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In a sharp rebuke of the U.S. Department of Energy, the state of New Mexico on Saturday levied $54 million in penalties against the federal agency and private contractors for a series of mistakes and violations that

led to a radiation leak that indefinitely shut down the nation’s only underground repository for nuclear waste.

They were the largest penalties ever imposed by the state on the federal agency.

Gov. Susana Martinez and her Environment Department Secretary Ryan Flynn handdelivered two major compliance orders

Buoyed by wins, state GOP elects new chairwoman Debbie Weh Maestas is first woman to head party in more than a decade

By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico Republicans, feeling strong, happy and confident following their best election performance in years, picked a new party leader Saturday.

Debbie Weh Maestas, 42, the daughter of a forDebbie Weh mer party Maestas chairman, Allen Weh, was elected chairwoman by a big margin over two challengers.

Her election comes as many are questioning the strength of political parties against the increased fundraising prowess of political action committees and independent expenditure groups.

Maestas, the first female head of the GOP in more than 10 years, replaces John Billingsley, who announced three days after the election that he wouldn’t seek a second term.

Members of the state’s Republican Central Committee elected Maestas at a meeting at the Hotel Albuquerque.

Speaking to reporters afterward, Maestas promised to work to build party unity

and improve the GOP’s social media strategy.

She said she also hopes to expand the appeal of Republicans. “We need more Hispanics. We need more women. We need more young folks. You know, it’s not just about the typical Republican Party. We must evolve.”

She takes over at an auspicious time for the party after Republican Gov. Susana Martinez handily won re-election and the GOP took over the state House of Representatives for the first time in more than 60 years. At the same time, however, the party’s fundraising has dwindled compared to upstart PACs and independent groups.

In its most recent report to the Federal Election Commission filed Oct. 15, the state Republican Party reported raising $301,812 in contributions during the 2014 election cycle, compared to $928,342 in the 2002 election cycle. The state Democratic Party has seen a similar decline in fundraising.

By contrast, a GOP-friendly PAC called Advance New Mexico Now — which was headed by Matt Chandler, a political ally of Martinez, and uses the consulting services of Martinez’s political

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Robert (Bob) Best, Santa Fe, Oct. 15 Nathaniel West Blaser, 21, Nov. 29 John “Johnny” Rey Gabaldon, 72, Santa Fe, Dec. 4 Margaret Jo Cook Geller, Nov. 30 Jose Daniel Peña (Joe Dan), 77, Dec. 4 Emmy Langer Schaeffer, 95, Santa Fe, June 10 Teresa Baca Smith, Dec. 4

Pleasant, with plenty of sunshine.

High 54, low 26.

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‘Nemo’ to be told in Navajo The animated film is the second major motion picture to be translated into Navajo, after Star Wars in 2013. LOCAL NEWS, C-1

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Police culture must change Too many unarmed civilians are dying in the U.S. OUR VIEW, B-2

Federal funds that helped once-failing school turn around have expired, leaving educators searching for ways to maintain focus, momentum

Fifth-grade teacher Tim Abeyta works with 10-year-old Jacueline Quezada on Friday during reading time in his class at Ramirez Thomas Elementary School. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Just 22 percent of the school’s 460 students were proficient in reading, and just 17 percent in math.

The school’s performance was reflected in the sinking morale of its employees.

Many teachers felt they were operating in isolation, without being part of a team.

Others said they were bounced from class to class without clear direction.

“Since I’ve been in this school, I’ve taught four different subjects at different grade levels, and I’ve only been here five years,” one teacher said at the time.

Then something happened that, for at

By Robert Nott The New Mexican

rom outward appearances, Ramirez Thomas Elementary School on the south side of town seemed like a typical K-5 school back in 2010. Student artwork adorned the walls. The classrooms were tidy and brightly lit. And the playgrounds were spacious and cheerful.

But the school was failing. Academically, it was the lowest ranking school in Santa Fe and the ninth lowest in the state.

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least a brief time, changed the school’s academic fortunes. The school received a federal School Improvement Grant worth $1.25 million a year over three years. The grant was part of a nationwide program aimed at improving the lowest performing schools in each state.

Robin Noble, a former principal at Ramirez Thomas, used the extra cash to extend the school day by an hour, and to hire a parent liaison, a dean of students and a second learning coach for teachers.

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Poeh Winter Market Including performances by Jemez Pueblo drum ensemble Black Eagle, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino, poehcenter.com.

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HARLAN, Ky. — The rest of the house is just waking as Scottie Sizemore plops down in a rocking chair on his front porch with a cup of coffee. It’s midmorning, but the sun has yet to crest the ridge above, where mist clings like clouds that couldn’t quite make it over.

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Top al-Qaida militant killed ISLAMABAD — Pakistani soldiers killed a top al-Qaida operative Saturday who was indicted in the U.S. for his alleged involvement in a plot to bomb New York’s subway system, the military said in a statement.

The death of Adnan Shukrijumah is the latest blow to the terror organization still reeling from the 2011 killing of leader Osama bin Laden and now largely eclipsed by the militant Islamic State group. It also marks a major achievement for the Pakistani military, which mounted a widespread military operation in the northwest this summer.

The military announced Shukrijumah’s death in a statement, saying that he was killed along with two other suspected militants in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal area early Saturday. South Waziristan is part of the mountainous territory bordering Afghanistan that is home to various militant groups fighting both in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“The al-Qaida leader, who was killed by the Pakistan army in a successful operation, is the same person who had been indicted in the United Stated,” said a senior Pakistani army officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to journalists.

Sen., gun control expert steps down WASHINGTON — Turn on television news programs after any major mass shooting and eventually Carolyn McCarthy shows up as an expert guest.

After Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora and Newtown, she appeared to remind viewers of the scourge of gun violence, to beg for reforms and to serve as a foil for the gun rights movement.

Her appeals rarely worked.

But back in the day, “I was the only one who would go on TV” to discuss gun control, she said.

Critics accused her of exploiting the tragedies for political gain.

“You know what? No,” she said.

“Because you only call me when there’s a tragedy. Call me when there isn’t a tragedy and I’ll talk about it. … It wears you out. But if I didn’t do it, who would?”

The 70-year-old Rep. McCarthy, is preparing to step down after nine terms in Congress — a stretch that she never wanted or expected.

“I didn’t take into consideration — because I knew nothing about politics — how long things take around here,” she said in a recent interview.

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By Katrin Bennhold The New York Times

POWERFUL TYPHOON SLAMS THE PHILIPPINES Filipino children sleep as families seek refuge at a school as they prepare for Typhoon Hagupit in Legazpi. The storm slammed into the central Philippines’ east coast late Saturday, knocking out power and toppling trees in a region where 650,000 people have fled to safety, still haunted by the massive death and destruction wrought by a monster storm last year. Packing maximum sustained winds of 109 miles per hour and gusts of 130 mph, Hagupit made landfall in Dolores, a coastal town facing the Pacific in Eastern Samar province, according to the Philippines’ weather agency. There were no reports of casualties.

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Mismanagement allegations at Pearl Harbor memorial that were going to just the tour companies,” he said “We tried to work that system the best we could. It was not successful.”

The practice stopped when they realized it didn’t comply with park service policy and wasn’t working as intended, he said.

By Audrey McAvoy A new ticketing system starting next month, The Associated Press DePrey said, will do a better job laying out the terms and conditions of the permits commercial PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — The USS Aritour companies operate under. The park service zona is one of the nation’s most hallowed sites, will also start scanning tickets to get data on an underwater grave for more than 900 sailors how they are being used. The problems outlined and Marines killed when Japan bombed Pearl in the reports are centered at the visitor’s cenHarbor and sank their ship in 1941. ter, which anyone visiting the Arizona and the Now, it’s the scene of alleged rampant mismemorial must pass through. The $56 million management. complex, rebuilt four years ago, explains events An internal report from the National Park leading up and during the attack with the help of Service, which operates a visitors’ center for a museum exhibits and movie screenings. memorial at the battleship, said tour companies Visitors then board boats to the white, open-air sold tickets with the knowledge of park officials memorial that sits atop the Arizona’s rusting hull. even though tickets are supposed to be free.

There are only 4,350 boat tickets available each Another pointed to substandard maintenance, day. That amounts to less than 1.6 million tickets including scuffed museum walls that languished a year, even though the park service says 1.8 milunrepaired and bird droppings that weren’t lion people visit Pearl Harbor annually. removed.

A September 2013 park service report said The revelations in documents released last there was “at minimum” no transparency in the month come just before crowds gather at Pearl way tickets were distributed.

Harbor on Sunday for an annual ceremony The report, which was obtained under the remembering more than 2,400 sailors, Marines Freedom of Information Act by the nonprofit and soldiers killed 73 years ago. group Public Employees for Environmen“To watch the desecration of a very sacred, tal Responsibility, outlined how park service very important place was very disheartening,” employees gave walk-in tickets intended for said John Landrysmith, a former park service independent visitors to commercial tour compaguide and 41-year-old Iraq war veteran. nies who then sold them.

He quit his job earlier this year after feeling his A separate internal report listed a slew of supervisor was punishing him for questioning maintenance issues. Photos from the report the ticket policy and believing the park service show peeling paint in the museum and accumufailed to act on his complaints. He intends to file lated bird droppings. a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit against the Some maintenance problems persist. Visitors park service. to the museum today will see silver duct tape Park superintendent Paul DePrey said the park securing a black ribbon with the words “Exhibit service was trying to accommodate the tour com- Temporarily Unavailable” to an empty glass case panies, which bring busloads of people each day. that once held model of the Arizona. The exhib“It was not intended for a huge glut of tickets it’s been down for a year.

Report says unauthorized tour tickets sold, substandard maintenance at museum

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LONDON — The sniper arrived at sunset with infrared binoculars and a silencer in his tennis bag. He set up his .22-caliber rifle in the back of a Victorian townhouse, cracked open the glass door and pointed the shrouded barrel toward the far corner of the narrow garden. Then he waited, his right eye glued to the scope, as the last light leaked away.

It took less than an hour. A shadow crept out of the dark and into his field of vision. A crack, barely audible amid the roar of rush hour, and the target collapsed into a lifeless heap of ginger-colored fur.

“Baby scores again,” the sniper said, patting his rifle.

He turned to his client, a 37-year-old mother of two who had come in from the kitchen: “Do you have a bin bag?”

Britain has the world’s highest known density of urban foxes, the result of their self-colonization in cities here since the 1930s. There are now more foxes in London than double-decker buses: an estimated 10,000 roam streets and gardens, often in plain view.

Like the raccoons and coyotes that bedevil U.S. city dwellers, foxes mate noisily, leave smelly droppings, dig up flower bulbs, rifle through trash and occasionally attack pets or people. They have been vilified for killing penguins and flamingo chicks in the London Zoo, and, once, for biting off a baby’s finger.

“They may appear cuddly and romantic, but foxes are also a pest and a menace, particularly in our cities,” Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, said after the finger incident last year. When his own cat appeared to have been mauled by a fox, Johnson got so angry, he said he wanted to “go out with my .22 and blaze away.”

The subject rouses great passions in a country that invented fox hunting in the 18th century, but also has the world’s longest tradition of animal rights. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in 1824, nine years before the British Empire abolished slavery. Today, a donkey sanctuary in Devon attracts more donations per year than the three most prominent British charities dealing with violence against women combined. Clare, a lawyer and mother of three who also had the foxes in her garden shot, did not want her last name published, saying “there are probably more people who want to shoot people who shoot foxes, than people who want to shoot foxes.”

That is why Phil the fox sniper also asked that his last name not be published. “I don’t want anyone to do my tires or firebomb my house or, you know, dig up my granny,” he said, referring to a campaign in 2004 against a farmer breeding guinea pigs for medical research, which included the disinterment of his mother-in-law.

But foxes have at least as many fans as enemies here.

Some Londoners feed them regularly. Others wire up their garden with night vision and cameras to stream videos online. Facebook pages like Urban Fox Defenders (“A page for those who are sick of the reckless and mindless demonization of our town foxes”) have thousands of likes.

When 9-month-old twins Lola and Isabella Koupparis were hospitalized with face and arm injuries after a fox entered their North London bedroom in 2010, their mother received so many online threats for giving foxes a bad name that she was provided police protection.

Terry Woods and Sandra Reddy care for Beau, a fox suffering from mange, at the Fox Project, a charity in Tunbridge Wells, England.

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“26 MILES”: Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie Camino Real Productions presents a coming-of-age tale by playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, 2 p.m., $15-$18, 4241601, teatroparaguas.org, runs Fridays through Sundays to Dec. 14.

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GAYLE LAURADUNN: Op. Cit. Books, Sanbusco Center, 500 Montezuma Ave., 505428-0321. The poet reads from her debut collection, 2 p.m.

HAMPTON SIDES: Jean Cocteau Cinema. The local author reads from In the Kingdom of Ice, 4 p.m., Q & A follows, $10 general admission, $5 with purchase of paperback, no charge with purchase of hardback.

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2 hostages killed as rescue effort fails the U.S. commandos raided four and eavesdropping technology, houses, killing at least two mili- had pinpointed the location of tants but also eight civilians. He Somers and one other Western said one of the civilians killed hostage inside the compound, he said in a statement.

By Kareem Fahim was a 70-year-old man. according to a senior miliand Eric Schmitt The raid Saturday, however, “The shooting caused panic,” tary official who provided an The New York Times may have doomed an effort by al-Daghari said. “Nine of the account of the operation. The a South African aid group to dead are from my tribe.” official spoke on the condition SANAA, Yemen — U.S. free Korkie. Gift of the Givers, He added that villagers had of anonymity to discuss classicommandos stormed a vila South African relief organiza- spent the rest of Saturday bury- fied operations. lage in southern Yemen early tion that has projects in Yemen, ing the dead and collecting The operation Saturday began Saturday in an effort to free said it had successfully negotispent bullet casings. at about 1 a.m., The SEAL Team an American photojournalated the teacher’s release, and U.S. officials said they acted 6 commandos, joined by a small ist held hostage by al-Qaida, he had been expected to be while facing a perilous deadline number of Yemeni counterterbut the raid ended in tragedy, freed by the militants Sunday. and a tiny window of opporrorism troops, swept toward with the kidnappers killing U.S. officials said they were not tunity. Somers’ captors said the village aboard V-22 Osprey the American and a South aware of those arrangements. in a video statement released tilt-rotor aircraft under cover of African held with him, U.S. Somers had been part of a Wednesday that they would kill darkness. They landed several officials said. group of freelance journalists him by Saturday unless a set of hundred yards from the comThe hostages — Luke who covered the aftermath of unspecified demands were met. pound in an effort to remain Somers, an American photoYemen’s 2011 uprising and had The ultimatum appeared to undetected. journalist, and Pierre Korkie, stayed on, working as a freebe largely a response to the first Their effort faced steep odds. a South African teacher — lance editor at English-language raid, on Nov. 25, an operation The compound, which was in a were killed by their captors, publications and as a photoled by U.S. Special Operations remote, hilly area, surrounded militants from al-Qaida in the journalist. He was kidnapped in Commandos on a cave near by scrub, was guarded by about Arabian Peninsula, when they September 2013 while walking Yemen’s border with Saudi Arahalf a dozen gunmen, already realized the rescue effort was on a street in Sanaa, Yemen’s bia. The commandos freed eight jittery about a possible repeat underway. President Barack capital. Shortly before his death, other hostages and killed seven of the previous rescue attempt.

Obama said he had authoSomers’ family released a video militants, but found no sign of And the approach to the comrized the operation, led by in which they pleaded with his Somers, who apparently had pound was sufficiently difficult about three dozen U.S. Navy captors to release him, while been moved in the days before that the commandos had virSEAL Team 6 commandos, insisting they had no prior the operation. tually no element of surprise, after concluding that Somers’ knowledge of the first rescue By Saturday, though, the which they typically plan for life was in “imminent danger.” attempt.

United States had tracked him and rely on. The commandos It was the second failed In the village where the raid to a walled compound in the were detected when they were operation by U.S. forces to took place, in the southern provvillage in southern Yemen. less than 100 yards from the rescue Somers from Yemen in ince of Shabwah, a tribal leader, U.S. intelligence, including spy compound. It was not clear less than two weeks. Despite Tarek al-Daghari al-Awlaki, said satellites, surveillance drones what alerted the militants. the deaths of the hostages, as well as several Yemeni civilians, Obama said his administration would not back down from using military power to Santa Fe Spirits free its captured citizens.

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U.S. photojournalist, South African teacher killed by captors during covert operation President Ashraf Ghani with U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday. The U.S. military will keep as many as 1,000 extra troops in Afghanistan through early next year. MARK WILSON/POOL VIA THE NEW YORK TIMES

1K extra troops will remain in Afghanistan part because of Afghanistan’s long delay in signing a longterm security agreement with KABUL, Afghanistan — The allies.

U.S. military will keep as many Hamid Karzai, the former as 1,000 extra troops in Afghani- Afghan president, refused to stan through early next year, sign the security deal a year ago, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and it was further delayed by said Saturday, a response to a this year’s contentious presidenslower-than-expected force tial election. It was only after commitment from NATO allies. the Afghan Parliament formally The revelation came during ratified those agreements, a trip to Afghanistan by Hagel, signed by Ghani, that some of who made a point of saying the the coalition nations felt comadditional soldiers were not fortable with troop commita response to several months ments. of intense Taliban violence.

Hagel made it clear during Instead, the extra deployments his comments, delivered at a appear to be intended to meet news conference with Ghani, personnel requirements neces- that the extra troops would be sary to maintain bases across in Afghanistan only temporarthe country, including Kandahar ily. He said President Barack Airfield.

Obama had granted the military The agreement to commit the flexibility to bridge the gap more than the scheduled until coalition nations could 9,800 troops originally promdeploy their troops. ised reflects the successful “But the president’s authoefforts of President Ashraf rization will not change our Ghani to rekindle warm relatroops’ missions, or the longtions between Afghanistan and term timeline for our drawthe United States. down,” he added. That timeline European nations have been calls for a reduction to 5,500 troops by the end of 2015. slow to commit the troops in

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Coal: For those who choose to stay in Harlan County, it’s a struggle Many feel they can’t afford to wait and see if these efforts bear fruit.

When she and Scottie were teens, Madonna Sizemore remembers, cruisers encircled the parking lot at the Village Center mall and spilled out onto U.S. 421. Today, parking is no problem; at one end of the half-empty strip, the anchor store is a Goodwill.

Scottie Sizemore has been sharing an apartment with another transplanted Harlan Countian. But if all goes well, he hopes Madonna and the children will join him soon.

His wife blinks back tears as she contemplates saying goodbye to her parents, who are elderly and sick. She hates the idea of having to leave, but she knows her beloved hills can’t shield the next generation from the harsh economic realities in Harlan County.

Continued from Page A-1 environmental, political — coal mining will not rebound this time.

A thought on many people’s minds is captured in a display in the windows of a vacant furniture store up the road in the once bustling town of Cumberland: “WHAT NEXT,” it says.

If coal is really done, what, if anything, could replace it?

State and federal initiatives are exploring everything from ecotourism and small farmer loans to regional tax incentives for job creators. Others are still praying for a regulatory climate change that will breathe new life into the region’s mines.

For Scottie Sizemore and his wife, Madonna, the answer is simple, if painful. They’re leaving.

“I feel in my heart that there is no hope for Harlan. There’s no hope for our children in the future here,” Madonna Sizemore says, tears filling her eyes.

“And I hate that.”

Uncertain future

‘A hard pill to swallow’ On the peeling white wall above the dilapidated Lynch High School auditorium stage, someone has scrawled a defiant message in bold, red letters 3 feet high: “HARLAN IS MORE THAN COAL.” In 1924, when Italian masons built the ornate cut-stone school building for United States Steel Corp.’s model “company town,” it seemed the coal would never stop running. In its day, J.P. Morgan’s loading facilities here were the largest in the country, and Lynch had 10,000 residents.

Morgan, Henry Ford and other barons of industry were attracted by the region’s rich seams of metallurgical coal — the high-quality mineral used to make coke for steel production.

Entire cities sprang up to service the mines, but not without growth pangs: In the 1930s, the hollows and bottoms around here echoed with gunfire as union organizers and company “thugs” warred over who had the right to mine coal. The county earned a nickname that sticks to this day: “Bloody Harlan.”

Now, miner and operator alike are struggling to survive.

On a recent afternoon in the hills above the tiny coal camp of Verda, Steven “Fish” Fields crawled inside an abandoned mine he’d played in as a child. The 49-year-old laid-off miner pointed to a thick black line running along the wall: Coal.

“It runs between 8 and 9 foot high on back in the back,” he said.

He and others here wonder why they can’t mine the untapped riches beneath their feet.

The Energy Information Administration estimates that there are about 30 billion mineable tons of coal left in Kentucky — more than twice the amount pulled from the earth since settlement in the late 18th century. Nearly a third of those “recoverable reserves” are in the eastern coalfields.

But mining it comes at great cost — both financial and environmental.

The geological conditions in the Appalachians produced a coal that burned hotter and was lower in sulfur than mineral from other regions. But those same mountainous conditions now make it harder to get to under current regulations, and much more expensive to ship.

In late November, the spot-market price for Central Appalachian coal was $56.10 per ton, according to the EIA. That’s nearly $45 higher than coal from the Powder River Basin out West, where huge drag lines scoop the coal from the earth.

Most of Harlan County’s “big coal” — seams thick enough for a worker to walk upright in — has long since been mined. According to the EIA, most of what’s left — 9.1 billion tons — can only be realistically gotten by surface or “strip” mining.

Around here, the most cost-effective method is “mountaintop removal,” in which the hills are blasted apart to expose the coal beneath. But stricter interpretation of clean water and other regulations by the Environmental Pro-

A mural of a coal miner stands in an empty storefront as signs advertising vacant apartments and stores hang in the windows along the main business street in Cumberland, Ky. Harlan County’s population has shrunk along with the coal industry, to around 28,000, its lowest since 1920. DAVID GOLDMAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

tection Agency and the courts in recent years has all but ended the practice.

It’s part of what critics like C.V. Bennett III call President Barack Obama’s “war on coal.”

Bennett’s family has been running mines in Harlan County for 102 years.

But unless the government backs off considerably, he’s not sure they’ll last another five.

“It’s kind of like being a ship adrift in the middle of the ocean,” says Bennett, 63, who’s done about every job underground from rock-dusting to shoveling the belts. “But you just keep hoping you’re going to hit land somewhere and somebody will see the plight of where this country’s going.”

Since January 2012, the state has lost more than 7,000 direct mining jobs; fully half of the coal jobs in eastern Kentucky have vanished in the past five years. During the period, Bennett’s workforce has dropped from more than 600 to fewer than 200.

“That hurts me more than anything else, is seeing people I’ve known and grown up with,” he says. “To have a future and then all of a sudden to have that future jerked out from underneath them — with no hope of it ever coming back.”

When Fields was laid off five years ago, he says he was making $25.50 an hour. His last job was with his family’s T-shirt printing business — at $10 an hour.

He and wife Debra have been getting by largely on her salary as a cook for the county schools. Despite lungs choked with coal dust, Fields yearns to go back underground.

“It’s a hard pill to swallow when you’re laying at home and your wife’s supporting you, instead of you supporting your wife,” he says, huffing and coughing.

His older brother went to Alabama looking for work in the mines. Fields is contemplating following him.

Many are facing that same difficult choice.

Difficult decisions Madonna Sizemore balances the baby on her hip as daughter Bryannah walks by with an armful of freshly laundered coveralls, their reflective strips shining, and tosses them into the back seat of the idling pickup truck.

“I’ve got to go,” Scottie Sizemore says as he leans in to kiss 10-month-old Anastyn. “You all be careful.”

“YOU be careful,” his wife says.

Madonna Sizemore watches as Scottie’s truck rumbles over the railroad tracks and crosses the river, following the setting sun westward. By morning, he’ll be back at work underground — 340 miles and a world away.

In October, Scottie took a job as safety specialist with Patriot Coal in the newly booming mines of western Ken-

tucky. He’s not alone.

Since last year, the Harlan County Community Action Agency has given 75 workers up to $5,000 each in relocation grants, says executive director Donna Pace. Many, like Scottie Sizemore, have moved to western Kentucky.

For more than a century, eastern Kentucky outproduced the state’s western coalfields. But in the past year, the balance has shifted to the west, where seams are shallower and thicker, but higher in sulfur.

Smokestack scrubbers allow modern power plants to burn the dirtier coal. With easy access to river barge networks, western Kentucky mines are selling their coal for about $12 less per ton than their Appalachian competitors.

Unlike so many others, Sizemore hadn’t been laid off. But the company he was working for had cut salaries 7½ percent and was preparing to take another 7 percent.

With a mortgage and five children to support, the choice was clear.

“You can sit here and take the cuts,” he says. “Or you can choose to move and continue making the money you’re used to making.”

Still, the change is hard. To Donnie Reeves, leaving Harlan County felt like “just giving up.”

When he was laid off last year, Reeves applied for federal study grants and entered an industrial maintenance course. The 41-year-old is now making good money in his new job maintaining heavy equipment at Aichi Forge — one of the many parts manufacturers that have sprung up around Toyota’s sprawling auto plant in Georgetown.

Reeves says life is pretty good in the Bluegrass region — famed for its rolling pastures, horse farms and tobacco fields. But he misses being able to step out his back door and hike up into the hills. He misses going “ginsenging” and riding his four-wheeler on the blacktop.

“It makes you a little bit bitter,” he says. “That you can’t stay where you want to be.”

Between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II, Harlan County’s population grew nearly eight-fold, to a peak of 75,275. Today, it’s around 28,000 — the lowest since 1920.

For those who have chosen to stay behind, it has been a struggle.

In the past two years, Keith Johnson was laid off from one coal company, then moved to another, only to have it close. At 43, he’s gone from being a foreman making about $100,000 a year to a common miner at $20 an hour.

“I had four W-2’s last year,” he says with a laugh.

Johnson, 43, is paying on a $20,000 hospital bill incurred while working at a company that offered no insurance.

He’s spent about $40,000 from his retirement fund to stay in Harlan, at least until his son graduates from high school this spring.

And he considers himself one of the lucky ones.

Eddie Jones, 56, hunches in front of a flickering computer screen at the Kentucky Career Center in Harlan. Nearby hangs a poster with a photo of a man in a hard hat and the acronym “H.O.M.E.” — Hiring Our Miners Everyday.

The official unemployment rate here was 11.4 percent in September, but that figure only counts those still actively looking for work. Nothing in these hills could hope to compare with what these largely high school-educated men earned in the mines.

This particular day, Jones prints out paperwork for a railroad welding job in Corbin, more than an hour away.

Jones was laid off in May 2013. To stay near family, he’s been making do with odd jobs — painting, digging ditches, mowing grass.

He’s angry that Congress failed to extend his unemployment beyond 26 weeks. He’s aggravated with local politicians who couldn’t get the roads and infrastructure that might have made Harlan County more attractive to businesses other than coal.

“They’ve bailed out every entity in the country,” he says. “The banking industry. The airline industry. The car industry. Everybody but the American worker.”

He has a right to be angry, Jason Bailey says.

The director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, Bailey says that for years, a major focus was to develop former mine sites into industrial parks.

But many of those parks and spec buildings were soon abandoned — or never occupied at all.

Government has found ways to help tobacco farmers and redwood loggers transition away from those industries, says Bailey. This region must be compensated for the cost it has borne “in providing the cheap power that built the modern American economy.”

“The region has paid it in spoiled water and degraded land and black lung disease, broken backs, torn-up roads, blasted mountains,” he says, noting these issues make it harder to diversify.

“I think there is a debt owed.”

Harlan County is included in one of President Obama’s “Promise Zones,” giving the region priority to access federal money to create jobs and improve educational opportunities. There is also the federal-state SOAR Initiative — Shaping our Appalachian Region.

At a recent gathering in Natural Bridge State Resort Park, working groups presented a series of ideas, ranging from tax incentives to lure companies to the region, to small loans to help farmers connect with markets. Late last month, the group’s executive board voted to support legislation to establish an economic development fund with revenue from taxes on income, sales or each ton of coal mined in the state.

Just six years ago, Harlan County High opened — a gleaming, multimillion-dollar facility taking in students from dying schools in other parts of the county. But enrollment is down by about 10 percent from a first-year high of 1,150. It is part of a troubling trend.

Since 1980, the county has lost nearly half of its under-35 population. The 20-24 age group in the area is projected to decline by about a quarter by the year 2050, according to the University of Louisville.

“It’s a whole generation that doesn’t have anywhere to go exactly,” says Robert Gipe, director of Appalachian studies at Southeast Community College & Technical College, up the road in Cumberland.

