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You don’t find folklore sitting at a desk in Santa Fe. You’ve got to go out into the communities, to celebrations and fiestas, to churches, to bars.”

State to lose longtime folklorist at year’s end New Mexico’s official cultural preservationist retiring from little-known post after 23 years The New Mexican

Claude Stephenson was having lunch recently in Santa Fe when the conversation turned to which place in San Antonio, N.M., had the best green chile cheeseburger, the Owl Bar & Cafe or the Buckhorn Taven.

Stephenson argued for the Buckhorn, for its food as well as its ambiance. He noted that owner Bobby Olguin — whose family has operated the tavern for generations — is not just a good cook, but a musician as well.

“I’m the state folklorist,” Stephenson said. “I know where all

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Claude Stephenson, state folklorist

By Steve Terrell

Altitude and age don’t mix

the colorful characters are.”

Stephenson, a native of Alamogordo, undoubtedly always will know where the colorful characters — and the great food — are. But after the end of the year, he’ll no longer have the title of state folklorist. After 23 years of working at that job, Stephenson, 61, is retiring.

Don’t feel bad if you don’t know what a “state folklorist” is.

Before he got the job and a friend first tipped him off that there was an opening for the position, Stephenson said his first reaction was: “There’s a job like that?”

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Boy Scouts from the Chief Seattle Council carry U.S. flags as they prepare to march in the Gay Pride Parade in downtown Seattle in June. The Boy Scouts of America, in the most contentious change of membership policy in its 103-year history, will accept openly gay youths in 2014. ELAINE THOMPSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Scouts prepare to open ranks to gay youth Jan. 1

By David Crary and Nomaan Merchant The Associated Press

The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year’s Day, a historic change that has prompted the organization to ponder a host of potential complications — ranging from policies on tentmates and showers to whether Scouts can march in gay pride parades.

Despite their be-prepared approach, however, Scout leaders are rooting for the change to

be a non-event, comparable to another New Year’s Day in 2000, when widespread fears of digitalclock chaos to start the new millennium proved unfounded.

“My hope is there will be the same effect this Jan. 1 as the Y2K scare,” said Brad Haddock, a Boy Scouts national executive board member who chairs the policy implementation committee. “It’s business as usual, nothing happens and we move forward.”

Some churches are dropping their sponsorship of Scout units

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Obituaries Monique Cene Amador, 26, Santa Fe, Dec. 25 James Harm Beverwyk, 68, Lyden, Dec. 24 Pedro Garcia, 65, Rio Rancho, Dec. 20 Sylvia R. Gonzales, 87, Santa Fe, Dec. 24 John James Lujan, 84, Tesuque, Dec. 25 Juan D. Romero, 80, Tesuque, Dec. 24

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By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

he Santa Fe mayor’s race has gotten off to a contentious start, with candidates slinging barbs at one another over various allegations of campaign finance abuse.

But as those attacks have failed to take hold, many voters are still waiting to hear how the rivals will address pressing issues in the city.

It’s perhaps no surprise that all three candidates in the race — Patti Bushee, Bill Dimas and Javier Gonzales — think a vibrant economy and more jobs would be good for the city.

And none is advocating for fewer cops and more crime.

All three say they want better schools, too. Although they would have no direct authority over the public education system, it would not behoove a mayoral candidate to remain silent on the city’s dismal high school graduation rate.

And no one is saying they want less water, either. In fact, Dimas

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From left, Javier Gonzales, Patti Bushee and Bill Dimas.

promises “abundant water” in his campaign literature and jokes that he may call on his deceased father to perform a rain dance in heaven to make it pour.

With all three candidates not so far apart on the issues, the defining difference among them may not be the “what” but the “how.”

“I notice when I hear them talking, they say, ‘Oh yeah, we need to have apple pie and rainbows and unicorns.’ Well, of course we do. But what are you going to do to actually start an apple pie factory? What are you going to do to recruit unicorns and rainbows to Santa Fe?” Simon Brackley, president and CEO of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, said Friday.

“I want to hear some commitment and vision from them rather than lists of ways the community could be better. That’s not leadership,” he said.

The candidates have had help defining the issues.

Not only have they been hearing directly from voters in their grass-

roots campaigns, there has been polling, too.

A poll commissioned earlier this year by the chamber, the Santa Fe Association of Realtors and the Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association found that voters identified the top issue in the race as the economy and jobs. Crime, public safety, water supply and conservation all tied in second place.

A separate poll commissioned

by ProgressiveNow New Mexico, a liberal-leaning Albuquerque group, also listed water protection, improving schools, job creation, crime reduction and maintaining the “living wage” among the top issues.

“Candidates, unless they’re special interest candidates, know what the main issues are because polling has been done, if not by them, by somebody else,” said former City Councilor Karen Heldmeyer, who remains active in local affairs. “So then, the question becomes not what issues they say are important but what they

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THE NEW MEXICAN Sunday, December 29, 2013

NATION&WORLD Circle these dates: Health law’s key tests

Calorie crackdown

JAN. 1 u Coverage begins. Many low-income Americans who didn’t qualify for Medicaid in the past can use it now. People who signed up for private insurance in a state or federal marketplace by Dec. 24 (or later in some states) and have paid their first premium are now covered, too. u Coverage begins for workers at companies that have signed up for new small business plans through the marketplaces, also called health care exchanges. u Coverage lapses for people whose existing plans were canceled, if they haven’t signed up for a replacement or received an extension. u The clock starts on the “individual mandate.”

Nearly all U.S. citizens and legal residents are required to have “minimum essential coverage” for most of 2014, or pay a penalty.

A 12-year-old girl makes a purchase at a vending machine in Seattle on Dec. 23. President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law will require calorie information to be displayed on roughly 5 million vending machines nationwide. ELAINE THOMPSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Health law to require nutrition info on vending machines

By Holly Ramer

JAN. 10 u Payment due. In most cases, marketplace customers who signed up by Dec. 24 have until now to pay the first month’s premium and get coverage for their January medical bills.

JAN. 31 u A temporary program for people denied coverage because of poor health ends.

Americans with serious illnesses such as heart disease and cancer were in the special program and needed new coverage for 2014. u Some people could lose coverage for a prescription they’ve been taking.

MARCH 31 u Last chance for open enrollment through the federal marketplace or 14 states running their own exchanges. Late March enrollees will be covered beginning May 1.

APRIL 15 No worries yet. Those who go without insurance won’t owe penalties until federal taxes are due in 2015 for the previous year’s income.

NOV. 15 u Open enrollment for 2015 begins.

DEC. 31 u The extension ends today for people who were able to keep their old individual plans for an extra year, even though the coverage wasn’t up to the law’s minimum standards.

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ONCORD, N.H. — Office workers in search of snacks will be counting calories along with their change under new labeling regulations for vending machines included in President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Requiring calorie information to be displayed on roughly 5 million vending machines nationwide will help consumers make healthier choices, says the Food and Drug Administration, which is expected to release final rules early next year. It estimates the cost to the vending machine industry at $25.8 million initially and $24 million per year after that, but says if just 0.02 percent of obese adults ate 100 fewer calories a week, the savings to the health care system would be at least that great.

The rules will apply to about 10,800 companies that operate 20 or more machines. Nearly three-quarters of those companies have three or fewer employees, and their profit margin is extremely low, according to the National Automatic Merchandising Association.

An initial investment of $2,400 plus $2,200 in annual costs is a lot of money for a small company that only clears a few thousand dollars a year, said Eric Dell, the group’s vice president for government affairs.

“The money that would be spent to comply with this — there’s no return on the investment,” he said.

While the proposed rules would give companies a year to comply, the industry group has suggested a two-year deadline and is urging the government to allow as much flexibility as possible in implementing the rules. Some companies may use electronic displays to post calorie counts while others may opt for signs stuck to the machines.

Carol Brennan, who owns Brennan Food Vending Services in Londonderry, said she doesn’t yet know how she will handle the regulations, but she doesn’t like them. She has five employees servicing hundreds of machines and says she’ll be forced to limit the items offered so her employees don’t spend too much time updating the calorie counts.

“It is outrageous for us to have to do this on all our equipment,” she said.

Brennan also doubts that consumers will benefit from the calorie information. “How many people have not read a label on a candy bar?” she said. “If you’re concerned about it, you’ve already read it for years.”

But Kim Gould, 58, of Seattle, said he doesn’t read the labels even after his choice pops out of a vending machine, so having access to that information

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Strep bacteria live on for hours after cleaning, study finds That crib toy you got your son? It might be just the thing to give him strep throat, according to a new study.

The bacteria that cause strep throat may linger far longer on inanimate objects than previous lab tests suggested, according to University of Buffalo researchers.

Streptococcus pneumoniae, the leading cause of ear and respiratory tract infection in children, and Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacterial culprit behind strep throat and skin infections, lingered on surfaces in cribs, toys and books many hours after they had been cleaned, according to a study published Friday in the journal Infection and Immunity.

Conventional wisdom held that both bacteria died quickly outside a human host, and that the prevailing means of infection came through immediate human contact or via expelled droplets from coughing or sneezing.

“These findings should make us more cautious about bacteria in the environment,” said Anders Hakansson, a University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences microbiologist who is senior author of the study.

Hakansson said he believes that some items could serve as reservoirs where the bacteria can linger for as long as several months.

Growing number of Jewish parents question circumcision WASHINGTON — When his pregnant wife first challenged circumcising their son, Mike Wallach had a gut reaction: “That’s what we do, we’re Jews!” But doubts about whether the surgery was medically necessary and concern over his wife’s opposition forced Wallach to confront some questions.

Can you be Jewish without Judaism’s oldest ritual? he says he asked himself. What does it mean to be Jewish?

Wallach is among a small but growing number of Jews who are slowly altering what has for millennia been considered perhaps Judaism’s core rite. The Bible says an adult Abraham circumcised himself to mark the covenant between he and his descendants and God. Any male who doesn’t circumcise, God says in Genesis “that soul will be cut off from its people; he has broken My covenant.”

Many of these Jews, according to rabbis and the ritual circumcisers known as mohels, are rejecting the classic festive circumcision ceremony, called a brit milah, or bris. For thousands of years, Jews have performed the ritual removal of the penile foreskin on the eighth day of a boy’s life, sometimes at the cost of death during periods of anti-Semitism.

A very small percentage, including Wallach, are not circumcising at all. Others, uncomfortable with the joyous, public ceremony around an intimate surgical procedure, are circumcising their sons in the hospital and crafting new baby-welcoming ceremonies days or weeks later for family and friends. Some are having no public service at all.

Syrian government airstrike hits market, killing at least 21 BEIRUT — A Syrian government airstrike hit a crowded vegetable market in a rebel-held neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, shattering cars and storefronts and killing at least 21 people, activists said.

For nearly two weeks, President Bashar Assad’s warplanes and helicopters have pounded oppositioncontrolled areas of the divided city. Activists say the aerial assault has killed more than 400 people since it began Dec. 15.

The campaign comes in the run-up to an international peace conference scheduled to start Jan. 22 in Switzerland to try to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Some observers say the Aleppo assault fits into Assad’s apparent strategy of trying to expose the opposition’s weakness to strengthen his own hand ahead of the negotiations.

Saturday’s airstrike slammed into a marketplace in the Tariq al-Bab neighborhood, the Aleppo Media Center activist group and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

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wouldn’t change what he buys.

“People have their reasons they eat well or eat poorly,” Gould said.

Standing with his 12-year-old daughter near a vending machine in a medical clinic where he bought some drinks last week, he said he only makes purchases at the machines when he’s hungry and has no other options.

“How do we know people who are buying candy in the vending machines aren’t eating healthy 99 percent of the time?” he added.

As for the new labels, Gould said he wasn’t sure what the point would be, and that they would just be “nibbling around the edges of the problem.”

The FDA also is working on final rules for requiring restaurant chains with more than 20 locations to post calories information, something some cities already mandate and some large fast-food operations have begun doing voluntarily. A 2011 study in New York found that only one in six customers looked at the information, but those who did generally ordered about 100 fewer calories. A more recent study in Philadelphia found no difference in calories purchased after the city’s labeling law took effect.

“There is probably a subset of people for whom this information works, who report using it to purchase fewer calories, but what we’re not seeing though is a change at an overall population level in the number of calories consumed,” said Brian Ebel, the study’s author and an assistant professor at New York University’s department of population health and medicine.

Ebel said he wouldn’t be surprised if the vending machine labels end up being equally ineffective, but he said it’s possible that consumers might pay more attention to them for a couple of reasons. In some locations, a vending machine might be the only food option, he said. And reading a list of calorie counts on a machine will be less overwhelming than scanning a large menu at a fast-food restaurant with other customers waiting in line behind you, he said.

“It could go either way, but I think there’s at least some reason to think it could be slightly more influential in vending machines.”

Even without the calorie counts, consumers already have ways to make healthier choices from vending machines. The vending machine industry group launched its “Fit Pick” system in 2005, which includes stickers placed in front of products that meet healthy guidelines for fat and sugar content.

The program is used by nearly 14,000 businesses, schools and government agencies, as well as all branches of the military.

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Sunday, Dec. 29 CREATING A MORAL BUDGET IN THE POOREST STATE WITH THE GREATEST INCOME DISPARITY: At 11 a.m. at Collected Works, 202 Galisteo St., a talk by the Rev. Holly Beaumont of Interfaith Worker Justice New Mexico and Pamelya Herndon of the Southwest Women’s Law Center.

‘LOSANG SAMTEN’: At 2 p.m. at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, a talk by the Buddhist teacher who worked on the film Kundu.

2 p.m. 418 Montezuma Ave. VOASIS: At 4 and 8 p.m. at Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, the contemporary a cappella ensemble performs In the Midnight Hour, produced

by Deke Sharon of NBC’s The Sing-Of. TRADER WALT’S SOUTHWESTERN & INTERNATIONAL MARKETPLACE: More than 100 vendor booths with antiques, folk and fine art, books, jewelry and snacks. 9 a.m.-4 p.m.555 Camino de la Familia.

NIGHTLIFE Sunday, Dec. 29 COWGIRL BBQ: Zenobia and her tri-soulful gospel and R&B. Noon-3 p.m. Jazz trumpeter Tom Rheam’s trio, Dick Hogle on drum and Dave Moir on bass.

Lotteries 8 p.m. 319 S. Guadalupe St. EL FAROL: Pan-Latin chanteuse Nacha Mende. 7-10 p.m.

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EVANGELOS: Blues/rock/R&B jam band Tone & Compan.

8:30 p.m. 200 W. San Francisco St. LA CASA SENA CANTINA: Jazz Sunday with the Arlen Asher Trio. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

125 E. Palace Ave. LA FIESTA LOUNGE AT LA FONDA: Weekly classic movie night. 6-10 p.m. 100 E. San Francisco St. LA POSADA DE SANTA FE RESORT AND SPA: Cowboy singer and guitarist Wiley Jim. 7 p.m. 330 E. Palace Ave. MINE SHAFT TAVERN: The Barbwires, soulful blues.

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VANESSIE: Pianist/vocalist Doug Montgomery. 6:30-10:30 p.m. 427 W. Water St.

SKI RESORTS Be sure to check with individual ski area for conditions before you head to the slopes.

SKI SANTA FE: Distance from Santa Fe: 16 miles. Call 9824429. Visit www.skisantafe. com. Call 983-9155 for snow report.

PAJARITO: Distance from Santa Fe: 35 miles. Call 6625725. Visit www.skipajarito. com. Call 662-7669 for snow report.

SIPAPU SKI & SUMMER RESORT: Distance from Santa Fe: 75 miles. Call 575-5872240. Visit www.sipapunm. com. Call 800-587-2240 for snow report.

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‘White Army’ marches to fight

By Jason Straziuso The Associated Press

JUBA, South Sudan — Twenty-five thousand young men who make up a tribal militia known as the “White Army” marched toward a contested state capital in South Sudan, an official said Saturday, dimming hopes for a cease-fire.

Seeking an end to the nearly two-week crisis in which an estimated 1,000 people have been killed, leaders from across East Africa announced on Friday that South Sudan had agreed to a “cessation of hostilities” against forces loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar, accused by the government of leading a coup attempt on Dec. 15 that erupted into spiraling violence.

But Machar rejected that, saying in an interview with the BBC that any cease-fire had to be negotiated by delegations from both sides. The government in the capital, Juba, seized on that statement to further condemn Machar.

“Dr. Riek Machar has put obstacles to this genuine call by issuing pre-conditions that a cease-fire cannot be reached unless a negotiation is conducted,” said Vice President James Wani Igga. “This is complete intransigence and obstinacy because the main issue now is to stop violence.”

In addition to those killed, tens of thousands are seeking shelters at United Nations camps.

More fighting is expected.

Most serious is the looming battle for Bor, the provincial capital of Jonglei state that briefly fell to rebels before government forces took it back this week, said military spokesman Col. Philip Aguer.

Pro-Machar forces are believed to be preparing a fresh offensive to retake Bor, the Jonglei state town where three United States military aircraft were hit by gunfire while trying to evacuate American citizens on Dec. 21, wounding four U.S. service members.

The estimated 25,000 youths from the Lou Nuer sub-clan — the same tribe Machar is from — are marching on Bor, said Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth.

The “White Army” gets its name from the white ash fighters put on their skin as protection from insects.

“He has decided to mobilize the youth in the name of his tribe,” Lueth said.

The estimate of 25,000 came from intelligence inside the group itself, Lueth said. Asked if the government was monitoring the group from the air, he said only: “Well, ultimately we are monitoring.”

As of Saturday evening, the youths, who are armed with light weapons and heavy machine guns, were about 30 miles outside Bor, he said, meaning they could reach the state capital imminently.

Earlier in the crisis some 2,000 Lou Nuer armed fighters attacked a U.N. base in Akobo, also in Jonglei state, killing three U.N. troops and a reported two dozen or so ethnic Dinka inside the base.

Akshaya Kumar, a South Sudan analyst for the U.S.-based Enough Project, said it was important to remember that civilian lives hang in the balance in Bor.

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U.S. report paints grim outlook for Afghanistan next year’s presidential election.

“I think what we’re going to see is a recalibration of political power, territory and that kind of thing,” said one

By Ernesto Londoño, security pact that would keep an interna- U.S. official who felt the assessment was Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller tional military contingent there beyond unfairly negative. “It’s not going to be an The Washington Post 2014 — a precondition for the delivery of inevitable rise of the Taliban.” billions of dollars in aid that the United A senior administration official said WASHINGTON — A new American States and its allies have pledged to spend that the intelligence community has intelligence assessment on the Afghan in Afghanistan over the coming years. long underestimated Afghanistan’s war predicts that the gains the United “In the absence of a continuing pressecurity forces.

States and its allies have made during ence and continuing financial support,” “An assessment that says things are the past three years are likely to have the intelligence assessment “suggests going to be gloomy no matter what you been significantly eroded by 2017, even the situation would deteriorate very do, that you’re just delaying the ineviif Washington leaves behind a few thourapidly,” said one U.S. official familiar table, that’s just a view,” said the official. sand troops and continues bankrolling with the report.

“I would not think it would be the deterthe impoverished nation, according to That conclusion is widely shared mining view.” officials familiar with the report. among U.S. officials working on AfghanU.S. intelligence analysts did not provide The National Intelligence Estimate, istan, said the official, who was among a detailed mapping of areas they believe which includes input from the country’s five people familiar with the report who are likely to become controlled by specific 16 intelligence agencies, predicts that the agreed to speak on the condition of ano- groups or warlords in coming years, said Taliban and other power brokers will nymity to discuss the assessment. one of the officials. But the analysts anticibecome increasingly influential as the Some officials have taken umbrage at pate that the central government in Kabul United States winds down its longest war the underlying pessimism in the report, is all but certain to become increasingly in history, according to officials who have read the classified report or received brief- arguing that it does not adequately reflect irrelevant as it loses “purchase” over parts ings on its conclusions. The grim outlook how strong Afghanistan’s security forces of the country, the official said.

Some have interpreted the intelligence is fueling a policy debate inside the Obama have become. One American official, who described the NIE as “more dark” than assessment as an implicit indictment of administration about the steps it should take over the next year as the U.S. military past intelligence assessments on the war, the 2009 troop surge, which President said there are too many uncertainties to Barack Obama authorized under heavy draws down its remaining troops. make an educated prediction on how the pressure from the U.S. military in a bid The report predicts that Afghanistan would likely descend into chaos quickly conflict will unfold between now and to strengthen Afghan institutions and if the Washington and Kabul don’t sign a 2017, chief among them the outcome of weaken the insurgency. The senior admin-

Assessment predicts gains made during Afghan war will likely erode by 2017 as Taliban’s influence grows

Egyptian student dies during protests The Brotherhood dismisses the label and has vowed to keep up its protests against Egypt-military backed authorities.

By Sarah El Deeb Deputy Prime Minister and The Associated Press Minister of Higher Education CAIRO — Riot police moved Hossam Eissa said authorities into Egypt’s main Islamic uniwill go after those he said were versity on Saturday, firing tear financing non-peaceful progas and breaking up a strike tests on campuses, and accused by students that threatened to the Brotherhood of seeking to disrupt midterms. One student derail exams. was killed in the melee, an “The aim of the terrorist administration building was Brotherhood group is to call torched and students fled from off university exams,” he said exam rooms. according to comments pubPolice say they entered east- lished on the state news agency ern Cairo’s Al-Azhar campus, MENA. “The role of the govthe site of frequent clashes in ernment is to restore security recent weeks, and deployed especially before the referenaround other Egyptian univer- dum on the constitution.” sities to prevent supporters of The government is intensifyousted President Mohammed ing its crackdown on BrotherMorsi from intimidating other hood and Morsi supporters students trying to take the ahead of a Jan. 14-15 constitutests. tional referendum they see as Pro-Morsi activists have a milestone in the transition called for an exam boycott but plan. deny government claims that Authorities fear Morsi supthey threatened anyone. porters would seek to derail the Students at al-Azhar, a key vote, through protests or by stronghold of Morsi supportviolent means. ers, have been protesting for University professors and weeks against his ouster and a security officials accused prosubsequent state crackdown, testing students on Saturday of which this week saw his blocking entrances to classes Muslim Brotherhood group and harassing students as they declared a terrorist organizamade their way into the campus. tion.

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A statement from the Interior Ministry, in charge of the police, said students stormed several buildings on campus to “terrorize students and faculty.” It said some fired shotguns into the air and smashed furniture.

The ministry statement said that the attack prompted the police to move in to disperse the crowd, leading the students to setting the Faculty of Commerce on fire.

Aya Fathy, a student spokeswoman, disputed the officials claim, saying the students were protesting peacefully. She said police moved in to break up protesters outside the faculty building, firing indiscriminately at them, and killing student Khaled el-Haddad.

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If I was elected mayor, I want “ to surround myself with the

If we’re going talk about the I’ve never been there to advance “ “ future, the city needs to have a direct my career. This is not a launching off

most knowledgeable, innovative, experienced problem solvers. I want people whose background is beyond reproach for honesty and integrity.”

role in improving education. … It’s time for Santa Fe to make a commitment to one, bring about a program, and two, properly funding it.

point for me. This is a culmination of all my work of 20 years to be able to put all that experience and know-how and skills to work for Santa Feans.”

— Javier Gonzales

— Patti Bushee

— Bill Dimas

Race: Each has different plan to address key issues Continued from Page A-1 are going to do about the issues.”

Former Mayor Debbie Jaramillo said she’s still waiting to hear from the candidates.

“I have yet to see any issues out of anybody,” she said.

“They’re going to have to be forced to bring it out and not just wait for forums. The forums, if you want to call them forums, the way they’re running them nowadays, they’re just sending emails and surveys and saying, ‘Answer them and we’ll let you know how we feel about you when we decide.’ What happened to open forums so that the public can attend and hear issues? It’s just not being done that way.”

Mayoral forums, which will be open to the public, are scheduled to start in January.

The candidates say they’ve been discussing issues with voters face to face for months on the campaign trail.

Each has a different plan to address the issues affecting voters.

Dimas, a city councilor who is a former magistrate and police officer, said growing the economy, public safety and restoring the public’s faith in city government are among his top issues.

“If I was elected mayor, I want to surround myself with the most knowledgeable, innovative, experienced problem solvers. I want people whose background is beyond reproach for honesty and integrity,” he said.

His plan for improving the economy includes streamlining regulatory standards for new businesses, waiving performance bond requirements for public works projects under $250,000 to allow smaller, local companies to bid on those projects “rather than having them go to the larger Albuquerque contractors,” and providing tax breaks to companies after they’ve created jobs.

“The current practice has been to provide those incentives before companies have a proven track

record,” he said.

Dimas, whose daughter died from a drug overdose, said he wants to build a stronger relationship between police and neighborhoods to fight crime and re-establish a narcotics unit in the police department.

Dimas’ plan for “abundant water” calls for an “aggressive policy to purchase water rights” and possibly acquiring the uncontracted supply of 4,990 acre-feet of water from the San Juan-Chama Project, which moves water from the San Juan River Basin to the Rio Grande Basin.

“We could almost double our share from the project by acquiring the unallocated waters, but it’s going to cost a lot of money,” he said, adding that some peg the cost at $22 million.

Ultimately, Dimas said, the city needs to get back to the basics and avoid contentious issues that don’t necessarily affect residents, such as a recent resolution asking President Barack Obama to deny an application for a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Oklahoma.

“We should be concentrating on city issues: maintaining our streets, making sure that we have adequate police protection, fire protection,” he said.

Gonzales, a former county commissioner and state Democratic Party chairman who is a scion of a Santa Fe political family, said he’s met with about 1,000 people at dozens of house parties over the last six weeks. They and other people he’s encountered say they want the next mayor to focus on the environment, education and the economy, he said.

Gonzales says he has a multipronged plan to address each issue.

For education, he proposes a citywide early-childhood education program that would be funded “either through existing resources” in conjunction with federal grants or a tax increase, which he said would only be a last resort.

“If we’re going talk about the

future, the city needs to have a direct role in improving education,” he said. “However we get there, it’s time for Santa Fe to make a commitment to one, bring about a program, and two, properly funding it. And everything is on the table when it comes to that.”

Gonzales also wants to create a youth service corps, partially funded by the private sector, that would allow high school students to develop leadership skills through community service while receiving a stipend. He also proposes working with the schools to develop a “school of sustainability” that teaches youth to be environmental stewards. The idea is to build a green workforce within the city.

Gonzales said the city needs to take a regional approach to protecting the environment, from aggressively pursuing federal funds to create healthier forests to developing a community solar farm.

“I propose creating what’s called the ‘Santa Fe Verde Fund.’ It’s a creative way where the city, the county and others can utilize power purchase agreements to be able to access funds to build community solar,” he said.

Gonzales’ plan to improve the economy includes expanding the film industry and increasing tourism through advertising in international markets and a series of art symposiums that would attract a global audience.

“I want Santa Fe to be a global thought leader when it comes to art,” he said.

Bushee, a small businesswoman and longtime city councilor who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2002, said she would move the city forward by taking advantage of what Santa Fe already has to offer.

“We’re going to have to build on our strengths,” she said. “For instance, I have been busy for the last decade really working on building up our infrastructure for bicycling, for pedestrians, for outdoor enthusiasts. From that, we have been able to capture a whole new

segment of our visitor industry. I’m not saying that these trails have been built simply for our visitors.

It’s just a nice, new offshoot. Locals have been able to enjoy these trails.”

When asked for specifics on her platform, Bushee continually talked about her record as a city councilor and said those details could be found on her website.

“What’s important for you to know about me is that not only am I not beholden to special interests, I’ve never been there to advance my career. This is not a launching off point for me,” she said. “This is a culmination of all my work of 20 years to be able to put all that experience and know-how and skills to work for Santa Feans.”

Bushee’s platform includes an emphasis on protecting the environment, from water conservation by increasing gray water use to pursuing legislation to allow the city to build community solar arrays without having to go through Public Service Company of New Mexico, which is New Mexico’s largest electricity provider.

Her platform also calls for improving code and regulations at City Hall to encourage business creation and growth and streamlining the process for business license and permit applications.

In the interview, Bushee said the city needs to get its financial house in order and that her first task as mayor would be to audit all city departments and projects for “efficiency, effectiveness and compliance.”

“We really need to review everything and see where we’re at first,” she said.

The New Mexican requested an interview with the outgoing mayor, David Coss, to discuss what he perceived to be the biggest issues facing Santa Fe, but a spokeswoman said he was unavailable for comment.

Contact Daniel J. Chacón at 986-3089 or dchacon@ sfnewmexican.com.

Folklore: Goal was to document, preserve culture Continued from Page A-1 There is. The state created the position in the 1980s when a woman named Bess Lomax Dawes, director of the Folk and Traditional Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, was trying to get all 50 states to appoint state folklorists.

Dawes was the daughter of musicologist John Lomax and the sister of Alan Lomax, both of whom are famous for their field recordings of folk musicians.

The position started out under the Museum of International Folk Art, though by the time Stephenson started in the position in 1991, it was under the state Office of Cultural Affairs, where it remains today.

It seemed like a perfect fit for Stephenson, who is an accomplished musician. Since the 1970s, he has volunteered at KUNM in Albuquerque, hosting folk music shows as well as a long-running program that featured New Mexican musicians performing live in the studio.

“The main goal of the state folklorist is to document, preserve and perpetuate the traditional cultures of the people of New Mexico,” Stephenson said. “You do that in a lot of ways.”

Many associate the word lore with

stories, written or oral. But there’s much more to it than that, Stephenson said. “Lore is a body of knowledge. That can be a lot of things.

Material arts like weaving, pottery, basket-making, saddle-making, boot-making, guitar. It can be food, cooking and family recipes, cultural recipes.”

One of Stephenson’s proudest accomplishments was organizing the biggest ever matachin dancer gathering in the Southwest, which took place in 2008 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Stephenson wrote his dissertation for his Ph.D. on the music of matachines — ritual dance dramas featuring colorful masks and costumes.

The two-day event featured nine dance groups. Most were from New Mexico, though there also was a Yaqui group from southern Arizona and a Raramuri group from the Sierra Madres in Mexico. Some of the groups were reluctant, Stephenson said. Some of them had never before danced outside their own communities.

Stephenson also organized a series of concerts in 2010 that were recorded on a CD called Masters of New Mexico Traditional Folk Music.

Folk musicians from the three major ethnic groups in the state performed.

“We wanted to get musicians to play in places that normally don’t get to see them,” he said. “So we brought Northern New Mexico Hispanic musicians to Gallup, traditional Native American musicians to Raton and cowboy musicians — well, there’s not many places where you can’t find cowboy music in this state, so we had the cowboy musicians play right in the middle of the state, Socorro.”

Sometimes his work as state folklorist got him in trouble, Stephenson said. This happened while he was trying trying to preserve Native American basket-weaving techniques. Stephenson was arranging for Jicarilla Apache weavers to teach Mescalero Apache weavers how to make “winnowing” baskets and for the Mescaleros to teach the Jicarillas to make “burden” baskets.

Some Jicarillas complained that he was trying to make them give up tribal secrets, Stephenson said. They complained to the tribal president, who then wrote Stephenson a “nasty letter” telling him he no longer was welcome on the Jicarilla Reservation.

That controversy eventually blew over, Stephenson said.

In recent years, with budget cuts and hiring freezes, Stephenson said his job as folklorist has entailed more and more administrative responsibilities, not all of which were related to folklore. For instance, he serves as the Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator, manages the state component of the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces program and is in charge of the state Music Commission. He also was a member of the New Mexico Centennial Steering Committee.

All those added duties have meant that Stephenson isn’t out on the road talking to matachin dancers, basket weavers or cowboy singers, or munching green chile cheeseburgers at the Buckhorn as much as he used to, or as much as he’d like.

He said he told his supervisors when he first started working there that “you don’t find folklore sitting at a desk in Santa Fe. You’ve got to go out into the communities, to celebrations and fiestas, to churches, to bars.” Then he joked, “So when you see my car parked in front of a bar, I’m doing field work.”

Contact Steve Terrell at sterrell@ sfnewmexican.com. Read his political blog at roundhouseroundup.com.

Governors, economic development offices and tourism agencies will seize on any statistic to set them apart from their competitors.

And every time the government publishes statistics, someone has to be first. So let’s hand out some 2013 bragging rights for states.

An important caveat: Of the hundreds of statistics out there, we chose eight that paint a good picture of various aspects of life. This list isn’t meant to be comprehensive, and it’s not meant to be a statement on policy. But it shows which states are on winning streaks.

Fastest job growth: If any state thrived during the great recession, it was North Dakota. The continued development in the western third of the state, fueled by growth in the Bakken oil field, meant North Dakota’s unemployment rate was sinking even as the rest of the country’s was growing.

That growth continued this year. As of November 2012, there were 437,000 jobs in North Dakota. As of November 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the state had 455,000 jobs — a 4 percent increase over the past year.

Fastest-sinking unemployment rate: In November 2012, North Carolina’s unemployment rate stood at 9.4 percent. Now, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says the Tar Heel State’s unemployment rate is at 7.4 percent. That two-point drop was the steepest decline of any state year over year.

New Jersey, Florida and South Carolina all saw their unemployment rates drop by more than 1.5 percentage points. California, West Virginia, Colorado, Indiana, Oregon, Georgia, Nevada, Rhode Island and Utah’s unemployment rates all fell by more than a point.

Fastest-growing wages: Workers in the District of Columbia saw their hourly wages rise faster than any of the 50 states over the past year. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported average hourly earnings jumped by 5.53 percent between the third quarter of 2012 and the third quarter of 2013. Colorado workers did best among the states, notching a 5.25 percent increase in hourly wages.

North Dakota workers saw their average weekly paychecks rise the most (Again, credit goes to the oil and gas industry).

Average weekly earnings in North Dakota grew by 7.03 percent last year, edging weekly wages in the District of Columbia, which rose by 6.12 percent.

Fastest-rebounding tax collections: State income, sales and corporate tax revenues can indicate a rebounding economy — the more money coming in, the higher the tax collections. New Mexico economists project a 6.86 percent increase in tax revenue collections between fiscal years 2013 and 2014, the highest in the nation.

New Jersey and Alaska also expect revenue growth of more than 6 percent (Alaska changed its oil extraction tax structure this year, meaning the state will rely more on corporate taxes than it has in previous years).

Fourteen states expect their personal income, sales and corporate tax revenues to fall over the next fiscal year, in some cases because of tax cuts passed by legislatures earlier this year. North Dakota, which is transferring its tax burden to oil and gas industries, expects its revenue from income, sales and corporate taxes to drop by nearly 11 percent next year; personal income tax revenue in North Dakota is expected to drop by more than half, from $1.3 billion to $616 million, according to the National Association of State Budget Officials.

Most frugal states: During the recession, most states had to rely on their rainy day funds. Now, as tax revenue rebounds, states are rebuilding those savings — and in many cases building bigger cushions than they had before.

Texas was most aggressive in rebuilding its rainy day fund this year. The state set aside more than $3.4 billion between fiscal year 2012 and 2013. California, which spent most of the Great Recession slashing government services to the core, set aside $2.4 billion for the next rainy day. And Florida and Ohio saved almost $1 billion.

Fastest-rebounding housing market: It’s good to be a homebuilder in New Jersey and West Virginia. The Census Bureau and the National Association of Homebuilders report both states have seen a 42 percent jump in building permits for single-family dwellings between 2012 and 2013.

Georgia, California and Florida, three states hit hard by the bursting housing bubble, will see big new housing booms; building permits in all three states have jumped by more than 35 percent.

Vermont and New Mexico are still seeing the number of single-family housing permits decreasing year over year. But every other state is seeing renewed growth in the market.

States getting safer: What if the crimefighting main characters in Hawaii 5-0 went out of business? Hawaii’s crime rate has plunged by 25 percent since 2007, according to FBI data compiled by the Pew Charitable Trusts. And Sin City is getting a lot less sinful: Nevada’s crime rate is down by the same margin.

Since 2007, the FBI reported crime rates declining by more than 20 percentage points in Florida, Maryland, Arizona and Wyoming. In fact, the crime rate has dropped by more than 10 percentage points in 35 states.

