course and a flexible floor plan including light-filled living/dining room, a chef’s kitchen, a media room, and a spalike master suite. $1,595,000. MLS 201403827. (Enter via Clubhouse Drive. Make a left on Trailhead Drive, left on Palomita Drive, right on Via Pampa, right on Calle Ojitos.) Gary Bobolsky 505-470-0927 Sotheby’s International Realty.

T-22 12:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 23 Camino Barranca - Large elevated lot in Aldea with views of the Jemez and Sandias.

This home features an open floor plan with high ceilings throughout, 3BR, 3BA, with 3-car garage. Two bonus rooms and great storage. $525,000. MLS 201404497.

(West Frontage Road to Avenida Aldea to Camino Barranca.) Sara Sacra 505-946-7163 Sotheby’s International Realty.

R-44 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 1000 Hillcrest - Perfectly located with panoramic mountain views from this open-concept home. Enjoy the best of indoor outdoor living from both levels with generous covered portals, decks, and exterior fireplace. $1,550,000. MLS 201403652. (Bishops Lodge road north to Hillcrest. Hillcrest turns to the right and Stagecoach straight ahead take Hillcrest to the right and house is at top of the hill.) Diane Harrison 505-4129918 Sotheby’s International Realty.

12:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 1024 Bishops Lodge Road, Santa Fe, NM - The perfect gift is easy living. A bright single level home (ADA access), complete remodel, garage, 3 bedroom 4 baths, 2 acres, views, and garage. Happy Holiday. Join me for tea, cookies and a tour. $800,000.

MLS 201404902. (From the Plaza 1 mile, take Washington to Bishops Lodge Road. A new home for the Holiday is on the left.) Anna Vanderlaan 505-231-3410 Keller Williams Realty.

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T-27 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 2085 Pinon Bluffs Drive - Bright yellow aspens in the fall, shiny white snow caps thru the winter, and lush green mountain vistas the rest of year are out your living room window. $729,000. MLS 201404894. (3 br, 3 ba, 599 to Ridgetop then South on Ridgetop to Pinon Bluffs Drive.) Dave Feldt 505-690-5162 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

U-21 12:00p.m. - 2:00p.m. — 22 Camino de Vecinos - This bright 1,912-square-foot Aldea townhome offers an open-concept living space, a charming kitchen, a lovely patio and garden, and three bedrooms, including a master suite with mountain views $325,000. MLS 201401552.

(599 to Frontage Road to Avenida Aldea, left on Botanica, then right on Camino de Vecinos.) Katherine Blagden 505-490-2400 Sotheby’s International Realty.

1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 780 Aspen Compound - Well-priced home, quiet location, adjacent to greenbelt. Expansive west views. Spacious living room w/high ceilings, upgraded kitchen, huge master. Low maintenance landscaping. Clubhouse pool & tennis $650,000. MLS 201402509. (3 br, 2 ba, Hyde park Road. Second Entry into Estancia Primera..go 1/4 mile over arroyo bridge. Aspen Compound on right. Turn left into circle.) Mari Tennison 505-795-8000 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

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2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 2230 Paseo de los Chamisos - Delightful townhome in Los Chamisos. Living room has fireplace, clerestory windows and beamed ceilings.

Brick floors throughout public areas. Both bedrooms have glass doors to outdoor spaces. $239,900. MLS 201404505. (2 br, 1 ba, West on Siringo to Yucca, left on Yucca, right on Ponderosa Lane, left on Paseo de los Chamisos, second right into ’La Serena Plaza’ Unit is at the end of the complex on the left.) Kristin Rowley 505670-1980 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

KK-33 12:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 2807 Plaza Rojo - This brilliantly renovated townhouse is light, bright, incredibly handsome and sophisticated in a sleek, contemporary style.

There are big Sangre views from the sundeck and it’s 100% move-in ready! $324,500. MLS 201404598. (2 br, 2 ba, From Rodeo Rd. go south on Camino Carlos Rey, turn R at first street onto Plaza Blanca, then R on second street, Plaza Rojo, go to end and turn R into Ristra Plaza and follow to north end.) Jeanne Hertz 505-660-6345 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

OO-13 12:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 7326 Avenida El Nido - From $194,900, Homewise Homes are designed to fit your lifestyle and save up to 45% in energy costs. Quality construction and design at a price you can afford. Special financing may be available. $194,900. (From Airport Rd, turn onto Paseo del Sol WEST. Turn right onto Jaguar Rd to dead end, then turn right on Avenida El Nido.) Cande Toner 505-699-4252 Homewise, Inc.

QQ-24 12:00p.m. - 2:00p.m. — 69 Bosquecillo - Better-than-new pueblo style home with custom tile work throughout, new appliances & newly landscaped. This house has a finished garage and the property is equipped with a cistern for landscape usage $289,900. MLS 201403978. (4 br, 2 ba, Richards Ave to Dinosaur Trail to entrance of La Pradera subdivision at Camino Sabanero to Bosquecillo go left to house which will be on your left.) John Herbrand 505-670-9668 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

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1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 125 Coronado - This Historic Santa Fe Home originally built in the 1920’s has been completely renovated and price just dropped $50,000! $550,000. MLS 201405145. (Galiseto St to Coronado right house on left - look for signs) John Foster 505-660-6399 Keller Williams Realty.

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12:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 11 Via Optima - Visit Tessera, the newest Homewise Homes community designed to fit your lifestyle from $293,500. Tucked in the northwest hills, enjoy great views, trails and open space only six miles from the Plaza. $418,000. (Take 599 to the Camino La Tierra exit, then take the Frontage Road south to Tessera. Follow the signs to Tessera Model Homes.) Augusta Candelaria (505) 603-5337 Homewise, Inc.

11:00a.m. - 1:00p.m. — 1304 Lujan St. - Classic Stamm home with top finishes throughout. Located on a quiet street in Casa Alegre on a large lot with mature landscaping. $269,000. MLS 201404731. (Cerrillos road to Lujan street.) Brian Tercero 505-930-9586 Keller Williams Realty.

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12:30p.m. - 2:30p.m. — 1317 Cibola Circle - Rare opportunity to own a home in the coveted Cibola Circle development. Owners in the Cibola development enjoy a community pool, a guest house for visitors and hiking trails. $479,000. MLS 201405385. (W. Alameda to Cedar to left on Cibola Circle. There is no sign but the address is on the home.) J.C. Linson 505-690-7333 Barker Realty LLC.

12:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 1068 Camino Vista Aurora - A beautiful two-story home updated to perfection. Two beds and full bath on each floor. 42" kitchen cabinets.

South clerestory windows.

Convenient location. $192,000. MLS 201405523. (From Airport, right on Lopez Lane, Right on Rufina, First left is Camino Vista Aurora) Barbara Blackwell 505-690-9831 Keller Williams Realty.

12:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — La Pradera Model Home - 20 Canto del Pajaro - La Pradera Model Home. The Correlada Contemporary model features clean lines and modern angle. One-bedroom attached casita with interior courtyard. Owner/Broker. $359,900. MLS 201403744. (3 br, 3 ba, Richards Ave. turn right at stop light at the Dinosaur Trail intersection and turn left at 2nd entrance of La Pradera (Old Dinosaur Trail) right onto Bosquecillo to Canto del Pajaro.) Bob Lee Trujillo & Ernie Zapata 505470-0002 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

N-78 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 22 Immanuel - orgeous home, fabulous feeling. Enter a brick walkway nestled with trees through a portal to the residence, beautifully sited on a ridge, to see wonderful views. Owner/broker. $579,000.

MLS 201404728. (Hwy 285 South/Left on Alma Drive/up Alma aka Principe de Paz to Agua Viviendo, left on Agua Viviendo. 1st left on Immanuel to last property on left at cul de sac.) Alan Vorenberg 505-470-3118 Sotheby’s International Realty.

O-72 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 84 La Paz Loop - Upgraded La Paz home is bright and spacious. Two custom stone fireplaces. Stainless appliances update a unique kitchen. Two courtyards with great landscaping and a fountain. Private, quiet, views. $399,000. MLS 201405567. (I-25 to Eldorado exit, 285 South to Avenida Eldorado (3rd entrance) 1st left on to La Paz Loop, stay left on La Paz Loop.) Danna Cooper 505-670-6377 Sotheby’s International Realty.