No one is saying that mining will cease altogether here — at least not anytime soon. But when you’ve been so dependent for so long, there are bound to be withdrawal pains — and denial.

On the third floor of HCHS, a large poster hangs on the wall down the hall from Tami Brock’s classroom. It depicts the many benefits derived from the black mineral. “Coal is America’s Future,” it declares.

But fewer and fewer of Brock’s students believe that.

“Probably 20 percent of my kids’ parents are laid off,” says Brock, who taught at Cumberland High before it closed and merged with Harlan County. “The way the coal industry is, it kind of comes in waves. But there’s never a big wave that stays. It just doesn’t stay anymore.”

On a recent Friday, Brock assembled a group of eight students in her classroom. When asked how many have a close family member who’s worked in the mines, every hand went up.

Senior Chelsea Niday, 18, says her father found another position within about a month after a recent layoff. But she worries about the next time.

Next fall, she hopes to go to Eastern Kentucky University. She doubts she’ll come back to Harlan County.

“There’s just really nothing here for me to do,” she says. “I don’t think I could possibly make a living here.”

But not everyone in this classroom has given up on coal — even if they’ve given up on Harlan County.

After graduation, Travis Fields, 18, plans to get his miner’s papers and relocate to western Kentucky.

“It’s going to be a ghost town,” he says of Harlan. “There ain’t going to be nobody left — only the people that draw checks.”

That night, as the Harlan County High Black Bears football team storms the field at Coal Miners’ Memorial Stadium, a cannon booms and a loudspeaker blasts the chorus of Darrell Scott’s ballad, “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive!”

The home-team stands are barely a third full.

During a timeout in the second quarter, the announcer breaks in.

“Ladies and gentlemen, you know why these lights are on tonight? It’s because of coal! This is coal country,” he shouts.

“Would all the coal miners in this stadium stand up?”

A handful of men rise, some still dressed in their reflective coveralls.

The sparse crowd whoops and rattles cowbells.

GOP: Chairwoman says fundraising will be one of her primary goals Continued from Page A-1 consultant Jay McCleskey — raised and spent more than $1 million in this year’s election cycle, according to its campaign finance report filed last week.

Martinez’s own political action committee, Susana PAC, which contributes to Republican candidates and pays for Martinez’s political travel, has spent more than $500,000 this calendar year.

Fundraising by state party organizations also has been dwarfed by individual candidates’ campaigns, as it has been since at least the era of Gov. Bill Richardson. This year, Martinez spent more than $8.5 million on her success-

ful re-election effort.

Lonna Atkeson, a political science professor at The University of New Mexico, said state political parties across the nation don’t have nearly the power and influence they did in the past.

“The parties are not raising nearly the money they once did, especially the state parties,” she said. That’s largely because political action committees and other independent expenditure groups have taken up the slack.

Former state GOP chairman Harvey Yates said the state’s campaign finance laws as well as Supreme Court rulings such as Citizen’s United have given virtually unlimited fundraising powers to PACs and other independent

expenditure groups. That, he said, has “resulted in some PACs, for which no one appears to have much continuing responsibility, being able to raise and expend unlimited funds, while the political parties, which do bear continuing responsibilities, have very restrictive fundraising and expenditure limits placed on them. In my opinion, this is not a propitious circumstance for political parties or for the American electorate.” Yates was party chairman from late 2008 to late 2010.

Former Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, a past state Democratic Party chairwoman, agreed. “Parties need a whole new structure. With all the new PACs, there’s no reason [for contributors] to put money into the parties.”

The numbers back up their contentions.

Maestas said fundraising will be one of her primary goals.

“The party’s goal, their responsibility, is to raise money so that we can support our candidates who are out there running,” she said.

The party organization isn’t just to provide the platform to run on, she added. “We’re the back office. We need to be strong, to make sure that candidates, the county chairs have what they need.”

In the chairmanship race, Maestas got 247 votes. Political consultant Max Barnett got 110 votes, and Rick Lopez, chairman of the Torrance County GOP, got 87 votes.

Maestas most recently worked on her father’s unsuccessful campaign for U.S. Senate. She also worked as president and chief operating officer of her father’s company, CSI Aviation.

Maestas agreed that PACs have become increasingly important.

“But for fundraising, though, I think that we are missing an element in the middle,” she said. “In campaigns, you have your major donors, you have your donors who are $5, $10 donors, but you have a whole middle that also believes in the cause [who] can also be donors.”

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

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Fines: More penalties could come as leak investigation continues “ The health and safety of New Mexicans will always be our priority and we have to

Continued from Page A-1 labs and cutting-edge scientific facilities, and we have important rules in place to protect those facilities, the people who work there, and all New Mexicans,” Gov. Martinez said in a statement. “The health and safety of New Mexicans will always be our priority and we have to hold federal agencies accountable for safe operations in the state of New Mexico.”

The orders detailed more than 30 violations of state permits surrounding the Feb. 14 leak of a drum of nuclear waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. At least 20 workers were contaminated in the accident, and the underground facility was forced to close for what could be several years. Federal officials have estimated it will cost $550 million in repairs before the plant can be reopened.

The state cited LANL with 24 violations and fined it $36.6 million. WIPP was hit with 13 violations and fined $17.7 million. They could be just the first of more fines and civil penalties as the investigation continues, the state said.

The orders detail a series of procedural and oversight failures at LANL that allowed more than 600 containers of nuclear waste containing nitrate salts to be mixed with organic kitty litter and acid neutralizers. The combination, the state said, “could lead to or cause the generation of extreme heat, pressure, fire, explosions or violent reactions; or a threat to human health or the environment.” The lab also failed to properly label the containers before trucking them to WIPP for storage and failed to notify the state of changes to the way the waste was being handled, the state said.

Emails between the lab, contractors and WIPP gathered during a six-month investigation by The New Mexican revealed that the lab in 2013 took shortcuts in treating at least one particular drum of highly acidic waste, violating its own internal procedures by using acid neutralizers and organic absorbents that created a volatile combination of ingredients that one lab analyst later described as akin to plastic explosives. The lab failed to note the highly acidic nature of the waste or the use of neutralizers in documents accompanying the drum sent to WIPP, and the lab said in those documents that it had used clay-based absorbents rather than the organic variety, which can act as a fuel in the event of a chemical reaction.

It was that drum that later ruptured in an underground chamber at WIPP, sending temperatures inside the room up to 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit, threatening dozens of other nuclear waste drums stacked nearby.

Still unanswered in Saturday’s orders is why the lab switched to organic kitty litter in the first place. Speculation inside the lab and at WIPP is that the change came as a result of a typographical error made during a 2012 revision of a LANL manual on handling waste. According to one of the orders, a waste team at WIPP told waste handlers at the lab in 2012 to stop using the organic kitty litter, but that didn’t happen.

Lab officials say they are still trying to determine what sparked the chemical reaction that caused the drum to rupture, but they say they have ruled out the combination of the highly acidic waste and the organic absorbent and neutralizer.

WIPP was penalized for accepting the waste and failing to make sure the paperwork with the waste containers was complete and accurate.

State Environment Department Secretary Ryan Flynn said there doesn’t need to be a conflict between fulfilling the laboratory’s mission and protecting the environment. “DOE now has an opportunity to learn from these mistakes and implement meaningful corrective actions that will ensure the longterm viability of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Flynn said in a letter to Los Alamos officials.

He wrote a similar letter to officials at WIPP, saying New Mexicans understand the nuclear repository’s importance but that it must be operated and maintained with “the highest standards of safety and complete transparency.”

Moniz has said repeatedly that it’s a top priority for his agency to get WIPP on track, and he

hold federal agencies accountable for safe operations in the state of New Mexico.”

Gov. Susana Martinez took steps earlier this year to shift oversight of the cleanup work at Los Alamos from the National Nuclear Security Administration to his agency’s Office of Environmental Management.

Some operations have resumed at WIPP, and about 50 staff a day have been going into the underground to continue assessing contamination and work on a cleanup plan, according to officials in a Thursday briefing.

It wasn’t immediately clear Saturday whether the Department of Energy or the contractors would seek a hearing on the penalties levied by New Mexico or pursue settlement negotiations. The agency and contractors did not respond Saturday to emails and phone messages seeking comment.

Don Hancock of the nonprofit Southwest Research and Information Center, a watchdog group, said the penalties were a good start but that more needs to be done.

“I would hope Los Alamos and WIPP will just pay the fines and not contest them,” Hancock said. “Second thing is, if WIPP and Los Alamos continue to behave badly and try to negotiate it down, I hope the state won’t let them.”

“There are a lot more violations than they cite in these two orders,” Hancock added. “For the good of everybody, LANL and WIPP should get on with complying with the state’s orders.”

Hancock said the fines should be paid out of liability insurance for the private contractors Los Alamos National Security and Nuclear Waste Partnership. “It shouldn’t come from taxpayers,” he said.

If the fines are paid, Hancock hopes the state will insist that

the Department of Energy and the private contractors specify where the money is coming from.

New Mexico says it doesn’t want the money to come from federal dollars marked for environmental cleanup or operational needs at the two facilities.

Allowing that, Flynn said in his letters, “only serves to punish New Mexico for DOE’s own mistakes.”

Federal officials are expected to release a final accident investigation report before the end of the year. They have already said that cleanup and resuming full operations at WIPP could take years. The price tag has been estimated at a half-billion dollars.

Longtime lab champion Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., agreed that any fines shouldn’t come out of the Energy Department’s cleanup funds and that “those responsible should not get bonuses or rewards for their mistakes.”

“The action the state has taken is appropriate and shows why I have long fought for state environmental authority over WIPP waste operations. WIPP and LANL are a vital part of New Mexico’s economy and our national security, and with such high stakes, there is no room for error or denial,” Udall said.

Greg Mello of the watchdog group Los Alamos Study Group, said there are a variety of ways the penalties won’t actually be assessed against the Energy Department or the contractors.

“The state could accept corrective action in lieu of a fine, which means the contractor will get more work and money to make up for work they didn’t do correctly in the first place,” Mello said. “The contractor could pass on all the fines to the taxpayer.

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Contractors not having to pay for their mistakes is one reason they have so many mistakes.”

The state’s investigation has covered the radiological release as well as a fire nine days earlier that involved a truck carrying salt in an another area of the underground facility. The state says its findings confirmed the existence of major procedural problems that contributed to

the events.

A federal Accident Investigation Board earlier released reports on both accidents in WIPP and found numerous errors that led to the fire and radiological release.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Contact Staci Matlock at 986-3055 or smatlock@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow her on Twitter @stacimatlock.

ON THE WEB u For more information on Los Alamos National Laboratory’s role in the radioactive leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, including previous articles and related documents, visit http:// www.santafenewmexican.com/ special_reports/from_lanl_to_ leak/ u Find PDF versions of the full compliance orders against WIPP and LANL with this story at www.santafenewmexican.com.

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Next: Report on turnaround suggests school has less autonomy now second language. And all of the students are eligible for free or The money was also used to reduced lunch, a federal indicaprovide more teacher training. tor of poverty.

As part of that, teachers were The staff remains optimisrequired to take part in two tic that they can keep up the weeks of professional developmomentum even without the ment courses before the start of extra money. “It’s like we never every school year. lost a step,” said fifth-grade The investment paid off: teacher Tim Abeyta.

Within three years, reading But they know that won’t be proficiency rose to 41 percent easy. “We have to squeeze that and math to 42 percent, and the extra hour of instructional time school’s state grade rose from into the regular schedule,” one an F to a C. English-language teacher said. learners, who make up twoThere are other challenges thirds of the school’s students, — this year Ramirez Thomas also improved in reading from dropped down to a D in the 14 percent proficiency in 2011 to state’s A-F grading system, miss30 percent proficiency in 2014. ing a C rating by a small fraction The turnaround at Ramirez — about 0.5 percent — when it Thomas was detailed in a new came to the academic progress study released last month that of its highest performing stusaid money invested smartly in dents. That grade has shaken low-achieving schools can make up some members of the staff, a difference. according to Romero, and the The study, titled “RTE Public Education Department Turnaround: The Educators’ recently visited the school to Views,” relied on statistics and review the data and offer help. interviews with more than Ramirez Thomas was one 30 employees at the school to of nine New Mexico public specifically explain how the schools — and the only one money empowered the staff to in Santa Fe — to share a total devote more time, cooperation of $11.3 million in federal and guidance to their students School Improvement Grants and one another. It was conin 2010 to turn things around. ducted by the Nebraska-based Those schools were given four Mammel Family Foundation. options: “Yes, money definitely made u They could close and transa difference,” Nancy Mammel, fer students to better performprogram director of the founda- ing schools. tion, which supports education, u They could become a charsaid in an email. “This report ter school or be taken over by an shows what worked from the education management group. teachers’ perspective and where u They could totally transmoney should continue to be form. The most popular choice invested.” for struggling schools nationThe report makes it clear that wide, this option required the leadership of Noble (who schools to replace their prinhas since relocated to Colorado cipal, start a new teacher and is taking a year off from evaluation system, provide prowork), combined with the time fessional development opporspent building trust between tunities and create new support teachers and students, also services for students. played a positive role. u The fourth option — the “A lot of the things we did, we “turnaround” model — was couldn’t have done without the what Santa Fe Public Schools money,” Noble said in a phone chose for Ramirez Thomas. interview.

It was the only school in the But the three-year grant state to take this approach. ended last school year, leaving This option includes many the staff to work double time to components of the transformabridge gaps in programs. In a tion model, with a few added recent interview, current Princi- requirements. pal Vanessa Romero and teachTeachers had to reapply for ers at the school said they are their jobs, and the school had doing their best to keep some to replace at least 50 percent of the grant initiatives going, of its teachers before moving including professional develop- forward, which caused disment, one-on-one tutoring for may among some who were students and extra time spent replaced — though they found on collaborative teaching plans. jobs in other schools in the disWhat they cannot replace is trict. the additional hour of instrucIn addition, any principal of tional time that students a turnaround school who had received every day as a result of been on the job more than two the grant money. Teachers were years had to go. Noble was paid extra for that time, and that given an exception because she money doesn’t exist now. Also had been on the job less than gone are the learning coach and a year. At that time, she hired parental liaison, though Dean Romero as her assistant princiof Students Kevin Dutcher has pal, but the district reassigned added the liaison job to his list Romero to Salazar Elementary of duties to keep the school’s School midway through the parents engaged. turnaround project. When Among the challenges the Noble left the district at the end school faces is its student of the last school year, she and demographics: For two-thirds Ramirez Thomas staffers sucof the students, English is a cessfully lobbied the district to

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bring Romero back as the new principal.

Research on the effectiveness of the turnaround model is mixed. A 2013 report by the U.S. Department of Education said two-thirds of the nation’s schools using the turnaround model have made considerable gains. But the other third actually moved backward.

The Mammel report suggests Ramirez Thomas has less autonomy now than it did under the federal grant, and that the rigor of the state’s new teacher evaluation system may pull the principal’s focus off sustaining the model created with the turnaround funds.

Speaking by phone from Colorado, Noble said she thought the teacher evaluation system could add an element of unhealthy competition to the atmosphere of cooperation Tim Abeyta’s fifth-grade class reads for 45 minutes at Ramirez Thomas Elementary School on between teachers — though it Friday. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN is too early to tell whether that will be true.

She said the school has to aim for its students to be more than “40 percent proficient in reading and math.”

“It’s like a ceiling that southside schools have hit,” she said.

“We have to break through.

That has got to be the vision Assisted Independent and the focus. The goals Ramirez Thomas set up during Living Living the turnaround — using data to help students, setting a positive culture, parental involvement and professional development — that work has got to be done despite monetary factors.”

Romero and the teachers believe they can do it. They said the federal money built a tightknit community dedicated to fulfilling Noble’s mission. The school got a little help last week from Mammel herself, who donated $20,000 to the school.

Of course that is only a fraction of what they received under the grant. As third-grade teacher Maria Martinez put it, “The vision is still there. But it’s a little tougher to get there.”

Contact Robert Nott at 986-3021 or rnott@sfnewmexican.com.

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Indicting a police officer is uncommon occurrence Successful cases involve cops trying to cover up actions

By David B. Caruso The Associated Press

NEW YORK — At least 400 people are killed by police officers in the United States every year, and while the circumstances of each case are different, one thing remains constant: In only a handful of instances do grand juries issue an indict-

ment, concluding that the officer should face criminal charges.

Successful prosecutions generally involve officers who have lied about what they’ve done, tried to cover up their actions, or used excessive force to inflict punishment.

Even as protesters took to the streets Wednesday to decry the failure of a grand jury to indict an officer who used a fatal chokehold on an unarmed man in New York City, a grand jury in South Carolina voted to bring murder charges against Richard Combs, a small town police chief who

fatally shot an unarmed man who had come to Town Hall to contest a traffic ticket.

Earlier this year, a grand jury in North Carolina indicted a Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer for fatally shooting a former college football player who was knocking on doors looking for help after he drove his car off the road.

And a police officer in North Augusta, S.C., was indicted in August on a charge of misconduct in office after he shot a 68-year-old man who had failed to pull over for a traffic stop, and instead drove home.

It is difficult to generalize about why some cases lead to criminal charges, while others do not, but history shows that jurors may have less sympathy for officers who are guilty of more than just poor judgment during a crisis.

Police who get caught lying tend to get charged. So do those who use force to inflict punishment rather than to protect themselves, or who instigate confrontations for reasons that seem personal, rather than professional.

“If an officer goes rogue, really, and is acting personally, and not as an officer of the law,

that’s when you’ll see a criminal charge,” said Candace McCoy, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

Philip Matthew Stinson, a professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, who has been studying a database of 10,000 police arrests for various types of misconduct, said judges and juries are perfectly willing to throw the book at an officer — if they did something that went beyond their official duties, like robbing a drug dealer or using the authority of their badge to settle a personal score.

“If the jury is sitting there thinking, ‘Oh my God. A splitsecond decision like that? What would I have done? Would I have shot the guy?’ you’re not going to get an indictment,” he said.

“It’s really, really difficult to get a successful state court prosecution,” said Mary Howell, a New Orleans civil rights attorney who has represented victims of police misconduct. One reason, she said, is that prosecutors are reluctant to put the police on trial. Another is that grand juries look for a high level of proof that an officer has done wrong.

Louisiana ousts Democrat 4th term denied to conservative Senator

By Melinda Deslatte and Bill Barrow The Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. — Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy has defeated Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, denying her a fourth term and extending the GOP’s domination of the 2014 midterm elections that put Republicans in charge of Capitol Hill for the final two years of President Barack Obama’s tenure.

With Cassidy’s victory, Republicans will hold 54 seats when the Senate conBill Cassidy venes in January, nine more than they have now. Republican victories in two Louisiana House districts Saturday — including the seat Cassidy Mary now holds Landrieu — ensure at least 246 seats, compared to 188 for Democrats, the largest GOP advantage since the Truman administration after World War II. An Arizona recount leaves one race still outstanding.

In Louisiana, early returns showed Cassidy with a wide lead.

Landrieu had narrowly led a Nov. 4 primary ballot that included eight candidates from all parties. But at 42 percent, she fell well below her marks in previous races and endured a onemonth runoff campaign that Republicans dominated via the air waves while national Democrats financially abandoned her effort.

Landrieu’s defeat is a blow for one of Louisiana’s most famous political families, leaving her brother, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, to carry the banner. The GOP sweep also denied former Gov. Edwin Edwards a political comeback; the colorful 87-year-old politician, who had served four terms as governor, sought a return to public office after eight years in federal prison on corruption charges.

In the South, Democrats will be left without a single governor or U.S. senator across nine states stretching from the Carolinas to Texas. The House delegations from the same region are divided almost entirely by race, with white Republicans representing majority-white districts, while majority non-white districts are represented by black or Hispanic Democrats.

The Louisiana Senate race mirrored contests in other states Obama lost in 2012, with Landrieu, 59, joining Alaska Sen. Mark Begich, North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan and Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor in defeat.

Democrats ceded seats in Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia after incumbents opted not to run again.

Like victorious Republicans in those races, Cassidy, 57, made his bid against Landrieu more about Obama than about his own vision for the job.

An Illinois native, Cassidy made few public appearances during the runoff, seeking to avoid missteps that could change the race.

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COMMENTARY: TIMOTHY EGAN

e know President Barack Obama wants a lasting deal on immigration, something to make taxes fairer, a little help from a caveman Congress on climate change. If he’s lucky, he might get some of the above. But one thing his worst opponents have never given him, and probably never will, is respect. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. From the day he took office, his legitimacy has been challenged, his American birth has been suspect, and he’s been personally insulted, lectured, yelled at and disrespected in public, by public figures, in a way that few if any American presidents have ever faced.

The latest example of this may seem a trifle — the crude comments of a Republican congressional staffer, Elizabeth Lauten, about the first family.

She resigned after making fun of Sasha and Malia Obama last month. And while Lauten certainly proved her shortcomings as a communications director, making the story about her instead of some platitudinous deed of her boss, Rep. Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, her swift resignation was seen as validation for the last line of civility still standing in uncivilized Washington.

The impulse insults that flow from social media are invariably dismissible and often forgivable.

This is your brain without filter.

Add an extra dimension for the young and impetuous. But overlooked in Lauten’s Facebook takedown of the Obama kids was a lecture on their family values: “Dear Sasha and Malia, I get you’re both in those awful teen years, but you’re a part of the First Family, try showing a little class.

At least respect the part you play.

Then again your mother and father don’t respect their positions very much, or the nation for that matter, so I’m guessing you’re coming up a little short in the ‘good role model’ department.”

The subtext, consistent with Republican treatment of the president since Day One, is the idea that he and the first lady are not decent or normal people — expressed here as failed role models who have tarnished the positions they hold.

No one can know for sure what goes on behind closed doors in a family. But within the bubble that we can see, the Obamas have been an impressive unit, projecting an image worthy of emulation.

Michelle Obama has tried to get Americans to exercise more and eat healthy, and has reached out to the families of veterans. In public, she and her husband are a feisty, often playful and complementary couple. The kids have hardly ruffled a feather, something almost no parent of a teenager can claim of their own.

One of the things that President Obama has started is an effort to connect young men of color to mentors — the My Brother’s Keeper initiative. Family breakdown touches all races, whites increasingly. My Brother’s Keeper tries to find role models for young men coming of age at a time when two-thirds of African American families are single-parent.

Many of the people who dwell in the uglier recesses of social media, or make casual conversation among the like-minded, will not grant Obama the family man the respect he has earned, or Obama the president the dignity that comes with the office.

I want to believe this is not about race, but it sure looks that way. Barely nine months into his presidency, a Republican congressman, Joe Wilson, shouted out “You lie!” at the president in the decorous setting of a joint session of Congress — a flagrant show of disrespect for the man and the office. For this, Wilson became a hero in conservative media.

The biggest slap at the president was the smear about his birth. It’s insulting and humiliating

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Rogue officers must be swiftly punished

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support law enforcement officers and I am grateful that they are willing to risk their lives every day on the job, but I do not support rogue officers deciding that they will be judge, jury and executioner. We have seen too many instances of this here in our own state. The vast majority of officers are deeply dedicated and work within the boundaries of their job descriptions and the law.

I will not give carte blanche support to a profession where so many terrible abuses have occurred. When abuse happens it must be swiftly punished. And with regard to the grand jury in the Ferguson, Mo., case, I do not fault the jurors, but if one reads the transcript of the event, it is clear that the prosecution presented a very biased case (it is online — read it and weep).

Cathlynn Groh

Santa Fe

Offensive cartoon Last Sunday, the paper published an editorial cartoon (Glenn McCoy cartoon, B-3, Nov. 30) showing our president as a little boy, his pants down, showing a butt crack, peeing on the U.S. Constitution.

After two elections, fascists have constantly tried to delegitimize our president. Now, my hometown paper has joined the parade of wing nuts.

2015 budget, it is imperative legislators continue their commitment to Alzheimer’s research by increasing funding by $200 million. Please contact U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján to request his support. This investment today will help save millions of lives and billions of future dollars. For more information, visit www.alz. org.

Susan Heckethorn

Los Alamos

Chamber helpful I recently read Daniel J. Chacón’s blog posting, (“Business commends City Hall, chastises chamber,” On the Record, Nov. 7), with Paul Gaiptman criticizing the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce’s staff. All I can say is the gentleman must have visited on an off day. I recently attended a Coffee and Learn session sponsored by the chamber about “Marketing in 2015” presented by Rubina Cohen, and as usual, the entire staff at the chamber was friendly and helpful. Simon Brackley has put together one of the nicest teams in Santa Fe. Our Chamber of Commerce works hard to support businesses in Santa Fe, and I think additional interaction with the staff will prove me right.

John Ruybalid

Santa Fe

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Santa Fe

Winning designer On behalf of my daughter, designer Patricia Michaels, this letter is to thank everyone — The Taos News, the Taos Pueblo extended families and fans.

Michaels represents Taos Pueblo and the state of New Mexico for the big challenge she experienced with the Project Runway competition. Her achievements are endless in using her creative talents and her original designs. She recently was honored with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Arts and Design Award in New York City.

Thanks also to the Taos businesses for acknowledging her journey in the big city of New York to be honored.

Michaels’ designs extend to the making of metal and beaded jewelry to go along with her fashions.

The metalwork is assisted by her stepfather, Frank Turley, a Santa Fe blacksmith teacher. She has help from many, especially her sister, Kathleen Michaels and artist/collaborator, Amber Gaussoin. She is outgoing and loves her studio helpers.

Juanita Turley

Santa Fe

Sand Creek Thanks, truly, for running the wonderful article on the Sand Creek Massacre (“Sand Creek: Coming to grips with legacy,” Dec. 2), especially from a Native American professor at Yale. There was a significant error: Black Kettle was not killed at Sand Creek in 1864; he was killed by George Armstrong Custer’s troops at the Battle of Washita River. He was a peacemaker who accepted treaties to protect his people, and he survived the Third Colorado Cavalry’s Sand Creek Massacre on the Cheyenne reservation in 1864, the first field use of Gatling guns, directed by Col. John Chivington.

To me, this atrocity was almost matched by the slaughter of at least 1,500 Comanche horses at Palo Duro Canyon by Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie, leading the 4th U.S. Cavalry, in order to break the spirit of the Comanches and give them nothing further to fight for. Readers should read (or re-read) Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee to begin to understand the tidal wave of broken treaties, treachery and genocide visited upon Native Americans in the 19th century.

Stephen Fox

Fight Alzheimer’s In a recent blog post, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and former Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher stated that, “Alzheimer’s is the most under-recognized threat to public health in the 21st century.” Nearly 1 in 5 Medicare dollars are spent on the 500 million-plus persons living with the disease. This spending is set to increase by as much as 500 percent by mid-century.

Recognizing this growing crisis, Congress unanimously passed the National Alzheimer’s Project Act, calling for the creation of a National Alzheimer’s Plan. As a result, the National Institutes of Health created a blueprint for Alzheimer’s research.

Congress responded by providing an additional $100 million for research in the Fiscal Year 2014 budget. As Congress meets to finalize the Fiscal Year

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Amateur scold Why am I paying to read some woman’s amateur thinking and biased opinions (“Curmudgeon” Dorothy Klopf)? Can’t your newspaper afford to hire professional journalists like those in The New York Times or Post? Also, I couldn’t believe you supported a governor who has done nothing for the poorest state in the union. I’m seriously considering canceling my subscription, but then I won’t get the obits and news about all the shootings of teenagers.

Joel Ensana

Santa Fe

ew Mexicans are used to the state doing poorly on national scorecards. But here’s one area in which New Mexico got a perfect score.

In the National Institute of Money in State Politics’ scorecard for laws dealing with “independent expenditure” groups in elections, New Mexico received a perfect zero. In other words, the state doesn’t have any laws requiring any sort of expenditure disclosures by these groups that aren’t directly connected to campaigns.

A total of 24 states, including New Mexico, received grades of F from the institute. But there were only four states to receive this “perfect” score. The others being Indiana, Alabama and South Carolina.

The scores were calculated in the following areas: Does the state require reporting Steve Terrell of independent expenRoundhouse ditures?; Does the state Roundup require reporting of electioneering communications (TV and radio ads, direct mails, etc.)?; Does the state require reporting of the spender’s target (who the ads or mailers are about)?; Does the state require reporting of the spender’s position (whether the spender supports or opposes the targeted candidate)?; and does the state require reporting of contributors to independent spenders?

The answers for New Mexico, of course, are no, no, no, no and no.

According to a news release from the institute, the overall scores around the country improved between 2013 and this year because more states are requiring disclosure for independent-expenditure groups’ ads. Currently, 31 states require the disclosure of this form of spending. That’s six more than the number in 2013. Our neighbor to the west, Arizona, was one of four states the news release mentioned for seeing the most improvement in requiring disclosure.