So, congratulations to top officials in Colorado, North Dakota, North Carolina, New Mexico, New Jersey, West Virginia, Texas, Hawaii, Nevada and the District of Columbia: You won 2013, in some form or another.

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Scouts: Some limitations for gay members Train fire in India Continued from Page A-1 because of the new policy, and some families are switching to a new conservative alternative called Trail Life USA. But massive defections haven’t materialized and most major sponsors, including the Roman Catholic and Mormon churches, are maintaining ties.

“There hasn’t been a whole lot of fallout,” said Haddock, a lawyer from Wichita, Kan. “If a church said they wouldn’t work with us, we’d have a church right down the street say, ‘We’ll take the troop.’ ” The new policy was approved in May, with support from 60 percent of the 1,400 voting members of the Boy Scouts’ National Council. The vote followed bitter nationwide debate, and was accompanied by an announcement that the organization would continue to exclude openly gay adults from leadership positions.

Under the new membership policy, youths can no longer be barred from the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts or coed Venturers program solely on the basis of sexual orientation. However, gay Scouts will face some limitations.

“Any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting,” says one Boy Scouts document.

“No member may use Scouting to promote or advance any social or political position or agenda, including on the matter of sexual orientation.”

Trying to anticipate potential friction, the Scouts has distributed extensive explanations and question-and-answer documents related to the policy.

Some examples: u Could a Scout march in uniform in a gay pride parade?

No, says the organization. “Each youth member is free as an individual to express his or her thoughts or take action on political or social issues but must not use Scouting’s official uniforms and insignia when doing so.” u How publicly active could a gay Scout be, in terms of gay rights advocacy? The Boy Scouts’ reply: “While a youth member may acknowledge his or her sexual preference, that acknowledgment may not reach the level of distraction, which may include advocacy, promotion, or the distribution of information of a sexual nature.”

A frequently-asked-questions document anticipates that some objections might surface from parents — or Scouts themselves — in cases in which a unit includes an openly gay boy.

Regarding shower and toilet facilities, the organization says it is encouraging units to provide greater individual privacy, including moving away from the tradition of group showers.

“The adult leaders have the discretion to arrange private showering times and locations,” the organization says.

Sleeping arrangements also are addressed, with specific decisions left to unit leaders.

“If a Scout or parent of a Scout makes a request to not tent with another Scout, their wishes should be honored,” the

Bill Helfand, the scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 55 in Houston, said membership in his troop has remained steady at about 225 boys after the announcement that the organization will begin to accept openly gay boys. ‘We never considered sexual orientation, and I don’t think many troops really did,’ he said. ‘I don’t know whether we had Scouts who are homosexual. I don’t inquire. … It’s not a matter of concern.’

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group says.

Haddock says “isolated pockets” of problems are likely to surface, but overall he expects adult leaders will have the skills to defuse potential conflicts.

There are about 1 million adult leaders and 2.6 million youth members in Scouting in the U.S. Of the roughly 110,000 Scout units, 70 percent are sponsored by religious organizations, including several conservative denominations that had long supported the Boy Scouts’ exclusion of gay youth and gay adults.

Among the major sponsors, the Southern Baptist Convention made clear its disappointment with the new youth policy, but left the decision on whether to cut ties up to local churches.

A Southern Baptist Convention spokesman, Sing Oldham, said it was not known how many churches have done so.

The biggest sponsor of Scout units — the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — commended the organization for a “thoughtful, goodfaith effort” to address a challenging issue, and said it would stay engaged in Scouting.

John Gailey of the Utah National Parks Council, the nation’s largest council, said its youth membership had increased from 74,148 in December 2012 to 75,863 this month.

Like the Mormons, the Roman Catholic Church has generally accepted the new policy. Many parishes will continue to sponsor Scout units, though a few have considered cutting ties.

The National Catholic Committee on Scouting posted a question-and-answer document on its website, delving into the intersection of Scouting policy and Catholic teaching.

“The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that individuals who disclose a same-sex attraction are to be treated with the same dignity due all human beings … and also teaches that engaging in sexual activity outside of marriage is always immoral,” says the Q-and-A, concluding that the new Boy Scouts policy does not contradict Catholic teaching.

The ultimate decision on whether parishes would main-

tain or cut ties with the organization was left to individual bishops. Several expressed cautious support for continuing in Scouting.

“As the new policy currently stands, I see no reason to prohibit our parishes from sponsoring Boy Scout troops,” said Rev. Kevin Rhoades, bishop of Indiana’s Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese. “At the same time, it is critical that we be vigilant on how this new policy is interpreted and implemented.”

One likely target of such scrutiny will be former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, scheduled to take over in the spring as the organization’s next president.

As leader of the Pentagon, Gates helped change the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy banning openly gay soldiers, and gay-rights groups hope he will try to end the Boy Scouts’ ban on gay adult leaders.

The new youth policy was approved during a meeting in May in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine, near the Scouts’ national headquarters in Irving, Texas.

Texas has a long heritage of Scouting, with tens of thousands of youth members and many families claiming generations of Eagle Scouts. Among them is Gov. Rick Perry, who achieved Scouting’s highest rank growing up in the small town of Paint Creek.

The membership debate was closely followed by local Scouts on both sides; some carried signs and held rallies outside the meeting place. But in subsequent months, the debate has quieted.

Bill Helfand, scoutmaster of Troop 55 in Houston, said membership in his troop has remained steady at about 225 boys.

“We never considered sexual orientation, and I don’t think many troops really did,” Helfand said. “I don’t know whether we had Scouts who are homosexual. I don’t inquire. …

It’s not a matter of concern.”

Helfand said the membership debate, while closely covered in the media, did not extend into his meetings with leaders and parents, besides occasional discussion of the policy at campouts. He says he hasn’t talked

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“I know that this is something that people felt was a momentous turning point for Scouting,” Helfand said. “Everybody I know has made Scouting available to every boy who wants it, and that’s what we continue to do.”

However, some Texas parents and leaders have decided to switch to Trail Life USA, an alternative that declares itself “a Christian adventure, character, and leadership program for young men.” Among them is Ron Orr, a business consultant from the Fort Worth area who is signing up local units for the group.

So far, he said he has 25 groups “pre-chartered” for a Jan. 1 launch date in the territory covered by the Boy Scouts’ Circle Ten and Longhorn councils. That’s modest compared to the 39,000 Scouts served by the Circle Ten council alone.

Orr is part of a family with four generations of Eagle Scouts. His older son recently earned his Eagle rank and his younger son was on the verge of doing likewise. But Orr said he could not stand by after the policy change.

“As Christians, from a scriptural basis, we love all folks, but the scripture is very clear that being homosexual is a sin,” Orr said. “We’ve got to be able to hold a strong line and set a consistent example for our young men.”

Orr said his decision to cut ties with the Boy Scouts rested in part on the Scout Oath, which includes the admonition to remain “morally straight.”

Scott Scarborough of Lubbock, Texas, is helping Orr recruit Trail Life members in the Texas Panhandle, a mostly rural, conservative region. Scarborough said he offered to let his 14-year-old son stay in Boy Scouts and achieve his Eagle rank, but the boy elected to join him in Trail Life.

Orr and Scarborough said they didn’t consider themselves rivals to the Boy Scouts, though they’ve chosen a different path.

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Global workforce braces for retirement crisis As countries slash benefits and companies eliminate pension plans, many with eyes on retiring are now forced to work past 65

By David McHugh, Elaine Kurtenbach and Paul Wiseman The Associated Press

A global retirement crisis is bearing down on workers of all ages.

Spawned years before the Great Recession and the 2008 financial meltdown, the crisis was significantly worsened by those twin traumas. It will play out for decades, and its consequences will be far-reaching.

Many people will be forced to work well past the traditional retirement age of 65. Living standards will fall and poverty rates will rise for the elderly in wealthy countries that built safety nets for seniors after World War II. In developing countries, people’s rising expectations will be frustrated if governments can’t afford retirement systems to replace the tradition of children caring for aging parents.

The problems are emerging as the generation born after World War II moves into retirement.

“The first wave of under-prepared workers is going to try to go into retirement and will find they can’t afford to do so,” says Norman Dreger, a retirement specialist with the consulting firm Mercer in Frankfurt, Germany.

The crisis is a convergence of three factors: u Countries are slashing retirement benefits and raising the age to start collecting them.

These countries are awash in debt since the recession hit.

And they face a demographics disaster as retirees live longer and falling birth rates mean there will be fewer workers to support them. u Companies have eliminated traditional pension plans that guaranteed employees a monthly check in retirement. u Individuals spent freely and failed to save before the recession and saw much of their wealth disappear once it hit.

Those factors have been documented individually. What is less appreciated is their combined ferocity and global scope.

“Most countries are not ready to meet what is sure to be one of the defining challenges of the 21st century,” the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington concludes.

Mikio Fukushima, who is 52 and lives in Tokyo, worries that he might need to move somewhere cheaper, maybe Malaysia, after age 70 to get by comfortably on income from his investments and a public pension of just $10,000 a year.

People like Fukushima who are fretting over their retirement prospects stand in contrast to many who are already retired. Many workers were recipients of generous corporate pensions and government benefits that had yet to be cut.

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Bigand lives in the countryside outside the city of Rouen in Normandy. He has a second home in Provence. He’s just taken a vacation on Oleron Island off the Atlantic coast and is planning a five-week trip to Guadeloupe.

“Travel is our biggest expense,” he says.

Under siege The notion of extended, leisurely retirements is relatively new. Germany established the world’s first widely available state pension system in 1889. The United States introduced Social Security in 1935. In the prosperous years after World War II, governments expanded pensions.

In addition, companies began to offer pensions that paid employees a guaranteed amount each month in retirement — so-called defined-benefit pensions.

The average age at which men could retire with full government pension benefits fell from 64.3 years in 1949 to 62.4 years in 1999 in the relatively wealthy countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

“That was the Golden Age,” Mercer consultant Dreger says.

It would not last. As the 2000s dawned, governments — and companies — looked at actuarial tables and birth rates and realized they couldn’t afford the pensions they’d promised.

The average man in 30 countries the OECD surveyed will live 19 years after retirement.

That’s up from 13 years in 1958, when many countries were devising their generous pension plans.

The OECD says the average retirement age would have to reach 66 or 67, from 63 now, to “maintain control of the cost of pensions” from longer lifespans.

Compounding the problem is that birth rates are falling just as the bulge of people born in developed countries after World War II retires.

Populations are aging rapidly as a result. The higher the percentage of older people, the harder it is for a country to finance its pension system because relatively fewer younger workers are paying taxes.

In response, governments are raising retirement ages and slashing benefits. In 30 high-

and middle-income OECD countries, the average age at which men can collect full retirement benefits will rise to 64.6 in 2050, from 62.9 in 2010; for women, it will rise from 61.8 to 64.4 In the wealthy countries it studied, the OECD found that the pension reforms of the 2000s will cut retirement benefits by an average 20 percent.

Even France, where government pensions have long been generous, has begun modest reforms to reduce costs.

“France is a retirees’ paradise now,” says Richard Jackson, senior fellow at the CSIS. “You’re not going to want to retire there in 20 to 25 years.”

The fate of government pensions is important because they are the cornerstone of retirement income. Across the 34-country OECD, governments provide 59 percent of retiree income, on average.

Financial crisis makes things worse The outlook worsened once the global banking system went into a panic in 2008 and tipped the world into the worst recession since the 1930s.

Government budget deficits swelled in Europe and the United States. Tax revenue shrank, and governments pumped money into rescuing their banks and financing unemployment benefits. All that escalated pressure on governments to reduce spending on pensions.

The Great Recession threw tens of millions out of work worldwide. For others, pay stagnated, making it harder to save.

Because government retirement benefits are based on lifetime earnings, they’ll now be lower.

The Urban Institute, a Washington think tank, estimates that lost wages and pay raises will shrink the typical American worker’s income at age 70 by 4 percent — an average of $2,300 a year.

Leslie Lynch, 52, of Glastonbury, Conn., had $30,000 in her 401(k) retirement account when she lost her $65,000-a-year job last year at an insurance company. She’d worked there 28 years. She’s depleted her retirement savings trying to stay afloat.

“I don’t believe that I will ever retire now,” she says.

Many of those facing a financial squeeze in retirement can look to themselves for part of the blame. They spent many years before the Great Recession borrowing and spending instead of saving.

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End of traditional pensions Corporations, too, are cutting pension costs by eliminating traditional defined-benefit plans. They don’t want to bear the cost of guaranteeing employees’ pensions. They’ve moved instead to so-called defined-contribution plans, such as 401(k)s, in the United States. These plans shift responsibility for saving to employees.

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When they look into the future, retirement experts see more changes in government pensions and longer careers than many workers had expected: Cuts in government pension programs like Social Security will likely hit most retirees but will probably fall hardest on the wealthy Those planning to work past 65 can take some comfort knowing they’ll be healthier, overall, than older workers in years past. They’ll also be doing jobs that aren’t as physically demanding. In addition, life expectancy at 65 now stretches well into the 80s for people in the 34 OECD countries — an increase of about five years since the late 1950s.

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WESTMINSTER, Calif. — The end of unemployment checks for more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum-wage work after already slashing household budgets and pawning personal possessions to make ends meet.

Greg and Barbara Chastain of Huntington Beach, Calif., put their two teenagers on the school lunch program and cut back on dining out after losing their T-shirt company in June following a dispute with an investor.

They’ve exhausted their state unemployment benefits, and now that the federal extensions are gone, unless they find jobs, the couple plan to take their children out of their high school in January and relocate 50 miles east, where a relative owns property so they can save on rent.

“We could let one of our cars go, but then you can’t get to work — it’s a never-ending cycle,” 43-year-old Greg Chastain said while accompanying his wife to an Orange County employment center. He said they eventually may try their luck in a less expensive state like Arizona or Texas, if he can land a manufacturing job there.

The end to the five-year program that extended benefits for the long-term jobless affected 1.3 million people immediately and will affect hundreds of thousands more who remain jobless in the months ahead.

Under the program, the federal government provided an average monthly stipend of $1,166.

While the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress want to continue the program, the extensions were dropped from a budget deal struck earlier this month, and Republican lawmakers have balked at its $26 billion annual cost.

Dems push for extension WASHINGTON — With 1.3 million jobless workers losing their benefits Saturday, Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing for a three-month extension that is slated to face a key procedural vote as soon as next week.

The bill, introduced by Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., would prolong emergency unemployment benefits that have been in place since the depths of the recession in 2008.

Reed said the bill would offer retroactive benefits.

He added that his priority is securing a filibuster-proof majority during a Senate vote scheduled for Jan. 6.

The program’s cost for the first three months of 2014 would be around $6.5 billion, according to Reed’s spokesperson, Chip Unruh. The tab for the entire year would be roughly $24 billion.

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By Thomas Beaumont The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republicans swept into governorships on a tea partyfueled wave of discontent four years ago, taking over statehouses long governed by Democrats with promises of conservative economic and social policy makeovers.

In states across the Midwest and Southwest, GOP governors followed through on those promises, winning far-reaching changes in labor, budget and social policy.

Now, those same governors are preparing to face the voters next year, promoting their accomplishments while keeping arm’s length from their unpopular colleagues in Congress.

Democrats are counting on a backlash from voters upset over the policy shift to the political right. But they have struggled to field top-tier contenders in several key states, including some that President Barack Obama carried last year when he won re-election. Democrats attribute their candidate recruitment woes to the continuing popularity of Republican governors, despite disapproval of the congressional GOP after the federal government

shutdown in October.

“While the federal party is suffering, it’s much harder to pin that on candidates for statewide office,” acknowledged Nathan Daschle, former director of the Democratic Governors Association.

Republicans control 29 of the nation’s 50 governorships, including 20 of the 36 that will be on the ballot in 2014. GOPcontrolled states include Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin, which together accounted for roughly half of Obama’s 126-electoral vote margin over GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

But in Nevada and New Mexico, Democrats have all but conceded that Republican Govs. Brian Sandoval and Susana Martinez will win re-election, even though both states have booming Hispanic populations that overwhelmingly went for Obama in 2012. In the Midwest, Democrats so far have fielded only little-known challengers to Govs. John Kasich of Ohio, Rick Snyder of Michigan and Scott Walker of Wisconsin, despite large Democratic-leaning union constituencies upset over the anti-labor policies of all three governors.

To be sure, the GOP has its worries.

Despite gradually falling unemployment in his state, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has been dogged by criticism of his handling of the Penn State University football program’s sex abuse case during

his time as state attorney general. Similarly in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott has struggled to connect with voters, despite the state’s improving employment picture.

Still, Republicans also see opportunities in several Democratic strongholds.

Wealthy Republican outsider Bruce Rauner hopes to face Illinois Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, who has been hounded by high unemployment and soaring pension debt. Similarly, businessman Tom Foley, who lost narrowly to Connecticut Democrat Dan Malloy in 2010, is challenging Malloy again, as the incumbent faces problems similar to those confronting Quinn.

“Some of our incumbents are vulnerable,” said Danny Kanner, spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association.

“But our job is to simply increase our numbers, and I’m confident we’ll do that.”

Kanner says Democrats see opportunities against Republican Govs. Nikki Haley in South Carolina and Sam Brownback in Kansas. In Texas, state Sen. Wendy Davis, who rose to prominence earlier this year with a filibuster over abortion restrictions, has proven to be a robust fundraiser in the early months of her campaign to replace retiring GOP Gov. Rick Perry.

But all three states are traditional GOP strongholds, where Republican voters usually turn out disproportionately in midterm elections, especially during a Democratic president’s second term.

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The trend has already emerged in North Carolina, which started cutting off extended benefits in July. The state’s unemployment rate went down — from 8.8 percent in June to 7.4 percent in November— even though the number of North Carolinians who said they had jobs rose only slightly in that time.

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ere’s a New Year’s resolution for poliwith the Bernalillo County Republican Party ticians: Stop using social media. attended a public hearing over the debate No, wait. Strike that. As someone about raising the city’s minimum wage. who covers politics, I implore politicians He took to Facebook and made offensive from the local to the national levels remarks about a woman speaking to keep tweeting and Facebooking in favor of the wage hike. to your hearts’ content because Zap! Within moments he ended you’re making my job easier. up getting suspended and issued an Judging from the foot-in-mouth apology. fiascos of 2013, the social media This fall, Albuquerque Pubhave been the unintentional conlic Schools Superintendent duits for self-destruction.

Winston Brooks nearly lost his In Washington, D.C., a running $250,000-a-year job for tweeting joke on Capitol Hill is, what’s rude and sexist remarks about Rob the most dangerous place to be?

Hanna Skandera, the secretaryNikolewski designate for the Public Education Between Chuck Schumer and a Commentary television camera.

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The media-friendly senator from Brooks apologized, although he New York never misses an opporadded that he was new to the social tunity to appear on TV, opining on whatever media game and didn’t quite understand that issue — no matter how trivial or transcenwhat he wrote could be seen by others outdent — that a network booker deems worthy side his immediate circle for friends, which of filling the 24-hour news cycle. beggars belief.

Now the joke can be updated: What’s the If my 76-year-old mother, who regularly fastest way to put your career in jeopardy? chimes in on Facebook to pass on news about Write something impulsive in less than grandchildren and the latest fast-breaking 140 characters and press the “send” button. news in the quilting industry, can understand I’m not sure why so many politicos got in that in the 21st century what goes on the trouble with the social media in the past year. Internet can stay on the Internet — forever After all, Twitter has been around for nearly — then I would hope that the superintendent eight years and Mark Zuckerberg founded of the largest school district in the state can Facebook back in 2004, so it’s not like social grasp the idea as well. media is something new and radical.

Brooks ended up sounding like former But it happens repeatedly.

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who once called In Albuquerque this past year, an official the Internet “a series of tubes” or that old

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Phil Hartman character from Saturday Night Live in the 1990s — “Unfrozen Cave Man Lawyer” — who disingenuously appeals to a jury by talking about how fast-paced modern life frightens and confuses him.

Just last week, a legislator in Washington state caused an uproar after posting a tweet after the Seattle Seahawks lost a home game to the Arizona Cardinals. (By the way, that’s another annoying thing about politicians — the way they try to appeal to the everyday guy and gal by shouting their loyalty to local sports teams from the rooftops, but that’s another column.)

Anyway, the Washington pol tweeted, “Losing a football game sucks. Losing to a desert racist wasteland sucks a lot.”

He deleted the post but — remember, the Internet is forever — a TV reporter in Seattle got a screen-save of the tweet, and the ritual apologizing commenced.

Of course, the social media meltdown maven, the high priest of high-tech hara-kiri, is Anthony Weiner.

A promising political career imploded a couple of years ago when he took a picture of his crotch and sent it to a female college student. Or he thought he just sent it to her.

Only the addled Weiner ended up sending it to everyone in his Twitter profile.

He resigned from Congress, but earlier this year he attempted a comeback by running for mayor of New York City after making all the

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think that most people abhor the idea of abortion (“All people should have an opportunity at life,” Dec. 22). That said, there are times when a woman needs to make a decision to terminate a pregnancy, for reasons known only to her, and which are none of your business, my business or anyone else’s. Whether they are done for social, economic or emotional reasons does not concern anyone but the woman whose body it is. No one should be forced to be a gestational oven, losing control of her body at conception and regaining it at delivery.

Cathlynn Groh

Santa Fe

A greater gift Now that you have given your grandchildren all the stuff that they may not need for Christmas, give them the one thing that they do — action on climate change.

Regardless of our weather this year in New Mexico, and the big infusion of money from right-wing groups denying climate change, which you partially helped to fund with your purchases, this November was the warmest November on record globally, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. While you were shopping, Public Service Company of New Mexico submitted a plan to keep pouring greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from coal-burning plants rather than seeking out alternative energy. Are you going to spend another year without taking any action?

Steven Rudnick, Ph.D

Santa Fe

Shame on Sharer To state Sen. William Sharer for his continuing antigay marriage efforts: Shame on you for a second time!

Several months ago you wasted legislative public time and money on your feeble-minded, anti-gay measure. Even after the New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled, you haven’t learned your lesson about what honest public service constitutes. You remain wedded to your ideological position imposing your narrow religious views on the rest of the populace.

Instead, you should be addressing real issues in this state, or do the honorable thing and resign your position so others can do the job that you refuse to do, which is to legislate for the common good, not for the whiny, backward-thinking attitudes put forth in your would-be, signature legislation requiring an impossible, doomed-to-failure constitutional amendment.

Kim Switzer

Rio Rancho

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COMMENTARY: JOEL MATHIS AND BEN BOYCHUK

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here was no presidential election in 2013, but the year provided America with plenty of stories to care about: The launch of “Obamacare,” the near-war with Syria over chemical weapons, the Boston Marathon bombings and many more. Some stories were one-offs; others will ripple forward into the future.

Which story in 2013 might have the most impact going forward? Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk, the RedBlueAmerica columnists, debate the issue.

Joel Mathis The most consequential story of 2013?

Easy: The so-called “fast-food strikes” that occurred at restaurants around the country.

Why the most consequential? Because it threw into stark relief a reality that has increasingly concerned both liberals and economists for years: Income inequality is growing in this country, creating a system in which a few wealthy citizens stand to absorb all the wealth while the rest of us work harder and harder for ever-diminishing returns.

That inequality has been growing steadily for 40 years, masked to some extent by the rise of a two-working-parent middle class, and then to a greater extent by various bubbles — tech, then housing — that made it appear wealth was growing along with productivity in this country. It wasn’t.

We know that now. We know that in this painfully pitiful recovery, one of the fastestgrowing job segments nationally is in fast food. We know that the occupants of those jobs are not, as popular myth would have it, just teens, but plenty of working-age and midcareer adults. These are hardworking people who cannot afford to live on the minimum

wage that the fast-food restaurants pay them, much less save money to send kids to college, without resorting to public subsidies like food stamps to make ends meet. Which means, yes, that you the taxpayer are already subsidizing the wages of McDonald’s employees.

Over the next few years, how to either accommodate or reverse those trends will be at the center of our politics. Some conservatives have already talked about creating a taxpayer-funded national guaranteed minimum wage so that companies that offer lowpaying, low-skill jobs can stay competitive with one another without doing anything so rash as spend their own profits to pay a living wage to their workforce.

Many Republicans have spent recent years pretending income inequality doesn’t matter.

That answer is no longer viable. Our next debates will be about how to fix it. And 2013 will be seen as the year those debates got underway in earnest.

Ben Boychuk Tough year, 2013. It’s not easy to pin down just one vital development. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in June on same-sex marriage will reverberate across the legal, political and cultural landscapes for years to come.

Next up: the fight over religious liberty.

New Yorkers’ decision to elect as their mayor Bill de Blasio, a left-wing populist firebrand, might well have set the stage to undo two decades of work that made one of the most dangerous cities in America into one of the safest.

President Barack Obama signaled the world that U.S. foreign policy could not be taken seriously. If Obama wasn’t prepared to back his words with deeds in Syria, he never

should have drawn a “red line” over President Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons against civilians. He blinked.

But in the end, it would have to be the selfimmolation of Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement that will be remembered as the most important story of this storied year.

Obamacare’s spectacular flameout had little to do with a website’s failure to launch.

The president drew a preposterous red line with health care reform, too. “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period,” he famously said. “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”

A few million insurance policy cancellations later, most everyone recognizes the president’s promise was as empty as his threats against Assad.

But the enterprise was clearly in trouble when the president in July decided to delay until 2015 enforcement of the law’s employer mandate. That’s the requirement that all employers with more than 50 workers provide health insurance. Many employers had already begun slashing full-time employees’ hours to soften the mandate’s impact.

Now the administration is selectively postponing enforcement of the law’s individual mandate, which has been the cause of so much angst in recent weeks. All of the White House’s delays and ad hoc fixes are mere palliatives. The law itself is fatally flawed.

Perhaps Congress can finally repeal it in 2014.

Ben Boychuk (bboychukcity-journal.org) is associate editor of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. Joel Mathis (joelmmathisgmail.com ) is associate editor for Philadelphia Magazine.

Website: www.facebook.com/benandjoel. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune News Service.

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With the recent drunken driving-caused head-on collision on Interstate 25, don’t you think it’s time we tried some new ideas to stop this? There are things we could easily do, such as one-way gates on selected exit ramps that would automatically open in the right direction, or even tire damage grates for cars attempting to drive the wrong way on an exit ramp. I would trade some punctured tires for punctured lives any day. We could start this as an experiment. My candidate for the first site would be the exit ramp spur at the intersection of I-25 and U.S. 84/285, the ramp near the fatal wrong-way crash that involved the Gonzales family [Paul, Renee and three of their children] in 2006 — something we must never forget.

Mark Friedman

Santa Fe

Defending actions How ironic to see Marita Noon’s benediction of fossil fuels (“Actions of few keep Mora poor,” Dec. 17) next to a commentary about Pope Francis. Noon, a Heartland Institute “expert” and tea party favorite, blames poverty in Mora on those who reject oil wealth. The pope, who gets his ethics from a somewhat higher authority, has castigated free-market profiteering, which the industry exemplifies, for impoverishing us all.

Noon is correct: The actions of a few keep the 99 percent poor. But the people of Mora are rich — in land, water and traditions, which they should have the right to defend.

What kind of country allows drillers to sue farmers for blocking their dreams of petroleum commerce but forbids farmers from suing drillers for threatening an existing agricultural economy? Property rights are clearly more sacred for some than for others. As Pope Francis reminds us, the fact that the law favors the rich does not make it right.

Kim Sorvig

Santa Fe

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A statue, but so much more

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on Diego de Vargas — in statue form at least, just can’t get any respect.

The life-size bronze of the Spanish conquistador, who led settlers back to Santa Fe after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, has been the frequent subject of indignities since its installation in 2006. Most recently, the 550-pound bronze was nearly knocked off its pedestal at Cathedral Park. That’s on top of being hit with graffiti, fractured and otherwise defaced. A vandal even stole De Vargas’ sword. Now, the statue has been removed for repairs. It will be reinstalled with a more sturdy pedestal to ensure it doesn’t fall over and squish someone.

The vandalism of the Don Diego statue is a symptom of a bigger problem, one we have written about before. Cathedral Park is a mess. It’s more evident in summer, when large groups of otherwise idle young people spend the day in the park with nothing to do but smoke pot and trash the place. There are different groups of idlers: the local teens and the more hard-core itinerants who, for whatever reason, have drifted to Santa Fe and like to hang around downtown. The drifters lend an air of menace to their surroundings. Fights and profanity-laden rants are not uncommon.

This park, established as a tribute to the founding settlers of Santa Fe, has become an unpleasant place to sit on many days.

Even in winter, people without any place to go congregate in the park. They might gather around the steps of the former Marian Hall; or, they just sit on benches and huddle for warmth. It is an unsettling sight, to be sure, because none of us wants to see people exposed to the elements.

The city of Santa Fe, though, has an obligation to keep city parks and public spaces accessible to all sorts of users — families with children, elderly people, downtown workers and tourists, many of whom feel uncomfortable at the park. Who wants to let their toddler run around while older children are smoking pot nearby? Park workers have found needles in the grass; that’s hardly a family-friendly scene.

None of this is to say the stragglers who spend their days in the park also are vandals who deface the sidewalks and harm the statues. However, a place with a lawless edge to it is a place where there is little respect for property or tradition. Don Diego de Vargas’ statute, a work of art by sculptor Donna Quasthoff, deserves better. And so do the people who would like to use the park.

The bigger issue is that Santa Fe, as a city, needs to revive the concept of respect for public spaces and public property. We are fortunate that for the most part, vandals don’t desecrate public art — graffiti on sculptures is not a widespread problem. And we need to maintain that respect for art, while restoring attention to the walls, buildings and other common areas of our town.

As a community, we have continued to let graffiti linger for weeks, even months. That’s despite knowing that the best way to discourage vandals is to cover their work immediately. The problem of panhandlers both downtown and in city shopping areas is persistent. The candidates for mayor and for City Council need to talk about how they plan to make Santa Fe safer and cleaner. More police patrols are one part of the solution, but a broader approach will be necessary. We need quick action to erase graffiti (the Cross of the Martyrs was hit again on Christmas week), sensible penalties and public education. There should be discussion about whether cameras would help dissuade vandals. We also need to help the otherwise idle teens find jobs or finish school so that they can be productive and do something besides sit in a park all day.

The vandalism of the Don Diego statue, as unpleasant as it has been, is but a symptom of a greater problem. Santa Fe needs to tackle that problem head-on, improving the quality of life for all city residents in 2014.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 29, 1913: Philadelphia — Because he objected to any member of his family dancing the tango, attending the movies or keeping late hours, a 65-year-old father placed his 35-year-old son across his knees and game him an old-fashioned spanking. Hearing the sounds of whacks and cries of pain coming from the house, a policeman from Germantown station rushed into the house and found the younger man writhing on the floor. His father stood over him, according to the police, demanding whether he intended hereafter to do what he was told and not keep late hours. “If I catch you cutting up any more with the tango and such stuff,” shouted the irate father, “I’ll repeat the dose.” The father was locked up in the Germantown station to await a hearing and the son was taken to the Germantown Hospital to have his bruises treated.

Dec. 29, 1963: State Sen. Fabian Chavez, vigorous foe of New Mexico’s liquor laws, asked Gov. Jack M. Campbell on Saturday to include liquor legislation in the call of the special session of the legislature. Chavez, the majority floor leader in the Senate, was sponsor of several bills during the 1963 regular session which would have made substantial changes in the Liquor Control Act. He was only partially successful in this venture, but the first extensive changes in a quarter century were achieved.

COMMENTARY: JONATHAN TURLEY

Obama should pardon Snowden F ormer CIA Director R. James Woolsey weighed in last week on the subject of Edward Snowden. Asked about calls of clemency for the former National Security Agency contractor, Woolsey insisted that Snowden should be “hanged by the neck until he is dead.”

Woolsey reflects the current thinking in Washington: reform for the NSA and the rope for Snowden. However, it may be time for President Barack Obama to show real leadership and acknowledge that Snowden is the reason for the current reform push.

It may be time to pardon Edward Snowden.

He has almost certainly committed criminal acts in removing and disclosing classified material. As someone who has held a top-secret clearance since the Reagan administration, I do not condone such violations of national security laws.

However, Snowden is a better candidate for clemency than many believe.

A presidential pardon is not an endorsement of the underlying actions of an individual. To the contrary, the vast majority of pardons follow criminal convictions.

Rather, pardons are issued because of mitigating or extenuating circumstances.

Sometimes clemency is a way of healing a national divide or bringing closure to a national controversy. George Washington pardoned all of those in the Whiskey Rebellion, and John Adams considered it in “the public good” to pardon Pennsylvania rebels. Likewise, Gerald Ford did not condone the crimes of Richard Nixon, but he viewed a pardon as in the best interest of the country.

Presidential pardons can be issued at any time after an alleged offense, even before a person is charged or convicted.

Such was the case with Jimmy Carter’s pardon of draft dodgers and Ronald Reagan’s pardon of the six officials accused

in the Iran-Contra affair.

When considered in light of the thousands of past pardon and commutation recipients, Snowden compares favorably.

Indeed, there have been many questionable pardons granted over the years to well-connected defendants, like that of businessman Marc Rich, who was convicted of tax evasion and other crimes but then pardoned by Bill Clinton.

While the Obama administration continues to insist that Snowden does not fit the definition of a whistle-blower, even the White House admits that abuses occurred in the massive NSA surveillance program that he revealed. Snowden’s disclosures have prompted the creation of two task forces, one of which came back last week with a recommendation of numerous reforms. Moreover, a federal judge has now ruled that the NSA program is flagrantly unconstitutional.

Snowden may have revealed a larger volume of material, but he is not the first to disclose highly classified matters. Most whistle-blowers release either confidential or classified material. Indeed, Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the Pentagon Papers involved the release of classified documents that the Nixon administration insisted placed the entire nation at risk.

Snowden faced a system that was entirely uninterested in, if not outright hostile to, hearing about abuses. Indeed, various people had tried to raise questions about the extent of government surveillance in previous years. I represented one prior NSA whistle-blower who disclosed the massive surveillance program, but the public ignored him and he was threatened with arrest.

Despite such cases and media coverage, the White House and Congress turned a blind eye to abuses. It was Snowden who forced action by leaking documents to a journalist. Both Obama

and congressional leaders have called for Snowden’s arrest, but he was as much their creation as his own.

Some NSA officials have already suggested that amnesty could be used to secure thousands of documents still in Snowden’s possession. A pardon could be conditioned on the return of all these documents and the signing of a nondisclosure agreement that would allow prosecution for any further disclosures.

Moreover, a pardon would demonstrate to both Americans and our allies that the White House is serious about reform, and accepts responsibility for the abuses that have been documented.

Finally, a pardon would resolve a glaring contradiction in how the White House has dealt with alleged crimes by national security officials. After all, this is the president who pledged early in his first term that no CIA employee would be investigated, let alone prosecuted, for the Bush torture program. Likewise, no one was prosecuted when CIA officials admitted destroying torture tapes to avoid their use in any future prosecution. Finally, when the NSA program was raised in public, National Intelligence Director James Clapper appeared before Congress and lied about the program.

But instead of firing Clapper, Obama asked him to participate on a task force to review the program.

Snowden could certainly take additional actions that could destroy any claim to a pardon. However, as he stands now, he has a greater claim than many who have received reprieves. He certainly deserves the same consideration in disclosing abuses that Obama officials received in concealing them from the public.

Jonathan Turley is a professor of public interest law at George Washington University and has served as lead defense counsel in national security cases.

COMMENTARY: SALLY SATEL

Law could reform mental health care

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n the wake of gun violence such as occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School and Virginia Tech, commissions are organized and institutional reviews are conducted. Rarely, however, are meaningful reforms proposed.

The legislation recently introduced in the House of Representatives by Tim Murphy, R-Pa., is a refreshing change.