Q-75 1:30p.m. - 3:30p.m. — 20 Calle Cal - Enjoy the spirit of the Southwest in this beautiful 2900 sq.ft. home on 2.5 acres in the neighborhood of Cielo Colorado. Charming, lightfilled floor plan with Pergo and tile floors throughout. $585,000. MLS 201403753. (3 br, 2 ba, Highway 285 south, left on Camino Acote, left on Calle Cal.) Amber Haskell 505-470-0923 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

R-70 11:00a.m. - 1:00p.m. — 54C Jacinto Road - Equestrian hacienda ranchette. Classic hacienda style casa with guesthouse, stables & long views. Access to Hwy. 285 amenities. Mature landscaping, large eastern portal plus private western courtyard $699,000. MLS 201403077.

(4 br, 3 ba, Hwy 285 South to Jacinto Road, entry drive is on the left, property is located at the end on the left.)

Amber Haskell 505-470-0923 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

R-73 1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 5 Remedios Road - Thoughtfully Designed. Best in Quality Finishes, Stylish Owners Suite, Open Concept Filled with Natural Light. 3 Bed 2 Bath Plus Office, Brick Floors, Vigas, 2 Kivas, Tinted Plaster interior walls. $599,500. MLS 201402020. (Hwy 285 past Eldorado to Left on Old Raod Ranch to Right on Willa Cather to Left on Bishop Lamy to Right on Remedios Rd) Jenny Trudi Bishop Conkling 505-470-2102 Barker Realty LLC.

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Y-41 1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 456 A Acequia Madre - Dating to the 1920s, the classic 2BR, 2BA Eastside home was reincarnated in 2008 as a modern rendition of classic Pueblo-style architecture appointed with only the finest finishes. $835,000. MLS 201404745. (Paseo de Peralta to Acequia Madre) Stan Jones 505-310-2426 Sotheby’s International Realty.

HH-41 2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 2285 Calle Cacique - Single-level residence is close to Quail Run and has easy I-25 access.

Tile throughout, no carpet, kiva fireplace, large vigas in living room, separate dining room, A/C even in the sunroom. $339,000. MLS 201404040. (Old Pecos Trail south to Calle Cacique.) Karin Baxter-King 505-930-1468 Sotheby’s International Realty.

11:30a.m. - 1:30p.m. — 30 Gallina Road - This single level adobe residence has amazing views, tons of Santa Fe charm, exposed adobe walls throughout, and a wonderful patio area, which connects the main house and the studio. $375,000. MLS 201404142. (Highway 14 to Bonanza Creek, left on Rancho Alegre, left on Gallina Road; home is on the right.) Karin Baxter-King 505-930-1468 Sotheby’s International Realty.

2:30p.m. - 4:30p.m. — 6 Vista Lagunitas - On an elevated lot with panoramic views and sitting on a quiet 1.88 +/acres, the 6 bedroom, 4 bath home is packed with luxury features. Close to Santa Fe and Albuquerque. $485,000.

MLS 201404123. (6 br, 4 ba, I-25 to Entrada La Cienega to west frontage road left to Entrance of Las Lagunitas, go north to Rito Guica turn left and proceed to Vista Lagunitas.) John Herbrand 505-670-9668 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

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

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

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

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

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

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APARTMENTS FURNISHED

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2 BEDROOM, $800. 1 BEDROOM, $700.

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Sorry, No Pets. 505-471-0839

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

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

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

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

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

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Chamisa Management 505-988-5299 813 CAMINO DE MONTE REY: Live-in studio, full kitchen, bath, small back yard, tile throughout. $690 gas and water paid. NO PETS! 505-471-4405 CHARMING 2 bedroom Casita, $850 plus utilities. Centrally located, near bus stops and parks. 101 1/2 Taos, Call Gertrude, 505-983-4550.

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Opportunity Cash Buyer - $500K-$1M. Seeking income producing commercial property.

Local Broker: R.E. search Associates.

John Nye, 505-699-3492.

INVESTMENT PROPERTY 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.

PRIVATE OFFICE & GROUP ROOM AVAILABLE. Good location & parking.

Call Marty, 505-438-1853.

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

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OUT OF TOWN NEWLY REMODELED ADOBE HOME FOR SALE! Sits on one acre of land next to the Rio Grande . 505-995-0318 DETAILS: www.northernnewmexicohome.com

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

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

2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH CASITA

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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.

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3000 SQ.FT. ULTIMATE SERENITY & VIEWS 5 bedrooms, 4 baths. Old Las Vegas Highway. $1900. NM Properties & Homes, 505-989-8860 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

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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.

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

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

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

COMMERCIAL SPACE

RETAIL SPACE 1607 ST. MICHAELS DRIVE

HOUSES UNFURNISHED

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

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

Double car garage. Vigas, tile, fireplace. Open concept. A must see; Very clean. No pets, non-smoking. $1300 monthly. Russ, 505-470-3227.

WAREHOUSES

MANUFACTURED HOMES

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

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

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

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.

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

APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED

Large living room, hardwood floors.

Off-street parking, carport.

All appliances. $900 utilities included.

No pets. References a must. 505-9825232.

HOUSES UNFURNISHED

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

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

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

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

ROOMMATE WANTED ROOMMATE WANTED. Furnished bedroom, den, private bath. Eldorado. $500 monthly. 505-466-0021.

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This is an exempt position and serves at the pleasure of the Executive Director. Salary $71,801 – $107,702 plus benefits DOQ. A detailed job description can be viewed at www.ncrtd.org.

REGIONAL TRANSIT DISTRICT Our mission is to provide safe, secure and effective public transportation within North Central New Mexico in order to enhance the quality of life of our citizens by providing

A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in accounting, business administration, finance or a related field and five (5) years of increasingly responsible experience in senior level finance/accounting position is required. Submit a resume, list of reference, letter of interest, and a completed District application to: NCRTD, HR Office, 1327 Riverside Drive, Espanola, NM 87532 or via email at dalenel@ncrtd.org.

mobility options and spur economic development throughout the region.

The NCRTD is an EEO/AA Employer.

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SENIOR NETWORK & SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

TO APPLY: Applications may be downloaded from our website: www.santafenm.gov; or apply online at www.santafenm.gov. The deadline to apply for this position is 1/05/2015 at 5:00 PM PST.

YOUR JOB LISTING DESERVES NEW MEXICAN EXPOSURE.

We are seeking an experienced information technology professional to perform engineering and third-level technical system administration analysis, implementation, maintenance and support of datacenter server, storage, security, and network components. Position is based in Santa Fe. Presbyterian Medical Services is a large non-profit network of community health centers and human service programs located throughout New Mexico.

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DRIVERS Driver (Full-time). Monday through Friday. Clean Driving Record a Must.

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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.

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BULLDOG, OLD, PARTIALLY BLIND, walking down old Las Vegas Highway, near Canoncito, Tuesday morning, December 16. Taken to Santa Fe Animal Shelter.

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

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LOST LABRADOODLE REWARD! Small 23-pound cream/white male labradoodle, 2 years old, lost Thursday, December 11. Last seen near the area between Osage and the Indian School. Wearing a loose green collar , neckerchief and brown leash. Collar says "Sami." Very frightened. New adoptee. Likely will not come when called. Needs medication. Reward.

No questions asked. IF SEEN ANYWHERE, PLEASE CALL: 505-954-1092, or Smith Animal Hospital, 505-9824418, or the Santa Fe Animal Shelter 505-983-4309, ask for Miguel or David.

SET of toyota keys. Lost December 13. reward. 983-6676.

(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

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

Benefits eligible.

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

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.

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Northern Pueblos Housing Authority

Northern Pueblos Housing Authority seeks an Economic Development Director.

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

ADMINISTRATIVE

ADOPTION COUNSELOR Wanted for Santa Fe Animal Shelter. Basic animal welfare, good communication and computer skills required. Full time. Email: dmoore@sfhumanesociety.org RECEPTIONIST Needed for Santa Fe Animal Shelter’s fast-paced south-side animal clinic.

Email résumé to sdelarco@sfhumanesociety.org .

For further information and application instructions, please e-mail receptionist@nphousing.com.

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*

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 .

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OPTICIAN Santa Fe Optical

NEW DEALERSHIP!

Eye Associates of New Mexico is the largest ophthalmology and optometry practice in the Southwest.

We currently have the above-listed position open at our Santa Fe Optical Shop. Some positions require travel between our Northern New Mexico clinics, please check the listing.