I was talking last week to former state Sen. Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, about this report. One of the first things she noted was that all of the states surrounding New Mexico received A grades, except Oklahoma, which got a B. We’re like an island of opaqueness in a sea of transparency.

“Oh no, we’re behind Mississippi!” Feldman said, referring to a state that usually trails New Mexico in national report cards on various issues. Indeed, the Magnolia State got a score of 60 (which still is an F).

So much for the cynical old saying, “Thank God for Mississippi.”

New Mexico could improve its rating early next year if the Legislature passes a law that state Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, has been pushing for years. Wirth’s various bills through the years have addressed all those disclosure areas for independent expenditures. These bills have passed the Senate by unanimous or near-unanimous votes. However, they always seem to get bogged down in the House. Viki Harrison, executive director of Common Cause, told me a few weeks ago that next year, the bill will originate in the House. She says she’s confident that it will pass the Legislature this time and that Gov. Susana Martinez will sign it.

Good news about independent expenditures in New Mexico: Perhaps one big reason our lawmakers have not felt a big urgency to pass disclosure laws for these groups is that they haven’t been that significant in this state. Most of the spending still is done by the individual campaigns themselves.

Also, the major political action committees here do file reports with the Secretary of State’s Office. For instance, last week the Republican political action committee Advance New Mexico Now, which was active in legislative races and some statewide contests, reported spending a total of $1,045,259. The Democratic PAC Patriot Majority actually outspent Advance. Its total was $1,935,704. A committee called New Mexicans for Honest Leadership, which produced a series of mailers attacking Democrat Secretary of State candidate Maggie Toulouse Oliver in the secretary of state’s race, spent a total of $172,654 this year, all of their contributions coming from Advance New Mexico Now. But another group active in Legislative races, the Republican-friendly Goal Westpac, has not filed any disclosure reports in the state.

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

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Culture of police violence must change

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he death of Eric Garner, choked to death by a police officer in New York City, could be the impetus this country needs to find a different way to investigate the deaths of civilians at the hands of police. Even better, to reduce the number of such deaths across the country.

Garner’s death, and his last words — “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe” — were caught on cellphone camera last July. The chokehold used by Officer Daniel Pantaleo is banned by the New York City Police Department. Garner clearly was not violent and did not pose a threat. Officers left him gasping for breath on the sidewalk. His “crime” was selling individual cigarettes, called “loosies,” as a way to avoid the cigarette tax. Yet last week, despite the unjust nature of Garner’s death, a grand jury declined to indict Pantaleo.

Other cases, without video witness, depended on varying accounts or on interpretations of facts. In the case of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, shot to death in Ferguson, Mo., there were disagreements over events. With the death of Garner, there is no such dispute. The timeline is clear and vivid. And yet, no indictment, so that a trial jury could decide the officer’s guilt or innocence.

It is apparent that the current U.S. justice system cannot deliver justice for the victims of police violence. Obviously, not every person shot by officers is blameless. In many cases, officers are saving lives, including their own. But too many unarmed civilians are dying. Exactly how many is not known — the United States does not demand that law enforcement agencies keep statistics (that, by the way, should change. We need an accurate body count).

Frida Ghitis, a Miami Herald columnist, writes that, “On average, at least one person is killed by a cop every day in the U.S. In contrast, not a single one was killed in Britain last year, where police fired their guns a grand total of three times, according to The Economist. In 2011, when the FBI reported 404 justifiable law enforcement homicides in the U.S., police killed six people in Australia, two in England, six in Germany.”

While police departments must train officers how to defuse potential violence (and yes, buy body cameras for officers, as President Barack Obama suggests), there must be punishment in the most egregious cases of police overreach.

We in New Mexico have watched Albuquerque police shoot with apparent impunity at the mentally ill and homeless. In Santa Fe, the death of Jeanette Anaya, shot by a New Mexico State Police officer while trying to avoid a traffic stop, resulted in no grand jury indictment last January.

It has been said that a district attorney can indict a ham sandwich; but it is increasingly clear, no matter the evidence, that most DAs cannot or will not indict police officers. (In October, though, a Santa Fe grand jury did find two officers’ use of force unjustified in a non-fatal shooting.

District Attorney Angela “Spence” Pacheco has appointed a special prosecutor in that case.)

This lack of consequences for shootings, in New Mexico and across the country, shows the need for another way of investigating violence against civilians. Local police forces and prosecutors should not lead investigations of alleged crimes by officers. Whether the state Attorney General’s Office needs to have an investigative unit that can present evidence to the grand jury or whether independent prosecutors should be appointed as needed, the current system is too conflicted.

In Wisconsin, a new state law regarding deaths in police custody could become a model across the country. The law requires an outside agency to investigate deaths using independently gathered evidence. No more one-day cursory examinations with the resulting statement, “The shooting/ choking/beating was justified.” Police won’t investigate themselves. Evidence will be taken to a grand jury by an independent prosecutor, not someone in the local district attorney’s office who has to deal with officers daily on various matters.

This law is only a start, but we would like to see New Mexico lawmakers, or perhaps the new attorney general, see whether it can be adapted for New Mexico so that police violence no longer goes unchecked.

Citizens must believe that we are all equal before the law. Unless police officers who kill unjustly are held accountable, the essential bond between community and police will be shattered. Officers must respect citizens.

Citizens, in turn, should respect the men and women who are protecting us at risk to their lives.

Changing how the crimes are investigated is a first step toward restoring trust. Perhaps, then, Eric Garner’s death will not have been in vain.

COMMENTARY: FRED KAPLAN

Carter may be best for Defense WASHINGTON resident Barack Obama is about to nominate Ashton Carter as his fourth secretary of defense, and it’s fair to ask why the previous three burned out so quickly. Many news stories, including one in last week’s New York Times, blame it on the “resentment” bred by White House “micromanagement.” Others lament the short supply of great men and women for the vaunted position.

But such views are false or misleading — figments of a historical sentimentalism.

Harry Truman had four secretaries of defense; no one regards his White House as excessively insular. Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton each had three. Jimmy Carter is among just two presidents who got through a single term with a single defense secretary (the other was George H.W. Bush).

Does anyone recall the Carter years as a shining era for American defense policy?

Charles Stevenson, author of SECDEF: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense, notes that more than one-third of those who have held the post since it was created 67 years ago — nine out of 24 — have been fired or forced out of office. By contrast, just two secretaries of state have been ousted in the 225 years of that job’s existence.

So many Pentagon chiefs have been punted not because they were ineffective or inefficient (though some were, including, it seems, Chuck Hagel), but rather because they ran into conflicts with the president, the Congress or the military.

Stevenson says that a defense secretary has four jobs in one: manager of the Pentagon and the military, adviser to the president, war planner (when there is a war, and there often is), and diplomat to allies and adversaries. He or she has to do two or three of these jobs really well; few people can.

So what to make of Ashton Carter, reportedly the next nominee for the job? At first glance, he seems an odd

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candidate: educated in medieval history and theoretical physics, a bit of a wonk, and more than a bit arrogant — a trait that, Michael Crowley writes in Politico, “could be a warning sign in an administration that has already burned through three defense secretaries who resented White House micromanagement of their affairs.”

Let’s deal for a moment with this business of resentment and micromanagement. First, Cabinet secretaries have always complained of White House interference (and many White House officials have always complained of Cabinet secretaries’ narrow-mindedness).

The Obama White House may be more cloistered than most, but still, examine each case: Robert Gates famously disliked the politically minded young staffers in Obama’s White House, but that’s not why he resigned. He’d agreed to stay on with Obama (after serving two years under George W. Bush) and wound up staying 2½ years. He was exhausted. He also started to lose budget and policy fights for the first time, and that angered him.

Until then, far from being micromanaged, he got his way on almost everything.

His successor, Leon Panetta, lasted a year and a half, after spending 2½ years as CIA director. While at both jobs, he flew home to California almost every Thursday night and returned to Washington on Monday morning. He didn’t complain of micromanagement until he wrote his bitter memoir, but clearly his short workweek warranted some kind of supervision.

As for Hagel, his supporters blamed Obama and the White House for cutting him off. But that’s far from the majority view. Since writing my own account of his departure, one former senior official told me that, at every National Security Council meeting, Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, would ask Hagel for his views. Hagel would usually say, “I agree with John,” referring to

Secretary of State John Kerry, or “I agree with Martin,” referring to Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Obama brought him into his office for private chats on his views about fighting Islamic State or some other issue; it turned out he had no compelling views.

So, back to Carter. It’s very unlikely that he will be another Hagel. From 2011 to 2013, Carter was deputy secretary of defense — meaning, among other things, that he sat on the Deputies’ Committee meetings at the NSC, dealing with White House staff and the deputy secretaries of other departments. By all accounts, he was an active participant in those meetings: He’s a known, respected, even if sometimes argumentative, quantity.

Two questions are open. First, how skillfully will he make the move from being the guy who manages the enterprise behind the scenes to being the guy who openly makes the decisions? The two jobs require different skills, instincts and degrees of stamina. Second, what does he know about broad issues of policy, and how cogently can he express his views?

Whether Carter works out depends on what Obama wants from him. If he wants a placeholder for his final two years in office, someone who can run the Pentagon with an iron hand and a thorough knowledge of the building and the industry, Carter might be the most qualified person out there.

If he wants advice on the crises of the day, from the vantage of the top civilian official (an insider-outsider in the Pentagon), then Carter is a bit of a gamble.

(Michèle Flournoy, the former undersecretary of defense for policy, would have been a surer bet, but she dropped out of the running, citing family obligations.) At the same time, people who know Carter say he’s very smart, a fast learner and a strong advocate for whatever views he’s pushing. The question then is what he’ll be pushing.

Fred Kaplan writes for Slate.

COMMENTARY: ALEX BEAM

Jesus was single — deal with it W

hy does everyone want Jesus to be married?

It’s hard not to smile at yet another manifestation of what writer Charlotte Allen calls the “Jesus-Mary Magdalene Wedding-Industrial Complex.” Ever since Dan Brown cooked up The Da Vinci Code in his walk-up office above Water Street Books in Exeter, N.H. — you remember the movie; Audrey Tatou is a direct descendant of the JesusMary hookup — finding a mate for the Nazarene carpenter has been a top priority for “scholars” and hustlers worldwide.

According to Allen, Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King’s 2003 best-selling book, The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle, capitalized “on feminist enthusiasm for the Magdalene as an intimate of Jesus whose importance, some feminist scholars maintain, was suppressed by early churchmen who wanted an all-male Christian clergy.”

King did herself one better in 2012, brandishing a calling-card sized slip of papyrus that she called The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife. Said “gospel” was eight lines long, and its authenticity has been questioned, to put it gently. “As evidence that the real-life Jesus was married, it is scarcely more dispositive than Dan Brown’s controversial 2003 novel, The Da

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Vinci Code,” Ariel Sabar wrote in Smithsonian magazine.

Now filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and biblical scholar Barrie Wilson have whipped up a new addition to the Jesusis-married-stewpot — their hot-selling new exposé, The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus’ Marriage to Mary the Magdalene. Wilson teaches at Toronto’s York University; Jacobovici is the Geraldo Rivera of Bible documentaries, lending his name to such sensations as The Lost Tomb of Jesus, The Jesus Discovery and so on.

University of Iowa religious studies professor Robert Cargill mercilessly fricassees Jesus’ latest wedding announcement (“this latest round of absurdity”) on his blog.

Cargill explains that Jacobovici-Wilson have taken a well-known Greek text called “Joseph and Aseneth” and substituted “Jesus” for Joseph and “Mary” for Aseneth.

“Now if your first thought is, ‘What?

This is just as problematic as the ‘Bible Code’ dude, who attempts to read every passage in the Bible as an allegory for every modern event, from the invasion of Iraq to the Wall Street crash to President Obama’s election, etc.,’ then you’re right on the money,” Cargill writes.

What’s the real compulsion here? Why does Jesus have to be married or gay or be part of a “normal” family, with broth-

ers and sisters? (What’s so normal about that, I ask, as an only child?) The purpose, animated by the all-powerful secularism of our time, is to bring him down to our level.

“See, he wasn’t so special,” this line of chatter insists. He had sexual desires, he had children and grandchildren, and nephews and nieces like everyone else.

The apostolic succession is a fake, the pope is fake, yadda yadda yadda.

Maybe. Or maybe not. Jesus’ claims seem quite modest to me. He didn’t insist that his followers be unmarried, and he never inveighed against what we euphemistically call “family values.” Far from it. He obeyed the fifth commandment (“Honor thy father and mother”) and venerated the status of children at every opportunity.

So he hadn’t married by age 33; it’s not unheard of. He had other fish to fry, or at least to distribute to the multitudes.

He preached an occasionally opaque, at times translucent, message of universal love and challenged the powerful Jewish and Roman orthodoxies of his time. He doesn’t insist that you believe in him, and billions of spiritually healthy people don’t.

Let’s let Jesus be Jesus, and proceed about our business.

Alex Beam writes for The Boston Globe.

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OPINIONS MY VIEW: JERRY L. ROGERS

Park Service building should be a monument

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he outcry to preserve public access to the National Park Service’s Old Santa Fe Trail Building can no longer be ignored. This National Historic Landmark located on Museum Hill simply must remain the fundamental element of our community life and heritage that it has been for decades. But it is clear that in these times we have to ensure that it is not graduJerry L. ally taken Rogers from us by budgetary attrition. You and I and our elected representatives must create a permanent solution.

Nationally significant for its architecture, for its association with the national park idea, and as an artifact of the Hispanic culture whose history is inadequately recognized in the United States, the building has housed National Park Service rangers, historians, architects, archaeologists, ethnographers and others for 75 years. For almost 30 of those years, it has also functioned as though it were a unit of the National Park System — welcoming visitors, holding educational events and telling the story of the Northern New Mexico Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) boys who built it from scratch and the Works Projects Administration (WPA), whose artists decorated it.

The building had everything a National Park System unit has, and it preserved and communicated an important chapter of national history.

Now years of steadily constricting budgets have brought the building to the point where the Park Service fears it can no longer afford more than mere office space. With no law or national monument proclamation to require public access, a mid-level administrator’s allocation decision can deprive Santa Fe of a valuable resource, New Mexico of the equivalent of a national park, the United States of a place to tell a vital chapter of national history, and Hispanic Americans of one of the few places that acknowledges their role.

There are two ways to change this. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Reps. Ben Ray Luján, Michelle Lujan-Grisham and Steve Pearce can introduce and support legislation to make the Old Santa Fe Trail building officially the CCC/WPA National Historic Site. True, getting legislation enacted and signed into law appears to be a long shot, but a show of support by the congressional delegation would significantly increase the likelihood of success in pursuing the second way — creation of a CCC/ WPA National Monument.

The Antiquities Act of 1906 authorizes the president to create national monuments from places in the public domain that meet exacting criteria of significance. The Old Santa Fe Trail Building is in the public domain and meets these criteria.

The Santa Fe City Council, prominent conservationists, local civic and historic preservation leaders, organizations like the Historic Santa Fe Foundation, nationwide groups like the National New Deal Preservation Association, experienced park leaders like the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, newspaper readers and others have called for action.

Members of Congress, when you convene as the 114th Congress, please introduce the bill to create the CCC/WPA National Historic Site. National Park Service and Department of the Interior leaders, please propose the CCC/WPA National Monument proclamation for action by the president.

We are counting on you.

Jerry L. Rogers is a former National Park Service associate director for cultural resources, keeper of the National Register of Historic Places and Southwest regional director.

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MY VIEW: FRED BENDER

New Mexico should lead on health care O ne of the best kept secrets in New Mexico is the state’s exemplary universal health care plan: the Health Security Act. It is being promoted for enactment in the 2015 legislative session by the Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign, a coalition with a mission to create a publicly accountable health care system in New Mexico that guarantees comprehensive medical and mental health care coverage to all residents, allows for freedom of choice of provider and controls costs.

New Mexico is subject to the unsustainable health care spending of the nation’s private/public health care system that lacks transparency, and is fragmented, uncontrolled, and corrupted by the profit motive. The Center for Medicaid and Medicare reports U.S. annual health care spending in 2012 of $2.8 trillion, 17.2 percent of GDP. U.S. spending of $8,915 per person was twice that of Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development countries that have universal health care and generally better health outcomes. The U.S. still has 40 million uninsured. OECD countries

have health care systems categorized as single-payer or have hybrid public/private insurance systems governed by specified standards.

Think New Mexico — New Mexico’s preFred Bender mier nonprofit think tank — is promoting essential reforms to cut health care costs for legislation in the 2015 session.

These include: requiring transparency of hospital prices; outlawing discrimination in hospital charges; and prohibiting gag clauses between insurers and health care providers.

However, these essential, immediate cost-cutting reforms do not accomplish the longer term goal of health care for all New Mexicans at affordable cost. This is the promise of the Health Security Plan. Almost all New Mexicans would be covered through one insurance pool with resources that include hospitals, clinics, etc. Shifting private insurance to a supplemental role, as does Medicare, it essentially eliminates the costly middleman and enhances open competition

among providers. Think New Mexico reforms are incorporated.

The Health Security Act guarantees choice of provider, even across state lines, and a good benefit package that must be as comprehensive as the services offered state employees. It preserves the private delivery system and provides strong protections for retirees. It would be administered by an independent nongovernmental commission representing regions of the state, consumer and employer interests. The budget would be publicly available for public scrutiny.

Economic studies contracted in 1994 and 1997 compared the Health Security Plan with universal care models that considered managed competition using existing public programs and models relying on public programs and private insurance. Only the Health Security Plan bent the spending curve down.

Both studies concluded that hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, would be saved within five years The benefits of achieving universal healthcare at affordable cost accrue to all the functions of New Mexico society: Healthier kids learn better;

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a healthier workforce earns better; citizens and businesses no longer burdened by costly health insurance will have income to spend that will stimulate growth and create jobs.

If the Health Security Act is introduced in the 2015 Legislature and passed and approved by the governor, implementation would require at least two years, and — beginning in 2017 under the Affordable Care Act — require a waiver for state innovation to receive all federal tax credits and subsidies.

Contact your state representative and senator and urge them to vote for Think New Mexico’s reforms and the Health Security Act. If the Act is not adopted in this session, a showing of legislative and public support will set the stage for future enactment. In a growing state trend, Vermont is the first to enact universal and cost-cutting health care legislation. New Mexico should be the second.

For more on this subject, go to www.nmhealthsecurity.org and www. thinknewmexico.org/policypubs.html.

Fred Bender is a community activist who was named one of The New Mexican’s 10 Who Made a Difference in 2007.

COMMENTARY: SANDRA POSTEL

Gila River diversion an unwise choice

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y the end of the year, New Mexico must notify the U.S. Secretary of the Interior whether it will pursue the construction of a diversion project on the Gila River in the southwestern corner of the state. The Interstate Stream Commission has recommended the diversion, but New Mexico could change its mind.

Here in the arid Southwest, it’s understandably difficult to pass up a chance to secure more water for the future of our farms and communities.

Fear abounds that water shortages will crimp our economies and way of life.

Indeed, throughout the 20th century, engineers built dams, diversions, pipelines and canals to store and move water to where it was needed. Water development effectively built the West.

But a new day has arrived.

As rivers run dry, we have come to see that water has value not only when we divert it out of its channel, but also when we keep it in place. And the good news is that with more efficient water use and smarter water management, we can have healthy rivers and vibrant economies side by side.

That’s why the idea of diverting the Gila is a throwback to old thinking and an unwise choice for New Mexico.

First, sound economics argue strongly against the diversion. The estimate of construction, operation and transactional costs for the project has ballooned from some $300 million to over $1 billion. Since the agreement setting forth the terms of a diversion project provides that the federal government would contribute up to $136 million (in 2013 dollars), New Mexicans would be saddled with an enormous construction bill. One recent study estimated that if New Mexico’s cost-share amounted to $300 million (almost cer-

tainly an underestimate), water customers in southwestern New Mexico would see their annual water bills Sandra triple. If state Postel taxpayers foot the bill instead, the tab could run up as high as $900 million.

An initial appraisal released in July by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation found that none of the diversion alternatives under consideration generated long-term benefits that exceeded the estimated costs.

On the other hand, if the state backtracks on the Interstate Stream Commission decision to pursue the diversion, a much more sensible and economical option opens up: The federal government will give New Mexico $66 million to pursue local projects to make better use of the water already available. A recent study by Western Resource Advocates shows that tried-and-true conservation, recycling, efficiency improvements, and already-planned local water transfers can meet the four-county region’s water demands through 2050, with water to spare.

Second, the Gila River is a rare ecological asset that provides numerous benefits worth protecting. It boasts the healthiest cottonwood-willow forest along any river in the desert Southwest, one of the highest concentrations of breeding birds in North America, and the most intact native fish community in the Colorado River Basin. It is also home to half a dozen threatened or endangered species.

All of these values depend on the Gila’s natural pattern of flow. It’s the timing and volume of flow — highs and

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MY VIEW: BRUCE A. CONNELL

Holding to religious tenets a plus for politicians

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n a recent op-ed (“We need religious restraint in politics,” My View, Nov. 23) the writer criticized politicians who express their religious beliefs as “incompetent” and “uneducated.” He rudely admonishes them to “shut up about your faith.” He concludes, “[T]he only guarantee one has of religious freedom is to live in a secular society. This ought to be apparent to anyone who has studied the history surrounding our Constitution, and the debates involving our First Amendment.”

Concerning religion, the First Amendment states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Our Founding Fathers were trying to avoid the failures of the European countries, such

as England, France and Spain, which required a particular religious affiliation to participate in the governmental process. Article VI of the Constitution codifies this concern. However, nothing limits the free exercise of religion by those who choose to do so, including politicians.

Despite the claims of revisionist historians, our Founding Fathers were deeply religious men. We need only look at the actual documents they authored. These are available online through the Library of Congress at www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion. For example, in his Farewell Address, George Washington advised his fellow citizens that “Religion and morality were the great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties

of Men and citizens. National morality, he added, could not exist in exclusion of religious principle. Virtue or morality, he concluded, as the products of religion, were “a necessary spring of popular government.”

The second president and co-drafter of the Constitution, John Adams, was bold in stating his religious beliefs, even though he was probably admonished to “shut up.” Adams claimed that statesmen “may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.”

Perhaps if politicians today were more forthcoming about their religious beliefs, we might better appreciate their character. While I concur with the

op-ed writer that a politician’s expression of their beliefs neither guarantees nor proves anything, I’d personally prefer to have some indication, should a politician elect to proffer it. Having politicians “come out” and purport to hold themselves to an objective moral standard reflected in a religious tenet would be a refreshing break from those who deal in moral relativism. Who knows, the result just might be a more civil, less corrupt, more productive and accountable government.

Santa Fe resident Bruce A. Connell has been a practicing attorney for 40 years.

In addition to his law degree from American University, he has an MBA from Virginia Tech in finance and marketing.

A 64-year-old cancer survivor, Connell has been married for 43 years.

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Respect: Obama El Nórte celebrates Mary in December only president to show proof of birth MY VIEW: DAVÍD FERNÁNDEZ DE TAOS

¡Que Viva La Inmaculáda! ¡Que Viva San Juan Diego! ¡Que Viva La Vírgen de Guadalúpe!

tion to attend Catholic Mass.

The second of these Marian days is that of San Juan Diego, observed on Dec. 9. In the year ore than 1.5 billion 1531, which is 483 years ago, it is Catholic faithful documented and substantiated worldwide, including very many in El Nórte, are now that she who is called now Our Lady of Guadalúpe appeared in celebration of the beautito the native Mexican Indian ful Marian Feast Days of the citizen, Juan Diego, on the Hill Immaculate Conception (La of Tepeyác by Mexico City, or Inmaculada Concepción), of Tenochtitlán. She asked the San Juan Diego and of Nuestra amazed and bewildered man Señora de Guadalúpe, who is the Patroness of Mexico and the to go tell the archbishop of Americas and the Lady of Peace her desire that a temple to her would be built. for the world.

Juan Diego told her that he The first of these Decemwas not worthy and that no ber Marian Feasts is that of one would believe him. She the Immaculate Conception, gave him a sign for Archbishop focusing on the spiritual and Zumárraga, which was her own theological meaning and joy image miraculously and perarising from St. Joachim’s and manently imprinted on Juan’s St. Anne’s conceiving of their ‘tilma’ cloak garment. When the daughter, Mary, who was desarchbishop viewed the image, tined to become the mother of Jesus. Because of her destiny as he was convinced. The temple the Christ-bearer, it is an article was built, and by now the site is the magnificent Basílica de of faith in the Roman Catholic Guadalúpe in Mexico City to Church that Mary “was conceived without [original] sin” so which some 20 million pilgrims come each year; and where this that she could be the impeccable mother of Jesus the Messiah. “image not made by human This Feast Day is celebrated on hand” remains undiminished in its life and vibrancy, on Juan Dec. 8 as a Holy Day of Obliga-

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Diego’s simple tílma cloak. Pope John Paul II canonized San Juan Diego on July 31, 2000; and now this “unworthy” Mexican native man is honored and esteemed by all for his having been chosen to receive the Lady’s image and carry it to the archbishop and to all the world.

The third great December Marian Feast is that of Our Lady of Guadalupe herself. It is celebrated with highest honors that include Vespers on Dec. 11, and then her feast Dec. 12. Nuestra Señora de Guadalúpe is by now beloved, invoked, besought worldwide for her comfort and for her intercession on all the people’s behalf, with her son, Jesus.

The Guadalupan celebrations and those of the related December Marian Days are very reverent, joyful and beautiful; and these days are also intimately integral to the “sacred time” of the Church’s Liturgical period of Advent which is now in effect and which leads to the great celebration of the birth of the Christ, or Christmas.

La Guadalupana is integral to the foundation of the spiritual

and religious foundation of El Nórte. Many settlements, villages and towns are centered around her.

For example, the Taos Parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe was decreed into existence in 1833, though the first actual church building under her name was established in the year 1802, by authorization of the Bishop of Durango, Mexico. When El Nórte was subsumed into the United States in the mid-1800s, the Taos Parish, de facto, became the first Guadalupan Parish in the United States of America.

El Nórte is in many ways a centering, spiritual bedrock of the Americas, an integration of very ancient religious traditions.

The Marian Feasts of December, including Saint Juan Diego and La Vírgen de Guadalúpe, are testimony to this. And to many her feast is an opportunity to ask her intercession for the world’s poor and suffering; for those oppressed by fellow human beings; and for those afflicted by constant war and injustice.

nose and no discernable chin — the very caricature of a that Obama — alone among pampered political hack — presidents — has been forced feels that he’s in a position to to release his long-form birth comment on someone else’s record to satisfy a clutch of appearance is another quesfact-deniers. Leading the tion. attack on the president’s very The first lady cannot go on citizenship is the professional vacation without the Drudge vulgarian Donald Trump, Report hyping elaborate travel who gets away with the kind bills, playing to race insinuaof preposterous, race-based tions. But when the family of comments granted few black Sarah Palin was involved in a public figures. beer-fueled, fist-flying brawl in Trump’s displays of idiocy Alaska this year, conservative on Fox News are a staple of media did not call them out that network. I wait for the day for bad white family values or when something Trump says failures as role models. that is both stupid and incendiAnd don’t forget the assessary is held up as representative ment of Washington’s most of all white people — and he’s reliable hypocrite, the shameasked to apologize for his race. less Newt Gingrich. “What Also on Fox, Sean Hannity if [Obama] is so outside our recently blamed President comprehension, that only if Obama for the troubles in Fer- you understand Kenyan, antiguson — because, I guess, he’s colonial behavior, can you black. begin to piece together [his The list goes on and on: Ari- actions],” he said a few years zona’s governor, Jan Brewer, ago, unveiling his great, racewagging her finger at Presibased and entirely inaccurate dent Obama while lecturing epiphany about the president. him on an airport tarmac, as if The disrespect continues to he were some errand boy and this day. Rep. Paul C. Broun, not the commander in chief.

Republican of Georgia, has The complete fraud of the suggested that Speaker John Benghazi nonstory — as even Boehner not invite the presia Republican House panel dent to give his annual State of had to conclude recently. The the Union speech before Conendless millions spent finding gress next month. nothing scandalous about the You can call Obama a weak president on Benghazi proved leader. You say he’s too aloof. just one thing: how grass-roots You can disagree with his conservative hatred of the policies. You can suggest he’s president drives Republican acting like a king — thankcongressional action. fully, still an impressive insult The first lady herself is not in a country born in a bloody off limits. It’s one thing to revolution against the British make fun of Nancy Reagan’s crown. But, for those who can’t designer dresses. It’s quite even see the humanity in the another to ridicule Michelle’s man because of his race, try Obama’s rear end, as the to respect the title that comes Republican congressman before his name. It’s there forJames Sensenbrenner did, try- evermore. ing to discredit the first lady’s Let’s Move initiative. Why a Timothy Egan is a columnist for politician with a red bulbous The New York Times.