The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013 addresses a long list of inadequacies in services for people who suffer from schizophrenia, bipolar illness, major depression and other severe conditions — problems that Murphy uncovered in his yearlong investigation of the U.S. mental-health system.

These flaws begin with the dubious “recovery model” of treatment, extolled by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the federal agency charged with administering $440 million in state block grants to fund community mental-health facilities. The recovery model is based, in SAMHSA’s wording, on “change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life and strive to reach their full potential.”

This may work for certain high-functioning patients. But for those languishing in back bedrooms and flophouses because they are too paranoid, oblivious or lost in psychosis to “self-direct” their lives, it amounts to malpractice.

By focusing on “recovery,” SAMHSA promotes only a handful of treatment programs aimed at the sickest patients.

Meanwhile, the agency fails to recommend “assisted outpatient therapy,” a

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form of civil-court-ordered community treatment for patients who are known to be self-destructive or dangerous when off their medication. Much research has shown this therapy to be extraordinarily effective for people with severe mental illness.

The Murphy bill would set things straight by taking away SAMHSA’s authority to administer the mental-health block grants and turning it over to a new assistant secretary for mental-health and substance-use disorders. It would also fund assisted outpatient therapy programs and require that each state have a law on the books to administer them as a prerequisite for receiving block grants.

A second big weakness in the system is a shortfall of hospital beds — estimated to be 100,000 nationwide. This came into the spotlight last month when Gus Deeds, the son of Virginia state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, stabbed his father and then shot himself, fatally. A day earlier, Gus had undergone a psychiatric evaluation under an emergency custody order, but because no local bed was available, he wasn’t admitted to a hospital.

The Murphy bill would increase access to acute-care beds for the most critical patients by lifting Medicaid rules that prohibit reimbursement for patients over age 21 and under 65.

The bill would also curb excessive secrecy surrounding patient information under the scope of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Respectful confidentiality regarding psychiatric treatment is one thing, but too often frantic family members are not

even told that their loved ones have been hospitalized. Murphy’s legislation would allow parents (psychotic illness often begins in late teenage years) and other “personal representatives” to communicate with patients’ doctors and caretakers.

Finally, there is the need to help disturbed people who never get to a hospital — for example, Aaron Alexis, who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard in September. Several weeks earlier, Alexis, paranoid and delusional, had called police from a hotel room, but the responding officers were unequipped to handle the situation.

The Murphy bill would provide training to law enforcement and correctional officers on how to recognize mental illness and intervene to help people get treatment.

The bill includes other innovations — for example, funding for a National Mental Health Policy Laboratory to identify more effective treatments. It also directs the Justice Department to monitor crimes committed by people with serious mental illness and develop strategies to prevent them. And it requires states to refine commitment statutes to encompass involuntary care for people who are unable to seek the psychiatric care they need to prevent further physical or psychiatric deterioration.

Greater funding remains a critical need, but if Murphy’s bill can be passed in the year ahead, the federal government will have begun major repairs to our flawed mental-health system.

Sally Satel is a psychiatrist and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. This was written for Bloomberg News.

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THE DRAWING BOARD THE WEEK IN CARTOONS

State Sen. Ben Altamirano at the Capitol in 2000.

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MY VIEW: JESSIE EMERSON

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ne of the most important issues facing President Barack Obama is whether to allow the TransCanada pipeline to be built through our country. The almost 2,000-mile route goes over one of our largest aquifers and through critical wildlife habitat. Nearly all the proposed route through Nebraska is used by 90 percent of the remaining 300 whooping cranes. The pipeline requires 378 miles of new power lines to be built.

Where power lines and migrating birds converge, death is often the result.

The Center for Biological Diversity has identified at least 12 threatened and endangered species in four states that will be in jeopardy if the pipeline goes through. These creatures deserve survival.

Since 1986, there have been more than 7,978 oil spills, and 512 human fatalities and 2,360 injuries related to oil spill accidents. One of the most recent accidents was July 20 at a Chevron refinery at Richmond, Calif., near Oakland on the mouth of San Pablo Bay. A diesel leak ignited, causing a series of explosions and fires.

Almost instantly, there were “shelter” warnings, warnings for people to stay inside their homes because the air outside was unsafe to breathe. It was about four days before the warning was lifted.

Why are the agencies in charge of evaluating spill risks downplaying and minimizing the risks and consequences?

Why is the State Department failing to consider the cumulative and long-term effects of spills?

There are some in Congress who are pushing for President Obama to approve this project.

Is it because they own shares in TransCanada? Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, owns stock worth between $115,000 and $300,000. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., reported owning between $15,000 and $51,000 in stock. Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., owns $1,000 to $15,000 in shares and tweets in defense of the pipeline. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., sent a letter

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A public servant worth honoring t has been six years since the passing of the esteemed New Mexico state Sen. Ben Altamirano.

Many will remember his gentility and kindness, but my reason for writing is something else. Ben always listened to the people of New Mexico, not just his constituents but everyone, really, especially those who came before his Finance Committee when he was chairman, and also when he was for four years the president pro tem of the New Mexico State Senate.

There is a kind of charismatic populist intelligence that is the product of such careful attention to the needs of the people you represent, and thereby, Ben became the most intelligent of the legislators with whom I had the pleasure of dealing. It wasn’t in an academic sense, although he did have honorary degrees from Western New Mexico University and from New Mexico Institute of Technology, two universities whose financial needs he attended to for decades.

Ben offered one year to sponsor a bill I wrote to create a New Mexico Nutrition Council, with powers to challenge the pronouncements and approvals of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and to offer superior council to New Mexico schools and institutions regarding quality, as well as legal advice regarding the need to prohibit neurotoxic food additives, such as monosodium glutamate and the artificial sweetener, aspartame. The council, like the tobacco suits in the 1990s, would have the authority to request the New Mexico attorney general to enter into compensatory and punitive lawsuits against manufacturers and distributors of these neurotoxic products.

Sen. Altamirano understood all of this and told me frequently that the compadres and comadres he had spoken to encouraged him to develop this legislation. He said he had received more press on this bill than any item he could recall that he had sponsored. It passed the Senate 32-1, but was killed on the last day of the session in the House, thanks to a filibuster on the bed tax for nursing homes by then-Rep. Dan Foley of Roswell, who was mercifully not re-elected by his constituents.

Often, Senate Finance meetings kept him up till 1 or 2 a.m., and he was nonetheless up and at ’em by 7 a.m., talking to his appointments at 8 a.m., with his impeccable suits and perfectly pressed French cuffs.

Medically speaking, he was pushing himself way too hard, and the knee replacements at 77 didn’t help, either. He died on Dec. 27, 2007.

Because of this letter, I hope a few more people will remember this extraordinary man at this time of year.

Don’t forget him. He was the longest-serving New Mexico state senator, with more than 40 years. No one else in the Legislature comes close to the level of excellence and compassion that this man carried with him daily. I miss Ben.

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to the president expressing support for the project; she owns a mere $798 worth of shares. Our new ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, owns between $250,000 and $500,000 of TransCanada stock.

The success of the project will financially benefit those people, but will it benefit the U.S.? No. The oil will be refined and exported. Will the pipeline create jobs? There are conflicting reports about this.

President Obama confirmed that it would create 2,000 temporary jobs. A Cornell University study concluded, “The pipeline would kill more jobs that it would create by reducing investments in the clean energy economy.”

Extracting tar sands oil, a crude, low-grade, high-sulfur oil, requires extensive refining to make it a usable fuel. The greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands oil is 81 percent greater than that of conventional oil.

This makes it an important contributor to global climate changes. The path to clean energy, fuel efficiency and our country’s security is the path toward clean and renewal resources.

If this dangerous project is allowed into our country, is civil disobedience a way to change the policy that allows it in? Does civil disobedience have a role in America today? It must be remembered that a few brave souls who threw bales of tea into the water changed our world — we became an independent nation. It was civil disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act that provoked the end of slavery. Thank you, Mayor David Coss and City Council members, for having the courage to take a positive stand on public expressions of resistance.

Violence is never the answer.

However, noncompliance with a failed system may be the only answer.

Jessie Emerson is a registered nurse, grandmother and greatgrandmother. Emerson cares about the health of the land and the health of those living upon it.

Disaster: Social media sinks Weiner Continued from Page B-1 attendant apologies and promises, asserting he was really a Boy Scout who had a weak moment.

After all, guys, who hasn’t sent pictures of their manhood to coeds at the other end of the country?

Well, the Weiner-mobile crashed this year after — son of a gun, who would have guessed it? — other pictures taken after his 2011 scandal surfaced. R.I.P., Carlos Danger.

So yes, politicians, Twitter

and Facebook and Instagram until you blister your fingers, just so we can take an unvarnished glimpse into who you really are.

In a world of political handlers and artifice, if social media saves us from just one Anthony Weiner, they’re worth enduring all the posts about the quality of the cappuccino latte our old high school flame had on the way to work.

You can contact Rob Nikolewski through the website he edits, www.newmexicowatchdog.org.

MY VIEW: DANIEL A. BROWN

Up minimum wage – working Americans deserve it

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ccasionally, a story in the headlines is made more real by the witness of a human face. While driving east from Taos several years ago, my wife and I stopped at a fast-food restaurant outside Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

It was a busy time of day, and the place was full of impatient people wanting their burgers and fries. As I made my way to the counter, I was surprised to see that the worker behind it wasn’t the ubiquitous teenage kid working a shift after high school. Instead, the server was a woman who couldn’t have been younger than 70. She was obviously overwhelmed, her face stricken with fright and confusion. She fumbled through my order and could barely make eye contact. Watching her ordeal made me sick to my stomach. Here was an elderly woman who should have been home bouncing grandchildren on her knee, reading her favorite book or perhaps, even writing one. Instead, she was earning some paltry wage, not by choice but from dire necessity.

I thought about this woman after becoming aware of the national movement to raise the minimum wage of fast-food workers from its current untenable $7.25 an hour (or $15,000 a year) to almost double that amount.

While chain establishments used to be the haven of adolescents earning extra cash, now they are more likely to employ adults with families. And like that grandmother in Tennessee, they aren’t working at McDonald’s, Wendy’s or Burger King by choice. Nor are the millions of working Americans currently on food stamps doing so because they want to. They need them to survive.

One of the uglier lies trumpeted by right-wing media is that those who receive food stamps or want an improvement over a poverty wage are lazy shirkers or drug addicts who want something for nothing. In truth, these people work harder than their critics, often laboring at several jobs to provide a life for their families. Until the

birth of the labor movement, American workers toiled under conditions that were equal to those found today in the Third World. As an example, textile mill workers in the East routinely were 15-year-old girls who endured a 60-hour week, earning $2 a day. Coal miners in Appalachia earned even less and saw their meager paychecks whittled to next to nothing by debt to company-owned stores and companyowned homes. Starvation was a common lot, the average meal being considered unfit for animal consumption by the federal standards of the time.

Former President Ronald Reagan began the destruction of the safety net with his policy of “trickle-down” economics, recently condemned by the pope. Water-conscious New Mexicans might have a more accurate opinion of who gets what when things trickle down from the abundant source.

Franklin D. Roosevelt knew better.

When you raise the bottom level, everyone benefits. The more money

people have to spend, the more businesses prosper, which spurs greater production. The New Deal, which conservatives have been trying to derail for decades, rescued this country from the Great Depression and paved the way for the United States to become the most prosperous nation seen on the face of the Earth (with a lot of help from the G.I. Bill).

Those days are gone for most people. The national drive to up the living standards of service employees is a new civil rights movement. If we choose to live in a society that forces grandmothers to work menial jobs, the least we can do is to grant them a living wage. That person may well be our own grandparents, our parents or someday, ourselves.

Daniel A. Brown wrote a monthly opinion column for the newspaper of Greenfield, Mass., from 1998-2013. He has visited Taos since 1970 and is in the process of relocating permanently to Northern New Mexico.

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MY VIEW: PHILIP CRUMP AND LOU LEVIN

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ivorce — even the most amicable — is stressful for children and can create long-lasting difficulties for them. Children’s adjustment to divorce or parent separation is directly related to the intensity and duration of parental conflict; high levels of parent conflict can have enduring and devastating effects on children. (See also Gary Direnfeld’s Reader View: “For Christmas, separated parents should give peace,” Dec. 3) The ability of parents to cooperate and focus on their children’s needs during and after divorce or separation minimizes children’s difficulties. A Santa Fe 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Children First Co-Parenting Support Services Inc., has worked for 10 years to facilitate cooperation for conflicting

divorced or never-married, co-parents.

Children First teaches parents how to adhere to the following five principles: Keep your child out of the middle: Upset at the divorce, parents may unwittingly put their children in the middle of their adult struggles, with open conflict in front of the child, negative talk about the other parent or using the child as messenger to the other parent. Recognizing the patterns and their negative impact on children is a critical first step.

Allow your child to love both parents: Each parent must learn to appreciate the importance of the other parent in their child’s life; children need both parents. This may mean refraining from automatically assuming a negative evaluation of the other’s decisions, acting respectfully when in

the other’s presence or even the simple act of acknowledging them when you see them.

Work on your own recovery: Research shows that children’s progress in recovering from divorce mirrors that of their parents. Parents can allow themselves to grieve the loss of their marriage, even while recognizing the positive memories of that relationship. These processes promote the parents’ recovery and by tacitly giving permission for the child to do the same.

Develop new communication skills: By using effective communication techniques, parents model effective ways of managing difficult situations. This is critically important in the present, since it signals to the child that she can be safe in a problematic

situation. For the future, it is through watching parents’ behavior in stressful times that children learn to manage the problems they will come to face in their own lives.

Create a new relationship as co-parents: Disengaging as partners and realigning as co-parents requires letting go of the old ways of communication and taking hold of new, child-centered patterns. This will feel unfamiliar and requires the willingness to tolerate that discomfort for a period of time.

Children First provides four cycles per year, with two groups each cycle.

Groups are led by a male and female co-facilitator team, consisting of people with training in counseling, social work, mediation or educational administration. A Spanish speakers’

group is starting this spring. Children First has the enthusiastic endorsement of the First Judicial District Family Court and Family Court Services.

Financial support for this low-overhead program comes from incomebased participant fees, grants from local and national foundations and individual tax-deductible donations.

Children First welcomes any donations and additional funding. We are also seeking bilingual (Spanish/ English) facilitators and additional passionate board members. More information can be found at www.ChildrenFirstNM.org.

Mediator Philip Crump and psychologist Dr. Lou Levin are President and vice-president of Children First CoParenting Support Services Inc.

MY VIEW: MEREDITH TILP

Mandela’s lesson: ‘Each one, teach one’

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MY VIEW: ABBY BORDNER

Doulas: Support that matters I

had only vaguely heard of a doula when I became pregnant with my son almost 15 years ago. I knew I wanted to try to have a natural, unmedicated birth and heard a doula would be helpful.

When I found a doula in Santa Fe, I felt relieved and supported in a way that I didn’t feel from my doctor or the staff of nurses at the hospital. She was informed, nurturing and interested in me and my family. We met prenatally and she was the first person I called when I went into labor. She stayed by my side, encouraged me and informed me about my options.

She helped both me and my partner know how to relax, move, breathe and meet the challenges of labor. At the hospital, my doula was there with us the whole time.

We felt more confident asking about alternatives and choices during the labor.

I was able to have the natural birth that I wanted, and I partially credit the wonderful support I had from my doula.

Since then, doulas have become much more popular. They are mentioned in pregnancy books, childbirth classes and in resources online. Culturally, we are realizing that birth is an important event in a

Doulas are trained to offer support regarding fears, expectations, emotions and physical discomforts of pregnancy, birth and postpartum. woman’s life, physically and psychologically, and her choices have consequences for the health and wellness of her baby.

Doctors and midwives have the tremendous job of monitoring the bloodwork, growth, tests and medical responsibilities of pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Doulas are nonmedical support for women and her family. Doulas are trained to offer support regarding fears, expectations, emotions and physical discomforts of pregnancy, birth and postpartum. The role of a doula

is much like the worldwide historic practices of midwives, aunts, mothers, sisters and grandmothers who tended to laboring women. Doulas receive professional training and certification to understand, support and care for women and partners during this precious time in their lives.

I’m very excited to have been hired as faculty for a doula certifying organization, CAPPA (cappa.net). I represent New Mexico to provide training workshops for student doulas who are pursuing certification. Now more women in New Mexico can pursue this professional certification to become doulas. What an incredible opportunity to do work that has a lasting impact in family’s lives.

In 2014, we have the following trainings scheduled: Jan. 31-Feb. 2 in Santa Fe, March 28-30 in Taos and April 25-27 in Albuquerque. You can get more information at www.thebirthingtree.com, info@ thebirthingtree.com and 690-3492.

Abby Bordner is a birth/parent educator and consultant living in Santa Fe. Bordner can be reached at abby@thebirthingtree. com.

MY VIEW: MORGAN SMITH

Santa Fe: Helping across the border

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n impressive number of Santa Feans continue to bring hope and assistance to needy families on the Mexican border. As 2013 comes to an end, I would like to recognize their persistence and commitment and wish them well for 2014. They include: Carlos Garcia, who manages the Mexican program for Operation Christmas Child. In this capacity, he and his team will distribute approximately 800,000 Christmas packages to needy children throughout Mexico. He has also established a nonprofit called Amigo Fiel in Juárez, which provides care and education to children at risk, a “home away from home” program.

Jim and Pat Noble, Eunice Herrera, Margie Acuña and the other members of The Light at Mission Viejo, Calvary Baptist and New Life Family Fellowship and Freedom

Church for having maintained an orphanage, La Casa de Amor Para Niños in Palomas, Mexico, for the last 13 years. In addition, they provide scholarships for more than 130 children there as well as bringing food to be shared by the whole town.

The St. Bede’s Juárez Leadership Team from St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, preparing for a January trip to Juárez to build another home for a needy family.

This will be the team’s 21st build. Many of their volunteers have been to Juárez numerous times, including during the years of the most serious violence.

The Missions and Outreach Committee and many other members of The Church of the Holy Faith who have been helping support Visión en Acción, a private mental hospital on the west edge of Juárez.

Nina Houle from the store On Your

Feet, who has generously donated so many shoes for needy children in Juárez, small villages south of Palomas and Puerto Vallarta.

The management of Artisan for providing paint at a reduced cost for the paint therapy program at Visión en Acción.

The many generous friends and neighbors who have provided shoes and used clothing for Mexico including Judy Crawford and the First Presbyterian Church.

The persistence of these volunteers has made an enormous difference in the lives of many Mexicans living on the border.

They deserve our thanks.

Morgan Smith travels to Juárez and Palomas at least once a month to document and assist various humanitarian programs there. He can be reached at morgan-smith@comcast.net.

n 1978, the murder of Stephen Biko was one of the international news stories that deeply disturbed me. I was a naive 28-year-old white American female.

At the time, the Transkei was one of the homeland’s “Bantustans” declared “independent” by the apartheid government to advance the concept of separate racial development.

As a student intern, I taught at Jalamba High School in a rural setting with no electricity nor outhouses and few books. The dropout rate was 60 percent.

After freedom, 30 years later, my colleagues and I traveled a 45-minute journey to Robben Island. In the 17th century it was a leper colony, and now it is the most infamous prison in the world. During apartheid, it held about 1,700 political and common law prisoners — all black males — who lived in the most horrific circumstances one can imagine.

Nearby, Nelson Mandela and his fellow prisoners worked in a place called the Lime Quarry.

It is a wall of limestone where the hot sun in January literally bakes the skin. A shady hole in the wall afforded a place for the prisoners to eat and relieve themselves. It was also a school for some of the men who had no education. The leaders — the doctors and lawyers — (Mandela was a lawyer by training) established the rule of “each one, teach one.” They paired up the uneducated with the educated at the rock piles.

Most of us had come to see Mandela’s cell, which was about 15 by 15 feet, with a bucket for waste and a hard mat, which when rolled, made a small pillow. The floor is cement. Mandela spent the majority of his 27-year imprisonment in this cell.

White warders kept close guard and subjected black prisoners to many acts of

dehumanization. Escape was unthinkable; the waters back to Cape Town were cold, shark-infested, and on the mainland was the same hostile environment. About 80 prisoners would sleep in a large area adjacent to a communal shower and toilet. The men worked all day, and at the end of the day, they would return to the barracks, strip naked, put their clothes neatly in their right arm and jump in the air to demonstrate they had no secret weapons. They would again be cavity searched.

After a successful career in New York City hyphenated by the events of 9/11, I pivoted and became a teacher in Santa Fe because of my experience in South Africa. In no way did I ever, ever think that evil could really be turned to good in South Africa. We thought it was headed for cataclysm. On a daily basis, I witnessed cruelty, panic, hardship, poverty anger, violence and racism. At the same time, I found the most incredible group of people of hope, including Desmond Tutu, who really believe that “goodness can overcome evil.”

I carry on with this inspiration to the younger generations.

Mandela’s concept of “each one, teach one” is worth pursuing. And coincidentally, Nelson Mandela’s home in Qunu, South Africa is about 5 miles from where I taught in 1979. We were never allowed to mention his name, and there were no photos anywhere. As a New Mexico history and U.S. government teacher, I am trying to teach that what divides us is smaller than what unites us.

Meredith Tilp is a teacher at Capital High School. Tilp thanks Santa Fe Public Schools and the Academy for the Love of Learning for teacher support and renewal.

MY VIEW: AMY GROSS

Sorry, were we in your way?

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was involved in a two-car traffic accident on Friday, Dec. 13, (the irony of the date is not lost on me) downtown at the intersection of Sandoval and Alameda. The accident was witnessed by a number of other drivers, including several who were immediately behind me, crossing the intersection at the same time.

As the other driver and I sat in our cars after the collision, rattled and shaken, not one individual who witnessed the accident stopped to determine if anyone was injured. Not even a roll-down-the-windowand-quickly-poke-your-headout kind of inquiry. Apparently, the witnesses to the collision were in huge hurries to get to where they were going, because every car in the vicinity vanished within seconds. A kind gentleman from the city of Santa Fe eventually stopped to make sure everyone was all right, but by that time we had already been waiting on the sidewalk 20 minutes for the police to arrive.

I’ve probably witnessed four or five accidents in my life, in various places around the country. Every time I have stopped to offer assistance (unless it was clear assistance was already being offered) and/or to offer a statement to the police. Never have I witnessed a wreck where every single driver disappeared or failed to offer aid; in fact, usually there were multiple individuals on the scene before I could even pull over.

My accident here was an eye-opening experience for me, and hugely disappointing.

To those Santa Feans who witnessed the wreck, decided the two cars sitting in the middle of the intersection were in your way, and hurried on without stopping to make sure the drivers were OK, shame on you. Want to bet that someday one of the people sitting there in a car will be your mother, your wife or your daughter?

Amy Gross is an Eldorado resident and the editor of Su Casa, a Northern New Mexico home and lifestyle magazine.

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‘Journal North’ plans shift to weekly It’s unclear whether the Santa Fe-based staff will face layoffs or produce daily content for the Web

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

The Albuquerque Journal will cease printing its Tuesday-throughSunday northern edition beginning Feb. 1 in favor of a weekly publica-

tion, several sources familiar with the plan confirmed Saturday.

It was not immediately clear how the move would impact the edition’s Web operations or its staff.

Published as the Journal Santa Fe in the city of Santa Fe and the Journal

North across Northern New Mexico, the edition is headquartered in Santa Fe and has an editorial staff of about 10 employees.

The Albuquerque Journal has not publicly announced the move but has briefed many of its employees about the plan.

The Journal’s editor-in-chief, Kent Walz, would not confirm the plan Saturday. But in a statement to

The New Mexican, he said: “The Journal is committed to providing high-quality journalism to Santa Fe and other communities in northern New Mexico, an area we have served for many years. We will not discuss specific business plans but we are constantly reevaluating our products in a rapidly

The Journal North, published as the Journal Santa Fe in Santa Fe, will publish as a weekly beginning Feb. 1, according to sources.

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Altitude and age turn some away from Angel Fire area

State Land Office eyes BLM acres set for sale Commissioner sees revenue potential, but federal laws may limit some purchases

By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

fortable with here.”

Sometimes high altitude causes people’s bodies to produce more red blood cells than needed, Cohen said.

“With people who smoke, sometimes that will happen, and that’s called polycythemia,” he said.

Polycythemia vera is a blood disorder caused by bone marrow producing too many red blood cells, which thickens the blood, according to the Mayo Clinic website.

“We have patients we draw blood from because their blood is too thick,” Cohen said.

People with a history of smoking or exposure to irritants are particularly susceptible to lung and heart conditions known to become more problematic at high altitudes.

“Generally,” Cohen said, “when we talk about people with lung disease … most of these people have smoked or have been around lung irritants. There are some people

State Land Commissioner Ray Powell thinks some federal land identified for sale could be a valuable addition to New Mexico’s trust lands, which help generate revenue for public schools and other institutions.

The Bureau of Land Management is looking to sell thousands of acres that no longer meet the agency’s mission or are landlocked. Powell hopes to acquire some of the land, especially parcels along the interstates around Las Cruces and in the oil- and gas-rich Permian Basin of southeastern New Mexico. “We’re interested in high-value property that could be used for commercial purposes and would earn money for our beneficiaries,” Powell said.

Sen. Michael S. Sanchez, D-Belen, is sponsoring legislation, Senate Bill 1, to give the State Land Office $250,000 over the next two years to study the feasibility of BLM land acquisitions. The bill will be considered in the Legislature’s 30-day session, which focuses on budgetary matters and begins Jan. 21.

Donna Hummel, public information officer with the BLM’s New Mexico office, said federal laws may limit which parcels the State Land Office can acquire. “We’re a little unsure whether we can do what Ray is proposing,” Hummel said. “That doesn’t mean it isn’t worth exploring.”

Powell said State Land Office staff have spent the last two years gathering information from the five BLM districts in the state and putting together a map of the land parcels the federal agency is planning to sell.

The State Land Office currently manages 13 million acres of mineral resources and 9 million acres of surface land to benefit 21 public schools, hospitals and universities in the state. Revenues from mining and grazing leases, commercial leases, renewable energy projects, housing developments and manufacturing sites brought in more than $2.6 billion in the last five years, according to the State Land Office.

Powell believes some of the BLM land slated for disposal could add revenuegenerating opportunities. “What we don’t

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Herbert and Kathy Kalen are shown at their Angel Fire home in the summer of 2012. The couple started a local hiking group, the Moreno Valley Trekkers, to help older people in the community stay active. But due to Kathy Kalen’s own health conditions that are exacerbated by the town’s high altitude, the couple have had to spend part of the year in Florida. JESSE CHANEY/THE SANGRE DE CRISTO CHRONICLE

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NGEL FIRE — The highmountain environment that draws many retirees to the Moreno Valley area also causes a lot of people older than 65 to leave.

Angel Fire, Eagle Nest and Red River are all situated at or above 8,000 feet in elevation, and living that high can exacerbate some health problems associated with aging.

“About three years ago, I was experiencing rapid heart rate, and I thought I couldn’t come back here because it’s just too bad,” said Kathy Kalen, 79, a longtime Angel Fire resident who moved to Florida last year after being diagnosed with cardiac disease.

Dr. Dennis Cohen of the Moreno Valley Healthcare Clinic in Angel Fire said people who suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart attacks or conges-

Mary Alvarez uses an oxygen tank while she works at Zebs restaurant in Angel Fire. She is among many people in the community whose heart and respiratory illnesses are made worse by the altitude.

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tive heart failure often seek lower ground.

“We know that as you age, joints get stiffer, immobility occurs, peo-

ple don’t exercise as much,” he said.

“The patients I’ve seen that have left, it’s usually some kind of medical problem that they feel uncom-

Police seek public’s help finding 8 most wanted suspects

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

The Santa Fe Police Department is trying to round up eight individuals wanted on charges ranging from armed robbery to child abuse and domestic violence.

According to a news release, Robert Pacheco, 33, tops that list. Police believe Pacheco robbed a local restaurant, Weck’s, in September at gunpoint. Officers suspect Pacheco’s brother, Thomas Pacheco, 34, let the suspect and an unidentified man into the restaurant that night. Robert Pacheco is accused of wielding a handgun and forcing a restaurant manager to open a safe.

While Thomas Pacheco has been arrested on robbery and other charges, police have never been able to arrest Robert Pacheco.

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In October, police thought they had found Robert Pacheco hiding in a home, and the department’s SWAT team was called to the neighborhood.

Officers shut down the neighborhood for about four hours, but a bomb squad robot survey revealed that Pacheco had escaped the home — even before the SWAT team’s arrival. Pacheco has been on the run ever since.

The department’s No. 2 suspect is Christopher Mavis, 33, who police say

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may have helped Pacheco in an armed robbery of a local video game store in August.

Another suspect on the list is Courtney Coriz, 29, who police accuse of driving drunk with her three children in tow. She was arrested after the incident, but she failed to appear for her court date.

The five remaining suspects on the list: u Oscar Guzman-Aguilar, 33, who

ing three officers. u Leonard Willis, 54, who is wanted on charges of burglary, assault, harassment and criminal trespassing.

Celina Westervelt, the department’s Ramon Christopher Leonard spokeswoman, said Cano-Vega Gonzales Willis police are asking the is wanted on charges of domestic viosuspects to turn themselves over to lence. police custody. u Edward Tapia, 20, who is wanted “If they turn themselves in, we’re on charges of domestic violence. willing to work with them,” she said.

Police say he also has a history of robWestervelt said police also are askbery. ing for the public’s assistance in findu Ramon Cano-Vega, 51, who is ing the suspects. Those with informawanted on charges of domestic viotion about the wanted individuals can lence and shoplifting. call police at 428-3710. u Christopher Gonzales, 24, who is Contact Chris Quintana at 986-3093 wanted on charges of assault and battery. Police say he is accused of assault- or cquintana@sfnewmexican.com.

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Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: u Shayna Lewis, 25, 1266 Sandoval St., was arrested at 5:50 a.m. Friday on charges of driving with a revoked license and improper registration following a traffic stop in the 3200 block of Cerrillos Road.

Officers later found she had several warrants for her arrest. u A man in the 1200 block of Calle la Mirada reported a case of check fraud Nov. 26. u Someone damaged three windows at the Santa Fe School of Massage, 1091 Siler Road, between 4 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Wednesday. u Someone smashed a glass door at Jackalope at 11:20 p.m.

Friday. Police don’t know if any merchandise was stolen. u Someone broke into a car in the 200 block of Don Gaspar Avenue and stole a leather jacket, two pairs of Oakley sunglasses and a credit card between 8:30 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.

Friday. Police found bloodstains in the car, which they collected and submitted as evidence. u Someone broke into a home in the 2000 block of Fort Union Drive at about 3:30 p.m. Friday, but nothing was reported missing. u Someone stole a travel bag and a laptop computer worth a combined $2,000 from a car parked in the 100 block of Camino de las Crucitas between 1 and 2 p.m. Friday. u A man reported that some-

one entered his home in the 1300 block of Apache Avenue between 2:30 and 5:30 p.m.

Friday, but the resident said he found personal items scattered in his backyard as though something had scared the thief. The victim said he doesn’t believe anything was stolen. u A woman in the 2000 block of Calle Lorca reported Friday that someone has been stealing clothing and about $2,200 from her apartment during the past two months. u A woman reported that someone she knew broke into her vehicle parked on Lincoln Avenue at 9:09 p.m. Friday. u Someone broke into restaurant Tanti Luce 221, 221 Shelby St., between 11:59 p.m. Friday

and 12:15 a.m. Saturday.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the following reports: u Someone on Sky Ridge Drive reported Saturday that he or she had been receiving a hospital bill and multiple letters from collection agencies since August 2012 for medical care the victim didn’t receive. u County deputies arrested David Ervin, 24, on Friday after they responded to a vehicle crash on U.S. 285 south of Lamy.

Authorities took Ervin to the hospital for medical attention, but they later transferred him to the jail. u County deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call Saturday on Kachina Loop and

arrested Patricia Hawkins, 34, of Santa Fe on charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after officers allegedly found cannabis in her possession. u County deputies responded to an unattended death of an 84-year-old male in a home on Lluvia de Oro at 9:20 a.m. Saturday. Foul play is not suspected.

Speed SUVs u The Santa Fe Police Department listed the following locations for mobile speedenforcement vehicles: SUV No. 1 on Bishops Lodge Road at Valley Drive; SUV No. 2 on Old Taos Highway at Murales Road; SUV No. 3 on Gonzales Road between

East Alameda Street and Hyde Park Road.

Help lines Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families hotline: 800-473-5220 St. Elizabeth Shelter for men, women and children: 982-6611 Interfaith Community Shelter: 795-7494 New Mexico suicide prevention hotline: 866-435-7166 Solace Crisis Treatment Center: 986-9111, 800-721-7273 or TTY 471-1624 Youth Emergency Shelter/ Youth Shelters: 438-0502 Police and fire emergency: 911

Funeral services and memorials JAMES HARM BEVERWYK 68, long-time resident of the Lyden community, passed away suddenly on December 24, 2013, following a heart attack.

Jim, born in Zeeland, Michigan, attended secondary school in Grand Rapids, and in 1967 earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Michigan State University. Soon thereafter, Jim married his high school sweetheart, Mary Parsaca, and in 1968 together they joined the Peace Corps and served as secondary school teachers in Tara’nganya, Kenya.

Upon their return, the couple moved to Los Alamos in 1971 where Jim founded the Middle Earth Youth Center. From 1972 through 1980 Jim served as Director of Jemez House Children’s Ranch in Alcalde and in the following years until his retirement in 2010, held various counseling and teaching positions.

Jim was preceded in death by his parents, Jacob and Evelyn Nienhuis Beverwyk, a brother, John Beverwyk, and parents-in-law, Peter and Helen Parsaca.

Jim is survived by his partner of 45 years, Mary Parsaca, his daughter Tana Beverwyk-Abouda and husband, Mustafa Kamel Abouda, their sons, Malik and Elias, of Nambe, a brother, Robert Beverwyk and wife, Carole, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, beloved nieces, Jessica Ricardo of New Orleans and Mara E. Beverwyk of West Bloomfield, Michigan, adopted sons, Tony Padilla of Petiluma, California and Jimmy Leal and wife Loretta Garcia, of Española, and sisters, Larke Beverwyk of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Jackie Lyttle, of Grand Haven, Michigan.

Jim’s large extended family, including sisters- and brothers-inlaw, close friends, Lyden neighbors, work associates, and friendly bowling companions are also remembered with affection.

Jim was known as an accepting friend, a helpmate, a community activist, a supporter of the needy, an outdoorsman with a deep affinity to the land, the mountains, and the animals that surrounded him at his beloved home in Lyden.

A celebration of Jim’s life will be held at the Alcalde Community Center on Saturday, January 4, 2014, from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in Jim’s name be sent to the San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen, 216 S.R. 399, Española, NM 87532, the Española Teen Center, 1450 Iris St., Los Alamos, NM 87544 or online at laymca.org, or Somos Un Pueblo Unido, 1804 Espinacitas St., Santa Fe, NM 87505.

MONIQUE CENE AMADOR Age 26, of Santa Fe passed away on December 25, 2013. She was born on November 22, 1989 to LouElla Pacheco and Anthony Amador. She was preceded in death by her Grandparents, Jose Baldamar Arguello, Andres, Lourdes Pacheco, and Lola Saenz, Uncles, Gilbert Arguello, Luis Amador, Steve Moya Cousins, Jonathan Pacheco and Eric Salazar.

She is survived by her Parents, Anthony, (Heather) Amador, LouElla, (Gerard) Pacheco, Grandma Nina, Grandma Cholly, Grandpa Oscar, and Grandma Norma Sisters and Brother, Michelle, (Marc), Melissa, Elizabeth, Nathan, Sarah, Andrea, Angelica, Rejeana, (Matthew), and Amanda, her loving boyfriend Saul, Nieces and Nephews, Celene, Julian, Caleb, Zavier, Jazlyn and Ariel, Aunts and Uncles, Lois, Baldy, Michael, Tami, Levi, Andrew, Mary, Lisa, Bertram, Anna, Lonnie and Steve Cousins, Anthony, Juliana, Andrew, Samantha, Josee, Erica, Monica, Amanda, Marquita, Melissa, Krystle, Florencio, Eva, Andrew, Nancy and numerous family members.