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

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

To learn more about these positions and our organization, see the expanded information on www.jobing.com.

Please send resume and cover letter stating the specific POSITION and LOCATION for which you are applying to: Eye Associates of New Mexico, 8801 Horizon Blvd. NE #360, Albuquerque, NM 87113 Attn: Human Resources; fax to (800) 548-5213 or email to employment@eyenm.com.

No phone calls please. Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug-FreeWorkplace.

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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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MISCELLANEOUS JOBS Archeologist

Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project in Velarde.

Requires MA Archeology or Anthropology + 1 year experience as archeologist, anthropologist, researcher or research assistant performing archeological field work, recording & cataloging cultural artifacts, researching Native American history & culture, writing reports, coordinating education initiatives. Resume to katherinewells7@gmail.com

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

SALES MARKETING

Seeking Motivated Commissions Sales Reps Competitive Pay with No Door to Door or Cold Calling. Must have Reliable Transportation & a Smart Phone.

Call Justin at 517-574-1415.

Multimedia Consultant

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

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

CIRCA 1910 3’ by 2’ Made by Antonio Garza. Call 577-5959.

APPLIANCES GE MICROWAVE, "SpaceMaker". 4.5 cubic feet. $60, 505-438-2424.

GOOD UPRIGHT Vacuum Cleaner, works great. $40, 505-438-2424.

PANASONIC MICROWAVE, 3.5 CUBIC FEET. GOOD CONDITION. $60. 505-4382424.

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

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

ATTENTION ADVERTISERS

EARLY CHRISTMAS 2014 DEADLINES Publication Date

Deadline

DISPLAY ADVERTISING Pasatiempo, Friday, Dec. 26 Friday, December 26 Saturday, December 27 Sunday, December 28 Monday, December 29 Faith Directory, Saturday, Dec. 27 Bulletin Board, Sunday, Dec. 28

Friday, December 19, 4:00p.m.

Tuesday, December 23, Noon Tuesday, December 23, 2:00p.m.

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CLASSIFIED LINERS Thursday, December 25 Friday, December 26

Wednesday, December 24, Noon Wednesday, December 24, Noon

OBITUARIES Thursday, December 25 Friday, December 26

Wednesday, December 24, Noon Wednesday, December 24, Noon

LEGALS Tuesday, December 30

Wednesday, December 24, 9:30am

THRIFTY NICKEL DISPLAY & LINERS Thursday, December 25 Friday, December 19, Noon For Death Notices after the above deadlines, please phone The New Mexican’s Newsroom at 986-3022 through Wednesday, December 24.

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Sunday, December 21, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

sfnm«classifieds ART

MISCELLANEOUS

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

93,000 COLOMBIAN Pesos for sale at 2,000 = $46.50. 505-310-1829

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.

BUILDING MATERIALS

to place your ad, call

986-3000

BIG BOX of Mother Earth News & other Homestead Magazines. $5 for all.

505-231-9133

CHRISTMAS & All Occasion quality wrapping paper. Great Big Box with many rolls unopened. $20, OBO. 505231-9133

DELTA MODEL 31-280 Sanding Center, 6" x 24" belt, 12" diameter disc. Mobile base and user’s manual. $900.

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

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

GIVE THE gift of love. Beautiful Bassett hound poppies. 7 weeks old, 3 female pups left, Peach, Wrinkles and Sally. Purebred, AKC registered.

Euro parent, home raised and loved. $700 each OBO. Satisfaction guaranteed. Call Johnny 505-670-2195.

COOKING DISCO, Discadas for Sale.

17" to 32" diameter. Hundreds available. Starting at $35. Sold at Aldona’s Breakfast Buffet Restaurant, 3875 Cerrillos Road. Open 6:30am-3:30pm everyday. 505-469-3355.

GREAT CHRISTMAS PRESENT! 20 miscellanous items and tools. All new, in packages. $30 for all. Call for information 505-310-4179.

FISHER SOLID Wood 200 Watt Speakers- Excellent Condition. 2 speakers for $90.00 Call Patt at 505466-1181

MEN’S BLACK DRESS COAT, LARGE. $20. 505-577-8768.

Men’s Landsend Snowboots. size 13. waterproofed and insulated. New. leather uppers. Great GIFT!!! $50. 505231-9133.

SONY STEREO Speakers, black, great condition. $30, OBO. 505-231-9133

COLLECTIBLES

RIMS- 18", chrome, 5 lug, one piece cast. Original $900. Sacrifice for $200.

Call Patt at 505-466-1181

LPS 5 Boxes, sorted mostly Rock. Approximately 500 Records. $300 takes All. 505-699-7656

WOODEN COYOTE/CACTUS craft decorative piece. Ideal for child’s room, den, conversation piece of Southwest, 3 ft. tall, $45, call 505-690-5042

HYPER-EXTENSION MACHINE, made out of aluminum with black upholstery. $75, 505-438-2424.

TOTAL GYM 1800 Club Exerciser, hardly used, original box with instructions and all accessories. Folds up compactly. $250. 505-467-8820

FIREWOOD-FUEL FIREWOOD FOR sale. 1 full cord $200.

1/2 cord $125. Delivery Included! 505470-2789, 505-470-3869, 505-753-0303.

FIREWOOD Get yours now! Cedar, Pinon, Russian Olive…Quantity discounts. Full cords available. Call for prices & delivery options. 505-231-3034.

VITO B Flat Clarinet with case, reed and extras. Excellent Condition. Only $100. Call Patt at 505-466-1181.

OFFICE SUPPLY EQUIPMENT GREAT FOR Classroom, Church or Business. Two part Lectern. Only $125 Call Patt at 505-466-1181

PHOTO EQUIPMENT TELESCOPE, COMPUTERCONTROLLED, Celestron, Nexstar 114gt, 114 mm,new in box, $275, great Christmas present, call 5056 9 0 5 0 4 2 http://www.amazon.com/CelestronNexstar-114GT-ReflectorTelescope/dp/B00004ZD38

SPORTS EQUIPMENT

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

ATLAS SNOWSHOES, women’s, very good condition, Color red. $75. 505820-0776

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

CHRISTMAS GAMBLERS: Very nice poker table "straight" from Las Vegas! Greenfelt, chip holders, beverage holders! $300 ONLY. MERRY CHRISTMAS! 505-438-2424

FURNITURE 3 MATCHING SWIVEL STOOLS with wood armrests, good quality, $60 for all 3. Call me, let’s make a deal. 505927-5428

NFL DALLAS Cowboy’s Lawn Helmet, made out of plywood. Bright Silver & Royal Blue. (any team available) $80, 505-438-2424 TREK BICYCLE, 26". Antelope 820 Mountain Bike. 20" frame, blue. Recently tuned, in perfect working condition. $100. 505-424-1771.

COMFORTABLE AND Stylish Chair.

Call 577-5959.

Custom made 40" Round Southwest Pine Table, bullet carvings by local craftsman, $250. Matching chairs, $125. Choose finish, upholstery, 505982-3214.

TOOLS MACHINERY

»animals«

CALL 986-3000

FINANCIAL LOANS LSCL HAS all types of commercial Loans and investor residential loans.

We are correspondent lenders. www.lonestarcommeriallending.com for rates and guides. Bill Taylor Director 817-927-5626

QUEEN SIZE Sleep Number Mattress, excellent condition, two sided controls. $350. Ken, 505-470-6462.

REAL WOOD double-stacked Bookcase, painted white, 4’ high x 4’ wide, adjustable shelves. $35 . 505-231-9133

PUPPIES. WESTIES for sale. APR registration documents. 2 females, 1 male. 8 weeks. Ready to go. First shots. $600. Cash only. 505-6991 5 5 0

DC-380 15" Planer, 2HP Motor, Mobile Base, Table Extensions and User’s Manual.

Like new. $1000. 505-471-1758, OR 505-470-5701.

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

SEIKO WESTMINSTER wall clock, quartz movement with pendulum, new in box, never used. $120, call 505-690-5042 SLEEPER SOFA with matching pillows, comfortable mattress. Good condition. $200. CALL ME, let’s make a deal. 505-927-5428

JEWELRY DELTA DJ-15 6" Jointer. Mobile base.

Like new. $800. 505-471-1758, OR 505470-5701.

»garage sale«

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.