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Davíd Fernández de Taos writes often about religion and culture.

MY VIEW: TOM FREEDMAN

President deserves credit for progress

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he exit polls from our recent midterm elections suggest that most Americans think our country is going in the wrong direction and the state of our economy is a problem.

Apparently the policies of President Barack Obama are to blame. Of course our national media has its own agenda and seems to want to create controversy rather than report news.

But that’s another story.

Six years ago, our country was in great turmoil. The stock market was crashing, finally bottoming out with the Dow under 7,000. The auto industry was going bankrupt, unemployment spiraling downward, finally settling somewhere above 12 percent nationwide, and the housing market was imploding. Our country was involved in two wars. Have we all forgotten how dismal things were back then?

In the years since Barack Obama became president, our country’s nationwide unemployment has returned to single digits (as low as 5.8 percent), the auto industry is booming, and the stock market has risen from 7,000 to over 17,000. The housing market has slowly risen

although it’s been talked about for 100 years, we finally have some kind of national health insurance. Millions of Americans now have health insurance (and access to affordable health insurance) because of the Affordable Health Care Act. Americans seeking health insurance, can no longer be denied from the ashes, and the building because of pre-existing condiof new homes has come back as tions. It may not be a perfect system, but it sure is better than well. Of the two wars we were what we had before, which was in, the war in Iraq has ended and we are drawing to an end in nothing, unless you could afford health insurance. Instead of the Afghanistan. The Middle East still remains a very complicated disingenuous demagoguery, and and volatile area, and challenges the ranting of the talking heads disguised as journalists, we in that region may never end.

However, President Obama has should acknowledge how far we have come in six years and work very thoughtfully navigated through the minefield that is the together to make things even better, especially for the folks Middle East. who are still hurting out there.

The point is, things are so Whether Republican, Demomuch better now than they crat, Independent or whatever, were six years ago. Of course we should give credit where there are still problems and credit is due. As a country, we great challenges that persist. need to show a little humility However, President Obama’s and acknowledge that things policies have made things are better now than they were better. Our country was a car when President Obama took wreck when Barack Obama became president. You may not office. They are not perfect, and will never be perfect, and we like him but look at the facts.

On top of all that, for the first still have a long ways to go.

If the United States were a time in our country’s history,

The point is, things are so much better now than they were six years ago.

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MY VIEW: ONA PORTER AND MARVIN GINN

Predatory loan sharks damage New Mexico S

harks are attacking New Mexico. More than 680 state-licensed, high-cost lenders have sharpened their teeth for the holidays and are in the midst of a feeding frenzy.

Blood stains the desert as they rip chunks of money from the meager bank accounts and paychecks of low-income borrowers. The loan sharks lure their victims with promises of fast, easy cash with no credit checks.

They prey with equal abandon on financially unsophisticated young military personnel, veterans, single moms, Native Americans and people on government assistance. More than 1 in 5 New Mexicans surveyed have resorted to high-cost loan “services.”

Storefront lenders snag their victims with friendly reassurances to trust them with the paperwork. They don’t let go until they have picked the financial carcass clean. Cars and homes are lost. Credit histories

trashed. It is no coincidence that New Mexico’s nation-leading poverty rate has grown in tandem with our storefront loan industry.

As leaders of organizations that provide low-income people opportunities to achieve financial independence, we spend our days helping people recover from financial disasters created by the small loan industry. Since many employers use credit information as a hiring screen, predatory lending victims who cannot keep up with payments are frequently locked out of the jobs that are essential to any hope of financial security.

The average APR on storefront loans in New Mexico in 2013 was about 400 percent.

But plenty of lenders off loans at 500 percent, or even 1,000 percent interest. As consumer credit experts, we know that any loan over 40 percent APR is not really credit. It is theft. And it should be a crime.

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Studies from the Department of Defense, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Center for Responsible Lending and Pew Charitable Trusts all find that high-cost storefront loans turn short-term financial problems into long-term financial crises and eviscerate local economies.

The industry claims that small-dollar loans to lowincome people cannot be made without triple-digit interest. In fact, there are many successful lending models that provide credit to low-income customers at 10 percent to 36 percent APRs. The models do not need huge budgets for collections and bad debt write-offs because they provide financial counseling up front and people pay them back. They also avoid expensive advertising and storefront operations to keep loan costs low.

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It is time to stop feeding our working poor to the sharks.

Sensible proposals that put an across the board 36 percent APR cap on all state licensed

lenders will be introduced to the legislature in January. Just as speed limits protect drivers, and minimum hygiene requirements protect restaurant patrons, common sense APR limits protect borrowers and bolster our economy.

Twenty states have enacted interest rate caps of 36 percent or less. Federal law already caps interest rates at 36 percent for loans to military personnel, in light of proof that these loans interfere with military readiness. The rest of Americans deserve the same protections.

Cities throughout New Mexico, including Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Alamogordo, Santa Fe, Farmington and Silver City, as well as the New Mexico Municipal League have adopted resolutions asking the state to enact loan interest and fee caps.

Six out of seven New Mexicans support APR caps of

36 percent. Most would like to see the cap even lower. APR caps are not only wise policy, they are great politics. Let us hope our elected officials will heed the facts and the will of their constituents and vote to stop the financial carnage this legislative session.

Ona Porter is president and CEO of Prosperity Works. Marvin Ginn is executive director of Native Community Finance.

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Gila: River diversion would harm local recreation economy

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 7, 1914: Fort Sumner — A.C. Powell, who lives about 12 miles northeast of Fort Sumner, has been ill with typhoid for the past five weeks. His two sons were stricken with the same malady a week ago. Mrs. Powell, the wife and mother, died from the disease about six weeks ago.

Las Cruces — Oscar B. Wood, who resides at Chamberino, has secured the cooperation of an experienced grower and will try as new crops next year cotton, Spanish peanuts and tobacco: Now that water is assured for the coming season, Mr. Wood will try out the new crops to test their adaptability to this locality.

Dec. 7, 1964: London, England — Ringo Starr, the Beatle drummer who lost his tonsils last week, may also lose his home.

His neighbors have petitioned his landlord to move him out of his $125-a-week apartment in Westminster. His teenage fans are driving them crazy. Teenage girls scream and shriek all day long, says his wife. “They get hysterical, fight and kick each other and chase every car that arrives in case Ringo is inside.”

“It’s a drag,” said Ringo. “I wish I could do something about it — but I can’t control the fans.”

Ringo’s voice is reported to have retained its Liverpudlian croak.

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lows, floods and droughts — throughout the year, and across many years, that sustain the habitats, food webs and lifecycle behaviors that maintain the river system’s productivity and biological diversity.

By altering the Gila’s natural flow pattern, a diversion would harm the Gila’s ecology and jeopardize the rich diversity of plants and animals that call the Gila home. The midsize spring flows that would be diverted most frequently are crucial for recharging groundwater, sustaining floodplain vegetation and maintaining the mosaic of aquatic habitats needed for the wide variety of life in the Gila River Valley.

A diversion of the river would harm the local economy, as well. Together the Gila and other Colorado River tributaries in New Mexico support a

$1.6 billion recreation economy.

The Gila’s portion of that revenue would be jeopardized not only by the diversion’s impact on the river’s flow, but by the unsightliness of the engineering infrastructure itself.

Lastly, a decision to divert the Gila River plants New Mexico firmly in the 20th-century water mindset, when it’s time to move water management into the 21st century. Forwardthinking cities and regions are moving away from dependence on big water transfers and toward innovative local projects that build resilience and self-reliance.

Just last month, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a goal to cut his city’s water imports by half in 10 years — a historic turnaround. Through conservation, reuse and better water management, Los Angeles is aiming to slash its water purchases and position itself

for long-term sustainability.

With a $66 million infusion of federal dollars, southwestern New Mexico can become a showcase of smarter water management — demonstrating how a vibrant economy centered around a healthy river can coexist side-by-side with productive agriculture and thriving communities.

Why give up that opportunity — a win-win for all — for a wasteful boondoggle of a project that will saddle the state with enormous costs, while destroying the ecology and recreational enjoyment of its last free-flowing river?

Sandra Postel is Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society and co-author of Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature. She lives in the historic land-grant community of San Clemente, N.M.

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n old adage states that more affluent managed to keep “health is wealth.” For more of their teeth while poorer us folks who are getting folks had fewer teeth because long in the tooth, every day that of fewer visits to the dentist, we get up and don’t find our good nutrition, etc. Other studnames in the obituary section, ies all point in the same direcwe are that more grateful. tion, with the conclusion that Coming from a family whose poverty and lack of health care, poor nutrition and aunts and other lack of exercise all relatives have all lived contribute to our bad into their 90s — by health. the way, drinking Nambé well water — Added to all of this I often was perplexed is alcohol and drug by the fact that my abuse and all the misown mother died of ery it brings. Because breast cancer at an of the pervasiveness early age. I always of gambling in this Orlando believed it was the country, the number Romero advice of a doctor of bankruptcies has who recommended Commentary increased in areas she take hormones where there is a satuwhen she hit menoration of casinos, thus pause. adding to the poverty rolls.

Despite knowing all that, I What has me really connever thought I would make cerned, however, is the lack of it past my 50s because of my facilities to treat those afflicted mother’s early death. It is with mental problems, many strange how these thoughts can aggravated by alcohol and haunt our perceptions. drug abuse. The shooting of an Since then, I’ve come to the unarmed mentally ill person in conclusion that good health is Albuquerque was disturbing to based on a number of factors. say the least and has brought The first is good genes to help national attention to the need you fight the odds. The odds for more facilities and better against you are chemicals and training for police officers when other carcinogens that enter dealing with the mentally ill. It your body through what you is obvious to me that we don’t eat, drink and breathe. shoot people with diabetes or cancer, so our inability to Another factor that determines health is poverty. A understand that mental illness recent study out of England is indeed an illness that can be showed that those who were treated has to change.

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In this country, we use the term “crazy” very loosely, and I wish it would never be used again. Psychotic behavior has underlying health origins.

Whether it begins with relentless depression that may afflict a person to the point of psychotic behavior or other chemical imbalances in the brain that cause schizophrenia, these behaviors can be treated and managed with medications and, most importantly, good psychiatric counseling. It’s not cheap, but good health care should not be exclusively for the rich, especially in a nation of politicians who can spend billions on getting elected or billions on other people’s wars.

Obamacare may need major tweaking, but I know many people who are now going to see doctors, get medications and counseling — all things that had been out of their reach for years. While the principal goal of Obamacare should have been to reform the insurance industry rather than strengthen their expensive stranglehold, we should not throw out the baby with the bath water.

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Fund’s support helps woman continue charity efforts

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

Patty Thompson requires a medical transfusion every two weeks to treat her chronic lung disease, but she still finds the time to gather clothing and blankets for the homeless.

She’s not immune to hard times. She sought out aid from the Empty Stocking Fund, The New Mexican’s annual charity fundraising effort, to help pay her December rent.

The money allowed her to afford her car insurance, she said, which in turn has allowed her to keep up her own

charitable efforts and her health. sary for her lungs to operate. To compensate, Thompson receives a transThompson moved to New Mexico fusion from Christus St. from Illinois about eight years ago. She planned Vincent Regional Medical to marry, but the man Center every other week. she expected to become She spent a year and a her husband had found half homeless, Thompson fund someone else and left said. Along the way, she resher alone in the state. cued a white Maltese puppy “So, I was out here with nobody,” she that she said “saved her life.” said. “It was a learning experience, for She’s now living in an apartment at sure.” the Stagecoach Inn, thanks to some Because of her health condition, help from the local charity Life Link, a called Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, group that works to provide housing to she can’t work. The disease prevents Please see SUPPORT, Page C-4 her body from creating a protein neces-

Patty Thompson, who was once homeless, hugs her dog, Bella, at her home at the Stage Coach Inn on Saturday. As a recent recipient of a small grant from the Empty Stocking Fund, she knows what it’s like to need a little help from others in the community.

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New doctors bring passion for rural health, women’s care to Española hospital

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Suit: Man died after medical service ran out of oxygen Artesia family says TriState CareFlight at fault in death

By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican

Biatris Barrera, left, of La Mesilla and Rachel Goodman of Pojoaque are shown in November at Presbyterian Española Hospital. The native New Mexicans, who are good friends and newly minted physicians trained at The University of New Mexico, decided to start their careers in Española to help improve the care of women and babies. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Good friends find a perfect fit

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iatris Barrera and Rachel Goodman could have chosen to go anywhere in the country to launch their careers as newly minted, bilingual doctors specializing in women’s health.

The two friends chose to practice in Española, a Northern New Mexico town with a rough-edged reputation.

Barrera and Goodman are passionate about rural health care. Both native New Mexicans, they wanted to stay in their home state. And they wanted to work together.

Presbyterian Española Hospital was the perfect fit.

Jim Breland, director of clinics and support services at the hospital, recruited the pair when they were still two years shy of completing their residencies in obstetrics and gynecology at The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. They passed their medical boards in June and were at

their new offices in Española by September, joining 25 other providers at the hospital.

Breland said there’s a shortage of primary care physicians and OB-GYNs nationwide.

When he learned that one of the hospital’s doctors was preparing to retire, he aggressively started the search for a replacement two years ago. He found Goodman first, and she recommended Barrera. “It was a match made in heaven,” Breland said. “We were fortunate to find them.”

The two women come from different backgrounds, but they met during their residency interviews at The University of New Mexico and became fast friends.

Barrera, 35, was born in Roswell and raised in Dexter, a little town of dairy farms in Southern New Mexico. Her parents had emigrated from Mexico, and Spanish was her first language.

She didn’t decide to become a doctor until she was out of high school. Her mother used herbal remedies and disliked going to doctors, so she grew up familiar and comfortable

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with an alternative view of healing.

As she was volunteering as a doula, a birthing assistant, she began to realize that she wanted to be the one delivering the babies. “I realized medicine was a field where I could really give back,” she said.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at The University of New Mexico before studying at the UNM School of Medicine.

Goodman, who was born in Cerrillos, decided she wanted to become a doctor when she was 5. She had spotted an anatomy and physiology college textbook and convinced her mom to buy it for her. “I was taken with the human body,” Goodman said.

“I studied the book. I thought it was fascinating.”

She had a distant cousin who is a heart surgeon, and he let her observe a surgery when she was 16. That solidified her goal to become a doctor. “I thought how great it would be to be the one actually doing [the surgery] and making the decisions,” Goodman said.

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“It was a match made in heaven. We were fortunate to find them.”

Jim Breland, Presbyterian Española Hospital director of clinics and support services

Skating rink creates hometown stars on ice

By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

Jun-Hong Chen doesn’t really remember the first time he got on the ice.

He was just 4 when he and his older sister attended a birthday skating party at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center ice arena.

On the rink where he learned to skate, Chen is now the star of the show.

Chen, now 13, headlined the Santa Fe Skating Club’s ice show Saturday. The show, called Give Our Regards to Broadway, a celebration of Broadway musicals,

plays again at the Chavez Center at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Other headliners include internationally ranked U.S. pairs team Alexa Scimeca and Chris Knierim, who dazzled the audience with their performances.

Scimeca and Knierim, who traveled to Santa Fe from their training grounds in Colorado Springs, Colo., are a couple off the ice, too.

“I always thought he was the cute pairs guy,” Scimeca, who is engaged to Knierim, said in a recent interview.

The show includes about 25 performers of varying skills

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Jun-Hong Chen, 13, an eighthgrader at Santa Fe Preparatory, rehearses a scene from Give Our Regards to Broadway at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center on Saturday. Chen will compete in January in the U.S. nationals in Greensboro, N.C. JANE PHILLIPS THE NEW MEXICAN

The family of an Artesia man is suing TriState CareFlight, a medical transport helicopter service, claiming the man died because the service ran out of oxygen while transporting him from Artesia to Albuquerque.

According to a complaint for wrongful death filed in state District Court, Michael Campbell, 64, went to the emergency room at the Artesia General Hospital on Jan. 8 complaining of fever and difficulty breathing.

Doctors at that hospital determined he needed a higher level of care and recommended he be transferred to Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque because other closer facilities did not have beds available for him.

Campbell was stabilized before being transported, according to the complaint, and the transferring physician signed documentation stating that he with appropriate medical treatment, Campbell’s condition would not worsen during the trip.

The doctor recommended Campbell receive oxygen during the flight, according to the complaint, and he was picked up by a TriState CareFlight helicopter.

However, the complaint says, Campbell was given a lower concentration of oxygen than recommended, administered via a delivery device on board.

“For reasons unknown,” Lee Hunt, the attorney of Campbell’s widow, said last week, “they left Artesia and stopped in Roswell to refuel, then took off from Roswell and about 30 minutes later realized they were low on oxygen.”

TriState CareFlight employees aboard the flight contacted emergency medical service providers on the ground in Mountainair and arranged to land to get more oxygen, Hunt said.

But before they could reach the agreed-upon rendezvous point, the medical team ran out of oxygen.

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‘Finding Nemo’ to be told in Navajo language

By Felicia Fonseca The Associated Press

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The story of a clownfish who is encouraged by an energetic but absent-minded friend to “just keep swimming” in the search for his son is being told in Navajo.

The Navajo Nation announced recently that it is teaming up with Walt Disney Studios to dub the movie Finding Nemo in the tribe’s language. It’s the second major motion picture to be translated into Navajo after Star Wars in 2013.

Museum director Manuelito Wheeler said he’s hopeful the film’s tale of perseverance resonates with Navajos wanting to learn their language.

“The whole story is about human perseverance,” he said. “There’s the father that won’t give up looking for his child. There’s a child who won’t give up trying to escape. There’s Dory who won’t give up helping her friend.”

The Navajo language currently is in no danger of extinction. More people speak it at home than any other Native American language, a seemingly promising 169,000 people during a time when some tribes have lost their native tongue or are struggling to retain the words of their ancestors.

Yet Navajo is spoken far less by younger tribal members than the older generation. The Navajo Nation has about 300,000 members, and its reservation is the largest in the U.S. Tribes increasingly are turning to pop culture — mobile apps, video games and computer programs — as a tool in preserving culture and language. Alaska

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FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS

NATHANIEL WEST BLASER Nathaniel West Blaser age 21 passed away suddenly on November 29th, 2014 in Colorado. Nate was born July 8, 1993 and raised in Santa Fe. He attended Wood Gormley Elementary, Capshaw Middle School, and Santa Fe High, before leaving at age fifteen to begin ski racing in Park City, Utah for three seasons. He was living and working in Eagle, Colorado as a firefighter and first responder for the Eagle County and Fire Rescue Department at the time of his death.

Nate was a lover -- he loved his family, his family at work, his friends, and the outdoors. Everyone who knew him loved him.

There was a special place in Nate’s heart for the brothers and sisters of the firefighting and emergency responders community, especially the Santa Fe County Fire Department, Eagle County Fire and Rescue, and, of course Hondo Fire and Rescue.

Nate is survived by his mother and step-father Jill Benjamin & Ruskin Blankenship, father and stepmother Brian and Elaine Blaser, brother Simon Blaser and sister Campbell Brown; maternal grandparents Raphiel & Karen Benjamin and paternal grandparents Ruth Blaser of Fair Haven, New Jersey and Edward Blaser of Boynton Beach, Florida; grandparents Barbara and Ted Seeley, Ellen Alexander, Don Bell, Ronald and Victoria Alexander; uncles Raphiel Jr. (Pam), Richard Benjamin (Sera), Douglas Blaser (Pat), Robert Blaser, Thomas Blaser (Donna), Marcus Novak (Giselle), Nicholas Blaser (Kimberly), Lisa Cochran, Kathryn Alexander; cousins Dakotah and Faranak Benjamin, Luke Griscom, Alisa Currier, Chloe Benjamin, Lily Benjamin, Fallon Blaser, Curtis Blaser, Elliot Blaser, Sarah Blaser, Erin Blaser, Mackenzee Blaser, Bryce Blaser, Alexis Blaser, Kaiti Blaser, Stephen Foote, Tatianna Norbeck, and Kahlil Norbeck. He is survived by too many dear friends to mention.

Nate touched everyone’s life; he is greatly missed. The world has lost a phenomenal young man.

There will be a memorial to celebrate Nate’s life on Monday, December 8th at 2:00 pm at St. John’s Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM. We will also be celebrating his life in Gypsum, CO on Saturday, December 6th, at 10am at the Calvary Chapel.

In lieu of flowers, donations to Hondo Fire and Rescue would be greatly appreciated.

TERESA BACA SMITH Teresa Baca Smith (nee Salazar), longtime resident of Los Alamos, previously of Santa Fe, passed away on December 4, 2014.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Charles Smith; parents, Odila and Joaquin Salazar; brothers Jack, Robert, Tom and Rudy Salazar; and sisters Lydia Silveria and Ofelia Apodaca.

She is survived by her son, Mark Baca of Platteville, Wisconsin; daughters Diana Baca of Denver, Colorado and Paula Baca of Ashland, Oregon; granddaughter Arianna Brooks of Ashland, Oregon; sister Clara (Joe) Briones of Santa Fe; brother Dennis (Julia) of Santa Fe; sisters-in-law Anita Salazar of Santa Fe and Alice (Chuck) Dennis of Bonita Springs, Florida; and many beloved aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends.

Teresa was born in La Cuchilla (now Hernandez), NM. She moved to Santa Fe as a child and graduated from Santa Fe High School. She moved to Los Alamos in 1953 and worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, taking time off to raise her three children. She returned to LANL where she worked many years in Personnel, retiring in 1990. After retiring, she volunteered for many years at the Hospital Auxiliary Lobby Shop at the Los Alamos Medical Center.

Teresa liked to travel and visited places throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She loved to cook for family and friends. Her tortillas and tamales were the best around. She also loved to eat ice cream and watch classic movies especially musicals. Her favorite pastime was playing video poker, mostly at Cities of Gold Casino, where she had many friends. She was lucky at the casino, which some attribute to her Halloween birthday. She enjoyed monthly family luncheons, a ritual that started several years ago.

She valued her independence and took pleasure in taking care of her home.

Her pride and joy was her only grandchild, Arianna, whom she called her "Little Sweetheart."

A rosary will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 10:30 am at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in the Santuario, 417 Agua Fria, Santa Fe. A Funeral Mass will follow at 11:00 am.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to the Los Alamos Medical Center Hospital Auxiliary.

EMMY LANGER SCHAEFFER IN LOVING MEMORY

On the pre-dawn morning of June 10, 2014, Emmy Langer Schaeffer made her journey to meet her soulmate Peter, who was waiting for her for the past 28 years. Having valiantly met the challenges of Parkinson’s disease, melanoma, and a devastating stroke 6 years earlier, Emmy lived 95 amazing years and died peacefully in her sleep at her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The first-born of four sisters, Emma Langer came into this world in Bismarck, North Dakota, on the night of December 16, 1918, with her mother sick with the Spanish Flu during the terrible Epidemic.

Her mother was the former Lydia Cady of New York City, daughter of the well-known architect J. Cleveland Cady, who designed the original Metropolitan Opera House, 18 buildings at Yale University, New York’s Museum of Natural History, and numerous churches.

Her father was William Langer, at that time Attorney General. As his career evolved, "Wild Bill Langer" became North Dakota’s most famous political name, and the most controversial. He graduated from the University of North Dakota Law School at the age of 20. Too young to practice law, he enrolled at Columbia University to get an additional B.A. degree and was President and Valedictorian of his graduating class. He served as North Dakota’s Governor at two separate times, and in between his wife ran in his place. Lydia Langer became the only governor’s wife to run for public office, and the first North Dakota woman to be nominated for Governorship. William Langer continued his political career as North Dakota’s United States Senator in Washington, D.C. for three terms.

Emmy (as she became known) was greatly influenced by her political background. She grew up in Bismarck in the modest but pretentiously named "Governor’s Mansion," where life with her three younger sisters was a constant adventure. The doors to The Mansion were always open to the public - including the Indian tribe into which her parents had been inducted, and whose members often invited the whole family to attend marvelous ceremonies on their reservation.

Emmy Langer was a vivacious and beautiful redhead with sparkling blue eyes and a charismatic personality. She was equally brilliant and driven to excel in school, and she graduated from Bismarck High as Salutatorian of her class. Emmy worked summers as a paralegal for her father, but against his wishes decided not to become a lawyer herself. Instead, she went East to Barnard College in New York City for a year before transferring to New England’s Smith College, where she majored in Government and Economics. After Christmas vacation halfway through her sophomore year, by pure serendipity, Emmy missed the Smith Special train back to college and had to board the Dartmouth Special. It was on that train that she met the love of her life, J. Peter Schaeffer. He was the stunningly handsome first-born child of Hungarian immigrants Ellen and Joseph Schaeffer. Peter soon graduated from Dartmouth College and began work in the advertising department at The Herald Tribune newspaper. Two years later, Emmy graduated from Smith, Class of 1940, and landed a job as the College Editor on Mademoiselle Magazine. That August she was chosen to be the cover girl for the magazine. In November, Emmy and Peter were married and settled in New York City, where she continued to model and write articles for Mademoiselle.

Following Peter’s World War II service in the Navy, the couple moved to Purchase, New York, where for the next decade they began raising their three children - Pamela, Peter Jr., and William. During the Polio Epidemic of 1954, on his 38th birthday, Peter Sr. came down with polio. After time in an iron lung and more than 2 years of rehab, he made a partial recovery, lost his advertising job, and became a stockbroker. Emmy devoted the rest of her married life to being his sole caregiver and chauffeur, became a stockbroker herself, and magically managed to be the most wonderful mother. Over the years Emmy and Peter together built two handicap-accessible houses and created a surprisingly normal family life. After caring for her husband for 31 years, Emmy’s world was again shattered when she lost her sweetheart to cancer in 1986.

Emmy continued to work in the brokerage business well into her 70s, and eventually retired to their Long Island home near the ocean.

She enjoyed her long walks, crossword puzzles, young people, dark chocolate, politics, her signature Shalimar perfume, and every opportunity to have a lot of laughs. But most of all, she loved her kids with all her heart. In her typically unselfish fashion, Emmy gave up her familiar life, sold the house she held so dear, and in 2003 moved to the Ponce de Leon retirement community in Santa Fe, where her daughter Pamela was able to help care for her and cherish her company for the rest of her life.

Emmy Schaeffer was a shining star with an extraordinary presence on this earth. She could not have met the many challenges in her life without her positive outlook, strong will, and terrific sense of humor - she could find a laugh in every situation, and she was an inspiration to those who were fortunate enough to know her. She was infinitely compassionate, made each person feel special, and her wisdom, optimism, enthusiasm, and generosity knew no bounds. Emmy greeted everyone cheerfully with her beautiful cover-girl smile, and her gorgeous golden hair was still natural at the age of 95. Our hearts are filled with love for her vibrant spirit, and we will be eternally grateful for the many years she shared with us.

Emmy Langer Schaeffer and her beloved husband Peter have now returned to their home by the ocean, where their ashes are interred together in the Memorial Wall at St. Luke’s Church in East Hampton, New York. Emmy leaves behind her three children: Pamela Cady Schaeffer Buffington of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Peter Langer Schaeffer of Amagansett, New York; and William Langer Schaeffer of Chester, Connecticut; two grandchildren: Emma Scott Schaeffer and William Carlisle Schaeffer; and Michael Nicholas Buffington, her much-loved step-grandson. Emmy’s dear sister Lydia Langer Irwin pre-deceased her in 1972, but two other sisters survive her - Mary (aka Mimi) Langer Gokey of Fargo, North Dakota; and Cornelia Langer Noland Reis of New York City, New York; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

The Schaeffer Family would like to express their heartfelt thanks to Emmy’s caregivers - Flor Diaz, Laura Cantero, and most especially Nancy Diaz, who was exceptionally dedicated to her and whom she appreciated so much. Her loving daughter Pamela honored Emmy at a Memorial Gathering at Ponce de Leon in June. Donations in memory of Emmy may be made in her name to the PMS Hospice Center, 1400 Chama Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505.

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JOHN "JOHNNY" REY GABALDON John "Johnny" Rey Gabaldon, 72, of Santa Fe, passed away quietly on Thursday following a short illness.

He was born to the late Inez and Henry Gabaldon on August 19, 1944 in Belen, New Mexico. Johnny married Stella Silva in 1964 and they moved to Santa Fe in 1971.

Johnny enjoyed retirement after a successful career in hospital administration.