Monique was a loving caring daughter, sister, granddaughter, aunt and friend to all those who knew her. She had a wonderful heart and was completely selfless. She battled cancer for over a year. Despite the side effects of chemo she was able to complete her degree as a Respiratory Therapist. She was a fighter until the end.

Donations may be made at State Employees Credit Union via LouElla Pacheco.

A life celebration will be held Monday, December 30, 2013 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at San Isidro Parish Community Center, Santa Fe, NM immediately followed by a rosary.

Funeral Mass will be celebrated Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at San Isidro Parish Community Center, burial to follow at Rosario Cemetery in Santa Fe, NM.

Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 Fax: (505) 820-0435 santafefuneraloption.com

JUAN D. ROMERO went to be with our Lord on December 24, 2013 surrounded by his loving family.

He was a resident of Tesuque, NM, born on April 13, 1933.

He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, uncle, brother and friend who touched the lives of everyone he met. He was a man of great integrity and was an example of strength to his family. He loved the beautiful village of Tesuque, where he grew up and served his community with great pride. He helped co-found the Tesuque Volunteer Fire Department where he served as a fire chief and was the president of Las Tres Villas. He was a teacher, coach and mentor and was a blessing in the lives of so many. A man of strong character and work ethic, Juan worked as the cafeteria Director for the Santa Fe Public Schools and as the Food Administrator for the NM State Penitentiary. He enlisted in the United States Army where he served in the 2nd Armored Division during the Occupation of Germany and volunteered for the Korean Conflict where he served in the 7th Infantry Division. Juan had a strong faith and was a longstanding member of San Isidro Mission Church in Tesuque. Together with his sweetheart Rosina, he raised 10 children.

He is survived by his loving wife of 57 years, Rosina, and his ten children: Patsy Baca, John Romero (Larri), Mark Romero (Velma), Anna Eccles (Scott), Becky Martinez (Dale), Chris Romero (Thao), Steve Romero (Cassandra), Rick Romero (Melissa), Donald Romero and Bernadette Jaramillo (Vince); 21 grandchildren: Patrick, Lawrence, Vincent, Jacob, Sarah, Christopher, Leslie, Veronica, Daniel, Eric, Elissa, Joshua, Andrea, Christina, Hope, Andrew, Diego, Mateo, Hadlee, Nico and Miquela, five great grandchildren: Patrick, Angelo, Mariah, Isabell and Ethan, and one great-great grandchild, Laneah; special uncle Sofio Gonzales; brothers: Sam, Leroy, Julian, Ron and sister Patsy; Sister-in-law Eileen Rodriguez and many other family members. He was preceded in death by his adopted parents Manuel and Della Ortega, biological mother Euphelia Zuniga, brother George Romero, and granddaughter Isabella.

Our hearts are so broken to say goodbye to you Juan, Dad, Grandpa, Pops, Johnny, but we know you are home. The legacy you left behind reminds us to live a life of substance, faith and to always share our love with one another. You didn’t just teach us what was important in life, you showed us every day.

A rosary will be recited at San Isidro Mission Church in Tesuque on Monday, December 30 at 6:30 p.m. A catholic mass will be celebrated on Tuesday, December 31 at 1 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church followed by a burial at the Santa Fe National Cemetery at 3 p.m. Juan’s six sons will serve as pallbearers.

SYLVIA R. GONZALES (1926 -2013) Rev. Sylvia R. Gonzales went to be with her Lord and Savior on December 24, 2013, in Santa Fe, NM, at the age of 87, surrounding by her loved ones. She was born in 1926, in Ft. Morgan, CO, married the love of her life, Rev. Jose (George) Gonzales September 1958, in Sacramento, CA. She is preceded in death by her parents, Tarcila and Rev. Ysidro Ramirez. She is survived by her husband Rev. Jose G. Gonzales of Santa Fe, NM; daughter Beth Gonzales of Santa Fe, NM; son Reuben, and wife Cindy Gonzales of Denver, CO; son Gilbert and wife Anne Gonzales of Santa Fe, NM; grandson, Bryan, wife Bethany, and great grandson Greyson, of Atlanta, GA; granddaughter Kristen, of Denver, CO; grandson Marcos and granddaughter Amanda of Santa Fe, NM. She was a beloved wife, mother, and grandmother, who always balanced her domestic life, with her calling and service to God. She began her ministry at 18 years of age, serving as the National Youth President for the Spanish Assembly of God Church. She helped her father establish churches in Colorado, Nebraska, and California. Later, she taught music at the Latin American Bible Institute in El Paso, TX. In her marriage, she continued her ministry as a pastor’s wife, and music teacher, at the Spanish Assembly of God Church, Taos, NM, for 32 year, until retirement in 1987.

Again, God’s calling led to service as the President of Assemblies of God Women’s Ministries for the surrounding 6-state district.

As a wife of 55 years, mother, grandmother and aunt, she loved, nourished, led, and prayed for her family, setting an amazing example as a woman of God. She will be missed immensely by her family, who look forward to seeing her in heaven.

Funeral arrangements are being handled by Rivera Family Mortuaries of Santa Fe, NM. On Monday, December 30, 2013, viewing will be between 6-7 pm, and memorial service at 7 pm, both at Christian Life, 121 Siringo, Santa Fe, NM. On Tuesday, Dec 31, 2013, a short service will be held at 9 am, at Christian Life, followed by interment at the National Cemetery, Santa Fe, NM.

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JOHN JAMES LUJAN 84, of Tesuque, passed away December 25, 2013. He was born in Cleveland, NM to Isidorita and Juan Lujan who have preceded him in death. Also preceding him are his sisters: Bercy Paiz and Alice Martinez; mother and father-in-law, Maria and Vicente Romero.

John is survived by his wife of 50 years, Tillie Lujan; son, Billy Lujan (Soledad); grandson, Jonathan Lujan; granddaughters: Kristin and Bella Lujan; sisters: Stella Valdez and Bercy Paiz; brother, Joe Lujan; in-laws: Ramona Kepler, Vicente Romero (Minerva), Connie Jaramillo (Joe), Fidel Romero (Carmen), Dolores Cunha, Felix Romero (Mary), Chana Gallegos (Orlando), Cordy Medina, Virginia Romero (George); and many nieces and nephews.

John was a Korean War Veteran. He was a Mechanic and owned and operated John’s Auto Repair in Tesuque for many years. He later worked in sporting good sales and was employed with Walmart for several years. He lived a long life and touched the lives of many people. He was very high spirited and a loving man who loved his family.

A rosary will be recited on Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 9 a.m. at St. Anne’s Catholic Church followed by the Celebration of Mass at 10 a.m. Interment with full military honors will be held at 11:15 a.m. at Santa Fe National Cemetery.

Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 Fax: (505) 820-0435 santafefuneraloption.com PEDRO GARCIA 65, of Rio Rancho passed away on December 20, 2013 due to an illness. He was born on September 28, 1948 in Espanola, NM to Frances and Pedro Garcia.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Pedro Garcia Sr. and Frances Garcia, sisters: Helen Salazar and Rosie Quintana.

Pedro is survived by his sisters: Olivia Byrd, Loyola Trujillo, Eileen Sandoval, Theresa Garcia, Dorothy Quintana, Lucille Torres and Joyce Ferran, brother, Floyd Garcia, nieces and nephews too many to name, but loved just the same.

A visitation will be held on Friday, January 3, 2014 at 9 a.m. with a funeral service following at 10 a.m. at Rivera Family Funeral Home 417 E. Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM. Interment will follow at 11:15 a.m. at Santa Fe National Cemetery.

Pallbearers: James Ludi, Robert Pedroncilli, Betram Quintana and David Garcia.

Honorary Pallbearers: Isaac Salazar, Leonard Ludi Jr., Leroy Bustos and Leroy Lujan.

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ary and John have taken custody of their 1-year-old grandson.

But the legal process of adopting the boy has taken a toll on the couple’s finances. They have not been able to pay for the their utilities and propane, and they are struggling to meet the child’s needs.

John, who had been laid off from his job, has found a new position, but he is earning only $125 a week. The money isn’t enough to keep up with the family’s bills. The couple also need to have their septic tank emptied, they said.

The couple are asking the community to help them pay $152 for utilities, $446 for propane and $330 for the septic costs.

They are among the many community members asking for help from The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund during the holiday season. Even though Christmas is over, there is still time to donate. uuu

The Empty Stocking Fund is a project of The Santa Fe New Mexican. The Santa Fe Community Foundation, the First National Bank of Santa Fe, The Salvation Army and Presbyterian

To donate Make your tax-deductible donation online at www.santafenewmexican.com/empty_stocking or mail a check to: The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund c/o The Santa Fe Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, NM 87504-1827 If you can provide a needed service such as roofing, car repairs or home repairs, contact Roberta at Presbyterian Medical Services, 983-8968.

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Border town tries to emerge from scandal village personnel and poor record-keeping, we were unable COLUMBUS, N.M. — A New to obtain detail to any general Mexico border town rocked by ledger’s account.” a gun-smuggling ring in 2011 The report for the fiscal year involving the village’s former ended June 30, 2011, said the mayor and police chief is work- village had exceeded its authoing to emerge from the scandal. rized budget of $1.4 million by Columbus employees say the nearly $1.1 million and went on village is almost out of debt and to cite dozens of “significant elected officials are working to deficiencies” and “material win over residents’ trust, the weaknesses,” according to Albuquerque Journal reports.

Wayne Sowell, local governA joint investigation in 2011 by ment division director of the U.S. and Mexico law-enforcestate Department of Finance ment agencies nabbed a gunand Administration. smuggling ring of more than Sowell said his office has a dozen people that included been monitoring the progress of former mayor Eddie Espinoza, Columbus since he joined the former Columbus Police Chief Angelo Vega and former Village agency in September.

“We’re happy to see the trustee Blas “Woody” Gutierrez. mayor has been proactive in Earlier this month, Espinoza was released early from federal some of the things she has been doing,” he said. “There are still prison. some hurdles to overcome, but “We’re almost entirely out of she is taking on this position debt,” Columbus Mayor Nicole with a strong sense of fiduciary Lawson said. “The only reason that the village is in a better state responsibility.”

Lawson said she will not seek is because of all the people that a second term after dedicating work here.” more than two years to putting Lawson took on what might village affairs back in order. have been the town’s toughWith the approval of the est job in 2011, when she was trustees, the village reduced appointed to replace Espinoza municipal staff to 14 positions after he was busted for his from 24 and made all assistantinvolvement in trafficking level jobs part time — cuts that weapons to Mexico. She says also included shuttering the local she found the village deep in debt, and money and numerous police department in the wake of financial records were missing. the gun-running scandal involving the former police chief.

An independent financial For fiscal 2013-14, the village’s audit of the books found the village records in such disorder budgeted expenditures fall that it began with a disclaimer: about $250,000 below budgeted “As a result of turnover in revenue of $1.3 million.

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Navajo Council measure puts mine disputes in state courts Energy Co. to buy the mine.

Signs in opposition to the FARMINGTON — The legislation and mine acquisition Navajo Nation Council were posted and taped to flag approved a measure that would poles outside council chambers. allow disputes over a northSome delegates argued over western New Mexico coal mine whether the legislation needed being purchased by a tribal to be approved by a supermaenterprise to be settled in state jority of the council. courts rather than tribal courts.

Delegate Charles Damon The council voted 17-5 in drew criticism after motioning favor of the measure during to rescind the supermajority a special session Friday in requirement.

Window Rock, Ariz. Navajo “What I am seeing now disPresident Ben Shelly signed the turbs me. We are engaging in legislation following the vote. politicking in order to increase A number of tribal delegates, the chances of this legislation attorneys and risk management passing,” Delegate Lorenzo Curexperts met for about an hour ley said. in executive session before the Critics of the legislation vote, The Farmington Daily had argued that Navajo courts Times reported. should not be eliminated from hearing any potential claims The legislation stems from stemming from the mine. Dela request by Zurich American egate Russell Begaye said earlier Insurance Co. for the tribe to this week that when companies waive its sovereign immunity conduct business in foreign and settle any arbitration in countries, disputes are handled New Mexico and Arizona in that country’s courts. courts. Zurich American and another company plan to issue “This mine is on our land, and $500 million in bonds and insur- these are guests to the nation,” ances to the Navajo Transitional he said during a debate Monday.

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LAS CRUCES — The weather has caused some problems for pecan growers in Southern New Mexico.

The first delay for the harvest was prolonged warm weather. Growers must wait for temperatures cold enough to kill the greenery and prep the trees and pecans for picking.

A snowstorm in late November and rain a couple of weeks ago added to the delay.

With muddy orchards, harvesting machinery can’t move through the rows to shake nuts off the trees and sweep them off the ground.

Edmund Ogaz’s fields near Garfield are taking a while to dry out after getting 5 inches of snow.

“I haven’t been able to get there to start the harvest,” he told the Las Cruces SunNews. “The ground has been pretty moist.”

The problem is worse for some growers, depending on where their orchards are located.

Just north of Las Cruces, grower Dick Salopek has been harvesting since the day after Thanksgiving, and he estimates about 50 percent of his crop has been harvested.

According to a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture report, the pecan harvest in Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas was between 50 percent and 60 percent complete.

Problems for the crop in other key growing areas across the country have caused a shortage in the pecan supply nationally.

In South Carolina, heavy rains earlier this year put a big dent that state’s crop, and as demand increases, including from China, prices for the prized nuts are likely to rise.

Salopek said there’s only so much pecan-

shelling companies will pay.

“Prices can’t get much higher,” he said.

In the three-state region that includes New Mexico, growers were paid an average of $1.78 to $1.97 per in-shell pound, according to the USDA report. Prices vary based on quality and market factors.

This year is expected to be a heavyproduction year for orchards in Doña Ana County. In the last heavy year, about 61 million pounds were produced statewide. The USDA valued the crop at $162.9 million.

The pace of the harvest will hinge largely upon how the weather fares from now on, farmers said.

Ogaz said he’s hoping for dry weather to start harvesting his crop. “The longer you keep it out there in field, the more things could happen to it,” he said.

Farmers also admitted that, after an unprecedented drought, it’s hard to wish for no rain. “I’m not about to start complaining about rain or snow now,” he said.

In brief Police: Suspect in crime spree dies PLACITAS — New Mexico State Police say one suspect is dead and two others are in custody following a crime spree that stretched from Albuquerque to the village of Placitas.

Lt. Emmanuel Gutierrez says it began late Friday when Albuquerque police began pursuing shoplifting suspects in a stolen vehicle.

The chase headed north on Interstate 25, with Albuquerque police tracking the vehicle by helicopter. A state police officer then began following the speeding vehicle.

The pursuit ended in Placitas as the three passengers got out of the car and fled on foot.

They shot at police but the officers did not return fire.

Two suspects came out of the woods and surrendered, while the third died from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

WATCHING THE TRAINS GO BY ABOVE: From left, local train enthusiast and set designer Richard Moeller operates a train, while Merrick Word-Brown, 8, Lukas Kerr, 18, and Beatrice Ungar McCullough, 2, watch during Friday’s preview of the interactive train exhibit at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum.

Rio Rancho police probe death RIO RANCHO — A busy highway was closed for several hours Saturday as Rio Rancho police investigated a suspicious death.

N.M. 528 between Barbara Loop and Hilltop Plaza was closed after authorities received a report of a man lying in the road around 7:30 a.m.

The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he died.

Officer Janet Garcia says the man sustained some type of trauma to his body, but investigators are trying to figure out exactly what happened.

The man’s name has not been released.

Investigators say they are looking for a green sedan that was in the area at the time the call came in.

The highway was opened just after 4 p.m. Saturday.

Treasurer faces recall petition ALBUQUERQUE — Bernalillo County Treasurer Manny Ortiz is facing a recall petition.

Ortiz’s office has been the subject of a state audit, and the county commission recently voted no confidence in Ortiz.

The petition filed last week in state court accuses Ortiz of mismanaging county investments and other malfeasance warranting his removal from office.

The Albuquerque Journal reported that the petition was delivered to Ortiz on Friday. It seeks court approval to circulate a petition that could force the treasurer into a recall election.

Some 45,000 signatures would be needed to trigger an election.

Ortiz has repeatedly defended his work. He has said he sees no grounds for recall.

A hearing to decide whether the petition can move forward for signature-gathering is scheduled Jan. 9 before Judge Beatrice Brickhouse.

Mom admits to kicking child ALBUQUERQUE — An Albuquerque mother is facing child abuse charges in the death of her young son.

LEFT: Lance Rosenstock, 5, enjoys watching a train go by during the preview. The exhibit, which opened to the public on Saturday, runs from noon to 5 p.m. through Jan. 5 at the museum.

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Shift: Publication day not announced to seven days a week. In recent years, the publication dropped changing environment with the its Monday edition. goal of making them the better It’s not yet clear which day value for readers and advertisthe weekly publication would ers.” run. The Albuquerque Journal Mark Oswald, editor of the runs a weekly edition for Albunorthern edition, declined to querque’s west side and Rio comment.

Rancho. That edition publishes “I’m just not going to talk on Saturdays. about what’s going on with the The zoned publication is a paper,” he said. separate section of about four to Several Journal employees, six pages that comes wrapped speaking on condition of anoaround the full Albuquerque nymity because they were not Journal. The Journal North has authorized to discuss the matits own website that features ters, confirmed Saturday that the edition’s printed content in they had been briefed about the addition to breaking news items. decision.

It’s unclear whether the Santa The reasons for the move Fe-based staff would continue were not clear Saturday. to produce daily content for the Even before the economic edition’s website, or whether downturn in 2008, the newslayoffs will be involved. It’s also paper industry was reeling unclear if the change in the pubfrom declining circulation and lication schedule would affect advertising revenues, leading to the paper’s coverage area, and sharp reductions in staff. Sevwhat the change would mean eral newspapers large and small, for current subscribers. including New Orleans’ TimesThe Journal North costs Picayune and the Seattle Post75 cents per issue most days, Intelligencer, have eliminated and $2 for the Sunday edition. or sharply cut back their print A six-day subscription costs editions in recent years. $16.75 per month for the print The Journal North has been and digital editions. in operation since at least the early 1980s. The edition began Contact Chris Quintana at as a twice-a-week publication 986-3093 or cquintana@ and later expanded its coverage sfnewmexican.com.

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BLM: Powell seeks legislative support market value. Another federal law also allows the BLM to offer want are lands that are biofederal land to a state governlogically or culturally sensitive,” ment or qualified nonprofit, but Powell said. “The reason for only for recreational or public the money [in SB 1] is to study purpose. the BLM disposal lands and not “Usually it is for public sports pick inappropriate ones.” complexes, parks, dump sites or He said some of the parcels cemeteries,” she said. “It is not in the Permian Basin are surfor commercial purposes.” rounded by state trust land. “We She said a third law allows the are looking to pick those up BLM to dispose of land through because they are in proven oila competitive bid process. If and-gas country,” Powell said. those lands are near urban areas Others are along the interface or have minerals, the value between urban and wildland could be high. “It might not areas. be practical for the State Land He said it will require the sup- Office,” she said. port of the Legislature and New Hummel said the BLM has Mexico’s congressional delega- made many land exchanges tion to make the State Land with the State Land Office in the Office acquisition of BLM lands past. “This is a different beast,” possible. He’s hoping some of she said. the lands would be granted to Any sale of a BLM parcel the state, which would require totaling more than 2,500 acres approval by Congress. must go through an environThe BLM chooses lands for mental impact process under disposal identified through the the National Environmental Resource Management Plan for Protection Act. “This is not a each field office, created after a quick process. It takes time,” long public process.

Hummel said.

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Changes at agency streamline process for New Mexico businesses ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico businesses no longer have to wait months to get their legal paperwork from the state, thanks to changes at the Corporations Bureau.

Since the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office took over the bureau this summer, the average wait has been cut to three days. Under the oversight of the Public Regulation Commission, the wait used to be nearly four months.

Ken Ortiz, administrator for the Business Services Division of the Secretary of State’s Office,

told the Albuquerque Journal there was a backlog of more than 15 weeks when the office inherited the Corporations Bureau.

“There was an average 110day waiting period to process documents and register corporations. But we’ve eliminated that backlog, and as of November, we’ve achieved a three-day average timeline,” he said.

The bureau is also being run on a $1.1 million annual budget, compared with $3.8 million under the PRC.

Retailers face uncertain future

By Kristen Wyatt The Associated Press

DENVER — A gleaming white Apple store of weed is how Pete Williams sees his new Denver marijuana dispensary.

Two floors of pot-growing rooms will have windows showing the shopping public how the mind-altering plant is grown.

Shoppers will be able to peruse drying marijuana buds and see pot trimmers at work separating the valuable flowers from the less-prized stems and leaves.

“It’s going to be all white and

beautiful,” the 45-year-old exindustrial engineer explains, excitedly gesturing around what just a few weeks ago was an empty warehouse space that will eventually house 40,000 square feet of cannabis strains.

As Colorado prepares to be the first in the nation to allow recreational pot sales, opening Jan. 1, hopeful retailers like Williams are investing their fortunes into the legal recreational pot world — all for a chance to build even bigger ones in a fledgling industry that faces an uncertain future.

Officials in Colorado and Washington, the other state where recreational pot goes on sale in mid-2014, as well as

activists, policymakers and governments from around the U.S. and across the world will not be the only ones watching the experiment unfold.

So too will the U.S. Department of Justice, which for now is not fighting to shut down the industries.

“We are building an impressive showcase for the world, to show them this is an industry,” Williams said.

Will it be a showcase for a safe, regulated pot industry that generates hundreds of millions of dollars each year and saves money on locking up drug criminals, or one that will prove, once and for all, that the federal government has been

right to ban pot since 1937?

Cannabis was grown legally in the U.S. for centuries, even

by George Washington. After Prohibition’s end in the 1930s, federal authorities turned their sights on pot. The 1936 propaganda film Reefer Madness warned the public about a plant capable of turning people into mindless criminals.

Over the years, pot activists and state governments managed to chip away at the ban, their first big victory coming in 1996 when California allowed medical marijuana. Today, 19 other states, including Colorado and Washington, and the District of Columbia have similar laws.

Toll: Hydration, fitness play role in health Continued from Page C-1 who have gotten [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] without smoking, but smoking is the major reason for that.

That illness is one that’s a very slow-growing process. It’s not like one day you’re feeling great, and a month later you can’t breathe. It’s over years.”

Oxygen and certain medications can aid elderly patients who are living at a high altitude, Cohen said, but the remedies are sometimes too much for a patient to bear.

“There’s a few people around town who use the oxygen,” he said, “but a lot of people don’t like using that. A lot of people, when they go down in altitude, they don’t need oxygen. Quite a few of them can breathe much better.”

But Cohen said high altitude doesn’t pose problems for everyone, including many people in the communities who are over 80.

“There’s a lot of elderly people who … you don’t know what they’re doing right,” Cohen said.

“Genetics may play a part.”

He cited three key factors to staying healthy: hydration, healthy food choices and fitness. “I push fluids on people,” he said. “I think a lot of people here are dehydrated. I don’t think the elderly people drink enough water. I would say try to be active and eat right.”

Kathy Kalen and her husband, Herbert, 85, were instrumental in creating the local hiking organization known as the Moreno Valley Trekkers to help older people in the community stay active. But due to her heart condition and other health issues, Kathy had to stop hiking and said she can no longer live at high altitude all year long.

“I was always the last one to get to the peak of the mountain,” she said. “So, I’ve always had a struggle with altitude … but I guess it was about smoking earlier in life and the atmosphere and the viruses that damage the lungs.”

Kathy Kalen said she started experiencing high blood pressure about four years ago.

“That’s actually when I stopped hiking, when the blood pressure would go too high,” she said.

Her husband has atrial fibrillation, a condition that leads to an irregular and sometimes rapid heart rate that can cause poor blood flow, according to the Mayo Clinic website. With new treatment, however, Herbert Kalen said he has the condition under control.

“They put me on new medicine that takes care of the heart, and we’ll be back [in Angel Fire] this summer,” he said.

“When I was there three years ago, I had the racing and the pounding of the heart. When I came down here [to Florida], that’s when they put me on the pill. The best advice I can give is stayed tuned in with your doctor when you start experiencing problems, and make sure the doctor knows.”

Herbert Kalen said it is rewarding for older people to participate in arduous hikes.

“I’m still going,” he added.

“A lot of those people who go on the hikes never would have dreamed … of what they could do,” he said. “Kathy and I are proud that we could get them up there.”

Paul Atzberger, a 40-year

resident of Eagle Nest, said his wife, Sue, uses oxygen to treat her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

“She’s on oxygen periodically and does well that way, and we have our own concentrator [breathing device] for the home and portable,” Atzberger said, adding that his wife was diagnosed with pulmonary disease as a result of inhaling secondhand smoke when she was younger. He said she benefits by staying active. “She rides her stationary bike at least five times a week.”

Atzberger said he believes people who live at lower elevations and own a second home

in the mountains struggle more with altitude troubles than fulltime residents because they have to acclimate every time they return to high altitude.

Chip Silliman, 65, an Eagle Nest resident of more than 40 years, said he loses respiratory strength when his daily or weekly exercise routine is interrupted. Silliman is a frequenter of the Eagle Nest Senior Center.

“You have to do something if your joints are bad or they’re not supported,” Silliman said, adding that water aerobics are beneficial. Silliman also said he walks his dog frequently. “If I miss a few days … I sort of hit a wall.”

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Film meccas nip at Hollywood Tax, financial incentives fuel intense competition

By Nick Perry and Ryan Nakashima The Associated Press

Raffael Dickreuter, a freelance pre-visualization artist, says the inherent uncertainity of filmmaking is compounded by globe-spanning moves. DAMIAN DOVARGANES/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

New filmmaking reality forces artists to become nomads We’re tired “ of the cycle of

By Nick Perry and Ryan Nakashima The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Even as new filmmaking centers help spread Hollywood’s wealth around the world, the boost to local economies comes at a personal cost to the specialists who must follow the work. As movie production migrates from place to place, friendships get left behind and raising a family can be difficult.

But the life can be exciting for a highly skilled class of adventurers — those not averse to expenses-paid hotel rooms, restaurants and living abroad.

Just ask Hiroshi Mori, a 49-year-old pre-visualization artist whose digital scenesetting work has been used in movies such as made-in-New Mexico The Avengers and Men in Black: 3. In the last several years, the Hawaii native has worked in Sydney, New York and Albuquerque, not to mention Los Angeles, home of the company he co-owns, The Third Floor.

“If you’re single, it can be a great lifestyle. You’re put up in a hotel. Production pays for it. It’s fun, it’s great,” he says. “Some people love to travel and some people don’t because of very practical reasons. But that is the reality of the business now.”

Still, the inherent uncertainty of filmmaking is compounded by globe-spanning moves every few months or years.

“One day, you might be told to travel to London or Hawaii or somewhere, and all of a sudden, a week later, everything has changed,” says Raffael Dickreuter, a 32-year-old freelance pre-visualization artist who was born in Switzerland but lives in West Hollywood, Calif. “You cannot believe anything until it happens.”

The blog VFX Soldier has become a conduit for film workers’ frustrations about the chaos caused as locales around the globe compete through tax incentives. “We’re tired of the cycle of displacement,” says Daniel Lay, the 33-year-old hair and cloth special effects director who runs the blog. “The idea that it’s creating a sustainable industry is not true.”

Exacerbating the strain is a contract system that rewards low fixed-price bids. That can force

displacement.”

Daniel Lay, hair and cloth special effects director

effects houses to absorb the cost of last-minute change requests and push workers hard. Highprofile bankruptcies, including that of Life of Pi house Rhythm & Hues Studios Inc. in February, point to a system gone awry.

Jeffrey Okun, chairman of the Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based professional group, Visual Effects Society, says his goal is to help members “live at home, and have gainful employment and a thriving career,” he says. “But some of these factors are just outside our control.”

Globetrotting or quitting was the choice Tim Bowman faced.

The 42-year-old compositor’s work matching live footage with computer-generated backgrounds appears in films like The Hunger Games and Gravity.

He moved from Philadelphia to Adelaide, Australia, two years ago to ride the shifting tide of tax credits.

But work dried up in May as a capricious Aussie dollar made tax breaks less appealing.

Bowman could have sought work in nearby New Zealand — likely on The Hobbit — or taken his wife and 15-month-old son to Singapore or Vancouver.

Instead, he moved to Charlotte, N.C., close to his wife’s parents.

“The work is awesome and I’ve met a lot of great people doing it. But the way the industry is going, it’s brutal. I don’t know how anyone can make an actual life out of it,” he says.

LOS ANGELES — In the old days, filmmakers flocked to Hollywood for its abundant sunshine, beautiful people and sandy beaches. But today, a new filmmaking diaspora is spreading across the globe to places like Vancouver, London and Wellington, New Zealand.

Fueled by politicians doling out generous tax breaks, filmmaking talent is migrating to where the money is. The result is an incentives arms race that pits California against governments around the world and allows powerful studios — with hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal — to cherry-pick the best deals.

The most recent iteration of the phenomenon came earlier this month, when James Cameron announced plans to shoot and produce the next three Avatar sequels largely in New Zealand. What Cameron gets out of the deal is a 25 percent rebate on production costs, as long as his company spends at least $413 million on the three films.

“There’s no place in the world that we could make these sequels more cost effectively,” says producer Jon Landau. It is neither the archipelago’s volcanoes nor its glaciers that are attractive, because the Avatar movies will be shot indoors. Sure, Peter Jackson’s award-winning special effects infrastructure is there, but the deciding factor was the money.

“We looked at other places,” says Landau. But in the end, “it was this rebate.”

In exchange, the local economy will benefit hugely, Landau says, comparing the ripple effect to the boost that comes from new home construction. “We’re doing lumber, we’re catering for hundreds of people a day. We’re housing people in hotels. We’re going to a stationery store and tripling their business in a year.”

The deal was “the best Christmas present we could have possibly hoped for,” says Alex Lee, an Auckland, New Zealand-based entertainment lawyer. The news is especially welcome because the local screen industry is facing a potential drought: The Starz pay TV series Spartacus finished this year, and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy is set to wrap next year. Thanks to the Avatar sequels, the 1,100 workers at Weta Digital Ltd., the groundbreaking digital effects house Jackson co-founded in 1993, can keep plugging away through 2018.

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“It would have been a real shame if we had lost any of that talent and they had to move to follow the films,” says Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown.

Driving the trend are powerful global forces squeezing the entertainment industry. Falling DVD sales are putting pressure on movie-making budgets, while the demand for evermore-amazing special effects grows. The spread of technology and skills around the world is creating a huge number of special effects suppliers — some using cheaper labor than can be found in Hollywood.

Government largesse has helped create mini-moguldoms in Vancouver, Montreal, London, New York and Wellington, all of which are aggressively oneupping each other to become the next new hotbed of activity. As the work spreads, branch offices of visual effects companies have opened up in new locations.

Even though digital work is borderless, workers must live and be paid locally to generate the income taxes and spending that governments seek.

The tax incentives race is destined to accelerate next year.

State incentives in California — home to Star Wars pioneer Industrial Light & Magic — are too small to accommodate big-budget movies. Democratic Assembly member Raul Bocanegra is preparing a bill to expand their scope, but it could take months to get through committees, says his chief of staff, Ben Golombek.

And the U.S. federal incentive, an arguably difficult-to-use tax deduction of up to $20 million per film or TV episode, is set to expire at the end of 2013.

“Once our federal incentive ends in two weeks, you’re going to have a lot of people who are going to go elsewhere,” says Hal “Corky” Kessler, a tax incen-

tives lawyer with Chicagobased Deutsch, Levy & Engel.

Industry business leaders say they’re simply following the money.

“This is no different than any other multinational business,” says Sir William Sargent, co-founder and CEO of Framestore, a London-based special effects business that worked on likely Oscarcontender Gravity. “We’re just going to where our customers are.”

Even if the U.S. moves to counteract growing incentives overseas, the efforts won’t prevent another jurisdiction from offering a bigger break.

Joseph Chianese, executive vice president at consulting company EP Financial Solutions, says the competition to offer attractive incentives is intense. More than 30 countries and 44 U.S. states now offer tax breaks to filmmakers.

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Weddings & engagements Witte/Martinez Gary and DeLynnda Witte of Midland, Texas, announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Kaitlyn Witte, to Dan Martinez, the son of Johnny Martinez of Albuquerque and Mary Kay Boulton of Santa Fe. Kaitlyn is a 2007 graduate of Midland Lee High School and a 2010 graduate of West Texas A&M University. She is employed at Crescent Directional.

Dan is a 2000 graduate of Santa Fe High School and a 2010 graduate of New Mexico State University. He is a field engineer at PDC Logic.

The couple will marry Jan. 11, 2014, at Texas Old Town in Kyle, Texas. After the wedding, they will live in San Antonio, Texas.

You’ve seen them.

Kaitlyn Witte and Dan Martinez plan to marry Jan. 11 at Texas Old Town in Kyle, Texas.

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Brooks/Gibson Matthew Brooks of Santa Fe and Scot Gibson of Meridian, Miss., were married in a civil ceremony April 27, 2013, in Seattle.

Matthew is the son of Diane Brooks and David Gunderson, and of Kenneth Brooks and the late Rosalind Simpson of Santa Fe. Scot is the son of Harry and Mynette Gibson of Meridian.

Witnesses to the ceremony included Jim Jorgenson of Seattle and A. Jason Withdawi of New York. The ceremony took place in Seattle’s Washington Park Arboretum and was attended by family members from both sides. It was officiated by Matthew’s father, Kenneth Brooks.

The couple live in Seattle.

Scot Gibson, left, and Matthew Brooks were married in a civil ceremony April 27, 2013, in Seattle. COURTESY PHOTO

Faces & places erations. When they grow up, they will be the ones who will be creating peace and working to better our world.” uuu

Ortiz Middle School student Alex Varela was the firstplace school club winner in the Lions International Peace Poster Competition.

Emily McKelvey Markwiese, 17, the daughter of Sue McKelvey and John Eckert, and Jim Markwiese and Liz Gonzales Markwiese, was recently selected as one of five finalists in Sierra Nevada College’s high school writing competition for her poem, “The Penumbra King.”

Her submission was one of more than 700 entered in the contest. Emily will read her poem Jan. 10 at Sierra Nevada

City of Santa Fe

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Ortiz Middle School student Alex Varela was the first-place school club winner in the Lions International Peace Poster Competition. He is the son of Oscar Varela and Nancy Guerrero and a student of Emily Bell George.

Alex’s poster also has been selected by Don Trumbull, district governor of Lions District 40 North, to compete against the winning poster in District 40 South, and he may have the opportunity to represent the New Mexico Lions in an international contest, which will have more than 300,000 posters from middle school students around the world.

The second-place winner was Lidia Villa Briones, the daughter of Petro Villa Almanza and Dina Briones. Darlene De Paz, the daughter of Noe De Paz and Dina De Paz, won third place.

Ortiz Middle School was one of two schools sponsored by the Santa Fe Capital City Lions Club, with support from Los Alamos National Bank and the Santa Fe Woman’s Club.

Students from the Museum Club at the Institute of American Indian Arts participated in judging based on three criteria: representation of the theme, creativity and artistic quality.

Winners received gift certificates to buy art supplies.

HISTORIC DISTRICTS REVIEW BOARD FIELD TRIP TUESDAY, January 14, 2013 at 12:00 NOON HISTORIC PRESERVATION DIVISION, 2nd FLOOR CITY HALL HISTORIC DISTRICTS REVIEW BOARD HEARING TUESDAY, January 14, 2014 at 5:30 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS A. B. C. D. E.

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Seventh-grader Tess Heneghan’s first-place entry in the Lions Club poster contest. Tess is a student at the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences. COURTESY PHOTO

The first-place winner at the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences was seventh-grader Tess Heneghan. She wrote that her “peace poster shows how we put our faith in the new gen-

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College during its residency period for students in the MFA creative writing program.