PETS SUPPLIES

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

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 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

ESTATE SALES CLASSIC CARS

SMALL DOG RESCUE ADOPTION EVENT. Teca Tu in Sanbusco. Sunday, Dec. 21, noon - 3 pm 505-438-3749.

PAINTINGS AT REDUCED PRICES, 121 West San Francisco. Originals by Macaione, Gorman, T.C. Cannon, Guardipee, Anderson Kee, H. Begay, Ned Jacob. Ledger drawings, contemporary New Mexico landscapes.

Living Pueblo painters (buffalo, deer, elk dancers.) 10 - 7 Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

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

WE GET RESULTS! CALL 986-3000

Hi, my name is: santafenewmexican.com

Honey

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.

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.

EOE

MYRTLE NC Mahogany 60’s desk middle locking drawer wing arms.

35" Wide; 26" Center; 77" Long $300 OBO 505-466-6563.

Donate used cars, trucks, boats, RV, motorcycles in any condition to help support Santa Fe Habitat.

Call: 1-877-277-4344 or www.carsforhomes.org Local: 505986-5880.

with a classified ad. Get Results!

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

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

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.

Adopt from the Santa Fe Animal Shelter for Christmas Eve delivery

by Santa Claus and his elf.

Call 983-4309 ext. 610 for details.

SELL YOUR PROPERTY!

FEED EQUIPMENT SERVICES PIANO STEINWAY, Medium Grand, Model M Ebony. Excellent condition.

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

AUTOS WANTED

»finance«

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

DELL LAPTOP, XP Professional, 3.24 GB of RAM, works great, $100. 505231-9133

19 inch Blizzack Snow Tires for Toyota SUV Venza. Provides excellent traction on snow and ice. SALE, $150, OBO. Janie, 505-412-0288.

Adult Pet adoption fee only $25 through December.

Visit sfhumanesociety.org

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.

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT

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)

MAKE YOUR CHILD’S DREAM COME TRUE.

ROCKWELL DELTA CLASSIC Ten" Unisaw. Cast iron base, 1 HP 115/230 VAC, fence, guide. $350. 505-471-1758, OR 505-470-5701.

DENON TURNTABLE QUARTZ DP-33F with Audio Technica cartridge. $150.

505-310-1829

COMPUTERS

4 CHEVY 4x4 Custom 10"wide Chrome Wide-spoke Wheels. $100 for the set. 505-438-2424.

Sunday, Dec. 21 Pooch Pantry

FIRST EDITION book collection. Only $8 each. Great holiday gifts. 505-4749020.

MEN’S ALL WEATHER TAN COAT with lining. Size 46 long. $20. 505-577-8768.

Chevrolet 10-bolt posi-Trac. Rear End...with Ladder Bars!! $300 ONLY! MERRY CHRISTMAS! 505-438-2424

3561 Zafarano Drive Noon-3 p.m.

TV RADIO STEREO

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

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

Friday, Dec. 19.

PetSmart Saturday, Dec. 20 PetSmart

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

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

AUTO PARTS ACCESSORIES

3561 Zafarano Drive 1-4 p.m.

BUSINESS EQUIPMENT

CLOTHING

»cars & trucks«

Santa Fe Animal Shelter PET ADOPTION EVENTS Meet Adoptable Animals

Art Books Plus: Large Selection, with dust covers. GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS! Only $3- $12. Other reasonable books. First editions. 505-474-9020

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

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

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

Have a product or service to offer?

Call our small business experts today!

PETS SUPPLIES

PETS SUPPLIES

TOOLS MACHINERY

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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.

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FAIRCHILD & CO written APPRAISAL AT $8,750. Over 2.5 carats total weight, size 7. Would make excellent engagement, wedding or cocktail ring. $5,000. Willing to meet at jeweler to confirm authentic. 505-379-3750

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

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

Place your ad today on sfnmclassifieds.com or contact us: classad@sfnewmexican.com or 505-986-3000. * Prices for 2 weeks starting at $25.

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THE NEW MEXICAN Sunday, December 21, 2014

sfnm«classifieds CLASSIC CARS

IMPORTS

to place your ad, call IMPORTS

986-3000

Have a product or service to offer?

Call our small business experts today!

IMPORTS

IMPORTS

SUVs

Toy Box Too Full?

CAR STORAGE FACILITY

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

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

2013 Lexus RX350 AWD recent trade-in! LOADED, saddle leather, navigation, single owner clean CarFax GORGEOUS! $39,991 505-913-2900

DOMESTIC

2012 SUBARU OUTBACK PREMIUM

Another One Owner, Local, Garaged, Non-Smoker, Extra Remote Keys, Books and Manuals, 12,425 Miles, Service Records, Remaining Factory Warranty, Pristine, Soooo DESIRABLE $22,950

WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE!

2014 VW Passat Wolfsburg Edition 13K, loaded, 1 owner and super nice...$19,881 Call 505-216-3800.

2007 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER SUV 4WD

Very clean, 3.6 V6, automatic, alloy wheels, runs great, new oil change, 99K miles, charcoal grey, power driver seat, power windows and locks, roof rack, tow package hitch. New tires. $ 9 ,6 0 0 . CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED! El Dorado, Santa Fe. 520-906-9399

Sell your car in a hurry!

Place an ad in the Classifieds 986-3000

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505-983-4945 PICKUP TRUCKS

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

2010 Audi A6 Prestige quattro

FORD F150 1983 V8, Automatic Transmission, 57,500 miles, 2WD, extended cab,cash only. $1800 in Ribera. Call 970-390-5597 or 575-421-4212.

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

FORD ESCAPE Limited 2008 One Owner, excellent condition, 4WD, fully loaded, automatic transmission, Sirius radio, navigation, sunroof, leather interior. New tires, new windshield, all services done. 73,900 miles. Asking Price $12,000. 505-4707896.

2011 LEXUS IS350 CLEANEST IN NO AMERICA, BEST PRICE , T1853, $27,488CALL 505-473-1234.

2010 Subaru Outback Premium AWD recent local trade, clean, wellmaintained, clean CarFax, heated seats, moonroof $14,931 505-9132900

2008 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN 4X4, HARD LOADED, HARD TO FIND, HARD TO BEAT PRICE, T1871, $ 21988 CALL 505-473-1234.

2009 FORD Escape XLT, AWD, 68k miles, new battery, new tires, fully serviced. Great condition. $8,500 or best offer. 575-737-0628.

2007 GMC SIERRA EXTENDED CAB

1999 MERCEDES Benz ML430 (Black), Leather interior, heated seats, sunroof. $9,500, OBO. 505771-3394.

Another Caring Local Owner, Service Records, 39,045 Miles, Extra Remote Keys, Books&Manuals, 8 Foot Bed, Running Boards, Bed Liner, Work Truck, Pristine, Soooo AFFORDABLE $15,650

WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE! 2014 BMW X3 low miles and even lower price, auto, moonroof, heated seats, why buy new... Call 505-2163800.

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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505-983-4945

2010 Lexus RX350 AWD ANOTHER Mercedes-Benz Trade-in! local & well-maintained, heated/cooled leather, new tires, NICE Just $24,931 505-913-2900

2005 CHEVROLET S I L V E R A D O 1500, KING OF THE ROAD, $11888.

CALL 505-473-1234.

PORCHE 2006 CAYENNE. Won’t last!

Beautiful SUV (taupe & tan), sun/moon roof, interior excellent condition, low mileage 97,000. Runs great! $15,000. 505-920-3849

»recreational«

2014 Toyota RAV4 AWD 14k, CLE pkg, auto, nice options, 1 owner...$23,981 Call 505-216-3800.

2006 GMC SIERRA SLE EXTENDED CAB

Another Caring Local Owner, Service Records, Extra Remote Keys, Books&Manuals, Running Boards, Bed Cover, New Tires, Pristine, Soooo HARD WORKING $12,450

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

2010 LEXUS RX350 AWD Lexus Certified, loaded up, full svc and ready to go...$29,871 Call 505-216-3800.

WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE! 2014 TOYOTA RAV4 XLE AWD 7K, auto, loaded, super clean and 1 owner...$24,981 Call 505-216-3800.

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

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505-983-4945

BICYCLES "NEXT" BRAND 24", 21 Speed Bike.

Purple & White. $60, 505-438-2424.

CAMPERS & RVs AL’S RV CENTER RV Heating & Appliance Repair.