He was an avid golfer, serving on the Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe Advisory Board as well as President of their Men’s Association. Johnny took pride in his community and served on local boards including the Hidden Valley Association. He was a member of the Elks, Eagles, and Lions Clubs. Johnny loved taking care of his home and most of all loved spending time with his puppies, Hazel and Ruben.

Johnny is survived by his wife of 50 years Stella Gabaldon of Santa Fe, NM; his son Rob Gabaldon (Kyky) of Santa Fe, NM; his sister Becky Perez (Robert) of Albuquerque, NM; his sister Lilly Silva (Louie) of Albuquerque, NM; and two nieces, Gloria and Janet.

Family is having a private service. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter, 100 Caja del Rio Road, Santa Fe, NM 87507.

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MARGARET JO COOK GELLER Margaret Jo Cook Geller was born to Francis and Pearl Cook on July 30, 1939 and passed away at home on November 30, 2014. She was a passionate artist, an insatiable reader and above all else a loving sister, mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother. She will be deeply missed by her sisters, Francine Schroyer and Shirley Kenyon; her daughter, Velda Powers; son, Jim Tipton; and grandchildren, Misty Minetos, Christopher Powers, Danielle Powers, Jason Tipton and Marisa Tipton.

She is predeceased by her son, Mark Tipton. Her kind heart and generous spirit will be missed by her family, friends and many lives she has touched. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Paralyzed Veterans of America. Please visit our online guestbook for Margaret at www.FrenchFunerals.com FRENCH - Wyoming 7121 Wyoming Blvd. NE (505) 823-9400

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Jose Daniel Peña (Joe Dan) age 77, passed peacefully in his home with his loving family on Thursday, December 4, 2014.

He was born July 21, 1937 in Galisteo, NM. Was proceeded in death by his parents Pedro & Ursula Peña, brother Rufino Peña, and nieces Roberta & Jolene. He is survived by wife Sara Peña, brothers & sisters; Clyde & Mary, Andy & Grace, Albert, Stella & Roberto, Fabiola and sister in-law Priscilla. Also his 7 loving daughters; Charlotte, Josephine (husband Oswaldo), Marianne (Pedro), Julie (husband John), Valentina (Aaron), Veronica (Anthony) & Marlene (Russel), then last but not least his 17 beautiful grandchildren, 18 precious great grandchildren and one adorable great greatgrandson, along with many nieces and nephews.

Joe, early on was an altar boy in Galisteo, then served in the US Navy, when returned he was a mechanic, truck driver and retired after proudly driving SFPS buses for over 25 years.

He loved his family, camping, the outdoors, westerns and baseball. The Peña family would like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. We would also like to thank Del Corazon Hospice for their kindness and support.

Visitation will be held on Monday, December 8, 2014 at 5-7 pm at Berardinelli Family Funeral Home, with a rosary to be recited following at 7:30 pm at St. Anne’s Catholic Church. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 11 am at St. Anne’s Catholic Church. A gathering will be held at St. Anne’s Parish Hall following the mass. Meet at Berardinelli Funeral Home at 2:30 pm to follow precision to the Galisteo Cemetery for interment.

Pallbearers are Waldo Jr., Daniel, Cesi, Mario, Justin and James.

Honorary pallbearers are Jose, Michael, Mark, Anthony little and Esteban.

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ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico State Police is investigating how it failed to follow up on child sexual-abuse allegations made three years ago against a man now accused of abusing another victim, the agency’s top official said.

Chief Pete Kassetas told the Albuquerque Journal on Thursday that he has “lost sleep” over the case.

“This is one of the most troubling cases I’ve seen,” Kassetas said. “The reality is, somewhere in this system, what was supposed to happen in 2011 didn’t.”

According to police records, a 12-year-old girl alleged in October 2011 that Michael Marchese, 44, of Belen, had repeatedly raped her since she was 2. After speaking with state police, the girl was taken to a safe house and again detailed the alleged abuse.

That was where the case ended, Kassetas said.

There is no evidence the police report was sent to the District Attorney’s Office.

According to Kassetas, state police discovered the misstep when speaking with a second alleged abuse victim of Marchese’s in September. In that case, a 13-year-old girl told officers in a school counselor’s office that Marchese had allegedly raped her more than once in the past year. When officers ran Marchese’s name through a criminal database, they found

the 2011 allegations. District Attorney Lemuel Martinez said last month that his office was never notified about the case.

“Once we realized there was a 2011 report, we backtracked and found all that information and gave it to the DA’s Office as a full packet,” Kassetas said.

Both victims are now in state custody. Marchese was indicted in October on 11 counts, including child rape, sexual exploitation of a minor and criminal sexual contact of a minor. The charges encompass both cases.

He is currently being held at the Valencia County Detention Center on a cash-only $500,000 bond. If convicted, he could face up to 78 years in prison.

His wife, Charolette Marchese, was also arrested for child abuse charges tied to the cases.

A Belen school bus driver, she is on leave without pay.

Meanwhile, two state police employees are the subject of an internal investigation that could take one to two months.

Kassetas declined to name the employees, but he said they are currently still working.

Kassetas said he will revamp the agency’s system and utilize more “cross-checks” to monitor service calls and police reports.

“If we had followed through in 2011 and made an arrest, we would have stopped future [alleged] abuse,” Kassetas said. “What I see, I don’t like.

I have questions that I want answers to, and I will get those answers.”

Court postpones hearings on state dairy waste rules cerning the dairy rule.

The coalition, which The New Mexico Supreme includes the Sierra Club, says Court has postponed a hearing state law requires the hearing on issues surrounding proon the dairy rule amendments posed changes to state dairy to be held in Santa Fe because waste regulation until 9 a.m. it has statewide impacts.

Dec. 15. The hearing originally The state Water Qualwas scheduled for Monday. ity Control Commission, The Water Quality Control appointed by Gov. Susana MarCommission also has posttinez, scheduled the meeting poned a public hearing on in Roswell because more than proposed amendments to the half the state’s dairies are in dairy rule, which was origisoutheastern counties, where nally scheduled for Tuesday the rule has the biggest impact. in Roswell. The rule, approved Attorney General Gary in 2010, regulates groundwater King has asked the Supreme discharge permits for manure Court to rule that his office waste from the state’s 150 daircan participate in the hearing, ies. The dairy industry has regardless of where it is held. requested more than two dozen A hearing officer had earlier amendments to the rule. approved a request from the The Supreme Court is conNew Mexico Environment sidering separate motions from Department to ban the Attora coalition of environmental ney General’s Office from groups and the New Mexico providing testimony at the Attorney General’s Office con- hearing.

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Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department took the following reports: u A Santa Fe man told police that his granddaughter had taken his 1996 Chevrolet pickup without permission from the 500 block of Silva Street just before 9:30 p.m.

Friday after she had been drinking alcohol all day. u A burglar stole about $49,000 worth of jewelry from a home in the 2100 block of Foothills Drive between 9:30 and 11 a.m. Friday. Police collected DNA from the scene. u Someone broke into a garage in the 3200 block of Nizhoni Drive between Friday night and Saturday morning and scratched an orange 2012 Chevrolet Camaro and cut the back seats. A cellphone was stolen from the car.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office took the following reports: u Deputies are looking for a 30-year-old Santa Fe man who forced his way into a home in the 1700 block of Jordan Logan Road late Friday and hit two people in the home. The man fled the scene before deputies arrived. A warrant was issued for his arrest. u Salvadore RodriguezLopez, 28, of Santa Fe was arrested on suspicion of concealing his identity, careless driving and driving without a driver’s license at about 10:30 p.m. Friday near the intersection of Lopez Lane and Alamo Lane. A deputy reported seeing Rodriguez-Lopez speeding in a 2006 Dodge Dakota and passing another vehicle on a stretch of road with a double yellow line. After he was pulled over, Rodriguez-Lopez provided a false name and date of birth

multiple times. He was identified by another individual.

DWI arrests u Johnson Nez, 34, of Santa Fe was arrested on suspicion of aggravated DWI, speeding and driving without insurance just after 2 a.m. Saturday after he was caught driving 103 mph in a 65 mph zone near mile marker 176 on U.S. 84/285. u Norman D. Chavez, 49, of Santa Cruz was arrested on suspicion of DWI and speeding near mile marker 3 on N.M. 76.

A deputy pulled Chavez over at 9:44 p.m. Friday for driving 48 mph in a 35 mph zone.

After the stop, the deputy determined Chavez was driving under the influence of alcohol. u Steve Blanchard, 66, of Santa Fe was arrested on suspicion of DWI and driving with a revoked license about 6 p.m. Friday near mile marker 42 on N.M. 14. Blanchard was weaving in traffic, and the car he was driving didn’t have a license plate, according to the report.

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 Youth Emergency Shelter/ Youth Shelters: 438-0502 New Mexico suicide prevention hotline: 866-435-7166 Solace Crisis Treatment Center: 986-9111, 800-7217273 or TTY 471-1624 Police and fire emergency: 911 Graffiti hotline: 955-CALL

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Remains of missing student ID’d Prosecutor says bodies were burned, ashes tossed in river

By E. Edurado Castillo and Maria Verza The Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — At least one of 43 college students missing since September has been identified among charred remains found several weeks ago near a southern Mexico garbage dump, two government officials confirmed Saturday.

The two could not provide more details on how many of the students might have been identified. They agreed to speak about the development only if granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

A family member of a missing student told The Associated Press that the remains were of Alexander Mora. The families were given that information late Friday by an Argentine team of forensic experts working on behalf of the relatives and with the Attorney General’s Office, said the man, who also would speak only on condition of anonymity.

Parents of the students declined comment, addressing a crowd that gathered Saturday afternoon at an already planned protest at the capital’s Monument to the Revolution to demand the return of the students alive.

Omar Garcia, a student at the march who attended the same rural teachers college in Ayotzinapa as the missing young men,

Felipe de la Cruz, the father of one of the 43 missing students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college, speaks during a protest Saturday at the Revolution Monument in Mexico City. MARCO UGARTE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

relayed the reaction of Mora’s father when he learned the fate of his son: “He will never give up. He will never get over his pain, but what he wants to tell all of you, and what we all want to say is this: We want justice!”

The students went missing Sept. 26 after confrontations with police in the Guerrero state city of Iguala that killed three students and three bystanders. Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam has said they were attacked by police on orders of Iguala’s then mayor, Jose Luis Abarca, who has since been detained after going into hiding. Authorities are holding more than 70 people in the case, which also forced the governor of Guerrero to resign.

Prosecutors say the students were later turned over to a drug gang, which killed them. In announcing the finding of the remains, the attorney general said Nov. 7 that some detain-

ees had told officials that they burned the 43 bodies at a dump site and bagged and threw their ashes in a river.

The attorney general told the parents that the bone fragments left after the burning would be almost impossible to identify, leaving many relatives doubting the government’s story. They had kept up the search for their sons, maintaining hope that they were still alive.

Parents participating in Saturday’s protest got off buses with sullen faces and were immediately surrounded by people for protection and support.

The bone fragments were sent to the University of Innsbruck in Austria, which was recommended by the Argentine forensic team as having one of the most experienced laboratories for identifying deteriorated remains. The identification came from Austria, said student David Flores, who was at the protest.

The Argentine forensic experts couldn’t be reached Saturday.

Mora’s classmates at the teachers college had dubbed the teen farmer “The Rock,” Garcia said.

“He was a classmate who was very strong, very persevering in whatever he had as a goal,” Garcias said. “It’s a big loss.”

Mora’s parents received the news Friday night, and members of the school community were with them in their hometown of El Pericon on Saturday. Garcia said they received the news “with a lot of courage, valor, dignity and determination.”

The case has ignited citizen indignation across Mexico and abroad for the fact that the students disappeared at the hands of a corrupt local government and that federal authorities took 10 days to intervene.

Tens of thousands have taken to the streets, some calling for President Enrique Peña Nieto to resign. The case has come to signify the abuse of authority and corruption that is engrained in the Mexican system and that all Mexicans experience on a regular basis.

Marching to the protest site Saturday, thousands of people filled streets in central Mexico City shouting, “Justice,” “We want them alive” and “Peña out.”

“The parents will not rest until we have justice,” said Felipe de la Cruz, father of one of the missing students.

Noting that the identification is for just one of the 43 disappeared, he said, “If they think one confirmation will leave us simply to mourn, they’re wrong.”

Funeral services and memorials ROBERT (BOB) BEST The Best Man- Friends, associates, and anyone who knew Robert (Bob) Best would agree that he was one of the "best" men they ever met. Bob was a gentleman in the true sense of the word and treated everyone with dignity, and respect. He was honest, kind, generous, and involved in many charitable organizations and causes in the Santa Fe community.

Bob passed away on October 15, 2014 at his home in Santa Fe after a lengthy illness. Marylou Best, his loving wife of sixty-one years, was at his bedside when he slipped away from us.

Robert Allen Best was born on October 25, 1931 in Chestertown, Maryland, to Donald and Arlene Best. Bob had one sibling, a sister, Kay. Before high school Robert attended St. Paul’s preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland, where he became an accomplished Lacrosse player. Later, Bob would introduce Lacrosse to Franklin and Marshall College. They have a successful Lacrosse program to this day. Bob was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He went on to high school at Kenwood High near Baltimore, Maryland, where he met his future wife, Marylou Gray. They served together on their high school council, but did not become romantically involved until some years later when they were in college. Bob graduated with honors from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952 with a sociology major. Bob and Marylou were married in 1953 and lived for a time in Drexelhill, Pennsylvania.

One of Bob’s first significant jobs was with the Piasecki Helicopter Corporation. He worked as an expeditor of work and materials in the factory, wanting to know the business from the ground up. He also did special projects for the company’s founder, Frank Piasecki. Bob survived a helicopter crash while working for Piasecki.

In 1954 he accepted a position with Martin Marietta Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland. Later he was selected to be part of a small contingent of Martin Marietta employees to go to Denver, Colorado, for the purpose of purchasing land and establishing a research, design, and manufacturing facility. Promoted to Chief Administrative Engineer he oversaw the titan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile development program and other space initiatives. His last position with Martin Marietta was Executive Director of Technology and Operations for all the data centers within Martin Marietta Corporation. Through his experiences and work with Piasecki Helicopter Corp. and Martin Marietta, Bob developed a working understanding of aeronautical engineering concepts. He managed to survive a second aircraft mishap when a seaplane he was flying in crash landed into the Chesapeake Bay. Bob worked a total of twenty-two years for Martin Marietta.

From Martin Marietta he responded to a nationwide search for an individual to head and advance the Los Angeles County’s Data Processing program. At the time this was the largest data processing organization in the nation. Robert was selected for this position from five hundred applicants. He implemented programs that streamlined and improved county data processing in all departments, including the sheriff’s department, county central jail and the fire department. He was elected President of the Los Angeles County Management Council, which represented the managers of 56 county departments, who, in turn, oversaw the work of 80,00 employees. One of the departments was Health Services, which ran 8 hospitals and numerous other health facilities. Bob spent 3 years serving the citizens of Los Angeles County.

Bob’s successes with the L.A. County became known throughout the state and, indeed, the country. As a result he was approached by an individual who was seeking to recruit top people for executive positions for the Toyota automobile company. He was offered and accepted a position as the Director of Data Processing for Toyota Motor Sales, USA. One important innovation Bob introduced to Toyota was the use of barcodes for parts and automobile inventory tracking and control. Robert introduced many other important, progressive, and cost saving programs to Toyota. Through merit and hard work, Bob worked his way up through the corporate ranks and retired in 1994 as Corporate Officer, Group Vice President of Finance and Administration and Senior Advisor to the President of Toyota Motor Sales, USA. Robert was responsible for the departments of purchasing, human resources, finance, tax, legal, as well as 8 others. Bob was chairperson of Toyota’s "TEAM" (Toyota Equal Access for Minorities) program and Chairperson of the Board for the Los Angeles Automotive Training Center, a joint venture between Toyota and the Los Angeles Urban League, which provided automotive repair training for minority candidates.

On their trip to Denver, Colorado, to begin work on the New Martin Marietta facility, Bob and Marylou took the long way around and passed through Santa Fe, NM. They immediately fell in love with "The City Different". The Bests eventually bought property in Santa Fe and built a small vacation home where they spent lots of vacation and off-time. When Bob retired from Toyota in April, 1994, they moved to Santa Fe permanently and built a delightful home. Bob immediately began volunteering time and energy to a variety of charitable causes. He was selected to be the Vice Chairperson of the Institute of the Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation (IAIA) and was a Board member of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWIA). In 2008 Bob received the Povika award from SWIA for his lifetime achievements with respect to his work with SWIA. Robert was picked to be the President of the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Human Society from 1999 through 2000. While in this capacity Bob arranged for the Beaver Toyota family to purchase the old animal shelter property on Cerrillos Rd. That money went toward the building of the new shelter. Bob and his wife also made generous contributions to the shelter project as well.

Bob was a member of Board of Directors for United Way of Santa Fe County for a number of years attending his last meeting a week or so before he left us.

He was a valued member of the Santa Fe Speakeasy men’s discussion group.

Other accolades, associations, and awards bestowed on Bob Best over the years include: Former Officer and Board Director of the Los Angeles Urban League Former Director of the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund Named Presidential Distinguished Fellow of the Franklin and Marshall College in 1991 Received Corporate Leadership Award from the Southern California Business Council in 1992 Received Alumni of The Year award from Franklin and Marshall College in 1993 Former Board of Directors member of the Japanese-Hispanic Institute Included as charter member of the Franklin and Marshall Society of Distinguished Alumni, 2007 March, 1975, he was commended by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for outstanding leadership as Director of the Data Processing Department Robert Best is survived by his wife, Marylou Best, his sister, Kay Best, and nephew, Eric Best and his Family. He will be missed by all who knew him.

When the time comes, in the future, Bob’s ashes and those of his wife, Marylou, will be released, together, on a mountain top near their home.

A memorial celebration of Bob’s life will be held sometime in the spring of 2015.

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Fit: Both consider whole patient Support: ‘I am giving back’ Continued from Page C-1 She completed a bachelor’s degree in biology at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, Pa., and a master’s degree in biology at Drexel University, in Philadelphia. She earned her medical degree at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine.

When the two doctors met during their residency interviews, Barrera’s son Roman was only 6 weeks old. The two women found they talked easily. “Our husbands joke that we could talk to a wall for hours,” Goodman said.

They would end up spending a lot of time together over the next two years, studying, quizzing each other for their medical boards, sharing family dinners.

They are still growing in their friendship. Barrera’s goal this winter is to learn to ski. Goodman, who loves outdoor activities, has coaxed her into hiking.

“We’re working on the camping,” Goodman said. “We’re trying to move camping out of the backyard.”

Barrera laughed and noted the last camping excursion ended at 9 p.m. with her family back in their comfortable beds.

Their backgrounds make them a good fit for Española.

Both women speak Spanish.

Both are familiar with non-Western approaches to medicine.

Goodman was raised almost exclusively on alternative ways of healing. Barrera’s mom often turned to herbs and traditional healers known as curanderas to treat health problems. “If I sprained my ankle, my mom didn’t take me to a doctor. She would take me to a lady who would massage my ankle until

services to jointly administer the Empty Stocking Fund. those in need. Thompson now Watch for daily stories feaspends her days giving back. turing requests for assistance She collects clothes and from local residents in The blankets, and hands them out Santa Fe New Mexican. The every Monday at the Westnames of the applicants have minster Presbyterian Church, been changed to protect their 841 W. Manhattan Ave. And privacy. The information from on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the initial application will she heads to local food banks, be verified if the applicant is where she opens her car and selected for assistance. lets people grab whatever To donate: Make your tax clothing they might need. She deductible donation online said some people have grown at www.santafenewmexican. to know her as the “lady that com/empty_stocking or mail gives away clothes.” a check to The New Mexican’s But her charity doesn’t end Empty Stocking Fund c/o The there. She also takes time to Santa Fe Community Foundaconsole neighbors with probtion, P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, lems. While she chatted with N.M., 87504-1827. Donors can The New Mexican on Friday, request to remain anonymous. she also cared for a neighbor bit If you can provide a service, by a dog. At Thanksgiving, she call Roberta at Presbyterian collected food and then hosted Medical Services at 983-8968. a dinner for 10 of her neighbors.

If you can contribute food, “I love everyone,” she said. clothing, toys, housewares or “They can take whatever they furniture in good condition, or need. I am giving back.” other items or services, call The Salvation Army at 988-8054. uuu Donate online in honor of a The Empty Stocking Fund is friend or loved one, and you’ll a project of The Santa Fe New have the option of sending them Mexican. The Santa Fe Coma custom e-card from the Empty munity Foundation, the First Stocking Fund to let them know National Bank of Santa Fe, The about your contribution, courSalvation Army and Presbytetesy of the Santa Fe Community rian Medical Services donate Foundation and InSight Photo.

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Biatris Barrera, left, and Rachel Goodman are shown in November at Presbyterian Española Hospital.

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the pain went away,” Barrera said.

Their medical school training taught them to consider the whole patient.

“The more I dig into their lives, the more the cause of their problem becomes clear,” Goodman said. “There is no cookiecutter recipe for patients.”

Barrera agrees. “The minute you try to peg a patient into a certain hole, it doesn’t work out well for their diagnosis and management of their problem. You have to consider what is driving that patient and what could be leading to their condition.”

The doctors are looking forward to treating multiple generations of women from the same families and to providing continuous care for years.

It takes time to build trust between physician and patient, they said. “Someone who knows your story,” as Barrera put it.

They’re also looking forward to establishing a new minimally invasive surgery program in gynecology. The hospital has invested in equipment that

allows the doctors to perform surgeries, such as removing ovarian cysts, that women from the area once had to have done in Santa Fe or Albuquerque.

“The benefits are we can do the surgeries women might need with smaller incisions, shorter hospital stays and less pain post-operatively,” Goodman said. “People can get back to work sooner.”

Breland said he knew Barrera and Goodman were the right choices before they had even begun to work.

The doctors attended one of the baby showers the hospital hosts twice a year for mothersto-be. “They sat down, talked to every mother at the shower,” he said. “That confirmed for me that they were going to build a great practice. It takes a big level of commitment from the doctors to engage patients and do it every time.”

Contact Staci Matlock at 986-3055 or smatlock@ sfnewmexican.com.

Navajo: To be released in spring led to choosing a second film.

Wheeler said Finding Nemo Natives recently worked with was an easy pick for him and a developer to launch a video Rick Dempsey, senior vice presigame that draws on their art, dent for Disney character voices, language, humor and history of to engage Navajo children. storytelling.

“We’re thrilled that, though The Navajo Nation Museum our film Finding Nemo and the has hosted classes to teach unforgettable adventures of Navajo with Rosetta Stone and Nemo, Marlin and Dory, we’ll be includes Navajo phrasing on its able to help the museum share exhibits. Wheeler said the popu- and inspire future generations to embrace the Navajo language,” larity of Star Wars in Navajo, which was shown throughout the Dempsey said in a statement. country and produced on DVD, Finding Nemo has not been

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produced in any other Native American languages, which are a rarity on the big screen.

Bambi, which was dubbed in the Arapaho language, is the only exception for a Disney classic, the studio said.

A team of three Navajo linguists spent 36 hours translating the script for Finding Nemo.

Voice auditions are being held Dec. 19 and 20 in the tribal capital of Window Rock. The dubbed film is expected to be released this spring.

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The complaint asks that the court find that TriState CareFlight was negligent in its care of Campbell and that he died as a result. Campbell’s wife

also seeks damages due to loss of companionship with her husband. The complaint says punitive damages are warranted in the case because TriState “encouraged a program that overused costly helicopter transport, misrepresented the risks and exaggerated the benefits and then put patients at

risk by placing them in a stressful environment with minimal or no health benefits.”

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Mark Tamoglia, the oldest skater, said he, too, learned to skate at the Chavez Center.

“Since then, I have been to three adult nationals, two of which I won gold, one in which I took a silver,” he said. “I’m going back to Salt Lake City in April to compete there again at a higher level.”

Tamoglia said he refers to his category as “between 50 and death.”

“However, last May I competed against a 20-year-old. I came in second,” he said, laughing.

Tamoglia called the ice rink at the Chavez Center “the best thing that ever happened here” and said it keeps him feeling young.

“To me, it’s the fountain of youth,” said Tamoglia, who is slim and appears fit. “It keeps me active. It’s something I love doing.”

For Chen, an eighth-grader at Santa Fe Preparatory School, the skating club’s show was a chance to show off to a hometown audience.

“I get comfortable performing here,” he said during a dress rehearsal Saturday morning. “If it’s somewhere else, I’m a little cautious.”

Chen was having trouble landing the triple salchow, a complex jump with three revolutions in the air. But he wasn’t too stressed about it.

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“Sometimes the jumps get me nervous, but just doing shows with jumps I can do, then I’m like, ‘OK, this is fun. I can just enjoy this one,’ ” he said. “I don’t really have to worry because at competitions you have to be all serious and focused. Otherwise, if you screw up, then you’re done.”

Chen, who recently won the silver medal at the 2105 Midwestern Sectional Figure Skating Championship, will compete next at the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships in January in North Carolina.

“He is so dedicated,” said Tammy Berendzen, president of the Santa Fe Skating Club. “He is out here like every day.”

Not every day, but six days a week, usually for two hours each day.

“I just like doing it because it’s fun to do and it just feels good,” Chen said. “You know that feeling of winning? It’s kind of like that after doing a good practice or landing good jumps.”

Chen has dreams of competing in the Olympics in 2018 and 2022.

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Richie Nez of the Navajo McLaughlin appealed to Office of Hearings and Appeals the high court and presented had planned to resign the post an argument that he said only he’s held since 2011 after he was recently came to his attention. challenged in court documents He said Nez shouldn’t have for not having a state bar license presided over the case because as required by tribal law, said he wasn’t licensed to practice Deswood Tome, a presidential in the states where the Navajo adviser. But Nez won’t follow Nation is situated — Arizona, through with the plan in light New Mexico or Utah. Nez is of this week’s ruling by the high a member of the Navajo Bar court, Tome said.

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The hearing office takes on Navajo district court and child support cases, environhigh court justices don’t have ment and grazing disputes, the same requirement. employee grievances and The high court justices election challenges. Perhaps said they presume that Nez’s the most high-profile case of appointment by the tribal presNez’s tenure was that of Chris ident was proper and legal, Deschene, a Navajo presidenor that he was serving as a de tial hopeful who was disquali- facto judge. They said such fied earlier this year for not judges aren’t subject to attack speaking fluent Navajo. Russell on challenges first raised on Begaye took Deschene’s place appeal.

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What: Give Our Regards To Broadway When: 1 p.m. Sunday Where: Genoveva Chavez Community Center How much: Tickets are $12 for ages 12 and up; $7 for ages 2 to 11; children under 2 get in free.

From left, Leah Raye Schwarz, Maria Valle and Abby Wilson practice ‘Mamma Mia’ in a scene from Give Our Regards to Broadway at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center on Saturday. The Santa Fe Skating Club will have a performance at 1 p.m. Sunday. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

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he does is “pretty cool.”

“They just keep on reminding me like once I get famous I have to give them some money,” he said, smiling.

Berendzen encouraged Santa Feans to attend Sunday’s show.

She called it a “great chance” for skaters to show off to their families, friends and neighbors.

“We also always hope that it will lead to some people in the audience saying, ‘I want to do that or I want my kid to do that,’ ” she said. “It’s getting the message out.”

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

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ourtesy of my friend and parent coach aware of this research, yet they keep right on pushing ABCs, number facts and wholeJanet Carter (www.ourchildishways. language based reading (which has also been com), comes an interesting story: linked to learning disabilities) at preschool The parents of a 4-year-old girl went to a kids. Why? preschool parent conference to learn from her teacher that she is having difThe answer is two-fold: First, ficulty with scissors and somewhat today’s parents — mothers, espebehind the other kids in letter and cially — are highly anxious (and number recognition. The parents yes, I’m speaking generally) about apparently blew the teacher’s mind their children’s academic perwhen they replied that they were formance. There seems to be an more concerned with their daughunwritten understanding in Ameriter’s heart and character than her can mother culture to the effect academic achievement. Was she that the mother with the highestcompassionate? Was she respectful achieving child is, somehow, the John of her teachers and peers? best mother. Therefore, today’s Rosemond parents (by and large) tend to insist This story is illustrative of sevthat if they’re going to spend the eral disturbing trends, the first Living With money to enroll their kids in preof which is the newly academic Children schools, then preschools need to nature of most preschools. Study demonstrate their value by teachafter study (see David Elkind’s ing academics and computer skills masterpiece, The Hurried Child) and other stuff that is worthless in the long has shown that academic learning produced run, if not harmful. during the preschool years is no longer noticeable by the third grade. It’s artificially Second, and because of the first part of this induced, and therefore a complete waste of answer, preschools are forced to incorporate children’s time and energy. There are several academics into their program — many are studies that link early academic instruction completely academic, in fact — in order with learning disabilities. Educators must be to stay competitive. They have to virtu-

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ally promise that they will feed parents’ need to boast about their high-performing children. So, the precious preschool years, when children should be allowed to play and experiment and learn to play simple musical instruments, are sacrificed to the Altar of the Trophy Child.