Emily was born in Fort Emily McKelvey Collins, Colo., Markwiese and raised in Santa Fe. She attended Gonzales Community School and is a junior at Monte del Sol Charter School, where she is doing a writing mentorship with Gabe Gomez of St. John’s College.

Emily also enjoys her job at Java Joe’s.

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CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL APPROVAL OF AGENDA APPROVAL OF MINUTES: December 10, 2013 FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW Case #H-13-076A DeFouri Street Bridge Case #H-13-105 354 Hillside Avenue Case #H-13-082B 304 Camino Cerrito Case #H-13-106 552 Agua Fria Street Case #H-13-066 537 Hillside Avenue Case #H-12-107 103 E. Water Street Case #H-13-104 302 Camino Cerrito COMMUNICATIONS BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR ACTION ITEMS 1. Case #H-05-172. 540 E. Palace Avenue, Unit C. Aaron Bohrer, agent for Meem Santa Fe, LP, owners, proposes to amend a previous approval to construct a 2,624 sq. ft. residential structure to 20’6” high with alterations to footprint, massing, doors, and windows and to remodel the yardwall on the south property line to install a pedestrian gate and relocate another pedestrian gate.

(David Rasch).

2. Case #H-08-096. 1150 Canyon Road. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. Architectural Alliance Inc., agent for Santa Fe Public Schools, owners, proposes to remodel the existing contributing structure by repairing or replacing historic materials, restoring historic features, constructing 850 sq. ft. of portals, yardwalls, and gates and constructing a 3,637 sq. ft. single-family residence to the maximum allowable height of 20’. Three exceptions are requested to remove historic materials (Section 14-5.2(D)(1)(a)), placing an addition on a primary elevation (Section 14- 5.2(D)(2)(d)), and to replace traditional stucco with elastomeric stucco (Section 14-5.2(D)(5)(b)). (David Rasch).

3. Case #H-11-105B. 237 & 239 E. de Vargas Street. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. El Castillo Retirement Residence, agent for Duty & Germanas Architects, owners, proposes to amend a previous approval to remodel a contributing property including the installation of publicly-visible rooftop mechanical equipment that will be painted to match the stucco color, remove openings and shutters in front yardwall, and construct a 144 sq. ft. trash enclosure with stuccoed walls and brown painted steel gates. (David Rasch).

4. Case #H-12-053. 540 E. Alameda. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. Christopher Purvis, agent for 540 E. Alameda LLC et.al., owners, proposes to convert a non-contributing garage to a guest house. (David Rasch).

5. Case #H-13-016B. 461 Acequia Madre. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. Gayla Bechtol, agent, for Daniel Greenberg/Susan Steinhauser, owners, proposes to construct an approximately 700 sq. ft. addition between two contributing residential structures at 13’4” high where the maximum allowable height is 14’4”, remove a wall/fence between the two structures, and replace a coyote fence with an 8’ high stuccoed yardwall. An exception is requested to place an addition at less than 10’ back from a primary elevation (Section 14-5.2(D)(2)(d)). (David Rasch).

6. Case #H-13-073. 908 Galisteo Street. Don Gaspar Area Historic District. Lon Perry, agent for Tom Bachicha, owner roposes to amend a previous Board approval to place an HVAC unit on the ground, by placing it on the roof behind a screen wall at the maximum allowable 15’0” streetscape height at this contributing residence. (John Murphey).

7. Case #H-13-076B. Defouri Street Bridge. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. Richard Roto, agent for City of Santa Fe, Public Works Department, proposes to replace a contributing bridge.

An exception is requested to demolish a contributing structure (Section 14-5.2 (D)(1)(a)) and to replace it with material that is not in-kind to the original structure (Section 14-5.2 (D)(5)(b)) (John Murphey).

8. Case #H-13-095. 321, 325, 329 W. San Francisco Street. Downtown & Eastside Historic District.

Lloyd & Associates Architects, agent for Colombus Capital dba 1640 Hospital Dr., LLC, owners, proposes to demolish non-contributing structures, and requests a preliminary hearing to construct approximately 11,000 sq. ft. in four structures with a potential height exception above the maximum allowable height of 20’4”. (David Rasch).

9. Case #H-13-104. 302 Camino Cerrito. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. Cody North, agent for 1020 CNYN LLC, owner, requests permission to demolish two non-contributing structures and proposes to construct an approximately 1,751 sq. ft., with either a pitched roof at the maximum allowable 16’0” streetscape height, or 14’6” flat roof residence, and a 606 sq. ft., 15’0” high flat or pitched roof guesthouse, and erect yardwalls. An exception is requested to build a pitched roof (Section 14-5.2 (D)(9)(d)). (John Murphey).

10. Case #H-14-001. 135 W. Palace, Suite 101. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. John Dixon, agent/owner, proposes to replace a window and install wrought iron railing at this non-contributing commercial building (John Murphey).

11. Case #H-14-002A. 536 ½ W. Alameda. Westside-Guadalupe Historic District. Michael Monnet, agent for Reid & Susan Engstrom, requests an historic status review to downgrade a contributing residence. (John Murphey).

12. Case #H-14-002B. 536 ½ W. Alameda. Westside-Guadalupe Historic District. Michael Monnet, agent for Reid & Susan Engstrom, proposes a remodeling project to create parapets, replace doors and windows, reconstruct canopies, re-stucco, and make other changes to this contributing residence. (John Murphey).

13. Case #H-14-003. 356 and 358 Hillside Avenue. Downtown & Eastside Historic District. JenkinsGavin Design & Development, Inc. agent for Nancy Mammel Revocable Trust, owner, proposes to build a 155 sq. ft., 15’0”high addition, where the maximum allowable height is 16’3”; remove a non-historic portal and construct a new 158 sq. ft. connector portal at the contributing residence, and demolish a non-statused garage/studio and replace it with a 1’841 sq. ft., 13’6” accessory structure, where the maximum allowable height is 16’4”. (John Murphey).

MATTERS FROM THE BOARD ADJOURNMENT Cases on this agenda may be postponed to a later date by the Historic Districts Review Board at the noticed meeting. Please contact the Historic Preservation Division at 955-6605 for more information regarding cases on this agenda.

Persons with disabilities in need of accommodation or an interpreter for the hearing impaired should contact the City Clerk’s office at 955-6520 at least five (5) working days prior to the hearing date. Persons who wish to attend the Historic Districts Review Board Field Trip must notify the Historic Preservation Division by 9:00 am on the date of the Field Trip.

But you may not have seen their need.

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Sometimes the people who need help the most are the most reluctant to ask.

They aren’t standing on a street corner with a sign or by a car with its hood up on the side of the highway. They don’t run up to you at the supermarket and ask for rent money or for $60 to keep the heat on.

Need doesn’t have a profile; it can look like any of us. Need can hide.

A season of hope. A time to share.

For more than three decades , The Empty Stocking Fund has served as a critical safety net for those in our community experiencing a significant financial challenge during the holiday season.

Consider making a donation today — either monetary or a special skill or service. Your contribution is so deeply appreciated by those who receive it and has lasting effects that ripple through our community.

Watch for daily stories in The New Mexican featuring profiles of community members requesting assistance and updated Empty Stocking Fund donation tallies.

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YOUR NEIGHBORS: GWEN SPATZIER

Rock ’n’ roller at heart Work has taken her from government to teaching to shamanism, but Santa Fean hasn’t lost love for music

By John Knoll The New Mexican

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hen she was growing up in Newark, N.J., Gwen Spatzier says, she was the only white kid on the block, and for a long time she thought she would someday turn black. She has fond memories of her childhood there.

She recalls sitting on a stoop at age 5 with a friend, Rochelle Gilyard.

They both loved music, which had become an integral part of Spatzier’s life.

“My time in Newark made an indelible impression on me,” Spatzier said. “I remember dancing the mashed potatoes and the twist on the streets. Music was everywhere. There was just so much energy and joy.”

Music is still an important part of Spatzier’s life. Although her career has taken her from public service to teaching to shamanism, she’s still a “rock ‘n’ roller” at heart.

Spatzier was in her first band when she was 6, she said, and since that time, she’s been in “a bazillion bands,” covering a variety of genres, including ranchera, rock and the blues.

Her current band, Girls Night Out, teams her up with Cynthia Becker. Recently, the duo performed in a Motown Holiday Show at El Farol that included 10 local musicians.

“I like to showcase local talent because it builds community,” Spatzier said. “It’s almost like being a chef serving a musical feast.”

Her jobs have taken Spatzier in different directions, but never away from music.

After she graduated from New Mexico Highlands University in 1995 with a master’s degree in public affairs, Spatzier began working as director of economic development for the city of Las Vegas, N.M. But she found herself disillusioned. “Being in a public office, I thought I could contribute to the community,” she said. “But I found that there is an inherent greed in politics. The political machine corrupts people who initially have the best of intentions. But it becomes difficult for politicians to maintain their integrity because there are so much money and power involved in the political process.”

In 1995, Spatzier left Las Vegas and moved to Santa Fe, where she eventually found her true calling — teaching. After earning a

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Workplace safety classes target Native employers

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orkplace safety depends on being well-informed about potential hazards and health issues. So when David Valdo noticed that New Mexico’s American Indian populations were not always getting the workplace safety education they needed, he decided to do something about it.

Valdo conducts industrial hygiene-related compliance inspections for the state Environment Department’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau. This fall, he conducted a statewide outreach and organized a wellGussie attended, two-day occuFauntleroy pational health and safety session targeting American Public Works Indian employers and employees. For his efforts, Valdo was honored as one of the agency’s top employees for the third quarter of 2013. uuu

Music is an important part of Gwen Spatzier’s life. Although her career has taken her from public service to teaching to shamanism, she’s still a ‘rock ‘n’ roller’ at heart, she says. COURTESY PHOTOS

teaching certificate from Santa Fe Community College, she taught elementary school at Aqua Fría Elementary School and Atalaya Elementary for 10 years.

Her switch from the political milieu to teaching, she said, brought joy into her life because it was much more satisfying than trying to make broad political changes. But she also found teaching frustrating.

Like many teachers, she was frustrated by the focus on data and standardized testing. She complained that the educational system hasn’t changed for the past 200 years.

“The world has changed,” she said. “Rather than being datadriven, learning should be about discovery and play. My third-graders were extremely motivated and inquisitive about the world.”

In 2005, she said, she found herself questioning whether she was on the right path. She went to a counselor, Kay Cordell Whitaker, who is a shaman in the Peruvian tradition called Katasee. She said the visit helped transform her life quest. “Ever since childhood, I had had experiences with the spirit world that I couldn’t explain, and because of that they scared me,” she said. “Also, society tends to treat non-ordinary visions as ‘just your imagination.’ ” Her shamanic counseling sessions with Whitaker left her with the desire to learn more, and in 2005 she began studying shamanism with the goal of becoming a healer. Being a musician, she said, she found that the metaphors of Peruvian shamanism validated her life. “I’ve come to realize that children are programmed to wear masks. This programming makes children forget their original song.

As children get older, they start

communicating mask to mask rather than heart to heart.”

Taking off the mask and getting in touch with your authentic self is one of the goals of shamanic healing, Spatzier said. In her effort to help people get back in balance and become whole, she said, she has incorporated the use of spirit dolls, which she creates from bamboo grown in her garden. Each doll is created for a specific person with specific healing prayers, she said, adding, “You can’t buy these dolls at Wal-Mart.”

“With respect to shamanic healing,” she said, “I am not a healer per se, but rather I serve as a conduit for the energies to come forth for healing and balance based on the specific needs of an individual.”

Her philosophy is that change is the only constant in life and that everyone is on a quest to find their purpose on Earth. “I’m

finding more joy in my life now,” she said. “I left elementary teaching and I now teach ESL [English as a second language] and basic educational skills at Santa Fe Community College. ... I tell my students to dream big,” she said, “to pull their arrow and aim for their goal and not anyone tell them they can’t achieve their dreams.”

She said teaching ESL has left her with more time to pursue her music career. She’s now working on a solo performance piece called Leap of Faith, which will include songs and storytelling.

“My quest is to bring beauty and joy to the world,” she said. “That’s why I teach, that’s why I do music, that’s why I do shamanic healing.”

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Gwen Spatzier, on her childhood in Newark, N.J.

El mitote When made-in-New Mexico The Lone Ranger hit theaters this summer, it was greeted with almost universal derision from critics and moviegoers alike. The film’s massive budget and small box office return had people shouting “worst movie of the year” pretty early in the season — but did that claim hold up, now that 2013 is coming to a close?

It turns out, there were worse movies this year. On Forbes’ list of the biggest box office turkeys, The Lone Ranger didn’t even crack the Top 5. Forbes points to the Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, as the year’s biggest stinker.

With a budget of $28 million and a global box office total of $6 million, it’s easy to see why.

In a separate list of bad movies of 2013,

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uuu John Hall, in the Ground Water Quality Bureau’s Pollution Prevention Section, was named employee of the quarter for cheerfully volunteering to take on additional responsibilities at a time of high staff vacancy rates. Covering two high-level management positions, Hall has a reputation for “maintaining his sense of humor, even during stressful weeks with many deadlines,” his nominators said.

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In the Environment Department’s Office of Information Technology, Alex Harding earned the nod as top quarterly employee for his consistent willingness to assist co-workers and for “truly thinking of the team and mission ahead of himself,” according to his nominators. Harding began his Environment Department career in the help-desk section and moved up to application development. Recently, he proved invaluable in helping to fix upgrades to the important Safe Drinking Water Information System. uuu Melinda Owens, a permit writer in the Air Quality Bureau, handles a nonstop heavy permit load along with special projects, including training new staff. Owens is “well respected by her co-workers, who consistently rely on her for help,” her nominators said, adding: “Her professional and cooperative attitude infects the bureau and contributes to a collaborative and positive work environment.”

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The agency’s top team of the quarter was the TEMPO Gurus team, consisting of Kerry Carr, Jeanelle Duran and Joseph Kimbrell. The group manages and provides quality assurance for the Air Quality Bureau’s TEMPO database.

Working with a system in which accuracy is essential, the team is known for dedicating “a significant amount of their own time … with conscientious, helpful and caring attitudes.”

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I remember dancing the mashed potatoes and the twist on the streets.

Music was everywhere.”

Also earning the quarterly award was Melissa Day of the Surface Water Quality Bureau. Day joined the bureau less than a year ago and quickly proved to be “reliable and efficient,” with a “natural positive attitude and clear communication skills,” according to her nominators. In charge of office support for field staff, handling special equipment deliveries and other duties, she is known for “fostering a positive relationship” between the bureau and members of the public.

Girls Night Out teams up Spatzier with Cynthia Becker. Recently, the duo performed in a Motown Holiday Show at El Farol that included 10 local musicians.

ABOVE: In her effort to help people get back in balance, Spatzier says, she incorporates the use of spirit dolls, which she creates from bamboo grown in her garden. She says, ‘You can’t buy these dolls at WalMart.’

Forbes calls out Matt Damon’s Elyuuu sium and the latest Die Hard film, Albuquerque’s Neil Patrick Harris but The Lone Ranger remains absent. once again brought his triple-threat The Last Stand, starring former talents to a lavish musical number as California Gov. Arnold Schwarpart of Disney Parks Christmas Day zenegger, took the top spot on The Parade that aired Christmas morning Neil Patrick Hollywood Reporter’s year-end list, on ABC. He performed a specially Harris with The Lone Ranger popping up in crafted holiday song called “Are the middle at No. 10.

You Ready For Christmas?” penned Time’s worst-of list includes the The Counby Broadway songwriting team David Javerselor at No. 8, based on a book penned by Tesbaum and Adam Schlesinger. uque resident Cormac McCarthy.

In addition to cameos from a slew of Disney characters, the opening number of the uuu show featured dance moves courtesy of Tony Boris McCutcheon or Imperial Rooster?

Award-winning choreographer Christopher Chris Chickering or Meagan Chandler?

Gattelli.

Local voters decided on their favorite bands at Find out more about the show, and watch santafe.com. a behind-the-scenes featurette here: http:// The initial poll closed Friday. A final Top 10 tinyurl.com/n5bry5c. list will be announced Jan. 3. uuu The finalists will be given an opportunity to It may not be the most holiday-friendly film, appear on a compilation album, and the overbut Mark Wahlberg’s war movie Lone Surviall winner will be granted a spot on the Santa vor has opened in New York and L.A. Fe Bandstand’s summer concert series.

If you have news about a public employee, contact Gussie Fauntleroy at gussie7@fairpoint.net.

Alex Harding

Worker in the state Environment Department’s Office of Information Technology earned a nod from co-workers for consistently “thinking of the team.”

The made-in-New Mexico film tells the story of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, the only survivor of an ill-fated 2005 Afghanistan mission. The movie is based on Luttrell’s memoir of the same name and it also stars Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch and Taylor Kitsch.

In a recent interview with USA Today, Wahlberg and Luttrell talked about the movie. Luttrell was pleased that the filmmakers, including director Peter Berg, didn’t turn his story into some kind of romance. After its limited release, the film will open nationwide Jan. 10.

Read the rest of the USA Today interview here: http:// tinyurl.com/mj5258n.

Mark Wahlberg

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The weather

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

7-day forecast for Santa Fe Tonight

Today

Partly sunny and colder

Monday

Mainly clear

37

Tuesday

Mostly sunny

21

Wednesday

Plenty of sunshine

43/24

Humidity (Noon) Humidity (Midnight) Humidity (Noon)

Mostly sunny

Thursday

Friday

Plenty of sunshine

Recently, Michael Sterkel and Deborah Moll of Santa Fe visited Las Vegas, Nev. While there, Moll took this picture of the sunset from Las Vegas Boulevard.

Saturday

Plenty of sunshine

Increasing cloudiness

48/26

48/25

48/27

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46/26

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wind: S 7-14 mph

wind: NNE 6-12 mph

wind: NNW 7-14 mph

wind: NW 6-12 mph

wind: WNW 6-12 mph

wind: WNW 4-8 mph

wind: WNW 7-14 mph

wind: ESE 4-8 mph

New Mexico weather

Almanac Santa Fe Airport through 6 p.m. Saturday Santa Fe Airport Temperatures High/low ......................................... 46°/21° Normal high/low ............................ 43°/18° Record high ............................... 55° in 1955 Record low .................................. 2° in 1966 Santa Fe Airport Precipitation 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 0.27”/12.66” Normal month/year to date ... 0.71”/13.44” Santa Fe Farmers Market 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 0.22”/12.27”

Air quality index

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

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285

64

Farmington 39/16

40

Pecos 34/18

25

Albuquerque 41/27

Area rainfall

87

56 412

Santa Fe 37/21

Clayton 31/19

AccuWeather Flu Index

25

Las Vegas 30/19

25

40

40

60

The following water statistics of December 26 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 1.265 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 5.010 City Wells: 0.000 Buckman Wells: 1.630 Total water produced by water system: 7.905 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.091 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 64.3 percent of capacity; daily inflow 2.33 million gallons.

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

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

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

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

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

60

25

Today’s UV index

54 285 380

180

Roswell 44/21

Ruidoso 36/27

25

Truth or Consequences 48/27

70

70

70

380

380

Hobbs 43/22

285

Alamogordo 49/25

0-2, Low; 3-5, Moderate; 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.

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54

60

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

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Albuquerque 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date .................. 0.40”/9.32” Las Vegas 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 0.51”/17.05” Los Alamos 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 0.19”/12.16” Chama 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 0.24”/17.83” Taos 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date ................ 0.12”/11.68”

Saturday’s rating ................................ Good Today’s forecast ................................. Good 0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very Unhealthy, 301500, Hazardous Source: EPA

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Taos 34/8

84

Española 40/25 Los Alamos 38/21 Gallup 40/11

Raton 29/14

64

666

Las Cruces 51/27

Carlsbad 46/23

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State extremes Sat. High: 61 .................................... Artesia Sat. Low 3 ................................... Angel Fire

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Weather (w): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sfsnow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Sunrise today ............................... 7:13 a.m.

Sunset tonight .............................. 5:00 p.m.

Moonrise today ............................ 4:02 a.m.

Moonset today ............................. 2:37 p.m.

Sunrise Monday ............................ 7:13 a.m.

Sunset Monday ............................. 5:00 p.m.

Moonrise Monday ......................... 5:07 a.m.

Moonset Monday .......................... 3:35 p.m.

Sunrise Tuesday ........................... 7:14 a.m.

Sunset Tuesday ............................ 5:01 p.m.

Moonrise Tuesday ........................ 6:10 a.m.

Moonset Tuesday ......................... 4:39 p.m.

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National cities

Weather for December 29

Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Anchorage Atlanta Baltimore Billings Bismarck Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Fairbanks Flagstaff Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles

Hi/Lo 24/12 46/36 58/28 46/16 33/-1 36/15 48/27 65/34 54/21 50/33 51/34 54/39 60/35 59/32 47/31 2/-31 46/18 82/69 60/45 53/31 57/33 60/44 73/51

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Hi/Lo 29/22 50/30 42/24 33/22 6/-18 38/30 38/12 63/42 54/33 8/5 29/15 22/18 42/28 47/30 20/14 1/-8 44/15 80/63 52/31 21/14 27/17 58/36 77/47

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Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis New Orleans New York City Oklahoma City Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, OR Richmond St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle Sioux Falls Trenton Washington, DC

Hi/Lo 49/27 49/34 80/72 42/25 48/20 51/46 55/36 60/32 77/65 56/28 67/47 51/37 45/37 62/27 61/36 29/17 58/47 67/53 63/40 49/41 44/18 56/26 57/30

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National extremes

(For the 48 contiguous states) Sat. High: 85 ..................... Punta Gorda, FL Sat. Low: -15 .......................... Langdon, ND

Weather history

Weather trivia™

An Union assault on the well-fortified town of Vicksburg, Miss., was interrupted by flooding on Dec. 29, 1862. The heavy rain helped Confederates thwart the invasion.

a cold front reverses its direction, Q: Ifwhat would it then be called?

City Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Bangkok Barcelona Beijing Berlin Bogota Buenos Aires Cairo Caracas Ciudad Juarez Copenhagen Dublin Geneva Guatemala City Havana Hong Kong Jerusalem Lima

Hi/Lo 48/43 61/52 64/39 79/61 63/45 38/17 48/43 70/45 95/68 68/52 86/70 57/25 45/42 43/36 43/30 73/57 84/73 58/47 61/49 77/67

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Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Montreal Moscow New Delhi Paris Prague Rio de Janeiro Rome Santiago Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Vancouver Vienna Zurich

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A: A warm front

Rapper puts spotlight on gender politics in Egypt

By Mariam Rizk The Associated Press

CAIRO — As soon as the beat started, the young veiled woman bobbed her head to the rhythm, raised her hands to get the crowd clapping and then unleashed a flood of rap lyrics that tackled some of the biggest social challenges women face in the Arab world.

With the Middle East’s hit TV show Arabs Got Talent as her stage, 18-year-old Myam Mahmoud rapped about sexual harassment, second-class treatment of women, and societal expectations of how a young religious woman should behave.

The Egyptian teenager didn’t win the program — she crashed out in the semifinals — but she did succeed in throwing the spotlight on something bigger than herself.

“I wanted to tell girls in Egypt and everywhere else that they are not alone, we all have the same problems, but we cannot stay silent, we have to speak up,” Mahmoud, who wears an Islamic headscarf but not a full-face veil, told The Associated Press.

In Egypt, a country where politics have grabbed most of the headlines for the past three years, little space has been dedicated to addressing social problems. So Mahmoud, who is a first-year student of politics and economics at the October 6 University in a western Cairo suburb, decided to draw

Egyptian rapper Myam Mahmoud poses for a portrait in downtown Cairo.

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attention to women’s rights through rap.

“Everybody speaks about politics, but nobody tackles the topics that relate to me the most,” Mahmoud said.

She said she gets the ideas for her songs from the surrounding community, and that sometimes girls send her their problems to write about and give them a voice.

“Many girls want to say what I rap about, but they cannot for many reasons,” she said. “I speak for them.”

One of the biggest problems for woman in Egypt is sexual harassment. A U.N. report released in April said the issue had reached “unprecedented levels,” with 99.3 percent of women in the country reporting that they have been subjected to sexual harassment.

“There is no single female in Egypt that has not been harassed, regardless of her looks,” Mahmoud said. “As soon as a girl is born in Egypt, she is repressed with many pressures.”

Part of the problem, in Mahmoud’s eyes, is that women don’t speak out against harassment.

“I wish we would not be silent about our problems,” she said. “We have to snatch our freedoms, nobody will just offer them.”

Her lyrics take the issue head on.

“Some of us see the answer is to cover up, and if the girl is hidden she will not be assaulted,” she raps in one song. “My body is only mine.”

Initiatives to counter the problem have increased in the past year in Egypt, where volunteer groups have started protecting women at street protests. On the other side of the debate are conservative religious clerics who blame women, saying they invite harassment and sexual abuse by mixing with men.

The issue is, in part at least, linked to the broader expectations that many men in religiously conservative Egypt have about women and their roles in society. Mahmoud, with her quiet self-confidence and animated performances in a genre that has gained more acceptance among younger Egyptians in recent years, has challenged those expectations.

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Miami museum houses 1,200 cars, bicycles, Vespas traveled from Des Moines, Iowa, to Florida for a family vacation. He made sure to stop NORTH MIAMI, Fla. — The at the museum on this trip classic cars lined up against because the television series an empty, vintage gas station about the talking, crime-fightalong a busy street in North ing car has been his passion Miami attract visitors to a since the day it first aired Sept. much larger space right behind 26, 1982. it.

“It’s very familiar. I’ve studMore than 1,000 cars are on ied all of the remaining survivdisplay at the 250,000-squareing original cars,” he said while foot Miami Auto Museum at standing next to KITT, the The Dezer Collection that black Pontiac Trans Am that includes American classics, was featured in the popular military and electric cars, 1980s television series. bicycles and more. The The museum houses the museum is so large that if largest collection of micro cars every passenger on three 747 on display, including a Velorex airplanes were given just one made in Czechoslovakia. Some item from the museum, they are so small that they could could all bike, drive or pedal barely accommodate one pertheir way out, said curator son, yet many were known for Myles Kornblatt. carrying two or three.

There are eight galleries There’s also a Duesenberg spread throughout two large Model X from 1927, a sedan buildings in a part of Miami car with a rear windshield to not known to showcase colshield the backseat passengers. lectibles, much less $25 million It is just one of five known to to $30 million worth of one-of- still exist. a-kind vehicles.

Among the most popular “We are a bit of a hidden galleries at the museum is the gem,” Kornblatt said.

Hollywood Cars of the Stars Jorge Ivan Vergara Salazar, exhibit, which showcases cars, who came from Colombia to submarines, airplanes and Miami on a family vacation, more that were featured in recently visited the museum movies, including the BMW and said he was surprised to motorcycle from Indiana Jones find so many rare cars under and the Last Crusade, and the one roof.

Mitsubishi Eclipse from the “Everything that you see Fast and the Furious film in in television, like James Bond 2001, which was the first car and Indiana Jones, those are the late Paul Walker drove in all marvelous things. You get the film series. astonished by the things that The Batboat used in the Batare here in America,” Salazar, man television series that aired 49, said in Spanish while tourduring the 1960s was signed by ing the museum. the builder, George Barris, and Real estate developer the Batmobile (also a Barris Michael Dezer, 72, started his creation) is also on display. massive collection as a teenThe museum also houses ager and has one of the largest the largest collection of everyVespa scooter collections in thing James Bond, including the world. the Aston Martin sports car he “I knew it was original drove in 1964’s Goldfinger and a massive glass enclosure filled before I showed up,” said AJ with rows of books, toy cars Palmgren, a self-proclaimed and figurines.

Knight Rider historian who

By Suzette Laboy

The Associated Press

Vehicles and an airplane from the James Bond films are displayed in the James Bond gallery at the Dezer Collection Museum in North Miami, Fla. LYNNE SLADKY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Showing elite status Española proving its mettle with championship win over St. Michael’s

Foles, Orton lined up for Philly-Dallas showdown

By Schuyler Dixon The Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Texas — Nick Foles and Kyle Orton were backup quarterbacks when the season began.

With Tony Romo out after back surgery, they will be the starters for Philadelphia and Dallas when the Cowboys play their third straight season finale against an NFC East rival with a division title on the line Sunday night.

Foles has a 7-2 record in nine starts and leads the league in quarterback rating, which is why Michael Vick didn’t get his job back when he was healthy again last month.

Orton is almost exactly two years Nick Foles removed from his last start, back when Kansas City was finishing a 7-9 record in the same season he was dumped by Denver in favor of Tim Tebow. He’s played three games — and thrown just 15 passes — in two years as Romo’s backup.

Add the absence of defensive leader Sean Lee with a neck sprain, and the Cowboys are facing long odds trying to end a three-year playoff drought most notable for losses the past two seasons to the New York Giants and Washington in playoffs-or-bust finales.

“Obviously for him and I, everything you’ve worked for,

By Will Webber The New Mexican

M

aybe now it’s time to include the Española Valley girls basketball team in the discussion about the elite programs in Class AAAA this season.

Just one problem, though.

Lady Española V. 55 Sundevils head St. Michael’s 46 coach Ray Romero doesn’t necessarily agree.

“I don’t think so,” he said after Saturday night’s 55-46 win over St. Michael’s in the championship game of the Lady Horsemen Christmas Tournament in Perez-Shelley Memorial Gymnasium. “I think we’re still learning to play the game together.”

At 7-3 overall, Española is now a three-time champion of the St. Michael’s tournament. Freshman post player Alexis Lovato was named the event’s most valuable player.

In the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game she showed why.

With the Lady Sundevils clinging to a 46-44 lead with two minutes remaining, Lovato spun free in the paint for a critical layup that opened a four-point lead. It sparked a 9-1 run to close things out.

“I’m not really looking to score at that time, but I am willing to do whatever the team needs and, right then, the ball came to me and I got the basket,” Lovato said.

Ranked as low as No. 8 in the AAAA polls, Española is trying desperately to make an indentation atop the state’s hierarchy — one that seems tidal locked on Santa Fe High, St. Pius, Valencia and defending state champion Los Lunas.

Romero said making up that

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Broncos, Raiders going in opposite directions now Española’s Ashlyn Trujillo, left, goes up for two points while St. Michael’s Cris Gabaldon tries to defend in the first quarter of Saturday’s game during the Lady Horsemen Christmas Tournament Championship at Perez-Shelly Gymnasium. For more photos, go to tinyurl.com/kuxg2yf.

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ground is what December, January and February are for. Loaded with the entirety of district play and a slew of nondistrict tests like the Lady Horsemen Christmas Tournament, it’s a time for teams like his to test the waters and learn how to assert themselves when March rolls around.

“It’s a long season,” Romero said. “It’s like I told the girls: We’ve only played 10 games with this group and we’ve got a long way to go. We’re going to have our ups and downs, maybe lose a few games here and there.

We’re not one of the best right now, but we’re working on it.”

The Lady Sundevils led 29-21 at halftime before St. Michael’s (10-4) came back behind Cris Gabaldon, Briana Vigil and Jocelyn Fernandez. The trio had four points apiece in the third quarter, trimming Española’s lead to two on several occasions.

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By Josh Dubow The Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. — Two years after finishing tied atop the AFC West with eight wins apiece, the Denver Broncos and Oakland Raiders couldn’t be farther apart.

The Broncos (12-3) head into Sunday’s season finale at Oakland (4-11) needing a win to clinch the top seed and home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs for the second straight year. The Raiders are stumbling to the finish of another disappointing season.

The reason for the change in fortunes for the two franchises is simple. The Broncos brought in Peyton Manning as quarterback last season and he has responded in record-setting fashion.

Manning broke Tom Brady’s single-season touchdown pass record last week by throwing his 51st and needs 266 yards passing this week to break Drew Brees’ singleseason mark.

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TRI-CITIES INVITATIONAL

Escalante hangs on for win over Santa Rosa year head coach Bill Russom, and the 3-foot Santa Rosa 51 trophy was a treasure to PECOS — Running out the clock sure is behold. easier on the gridiron than on the basketball “This one … it means a lot,” Russom said. court.

It was the third straight game in which The Lobos of Escalante were in control the Lobos (5-2) had to call upon its football for most of their Tri-Cities Invitational boys championship pedigree (Escalante won basketball championship game against Santa the Class A title in 2012 and several players Rosa, but securing the win wasn’t as easy remain from that team) to navigate some as getting a few first downs and melting the tense moments. They needed double overclock. A scoring outage over the final 5 min- time to beat Monte del Sol 75-69 in the first utes allowed the Lions to put a scare into round, then held off a pesky Pecos team for Escalante before putting away a 55-51 win for a 66-64 semifinal win. its fourth straight win after a 1-2 start.

“It’s just par for the course for these guys,” It is the first Tri-Cities title under sixthBill Russom said. “they finish with so much

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heart. It’s just a pleasure to be around.”

Few had the heart of Norman Salazar, who capped a 24-point performance that earned him tournament MVP honors with two clinching free throws with :05 left to make it 55-51. His size gave the Lions fits.

He scores seven points in the third quarter, as Escalante expanded a 21-17 lead to 42-31 heading into the final quarter.

If only the Lobos could take care of the ball more ably. They turned the ball over six times in the second quarter as Santa Rosa cut a 15-5 deficit to 19-17 at one point, then three turnovers in a 90-second stretch in the

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The Broncos’ Peyton Manning throws during the first quarter of a Dec. 22 game against the Houston Texans in Houston. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Bridgewater, No. 18 Louisville thump Miami in Russell Athletic Bowl high 447 yards.

Louisville won its second straight bowl ORLANDO, Fla. — Teddy Bridgewagame for its second ter threw three touchdown passes and 12-win season. ran for another score in No. 18 LouisWith Cardinals’ ville’s 36-9 vicfans chanting “Teddy!

18 Louisville 36 tory over Miami Teddy!” at times on Saturday night Miami 9 throughout the game Teddy in the Russell Bridgewater, proBridgewater Athletic Bowl. jected to be a top NFL The Cardinals (12-1) spotted Miami draft pick if he comes (9-4) an early 2-0 lead, then dominated out this summer, set a school season the rest of the way, racking up 554 total record with 31 touchdown passes.

The Miami native also tied the school yards to the Hurricanes’ 174.

Bridgewater was 35 for 45 for career- record with his 27th victory as LouisBy Kyle Hightower The Associated Press

ville’s starter.

Miami, playing in its first bowl game since 2010, hasn’t had a bowl victory since 2006, losing four straight. The Hurricanes were returning to the postseason following a two-year, selfimposed ban during an NCAA investigation.

They got on the scoreboard first with the safety. But was one of their few highlights.

A big second quarter by the Cardinals, punctuated by Bridgewater’s two touchdown passes helped Louisville take a 22-2 lead.

The Cardinals settled for field goals

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early after struggling to convert on third downs inside Hurricanes’ territory. That coincided with one of Bridgewater’s top third-down targets — receiver DeVante Parker — going down on the Louisville’s second series of the night with an ankle injury.

But those fortunes changed quickly when Parker returned in the second quarter after getting his ankle attended to by the training staff.

He immediately caught three passes on a seven-play, 80-yard drive, including a capping 26-yard touchdown reception. Parker finished with nine catches for 142yards.

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Miami’s next possession appeared to have stalled near midfield, but an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty kept it going and eventually set up the Hurricanes with second-and-goal on the 5.

Stephen Morris dropped back to pass, but was grabbed and lost the ball as he was slung to the ground by Cardinals defensive end Marcus Smith. The loose ball was then recovered by Louisville’s Brandon Dunn to end the threat.