Call Al, over 43 years of experience. 505-203-6313, 505-5771938.

4X4s

2013 Kia Soul ! recent trade-in, local vehicle, back-up camera, super nice, single owner clean CarFax $13,951 505913-2900

2006 LEXUS GS300 AWD loaded, nav, leather, 1 owner...$18,981 Call 505216-3800.

2013 Toyota Avalon XLE Premium another Mercedes trade! Low miles, leather, local one owner clean CarFax $25,973 505913-2900

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

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2002 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY II 2002.

New ABS controller, water pump, steering box, alternator, driveshaft.

Great in snow or mud. Bridgestone Dueler H/L tires. Dual moonroofs, great stereo. ’Special Projects’ vehicle. Clean title. 575-779-3368. 143K miles.

HEAVY EQUIPMENT

2014 NISSAN Frontier 4WD Crew Cab 14K, auto, SV pkg, loaded and ready to go, 1 owner...$27,871 Call 505-2163800.

YOUR MORNING FIX.

2011 Mercedes-Benz GLK350 4matic CERTIFIED! w/factory warranty, local trade, just serviced, AWD, ask about finance specials $26,991 505-913-2900

2013 Lexus GX460 Premium 4wd

2013 TOYOTA Tacoma Double Cab 4x4, ONLY 6K, Auto, TRD Off-Road Extra Value Package, come see this one.. Call 505-216-3800.

ANOTHER Mercedes-Benz Tradein! local 1 owner, EVERY option, rare dark brown leather, adjustable suspension, over $64k new, clean CarFax $50,962.

505-913-2900

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2013 Toyota Corolla L, auto, A/C, equipt right and priced at only...$13,871 Call 505-216-3800.

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2013 SUBARU FORRESTER, AWD, ONLY 15K MILES, T1817, $24,988 CALL 505-473-1234.

2012 Volkswagen CC

2013 Toyota Tundra

Luxury ANOTHER Mercedes tradein! Loaded, leather, navigation, immaculate, clean CarFax $17,951 505-913-2900

Limited CrewMAX Rock Warrior 4x4 only 9k miles, local 1 owner, leather, nav, A/T tires, loaded clean CarFax $41,973 505-913-2900

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IMPORTS PORSCHE 944 1988 RUNS FINE, EVERYTHING WORKS, GRAY WITH TAN. NEEDS INTERIOR CLEAN UP, MINOR EXTERIOR WORK. 200K MILES. $2,000 OBO. 505-977-4699.

2000 SUBARU Legacy Outback. $130,000 miles, Excellent condition, inside and outside. Sunroof. $4500.

505-463-8486

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2010 Toyota FJ cruiser 4wd, pwr seats, backup camera, CD/AM/FM/MP3, etc, super nice and value priced $26,550 Call 505-2163800.

2002 LEXUS LX470 4WD 63K, super loaded and serviced religiously, super nice..$22,981 Call 505-216-3800.

WE GET RESULTS! CALL 986-3000

Sunday, December 21, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

FAMILY Family calendar Sunday, Dec. 21 “THE NUTCRACKER”: The annual Aspen Santa Fe Ballet performance of the holiday classic, with a cast of 60 professional and student dancers, actors and circus artists. The show is at 1 and 5 p.m., ticketssantafe.org.

THE DREAM TRAIN: The Clan Tynker Family Circus presents an epic theater adventure for all ages in association with the Santa Fe Performing Arts, a nonprofit organization; 2 p.m. at the Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail; tickets are $10 to $12 at brownpapertickets.com.

NEW MEXCO MUSEUM OF ART HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE: Puppet plays, art making projects, photos with Santa Claus, and other holiday festivities will be offered from 1 to 4 p.m. at this free event; 107 W. Palace Ave. WINTER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL: Bring the entire family and celebrate the longest night of the year with drums, bonfires, a farolito labyrinth and storytelling; 5 to 7 p.m. at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359; $5 suggested donation.

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; 2 p.m. 1, $5-$20 suggested donation, ages 11 and under no charge, 424-1601, teatroparaguas.org.

WINTER SOLSTICE STORIES, MOVEMENT, & SONGS: Bee Hive Books, 328 Montezuma Ave. Allages story time, 11:30 a.m., call 780-8051 for details, no charge.

CHANUKAH ON THE PLAZA: Annual menorah lighting; live music

by Debra Unger and klezmer band Rumelia, performance by fire dancers; hot cocoa, latkes and donuts served, 3-4:30 p.m., chabadsantafe. com.

SUN SALUTATIONS FOR YOGA IN SCHOOLS: Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022. Annual benefit for the YIS program, open yoga session, 2:30-4 p.m., suggested donation $20, children no charge, bring a mat; mat rentals available.

Monday, Dec. 22 NATURE PLAYTIMES: Toddlers, preschoolers and their caregivers are invited to the Pajarito Environmental Education Center in Los Alamos to explore the natural world from 10 to 11 a.m. Each Playtime features a craft, story and outside activity; no charge; 3540 Orange St.; call 662-0460.

WINTER BREAK YOUTH CAMP: The Genoveva Chavez Center, 3221 Rodeo Road, is offering a day camp for kids during the winter break, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The cost is $35 per day per child.

Call 955-4014. Registration is first come, first served.

CAROLS AND LULLABIES: Santa Fe Desert Chorale presents a performance at 8 p.m. at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.

Tickets are available at desert chorale.tix.com.

CHANUKAH ON ICE: Genoveva Chavez Community Center Ice Arena, 3221 W. Rodeo Road. Skating games, refreshments and lighting of a giant menorah, 4-6 p.m., no admission charge, $3 skate rental, chabadsantafe.com.

Call 955-4014. Registration is first come, first served.

Wednesday, Dec. 24 PUBLIC LIBRARIES CLOSED: All libraries in the Santa Fe Public Library system, as well as the Vista Grande Public Library in Eldorado, will be closed for Christmas Eve. CHRISTMAS EVE CONCERT: The Performance Santa Fe Orchestra presents a concert at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Led by Joseph Illick, the performance features young pianist and composer Emily Bear; music of Tchaikovsky and Gershwin, family concert 2 p.m.; $10 per person for families with children; adults without children $25; 5 p.m. concert $27-$100; 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

FAROLITO WALK: From 6 to 9 p.m., Canyon Road becomes a work of art itself as thousands of farolitos and numerous bonfires illuminate the gallery venue and its side streets.

Strollers are invited to visit galleries and share hot cider and special treats. The road closes to vehicular traffic from 5:30 to 10 p.m, as do the nearby streets of Acequia Madre and Delgado. There will be no parking nearby, so Santa Fe Trails will provide buses — $2 for adults; free for children — from parking lots at the Santa Fe Place mall (Rodeo Road) and the South Capitol Rail Runner train station (between Alta Vista Street and Cordova Road) to the former PERA Building on Paseo de Peralta beginning at 5:30 p.m. The last bus leaves from the drop-off point at 9:30 p.m. For information, call 955-2001. The walk itself is free, and revelers are advised to dress warmly, wear comfortable shoes.

THE DREAM TRAIN: The Clan Tynker Family Circus presents an epic theater adventure for all ages in association with the Santa Fe Performing Arts, a nonprofit organization; 2 p.m. at the Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail; tickets are $10 to $12 at brownpapertickets.com.

SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE: COMMUNITY HOLIDAY SHOW: 142 E. DeVargas St., 505-988-4262.

Music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, 4 p.m., pay-what-you-wish fundraiser for the playhouse.

Thursday, Dec. 25 PUBLIC LIBRARIES CLOSED: All libraries in the Santa Fe Public Library system, as well as the Vista Grande Public Library in Eldorado, will be closed for Christmas.

Friday, Dec. 26 GARDEN SPROUTS: Stories and hands-on activities for children ages 3 to 5 with a caregiver from 9 to 10 a.m., weather permitting; sponsored by the Santa Fe Botanical Garden and Railyard Stewards.

Meet at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden on Museum Hill, 725 Camino Lejo. $5 suggested donation; free to members and children under 12.

GLOW: A WINTER LIGHTS EVENT: The Santa Fe Botanical Garden transforms into a winter wonderland with a lighting display; 5-8 p.m.; $5 for members, $8 for nonmembers.

WINTER BREAK YOUTH CAMP: The Genoveva Chavez Center, 3221 Rodeo Road, is offering a day camp for kids during the winter break, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The cost is $35 per day per child.