I went to first grade in 1952. I’d never been to kindergarten. Along with most of my classmates, I came to first grade not knowing my ABCs. My first-grade class picture shows 50 children, one teacher. At the end of first grade, children in the 1950s were reading at higher levels than today’s kids. We outperformed today’s kids at every grade, and most of us were in classrooms that would be considered unacceptably overcrowded (not to mention underfunded) by today’s standards.

Many, many kudos to the parents in the above story. The teacher, by the way and to her credit, after recovering from her shock, told them that she wished all parents had their attitude. We should all share in her wish and do all we can to make it come true.

Visit family psychologist John Rosemond’s website at www.johnrosemond.com.

Challenging the Mr. Mom stereotype

Family calendar Sunday, Dec. 7 RECYCLE SANTA FE ART FESTIVAL: The country’s largest and oldest recycled art market will be held at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., featuring adult and student juried art exhibits, and make-and-take art activities. General admission for the festival, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., is $5 at the door, (kids under 12 are free). Visit www.recyclesantefe.org.

ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS MARKET: Enjoy bake sale goodies while you browse the market for Christmas gifts such as scarves and jewelry, pens and cards, unique Christmas ornaments, and fair trade items. All proceeds benefit a local, national or international nonprofit; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave. HOLIDAY SHOW ON ICE: The Santa Fe Skating Club presents Give Our Regards to Broadway, with music from Broadway musicals; 1 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults and $7 for children under 12.

WINTER CELEBRATION AT THE FOLK ART MUSEUM: Celebrate the winter holidays from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Museum of International Folk Art on Museum Hill on Camino Lejo. Make festival headdresses and beaded animal ornaments, and enjoy live music by Jazz Brasileiro and refreshments. New Mexico residents with ID are free on Sundays; youth 16 and under always free.

Monday, Dec. 8 NATURE PLAYTIMES: Toddlers, preschoolers and their caregivers are invited to the Pajarito Environmental Education Center in Los Alamos to explore the natural world from 10 to 11 a.m. Each Playtime features a craft, story and outside activity; no charge; 3540 Orange St.; call 662-0460.

Tuesday, Dec. 9 PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Stories, rhymes, songs, crafts and more for children ages 2 to 5 from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.; Oliver La Farge Branch Library, 1730 Llano St.; 955-4860.

BOOKS AND BABIES: Children can come and enjoy books, songs and finger games from 10:30 to 11 a.m.; Main Library, 145 Washington Ave.; call 955-6783.

Wednesday, Dec. 10 PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Stories, rhymes, songs, crafts and more for children ages 2 to 5 from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. at the Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive; 955-4863.

BOOKS AND BABIES: Children can come and enjoy books, songs and finger games from 10:30 to 11 a.m.; Oliver La Farge Branch Library, 1730 Llano St.; 955-4860.

SCIENCE CAFE FOR YOUNG THINKERS: Sam Scarpino of the Santa Fe Institute will lead a discussion for youth ages 13 to 19 on “Fighting Ebola with Math” at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Education Annex, 123 Grant Ave., from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Admission is free, and refreshments will be served.

Thursday, Dec. 11 BOOKS AND BABIES: Children ages 6 months to 2 years can enjoy books, songs and finger games from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. at the Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive; 955-4863.

CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR: Readings from picture books for children up to age 5; 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. at Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St.; no charge, call 988-4226.

TRY IT THURSDAYS: Children 16 and under are free on Thursdays after 4 p.m. at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum, 1050 Old Pecos Trail; call 989-8359.

GLOW: A WINTER LIGHTS EVENT: The Santa Fe Botanical Garden transforms into a winter wonderland with a lighting display; 5-8 p.m.; $5 for members, $8 for nonmembers.

By Brianna Hope Beaton, 16 KIDS FIRST! critic

This much-anticipated film is absolutely fantastic with some action and a stellar cast that will blow your mind!

This epic story of the Hunger Games continues with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), who both play a big part in the lives of District 13’ers, each in their own way. They want to unite and save an entire nation.

In order to do this, they need the help of their friends and new alliances.

I completely love this film and the overall production. It’s intense and has such a grand feel to it. With scene after scene, it gets bigger and bigger, and you see just how powerful one voice can be.

The aerial shots, emotions, excitement and the anticipation of what’s happening next basically keep your eyes glued to the screen. I’ve read all the books, and this adaption is very true to the original stories.

Jennifer Lawrence’s performance is incredible. She becomes her character completely with a range of emotions — anger, doubt, disbelief and feeling sorry. She is so convincing. My favorite character is Peeta. Although he is not onscreen as much as the other characters, he plays a big part in the film. Peeta is what drives Katniss throughout the film as she struggles to get to him. Almost everything she does is a result of her wanting to save Peeta. I also like Peeta because, every time he is on screen, he seems to change and intensify the situation.

My favorite scene is when Katniss sees Peeta for the very first time. She is shocked and, at the same time, grateful that he is alive. It is nice to see all of the questions that go though her mind through her own eyes. Katniss’ eyes reveal how she feels about Peeta.

I recommend this film for ages 13 to 18 and I give it 4 out of 5 stars. It is a little slow in the beginning, but I understand why. They have to bring you up to speed with what happened in the previous film. I cannot wait to see Part 2!

Satisfy your excitement and see The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1. It is playing in theaters now, so please check it out.

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Members of the New York chapter of the National At-Home Dad Network with their kids. National groups are working to change social attitudes about stay-home dads. KATIE ORLINSKY/THE NEW YORK TIMES

By Jessica Bennett The New York Times

DENVER hoo-choo-wa! Choo-choo-wa!

Choo-choo-wa-wa-wah!”

The words — the theme song of a children’s cartoon — were being bellowed by six grown men huddled on a makeshift stage in a hotel banquet room.

The song leader, an education specialist, held up a baby rattle.

“What can we do to encourage play?” he asked the all-male audience.

“Give them alone time,” one man offered.

“Follow their lead,” another said.

“Have stuff around that they can interact with,” a third suggested.

All were correct. And why wouldn’t they be?

They were stay-at-home fathers observing a presentation on children and play.

The men are part of a group called the National At-Home Dad Network, which on an early fall weekend had gathered here for an annual retreat (and a rare night without the kids). The men — 100 in total — had traveled from all over: the Midwest, Canada, Washington state. Over two days, they would attend a workshop on seat belt safety and bro out at a Colorado Rockies game. They traded recipes — Tex-Mex spaghetti squash, lentil soup, piled into a box in the lobby — and asked questions of a panel of working women. (“Is it weird when your husband gets you a gift with your own money?”; “Who handles your finances?”) The men exchanged email addresses and made plans to meet up in playgrounds across the country.

By Sunday, they left, as the convention organizer put it, “better men, better husbands, better fathers.” It was the largest gathering of stay-athome fathers ever, according to the organizers.

Some may wonder why fathers need a convention at all. But these men said the answer was simple: They wanted other dads to talk to.

At-home mothers have every support resource in the book, as well as a changing vernacular for how to refer to them (they too are “working moms”). Yet when it comes to dads who are the primary caretakers of their children — a group that is growing swiftly, both in size and visibility — the resources remain dismal.

Few books. Fewer community groups.

“You’ll hear many guys describe it: I’m alone on an island in a vast sea,” said Jim O’Dowd, the conference organizer, who is a former mechanical engineer and a father of four. “There’s no history, no social structure, no guidebook. A guy jumps into this blind.”

And yet, he is also more visible than ever.

According to a June study by the Pew Research Center, stay-at-home dads now account for more than 16 percent of at-home caretakers. A new

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kind of male caretaker has emerged: the outand-proud involved dad.

Sure, he raises his children differently than a woman would. But he’s also there by choice. He isn’t a product of the recession, necessarily. And, according to a Boston College survey, a majority of his full-time working brothers wish they could join him — if their wives’ incomes only allowed.

“There’s been a feeling for a long time that dads are not capable, that if dads are in the home, moms are still directing, that dads are not interested in that caretaker role,” said Matt Schneider, a 39-year-old former teacher who had traveled to the convention from New York, where he is a founder of a dads group with 1,100 members.

“That doesn’t jibe with what we see every day.”

The roots of the National At-Home Dads Network actually began two decades ago, with a dissertation project at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Ill. Robert Frank, now the chairman of the college’s behavioral and social science department, was working toward his doctorate in psychology while caring for his two children. When asked one day by a professor what he did for a living, he replied without thinking twice, “I’m a stay-at-home dad.”

She stared back at him, wide-eyed. “I’ve never heard that phrase before,” she told him. “You’ve just found your dissertation topic.”

Over the next two years, Frank surveyed 371 men who said they were the primary caregivers to their children. He began a series of athome dad meetings, and his findings culminated in a book, Parenting Partners. His group fizzled somewhere around the 10-year mark, in part because his children were grown by then. And yet Frank had started a movement that endures.

In recent months, the engaged father has become a subject in men’s magazines. At Boston College, the study of the “New Dad,” as it’s called, is now the major focus of the university’s Center for Work and Family. At the dads’ convention, researchers from Notre Dame and Arizona State were looking at stay-at-home dads and social class and identity. A study at the University of Toronto recently determined that men who talked about being a parent at work were viewed as both lesser workers and lesser men. “Has there been an attitudinal shift? Yes,” said Brad Harrington, the executive director of the Center for Work and Family. “But we’re still in a period of transition.” For its part, this dads’ network is working to change the stigma “You know, anybody who cares about their kid can learn to change diapers and do laundry and cook — and all of those things that are part of being an at-home parent,” O’Dowd said. “But you can’t overcome social stigma on your own.

So while we want guys to feel like they can come here and bond with each other, we also want to enlighten the world a little bit. To say, you know, dads can do this gig, too.”

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Stories, rhymes and crafts for children ages 2 to 5 from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. at the Main Library, 145 Washington Ave., 955-6783.

GARDEN SPROUTS: Stories and hands-on activities for children ages 3 to 5 with a caregiver from 9 to 10 a.m., weather permitting; sponsored by the Santa Fe Botanical Garden and Railyard Stewards. Meet at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden on Museum Hill, 725 Camino Lejo. $5 suggested donation; free to members and children under 12.

GLOW: A WINTER LIGHTS EVENT: The Santa Fe Botanical Garden transforms into a winter wonderland with a lighting display; 5-8 p.m.; $5 for members, $8 for nonmembers.

ART AT THE LIBRARY: A free art program will be offered for families from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Main Library, 145 Washington Ave.; call 955-6783.

PINK ELEPHANT THEATER: A puppet show for children will be presented from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Oliver La Farge Branch Library, 1730 Llano St.; 955-4860.

FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: Free screening of a PG-rated film for families at the Vista Grande Public Library, 7 p.m., 7 Avenida Vista Grande in Eldorado.

CHRISTMAS AT THE PALACE: The 30th anniversary of the annual Christmas party will be held at the Palace of the Governors, the oldest continually occupied public building in the nation. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and close at 8. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be on hand, along with hot cider, biscochitos, live music, piñatas, entertainment, craft-making activities and an opportunity to print Christmas cards on an antique, hand-operated printing press. Vsitors are encouraged to bring nonperishable foods to donate to The Food Depot. Visit www.nmhistorymuseum.org.

Saturday, Dec. 13 GLOW: A WINTER LIGHTS EVENT: The Santa Fe Botanical Garden transforms into a winter wonderland with a lighting display; 5-9 p.m.; $5 for members, $8 for nonmembers.

PINK ELEPHANT THEATER: A puppet show for children will be presented from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Main Library, 145 Washington Ave., 955-6783, and from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive; 955-4863.

SANTA’S VILLAGE AT THE RAILYARD: The Rio Metro Regional Transit District is hosting the second annual Santa’s Village at the Santa Fe Railyard, with activities, interactive displays, free mini-train rides, food vendors and, of course, pictures with Santa.

IAIA HOLIDAY MARKET: The Institute of American Indian Arts will hold its Holiday Market, featuring works of art by over 50 artists, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Academic Building on the IAIA campus, 83 Avan Nu Po Road.

IRISH JIGS & WINTER TREATS: Belisama Irish Dance and Moving People Dance Theatre present a dance repertory showcase for all ages at 7 p.m. at the James A. Little Theater, 1060 Cerrillos Road. Tickets are at ticketssantafe.org.

Sunday, Dec. 14 CHRISTMAS TREASURES CONCERT: Get into the holiday spirit at the Lensic with the Santa Fe Symphony’s annual afternoon of Christmas favorites — Corelli’s “Christmas Concerto,” Yon’s “Gesu Bambino,” Faith’s “Brazilian Sleigh Bells,” “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin, Wendel’s “Little Drummer Boy Bolero,” and Anderson’s “A Christmas Festival.” Tickets are $20 to $76. Half-priced tickets available for children ages 6 to 14 with adult purchase (no children under 6 admitted). Call the Lensic box office at 988-1234.

IRISH JIGS & WINTER TREATS: Belisama Irish Dance and Moving People Dance Theatre present a dance repertory showcase for all ages at 2:30 p.m. at the James A. Little Theater, 1060 Cerrillos Road. Tickets are available at ticketssantafe.org.

LAS POSADAS: Join in a candlelit, centuries-old Hispanic tradition depicting Mary and Joseph’s search for lodging the night before Jesus’ birthday; 5:30 p.m. at the Palace of the Governors. Travel with the group around the Plaza, ending back at the Palace Courtyard with carols and refreshments.

Coming up “THE NUTCRACKER”: Tickets are now on sale for the annual Aspen Santa Fe Ballet performance of the holiday classic, with a cast of 60 professional and student dancers, actors and circus artists. The show is at 2 and 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 20 and 1 and 5 p.m. Dec. 21, ticketssantafe.org.

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THE NEW MEXICAN Sunday, December 7, 2014

Faces & places The Native Treasures Indian Arts Festival has announced that widely collected and highly acclaimed Kiowa artists and sisters Keri Ataumbi and Teri Greeves are the 2015 co-recipients of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Living Treasures Award.

The award acknowledges both the body of work by an artist and the participation of the artist in the community at large. Ataumbi and Greeves both have made great contributions to the Santa Fe arts community, of which they have been a part since 1990 and 1996, respectively.

The sisters will be recognized in May at the 2015 Native Treasures Arts Festival.

The sisters were raised on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, where they were exposed to both traditional Native American aesthetics and contemporary art theory and practice from an early age.

Their Kiowa mother ran a trading post, and their Italian American father created awardwinning bronze sculptures.

The sisters were encouraged to pursue their individual interests in art. For more information, visit www.nativetreasures.org. uuu

In the true spirit of the giving season, a 12-year-old Los Alamos Middle School student organized an event during the community’s Winterfest called Rock on Climbathon, with the goal of raising at least $3,500 for local nonprofits YMCA and Self Help Inc. Originated and organized by seventh-grader Talia Ben-Naim, Rock on Climbathon gave adults and kids alike a chance to try indoor rock climbing, while enjoying music, pizza, popcorn, drinks and a chance to win raffle items donated by local merchants.

Half of all proceeds will benefit the local YMCA chapter, while the other half will benefit Self Help Inc. — a nonprofit organization that has provided

Sisters Keri Ataumbi and Teri Greeves are the 2015 co-recipients of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Living Treasures Award. COURTESY PHOTO

consultation, advocacy, emergency and financial assistance, and seed money grants to area residents since 1969. uuu

The New Mexico State Parks Division has recognized the following employee, volunteer and partner awards during its annual awards ceremony Nov. 13 in Elephant Butte.

The division’s top honor, the Governor’s Award, went to Superintendent Daniel Gurule from Cimarron Canyon State Park. Gurule was the sole employee at the popular park during a very busy summer.

He also provided support to

other parks in the area, provided first aid and CPR training statewide and held educational events at the park.

The Secretary’s Award went to Southwest Regional Administrator Melissa Torres, who was recognized for her dedication, attitude and great institutional knowledge when providing administrative, budgeting and procurement support to her region.

Customer service is paramount to State Parks, and five people were recognized in the category: Martin Nuñez from Pancho Villa State Park; the team of statewide regional heavy equipment inspectors, includ-

ing Andrew Archuleta (Coyote Creek State Park), Randy Plane (Elephant Butte Lake State Park) and Terry Edwards (Bottomless Lakes State Park); and Human Resources and Training Coordinator Miche Bové from the Santa Fe Office.

Park Ranger of the Year was given to a certified and commissioned park officer who performs in a superior manner, Mark Brown of Bluewater Lake State Park.

Brown kept his park running smoothly through a very busy and difficult time, helping to manage the tiger muskie fishery and coordinating a complicated park management plan.

The 2014 Life-Saving Awards went to the following staff: Manuel Villanueva, Mario Archuleta and George deHerrera of Storrie Lake State Park, as well as Las Vegas Police Department Commander Adrian Crespin; Superintendent Saul Baquera of Caballo Lake State Park; and Superintendent Jesus Jimenez and Ranger Manny Sanchez of Elephant Butte Lake State Park.

A special memorial plaque was presented to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for the hard work of Mike Andrews, a key partner to State Parks who passed away in 2014.

Retirees from State Parks in 2014 were: Deputy Director Jerome Madrid, Regional Manager Doug McKim, Park Administrator Gloria Reed, Boating Education Officer Stephen Verchinski and Park Manager Paul Lisko.

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LEFT: Mark Brown of Bluewater Lake State Park, left, was named State Park Ranger of the Year. He is shown with the State Parks’ boating and law enforcement chief, Toby Velasquez. RIGHT: Southwest Regional Administrator Melissa Torres receives the Secretary’s Award from State Parks Director Tommy Mutz. COURTESY PHOTOS

The New Mexican welcomes your submissions of achievement announcements for Faces & places, as well as announcements of weddings, engagements, milestone anniversaries and new babies. Send your announcement, along with a photo, to service@sfnew mexican.com.

El mitote A Santa Fe filmmaker’s documentary will be screened at one of the nation’s most prestigious film events, the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

Jason Silverman, the Cinematheque director at the Center for Contemporary Arts, helped to produce the documentary Sembene! along with Samba Gadjigo, a professor of African Studies and French at Mount Holyoke College. The documentary focuses on the story of noted author and Jason filmmaker Ousmane Sembène.

Silverman Sundance was founded by actor Robert Redford. According to a news release, 12,000 films are submitted to the festival, but fewer than 2 percent make the final cut. Sembene! will compete with 15 other films in the International Documentary category. uuu

An eagle-eyed source spotted actress Cheri Oteri dancing at El Farol last week. The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said he even danced with the Saturday Night Live alum.

Apparently, the actress knew how to move on the dance floor.

IMDb didn’t indicate that Oteri was working on local film or TV productions, so maybe she was just vacationing in town?

Cheri Oteri Oteri starred alongside Will Ferrell in one of SNL’s most famous skits, “The Spartan Cheerleaders at a Chess Tournament.” She also voiced Sleeping Beauty in the Shrek film series. uuu

The hugely popular Netflix series House of Cards will be filming in Santa Fe soon, according to the film blog oneheadlightink.com, so be on the lookout for stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.

The Netflix exclusive will return to the popular streaming service on Feb. 27, 2015.

Send your celebrity sightings, photos or selfies to elmitote@sfnewmexican.com.

ON OUR WEBSITE u Follow the El Mitote blog at www.santafenew mexican.com/news/blogs/neighbors.

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© 2014 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 30, No. 52

Rosa Parks once said, “I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.”

In 1987, ten years after the death of her husband, Rosa founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. One of its programs takes young people of different ethnicities on tours of North American places historically important to the Civil Rights Movement.

Kid Scoop introduces you to Rosa Parks, considered by many to be one of the most important citizens of the 20th century.

Rosa McCauley Parks grew up in a time when it was legal to discriminate against black people in the United States. In 1924, she went to a store to “Differences of buy a soda. The clerk at the store told race, nationality or her, “We don’t serve sodas to colored religion should not people.” While Rosa knew the clerk’s be used to deny refusal was legal, she also knew it was any human being wrong. citizenship rights or privileges.”

– Rosa Parks

Today, because of laws Rosa Parks helped to change, it is illegal to refuse to serve a customer based upon skin color.

Standards Link: History: Students understand the importance of individual action and character.

Kevin and Kyle are best friends. Put a check next to each thing they have in common.

In 1955, Rosa Parks was riding home on a bus after a long day of work. She was very tired. She got on the bus and sat in an empty seat.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

In those days, Rosa’s hometown of Montgomery, Ala. had a law: if there weren’t enough seats on the bus for white people, black people were required to surrender their seats to them. When the bus filled, the white people expected Rosa to get up from her seat.

MONTGOMERY Find the words in the puzzle, then in this week’s Kid Scoop ROSA stories and activities.

PARKS F R E E G A R U O C FREEDOM E D E L P O E P S O SUPREME BOYCOTT Y R E M O G T N O M RACIAL S W A L E T F C D O COURAGE K E M C O R O S A D RACE R B A C I U P I G E SEATS A H Y T R A E U C E LAWS EQUAL P O H T S T L A S R SODA B L A U Q E R B G F PEOPLE Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical COURT words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Rosa didn’t think it was fair that she had to give up her seat because she was African-American, and she didn’t want to be treated unfairly any longer. She said, “No.” Rosa Parks was arrested and jailed for not giving up her seat.

When the black people in Montgomery heard what had happened, they decided as a group to boycott, or stop riding all local buses, until the law was changed.

For 382 days, the black people of Montgomery _____ ride the bus, and the bus company lost a lot of money.

Finally, the law was changed.

In December of 1956, the Supreme Court decided that bus segregation ________ the constitution. People of all races banded together to work for equal treatment for all people in a _________ called the Civil Rights Movement.

This led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which gives all Americans, whatever their race, nationality or religion, equal _______ under the law.

Standards Link: History: Examine the roles of civil rights advocates.

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and is arrested.

Rosa Parks dies at age 92. Her body is flown to the U.S. Capitol Building, so that mourners can pay their respects. She is the first woman in U.S. history to receive this honor.

Civil Rights Act signed into law.

Rosa Parks born.

Clerk refuses to sell young Rosa a soda.

Play “Find the Question”

Standards Link: History: Explain how demands of African-Americans helped produce a stimulant for civil rights.

During the Montgomery ____ Boycott, Rosa Parks and her family received threats. She was fired from her job as a seamstress. Even so, she never stopped working for racial _________.

Put the events in Rosa Parks’ life where they belong on the timeline by drawing a line from each event to the year in which it occurred. Use the information on this page to help you.

1. Find and read an article in which a reporter interviews someone.

2. What questions did the reporter ask the person being interviewed? Can you think of new questions to ask this person?

Standards Link: Language Arts / Reading Comprehension: Identify who, what, when, where and why of a newspaper article.

For each of the following character traits, find a person in the newspaper who shows that trait.

• Courage • Perseverance • Commitment • Integrity Standards Link: Character Education: Identify character traits in the actions of others.

Rosa’s husband, Raymond, dies.

Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.

Rosa founds the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development

The United States Constitution protects many important rights.

Write about a Constitutional right that is important to you.

Supreme Court rules bus segregation unconstitutional.

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AL ARMEDARIZ TOURNAMENT

Capital falls to W. Las Vegas in title game

By Edmundo Carrillo The New Mexican

It took just one and a half quarters for the West Las Vegas boys basketball team to solidify itself as W. Las Vegas 57 the best in the Capital 36 Al Armendariz Tournament.

The Dons, who had narrowly escaped Española Valley on Friday to make it to Saturday’s title game in Edward A. Ortiz Memorial Gymna-

TCU fans hope their team has an outside shot at the playoffs after Saturday’s win in Fort Worth, Texas. BRANDON WADE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

4 teams make case for final 2

sium, pulled away from Capital in the second quarter for a 57-36 win.

West Las Vegas (4-0) led the Jaguars (2-2) 14-6 at the end of the first quarter, but the Dons started the second quarter on a 10-2 run to take control of the game. West Las Vegas kept up the intensity and led by at least 20 points for most of the second half.

Capital was feeling good after beating a tall Santa Fe Prep team, 39-31, in the semifinals, but the pressure of playing a good West Las Vegas team in front of the home crowd for a tro-

phy may have been too much for the young Jaguars to handle.

“The moment was too big for us,” Capital head coach Ben Gomez said.

“That was a good squad that we went against, and we were just doing things that we just don’t do.”

It also didn’t help that the Jaguars were going up against a polished swingman in sophomore D.J. Bustos, who put up 30 points after dropping 31 on Española the night before.

The 6-foot-3 Bustos, son of West Las Vegas coach David Bustos, hit six

Coach keeps streak alive Española Valley beats SFIS for tourment title

By James Barron The New Mexican

The Associated Press

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WACO, Texas — Alabama is in.

So is Oregon. That we know for sure about the College Football Playoff after the top two teams in the selection committee rankings romped in their conference championship games.

TCU? Maybe. The Horned Frogs were third last week and certainly did nothing to hurt that on Championship Saturday. But it’s not just about the Frogs.

Florida State, Baylor and Ohio State still have to make final arguments. How that goes will determine how difficult it will be for the committee to come up with a final four and how much bickering there will be Sunday after the field for the first playoff is revealed.

The Crimson Tide followed the Ducks’ lead on Saturday in Atlanta, walloping Missouri 42-13 to win the Southeastern Conference championship. Oregon beat Arizona 51-13 to win the Pac-12 championship Friday night.

No need to worry SEC fans. The conference that dominated the BCS

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UNM fans key road win over Valpo The New Mexican

From left, Lady Sundevil Kaitlyn Romero defends the ball against Lady Brave Milan Schimmel during the Lady Braves championship game Saturday at Santa Fe Indian School. LUKE E. MONTAVON/THE NEW MEXICAN

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nd still undefeated — Cindy Roybal.

Roybal is not shy to boast about her record at the Santa Fe Indian School Lady Braves Classic. Going back to when she started the tournament during her first run at SFIS from 1978-85, before helping it return in 2011, Roybal says she has not lost.

That streak was threatened on Saturday night, but not ended. Thanks to 25 points and 19 rebounds from junior post Alexis Lovato, Española Valley — the new home for the venerable head coach — walked out of Española Valley 60 Pueblo Pavilion SFIS 48 with a 60-48 win over the host Lady Braves in the tournament championship.

It was a part of a disappointing night for SFIS, as the boys team lost to Pojoaque Valley 70-63 and finished second to the Elks in the round-robin format.

In a battle of wills to control the paint, the Lady Sundevils exerted theirs just a little bit better. And to think the team has only eight practices under its belt with Roybal since the season began.

“Three of those you couldn’t even count because the boys were playing before us, so we only worked out for an hour,” Roybal said.

“I think it’s amazing what we have done in the short period of time. I think, over Christmas break, watch out.”

The rest of the state will be watching out for Lovato, who was named the tournament MVP for her weekend. She scored 16 points in the second half as the Lady Braves (2-2) cut into a 32-26 halftime deficit. When Kayla Joe converted a reverse layup with 6:02 left in the third quarter, SFIS pulled to within 33-31.

Then Lovato went into her own “Beast Mode.” She had a three-point play on a baseline drive, then a putback that made it 37-35, Española, at 3:14 of the third. After teammate Kayla Salazar nailed a 3-pointer, Lovato followed with another putback for a 44-37 lead.

The fourth quarter, though, was a total team effort on the defensive end. SFIS missed its first six shots of the quarter as the Lady Sundevils (5-0) patiently worked the ball inside for buckets or a trip to the free-throw line. Their three baskets were all inside of 5 feet, and they hit all 10 of their shots from the stripe. “Finally,” Royal said of her defense.

“It took the whole dang three quarters to get them to finally understand the defense.”

In the boys matchup, the Elks amped up their defense in the second half, holding SFIS to 7-for-24 shooting in the second half to take control. The score was still knotted at 38 before a 13-1 run gave Pojoaque a 51-38 edge.

The Elks pounded the smaller Braves dur-

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LADY BRAVES CLASSIC

By Ralph D. Russo

They may have been wearing their cherry red uniforms and been playing in a hostile road environment, but it sure felt like home for a few members of the University of New Mexico men’s UNM 63 basketball team Valparaiso 46 on Saturday night.

Behind a small contingent of Lobo fans hailing from nearby Chicago and all points Indiana, New Mexico (5-3) rolled to a 63-46 win over Valparaiso on Saturday night at the Athletics-Recreation Center in Valparaiso, Ind. It was UNM’s second straight win.