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THE NEW MEXICAN Sunday, December 29, 2013

Saturday Notre Dame 29, Rutgers 16

FOOTBALL FOOTBALL NFL American Conference East W y-New England 11 Miami 8 N.Y. Jets 7 Buffalo 6 South W y-Indianapolis 10 Tennessee 6 Jacksonville 4 Houston 2 North W y-Cincinnati 10 Baltimore 8 Pittsburgh 7 Cleveland 4 West W y-Denver 12 x-Kansas City 11 San Diego 8 Oakland 4

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National Conference East W L T Pct PF PA Philadelphia 9 6 0 .600 418 360 Dallas 8 7 0 .533 417 408 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 274 377 Washington 3 12 0 .200 328 458 South W L T Pct PF PA x-Carolina 11 4 0 .733 345 221 New Orleans 10 5 0 .667 372 287 Atlanta 4 11 0 .267 333 422 Tampa Bay 4 11 0 .267 271 347 North W L T Pct PF PA Chicago 8 7 0 .533 417 445 Green Bay 7 7 1 .500 384 400 Detroit 7 8 0 .467 382 362 Minnesota 4 10 1 .300 377 467 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Seattle 12 3 0 .800 390 222 x-San Fran.

11 4 0 .733 383 252 Arizona 10 5 0 .667 359 301 St. Louis 7 8 0 .467 339 337 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Week 17 Sunday’s Games Houston at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

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

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

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

Denver at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

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

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

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

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 2:25 p.m.

Buffalo at New England, 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

NCAA FOOTBALL FBS Bowls Saturday’s Games Pinstripe Bowl Notre Dame 29, Rutgers 16 Belk Bowl North Carolina 39, Cincinnati 17 Russell Athletic Bowl Louisville 36, Miami 9 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl Kansas State 31, Michigan 14 Monday’s Games Armed Forces Bowl Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Navy (8-4), 9:45 a.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl Mississippi (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech (7-5), 1:15 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl Oregon (10-2) vs. Texas (8-4), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl: Arizona State (10-3) vs.

Texas Tech (7-5), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday’s Games AdvoCare V100 Bowl: Arizona (7-5) vs. Boston College (7-5), 10:30 a.m.

(ESPN) Sun Bowl: Virginia Tech (8-4) vs.

UCLA (9-3), Noon (CBS) Liberty Bowl: Rice (9-3) vs. Mississippi State (6-6), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl: Texas A&M (8-4) vs.

Duke (10-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN)

Rutgers 10 3 0 3—16 Notre Dame 10 3 3 13—29 First Quarter ND—FG Brindza 21, 10:05.

Rut—FG Federico 36, 8:00.

ND—T.Jones 8 run (Brindza kick), 4:30.

Rut—Coleman 14 pass from Dodd (Federico kick), 1:51.

Second Quarter ND—FG Brindza 38, 12:59.

Rut—FG Federico 18, 8:35.

Third Quarter ND—FG Brindza 26, 6:03.

Fourth Quarter ND—FG Brindza 25, 12:46.

Rut—FG Federico 47, 8:57.

ND—Folston 3 run (Brindza kick), 3:38.

ND—FG Brindza 49, 2:28.

A—47,122.

Rut ND First downs 16 31 Rushes-yards 26-80 43-175 Passing 156 319 Comp-Att-Int 10-29-4 27-47-0 Return Yards 0 (-6) Punts-Avg. 3-46.3 2-29.5 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 3-33 8-69 Time of Possession 21:44 38:16 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Rutgers, James 10-48, Dodd 10-24, Huggins 2-7, Goodwin 3-3, Team 1-(minus 2). Notre Dame, McDaniel 17-80, Folston 17-73, T.Jones 4-16, Rees 2-6, Carlisle 1-3, Fuller 1-3, Daniels 1-(minus 6).

PASSING—Rutgers, Dodd 10-28-3-156, Goodwin 0-1-1-0. Notre Dame, Rees 27-47-0-319.

RECEIVING—Rutgers, Kroft 3-43, Coleman 2-65, James 2-22, Peele 2-3, Pratt 1-23. Notre Dame, T.Jones 5-66, C.Brown 5-54, Niklas 4-76, McDaniel 3-29, Daniels 3-25, Folston 3-21, Prosise 2-25, Koyack 1-13, Robinson 1-10.

North Carolina 39, Cincinnati 17 Cincinnati 0 3 7 7—17 North Carolina 16 7 13 3—39 First Quarter NC—Morris 2 run (T.Moore kick), 5:40.

NC—Safety, 2:25.

NC—Logan 78 kickoff return (T.Moore kick), 2:12.

Second Quarter Cin—FG Miliano 34, 14:17.

NC—Tabb 3 pass from Williams (T.Moore kick), 10:16.

Third Quarter NC—Switzer 86 punt return (kick failed), 10:41.

Cin—Abernathy 15 run (Miliano kick), 8:08.

NC—Morris 1 run (T.Moore kick), 3:32.

Fourth Quarter Cin—Washington 10 run (Miliano kick), 14:26.

NC—FG T.Moore 40, 2:52.

A—45,211.

Cin NC First downs 20 23 Rushes-yards 36-168 46-174 Passing 181 171 Comp-Att-Int 16-36-1 19-33-0 Return Yards (-2) 83 Punts-Avg. 5-36.4 4-44.3 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 3-35 4-25 Time of Possession 26:36 33:24 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Cincinnati, Washington 4-67, Abernathy 13-67, Williams 1046, Green 1-3, Kay 8-(minus 15). North Carolina, Logan 15-77, Williams 9-46, Francis 10-28, Morris 10-16, Switzer 1-8, Q.Davis 1-(minus 1).

PASSING—Cincinnati, Kay 15-351-181, Washington 1-1-0-0. North Carolina, Williams 19-33-0-171.

RECEIVING—Cincinnati, McClung 4-31, Washington 3-36, Abernathy 3-23, C.Moore 2-46, McKay 1-23, Morrison 1-11, Annen 1-6, Williams 1-5.

North Carolina, Ebron 7-78, Tapley 4-22, Switzer 3-22, Thorpe 2-36, Q.Davis 1-6, Logan 1-4, Tabb 1-3.

Louisville 36, Miami 9 Miami 2 0 0 7 —9 Louisville 6 16 7 7—36 First Quarter: Mia—Safety, 11:51.

Lou—FG Wallace 36, 5:46. Lou—FG Wallace 43, 1:38.

Second Quarter: Lou—FG Wallace 42, 12:47. Lou—Parker 26 pass from Bridgewater (Wallace kick), 7:10.

Lou—Harris 12 pass from Bridgewater (kick failed), :30.

Third Quarter: Lou—Perry 24 pass from Bridgewater (Wallace kick), 8:11.

Fourth Quarter: Lou—Bridgewater 1 run (Wallace kick), 12:19. Mia—Edwards 2 run (Goudis kick), 10:23.

A—51,098.

Mia Lou First downs 14 28 Rushes-yards 28-14 31-107 Passing 160 447 Comp-Att-Int 12-27-0 35-45-0 Return Yards 0 0 Punts-Avg. 6-45.7 1-45.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 2-20 9-79 Time of Possession 21:28 38:32 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Miami, Edwards 12-38, D.Crawford 11-35, Morris 5-(minus 59). Louisville, Perry 6-46, Do.Brown 16-42, Bridgewater 6-24, Radcliff 1-1, Team 2-(minus 6).

PASSING—Miami, Morris 12-27-0-160.

Louisville, Bridgewater 35-45-0-447.

RECEIVING—Miami, Walford 4-82, Coley 3-32, D.Crawford 3-22, Hurns 2-24.

Louisville, Parker 9-142, Copeland 6-90, Perry 5-50, Harris 4-54, E.Rogers 3-38, Christian 2-25, Do.Brown 2-21, R.Clark 2-10, Quick 1-13, Atkins 1-4.

HOCKEY HOCKEY NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic GP Boston 39 Tampa Bay 38 Montreal 39 Detroit 40 Toronto 40 Ottawa 41 Florida 39 Buffalo 38 Metro GP Pittsburgh 40 Washington 38 Philadelphia 38 New Jersey 40 Columbus 38 N.Y. Rangers 39 Carolina 38 N.Y. Islanders 39

W 26 23 23 18 19 16 14 10 W 28 20 18 16 17 18 14 11

L OLPts GF 11 2 54 114 11 4 50 107 13 3 49 98 13 9 45 103 16 5 43 110 18 7 39 115 20 5 33 91 24 4 24 69 L OLPts GF 11 1 57 125 14 4 44 120 16 4 40 97 16 8 40 95 17 4 38 103 19 2 38 90 15 9 37 89 21 7 29 97

GA 81 89 85 111 116 134 127 109 GA 91 114 107 102 107 105 109 131

Western Conference Central GP W L OLPts GF GA 41 27 7 7 61 157 115 Chicago St. Louis 37 25 7 5 55 134 90 Colorado 37 23 11 3 49 108 95 Minnesota 40 20 15 5 45 92 102 Dallas 37 19 12 6 44 110 108 Winnipeg 40 17 18 5 39 109 120 Nashville 39 17 18 4 38 89 115 Pacific GP W L OLPts GF GA Anaheim 40 28 7 5 61 130 100 San Jose 38 24 8 6 54 125 97 Los Angeles 39 25 10 4 54 108 79 Vancouver 39 22 11 6 50 106 93 Phoenix 38 19 10 9 47 116 117 Calgary 38 14 18 6 34 95 120 Edmonton 41 13 24 4 30 106 139 Saturday’s Games Montreal 2, Tampa Bay 1, SO; St. Louis 6, Chicago 5, SO; Ottawa 4, Boston 3; Detroit 4, Florida 3; New Jersey 2, N.Y. Islanders 1; Nashville 3, Los Angeles 2; Anaheim 3, Phoenix 2, OT; Philadelphia 4, Edmonton 3, SO Sunday’s Games Washington at Buffalo, 3 p.m.

Montreal at Florida, 3 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Columbus, 4 p.m.

St. Louis at Dallas, 4 p.m.

Carolina at Toronto, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

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

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Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB San Antonio 23 7 .767 — Houston 21 11 .656 3 Dallas 17 13 .567 6 New Orleans 13 15 .464 9 Memphis 13 16 .448 9½ Northwest W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 24 5 .828 — Portland 24 6 .800 ½ Minnesota 15 15 .500 9½ Denver 14 15 .483 10 Utah 9 24 .273 17 Pacific W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 21 11 .656 — Phoenix 18 11 .621 1½ Golden State 18 13 .581 2½ L.A. Lakers 13 17 .433 7 Sacramento 9 19 .321 10 Saturday’s Games Boston 103, Cleveland 100 Indiana 105, Brooklyn 91 Washington 106, Detroit 82 Toronto 115, New York 100 Atlanta 118, Charlotte 116, OT Dallas 105, Chicago 83 Houston 107, New Orleans 98 Memphis 120, Denver 99 Minnesota 117, Milwaukee 95 Phoenix 115, Philadelphia 101 Miami 108, Portland 107 L.A. Clippers 98, Utah 90 Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Golden State at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

Houston at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at San Antonio, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Washington at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Portland at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Miami at Denver, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Utah, 7 p.m.

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

NCAA BASKETBALL Men’s AP Top 25 Saturday’s Games No. 2 Syracuse 78, No. 8 Villanova 62 No. 4 Wisconsin 80, Prairie View 43 No. 5 Michigan State 101, New Orleans 48 No. 18 Kentucky 73, No. 6 Louisville 66 No. 9 Duke 82, Eastern Michigan 59 No. 15 UConn 82, Eastern Washington 65 No. 17 Memphis 75, Jackson State 61 No. 21 Colorado 84, Georgia 70 No. 23 UMass 69, Providence 67 (OT) No. 24 Gonzaga 74, Santa Clara 60 No. 25 Missouri 68, N.C. State 64 Sunday’s Games No. 10 Wichita St. vs. Davidson, 1 p.m.

No. 12 Oregon vs. Morgan St., 1 p.m.

No. 13 Florida vs. Savannah St., 1 p.m.

Division I Saturday’s Games East Binghamton 67, Bryant 62 Fairfield 73, Bucknell 64 George Washington 69, Hofstra 58 Georgetown 92, FIU 57 Harvard 94, Fordham 86 Kansas St. 72, Tulane 41 Southern Miss. 77, Rhode Island 64

St. John’s 65, Columbia 59 St. Peter’s 67, Cornell 59 Syracuse 78, Villanova 62 UConn 82, E. Washington 65 UMass 69, Providence 67, OT VCU 69, Boston College 50 Midwest Butler 66, NJIT 48 Cincinnati 74, Nebraska 59 Cleveland St. 78, Kent St. 70 E. Illinois 70, Tennessee St. 69 Evansville 96, Grambling St. 61 Green Bay 91, St. Francis (Ill.) 41 Illinois 74, Ill.-Chicago 60 Indiana St. 85, Belmont 73 Marquette 71, Samford 48 Michigan 88, Holy Cross 66 Michigan St. 101, New Orleans 48 Minnesota 65, Texas A&M-CC 44 N. Iowa 90, Iona 78 S. Dakota St. 65, UMKC 60 South Florida 61, Bradley 57 Toledo 85, Coppin St. 66 Wisconsin 80, Prairie View 43 Xavier 68, Wake Forest 53 South Alabama St. 78, Auburn-Montgomery 51 Charleston Southern 122, St. Andrews 40 Duke 82, E. Michigan 59 Georgia Southern 66, NC A&T 63 Kentucky 73, Louisville 66 LSU 79, McNeese St. 52 Liberty 92, Southeastern (Fla.) 53 Memphis 75, Jackson St. 61 Missouri 68, NC State 64 Richmond 67, Old Dominion 58 South Carolina 78, Akron 45 Troy 74, Belhaven 62 UNC Asheville 75, UNC Wilmington 61 UNC Greensboro 55, Virginia Tech 52 W. Kentucky 103, Brescia 65 Far West Arizona St. 74, UC Irvine 61 CS Bakersfield 61, Idaho St. 57 California 90, Furman 60 Colorado 84, Georgia 70 Colorado St. 86, Lamar 71 Fresno St. 104, UC Merced 43 Gonzaga 74, Santa Clara 60 Long Beach St. 80, Nevada 77, OT Loyola Marymount 87, BYU 76 Montana 72, Idaho 71 New Mexico St. 82, South Alabama 64 Pepperdine 75, San Diego 64 San Francisco 87, Portland 81, OT San Jose St. 87, Pacifica 59 UCLA 75, Alabama 67 UNLV 83, Cal St.-Fullerton 64 Utah St. 84, San Diego Christian 53 Utah Valley 75, Tennessee Tech 66 Washington St. 85, MVSU 48 Weber St. 75, N. New Mexico 49 Southwest Arkansas 89, High Point 48 Denver 67, Alcorn St. 49 Nebraska-Omaha 104, Cent. Arkansas 88 Sam Houston St. 82, LIU Brooklyn 78 UTEP 67, W. Illinois 64

Women’s AP Top 25 Saturday’s Games No. 4 Stanford 86, Fresno State 54 No. 8 Maryland 110, Wofford 53 No. 9 Baylor 82, McNeese State 57 No. 13 S. Carolina 82, Savannah St. 40 No. 14 Iowa State 72, Holy Cross 50 No. 17 Purdue 109, Central Michigan 97 No. 19 Georgia 82, Illinois 60 No. 21 Iowa 88, North Dakota 62 No. 22 Florida State 76, UT Martin 53 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 79, No. 24 Gonzaga 78 (OT) Sunday’s Games No. 1 UConn vs. Cincinnati, 3 p.m.

No. 2 Notre Dame at Oregon St., 3 p.m.

No. 5 Tennessee vs. Lipscomb, Noon No. 6 Kentucky vs. Grambling St., Noon No. 7 Louisville vs. SMU, 1 p.m.

No. 11 Oklahoma State vs. Texas-Pan American, 1 p.m.

No. 12 Colorado vs. Southern Utah, 2 p.m.

No. 15 Penn State vs. Hartford, Noon No. 18 Nebraska vs. Oral Roberts, 1 p.m.

No. 23 California vs. Lafayette, 3 p.m.

No. 25 Oklahoma vs. Samford, 1 p.m.

Division I Saturday’s Games East Columbia 87, Lehigh 80 George Washington 77, American U. 64 St. John’s 72, Seton Hall 63 Towson 67, Loyola (Md.) 46 VCU 77, NJIT 72 Far West BYU 90, Loyola Marymount 72 Coll. of Idaho 86, Utah St. 81 Grand Canyon 72, LIU Brooklyn 63 Portland 73, Pacific 65 Sacramento St. 84, UC Davis 78 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 79, Gonzaga 78, OT San Diego 71, Pepperdine 43 Southern Cal 89, Long Beach St. 72 Stanford 86, Fresno St. 54 UC Santa Barbara 78, Seattle 75 UCLA 96, Cal Poly 89 Utah Valley 89, New Orleans 49 Southwest Arkansas 100, MVSU 54 Baylor 82, McNeese St. 57 Houston Baptist 99, Huston-Tillotson 48 TCU 76, Prairie View 47 Texas 87, Idaho 58 Texas A&M 80, Louisiana Tech 52 UCF 67, Houston 59 UTSA 79, N. Dakota St. 68 South Charleston Southern 84, Radford 64 Coastal Carolina 83, Longwood 53 ETSU 87, George Mason 76 Florida 67, Georgetown 65, OT Florida St. 76, UT-Martin 53 Gardner-Webb 53, UNC Asheville 47 Georgia 82, Illinois 60 Liberty 75, Campbell 52 Northwestern St. 73, New Mexico St. 63 Richmond 87, Davidson 68 Rutgers 66, South Florida 53 South Carolina 82, Savannah St. 40 Tennessee Tech 72, Jacksonville St. 67 Winthrop 55, Presbyterian 50 Midwest Creighton 65, Villanova 58 E. Illinois 80, Tennessee St. 70 Ill.-Chicago 80, Denver 68 Iowa 88, North Dakota 62 Marquette 61, Butler 59 Michigan 76, Alcorn St. 31 Purdue 109, Cent. Michigan 97 SIU-Edwardsville 68, Belmont 56 Tournament Cavalier Classic First Round Princeton 79, Alabama 59 Virginia 70, Coppin St. 45 Cyclone Challenge First Round Iowa St. 72, Holy Cross 50 William & Mary 66, Saint Louis 56 FIU Sun & Fun Classic First Round FIU 79, Fairleigh Dickinson 57 Wake Forest 79, Florida A&M 63 Miami Holiday Tournament First Round Miami 80, Morgan St. 42 New Mexico 56, W. Carolina 37 San Diego Surf ’N Slam First Round NC State 77, Kansas St. 60 San Diego St. 58, UC Riverside 57 Terrapin Classic First Round Coll. of Charleston 79, Howard 68 Maryland 110, Wofford 53 Tulane/DoubleTree Classic First Round Indiana St. 70, Northwestern 67 Tulane 85, Northeastern 49

THIS DATE ONON THIS DATE December 29 2006 — Texas Tech spots Minnesota a 31-point, third-quarter lead, then rallies for a stunning 44-41 overtime victory in the Insight Bowl, the largest comeback in Division I-A bowl history. The previous record for a bowl comeback was 30 points, set by Marshall against East Carolina in the 2001 GMAC Bowl.

BOWL GAMES

NBA

Rees, Notre Dame beat Rutgers

Pacers’ burst helps them beat Nets

By Ralph D. Russo

The Associated Press

The Associated Press

NEW YORK — This nicely sums up Tommy Rees’ Notre Dame career.

The senior threw for 319 yards and no interceptions in his final college game, leading No. 25 Notre Dame to a 29-16 victory against Rutgers that was 25 Notre Dame 29 far from 16 Rutgers 16 pretty but ultimately successful — and an offensive lineman won the MVP award.

“I was giving Tommy a hard time,” said senior tackle Zack Martin, who took home the award. “I think he got snubbed a little bit.”

Rees finished four years of football for the Fighting Irish packed with both memorable and forgettable moments with a solid performance, going 27 for 47. He has been “The Closer,” rallying Notre Dame to victories with late drives, and “Turnover Tommy,” making crushing mistakes at the most inopportune times during his time in South Bend, Ind. For his finale, against one of the worst pass defenses in the nation, Rees was mistake free and productive. He missed some throws that could have broken open the game, but, typically, he persevered.

“I’m a Tommy Rees fan for life,” coach Brian Kelly said.

Kyle Brindza kicked five field goals for the Fighting Irish (9-4), who completed their follow-up season to last year’s run to the national championship game a long way from the BCS — facing a two-touchdown underdog

INDIANAPOLIS — Paul George scored 24 points and Lance Stephenson added 23 to lead Pacers 105 the Indiana Pacers to a Nets 91 105-91 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday night.

George Hill finished with 21 points for the Pacers, who put five players in double figures and pulled away with a thirdquarter burst.

Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees, left, throws a pass as lineman Mark Harrell, right, blocks Rutgers’ Marcus Thompson during the Pinstripe Bowl on Saturday at Yankee Stadium in New York. FRANK FRANKLIN II/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

that was trying to avoid a losing record.

Notre Dame’s play was less than inspired — Kelly said about a dozen players were fighting a flu bug — but the win prevented the Irish from finishing with eight victories for the third time in his four seasons.

“A good season that could have been a great season,” Kelly said.

Notre Dame’s TJ Jones scored on an 8-yard run in the first quarter and Rutgers star Brandon Coleman answered with a 14-yard touchdown catch soon after. Tarean Folston’s 3-yard touchdown run with 3:38 in the fourth made it 26-16 and finally gave the Irish a comfortable lead.

On the slick turf at Yankee Stadium, the Pinstripe Bowl turned into a field-goal kicking contest. Brindza was 5 for 6. Kyle Federico made 3 of 3 for the Scarlet Knights (6-7).

BELK BOWL NORTH CAROLINA 39, CINCINNATI 17 In Charlotte, N.C., T.J. Logan returned a kickoff 78 yards for a touchdown, and Ryan Switzer scored on an 86-yard punt return to help North Carolina beat Cincinnati 39-17 on Saturday for its first Belk Bowl victory in four attempts.

Marquise Williams threw for 171 yards and a touchdown for the Tar Heels (7-6) in their first bowl victory since 2010.

Romar Morris scored on two short touchdown runs, and Jack Tabb caught a touchdown pass as the Tar Heels closed the season by winning six of their final seven games.

Cincinnati (9-4) was looking to become the bowl’s first back-to-back champion since Virginia did it 10 years ago, but last year’s MVP Brandon Kay was limited to 181 yards passing and no touchdowns.

The Tar Heels had five sacks, including one for a safety.

CELTICS 103, CAVALIERS 100 In Boston, Jeff Green and Jordan Crawford each scored 19 points to help the Celtics hold off Cleveland.

Brandon Bass added 15 points and a game-saving block in the closing seconds for Boston, who led by 19 entering the final quarter and held a 10-point edge with 4½ minutes to play.

Before the game, the Cavaliers suspended center Andrew Bynum indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the team and banned him from all team-related activities. It’s likely he has played his final game for the Cavaliers.

RAPTORS 115, KNICKS 100 In Toronto, Kyle Lowry had a season-best 32 points and 11 assists, Terrence Ross made a career-high seven 3-pointers and the Raptors beat shorthanded New York for the second straight night.

Lowry came within two rebounds of a triple-double and Ross had 23 points as Toronto won for the fourth time in five games.

WIZARDS 106, PISTONS 82 In Washington, John Wall had 20 points and 11 assists, Marcin Gortat added 16 points and the Wizards routed Detroit.

Trevor Ariza and Bradley Beal each had 15 points for Washing-

ton, which snapped a three-game home losing streak. The Wizards have won four of five overall.

One night after their worst defeat of the season, a 22-point loss at Minnesota, Washington never trailed, pulling away late in the first half en route to their biggest win.

HAWKS 118, BOBCATS 116 (OT) In Atlanta, Paul Millsap had a season-high 31 points, Lou Williams scored 10 of his seasonbest 28 in overtime and the Hawks rallied to beat Charlotte.

Al Jefferson had 24 points and a season-high 23 rebounds, and Gerald Henderson added 22 points for the Bobcats.

Playing their first game since leading scorer and rebounder Al Horford sustained a torn pectoral muscle, Atlanta trailed by 14 after Henderson hit a 20-foot fadeaway jumper with 4:19 left in the third quarter.

James Johnson scored 14 apiece, and Mike Miller added 11.

The 120 points were a season high for Memphis, and only two less than the most the Nuggets have allowed in a game this season.

ROCKETS 107, PELICANS 98 In Houston, Dwight Howard had 24 points and 17 rebounds, and James Harden scored 11 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter in the Rockets’ comeback win over New Orleans.

Chandler Parsons added 19 points and seven rebounds, and Terrence Jones had 17 points and eight rebounds to help Houston win their third straight game and snap tghe Pelicans’ winning streak at two.

TIMBERWOLVES 117, BUCKS 95 In Milwaukee, Kevin Love had 33 points and 15 rebounds for his sixth straight double-double, and Minnesota climbed back to MAVERICKS 105, BULLS 83 .500 by routing the Bucks.

In Chicago, Monta Ellis had Kevin Martin scored 22 points and Dallas took con20 points, Nikola Pekovic added trol early in coasting to a victory 19 points and 11 rebounds, and over the Bulls.

Love hit four of the TimberDirk Nowitzki and Vince Carter wolves’ 11 3-pointers. Perimeter defense was once again a huge added 18 points apiece for the problem for Milwaukee, who Mavericks, who led by as many as 32 while bouncing back from have allowed opponents to hit at least 10 3s in seven consecutive a home loss to San Antonio on games.

Thursday.

Joakim Noah led Chicago with SUNS 115, 76ERS 101 20 points and 10 rebounds, but In Phoenix, Miles Plumlee the Bulls had their modest twoscored a career-high 22 points game winning streak snapped. to go with 13 rebounds, and the Carlos Boozer and Taj Gibson Suns bounced back from its each added 13. worst loss of the season to beat GRIZZLIES 120, NUGGETS 99 Philadelphia.

Goran Dragic added 21 points In Memphis, Tenn., Zach Ranand Eric Bledsoe 20 for Phoenix, dolph scored 20 points and the who have won nine of 11. Marcus Grizzlies got 62 points from its Morris made three fourth-quarbench against Denver.

Six Grizzlies finished in double ter 3-pointers and scored 18. figures and Memphis shot Thaddeus Young scored 30 52 percent while sending the points, Michael Carter-Williams Nuggets to their sixth straight 27 and Tony Wroten 22 for the 76ers, who lost their 13th road loss. Ed Davis led the reserves with 17 points, and Jerryd Baygame in a row and have dropped less had 15. Mike Conley and nine of 10 overall.

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Elite: 11th game in 19 weeks for St. Mike’s Continued from Page D-1 It was 44-42 with four minutes remaining in the game when the Lady Horsemen had their last good look at a potential lead. Setting up for a 3-pointer from the wing, the ball was looped across court to Vigil. Positioned six inches behind the arc, she let fly a contested 3 that just missed.

“We got the look we wanted,” said Martin Romero, St. Michael’s head coach.

“We ran an isolation play for a shooter on the wing. It was there. Sometimes they go in, sometimes they don’t, but at least we got the look.”

St. Michael’s never had possession of the ball with a chance to tie or take the lead again.

It was just moments after that missed Vigil bomb that the game took an unexpected turn. Fernandez collided with an Española player and fell to the floor about 12 feet from the Lady Sundevils bench. She remained there for approximately 25 minutes before paramedics removed her from the gym on a stretcher.

Romero said Fernandez, a freshman who also once played in the school’s sub-varsity football program, suffered from what appeared to be an anxiety attack. He said she was likely going to be just fine.

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From left, Española’s Kayla Salazar and St. Michael’s Povi Mitchel both try for the ball during Saturday’s game.

fourth helped the Lions to get within 51-47.

But Santa Rosa missed its last seven shots and hit just one of four free throws down the stretch to short-circuit their comeback.

THIRD PLACE MCCURDY 70, PECOS 34 The Bobcats’ press did a number to the host Panthers in a decisive third-place win.

McCurdy (9-2) led 16-6 after one quarter, but went on a 17-2 run to put the game away. It was the kind of intensity head coach Ruben Archuleta wanted to see from his team.

“We talked in the locker room [before the game] about coming out more aggressive,” Archuleta said. “The last couple of games, we wait until the third or fourth quarter to come out more aggressive. I said, ‘If we set the tone in the first quarter, we should be OK.’ ” Dennis Padilla returned to the Bobcats’ lineup after missing a 65-51 loss to Santa Rosa in the semifinals and scored 13 points in the second half. That tied for top scoring honors with Daniel Arroyo, while Chris Serrano had 12 and David Sanchez added 10.

Pecos (3-6) had Joe Vigil lead the way with seven points, but it was a lackluster performance after coming within 66-64 of the Lobos in the semifinals.

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Pecos.

Taos routed Capital 62-35 for seventh place. The Lady Tigers got double-figure scoring from

three players, led by 15 from Midnight Lujan. Selena Gonzales also had 15 to lead the Lady Jaguars.

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Once the game resumed, it was all Española.

Lovato had 10 of her 16 points in the fourth quarter while Ashlynn Trujillo, the tournament’s high-point scorer with 79 in three games, finished with a game-high 24. She had 10 points in the first quarter and 15 by halftime.

Gabaldon led a balanced St. Michael’s scoring sheet with 10 points. A.J. Lovato had eight points and Alex Groenewold seven.

For the Lady Horsemen it was their 11th game in 19 days and third tournament in as many weekends.

Bernalillo used a 19-8 run in the fourth quarter to pull away from Pojoaque Valley in a 56-41 victory in the game for third place.

Rachel Darnell had 10 points in the quarter and finished the game with 19 points. She had three 3-pointers Deana Lopez also had 19 for the Lady Spartans.

Miranda Martinez had 19 points to lead Pojoaque.

In the game for fifth place, Farmington beat up on Pecos, 53-27. The Lady Scorpions led 11-2 after the first quarter and carried a 14-point lead into halftime.

Katlyn Flores and Ida Valencia each had five points to lead

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FIFTH PLACE MORA 70, MONTE DEL SOL 56 The Rangers (3-6) showed a quality that has been lacking at times this season — poise.

After racing to a 36-21 halftime lead, Monte del Sol (8-4) got within five points in the third quarter before Mora finally put a stop to Dragons guard Omar Ndiaye. The junior guard scored 14 of his 26 points in the third quarter, but just two came after that outburst.

Mora head coach James Branch said this weekend was about gaining some muchneeded confidence after a 1-6 start to the season.

“When Monte made their run and cut it to five, they didn’t panic and we didn’t lose the

lead,” Branch said. “We’ve been getting leads, then losing them and having to battle back. So we actually finished a game and played four quarters.”

Casimio Fresquez led Mora with 25 points, with 15 coming in the second half, while Jeremiah Olivas added 18.

Antonio Tapia had 13 points for Monte del Sol. WAGON MOUND 70, TIERRA ENCANTADA 59 The Trojans methodically broke down the Alacranes, posting a 34-24 halftime lead before extending it to 51-39 entering the fourth quarter.

Mikey Trujillo led Tierra Encantada (4-4) with 20 points, while Andrew Vanderbilt scored 10 of his 19 points in the fourth.

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to lead the Bears in their come-from-beind victory while Matthew Herrera had 16 the pace the Elks (5-4).

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the game on the bench.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Trevor Cooney NO. 9 DUKE 82, EASTERN MICHIGAN 59 scored 21 points, Tyler Ennis had In Durham, N.C., Jabari Parker scored 20 and C.J. Fair added 17 Saturday, rallying No. 2 Syracuse past No. 8 Villanova 23 points and Duke cruised past Eastern Michigan.

78-62 in a game between two of nine Andre Dawkins added 20 points with unbeaten teams left in Division I. a season-high six 3-pointers as a late Syracuse (12-0) was the third replacement for an ill Rodney Hood in unbeaten ranked team the Wildcats the starting lineup. Rasheed Sulaimon (11-1) had faced this season. Villanova had 13 points and came up with the key handed then-No. 2 Kansas its first loss hustle play during the decisive secondof the season a month ago in the semi- half run that helped the Blue Devils finals of the Battle 4 Atlantis and came (10-2) polish off their fourth straight back the next night and defeated No. 23 win.

Iowa in overtime.

NO. 15 CONNECTICUT 82, E. WASHINGTON 65 NO. 4 WISCONSIN 80, In Bridgeport, Conn., Shabazz Napier PRAIRIE VIEW A&M 43 had 15 points and nine assists to lead In Madison, Wis., Sam Dekker had UConn in a home game played 80 miles 16 points and 11 rebounds for his third from campus. career double-double as Wisconsin Napier led a balanced attack in which improved to 13-0 for its best start since five Huskies reached double figures. the 1913-14 squad went 15-0.

Ryan Boatright had 14 points and Niels Ben Brust scored 11 for the Badgers Giffey, making his first start this seain their nonconference finale. Frank son, added 13 for Connecticut (11-1).

Kaminsky and Nigel Hayes added 10 points apiece.

NO. 17 MEMPHIS 75, JACKSON STATE 61 NO. 5 MICHIGAN STATE 101, In Memphis, Tenn., Michael Dixon NEW ORLEANS 48 scored 14 points, Shaq Goodwin had In East Lansing, Mich., Keith Appling 13 points and seven rebounds, and scored 16 of his career-high tying 27 points in the first half to help Michi- Memphis never trailed.

David Pellom had 12 points with all gan State rout New Orleans. five of his field goals coming off dunks The Spartans (11-1) struggled for from fast-breaks and rebounds. Joe several minutes before taking control Jackson scored 11 for Memphis (9-2). with a 12-0 run midway through the first half. They led 44-27 at halftime NO. 23 UMASS 69, PROVIDENCE 67 and easily added to their comfortable In Amherst, Mass., Derrick Gordon’s cushion in the second half, finishing put-back with 1.1 seconds left in overwith their highest-scoring game since time lifted Massachusetts past Provibeating Nebraska-Omaha 110-68 two dence. years ago.

Gordon grabbed the rebound after a 3-point attempt by Trey Davis came up NO. 18 KENTUCKY 73, short.

NO. 6 LOUISVILLE 66 The Friars’ Bryce Cotton had tied In Lexington, Ky., Kentucky guards the score at 67 after connecting Andrew and Aaron Harrison combined for 28 points, including 11 during a criti- from beyond the arc with 37 seconds remaining in the extra session. cal second-half stretch with star Julius Randle sidelined by cramps, helping the WOMEN Wildcats beat Louisville.

Randle’s 17 first-half points staked NO. 8 MARYLAND 110, WOFFORD 53 Kentucky (10-3) to a 41-36 halftime In College Park, Md., Alyssa Thomas lead before the 6-foot-9 forward went had her second triple-double in three to the locker room early in the secgames and No. 8 Maryland routed Wofond with leg cramps. He returned but ford in the Terrapin Classic semifinals. cramped again and spent the rest of

Thomas scored 18 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and added 10 assists for the fourth triple-double of her career and fifth in program history.

NO. 9 BAYLOR 82, MCNEESE STATE 57 In Waco, Texas, Odyssey Sims scored 27 points, and No. 9 Baylor beat McNeese State in the last game before the start of conference play for both teams.

The Lady Bears (10-1) extended their nation-leading home winning streak to 67 games, a school record.

NO. 13 SOUTH CAROLINA 82, SAVANNAH STATE 40 In Columbia, S.C., Tiffany Mitchell scored 18 points to help South Carolina rout Savannah State.

Alaina Coates came off the bench to score 17 points and grab 12 rebounds for the Gamecocks (12-1). Aleighsa Welch added 14 points and Asia Dozier had 10. Mitchell also had seven rebounds, five steals and four assists.

NO. 14 IOWA STATE 72, HOLY CROSS 50 In Ames, Iowa, Nikki Moody scored 14 points and had 10 assists to lead Iowa State over Holy Cross.

The Cyclones (10-0) shot 47 percent from the floor, including 11 of 32 (34 percent) from beyond the arc.

Jadda Buckley added 12 points, while Hallie Christofferson and Nicole Blaskowski both chipped in with 11 points.

NO. 17 PURDUE 109, CENTRAL MICHIGAN 97 In West Lafayette, Ind., Whitney Bays scored 24 points to lead Purdue over Central Michigan.