Call 955-4014. Registration is first come, first served.

Today’s moms take enabling to toxic level Question: My buddy’s wife walks their must be. This was not the case 60-plus 11-year-old into the classroom each day. years ago, when mothers could strike fear Then she takes out his assignments and into the hearts of their kids with no more helps him get ready. We’re talkthan a sideways glance. Now ing about a very capable kid who children strike fear into their has no “issues” at all. My buddy mothers, who do not have a firm says other mothers at his son’s grasp of the fact that unless nurschool are also doing the same turing is balanced by an equal thing. My wife has heard about portion of authority, it turns into this and wants to start walking a toxic thing called enabling. our very capable son into his My third thought is that when fourth-grade room. What are I say stuff like this, some women your thoughts? think I’m — as one put it recently John Answer: I think there may — “ragging” on women. No, I’m Rosemond trying to help women underbe children who because of some developmental problem Living With stand what they have allowed or medical issue might need a Children themselves to become caught parent to walk them into school, up in and swept along by. This but that practice is unnecessary is not about women, obviously, otherwise, and not just unnecessary but because women of my mother’s generation something Shakespeare might have had and before did not come close to fitting this lots of fun with. description. Since then, we have gone from My first thought is that this is a symptom men demeaning women to women demeanof what is and has been happening in Ameri- ing themselves. can mother culture for some time now. One My fourth thought is that we seem to mother ups the ante on the other mothers have misplaced a sense of purpose when it by taking enabling to a new level, and it comes to raising children. The purpose is spreads like wildfire by some psychic trans- to help them become adults, and it should mission force that men have no aptitude for. be self-evident that the more quickly they My second thought is that today’s moms become adults and take on adult respongenerally seem to think that raising a child sibilities, the better off they are. Walking a is all about nurturing; therefore, the more competent 11-year-old into class every day a mother nurtures, the better a mother she and helping him get situated significantly

Sunday, Dec. 28 GLOW: A WINTER LIGHTS EVENT: The Santa Fe Botanical Garden transforms into a winter wonderland with a lighting display; 5-8 p.m.; $5 for members, $8 for nonmembers.

always speak up and be heard.

This movie is action-packed.

Sometimes I wasn’t sure if it was a good or a bad thing because it feels like it jumps from place to place. Sometimes that is good ‘Penguins of because, once the action REALLY going, it feels just right how Madagascar’ gets everything goes so fast. One

By Samantha A., 11 of the reasons I like this movie KIDS FIRST! critic is because, even though it is action-packed and funny, it also Penguins of Madagascar is an has sad parts. I like that because animated movie about a group even though the penguins are of penguins (Skipper, Kowalsupposed to be adventurous ski, Rico and Private) that go and strong, it is nice seeing their on globe-trotting adventures. more sympathetic side.

Their adventures take them to Something I like (and always Antarctica, the desert, Venice, have liked) about the penguins Shanghai and New York City. In is that they all have simple perthis movie, the penguins meet sonality traits that define who an elite team called The North they are. For example, Kowalski Wind, led by a handsome husky has his big brain. They are each dog, Agent Classified (Benedict so different, but together they Cumberbatch) and together, are a very cool team. they must fight the evil Dr. OctaI commend the directors of vius Brine (John Malkovich). this movie, Simon J. Smith and You may have already seen the Eric Darnell, for a great job. penguins in DreamWorks’ origiI give this movie 4 out of 5 nal movie, Madagascar, but now stars because it is a great film you are seeing them in their own and I recommend it for 6- to movie comedy. You may not think 13-year-olds because it is funny, it, but this movie does have a few and most little kids will undervery good messages. For example, stand the topic, but there are don’t let anyone underestimate some jokes that kids might not you and your true power, and also, understand.

raises the likelihood that this child, 20 years from now, will still be living at home, being waited on hand and foot by his mother. But perhaps this will be normative by then and no one will give it a second thought. People may even regard the successfully emancipated child as an oddity and wonder what went wrong.

My fifth thought is that these mothers have too much time on their hands. Lacking modern conveniences, having to wash clothes and dishes by hand and sweep and mop rather than fire up a vacuum cleaner, my mother and her peers did not have time to bring perfection to every aspect of their children’s lives. In fact, their callous disregard of our fragile psyches included making us wash, sweep, and mop along with them. A mom who has the time to walk her 11-year-old into school every day and arrange his work for him needs to get out and volunteer with people who really and truly need her help. She’s eminently qualified, obviously.

My last and hopefully most sobering thought is that these moms are going a long way toward ensuring that their male children grow up with no respect whatsoever for women. Respecting and expecting are incompatible.

Visit family psychologist John Rosemond’s website at www.johnrosemond.com.

Give the gift of reading to children A true adventure that delves into history and exploration, Into the Unknown starts in With the holidays right 340 B.C., with Pytheas the around the corner, I thought Greek sailing to the Arctic I would share five amazing Circle without even a compass, books for kids that would make and ends in 1969 with Apollo great gifts. These run the gamut 11 landing on the moon. This from architecture to science, book is full of pullout maps and geography, history, exploradiagrams showing the journeys tion and even to the message as well as the vessels used to “always be yourself.” There’s make them. A true lesson in something for everyone in this bravery and perseverance, this collection. book will make your little one marvel at man’s constant quest for exploration.

Maps: By Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinska; Candlewick Press.

A beautifully illustrated, fascinating and oftentimes funny depiction of the world, Maps highlights countries in each continent, including details of culture, local people, places of interest, native plants and animals and geography. One of the main appeals of this book is its size — it is nice and Into the Unknown: How large, perfect for children to lie Great Explorers Found Their belly-down on the floor with Way by Land, Sea, and Air: and enjoy. Vibrant colors and

By Stewart Ross, illustrated by illustrations hold interest, and Stephen Biesty; Candlewick written information is kept to Press. the point.

By Lauren Knight

Special to The Washington Post

author’s nom de plume, this book is a tribute to architecture all around the world with a twist: It is told from the point of view of a pigeon named Speck.

Follow him as he chronicles his journey around the world to discover the beauty of the Sydney Opera House, Great Wall of China and many more.

Speck tells the story of each landmark structure, including architectural details and historical accounts. It’s perfect for the child who loves to build and create.

Gaston: By Kelly DiPucchio, Animalium: By Jenny illustrated by Christian RobinBroom, illustrated by Katie son; Simon & Schuster.

Scott; Candlewick Press.

Gaston is a sweet book about My personal favorite of the a mix-up between two dog fam- bunch, Animalium is a stunning ilies. Their resulting decision celebration of biodiversity on may surprise you, ultimately Earth and the beautiful creashowing that to be happy, you tures that live here. The book should always follow your is set up as a museum, divided heart. The flowery wording into separate galleries — inverand beautiful pictures would tebrates, fish, amphibians, be perfect for any 4- to 8-yearbirds, mammals and habitats, old who appreciates an upbeat, etc. The illustrations are works colorful tale. of art, and each gallery includes Architecture According wonderful facts about the to Pigeons: By Speck Lee creatures within. This book is Tailfeather (aka Stella Gurney); perfect for children of all ages Phaidon.

— I may just want a copy for If you didn’t guess from the myself.

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GLOW: A WINTER LIGHTS EVENT: The Santa Fe Botanical Garden transforms into a winter wonderland with a lighting display; 5-9 p.m.; $5 for members, $8 for nonmembers.

WINTER BREAK YOUTH CAMP: The Genoveva Chavez Center, 3221 Rodeo Road, is offering a day camp for kids during the winter break, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The cost is $35 per day per child.

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CELEBRATE THIS JOYOUS SEASON at St. John’s UMC. Sunday, December 21: “The Characters of Christmas - The Story of Mary” with special music from the Chancel Choir and the High Desert Saxophone Quartet, 8:30 and 11am services (childcare and Sunday classes for all). Wednesday, December 24, Christmas Eve Candlelight Services: 5pm - Choir, Carols, Communion; 7pm - Carols, Communion; 9pm - Images of Christmas, Communion. St. John’s doors are open to all as we share the joy of Christmas. Join us!

St. John’s is located at 1200 Old Pecos Trail, church office 982-5397, and on the web at www.sjumcsantafe.org.