Deshawn Delaney scored a gamehigh 17 points while three other Lobos had 10 each.

Growing up in Chicago, Delaney had several friends, family members and former high school teammates rooting him on from the seats behind the UNM bench. Center Obij Aget attended high school in nearby La Porte, Ind., while freshman guard

shots from behind the arc. As a part of a successful basketball family, Bustos’ point production can be traced back to the long hours spent on the court long before he was ever a Don. “I just work hard,” Bustos said. “My dad put me in the gym when I was little and told me to work hard every day.”

Although no one else on West Las Vegas scored in double digits, all nine players on the roster scored, and

The Patriots will be trying to slow Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers on Sunday in San Diego. NICK WASS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN DIEGO — New England coach Bill Belichick says his Patriots have a lot to get ready for with the streaking San Diego Chargers coming up this weekend.

“They have a lot of weapons; they do a lot of things well,” Belichick said Friday as the Patriots neared the end of their week in San Diego.

Slowing Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers is among the focal points.

“He’s a great quarterback,” said defensive end Rob Ninkovich, who leads the Patriots with six sacks. “He can make every throw so we just have

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to do a good job of being on top of all the targets and making sure that we make him uncomfortable.”

That wasn’t the case with Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers last Sunday. Rodgers was sacked once as he threw for two touchdowns and

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348 yards in the 26-21 win over the Patriots.

“Last week is a completely different story,” Ninkovich said. “That guy can get out of the pocket and he’s more of a scrambling quarterback, and he makes a lot more plays with his feet.

[We’re] moving on from last week.

Last week was a different game plan, and this week is something different, so we just have to go out there and execute.”

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

GP 28 26 27 27 29 26 26 28 25 25 26 27 26 26 27 25

W 18 18 19 16 17 12 14 15 11 11 10 10 9 9 9 8

L OL Pts GF GA 7 3 39 98 72 6 2 38 85 60 8 0 38 86 74 6 5 37 85 69 10 2 36 74 76 10 4 28 74 71 9 3 31 89 79 12 1 31 72 72 7 7 29 56 64 10 4 26 73 73 11 5 25 66 71 13 4 24 64 79 13 4 22 68 82 15 2 20 61 88 16 2 20 47 85 14 3 19 57 71

Western Conference GP W L OL Pts GF GA Anaheim 28 17 6 5 39 81 76 Chicago 27 18 8 1 37 85 53 Vancouver 27 18 8 1 37 84 74 Nashville 26 17 7 2 36 70 54 Calgary 27 17 8 2 36 87 69 St. Louis 27 17 8 2 36 76 63 Los Angeles 27 14 8 5 33 72 59 Winnipeg 27 14 9 4 32 61 60 San Jose 27 13 10 4 30 77 75 Minnesota 25 14 10 1 29 71 61 Dallas 27 10 12 5 25 79 95 Colorado 27 9 12 6 24 72 89 Arizona 28 10 15 3 23 66 90 Edmonton 26 6 15 5 17 58 90 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh 3, Ottawa 2 St. Louis 6, N.Y. Islanders 4 Philadelphia 2, Los Angeles 1 Toronto 5, Vancouver 2 Detroit 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 Columbus 3, Tampa Bay 1 Florida 3, Buffalo 2 Washington 4, New Jersey 1 Chicago 3, Nashville 1 Dallas 4, Montreal 1 Boston 5, Arizona 2 San Jose at Calgary Friday’s Games Anaheim 5, Minnesota 4 Winnipeg 6, Colorado 2 Chicago 4, Montreal 3 Sunday’s Games Anaheim at Winnipeg, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Carolina, 3 p.m.

Vancouver at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

San Jose at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Bruins 5, Coyotes 2 Boston 2 3 0—5 Arizona 1 0 1—2 First Period—1, Boston, Marchand 7 (R.Smith, Hamilton), :58. 2, Boston, Miller 1, 5:58. 3, Arizona, Vitale 3 (Doan, Stone), 13:11.

Second Period—4, Boston, Gagne 3 (Paille), 8:34. 5, Boston, Marchand 8 (R.Smith, Hamilton), 14:47. 6, Boston, Eriksson 4 (Bergeron, Krug), 19:30 (pp).

Third Period—7, Arizona, Boedker 9 (Vermette, Yandle), 5:41 (pp).

Shots on Goal—Boston 16-12-5—33.

Arizona 11-7-8—26.

Power-play opportunities—Boston 1 of 2; Arizona 1 of 4.

Goalies—Boston, Rask 12-8-1 (26 shots24 saves). Arizona, Dubnyk 5-2-1 (24-20), M.Smith (14:47 second, 9-8).

A—13,114 (17,125). T—2:26.

Red Wings 3, Rangers 2 N.Y. Rangers 2 0 0—2 Detroit 0 2 1—3 First Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, Klein 5 (Hayes, Hagelin), 9:31. 2, N.Y. Rangers, Nash 17 (Brassard), 14:48.

Second Period—3, Detroit, Sheahan 6 (Weiss, Franzen), 14:14. 4, Detroit, Glendening 3 (Andersson, D.Miller), 15:15.

Third Period—5, Detroit, Helm 5 (Tatar, DeKeyser), 7:40.

Shots on Goal—N.Y. Rangers 12-107—29. Detroit 10-15-9—34.

Power-play opportunities—N.Y. Rangers 0 of 7; Detroit 0 of 3.

Goalies—N.Y. Rangers, Talbot 2-3-1 (34 shots-31 saves). Detroit, Howard 13-5-4 (29-27).

A—20,027 (20,027). T—2:24.

Blues 6, Islanders 4 St. Louis 0 3 3—6 N.Y. Islanders 3 1 0—4 First Period—1, N.Y. Islanders, Nielsen 6 (Okposo, Leddy), 7:57 (pp). 2, N.Y. Islanders, Strome 6, 18:01. 3, N.Y. Islanders, Grabner 1 (Donovan, Leddy), 19:39.

Second Period—4, St. Louis, Stastny 4 (Shattenkirk, Backes), 2:36 (pp). 5, St. Louis, Berglund 3 (Butler, Pietrangelo), 4:28. 6, St. Louis, Shattenkirk 3 (Oshie, Lindstrom), 12:34 (pp). 7, N.Y. Islanders, Tavares 11 (Okposo, Nielsen), 19:06 (pp).

Third Period—8, St. Louis, Oshie 3 (Shattenkirk, Lindstrom), 4:51 (pp). 9, St. Louis, Stastny 5 (Lindstrom, Jackman), 13:26. 10, St. Louis, Tarasenko 17 (Lehtera, Schwartz), 17:32.

Shots on Goal—St. Louis 10-16-14—40.

N.Y. Islanders 12-8-7—27.

Power-play opportunities—St. Louis 3 of 5; N.Y. Islanders 2 of 5.

Goalies—St. Louis, Allen (12 shots-9 saves), Mar.Brodeur 1-1-0 (0:00 second, 15-14). N.Y. Islanders, Halak 14-5-0 (40-34).

A—16,170 (16,170). T—2:44.

Flyers 2, Kings 1 Philadelphia 1 1 0—2 Los Angeles 0 0 1—1 First Period—1, Philadelphia, Giroux 8 (Streit, Grossmann), 4:35.

Second Period—2, Philadelphia, Simmonds 11 (Couturier, MacDonald), 2:08 (pp).

Third Period—3, Los Angeles, Williams 6 (Stoll, Regehr), 4:09.

Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 7-6-3—16.

Los Angeles 7-15-16—38.

Power-play opportunities—Philadelphia 1 of 5; Los Angeles 0 of 5.

Goalies—Philadelphia, Mason 5-9-3 (38 shots-37 saves). Los Angeles, Quick 11-6-4 (16-14). A—18,230 (18,118). T—2:26.

Penguins 3, Senators 2 Ottawa 0 2 0—2 Pittsburgh 1 1 1—3 First Period—1, Pittsburgh, Malkin 13, 4:17.

Second Period—2, Ottawa, Legwand 4 (Michalek, Karlsson), 1:13 (pp). 3, Ottawa, Zibanejad 5 (Ryan, Methot), 8:44.

4, Pittsburgh, Malkin 14 (Sutter, Maatta), 18:03 (pp).

Third Period—5, Pittsburgh, Ehrhoff 2 (Crosby, Adams), 18:10.

Shots on Goal—Ottawa 6-14-9—29.

Pittsburgh 13-12-8—33.

Power-play opportunities—Ottawa 1 of 5; Pittsburgh 1 of 4.

Goalies—Ottawa, Anderson 5-7-4 (33 shots-30 saves). Pittsburgh, Fleury 15-4-1 (29-27).

A—18,492 (18,387). T—2:29.

Blue Jackets 3, Lightning 1 Columbus 2 0 1—3 Tampa Bay 0 0 1—1 First Period—1, Columbus, Jenner 4 (Calvert), 2:37. 2, Columbus, Savard 5 (J.Johnson, Atkinson), 12:48 (pp).

Second Period—None.

Third Period—3, Columbus, Skille 4 (Chaput, Hartnell), 4:51. 4, Tampa Bay, Palat 8 (Kucherov, Drouin), 18:47.

Shots on Goal—Columbus 9-4-7—20.

Tampa Bay 14-12-8—34.

Power-play opportunities—Columbus 1 of 4; Tampa Bay 0 of 2.

Goalies—Columbus, Bobrovsky 8-8-1 (34 shots-33 saves). Tampa Bay, Bishop 16-4-2 (20-17).

A—17,467 (19,204). T—16:52.

Blackhawks 3, Predators 1 Chicago 1 1 1—3 Nashville 0 0 1—1 First Period—1, Chicago, Saad 6 (Keith), 14:53.

Second Period—2, Chicago, Hossa 4 (Saad, Seabrook), 2:48.

Third Period—3, Nashville, Wilson 6 (Bartley, Fisher), :34. 4, Chicago, Hossa 5, 18:49 (en).

Shots on Goal—Chicago 10-12-9—31.

Nashville 13-7-13—33.

Power-play opportunities—Chicago 0 of 2; Nashville 0 of 1.

Goalies—Chicago, Darling 3-1-0 (33 shots32 saves). Nashville, Rinne 17-5-1 (30-28).

A—17,212 (17,113). T—2:30.

Capitals 4, Devils 1 Washington 1 2 1—4 New Jersey 1 0 0—1 First Period—1, Washington, Alzner 1 (Wilson), 3:47. 2, New Jersey, Elias 3 (Zubrus, Greene), 6:10.

Second Period—3, Washington, Beagle 4 (Carlson, Latta), 9:15. 4, Washington, Kuznetsov 3 (Laich, Ward), 12:40 (pp).

Third Period—5, Washington, Laich 2 (Ward, Fehr), 19:35 (en).

Shots on Goal—Washington 12-13-4—29.

New Jersey 11-8-15—34.

Power-play opportunities—Washington 1 of 2; New Jersey 0 of 2.

Goalies—Washington, Holtby 10-7-3 (34 shots-33 saves). New Jersey, Schneider 10-12-3 (28-25).

A—15,230 (17,625). T—2:31.

Maple Leafs 5, Canucks 2 Vancouver 0 1 1—2 Toronto 2 2 1—5 First Period—1, Toronto, Gardiner 2, 15:47.

2, Toronto, Panik 5 (Smith, Booth), 16:32.

Second Period—3, Toronto, Holland 6, 4:16. 4, Toronto, Lupul 6 (Holland, Clarkson), 5:39. 5, Vancouver, D.Sedin 7 (H.Sedin, Vrbata), 15:21.

Third Period—6, Vancouver, Tanev 1 (Vey, Richardson), 8:45. 7, Toronto, Clarkson 8 (Lupul), 17:39 (en).

Shots on Goal—Vancouver 12-19-15—46.

Toronto 10-9-9—28.

Power-play opportunities—Vancouver 0 of 6; Toronto 0 of 3.

Goalies—Vancouver, Miller 16-5-0 (14 shots-10 saves), Lack (5:39 second, 13-13).

Toronto, Bernier 10-6-3 (46-44).

A—19,346 (18,819). T—2:31.

Stars 4, Canadiens 1 Montreal 0 0 1—1 Dallas 1 2 1—4 First Period—1, Dallas, Eakin 6 (Seguin, Goligoski), 11:23 (pp).

Second Period—2, Dallas, Seguin 20 (Ja. Benn, Daley), 3:09 (pp). 3, Dallas, Seguin 21 (Ja.Benn), 19:52.

Third Period—4, Montreal, Andrighetto 1 (Plekanec, Sekac), 2:21. 5, Dallas, Garbutt 5, 18:56 (en).

Shots on Goal—Montreal 5-6-6—17.

Dallas 11-12-6—29.

Power-play opportunities—Montreal 0 of 2; Dallas 2 of 6.

Goalies—Montreal, Price 14-8-1 (28 shots25 saves). Dallas, Lehtonen 10-6-5 (17-16).

A—16,098 (18,532). T—2:31.

Panthers 3, Sabres 2 Buffalo 0 2 0—2 Florida 1 2 0—3 First Period—1, Florida, Boyes 5 (Jokinen, Ekblad), 13:05.

Second Period—2, Buffalo, Stafford 5 (Hodgson, Gorges), 11:02. 3, Florida, Kopecky 1 (Ekblad, Bjugstad), 12:55. 4, Buffalo, Gionta 3 (Weber, T.Mitchell), 15:54. 5, Florida, Bjugstad 11 (Ekblad, Fleischmann), 19:43.

Third Period—None.

Shots on Goal—Buffalo 9-9-10—28.

Florida 10-14-13—37.

Power-play opportunities—Buffalo 0 of 2; Florida 0 of 1.

Goalies—Buffalo, Neuvirth 3-6-1 (37 shots-34 saves). Florida, Luongo 9-5-6 (28-26).

A—8,597 (17,040). T—2:24.

GOLF PGA TOUR Hero World Challenge Saturday At Isleworth Golf and Country Club Windermere, Fla. Purse: $3.5 million Yardage: 7,354; Par: 72 Third Round Jordan Spieth 66-67-63—196 Keegan Bradley 72-66-65—203 Henrik Stenson 67-68-68—203 Patrick Reed 73-63-69—205 Justin Rose 72-64-70—206 Jason Day 71-67-70—208 Graeme McDowell 68-73-68—209 Matt Kuchar 69-70-70—209 Rickie Fowler 67-70-72—209 Bubba Watson 69-68-72—209 Zach Johnson 67-71-72—210 Billy Horschel 73-72-67—212 Hideki Matsuyama 68-73-71—212 Chris Kirk 70-68-74—212 Jimmy Walker 68-69-75—212 Hunter Mahan 71-71-71—213 Steve Stricker 67-73-74—214 Tiger Woods 77-70-69—216

EUROPEAN TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR Nedbank Challenge Saturday At Gary Player Country Club Sun City, South Africa Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,831; Par: 72 Third Round Luke Donald, Eng 71-63-69—203 Danny Willett, Eng 71-68-65—204 Ross Fisher, Eng 66-70-70—206 Marcel Siem, Ger 68-72-71—211 Thongchai Jaidee, Tha 71-70-71—212 Louis Oosthuizen, SAf 70-73-69—212 Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Tha 72-73-68—213 Tim Clark, SAf 70-71-72—213 Miguel Angel Jimenez, Esp 70-74-69—213 Jonas Blixt, Swe 71-73-70—214 Alexander Levy, Fra 68-70-76—214 Dawie Van der Walt, SAf 73-72-69—214 Tommy Fleetwood, Eng 74-67-74—215 Stephen Gallacher, Sco 70-73-72—215 73-71-71—215 Pablo Larrazabal, Esp

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

W 15 8 6 4 2 W 13 12 9 8 5 W 11 12 11 7 3

L 5 10 11 17 18 L 5 6 10 14 15 L 7 8 10 13 17

Pct GB .750 — .444 6 .353 71/2 .190 111/2 .100 13 Pct GB .722 — .667 1 .474 41/2 .364 7 .250 9 Pct GB .611 — .600 — .524 11/2 .350 5 .150 9

Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB Houston 16 4 .800 — Memphis 15 4 .789 1/2 San Antonio 15 5 .750 1 Dallas 15 6 .714 11/2 New Orleans 8 9 .471 61/2 Northwest W L Pct GB Portland 15 4 .789 — Denver 9 10 .474 6 Oklahoma City 6 13 .316 9 Utah 5 15 .250 101/2 Minnesota 4 15 .211 11 Pacific W L Pct GB Golden State 17 2 .895 — L.A. Clippers 13 5 .722 31/2 Phoenix 12 9 .571 6 Sacramento 10 9 .526 7 L.A. Lakers 5 15 .250 121/2 Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 108, Detroit 101, OT Golden State 112, Chicago 102 Houston 100, Phoenix 95 San Antonio 123, Minnesota 101 Orlando at Sacramento New Orleans at L.A. Clippers Friday’s Games Oklahoma City 103, Philadelphia 91 Washington 119, Denver 89 Charlotte 103, New York 102 Cleveland 105, Toronto 91 Boston 113, L.A. Lakers 96 Atlanta 98, Brooklyn 75 San Antonio 107, Memphis 101 Houston 114, Minnesota 112, OT Phoenix 118, Dallas 106 Milwaukee 109, Miami 85 Orlando 98, Utah 93 Sacramento 102, Indiana 101, OT Sunday’s Games Washington at Boston, 11 a.m.

Denver at Atlanta, 1:30 p.m.

Miami at Memphis, 4 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Milwaukee at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at New York, 5:30 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

76ers 108, Pistons 101, OT PHILADELPHIA (108) Mbah a Moute 3-12 8-12 14, Noel 3-7 3-4 9, Sims 4-10 0-0 9, Carter-Williams 8-12 4-5 20, Thompson 5-9 0-2 13, Grant 1-4 2-2 4, Covington 9-14 4-4 25, McDaniels 3-10 0-0 6, Davies 3-7 0-0 6, Sampson 1-2 0-1 2. Totals 40-87 21-30 108.

DETROIT (101) Singler 8-14 2-2 21, Smith 9-18 4-6 23, Drummond 3-6 1-2 7, Jennings 2-10 4-4 8, Caldwell-Pope 2-10 5-7 9, Monroe 4-12 7-9 15, Martin 4-7 0-0 9, Augustin 1-7 4-5 6, Butler 1-2 0-0 3, Anthony 0-0 0-0 0, Jerebko 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 34-87 27-35 101.

Philadelphia 30 24 23 23 8—108 Detroit 28 23 31 18 1—101 3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 7-23 (Covington 3-5, Thompson 3-6, Sims 1-3, Davies 0-1, Grant 0-1, Sampson 0-1, Mbah a Moute 0-3, McDaniels 0-3), Detroit 6-23 (Singler 3-5, Butler 1-2, Smith 1-2, Martin 1-4, Jerebko 0-1, Jennings 0-2, CaldwellPope 0-3, Augustin 0-4). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Philadelphia 63 (Mbah a Moute 11), Detroit 54 (Monroe 9). Assists— Philadelphia 27 (Carter-Williams 15), Detroit 22 (Smith 7). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 27, Detroit 24. Technicals—Philadelphia defensive three second. A—16,514 (22,076).

Rockets 100, Suns 95 PHOENIX (95) Tucker 6-12 2-2 15, Mark.Morris 2-14 0-0 4, Plumlee 2-3 0-0 4, Bledsoe 7-17 8-10 23, G.Dragic 5-14 3-4 13, Len 2-4 4-6 9, Marc.Morris 2-9 1-2 6, Green 6-14 2-2 16, Warren 2-5 0-0 5, Tolliver 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 34-93 20-26 95.

HOUSTON (100) Ariza 5-15 7-8 19, Motiejunas 7-12 2-4 16, Black 3-5 0-0 6, Terry 5-9 0-0 13, Harden 5-21 4-5 15, Dorsey 2-2 0-0 4, Beverley 5-12 4-6 19, Garcia 0-1 0-0 0, Johnson 1-4 6-8 8. Totals 33-81 23-31 100.

Phoenix 18 23 26 28—95 Houston 35 25 20 20—100 3-Point Goals—Phoenix 7-28 (Green 2-4, Len 1-1, Warren 1-2, Marc.Morris 1-3, Tucker 1-4, Bledsoe 1-6, Tolliver 0-1, Mark.Morris 0-2, G.Dragic 0-5), Houston 11-27 (Beverley 5-8, Terry 3-3, Ariza 2-6, Harden 1-9, Garcia 0-1). Fouled Out—Mark.

Morris. Rebounds—Phoenix 54 (Tucker 8), Houston 67 (Harden 12). Assists—Phoenix 16 (G.Dragic 6), Houston 16 (Harden 7).

Total Fouls—Phoenix 20, Houston 23.

Technicals—G.Dragic. A—18,060 (18,023).

Warriors 112, Bulls 102 GOLDEN STATE (112) Barnes 3-3 3-4 11, Green 11-20 2-2 31, Bogut 2-7 0-1 4, Curry 5-14 8-9 19, Thompson 9-23 4-4 24, Iguodala 3-6 0-0 6, Barbosa 0-1 0-0 0, Speights 4-10 3-5 11, Livingston 3-5 0-0 6.

Totals 40-89 20-25 112.

CHICAGO (102) Dunleavy 2-6 1-2 6, Gasol 10-19 2-2 22, Noah 7-8 2-2 16, Rose 2-11 4-4 9, Butler 8-17 5-7 24, Hinrich 3-8 3-4 10, Gibson 3-7 6-6 12, Mirotic 0-0 0-0 0, Brooks 1-7 0-0 3, Snell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-83 23-27 102.

Golden State 28 33 18 33—112 Chicago 22 27 31 22—102 3-Point Goals—Golden State 12-30 (Green 7-13, Barnes 2-2, Thompson 2-8, Curry 1-5, Iguodala 0-1, Barbosa 0-1), Chicago 7-21 (Butler 3-6, Dunleavy 1-2, Brooks 1-2, Hinrich 1-4, Rose 1-7). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Golden State 46 (Bogut 12), Chicago 59 (Gasol 20). Assists—Golden State 27 (Curry 7), Chicago 24 (Rose 6).

Total Fouls—Golden State 21, Chicago 23. Technicals—Golden State Coach Kerr.

A—22,353 (20,917).

Spurs 123, Timberwolves 101 MINNESOTA (101) Wiggins 3-13 0-0 6, Young 5-8 4-6 14, Dieng 1-4 6-6 8, LaVine 8-15 4-5 22, Brewer 3-10 0-0 7, Budinger 1-5 0-0 3, Muhammad 7-12 5-9 20, Bennett 6-11 2-2 14, Adrien 0-0 0-0 0, Hummel 0-1 0-0 0, Robinson III 1-4 4-4 7.

Totals 35-83 25-32 101.

SAN ANTONIO (123) Leonard 7-12 4-5 18, Duncan 5-11 3-3 13, Bonner 4-6 0-0 10, Joseph 7-10 4-4 18, Green 4-9 2-2 11, Belinelli 7-12 2-2 20, Baynes 2-2 1-1 5, Diaw 6-10 5-6 17,

Anderson 1-3 1-2 3, Ayres 3-4 0-0 6, Daye 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 47-82 22-25 123.

Minnesota 23 28 25 25—101 San Antonio 31 37 28 27—123 3-Point Goals—Minnesota 6-16 (LaVine 2-4, Muhammad 1-2, Robinson III 1-2, Budinger 1-3, Brewer 1-4, Bennett 0-1), San Antonio 7-18 (Belinelli 4-6, Bonner 2-3, Green 1-4, Daye 0-1, Diaw 0-2, Leonard 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Minnesota 41 (Bennett 10), San Antonio 52 (Duncan 10). Assists—Minnesota 20 (LaVine 10), San Antonio 30 (Belinelli 6).

Total Fouls—Minnesota 22, San Antonio 24. Technicals—Minnesota defensive three second. A—18,581 (18,797).

No. 24 West Virginia 83, Coppin State 43 Sunday’s Games No. 1 South Carolina at No. 9 Duke, 11 a.m.

No. 5 Texas A&M at TCU, 12 p.m.

No. 7 Louisville vs. No. 13 Kentucky, 12 p.m.

No. 10 California at Kansas, 4 p.m.

No. 11 Baylor at Mississippi, 1 p.m.

No. 12 Nebraska at Alabama, 1 p.m.

No. 14 Tennessee at Lipscomb, 1 p.m.

No. 15 Maryland vs. Towson, 12 p.m.

No. 16 Michigan State at No. 19 Georgia, 2 p.m.

No. 18 Rutgers at No. 25 Arkansas, 1 p.m.

No. 22 Iowa vs. Colorado, 1 p.m.

No. 23 Mississippi State vs. Southeastern Louisiana, 1 p.m.

No. 25 DePaul at Chicago State, 1 p.m.

Saturday’s Games No. 2 Wisconsin 49, Marquette 38 No. 3 Arizona 66, No. 9 Gonzaga 63, OT No. 7 Virginia 74, VCU 57 No. 8 Wichita State 81, Saint Louis 52 No. 10 Villanova 74, Saint Joseph’s 46 No. 14 Ohio State 70, Colgate 50 Green Bay 68, No. 15 Miami 55 NJIT 72, No. 17 Michigan 70 No. 19 Michigan State 85, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 52 No. 21 Maryland 82, Winthrop 62 No. 23 Butler 65, Northwestern 56 No. 24 Illinois 70, American 55 Friday’s Games No. 1 Kentucky 63, No. 6 Texas 51 No. 5 Louisville 82, FIU 57 No. 11 Kansas 71, Florida 65 No. 22 Oklahoma 82, Missouri 63 Sunday’s Games No. 1 Kentucky vs. E.Kentucky, 4 p.m.

No. 12 N.Carolina vs. E.Carolina, 1 p.m.

No. 13 San Diego St. at Washington, 7 p.m.

No. 16 W.Virginia at N.Kentucky, 4 p.m.

No. 18 Arkansas at Clemson, 3 p.m.