Purdue (10-2) shot 58 percent from the floor, including 15 of 29 (52 percent) from beyond the arc. KK Houser had 21 points and 11 boards, Liza Clemons added 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting, Courtney Moses had 20 (6 of 10 on 3-pointers) and April Wilson chipped in with 16 points.

NO. 19 GEORGIA 82, ILLINOIS 60 In Athens, Ga., Shacobia Barbee had 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists to lead Georgia over Illinois.

The Lady Bulldogs (12-1) took a 65-40 lead with 10:06 left in the game as Khaalidah Miller’s layup capped an 18-6 run. Georgia also used an 11-0 run

Syracuse’s Jerami Grant, right, drives against Villanova’s Dylan Ennis during Saturday’s game in Syracuse, N.Y. NICK LISI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

in the first half to go ahead 25-15 and closed out the half on a 10-3 run to lead 38-25 at the break.

NO. 21 IOWA 88, NORTH DAKOTA 62 In Iowa City, Iowa, Melissa Dixon sparked a key run before halftime and Samantha Logic heated up in the second half as Iowa rallied from as many as nine down to rout North Dakota.

Logic, the reigning Big Ten player of the week after a triple-double against Drake, had six points at halftime. She finished with 21 and eight assists.

Dixon scored 10 of her 13 points as the Hawkeyes (12-2) closed the first half with a 25-4 run that included five of their six first-half 3-pointers, two from Dixon. Iowa was 9-for-25 from 3-point range.

NO. 22 FLORIDA STATE 76, TENNESSEE-MARTIN 53 In Tallahassee, Fla., Natasha Howard

tied a career high with 26 points and Florida State defeated TennesseeMartin.

Howard was 12 of 14 from the field to lead Florida State to 54.5 percent shooting. Ivey Slaughter had 11 points and 13 rebounds and Morgan Jones added 17 points for the Seminoles (12-1) which extended their winning streak to eight games.

SAINT MARY’S 79, NO. 24 GONZAGA 78 (OT) In Moraga, Calif., Jackie Nared scored 27 points and Danielle Mauldin added 24 with 23 rebounds to lift Saint Mary’s to a 79-78 overtime win over Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference opener.

Haiden Palmer, who had a careerhigh 31 points, had a couple missed shots in the closing seconds for Gonzaga, the nine-time defending WCC champion.

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NFL Week 17 Games with playoff implications EAGLES (9-6) AT COWBOYS (8-7) Time: 6:30 p.m.

Line: Eagles by 6.5 Bottom line: I don’t think there’s a tougher player than Tony Romo, but an injured back is an injured back. Romo will be a no-go.

That makes this pick a lot easier to make. Winner takes NFC East crown, and I think Dallas will play tough at home … but its defense won’t be able to contain Nick Foles and the highflying Eagles. Expect a lot of close-ups of Dallas owner Jerry Jones. There’s always next year, Jerry!

THE PICK: EAGLES Tight end Tony Gonzalez celebrates a touchdown catch while playing for the Kansas City Chiefs during an Oct. 14, 2007, game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Kansas City, Mo. Gonzalez is wrapping up a 17-year career in which he was one of the best tight ends in NFL history. He never played in a Super Bowl, but he leaves the game at 37 with no regrets, particularly in delaying retirement one year to play a final season that went all wrong for the Atlanta Falcons. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Tony Gonzalez (almost) ready to retire returned this year to pad his stats.

He craved playing in his first Super Bowl, winning a championship and making a legFLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Tony Gonendary exit. zalez is having a harder time saying goodbye The Falcons, though, never had a chance. to the NFL than he imagined.

Julio Jones, Sam Baker and Kroy BierAs he prepares to host 40 family members mann suffered season-ending injuries. Sean and friends in Atlanta’s season finale, GonWeatherspoon played in only seven games. zalez sounds as if he isn’t entirely ready to Roddy White made 12 starts and Steven walk away.

Jackson made 11, but both players were hurt When the Falcons announced in March most of the year. that he would return this year, the 13-time Quarterback Matt Ryan was harassed Pro Bowl tight end was “100 percent cerall season behind a weak offensive, and tain” he would retire after the season.

Atlanta’s defense was gouged repeatedly for Now Gonzalez wonders if he could big plays. change his mind again if Atlanta returns Not surprisingly, Gonzalez’s production to playoff contention next fall and general dropped off as opponents double-teamed manager Thomas Dimitroff gives him a call. his routes.

“I’d have to cross that bridge when I get to In October and early November, Gonzalez it, but right now I don’t have any plans,” he openly discussed his frustration and held said. “I know for sure I won’t be on an open- out hope that the Falcons could still turn the ing day for roster anybody. I’m going to — season around. this is it. This is it.”

By the first of December, though, GonzaMeeting with reporters Friday, Gonzalez lez took a different approach with reporters, focused most of his answers on the end of reminiscing about his early morning drives his career. from hectic Buckhead to the picturesque The 37-year-old insisted that he’s pleased mountain view at team headquarters. to “go out on his own terms” and added that He talked about missing quality time with he’s “thankful for the opportunity” to have his kids but also feeling grateful to former stayed healthy and productive for 17 seasons. teammates and coaches in Kansas City and Gonzalez ranks second in career catches, those he’s worked with in Atlanta the last five years. fifth in yards receiving and sixth in touchdown catches. No NFL tight end ever put “I know I could come back and play a up such numbers, but Gonzalez hardly couple of more years if I wanted to, but it’s

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time for me to go,” Gonzalez said. “It’s time for me to get back to my family, get back to California, where I’m from and explore that next chapter of my life. I’m going to have fun with it.”

Television work is a possibility for Gonzalez, but playing football might not be out of the question.

The Falcons, after all, signed him to a twoyear, $14 million contract last March, and if they get off to a strong start next season, Gonzalez might reconsider, but he stopped short of saying that he plans to file retirement papers with the NFL. Then again, the aches and pains of a 16-game season aren’t getting easier, this despite the Falcons’ allowing him to miss over three weeks of training camp and preseason games last summer.

“Like I said, don’t anybody ever feel bad for me,” Gonzalez said, smiling. “The things I’ve accomplished in my career are more than anybody ever deserves.”

With one full day remaining before Atlanta (4-11) hosts the playoff-bound Carolina Panthers (11-4), Gonzalez is eager to go out with a victory.

He had a good ride with the Falcons in his first four years, helping the team go 45-19 and win his first playoff game last January.

But after narrowly beating Seattle in the divisional round, Atlanta fell 10 yards short against San Francisco in the NFC title game.

Showdown: Foles 6-1 since loss to Dallas Continued from Page D-1 you’ve done over the course of a decade is for moments like this,” said tight end Jason Witten, who came into the league with Romo in 2003. “And if he’s not able to go, obviously that’s a blow. But you want to do it for guys like that.”

Not so fast on the advantage for the Eagles, says Foles as he tries to finish a worst-to-first rebound from 4-12 to the postseason for Philadelphia under first-year coach Chip Kelly.

“I don’t care who’s quarterbacking, who’s playing,” said Foles, who has 25 touchdowns and two interceptions. “If you’re not up for that, I don’t know if you’ll ever be up to play football.”

Some things to consider as the Eagles visit the Cowboys five years after blowing out Dallas 44-6 in a winner-take-all finale in Philadelphia: No Romo: He injured his back in the fourth quarter of last

week’s 24-23 victory at Washington that kept Dallas’ playoff hopes alive. After the injury, Romo directed the winning drive capped by his fourth-down pass to DeMarco Murray for a 10-yard touchdown. But Witten said Romo was clearly in a lot of pain after the game.

Coach Jason Garrett said Romo had season-ending surgery Friday. The Cowboys added 41-year-old Jon Kitna to have another arm in practice, and he will be Orton’s backup two years after retiring and becoming a teacher and coach.

“He has knowledge of the game in terms of he’s been through issues and problems and he knows how to solve them,” offensive coordinator Bill Callahan said of Orton. “That’s why we have that opportunity to have a veteran quarterback as a backup.”

My how things change: The Eagles have been held without a touchdown once this season, in a 17-3 loss to Dallas in October.

Foles was 11 of 29 for 80 yards before the Cowboys knocked him out of the game with a concussion.

Since then, Foles is 6-1 and averaging 287 yards passing per game. He tied the NFL record for touchdown passes in a game with seven against Oakland the first start after the Cowboys shut him down.

Meanwhile, the Cowboys have given up the first two 600-yard games in franchise history; an NFL-record 40 first downs; eight straight scoring drives to Chicago backup Josh McCown; and five in a row to Green Bay sub Matt Flynn when the Packers rallied from 26-3 down at halftime.

Dallas did get two late stops that were big boosts in the rally to beat Washington.

High-flying Eagles: LeSean McCoy leads the NFL with 1,476 yards and has a chance to be Philadelphia’s first league-leading rusher since Hall of Famer Steve Van Buren in 1949. He can also break Brian Westbrook’s

franchise record of 2,104 yards from scrimmage. He needs 93.

The Eagles’ DeSean Jackson needs 106 yards receiving to break Mike Quick’s franchise record of 1,409 in 1983.

The Cowboys won the first game in large part because they limited the damage from McCoy (55 yards rushing, 26 receiving) and Jackson (three catches for a season-low 21 yards).

Garrett’s hot seat: Dallas owner Jerry Jones gave Garrett another vote of confidence on his radio show this week — the second one in about a month.

Romo’s absence will be an interesting factor if Jones is stuck with a fourth straight season without a trip to the playoffs.

If the Cowboys don’t win, they’ll have 8-8 records in all three full seasons under Garrett, who currently is 29-26 since replacing Wade Phillips during the 2010 season. “His future is bright in my eyes with the Cowboys,” Jones said.

Broncos: Raiders still struggling with QB said. “Having him back there, you never know what to expect “It’s only a special thing when and you always expect the big it comes at the same time as play.” winning games,” Manning said.

Here are some things to watch “If we were 3-12 at this point, it when the Broncos visit the Raidwould not have been a unique or ers: special accomplishment for the Home-field advantage: The team because it didn’t help you Broncos have already wrapped up a first-round bye in the playwin games.” offs, but they can clinch homeThe Raiders are still searchfield advantage with either a win ing for answers at quarterback. or a tie or a New England loss or Terrelle Pryor showed promise tie. early this season before falling Home field hasn’t always been into a rut that, along with a knee kind to Manning in the postseainjury, gave undrafted rookie son: Manning’s five home losses Matt McGloin a chance to start. are the most of any starting McGloin made a stellar debut quarterback in NFL history. He lost his only home playoff start with three touchdown passes with the Broncos last season in and no interceptions in a win a 38-35 overtime defeat to Balat Houston, but lost his last five timore. starts, giving Pryor another “It’s a crazy last week of the chance to start in the season season,” Manning said. “I think finale as the Raiders seek any the NFL making that change to kind of spark. these division games the last “He adds those explosive week is going to provide some plays,” receiver Rod Streater exciting football this weekend,

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and we’re a part of that.”

Job status: The final game of the season also could be the final game in Oakland for coach Dennis Allen.

Owner Mark Davis has said he will wait until the end of the season to make any decision about the coaching staff. Allen has an 8-23 record in his first two seasons as the Raiders have been hampered by bad contracts and bad drafts in the final years of late owner Al Davis’ tenure.

No Raiders coach has even been brought back after two straight losing seasons.

“I really don’t want to get into all the speculation,” Allen said. “There will be a time and place for that and I don’t think right now this is the time or the place.”

Missing Miller: The Broncos once again will have to make do without star pass rusher Von Miller, who had a season-ending right knee injury last week.

Denver started the season 6-0

while Miller was suspended.

While it should be able to get by this week without him, Miller’s absence could be crucial come playoff time. Miller has 35 sacks in 40 career games.

“You can’t replace what he can do on the field, but we just have to continue to play as a unit and try to limit our mistakes mentally and make teams beat us physically,” cornerback Chris Harris said.

Streater’s goal: Streater’s quest to become the first Raiders player with a 1,000-yard receiving season since Randy Moss had a hiccup last week when he was held to one catch for 2 yards. An apparent 39-yard touchdown was waved off when he did not complete the process of the catch all the way to the ground.

Streater needs 152 yards this week to reach the milestone just two years after entering the league as an undrafted free agent.

RAVENS (8-7) AT BENGALS (10-5) Time: 11 a.m.

Line: Bengals by 6 Bottom line: Cincinnati has already won the AFC North, but it still can clinch the No. 2 seed. It’s a long shot because I can’t see the Patriots losing to the Bills, but that game is at 4:25 p.m., so Cincy will only be worried about taking care of its own business. As for the Ravens, they need a win — and help — or the Super Bowl champs will miss the playoffs. A hurt Joe Flacco plus a Bengals team that is 7-0 at home = a Cincy cover.

THE PICK: BENGALS

BROWNS (4-11) AT STEELERS (7-8) Time: 11 a.m.

Line: Steelers by 7 Bottom line: The Steelers have a 9.1 percent shot at making the playoffs, but they need a win here and a lot of help, which probably won’t happen.

THE PICK: STEELERS

PANTHERS (11-4) AT FALCONS (4-11) Time: 11 a.m.

Line: Panthers by 6.5 Bottom line: Carolina clinches NFC South and first-round bye with a win or tie (or a Saints loss or tie). Carolina is 7-1 ATS in last eight NFC contests, and 20-7 ATS in last 27 vs. losing teams. Farewell, Tony Gonzalez!

THE PICK: PANTHERS

JAGUARS (4-11) AT COLTS (10-5)

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PACKERS (7-7-1) AT BEARS (8-7) Time: 2:25 p.m.

Line: Packers by 3 Bottom line: This game was already big enough with a winner-take-all contest for the NFC North title and a ticket to the postseason at stake. But add the return of Aaron Rodgers after missing seven games, and it gets even more exciting. Wait, did Philly just score on the Bears again? I don’t recall seeing a team that needed a win in a bigger spot and coming up so small as the Bears did last week at Philly. Even a rusty Rodgers is good enough against a defense as abysmal as the Bears’.

THE PICK: PACKERS

49ERS (11-4) AT CARDINALS (10-5) Time: 2:25 p.m.

Line: Pick ’em Bottom line: Hard to believe the Cardinals could finish 11-5 and miss the playoffs. Arizona — which needs to win plus have the Saints either lose or tie the Bucs — has won seven of its last eight overall, including five straight covers. The Cardinals are an NFL-best 11-3-1 against the spread. I’ll go with the more desperate team.

THE PICK: CARDINALS

RAMS (7-8) AT SEAHAWKS (12-3) Time: 2:25 p.m.

Line: Seahawks by 10.5 Bottom line: Seattle clinches NFC’s top seed and home field with a win or tie — or a 49ers loss or tie. The Rams have covered three straight vs. Seattle. A quick shoutout to Seahawks punter Jon Ryan and the punt return unit, which has allowed just 25 punt return yards on 16 returns ALL season!

THE PICK: RAMS

BUCS (4-11) AT SAINTS (10-5) Time: 2:25 p.m.

Line: Saints by 12.5 Bottom line: Win and they’re in for the Saints (6-1 ATS at home this season).

THE PICK: SAINTS

Other games JETS (7-8) AT DOLPHINS (8-7)

Time: 11 a.m.

Line: Dolphins by 6.5 Time: 11 a.m.

Bottom line: You wonder Line: Colts by 11.5 if the Jets are playing for Bottom line: Indy is coach Rex Ryan’s job again already in playoffs, but can this week, or if that decision clinch a first-round bye if has already been made. (In the Bengals and Pats lose. my opinion, Ryan did one of Um, good “Luck” with that, his best coaching jobs this Indy. year and deserves one more This could very well be Mau- season.) Miami is in the rice Jones-Drew’s last game driver’s seat for the AFC’s as a Jag. Jacksonville — 4-0 final playoff spot. Mike ATS in last 4 road games Harris of Football Outsidoverall — is 5-1 ATS in last 6 ers computes the Dolphins’ games in Indy. have a 58.7 percent chance THE PICK: JAGUARS to qualify for the postseason. Rex’s boys would love CHIEFS (11-4) nothing more than to ruin AT CHARGERS (8-7) the ‘Fins chances.

THE PICK: DOLPHINS Time: 2:25 p.m.

Line: Chargers by 9.5 REDSKINS (3-12) Bottom line: The Chiefs are locked into the No. 5 spot in AT GIANTS (6-9) the AFC playoffs, so expect Time: 11 a.m. some starters to sit, and Line: Giants by 3.5 even more after halftime.

Bottom line: I just doubleI’ve seen where the Charchecked and both the Giants gers have a 13.3 percent and Redskins still have a chance of making the playzero-percent chance of offs. Too bad for the Bolts it making the playoffs. I just probably won’t happen. wanted to clear that up. How THE PICK: CHARGERS great does my NFL preseason pick of the Redskins makBILLS (6-9) ing the playoffs look now?

AT PATRIOTS (11-4) (At least my Denver-Seattle Super Bowl is still alive.) You Time: 2:25 p.m. wonder if this is the last time Line: Patriots by 9.5 Mike Shanahan coaches vs.

Bottom line: The Patriots Tom Coughlin, two men who still have plenty to play for: have won a pair of Lombardi a win and a Denver loss Trophies apiece. would give New England THE PICK: GIANTS the AFC’s No. 1 seed (not so sure about that). Still, a LIONS (7-8) victory here gives the Pats AT VIKINGS (4-10-1) a first-round bye. A useless stat, but interesting noneTime: 11 a.m. theless: the visiting team is Line: Vikings by 3 12-5 ATS in last 17 meetings Bottom line: This may be between these two. the last time we see Vikes’ THE PICK: BILLS Leslie Frazier and Lions’ Jim Schwartz coach their teams.

BRONCOS (12-3) It’s definitely the last time we’ll see the Metrodome.

AT RAIDERS (4-11) You have to think Minnesota Time: 2:25 p.m. will want to win this one.

Line: Broncos by 12.5 THE PICK: VIKINGS Bottom line: A win here and Denver clinches homeTEXANS (2-13) field advantage throughout AT TITANS (6-9) the AFC playoffs. I bet Time: 11 a.m.

Peyton Manning wishes his home field was still a dome Line: Titans by 7 stadium! I wonder how Bottom line: Texans will many scoring records these cover … but lose their 14th Broncos will set? game in a row. Wow! THE PICK: TEXANS THE PICK: BRONCOS

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Rise of the smart home More builders and technology brands are offering wireless options to control just about everything

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or Raffi Kajberouni, the keys to his Santa Clarita, Calif., home have become relics.

If he locks himself out, no problem. If a friend arrives at his two-story house before him, there’s no waiting outside for Kajberouni to arrive. Kajberouni taps his smartphone and his front door unlocks.

He can also turn down the thermostat or view his home security cameras from anywhere in the world.

“A lot of my friends are jealous,” the 31-year-old said. “It’s like the home from Back to the Future, but in real life.”

From complete home systems to individual Internet-connected products such as high-tech appliances and power strips, the smart home is no longer a futuristic gimmick.

The technology behind smart gadgets — items that can be controlled remotely or perform tasks on their own — has been around for decades, but until recently the devices were rudimentary and, above all, expensive.

“It had always been an upscale-type business: Unless you were in the top 5 percent of income levels, you didn’t have access to this type of connectivity,” said Randy Light, merchant of home automation for Home Depot.

Wireless Internet and the widespread proliferation of smartphones are making smart home technologies more sophisticated — and affordable.

“This used to be something out of The Jetsons or limited to the superrich,” said Jonathan Dorsheimer, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity. But as smart home technology has improved and costs have come down, “it’s becoming more mainstream.”

Analysts estimate that only a small single-digit percentage of homeowners have smart homes.

But the home automation systems and services market is expected to see enormous growth in the coming years and is forecast to reach $14.7 billion in revenue globally by 2017, up from $3.6 billion last year, according to NextMarket Insights.

These days, a wide swath of companies are clamoring to sell smart systems, including home security firms, telecommunications giants such as AT&T and Verizon, cable providers and utilities.

That’s expected to help “propel the market from its fairly modest size today to one which serves more than 35 million households by 2017,” NextMarket said in its recent report.

Meanwhile, technology giants such as Samsung and LG are rolling out individual smart home products, part of the “Internet of things” trend that has seen Internet connectivity make its way into everyday items.

The housing recovery could also fuel growth if owners choose to pull out their rising equity to give their homes high-tech upgrades.

And as Americans purchase more newly built homes, they may increasingly find those digs fully integrated with their phones. Some of the nation’s largest home builders now market tech-equipped houses’ advantages over older homes.

Although new homes are usually more expensive, builders have emphasized the long-term cost savings owners can reap through solar panels and the ability to monitor and change their energy usage with smart devices.

That’s because computerized controls in one’s home and on appliances can be set to respond to signals from energy providers to minimize electricity consumption at times when the power grid is under stress

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The technology behind security and energy usage systems is becoming more standard in newer homes today. The pairing of sophisticated home technology and Internet connectivity with hand-held smart devices makes it easier to monitor one’s home and save on energy costs.

Security

Energy management

Smart appliances

Lighting

Air conditioning

Lights can be programmed to turn on or off at scheduled times; there are options to replace some light switches with wall-mounted touch-screen panels to control bulbs

Thermostat can be controlled over Wi-Fi from anywhere; smart thermostats can turn themselves off when the house is empty

Solar panels Homeowners can track energy produced and see how much they have saved over traditional energy sources

Appliances Users can pair their smart devices and appliances; food in their fridge can be tracked for expiration dates, and oven cooking times can be monitored; washers and dryers can be turned off through smartphones

TV

Lamp

Lamp

Speaker

Speaker Computer

Light Fridge

Entertainment sytems Smart devices can control TVs and computers by selecting and setting programs to record, or making music selections

Lamp

Stove

Lamp

TV

TV Computer

Lamp

Lamp

Computer

Door locks

Entry pass codes

Surveillance cameras

Security alarms

Homeowner can unlock the door using his smartphone if he locks himself out; he can also unlock the front door for guests if he is away from home

Door locks can be programmed with unique pass codes for different people and can be set to work during specific hours

Homeowners can view their homes and track their children directly from their smart devices linked with the surveillance system

Alert messages can be sent to parents if their home alarm is set off or if the alarm isn't disarmed by a scheduled time, indicating their children didn't arrive when expected

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from high demand. Homeowners can even shift some of their power use to times when electricity is available at a lower cost. The so-called smart grid — a digital network enabling utilities, consumers and alternative sources of renewable energy to “talk” to one another instantaneously — steers electricity to where it is needed most.

Russell Chang and his wife recently purchased a four-bedroom house in Irvine, Calif., complete with solar panels and several home automation offerings from Miami-based Lennar Corp. Since they purchased the house in November for a little more than $1 million, he has enjoyed ensuring the house is warm before he steps inside.

The high-tech options didn’t drive his decision to purchase, although he said the perks helped him decide that “this is the right home for us.”

“It really put the icing on the cake,” the 40-year-old said. “We know we are going to get cost savings.”

Smart home technology isn’t for everyone.

For many, it’s not too much trouble to set the washing machine or dishwasher manually or wait until getting home to turn on heat. And smart home products are still more

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expensive than old-school items.

Analysts also point out that in many cases, it could take years for the savings from reduced energy use to offset the cost of installing a home system.

But the market is surging ahead.

Builder KB Home now offers a base home automation system in all its new communities nationwide. The standard system enables owners to track their energy use through the Internet.

Homebuyers can then add options, including appliances, a thermostat, lighting, security cameras and locks that they can control through smartphones and tablets.

A smart refrigerator, for instance, can be set to make ice only at night, when energy use is cheaper. And parents can keep track of their children through

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security cameras they view using their Internet-connected devices.

“If you are a working family and your kid is supposed to be home at 3 p.m., they can actually go on their computer at work and see the kid is home at 3 p.m.,” said Steve Ruffner, president of KB Home’s Southern California division.

If a child didn’t arrive home, an email can alert parents that their alarm wasn’t disarmed by a scheduled time.

For about $1,600, a homebuyer can turn a home into a smart one with smart lights, a high-tech front door lock, a Wi-Fi-controllable security system with a camera and a smart thermostat, said Kirk Page, president of KPS Alarms of Ontario, Calif., which teams with KB Home to provide smart technology.

One of the most popular smart home products is the $250 Nest thermostat, which “learns” what temperatures a user likes, turns itself down when the house is empty, and can be controlled from anywhere over Wi-Fi.

Lennar and Pennsylvania-based Toll Bros. also offer various versions of home automation and solar energy systems in many of their communities.

This year, Lennar has started rolling out solar energy and home automation as standard features in some of its developments. Smart lights, front-door locks and more come already built in.

In Lake Forest, Toll Bros. will soon debut a model home devoid of light switches in common areas. Instead, an owner would use touch screens mounted to the wall to control bulbs.

Such technology was a major reason Kajberouni said he purchased his KB home last year for $425,000.

For him, the high-tech add-ons give him peace of mind. While at work, he can check in on Chopper, his arthritic German shepherd, through a camera in his living room. And then there was the time he left for Ireland but forgot one important chore.

“As I was boarding the plane, I was able to turn off the A/C,” said Kajberouni, the chief financial officer of a local aviation firm. “That saved me two weeks of an electricity bill.”

But you don’t have to splurge on a new house to control your lights, heating and locks from afar.

As the industry grows, most of the expansion should come from homeowners updating their aging abodes, said Michael Wolf, founder of NextMarket Insights. There are simply far fewer people purchasing new homes.

Technology brands are rolling out smart home products that emphasize user-friendly, simple solutions and are aimed at consumers who don’t want to install a complete home automation system.

“We’re playing in the smart home space from so many angles,” said Kurt Jovais, vice president of home appliances at Samsung. “The challenge for us is coming up with a solution that is compatible across all devices.”

Many are small items such as door locks that can be opened by smartphones and programmed with unique pass codes for different people. The codes for certain people, such as maids, dog walkers and gardeners, can be set to work only during specific hours.

One of the most popular smart home products is the $250 Nest thermostat, which “learns” what temperatures a user likes, turns itself down when the house is empty, and can be controlled from anywhere over Wi-Fi. Major home items are also getting high-tech overhauls as consumers look for interconnectivity between their appliances.

LG has a suite of appliances that can be monitored or controlled wirelessly by users’ smartphones and are designed to “make chores around the home easier and more efficient,” said David VanderWaal, director of home appliance brand marketing at LG Electronics USA. Using LG appliance smartphone apps, homeowners can track the expiration dates of food in their smart refrigerator and monitor the time remaining on their smart oven. They can also stop a load of laundry in their smart washer and dryer from their phones.

And because such technology is controlled through wireless Internet, the houses look like typical residences.

As more people learn about the potential for smart homes and the market grows, expect more tech companies to launch their own smart home products, said analyst Dorsheimer.

“I do imagine what we will see here in the future is companies like an Apple or a Google coming into this particular market,” he said. “There’s money to be made.”

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This Week’s Guests in the First Hour: Tom Simon, Managing Member, Westgate Properties, LLC Bonnie Davis, Professional Community Manager, Westgate Properties, LLC Ron Blessey, Senior Mortgage Banker, Peoples Bank 3101 OLD PECOS TRAIL, #320 $270,000 Quail Run. Lovely and conveniently located penthouse condo. Desirable location with good views. This end unit has been beautifully updated and possesses nice added amenities. Includes hosted 24-hour security, golf, and tennis.

111 SANTA FE AVENUE, #3 $210,000 Blocks from the Plaza, this masterfully renovated, exquisitely affordable property is a turnkey delight. Quality kitchen appointed with Sub-Zero refrigerator, DeLonghi gas range, Asko Dishwasher and stunning, solid granite countertops. New, Ductless A/C Unit.

PAM WICKISER & BOB DUNN 505.438.6763 #201303875

SANTA FE REAL ESTATE CONSULTANTS 505.231.4046 #201305049

In the second hour of the show, join professional community managers Tom Simon and Bonnie Davis as they and their guests discuss community association and other real estate issues important in 2014.

Listen via ATREradio.com (click “Live Streaming” Button).

For more information, call Rey 505.989.8900

4 EAST WILDFLOWER $519,000 NEW PRICE. Three bedroom, three bath, 3,309 sq ft home on 1.9 acres in Tierra del Oro. Includes a large office/studio with bath, detached 2-car garage. Views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Close proximity to Santa Fe. TEAM BURBIC YODER 505.670.9399 #201303785

326 GRANT AVENUE 505.988.2533 | 231 WASHINGTON AVENUE 505.988.8088 417 EAST PALACE AVENUE 505.982.6207

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Amazing Homes in the Santa Fe Area S

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41 Violet Circle Family compound in Las Campanas with incredible

7 Sendero Centro Beautiful “turnkey” custom home and detached

views. Antique beams and doors, brick floors, private portales and outdoor kitchen. Grand Sala for entertaining. Three bedrooms in main residence. Three-car garage. Detached, duplex-able guest house with 1-car garage. $1,795,000 MLS# 201305736

guest casita located on one of the most premier sites in the Club Casitas area. Unobstructed sweeping views of the 18th fairways on two Jack Nicklaus Signature golf courses, a lake and the Sandia and Ortiz Mountains. Handcrafted high-end finishes and exceptional details. www.7senderocentro.com. $1,195,000 MLS# 201300298

TARA EARLEY & NANCY LEHRER (505) 660-1734 • tara.earley@sothebyshomes.com Sotheby’s International Realty • (505) 982-6207 417 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM sothebyshomes.com/santafe

NANCY LEHRER (505) 490-9565 • nancy.lehrer@sothebyshomes.com Sotheby’s International Realty • (505) 982-6207 417 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM sothebyshomes.com/santafe

OPEN 1-3

2323 Old Arroyo Chamiso Road An exquisite northern New Mexico pitched-roof home with views of two mountain ranges and city lights. Close to restaurants, schools, shopping and the hospital.

Easy access to I-25. 3 br, 3 ba, 3,541 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 1 acre.

Directions: Old Pecos Trail, right on West Zia, left on Old Arroyo Chamiso Road. $1,100,000 MLS# 201303862 SHARON MACDONALD (505) 660-5155 • MacReal@cybermesa.com Santa Fe Properties • (505) 982-4466 1000 Paseo de Peralta • Santa Fe, NM www.SantaFeProperties.com

ANAS LAS CAMP VIEWS D E T C U R T UNOBS

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1145 East Alameda Charming 3 bedroom, 2.75 bath Eastside

14 Rising Moon This beautifully appointed 3BR, 4BA adobe home

hideaway with a spacious living/dining room with high ceilings and tall

on 2.42 acres in Las Campanas has amazing views, a spacious floorplan

1767 Ridge Pointe Loop Las Estrellas - Magical mountain views and the serenity of single-level living, with gardening potential or the promise of relaxing. Enjoy the privacy of Las Estrellas from your front portal! 3 br, 2 ba, 1686 sq.ft., 2-car garage 0.17 acres. Directions: 599 to Ridgetop exit, go north, follow around to Ridge Pointe Loop. $470,000 MLS# 201302020

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French doors looking out to a large courtyard. Cozy Country-style kitchen

with a gourmet kitchen, a luxurious master suite, a den, and 4 fireplaces.

with sitting area and kiva fireplace. $948,000 MLS# 201205178

$925,000 MLS# 201301196

MOO THORPE (505) 780-0310 • moo.thorpe@sothebyshomes.com Sotheby’s International Realty • (505) 988-2533 326 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, NM sothebyshomes.com/santafe

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NANCY LEHRER (505) 490-9565 • nancy.lehrer@sothebyshomes.com Sotheby’s International Realty • (505) 982-6207 417 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM sothebyshomes.com/santafe

:30 OPEN 12-4 PMENT O L E V E D NEW

JULIA GELBART (505) 699-2507 • JuliaGelbart@gmail.com Santa Fe Properties • (505) 982-4466 1000 Paseo de Peralta • Santa Fe, NM www.SantaFeProperties.com

EVA U N A R R E I LA T ABLE L I A V A S E I PROPERT

1922 Fort Union Drive Very walkable to Museum Hill and Café, the Wheelwright Museum and Spanish Colonial Arts Collection. This is an older home with good bones: brick floors and vigas. This 2,422 sq. ftr. +/- home has 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 kiva fireplaces and a 2 car carport. $435,000 MLS# 201305829

7364 Avenida El Nido High energy efficiencies save you money. Stop in our model home and learn how Homewise can help you improve your credit, find the right resale or new home, and secure an affordable fixed-rate mortgage. Low interest financing available with no mortgage insurance for qualified buyers.

New home plans starting at $212,900.

La Tierra Nueva Perched atop the Caja del Rio plateau, with forever

K AREN WALKER / JIM WALKER (505) 670-2909 / (505) 699-9210 • walkerre@aol.com Karen Walker Real Estate • (505) 982-0118 205 Delgado St., Santa Fe, New Mexico karenwalkerrealestate.com

PATRICE VON ESCHEN (505) 690-1811 • pvoneschen@homewise.org Homewise, Inc. • (505) 983-WISE (9473) 1301 Siler Road, Bldg. D www.homewise.org

TARA EARLEY & NANCY LEHRER (505) 660-1734 • tara.earley@sothebyshomes.com Sotheby’s International Realty • (505) 982-6207 417 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM sothebyshomes.com/santafe

OPEN 1-3

To feature your listing please call Wendy Ortega at 995-3892 RANCHO DEL SOL Single level Presley home. Three bedrooms, two full bath bright and clean. Two car detached garage.

Laminate flooring, kiva gas fireplace, gas range, hot tub with custom portal. Private back yard. Close to schools, parks, shopping and easy highway access. $189,900.00 MLS# 201304089

LISA HARRIS (505) 795-1024 • lisadormanharris@me.com Renaissance Real Estate Group • (505) 795-1023 1675 Sentiero Della Villa , Santa Fe, NM

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views of the Sangre de Cristo and Jemez Mountains, La Tierra Nueva is a gated community with 78 lots ranging from 10 – 28 acres. Homeowners enjoy unparalleled serenity, peace and privacy in a rural environment.

Equestrian friendly! Approximately 15 minutes from the Plaza.

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BEAUTIFUL NORTHERN NEW MEXICO COUNTRY HOME 2 RIO EN MEDIO This beautiful northern New Mexico country home is located in the foothills of the Sangres. It features traditional vigas and beams, and plaster walls. There is a lovely wrap-around portal with a secluded courtyard. Outstanding sunset views can be enjoyed from the grand sala living room and adjacent patio. There is a 1,200 sq.ft. attic with windows that could easily be converted to a private guest suite or a game room. The close proximity to the National Forest provides easy access for outdoor fun. Located just a few minutes from the famed Tesuque Market, the Santa Fe Opera and close to Santa Fe; this is a very remarkable property.

3 br, 2 ba, 2,695 sq.ft., 5.88 acres. MLS #201305618

Offered At $675,000 DIANNE ESCHMAN 505.577.1727 Dianne.Eschman@sfprops.com SANTA FE PROPERTIES 505.982.4466 · SantaFeProperties.com

WONDERFUL CUSTOM HOME IN LAS LAGUNITAS 121 RITO GUICU This truly impressive home offers privacy and large panoramic views of rolling hills. Built in 2008, this home has quality upgrades, including knotty alder solid wood doors and cabinetry throughout, tongue and groove ceilings, vigas, extra large walk-in shower, and an oversized two-car garage with workshop space. This meticulously built home boasts high-end finishes such as diamond plaster walls throughout, granite countertops in kitchen and bathrooms, kiva fireplace, and beautiful tile throughout. The community boasts a fishing pond, picnic areas, and hiking trails.

MLS# 201305215

Offered at $417,000 RICKY ALLEN 505.470.8233 ricky.allen@sothebyshomes.com SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY 505.982.6207 sothebyshomes.com/santafe

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2:00PM-4:00PM - 7 Sendero Centro - This beautiful turnkey single-level custom home and guest casita are located on one of the most premier sites in Las Campanas. Sweeping views. Construction just completed, never occupied. $1,195,000. MLS 201300298. (Las Campanas Drive to Clubhouse Drive (Club Casitas) to Plaza Del Corazon, left on Sendero Centro, first house on left.) Nancy Lehrer 505-490-9565 Sotheby’s International Realty.