CHRISTMAS AT CHRIST CHURCH Santa Fe, Don Gaspar and Cordova. Please join us for “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!” --a hilarious play starring a talented Christ Church Santa Fe cast! Set in a small town, watch unexpected events and an unlikely cast of characters discover the true

meaning of Christmas. Matinees on Dec 21 and 24 at 2 PM. Plan to spend your Christmas Eve with us by also joining us for a celebrative candlelight service at 4 or 6 PM, a truly special Christmas Eve celebration for the entire family. Contact us at 9828817,on Facebook, or website christchurchsantafe.org.

ONGOING & UPCOMING COMPASSIONATE CHRISTMAS GIFTS Give Hope, Love, and Peace. United Church offers gifts that care for those in need and the environment: a backpack for a child at Solace Crisis Ctr.; phone card for client of Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families; lodging at St. Elizabeth Shelter; disaster relief blanket, children’s education at Santa Fe Watershed, etc. Certificates explaining your gifts offered. Also available: Equal Exchange Coffee/Chocolate and the book Animal Companions, Animal People (benefits Pastoral

Counseling Center). Sundays 8:00 to 1:00, weekdays 9:00 to 5:00, or online at unitedchurchofsantafe.org. 1804 Arroyo Chamiso (at St. Michael’s) 988-3295.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Help in Your Grief Journey - beginning January 8 at St. John’s UMC. We invite all who have experienced the deep loss of a loved one to participate in this group. You will find a place of safety and sanctuary that not only honors your grief, but guides in creating a full and satisfying life after loss. Dr. Janet Schreiber, Director of the Grief Trauma and Renewal program at Southwestern College, will facilitate. We’ll meet eight times at St. John’s UMC from 5:30pm until 6:45pm: second and fourth Thursdays, beginning January 8 and ending April 23. For more information or to register, please contact Janet Dennison at 982-5397 or janet@sjumcsantafe.org or Janet Schreiber at 690-1698. ($15 registration fee). St. John’s is located at 1200 Old Pecos Trail and on the web at www.sjumcsantafe.org.

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Faces & places The Institute of American Indian Arts has appointed Eric Davis as marketing and communications director. He started with IAIA on Nov. 14. Davis comes to IAIA with more than 20 years of experience in marketing, communications, promotions, branding, advertising, event production and public and media relations. Davis worked for Hutton Broadcasting as promotions director. He also worked for more than eight years with the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. in a variety of roles, including marketing director. uuu

Associate Director for Experimental Physical Sciences Mary Hockaday of Los Alamos National Laboratory is the recipient of two significant honors recently. She earned a 2014 fellowship from the Association for the Advancement of Science and a Distinguished Alumni Award from the New Mexico State UniverMary sity Alumni Association.

Hockaday Hockaday’s AAAS recognition comes for “exemplary leadership at Los Alamos National Laboratory in support of the nation’s nuclear security and in realizing the technologies to foster that security,” according to the AAAS awards committee site.

Hockaday earned earned her Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Hawaii, and her Master of Science and doctorate in physics from NMSU. She joined the lab in 1986 in the Fast Transient Plasma group as its only female experimentalist developing X-ray diagnostics for underground nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site. As nuclear testing slowed, she turned her focus to applications of high-powered lasers and pulse power.

From 2002 to 2004, Hockaday led a 500-person division engaged in the research and application of high explosives. In 2006, she was named deputy associate director of weapons physics and program director for science and inertial confinement fusion and high yield campaigns. uuu

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has added Barton E. Showalter, a partner with Baker Botts LLP of Dallas, to its Board of Trustees.

Showalter’s law practice includes all aspects of intellectual property law. Showalter also has served as an adjunct professor in

intellectual property law at Southern Methodist University. His nonprofit work includes membership on the Governing Board of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, where he has served on the executive committee for several years. He also serves on the Board of the Dallas Theater Center.

Showalter holds a J.D. (cum laude) from Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas and master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. uuu Arthur Pepin, director of the New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts, has been selected for the Warren E. Burger Award for Excellence in Judicial Administration by the National Center for State Courts.

The award is among the highest honors given by the center and is Arthur Pepin named for the former U.S. Supreme Court justice who helped found the center. Pepin will formally be presented with the award next year.

Pepin has served as director of the Administrative Office of the Courts since 2006. He was director of the criminal appeals division in the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office from 2000 to 2006.

Herbert O. Funsten, John C. Gordon, Jaqueline L. Kiplinger and David S. Moore.

Fryer is a widely recognized authority in astrophysics and has been at Los Alamos for 15 years. Funsten is recognized as a worldrenowned experimental space scientist. Gordon has 18 years of service at Los Alamos, where he has become an international leader in inorganic chemistry and chemical transformations. Kiplinger is a recognized pioneer in uranium and thorium chemistry. Moore’s laser shock experiments have opened the field of materials at extremes in pressure and temperature to a wide range of researchers.

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The National Nuclear Security Administration awarded 15 Sustainability Awards to its national laboratories and sites, and Los Alamos National Laboratory is among the winners. In the Best In Class category, Los Alamos was honored for Green Buildings.

For Environmental Stewardship Awards, the lab earned the following: Jean Dewart was named the Change Agent. Starting in 1995, Dewart was the driving force to establish and maintain the lab’s Earth Day activities, now an annual monthlong event.

John S. Isaacson was named Exceptional Service/Sustainability Champion.

Isaacson was instrumental in creating the lab’s Long-term Strategy for Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability.

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The Northern New Mexico Radio Foundation, which administers KSFRFM and its online counterpart, KSFR.org, has appointed Tazbah McCullah, a Diné Navajo, as its new general manager.

McCullah served for eight years as general manager of KTNN-AM and KWRK-FM in Window Rock, Ariz., and 13 years as director of marketing and advertising, and director of public programs at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. She will assume her new position at KSFR’s Santa Fe Community College studios in January.

The Energy Conservation and Management Division of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department was recently honored with a 2014 State Leadership in Clean Energy Award for its New Mexico Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit Program.

The tax credit program supports utilityscale wind, biomass and solar projects in New Mexico by providing refundable 10-year tax credits to renewable energy developers.

New Mexico’s program was one of eight nationwide honored by the Clean Energy States Alliance. CESA is a nonprofit coalition of public agencies working together to advance clean energy.

uuu William Blaine of Santa Fe has been named a President’s Fellow at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

Each academic department at Trinity is invited to nominate a senior who demonstrates outstanding achievement within his or her major. Blaine was nominated by the Department of Physics.

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The Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows this year are Christopher L. Fryer,

El mitote Lorene Mills, a journalist and interviewer, recently featured local resident and author Valerie Plame on Mills’ talk show, Report from Santa Fe. Mills has previously interviewed notable stars such as James Cromwell, who starred in The Green Mile, and Jane Goodall, a noted author and primatologist.

Plame, a former CIA agent and now a best-selling author, talked to Mills about her time spent as a covert agent, her writing and her most recent novel Burned, which Plame co-authored with Sarah Lovett.

The interview was scheduled to air between Saturday and Tuesday on multiple channels. Santa Fe residents can catch the show on KNME-TV 5 at 8 a.m. Sunday. Mills also posts the interviews on YouTube following the initial airing if you can’t rouse Valerie Plame yourself that early on a Sunday morning. Check out Mills website for more information: http://reportfromsantafe.com.

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Santa Fe resident and movie star Shirley MacLaine, The Apartment, was spotted at the DeVargas Center Starbucks at about 1:30 p.m.

Thursday. MacLaine has a habit of popping up around town, so be sure

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MacLaine recently had a role on the dramedy/ singing show Glee, and a starring role in the flick Elsa and Fred. uuu

If you’d like the chance to hobknob with some of Santa Fe’s most famous authors, be sure to drop by Collected Works on Monday, Shirley when MacLaine many of the community’s literary icons will read their favorite short holiday stories suitable for children. The event is free to the public and starts at 10 a.m.

Be sure to get there early if you want the better seating.

The authors: Judi Hendricks, Bread Alone; Sarah Lovett, who coauthored the spy novel Burned with Valerie Plame and wrote Dark Alchemy; David Morrell, First Blood and Murder as a Fine Art; Anne Hillerman, Spider Woman’s Daughter; Diane Stanley, The Silver Bowl; Carmella Padilla, The Chile Chronicles: Tales of A New Mexican Harvest; James McGrath Morris, Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power and a writer for Pasatiempo.

Send your celebrity sightings, photos or selfies to elmitote@ sfnewmexican.com.

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magine you had a chance to interview Santa Claus! What would you ask? What would Santa say? Here are some ideas from some Kid Scoop readers, who came up with the questions and the answers for today’s page.

I was a smart, cheerful child. When my parents died, I was heartbroken. I cried, not out of self-pity, but out of true love. One of my tears dropped into the snow and froze to make an ice marble. When I held it, it glowed and took me to the North Pole. I met the elves and they needed my help.

After I grew up with them I took on the greatest task of all—delivering presents.

The ice marble gave me powers I have today.

I like whole milk best, but Mrs. Claus put me on a diet so I have to drink non-fat.

Standards Link: Math/Number Sense: Solve addition problems using money amounts.

No, and I _______ that never __________.

Imagine you are a newspaper reporter. What question would you ask an elf, a Christmas tree and a snowman? Write your question, then write what you think the answer might be.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

INTERVIEW MARBLE SANTA ANSWERS POUNDING FRUIT REFLECTION CLASS POLE MILK CLAUS CHEERFUL SNOW BELLY DIET

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow one-step written directions.

Pretend Santa has to buy all of his Christmas presents from the stores advertising in your newspaper. Help him by selecting a gift for everyone in your class using ads in the paper.

Don’t spend more than $500.

As long as my heart is __________ and my belly is _ ________, I reckon I’ll want to be!

Find the words in the puzzle, then in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities.

P H A P M Y L L E B P O U N D I N G A P C W L Y S D L M A A L D I E T W A K T T A W E I V R E T N I U Y S A B N T R A U S S A L C W O N S R C H E E R F U L A F N O I T C E L F E R Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Find five to ten quotes in articles in today’s newspaper. On a separate piece of paper, write the question you think each quote answers.

I don’t buy them; Mrs. Claus grows them. On Christmas Eve I come back with a sleigh full of soil instead of an empty sleigh.

We grow food in our greenhouse and eat fresh veggies and fruit everyday.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Analysis of media communications.

Standards Link: Investigation: Identify similarities and differences in common objects.

Imagine that you could interview Santa Claus. What would you ask him? What do you think his answer would be? Write one question and make up an answer for the question as if Santa had answered it.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Interpret information from text.

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Horoscope HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014: This year you often go from being adventurous to conservative. Others might be taken aback by this sudden change.

If you are single, strap on your seat belt as you climb on the roller coaster of love. It is very likely that you will meet someone who gives you a case of the butterflies. Take your time before making a commitment. If you are attached, your significant other runs with the moment and enjoys your changeability. Plan a very special vacation together, and you will nurture this tie.

Capricorn frequently rains on your parade.

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

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You’ll give that extra oomph to whatever you do right now.

You’ll approach much of what you do with a fresh perspective and renewed enthusiasm. Use the daylight hours to finish up any holiday errands. Make time to visit a friend. Tonight: Till the wee hours.

This Week: Give up being so responsible.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH A loved one might be set on monopolizing your plans. The real issue will be figuring out how to let this person down gently. Only you can answer that question. Look at your schedule in the next few weeks to see if you have any free time.

Tonight: Try some unusual cuisine.

This Week: Concerns about someone at a distance could mar the next few days.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Others seem to jump right in and join you, whether you want the company or not. You will turn this situation into a positive experience with your gregarious personality. Surprises seem to mark your friendships.

Tonight: Focus on a loved one.

This Week: Make time for a loved one before the festivities begin.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Clear out as much as you can during the daylight hours.

Whether you are dropping off cookies at a friend’s house or vice versa, you will feel a sense of accomplishment. Catching up on news might bring some surprises. Tonight: Let the party go on.

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This Week: Let others have their way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH A child or loved one could invite you to join him or her on an adventure. You might not be able to hold yourself back. This trip will be fun, as long as you can chill out and go with the flow. You might be amused by a friend’s ideas. Tonight: Know when to call it a night.

This Week: Push hard to get through all of your work and errands by Tuesday.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Accept a slower pace in the morning. You’ll need to keep up with the increasingly demanding pace of the next few days.

If you don’t have an opening for some personal time, make one. You cannot continue as you have been. Tonight: Find some mistletoe!

This Week: Open yourself up to a fun encounter.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Make calls, run errands and clear out as much as you can.

Join a friend for a late brunch if possible. This person seems to be more unpredictable than usual, but his or her energy will make you feel alive. Tonight: Put the finishing touches on making your home festive.

This Week: Tap into your inner child.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Indulge yourself a little as you finish up your holiday errands.

Your shopping might involve

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buying yourself something each time you buy someone else a gift. Keep your receipts!

Nervous energy could be what’s fueling you. Tonight: Get together with friends for dinner.

This Week: Touch base with loved ones.

SAGITTARIUS(Nov.22-Dec.21) HHHH Though you might prefer it to be different, others are likely to take their cues from you.

Detach, and just let it be. Your interest could turn elsewhere by midafternoon. You will have an opportunity to run out and finish some holiday errands. Phew!

Tonight: Order in.

This Week: You enjoy nearly every moment of the next few days.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Use the daylight hours for any key matter that you need to take care of. You can vanish for only so long without getting too much flak from others. By late afternoon, you could find that your family demands your presence. Tonight: Get into the mood of the moment.

This Week: Take advantage of the moment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Whether or not you say “yes” to an invitation, you will be surrounded by friends. You won’t be able to resist the appeal of a fun get-together. The unexpected plays an unusual role in your day. By now, you are used to this ongoing roller-coaster ride. Tonight: Out late.

This Week: Go over last-minute details, and try to maintain your budget.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You naturally seem to shoulder a lot of responsibilities.

It could take you a long time to clear out what you must do today, but eventually you will get where you want to be.

Throw yourself into the holiday festivities. It’s time to visit with your friends. Tonight: In the limelight.

This Week: Your expectations could cause you a problem.

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ehavioral scientists in France recently sent women out in the streets to ask passersby to take brief surveys (http://wapo.st/1vAd23h). Sometimes the women were wearing flats, sometimes medium-size heels and sometimes high heels. It turned out men were equally likely to cooperate with the women, regardless of their choice of footwear.

Gina: Liar.

Gene: I asked Gina Barreca, my funny feminist friend, to accompany me here today to try to suss out where I am fibbing. And you are right, Gina. It turns out that men were more likely to cooperate with the women in heels, and the higher the heel, the more likely the men were to cooperate. The reason, the Gene research determined, is that the extra Weingarten height made the women seem more formidable and authoritative, and men The Washington respect formidable and authoritative Post women.

Gina: Liar.

Gene: Correct again! The reason is that heels make a woman’s legs and behind look more attractive, and alter her gait in a way that better emphasizes the feminine movements of her hips. Even though heels are uncomfortable and impractical, it turns out, women wear them in a desperate, transparent effort to appear more sexually arousing to men.

Gina: Gene: I said Women are pathetically desperate to appear sexier to men Gina: I’m supposed to speak only if you lied.

Gene: You concede this point?

Gina: I am a feminist, not a fool. I am also currently wearing Ugg boots, which look every bit as attractive on one’s foot as would, say, the shoe boxes they came in. I am wearing these hideous things because I am recovering from a serious stress fracture of my left foot, obtained over time by habitually wearing high heels, which also give you bunions and blebs and garfunkels, if there were such a thing. But I wear them because high heels are basically a bra for your butt. They lift and separate. Every woman knows this, and every woman, whatever her level of feminism, succumbs to this temptation and on some level knows shame.

Gene: So you must hate this new study, since it will just encourage more women to wear heels.

Gina: Wrong. I like it, because it confirms something I’ve always suspected about men. How many times have you seen me in person?

Gene: I dunno. Twenty-five?

Gina: Do you think I am attractive?

Gene: Yes. A hottie.

Gina: Can you tell me any specific article of clothing I have ever worn on any part of my body?

Gene: You’ve worn a shirt, I think.

Gina: I have worn a shirt? You think?

Gene: OK, no.

Gina: Exactly. Most hetero men do not notice clothing.

The only time my husband might notice anything I am wearing would be if it were on fire, and he’d probably just ask me to step away from the drapes.

Gene: : I don’t see your point.

Gina: My point is that none of the men in the study would have had any idea, on any conscious level, of what the women were wearing on their feet, and yet the men’s behavior showed preferences. This means that exactly as women have always expected, men were operating entirely under the supervision of their lizard brains.

Gene: That’s not true.

Gina: Liar.

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