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KK-32 1:00PM-3:00PM - 2534 Avenida de Isidro - Warm home in a convenient setting, with an intimate courtyard to welcome you upon arrival. There is a nice portal in the backyard for entertaining. $350,000. MLS 201305782. (3 br, 2 ba, From St. Francis turn right onto Sawmill. Right on Rodeo Road. Left on CAlle Delfino. Left on Calle Huerfanito. First right onto Avenida de Isidro.)

Dorlisa & Warren Berg 505-660-2629 Santa Fe Properties.

OO-13 12:00PM-4:30PM - 7364 Avenida El Nido - Brand-new home in Las Palomas development of Tierra Contenta.

Stop in to find out how Homewise can help you buy the perfect resale or new home for you. New home plans starting at $212,900. (From Airport Road, turn onto Paseo del Sol WEST. Turn right on Jaguar Road to the dead end, then turn right on Avenida El Nido. Model homes are on the right on Avenida El Nido.) Patrice Von Eschen 505690-1811 Homewise, Inc.

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2:00PM-4:00PM - 4 E Wildflower - 3 bedroom, 3 bath, 3309 sqft home on 1.9 acres in Tierra del Oro, Plus large office/studio w/ bath, detached 2 car garage. Views of the Sangre De Cristo mountains. Close proximity to Santa Fe. $519,000. MLS 201303785. (599 to Camino La Tierra, right on Wildflower and first house on the right.) Stephanie Yoder 505-412-9911 Sotheby’s International Realty.

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N-39 2:00PM-4:00PM - 1630 Villa Strada - Tremendous finishes and thoughtful upgrades abound in this Villa di Roma 2535 sq ft home. Wood floors, granite counters, deluxe maple cabinets, wood burning fireplace, and custom wood shutters. $599,000. MLS 201304669. (From Ridgetop turn East on Avenida Rincon. 2nd left is Via Bosque. 1st left is Villa Strada.) Charles Weber 505-6709377 Sotheby’s International Realty.

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1:00PM-4:00PM - 41 Violet Circle - Las Campanas family compound w/ incredible views. Antique beams/doors, brick floors, private portales & outdoor kitchen. 3 bedrooms in main residence. 3-car garage.

Detached guest house w/1-car garage $1,795,000. MLS 201305736. Tara Earley 505-660-1734 Sotheby’s International Realty.

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X-39 1:30PM-3:30PM - 604-1/2 Galisteo Street - Walk to everywhere from this 2BR, 2BA, 1,465 sq ft adobe on Galisteo Street. Updated with plaster walls, wood doors, radiant heat, double pane windows & maple floors. Quiet, Wood Gormley district. $352,000. MLS 201204802.

(West side of Galisteo street at W. Santa Fe Avneue/Paseo de Peralta.) Katherine Blagden 505-4902400 Sotheby’s International Realty.

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Y-41 1:00PM-3:30PM - 530 Garcia #12 - Cute 2BR condo just up the block from Downtown Subscription and Canyon Rd. Sangre views. Updated kitchen and bath, granite counters, gleaming wood floors. Small compound w/laundry, storage, carport. $315,000. MLS 201305798.

(From Acequia Madre and Garcia Street, go south on Garcia to #530. Condo #12 is at rear of compound, furthest back from street.) Spencer Ralston 505-231-1528 Barker Realty.

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1:00PM-3:00PM - 1020 Canyon Road B - One of the premier residences of historic Canyon Road’s Alma del Canon, this home features the best Santa Fe’s newest community has to offer. Beautiful indoor finishes of hard trowel plaster walls. $799,500. MLS 201305472.

(Paseo de Peralta to Canyon Road.) Stan Jones 505-3102426 Sotheby’s International Realty.

1:00PM-4:00PM - 1127 Old Santa Fe Trail - Home, guest house and studio on the Upper Eastside. The opportunity to love the location and transform this traditional compound is now available. $875,000. MLS 201304058. (Take Old Santa Fe Trail south to 1127 on the left and just before the intersection with Camino del Monte Sol) Chris Webster 505-780-9500 Sotheby’s International Realty.

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R-60 1:00PM-3:00PM - 122 Mejor Lado - Newly completed!

Lit pilaster entry to lovely open-plan, split bedroom design, coved viga ceilings, large study. Sweeping mountain views, paved cul-de-sac, nat. gas & community water. A Wow! $565,000. MLS 201305092. (3 br, 2 ba, West on Avenida Eldorado, left on Ave de Compadres, right on paved Mejor Lado, right into the cul-de-sac.) Fred Raznick 505-577-0143 Santa Fe Properties.

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Substantial Renovation in 2006.

Zoned BCD (Business Capitol District) Approximately 29,511 square feet - East Marcy, East Palace Subdistrict.

360 degree views, Spectacular walking trails, Automated drip watering, Finished 2 car garage, 2 BDR, 2 ½ bath plus office.

(3) 2.5 Acre Lots, Senda Artemisia, Old Galisteo Road, Close to town.

Easy building sites. Views, utilities, shared well. Owner financing. No Mobile homes. $119,700- $129,700 each.

Greg. 505-690-8503, Equity Real Estate.

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Only in the the SFNM Classifieds!

575-694-5444

www.facebook.com\santafetown house Office, retail, gallery, hospitality, residential, etc. Pueblo style architecture, computer controlled HVAC, cat 6, water catchment, brick and carpet flooring, Cummins diesel back-up electricity generator, multiple conference rooms, vault, climate controlled server room, power conditioners, privacy windows, double blinds on windows, break room, outdoor break area, executive offices, corporate reception, close proximity to restaurants, parking garages and the convention center. Paved parking for 100+ spaces. Parking ratio = 1:275 which includes the offsite parking across the street.

RETAIL SPACE 1607 ST. MICHAELS DRIVE

For Sale or Lease. 4000 square feet.

Open space. Ample parking. $550,000.

Lease $4000 monthly. 505-699-0639.

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FARMS & RANCHES 146.17 AC. 1 hour from Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Electricity, views of Sangre De Cristo Mnts and Glorieta Mesa. $675, acre, 20 year owner financing. Toll Free 8 7 7 - 7 9 7 - 2 6 2 4 newmexicoranchland.net

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202 E. MARCY STREET SANTA FE Substantial Renovation in 2006.

Zoned BCD (Business Capitol District) Approximately 29,511 square feet — East Marcy/East Palace Subdistrict.

Office, retail, gallery, hospitality, residential, etc. Pueblo style architecture, computer controlled HVAC, cat 6, water catchment, brick and carpet flooring, Cummins diesel back-up electricity generator, multiple conference rooms, vault, climate controlled server room, power conditioners, privacy windows, double blinds on windows, break room, outdoor break area, executive offices, corporate reception, close proximity to restaurants, parking garages and the convention center. Paved parking for 100+ spaces.

Parking ratio = 1:275 which includes the off-site parking across the street.

JOHN HANCOCK 505-470-5604 JHancock@SantaFeRealEstate.com

APARTMENTS FURNISHED CHARMING, CLEAN 2 BEDROOM, $800

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

Sorry, No Pets. 505-471-0839

FULLY FURNISHED STUDIO, $750.

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

APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED 1 BEDROOM, 1 bath, washer, dryer hookups, spacious. Off Siringo Road. $700 monthly plus uitiltites and deposit. NO Pets. 505-690-8502.

1 BEDROOM DOW NTOW N, Freshly remodeled classic Santa Fe adobe, private yard, brand new finishes. $749 month. One Month Free Rent, No Application Fees.

Chamisa Management Corp. 988-5299

RIVER RANCH PRIVATE RIVER FRONTAGE CONTACT JOHN HANCOCK 505-470-5604

FOR SALE OR LEASE- Great opportunity! 3 building Showroom, warehouse, office space. 7,000 to 27,480 SqFt. All or part. Fantastic location1591 Pacheco Street.

Qualified HubZone, Zoned I-2. Contact David Oberstein: 505-986-0700

986-3000

RARE 2.3 ACRE LOT. CountryConvenient to Town. Arroyo Hondo West. Spectacular Views. Hiking, Biking, and Riding Trail. $125,000. Jennifer, 505-204-6988.

WE GET RESULTS! CALL 986-3000

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1,900 squ.ft. Warehouse, 600 squ.ft Office Space, reception area, two offices, kitchen, security, fenced yard, On-site parking. $1,500 plus utilities.

505-982-2511.

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE 202 E. Marcy Street, Santa Fe

Now Showing Rancho Viejo Townhome $232,500

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1,000 Acres, High Ponderosa Pine Ridges.

Well, utilities, rare opportunity to own this quality ranch. $1,599,000. Great New Mexico Properties. One hour from Santa Fe. 802-483-6060

MANUFACTURED HOMES RE (5) BRAND NEW 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH, SINGLEWIDE MOBILE HOMES. SET-UP IN PARKS AND MOVE-IN READY EXCLUSIVE OFFER. BANK FINANCING, 4.5% INTEREST, PAYOFF HOME IN 10 YEARS. CALL TIM. AT J.C. SALES 505699-2955.

2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH RANCHO SIRINGO ROAD, fenced yard, fireplace, laundry facility on-site. $725 month. One Month Free Rent, No Application Fees.

Chamisa Management Corp. 988-5299 2 BEDROOM, 1 bath. Tile floors, washer, dryer. In town country setting. Off West Alameda. $795 monthly plus utilities. 575-430-1269 2 STUDIO APARTMENTS near 10,000 Waves. 1,000 sq.ft. Tile floor, kiva fireplace, newly remodled, large fenced yard, covered patio, washer, dryer. $925 monthly.

805 EARLY Street. 2700 sq.ft. architecturally designed space, high ceilings, open floor plan along with conventional space. Property can be divided into two spaces. Good for hair salon, art or yoga studio, retail, or office. Call Phillip 984-7343 Owner NMREB.

505-992-1205 valdezandassociates.com

MEDICAL DENTAL RETAIL OFFICE. 5716 sq.ft. Allegro Center, 2008 St. Michaels Drive, Unit B. George Jimenez, owner-broker. 505-470-3346

PRIME DOWNTOWN LOCATION 2 bedroom, 2 bath, wood floors, vigas, small enclosed yard, washer, dryer, 2 car garage, $1700 plus utilities

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COZY CONDO WITH MANY UPGRADES 2 bedroom, 1 bath, kiva fireplace, washer, dryer, granite counters $850 plus utilities

2nd Floor 2 bedroom, 2 bath. New carpet & paint. San Mateo Condos.

No pets, non-smokers. $925 monthly; alsromero@q.com; 505-920-3233

DESIRABLE NAVA ADE COMMUNITY 3 bedroom, plus library, 2.5 bath, 2 car garage, washer, dryer, enclosed backyard, 2 wood burning fireplaces, $1600 plus utilities

DOS SANTOS, one bedroom, one bath, upper level, upgraded, reserve parking. $800 Western Equities, 505-982-4201

LOCATED AT THE LOFTS ON CERRILLOS This live & work studio offers high ceilings, kitchenette, bathroom with shower, 2 separate entrances, ground, corner unit with lots of natural lighting. $1000 plus utilities

LEASE & OWN. ZERO DOWN! PAY EXACTLY WHAT OWNER PAYS: $1200 includes mortgage, taxes, insurance, maintenance (HOA). ZIA VISTA’S LARGEST 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH CONDO. Save thousands.

Incredible "Sangre" views. 505-204-2210

RANCHO SANTOS, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, pretty unit, 2nd story, 1 car garage. $1000. Western Equities, 505-982-4201.

WALKING TRAILS, dog park, water, trash PU pd. 2 story, 2 bedroom 1 1/2 bath, kiva FP, laundry room 1340 SF +2 car gar. $1350. mo.

Small pet? 505-757-2133

GUESTHOUSES EASTSIDE, WALK TO CANYON ROAD! Furnished, short-term vacation home. Walled .5 acre, mountain views, fireplace, 2 bedroom, washer, dryer. Private. Pets okay. Large yard. 970-626-5936.

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750 sq.ft. Tile floors, fenced yard with covered patio. $730 monthly.

CALLE DE ORIENTE NORTE 2 bedroom 2 bath, upsatairs unit. $775 plus utilites. Security deposit. No pets.

505-988-7658 or 505-690-3989

OFFICE- STUDIO NEAR RAILYARD Can also be used as u n f u r n i s h e d a p a r t m e n t . $900 monthly. All utilities included. Reserved parking.

Call 505-471-1238 additional details.

FULLY FURNISHED 2 bedroom, 2 bath.

Close plaza. Indoor, outdoor fireplaces. Very spacious Front and backyard. No smoking, pets. 6 month lease, $2300 monthly plus utilities.

Jennie, 859-512-7369.

HOUSES PART FURNISHED

Ring in the New Year with extra cash in your pocket! Las Palomas Apartments offers affordable, spacious 2 Bedrooms & Studios that make your hard-earned dollars go farther. Come see the changes we’ve made! Call 888-4828216 today for a tour. Se habla español.

2 BEDROOM, 1 bath in Pecos. Off the grid. 4-wheel a must. First, last, $500 monthly, $250 Deposit. 505-670-1615, 505-757-8493.

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2BR, 1BA newly remodeled, quaint adobe home in private compound.

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Call for personal showing QUIET AND FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD 3 bedroom, 2 bath, fireplace, AC, 2 car garage, enclosed backyard, washer, dryer, $1200 plus utilities WALKING DISTANCE TO SHOPPING 2 bedroom, plus loft, 1 bath, granite counter tops, upgraded washer, dryer, 2 car garage $1200 plus utilities CHARMING CONDO 2 bedroom, 2 bath, granite counters, washer, dryer, upgraded appliances, access to all amenities $975 plus utilities SPACIOUS HOME IN DESIRABLE NEIGHBORHOOD 3 bedroom, 2 bath, fireplace, washer, dryer hook-up, large fenced in backyard, 2 car garage $1200 plus utilities 5 PLEX CONVENIENTLY LOCATED ON CAMINO CAPITAN this unit is a one bedroom loft, fireplace, and fenced back yard $650 plus utilities

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COZY STUDIO, $750 monthly, $500 deposit, includes utilities, washer, dryer. Saltillo tile, great views. No Smoking or Pets. CALL 505-231-0010.

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The Santa Fe New Mexican has the perfect position for an early bird who likes to get the day started at the crack of dawn!

We are seeking a part-time Home Delivery Assistant to deliver newspaper routes and replacement newspapers to customers, and resolve customer complaints. Must have valid NM drivers’ license, impeccable driving record and be able to operate a vehicle with manual transmission. Must be able to toss newspapers, lift up to 25-50 lbs; climb in and out of vehicle, bend, climb stairs and reach above shoulder. Have hearing and vision within normal ranges.

Hours are 5 to 10 a.m. Friday through Sunday. Pay rate is $10.51 per hour. No benefits.

Selected candidates must pass a drug screen.

RETAIL SPACE SEASONAL PLAZA RETAIL Month-Month

Submit references and job application or resume by Thursday, January 2, 2014, to: Human Resources The Santa Fe New Mexican 202 East Marcy Street Santa Fe, NM 87501-2021 Or email to: gbudenholzer@sfnewmexican. com

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EDUCATION FAMILY SERVICES ASSISTANT Full-time position working with families of Head Start students. Bilingual English, Spanish preferred.

PARTS SPECIALIST, SHIPPING HENRY VALENCIA INC. IS SEEKING A PARTS SPECIALIST SHIPPER. INDIVIDUAL MUST BE DETAILED ORIENTED, HAVE COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE, HAVE A CLEAR DRIVING RECORD. MUST BE HIGHLY MOTIVATED. Please send resume to: henryvalencia@henryvalencia.net OR COMPLETE APPLICATION. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. EO RECEPTIONIST FOR 2014 TAX SEASON. Must have computer skills and willing to work on Saturdays. C a ll Directax 505-473-4700.

SANTA FE RETAILER of home goods looking for a

PURCHASING, LOGISTICS COORDINATOR.

Basic functions include heavy MS Excel work, placement and maintenance of purchase orders, tracking of suppliers ship dates, and item set up. Only degreed and detailoriented candidates with strong computer and organizational skills need apply. Salary is DOE. Benefits include Medical, Dental, 401k.

Fax resume to 505-819-0146.

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Part Time Teacher for the Visually Impaired Please apply online at SFPS.Info.

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Please apply to: www.sfps.info. EOE COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS of NM (CISNM) is seeking Full-Time SITE C O O R D I N A T O R S to help redress student dropout in Santa Fe Public Schools through the nationally recognized Communities In Schools integrated student services framework. Working in partnership with a school principal, the CISNM Site Coordinator is responsible for the overall planning and management of CISNM operations at their assigned CISNM school site. Bilingual SpanishEnglish required. Experience working with children and or youth in an educational setting, strong interpersonal and organization skills are essential.

Education requirements: Bachelor’s degree and demonstrated relevant equivalent experience in education, social work or related field. Please submit cover letter, resume and 3 references to bergenj@cisnewmexico.org by January 1, 2014

TOW TRUCK DRIVER NEEDED for Santa Fe area. Call 505-992-3460

FOR BUSY HOME CARE OFFICE. FULLTIME, MONDAY - FRIDAY, 8AM- 5 PM WITH BENEFITS PACKAGE. SALARY DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE. FAX RESUME: 505-989-3672 OR EMAIL TO KAREN.SCHMELING@PHHC-NM.COM QUESTIONS: Call Brian, 505-982-8581.

R.C. GORMAN - "Earth Child St. II" Lithograph. 1979, signed and numbered. excellent condition. Current apprasal value is $7,680. One owner.

Asking $4,700. 505-988-4343.

UNIT MANAGER REGISTERED NURSE. The duties will be to help the DON Oversight & Systems Management.

This is a salary position. Any one interested please come by and speak to Raye Highland, RN/DON, or Craig Shaffer, Administrator 505-982-2574.

MISCELLANEOUS JOBS

Business Opportunity

Year round positions available working with either Head Start (children ages 3 to 5) or Early Head Start (children ages birth to 5)

Would you like to deliver newspapers as an independent contractor for the Santa Fe New Mexican? Operate your own business with potential profits of $1,600 a month. Call 505-986-3010 to make an appointment.

WEB CONTENT - Social Media Coordinator for established business to develop maintain outstanding global online presence. 3-years experience.

Email resume: alina@patina-gallery.com

MEDICAL DENTAL Counselor, Social Worker (part-time) Licensed medical social worker or counselor, case manager for patients with complex medical, social and psychological needs.

Prefer experience with vulnerable, underserved populations.

Bilingual English, Spanish required.

Send resume to La Familia Medical Center by email to mpopp@lfmctr.org

IMER WORKMAN II 250 Multi Mixer, Brand new!! European designed. 5.5 H.P. Honda engine. Drum capacity 9 cuff. $1,999 O.B.O. 808-346-3635

Steel Building Allocated Bargains 40x60 on up We do deals www.gosteelbuildings.com Source# 18X 505-349-0493

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

AirPort Extreme 802.11n (5th Generation) sold "as is" in excellent condition. $70. Please call, 505-470-4371 after 6 p.m.

TEACHER ASSISTANT Full-time with Head Start program.

GALLERIES

2 TONE Blue Side Table. Salt Cedar Colorful willows, 12x34x42, $300 Firm.

Pine CD Cabinets, Lime-Blue 4’hx5.5’Wx6.5’D, $50 each. Hand Carving $900 obo. 505-982-4926

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CENTER SUPERVISOR II Full-time with Head Start program.

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TEACHER I Full-time with Head Start program or working 20, 30 or 40 hours per week with Early Head Start.

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PROFESSIONAL HOME HEALTH CARE SEEKING EXPERIENCED

For specifics, visit job postings at http://www.wlvs.k12.nm.us or call (505)426-2315

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WEST LAS VEGAS SCHOOLS 2014-15 S.Y. HEAD FOOTBALL & VOLLEYBALL COACHES

Transportation Supervisor Full-time position coordinating transportation services for SF Children’s Services Head Start program.

Duties include vehicle maintenance and transportation staff scheduling and supervision.

Requires CDL with P and S endorsement.

ADMINISTRATIVE

Adaptive P.E. Teacher Needed

Home Health Aide Part-time position working 20 hours a week with Community Home Health Care & The Hospice Center.

Must be graduate of Nurse Aide program or have exper in direct patient care in institutional setting or with home health, hospice agency.

PART TIME MACHINE ATTENDANT No Prior Machine Experience Required. Responsible for loading material, and cleaning, of production equipment. Collecting and stacking down of press, bindery, and inserted papers, Keeps all production equipment supplied with the correct materials to keep machine running at maximum efficiency. Must be able to communicate well with co workers and stand for prolonged periods with repetitive bending and lifting of 20 pounds and the ability to occasionally lift up to 75 pounds.

This is an entry level position with opportunities to advance to full time employment with benefits as well as advancing to other positions in the production department. Shifts will vary based on availability, but will most likely be evening, night positions.

Other full time positions also available in the department for qualified candidates with a mechanical or manufacturing background.

Submit application to: Tim Cramer 1 New Mexican Plaza No Phone Calls please.

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

TRADES Shawn’s Chimney Sweep Accepting applications for Chimney cleaning and installers.Clean driving record, Experience a plus.

505-474-5857.

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FIREWOOD FOR SALE Mostly cottonwood. Split and cut into Stove lengths. Good for fireplaces too.

Load your own in Nambe. $150 for a full-measured cord. 505-455-2562.

2014 Pet Calendar for $5!

100% of sales donated to SFAS.

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OPHTHALMIC TECHNICIAN TRAINEE Santa Fe Clinic 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 Clinic. Some positions require travel between our Northern New Mexico locations, please check the listing.

To learn more about this position 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.

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TRINO’S AFFORDABLE Construction all phases of construction, and home repairs. Licensed. 505-9207583

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

Dry Pinon & Cedar

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140.00 pick up load.

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Housecleaning, garage cleaning, hauling trash.

Cutting Trees, Flagstone Patios, Driveways, Fencing, Yard Work, Stucco, Tile..

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YOUR HEALTH MATTERS. We use natural products. 20 years exper ence, Residential & offices. Reliable.

Excellent references. Licensed & Bonded. Eva, 505-919-9230. Elena.

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REPAIRS, MAINTENANCE, PRO-PANEL ROOFS, PAINTING, FENCING, YARDWORK. MINOR PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL. 25 years experience.

Consulting. Licensed. References.

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CALL 986-3000 Aardvark DISCOUNT M O VERS serving our customers with oldfashioned respect and care since 1976. John, 505-473-4881.

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

Gravel Driveway. New & Old Roofs.

Painting. Torch Down, Stucco. Reasonable Prices! References Available. Free Estimates. 505-603-3182.

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King bed, armoire, night stands.

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P O M E R A N I A N PUPPIESTEACUP: White Male, $800; Black Female, $700; TOY: Silver- Black male, $800. Registered.

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POODLE PUPPIES- TEACUP: Cream Female, $450; TOYS: Cream Female & Male, $400. Docked tails, 2nd shots.

SHIH-TZU PUPPY, female, $450. 505901-2094

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23,000 original miles. Completely rebuilt. Gas engine. $16,000 OBO. 505-982-2511 or 505-670-7862

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY 15 YEARS in business in Santa Fe with a great client base for the future. Past sales years have gross sales up to 4 million with close to 500K net.

Please email twtrv@sbcglobal.net for more info on the company. We are not on market yet so confidentially is important for our continued operation.

ASSETS FOR sale including patents, full-scale designs, molds, prototypes, national lab fluid dynamics modeling. Key staffers available.

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Another sweet one owner, low mileage Cherokee. Only 91k miles, accident free, smoke free, well maintained Cherokee Classic looks new. 4.0L 6 cylinder, automatic, new tires and brakes for your safety.

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OPERATING ROOM TECHNICIAN REGISTERED NURSE / PACU-Holding Area Santa Fe Surgery Center Eye Associates of New Mexico is the largest ophthalmology and optometry practice in the Southwest. We currently have the above-listed positions open at our Santa Fe Surgery Center. These are Casual/PRN positions.

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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.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES EIGHT NORTHERN INDIAN PUEBLOS COUNCIL, INC. - A LOCAL EMPLOYER OF EXCELLENCE NAMBE HEADSTART Lead Teacher: (Immediate Opening) • Will provide individual and family therapy, group, psychotherapy, substance abuse counseling, mental health/substance abuse evaluations, case management, etc.

• Implement Creative Curriculum , administer diagnostic testing, etc.

• Must have AD or BA in Early Childhood Education or related field.

TAOS BUTTERFLY HEALING CENTER The Butterfly Healing Center is a 25 bed facility that delivers residential treatment services for adolescents. This is a male/female center for chemical dependence, dysfunctional family behaviors, cross-cultural problems and a full range of addiction. Opening in January, 2014 Counselor, LADAC: (Immediate Openings) • Provide substance abuse counseling, mental health/substance abuse evaluations, case management, etc.

• Must be licensed in the State of NM as a LADAC Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner: (Immediate Opening) • Conduct Nursing Assessments and mental status exams.

• Collaborate as a team member in Treatment meetings.

• Perform H&P, discharge summaries, prescribes or recommends medication.

• A Mstrs in Nursing, currently licensed in NM, experience required CIRCLE OF LIFE PROGRAM Family Therapist: (Immediate Opening in Espanola) • Will provide individual and family therapy, group, psychotherapy, substance abuse counseling, mental health/substance abuse evaluation, case management, etc.

• Masters in counseling, psychology or social work.

• Must be licensed in the State of NM as an LMSW, LISW, LPCC, LMHC or Ph.D. GENEROUS BENEFITS PACKAGE: ALL EMPLOYEE MEDICAL PREMIUMS PAID, EMPLOYER MATCH 401K, PTO, AND MUCH MORE! 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*

Benefitting New Mexico’s Future®

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER The New Mexico Lottery Authority is seeking applications for its vacant Chief Executive Officer position. The CEO provides leadership for all aspects of the Lottery and is expected to carry out its objectives and overall statutory mission with a view toward maximizing net revenues for its beneficiaries. The CEO establishes and directs the organization’s day-to-day operating strategy and plan. While this individual serves at the pleasure of the Board, it also acts as a liaison to the Governor, Legislature, other governmental entities, external providers of goods and services, retailers, the public, as well as the employees. Executive experience is required as a manager or leader of another lottery or in an environment similar or equal to the Lottery as an organization.

Previous lottery experience is preferred, but not required. A Master’s degree in business administration or public administration or its equivalent in a related field is desirable, but not essential. Compensation will be commensurate with experience and education. Must be able to pass an extensive background check and able to work in a high security environment. Applicants are required to provide a letter of interest, resume/with references and representative examples of the following: · Educational profile/certifications · Contact information · Listing of involvement in various professional and volunteer organizations, clubs, etc. · Samples of candidate’s ability to communicate (both oral and written), i.e., recorded speeches, presentations, position papers, research, etc. · A sample of a prepared strategic plan(s) and a framework of a business plan.

All materials must be received by January 15, 2014. EEOE For further information please contact: The New Mexico Lottery Authority Attn: Evelyn McKnight P. O. Box 93130 Alb., NM 87199-3130 (505)342-7620 (505)342-7525 (fax)

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2010 BMW X5 30i. One owner, 74,001 miles. Premium Package, Cold Weather Package, Third Row Seating. No Accidents. $27,995.

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2013 Land Rover LR2. 4,485 miles.

Retired Service Loaner. Climate Comfort Package, HD and Sirius Radio. Showroom condition! $36,995.

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2011 Nissan Rogue S AWD. Fresh trade-in, good miles, service up-todate, very nice, clean CarFax $15,211. Call 505-216-3800.

Eyewitness: vehicle VS pedestrian accident. Sunday August 25 2013; US 84 near MM 204. Looking for couple traveling north. Statementnames provided that day not in police report.

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The Leukemia Lymphoma Society (LLS) is pleased to announce our partnership with Palliative Care Services of Santa Fe in offering a new Blood Cancer Support Group in the Santa Fe area. The group is scheduled to start January 2014 and will meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month from 2:003:30pm. Our first group meeting is scheduled to take place on January 14th. This group is facilitated by Eileen Joyce, Palliative Care Services Director and Caregiver, Hudson Institute Certified Coach, and Certified Grief Recovery Specialist.

For location or more information about the group please contact Eileen at (505) 428-0670.

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2008 BMW X5 3.0si AWD. Pristine recent trade-in, factory CERTIFIED with warranty & maintenance until 9/2014, low miles, clean CarFax $25,871. Call 505-216-3800.

Accident free with only 65k original miles. 6 speed manual, high horsepower 3.2 motor, tan leather with heated seats. Perfect electric top with glass rear window. 4 Michelin Pilots on alloy rims. Winter sale priced at $13,888. Price includes 3 month, 3000 mile limited warranty. 505954-1054.

2005 Lexus GX 470 - Only 55k miles!

1 owner clean CarFax, every option, Navigation, Levinson sound, DVD, kinetic suspension, KBB over $30,000! now $25,972. Call 505-2163800.

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For more information about these services, please contact our Patient Access, Education Advocacy Manager, Ana Portillo, at (505) 8720141 or at Ana.Portillo@lls.org.

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Horoscope HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013: This year you could keep a lot to yourself. Your friends and family will sense this secrecy, and they will try to draw it out of you. You like your free time alone, more so than in the past.

If you are single, you could find yourself in a relationship with someone emotionally unavailable or even married. Be careful. If you are attached, the two of you benefit from taking off together for weekends away. In these situations, romance will bloom. Sagittarius understands you perhaps better than you can imagine.

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 have been holding back on planning a day trip or taking off for a few days. Now would be a good time to split. You might hit a few obstacles along the way, but your instinctively quick nature will see a way around this problem. Tonight: Out and about.

This Week: A disagreement could mar much of the week.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH You don’t always agree with a partner, and today is no different. You will decide to follow this person on an adventure, even though you might not see the purpose right now. Know that you will see it later, though.

You enjoy being with this person. Tonight: Be a follower.

This Week: Deal with a loved one directly. Consider a spontaneous getaway for New Year’s.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH The past few weeks have been rather regimented with a firm schedule. Take today as a free day, and do what you want.

Whether you’re playing Scrabble or flirting with a friend, you finally will feel liberated.

Tonight: Start thinking about your New Year’s resolution.

This Week: Settling in this week will not happen. Don’t fight the inevitable.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You might want to revise a situation to make it more amenable to you. Understand your limits if you do not want to irritate a good friend. Someone you look up to might decide to put in his or her two cents.

Tonight: Be spontaneous. Do what you need to do for you.

This Week: Let it all hang out, but be prepared for a reaction.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Understand that you can’t dictate what others do. Instead of fighting city hall, why not choose to enjoy the unpredictability that surrounds you?

Make sure to squeeze in a nap at some point. Tonight: Choose something relaxing.

This Week: New Year’s promotes a greater closeness between you and someone else.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Take a hard look at the possibilities right now as you head into the next few days. Many of you will need to squeeze in a week’s worth of work in a few days. Others will have a lot to do post-Christmas. Tonight: Make a to-do list for tomorrow.

This Week: Understanding evolves to a new level, if you decide to be docile.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH Your phone will ring, and your inbox will be swamped with emails. Don’t be surprised if someone is knocking at your door, too. You might as well join a friend or take the family out for pizza. You won’t be able to concentrate with all the chaos around you. Tonight: Return calls.

This Week: You might decide just to hide out at home this New Year’s.

Last week’s answers

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You might have been able to avoid the harsh reality about the holidays before, but now you might be looking at the

Chess quiz

damages to your checkbook.

Redo your budget accordingly.

Decide how long you want to feel the squeeze and how tightly. Tonight: Pay bills first.

This Week: Reach out to friends midweek.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH You might feel as though you have been on vacation. Some of you actually have gone away, or still are away. Do not spoil that relaxed feeling, even if a loved one’s unpredictability demands a certain responsiveness.

Tonight: Create the mood and setting you want.

This Week: You’re on a roll.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Emphasis is on the long term and what is happening behind the scenes. Whether you acknowledge it, you need some downtime just for you. Discomfort with being alone or some of the thoughts that might pass through your mind need to be faced. Tonight: Get some zzz’s.

This Week: You might be moping, but come New Year’s Eve you’ll find a reason to smile.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Listen to news more openly.

You like to think of yourself as flexible, but be honest — you can be quite rigid. A friend or loved one could appear unexpectedly. Give up your tenaciousness about maintaining your schedule. Tonight: Go with the flow.

This Week: Celebrate life. By New Year’s Day, you could be exhausted!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Visit with an older relative you care about. Do not hem and haw or make excuses. You could be delighted and surprised at what a good time the two of you will have. Know how much your caring means to this person. Tonight: Till the wee hours.

This Week: Get done what you must, so that you can really let go and celebrate.

Scratch pad WHITE TO PLAY Hint: Find a double threat.

Solution: 1. Qe1! (threatens both 2. Qxa5 and 2. Qc3! followed by mate at g7 or h8).

New York Times Sunday Crossword

his just in from a Mr. Alvin S. Datt, writing in response to a column: “I will never get back the time I spent reading the horrible article you have written.”

I felt awful. Something had to be done. But what?

First, I phoned Peter “The Time Man” Turla, nationally known expert on time management.

Me: Is there any way I can give this guy back the three minutes he wasted reading my column?

Turla: Unfortunately, no. Time is an irretrievable resource. All I can suggest is: Try to write something that is twice as good next time.

Me: I’m afraid that’s not possible, for me.

Gene Turla: Well, then he is out of luck.

Weingarten Unless ...

The Washington Me: Yes? Post Turla: Time is relative. Einstein once put it this way: If you sit on a hot stove for one minute, it will feel like one hour.

But if an attractive young lady sits on your lap for one hour, it feels like one minute.

Me: So you’re saying ...

Turla: You could send an attractive young lady to sit on his lap.

Me: Right! Relatively speaking, he’d gain 59 seconds every minute. So she’d only have to sit on his lap for three minutes and a little more, and we’re even!

Turla: Right.

Me: Is this legal?

Turla: I’m not a legal expert. I’m a time expert.

So I made another phone call.

F. Lee Bailey: If she is properly dressed, I wouldn’t think it’s a crime. But I’m not aware of a specific legal precedent.

You need to talk to a prosecutor in the appropriate legal jurisdiction.

Mr. Datt had read my column in a Florida newspaper, so I called Sandra Spoto, a Florida prosecutor of misdemeanor crimes, including prostitution. Spoto said that if it was simply lap-sitting, and not lap-dancing, and if Mr. Datt consented, I’m good to go. I was about to call him to make the arrangements when, as is so often the case, everything was ruined by my editor, Tom the Butcher.

TtheB: This newspaper is not paying a woman to sit on someone’s lap.

There was one hope left. Einstein had started this debate; perhaps he could finish it. Phillip James Edwin Peebles is the Albert Einstein professor emeritus at Princeton. I asked him if there was any answer in the laws of physics. Accelerating Mr. Datt to a velocity approaching the speed of light would work, Professor Peebles said, because it would slow his aging. But that’s impossible, he acknowledged. There was a long pause. A stench of defeat was in the air.

Peebles: “Have you considered using the gravitational blueshift?”

Me: Duh. Peebles: Time moves faster at the top of a tower than at the bottom, due to differences in gravitational pull. The greater the height of the tower, the greater the difference in the speed of the passage of time.

Me: So ...

Peebles: So you could put this man at the bottom of a mine shaft. He would age more slowly than everyone else.

Me: I like that!

Peebles: “If the shaft is one kilometer deep ... the acceleration of gravity is 980 centimeters per second per second ... so ... multiply by the height ... Yes! Other people would age about 10 seconds more each year at the top of the shaft, so your man would get his three minutes back in ... 18 years.”

Voila! I was about to call Mr. Datt when Peebles phoned me back. He had grievously miscalculated. In 18 years, he reported, Mr. Datt would have only gained about 54 millionths of a second of his life back.

Peebles: Sorry.

Me: Well, at least he’d be getting something, right?

Peebles: I agree. It’s the right thing to do.

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