Far West Arizona St. 77, SMU 42 BYU 69, Colorado St. 58 CS Bakersfield 66, UC Riverside 65 CS Northridge 74, Pepperdine 48 Denver 74, UMKC 66 Montana St. 79, Wyoming 52 Oregon St. 109, Sacramento St. 61 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 64, Southern Cal 58 Utah 62, UNLV 49 Utah Valley 68, Boise St. 60 South Clemson 76, Tennessee Tech 61 E. Kentucky 63, Marshall 58 ETSU 88, Alabama A&M 64 FAU 111, Webber 76 FIU 66, UCF 57 Memphis 62, Cent. Michigan 61 Mercer 84, Georgia Southern 61 Miami 65, Jacksonville 36 North Florida 54, Tennessee St. 53 Samford 70, UAB 41 Stetson 101, Warner 40 Virginia 100, Delaware St. 62 Virginia Tech 74, Longwood 42 W. Carolina 63, SC-Upstate 59, OT W. Kentucky 93, Alabama St. 54 East Albany (NY) 67, Colgate 48 Fairleigh Dickinson 56, Army 48 George Mason 86, St. Francis (Pa.) 77 George Washington 73, Fresno St. 64 La Salle 78, William & Mary 71 Loyola (Md.) 56, Mount St. Mary’s 49 NJIT 52, Binghamton 48 Princeton 83, Georgetown 54 Providence 66, Mass.-Lowell 54 UMass 71, American U. 61 West Virginia 83, Coppin St. 43 Yale 66, Boston U. 59 Midwest Ball St. 75, Oakland 50 Bradley 76, Missouri 64 East Carolina 76, Ohio 68 Evansville 51, Miami (Ohio) 41 Green Bay 70, W. Michigan 55 IPFW 65, N. Kentucky 59 Ill.-Chicago 67, W. Illinois 54 Illinois 86, S. Illinois 42 Missouri St. 75, SIU-Edwardsville 69 North Dakota 90, N. Dakota St. 87, OT Saint Louis 68, Missouri-St. Louis 49 South Dakota 86, Cal St.-Fullerton 50 Tulsa 87, Valparaiso 63 UConn 76, Notre Dame 58 Wisconsin 89, Marquette 64 Tournament Brown Classic First Round Brown 66, Sacred Heart 56 St. Bonaventure 43, Drexel 32

NCAA BASKETBALL Men’s Top 25

Men’s Division I Saturday’s Games East Brown 69, Bryant 62 CCSU 56, Hartford 47 Canisius 77, Niagara 64 Columbia 62, Bucknell 39 Cornell 71, Mass.-Lowell 60 Dartmouth 74, Maine 51 Harvard 64, Vermont 52, 2OT Lafayette 97, Wagner 84 Lehigh 80, LIU Brooklyn 76 Mount St. Mary’s 74, Loyola (Md.) 65 New Hampshire 96, Wheelock 45 Northeastern 81, W. Michigan 69 Penn 79, Binghamton 70 Princeton 77, Stony Brook 64 Sacred Heart 81, Holy Cross 68 Seton Hall 81, Rutgers 54 St. Francis (Pa.) 69, Albany (NY) 59 St. John’s 69, Syracuse 57 St. Peter’s 70, Boston U. 59 Temple 58, La Salle 57 Villanova 74, Saint Joseph’s 46 Midwest Ball St. 70, Indiana St. 63 Bowling Green 64, Alabama A&M 47 Butler 65, Northwestern 56 Cent. Michigan 94, SIU-Edwardsville 61 Dayton 73, E. Michigan 64 Detroit 67, South Florida 57 Evansville 89, IUPUI 62 IPFW 86, Miami (Ohio) 78 Illinois 70, American U. 55 Indiana 95, Savannah St. 49 Iowa 77, UMBC 47 Loyola of Chicago 77, Ill.-Chicago 67 Michigan St. 85, Ark.-Pine Bluff 52 N. Iowa 71, George Mason 65, OT NJIT 72, Michigan 70 New Mexico 63, Valparaiso 46 North Dakota 63, Drake 62 North Florida 73, Purdue 70 Notre Dame 75, Fairleigh Dickinson 57 Ohio St. 70, Colgate 50 S. Dakota St. 81, UMKC 61 S. Illinois 71, Austin Peay 49 SE Missouri 63, SE Louisiana 59 St. Bonaventure 80, Ohio 70 Toledo 87, Chicago St. 59 Wichita St. 81, Saint Louis 52 Wisconsin 49, Marquette 38 Xavier 97, Alabama 84 South Alabama St. 80, Jacksonville St. 55 Bethune-Cookman 52, Jacksonville 47 Davidson 90, Stetson 59 Florida St. 96, UCF 73 Furman 74, Samford 64 Gardner-Webb 82, Thomas (Ga.) 66 Grambling St. 74, Selma 64 Green Bay 68, Miami 55 Hampton 71, Coppin St. 52 High Point 66, William & Mary 63 Howard 54, NC A&T 47 Kent St. 58, Kennesaw St. 46 Lipscomb 77, Tennessee St. 68 Louisiana Tech 65, Jackson St. 52 Louisiana-Monroe 83, Louisiana College 55 Maryland 82, Winthrop 62 McNeese St. 80, Louisiana-Lafayette 70 Memphis 73, Bradley 45 Mercer 90, VMI 81 Middle Tennessee 68, South Alabama 67, OT Murray St. 93, W. Kentucky 81 NC State 78, Wake Forest 65 New Orleans 100, Crowley’s Ridge 85 Nicholls St. 89, Loyola NO 60 Norfolk St. 85, Morgan St. 65 Oakland 70, Morehead St. 68, OT Penn St. 73, Marshall 69 Rhode Island 75, Southern Miss. 43 SC State 70, Florida A&M 61 SC-Upstate 59, Georgia Tech 54 South Carolina 75, Oklahoma St. 49 St. Francis (NY) 65, Liberty 54 Tennessee 65, Kansas St. 64 The Citadel 67, Navy 60 Troy 85, Cent. Arkansas 73 Tulane 59, Mississippi St. 54 UNC Greensboro 55, Presbyterian 53 UT-Martin 77, Longwood 67 Virginia 74, VCU 57 Wofford 88, Florida National 57 Southwest Arkansas St. 95, Belhaven 68 Denver 64, Texas A&M-CC 48 Houston 71, Abilene Christian 59 Rice 54, St. Edward’s 49 Sam Houston St. 78, Texas-Pan American 59 Texas A&M 72, Arizona St. 71 Texas St. 81, Prairie View 65 Texas-Arlington 63, Weber St. 56 Far West Arizona 66, Gonzaga 63, OT BYU 90, Hawaii 70 Cal Poly 72, Menlo 35 Grand Canyon 80, Great Falls 61 Idaho 79, UC Davis 71 Montana St. 68, Utah Valley 60 New Mexico St. 71, UTEP 64 Pacific 68, Idaho St. 62 Pepperdine 74, Cal St.-Fullerton 62 S. Utah 92, Saint Katherine 45, OT UC Riverside 88, Portland St. 62 Washington St. 91, UTSA 71

Women’s Top 25

Saturday’s Games No. 3 UConn 76, No. 2 Notre Dame 58 No. 17 Oregon State 109, Sacramento State 61

Women’s Division I

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

W 9 7 7 2 W 8 6 2 2 W 8 7 7 7 W 9 8 7 1

L 3 5 5 10 L 4 6 10 10 L 3 5 5 5 L 3 4 5 11

T 0 0 0 0 T 0 0 0 0 T 1 0 0 0 T 0 0 0 0

Pct .750 .583 .583 .167 Pct .667 .500 .167 .167 Pct .708 .583 .583 .583 Pct .750 .667 .583 .083

PF PA 378 253 301 232 264 217 190 319 PF PA 382 283 287 247 213 338 186 329 PF PA 260 247 328 242 320 298 252 245 PF PA 361 276 279 249 277 224 176 337

National Conference East W L T Pct PF PA Philadelphia 9 3 0 .750 375 285 Dallas 9 4 0 .692 343 301 N.Y. Giants 3 9 0 .250 257 319 Washington 3 9 0 .250 244 322 South W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 5 7 0 .417 291 299 New Orleans 5 7 0 .417 323 318 Carolina 3 8 1 .292 228 331 Tampa Bay 2 10 0 .167 220 314 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 9 3 0 .750 380 267 Detroit 8 4 0 .667 231 207 Minnesota 5 7 0 .417 233 257 Chicago 5 8 0 .385 281 378 West W L T Pct PF PA Arizona 9 3 0 .750 258 224 Seattle 8 4 0 .667 298 221 San Francisco 7 5 0 .583 231 244 St. Louis 5 7 0 .417 261 285 Week 14 Sunday’s Games N.Y. Giants at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Carolina at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

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

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Washington, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Miami, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Houston at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Denver, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Arizona, 2:05 p.m.

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

Seattle at Philadelphia, 2:25 p.m.

New England at San Diego, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Atlanta at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 4 Dallas 41, Chicago 28

NCAA College Football Schedule Friday’s Games Midwest Mid-American Championship N. Illinois 51, Bowling Green 17 Far West Pac-12 championship Oregon 51, Arizona 13 Saturday’s Games East SMU 27, UConn 20 South Temple 10, Tulane 3 SEC Championship Alabama 42, Missouri 13 ACC Championship Florida St. 37, Georgia Tech 35 Midwest Cincinnati 38, Houston 31

Conference USA Championship Marshall 26, Louisiana Tech 23 Big Ten Championship Ohio St. 59, Wisconsin 0 Southwest TCU 55, Iowa St. 3 Oklahoma St. 38, Oklahoma 35, OT Baylor 38, Kansas St. 27 SWAC Championship Alcorn St. 38, Southern U. 24 Far West Mountain West championship Fresno St. at Boise St. FCS Playoffs Second Round New Hampshire 44, Fordham 19 Chattanooga 35, Indiana St. 14 Coastal Carolina 36, Richmond 15 Illinois St. 41, N. Iowa 21 Sam Houston St. 37, Jacksonville St. 26 North Dakota St. 27, South Dakota St. 24 E. Washington 37, Montana 20 Villanova 29, Liberty 22

SOCCER NORTH AMERICA MLS Cup Sunday’s Game New England at LA Galaxy, 1 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with LHP Edgar Ibarra on a minor league contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association ATLANTA HAWKS — Assigned F Mike Muscala to Fort Wayne (NBADL). Recalled F-C Adreian Payne from Fort Wayne.

FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed TE Phillip Supernaw from the practice squad.

DENVER BRONCOS — Signed PK Brandon McManus to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Placed RB Jerick McKinnon on injured reserve. Signed DE Justin Trattou from the practice squad and S Ahmad Dixon to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Activated DL Sealver Siliga from injured reserve.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Placed S Jonathan Dowling on injured reserve. Signed TE Scott Simonson from the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed CB Chase Minnifield on injured reserve.

Released WR Aldrick Robinson. Signed LB Gabe Miller and DB Kenny Okoro from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Reassigned D Mat Clark to Norfolk (AHL). Recalled F Rickard Rakell from Norfolk.

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned F Garrett Meurs from Lake Erie (AHL) to Fort Wayne (ECHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled D Jonathan Diaby from Cincinnati (ECHL) to Milwaukee (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Reassigned F Josh Nicholls from Hartford (AHL) to Greenville (ECHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Assigned F Caleb Herbert from Hershey (AHL) to South Carolina (ECHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Binghamton LW Darren Kramer one game.

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Recalled F Shawn O’Donnell from Greenville (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Quad City F Paxton Leroux six games, Quad City F Antti Pusa three games, Rapid City F Jesse Schultz two games and Colorado coach Chris Stewart one game and fined the Rapid City Rush and Quad City Mallards undisclosed amounts for their actions during Friday’s games.

CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Released D Tyler Amburgey.

FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Claimed G Andy Iles off waivers from Alaska.

ORLANDO SOLAR BEARS — Released F Francis Drolet.

COLLEGE NCAA GEORGIA TECH — Agreed to terms with football coach Paul Johnson on a four-year contract extension through 2020.

ON THIS DATE December 7 1973 — Jerry West of Los Angeles sets an NBA record with 10 steals in the Lakers’ 115-111 loss to the Seattle SuperSonics.

1985 — Auburn tailback Bo Jackson beats Iowa quarterback Chuck Long by 45 points in the balloting for the Heisman Trophy, the closest vote in the 51-year history of the trophy.

2002 — St. John’s (Minn.) coach John Gagliardi wins his 400th game with a 21-14 victory over Linfield in the Division III quarterfinals. Gagliardi is the second coach to reach the 400 mark, eight victories behind Eddie Robinson.

2003 — The computer rankings have Oklahoma as the country’s top team while the human poll voters pick USC. Despite getting walloped by Kansas State 35-7, No. 3 Oklahoma takes its 12-1 record to the Sugar Bowl against No. 2 LSU, which won the Southeastern Conference championship by beating Georgia 34-13. No. 1 USC, which finished third in the BCS rankings, plays No. 4 Michigan in the Rose Bowl.

2006 — Willie Parker breaks Pittsburgh’s single-game rushing record with 223 yards as the Steelers rough up the Cleveland Browns 27-7. Parker, the first player in Steelers history to have two 200-yard games in a season, betters John “Frenchy” Fuqua’s record of 218 yards against Philadelphia in 1970.

2008 — The Arizona Cardinals clinch their first division title in 33 years by beating the woeful St. Louis Rams 34-10. The Cardinals, long the league’s doormat franchise with just one winning season in the past 24 years, earn their first playoff berth since 1998 and first divisional title since they won the NFC East in 1975.

2013 — Aurelien Collin scores the equalizer in the second half of the MLS Cup, then drives home the deciding penalty kick to give Sporting Kansas City a dramatic victory over Real Salt Lake and its first league title since 2000. With the score 1-1 through regulation and 30 minutes of overtime, the teams engage in the longest penalty-kick shootout in championship history — one that both sides had chances to win before Collin’s shot and Jimmy Nielsen’s save left Sporting KC with the 7-6 victory.

SPORTS

Sunday, December 7, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

PREP ROUNDUP

D-3

Northern New Mexico

Horsemen beat Portales on road SCOREBOARD The New Mexican

Cameron Conway’s layup in the final minute helped the St. Michael’s boys basketball team win its second game in as many days as the Horsemen defeated Portales 50-49 on Saturday night at Greyhound Arena in Portales.

St. Michael’s 50 St. Michael’s (2-0) Portales 49 opened its season with a win Friday night at Los Alamos, then drove to southeastern New Mexico to face the Rams in the ENMU Tipoff Classic.

Andrew Griego was red hot for the Horsemen, scoring a team-high 21 points on the strength of five 3-pointers and 6-of-7 shooting from the free throw line. As a team, they hit seven 3s and were 19-for-25 from the charity stripe.

St. Michael’s led by as many as nine points before Portales battled back to take a three-point lead in the fourth quarter behind Bronte Staugaard. The Rams forward had a game-high 25 points.

The Horsemen return to Santa Fe for next week’s Bobby Rodriguez Capital City Invitational. They’ll face tourney host Santa Fe High in Thursday night’s opening round.

ABQ. EVANGEL CHRISTIAN 70, SANTA FE WALDORF 67 (2OT) At the Chavez Center, the Wolves proved no lead is safe — particularly for them. For the second time in three days at the High Desert Classic they blew a comfy doubledigit lead in the second half.

Leading by 16 at the midway point, Waldorf was its own worst enemy by going 1-for-10 from the free throw line in the fourth quarter. That included three misses on the front end of 1-and-1 situations.

“I’ve been doing this a long time and I’ve never had two games happen like that, particularly games that were that close together,” said Wolves head coach Rob Clifford.

Waldorf had a 17-point lead in Thursday’s loss to Tierra Encantada.

Augie Ciofalo had 39 points in the loss.

Sean Ramsey had 10 before fouling out in the third quarter.

Sledcik is expected to return from a hairline fracture that has forced her to miss the first four games of the season.

Up next is a quarterfinal date with Los Lunas in next week’s Albuquerque Academy tournament.

PECOS 40, ESTANCIA 28 In Santa Rosa, the Lady Panthers (4-1) claimed fifth place in the Lady Lion Classic thanks to a 21-point effort from Ida Valencia. It was their second win this season against the Lady Bears.

Pecos led 15-10 at halftime and steadily pulled away in the third and fourth quarters.

Valencia was named to the all-tournament GIRLS team, as was Megan Armijo.

The win was the 526th of head coach LOS ALAMOS 64, MORIARTY 40 Ron Drake’s career. That equals the mark In Los Alamos, the Lady Hilltoppers (4-0) of Miles Watters, the state’s all-time wingot a double-double from a pair of players in ningest girls coach. Purists will point to a nondistrict rout of the visiting Lady Pintos. Drake’s 141 wins while coaching in New Ashlynn Trujillo scored 14 points with 12 Jersey before he came to New Mexico in rebounds. She also had eight assists, just the mid-1990s, but the New Mexico Activimissing a rare triple-double. Amber Logan ties Association’s official record book rechad 16 points and 12 assists, hitting four ognizes wins by a coach that were gained 3-point shots. outside the state.

Not to be outdone, Ashley Logan added SANTA FE WALDORF 28, 10 points for Los Alamos, which led 27-12 MONTE DEL SOL 25 after one quarter and by 19 at halftime.

The Lady Wolves secured the consolation “We just went full-court man on them, championship behind 19 points from Alex then used a little matchup zone,” said Lady Chastenet and seven from Aylin Sheehan.

Hilltoppers head coach Nestor Trujillo.

Waldorf (2-2) built a 13-10 lead at the half “They were bigger than us, obviously, so and played Monte del Sol (0-4) even up the we had to do what we could be using our rest of the way. Ali Castillo had 10 points to speed.” lead the Lady Dragons, and Brooke Gallegos The lack of size will get a little better in a couple of weeks as 6-foot guard Hannah added six.

Streak: Robertson girls finish in 3rd place

GIRLS THIRD PLACE LAS VEGAS ROBERTSON 49, PIEDRA VISTA 47 Erica Herrera hit two free throws with 8.4 seconds left to give the Lady Cardinals (3-1) third place in the girls bracket.

Robertson outscored the Lady Panthers 37-26 in the second half, with Kim Armijo scoring all 12 of her points after the break.

Herrera was also scoreless in the first half, but had six points in the fourth quarter.

FIFTH PLACE TAOS 58, WINGATE 40 The Lady Tigers (5-3) overcame a 17-11 first-quarter deficit and outscored the Lady Bears 47-23 the rest of the way to take fifth. Taos had four players in double figures, led by Midnight Lujan’s 14 points. Aaliyah Quintana and Feliz Espinoza each had 11.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL 10:45 a.m. on ESPN — College Football Playoff Selection Show, at Bristol, Conn.

GOLF 10 a.m. on TGC — PGA Tour, Hero World Challenge, final round, at Windermere, Fla. 11:30 a.m. pm NBC — PGA Tour, Hero World Challenge, final round, at Windermere, Fla. (same-day tape) MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 10 a.m. on FS1 — Towson at Georgetown Noon on FS1 — Milwaukee at DePaul 1 p.m. on ESPNU — East Carolina at North Carolina 2 p.m. on FS1 — Mississippi at Oregon 3 p.m. on ESPNU — Arkansas at Clemson NFL 11 a.m. on FOX — Colts at Browns 2 p.m. on CBS — Bills at Broncos 2:25 p.m. on FOX —Seahawks at Eagles 6:20 p.m. on NBC — Patriots at Chargers SOCCER 6:25 a.m. on NBCSN — Premier League, Swansea at West Ham 8:55 a.m. on NBCSN — Premier League, Leicester at Aston Villa 1 p.m. on ESPN — MLS Cup, New England at Los Angeles WINTER SPORTS 3 p.m. on NBC — Skiing, USSA, Birds of Prey, at Beaver Creek, Colo. (same-day tape) WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 10 a.m. on FSN — Oklahoma at North Texas 11 a.m. on ESPN2 — South Carolina at Duke Noon on FSN — Texas A&M at TCU 4 p.m. on FS1 — California at Kansas

LOCAL SCORES

Middle school Capshaw results at the Los Alamos Middle School Tournament. Weight classes are in pounds: 85 — Juan Rodriguez ,2nd 105 — Alejandro Gutierrez, 1st; Josh Ortega, 4th 110 — Patrick Baca, 2nd; Antonio Ortega, 3rd 115 — Angelo Garcia, 3rd 150 — Dylan Ramirez, 2nd 160 — Juan Lovato, 1st 175 — Ezekiel Alva, 2nd Heavyweight — Isaiah Vargas, 1st; Benny Vigil, 3rd

Basketball Girls Eighth grade Pojoaque Valley 29, St. Michael’s 15. Top scorers — Pojoaque: Sarah Vigil 11; St. Michael’s: Angela Griego 7. Records — Pojoaque 11-0, St. Michael’s not reported.

Seventh grade Pojoaque 29, St. Michael’s 13. Top scorers — Pojoaque: Miquela Martinez 14; St. Michael’s: Carissa Padilla 6. Records — Pojoaque 7-4, St. Michael’s not reported.

NEW MEXICAN SPORTS Lady Brave Milan Schimmel, center, advances the ball in the Lady Braves championship game Saturday at the Santa Fe Indian School. PHOTOS BY LUKE E. MONTAVON/THE NEW MEXICAN SEVENTH PLACE NAVAJO PREP 59, DULCE 37 The Lady Eagles outscored the Lady Hakws 36-15 in the second and third quarters to unknot a 15-all tie and win seventh place. Keano Leano had 26 points for Navajo Prep , while Dezirae Harrison had 22 points for Dulce.

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Warriors with 12 in row, set record The Associated Press

BOYS MCCURDY 46, CROWNPOINT 37 The Bobcats (1-2) outscored Crownpoint 15-7 in the third quarter that accounted for the bulk of their margin in the round-robin opener. Jordan Sanchez led McCurdy with 16 points.

QUESTA 49, MONTE DEL SOL 45 The Wildcats (2-1) built a 40-31 lead entering the fourth quarter, which was enough to hold off the Dragons’ 14-9 charge. Ryan Vanderham took the tournament high-point honor after he scored 16 points to lead the Dragons (2-3), but Questa had three players in double figures. Zack Gallegos had 13 points, while T.J. Madrid and Zack Padilla each had 10.

From left, Lady Sundevil Alexis Lovato defends the hoop from Lady Brave Kayla Joe during the Lady Braves championship game.

Title: SFHS girls outlast Goddard for crown season, it’s a stingy defense.

The Jaguars have kept teams to that’s a promising sign to the less than 50 points three times elder Bustos. this year, and they held Santa Fe “It was a good team effort, but Prep to just 31 on Friday. there is still a lot that this team On Saturday, they became the has to work on,” David Bustos first team to not allow West Las said. “We could use a little more Vegas to score more than production from our bigs.”

70 points this season.

With no seniors in the start“And I think that’s a testament ing lineup, it might take the Jagto the way Capital plays,” coach uars a little longer to learn their Bustos said. “They can really lessons, but Saturday night provided a valuable clinic in how to slow down the game.”

While one team is still learncompete in big games. ing the ropes, another is on the “This is a good learning trajectory towards championmoment for our guys,” Gomez ship expectations. There have said. “They have to learn how been ideas floating around that to play in these types of situaWest Las Vegas could compete tions.” for the Class AAAA championIf there’s anything Capital ship, and the Dons have those can pride itself on so far this

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Continued from Page D-1 ing that run with four layups, a pair of free throws and a 3-pointer from Bruce Martinez to complete the run. However, the Braves’ relentless pressure helped them respond with a 17-4 run that gave them a 56-55 lead on Trevor Chama’s 3 with 5:04 left.

“Those kids at the Indian School have no quit in them,” said Joey Trujillo, Elks head coach. “They what they needed to to stay in the game. I feel fortunate that we came away with a win because, in some aspects, I feel they played harder than we did at times.”

But that was the highlight for SFIS, as Pojaoque calmly responded with an 11-0 run to take a 66-56 lead. However, Pojoaque did itself no favors by hitting just 7 of 14 free throws down the stretch and 15 of 33 for the game.

“I told the guys, that game’s not as close if we hit half of the free throws we missed,” Trujillo said. “Instead of a seven-point game, that’s a 16-point game.”

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same expectations.

David Bustos is going to face those expectations more as the season goes along, but he might be jumping the gun if he says the Dons should be in the state championship.

“I think it’s way too early to talk about that,” he said. “I don’t want to jinx anything.”

GIRLS

The Roswell Goddard Lady Rockets decided to make things interesting the girls championship of the Al Armendariz Tournament, and it almost cost Santa Fe High its first loss of the season.

The Demonettes held a 23-12 lead at halftime, but the Lady Rockets fought back and tied

the game at 45 with just over three minutes remaining. Santa Fe High held a short lead the rest of the way and eventually escaped with a 49-46 win.

The Lady Rockets took advantage of Santa Fe High’s sloppy start to the second half by cutting its lead to 32-31 with 1:56 left in the third quarter. The Demonettes (6-0) never lost the lead despite the swing in momentum.

Steph Kolker scored 11 points to lead Goddard while Courtney Villapando added 10.

Kayla Herrera scored 16 points to lead Santa Fe High, but she left the game in the fourth quarter with an apparent ankle injury and did not return.

CHICAGO — Draymond Green scored a career-high 31 points and the Golden State Warriors beat the Chicago Bulls 112-102 on Saturday night to set a franchise record with their 12th straight victory.

Klay Thompson added 24 points for the WarWarriors 112 riors, who Bulls 102 extended their league-best record to 17-2.

Jimmy Butler led the Bulls with 24 points. Pau Gasol added 22 points and 20 rebounds.

The Warriors improved to 10-1 on the road. They previously won a franchise-record 11 straight games from Dec. 29, 1971-Jan. 22, 1972.

The Bulls fell to just 2-5 at home.

76ERS 108, PISTONS 101, (OT) In Auburn Hills, Mich., Hollis Thompson’s 3-pointer in the final seconds sent the game to overtime, and Philadelphia outlasted Detroit in a matchup of the teams with the NBA’s two worst records.

Detroit (3-17) dropped its 11th straight and now leads the 76ers (2-18) by only a game in the standings. Philadelphia has won two of three since starting the season 0-17.

MAGIC 105, KINGS 96 In Sacramento, Calif., Tobias Harris scored a season-high 27 points for Orlando, and Channing Frye made a game-changing 3-pointer late in the fourth quarter.

Victor Oladipo had 16 points, seven assists and five rebounds, helping the Magic

to their second straight win following back-to-back losses to Golden State and the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Magic (9-14) led most of the game and were up by 16 early in the fourth quarter before holding off a late Sacramento push to end a fourgame losing streak to the Kings. Darren Collison scored 22 points for Sacramento, and Jason Thompson had 18.

The Kings have dropped five of six.

ROCKETS 100, SUNS 95 In Houston, Trevor Ariza and Pat Beverley each scored 19 points, leading Houston to its fourth straight win.

The Rockets improved to 16-4 by winning for the seventh time in the nine games All-Star center Dwight Howard (knee strain) has been out.

The Rockets led by as many as 22 points. The Suns used an 8-2 run, capped by a tip-in by PJ Tucker, to cut the lead to 97-93 with 21.9 seconds remaining.

But Beverley made three free throws to make it 100-93 and Houston held on for the win. Eric Bledsoe led the Suns with 23 points.

SPURS 123, TIMBERWOLVES 101 In San Antonio, Marco Belinelli scored 20 points, Tim Duncan had 13 points and 10 rebounds, and San Antonio rolled to the easy win.

The Spurs had seven players score in double figures.

Kawhi Leonard and Cory Joseph had 18 points apiece, and Boris Diaw finished with 17.

San Antonio (15-5) had a season-high 30 assists.

Zach LaVine had 22 points and Shabazz Muhammad added 20 for Minnesota (4-15), which has lost five straight.

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MOUNTAIN WEST CHAMPIONSHIP

Hedrick leads No. 22 Boise State to victory The Associated Press

BOISE, Idaho — Grant Hedrick ran for two touchdowns to lead No. 22 Boise State to a 28-14 victory over Fresno State to win the Mountain 22 Boise St. 28 West ConFresno St. 14 ference championship Saturday night.

Boise State (11-2), which claimed a share of the conference title in 2012, won its first outright league championship since joining the Mountain West four years ago. The Broncos preserved their chance to get the lone slot for a team outside the power five conferences in a major New Year’s Day bowl game.

Hedrick was 9 of 16 passing for 155 yards, and had 81 yards rushing with the two scores to

Boise State quarterback Grant Hedrick, center, runs for a first down Saturday against Fresno State defenders Derron Smith and Malcolm Washington in Boise, Idaho.

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earn the game’s offensive MVP honors.

Tanner Vallejo, who had 13 tackles and an interception

return for a touchdown, won the defensive MVP award.

After winning the inaugural Mountain West championship

game last year, the Bulldogs (6-7) lost to the Broncos for the second time this season.

Fresno State, led by quarterback Brian Burrell’s 332 yards passing, outgained Boise State on offense, rolling up 402 yards to 303 for the Broncos.

The Bulldogs’ defense bottled up Boise State star running back Jay Ajayi, limiting him to 70 yards and preventing him from breaking the school record for yards rushing in a season.

Fresno State held Boise State to 83 yards of total offense in the second half.

Ajayi, projected to go between the second and third rounds of next year’s NFL draft, also saw his school record-tying streak of consecutive 100-yard games snapped at seven.

On Boise State’s opening possession, Hedrick needed only four plays to drive the Broncos

77 yards for a touchdown. Hedrick completed a 46-yard pass to Chaz Anderson before he scored on a 20-yard run two plays later.

With 1:56 left in the first quarter, Boise State extended its lead to 14-0 when Vallejo intercepted a pass from Burrell and returned it 63 yards for a touchdown.

Fresno State appeared primed to get on the scoreboard until Boise State defensive tackle Armand Nance wrecked their chances on back-to-back plays.

On third down from the Boise State 11, Nance sacked Burrell.

On the ensuing 35-yard fieldgoal try, Burrell knifed through the line and blocked Kody Kroening’s kick.

Boise State then marched 72 yards in 11 plays, scoring when Ajayi bulled his way into the end zone on a 9-yard run. Dan

Goodale’s extra point gave the Broncos a 21-0 lead with 9:03 left in the first quarter.

The Broncos took the opening drive of the second half 86 yards on seven plays, scoring when Hedrick raced into the end zone on a 21-yard scamper.

Fresno State finally cracked Boise State’s stingy defense late in the third quarter. It wasn’t easy, though.

The Bulldogs needed 19 plays to march 96 yards before Josh Quezada scored on a 2-yard run with 3:18 left in the quarter.

Kroening hit the extra point to cut Boise State’s lead to 28-7.

Fresno State pulled to 28-14 with 5:41 left in the game when Burrell connected with Greg Watson on a 25-yard scoring strike.

The Bulldogs threatened to make it close late in the game after recovering an onside kick.

ACC CHAMPIONSHIP

TOP 25

Fla. State makes case for 2nd straight national title

Baylor keeps hope alive for playoffs by beating Kan. St. The Associated Press

By Steve Reed The Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Florida State has made its case to play for a second straight national championship.

Jameis Winston threw for 309 yards and three touchdowns, and second-ranked Seminoles FSU 37 held off No. 12 Georgia Ga. Tech 35 Tech 37-35 Saturday night to win their third consecutive ACC championship.

The Seminoles (13-0, 9-0 ACC, No. 4 CFP) will find out Sunday if it’s enough to earn them a berth in the first ever College Football Playoff. All four of the top-ranked teams in the playoff rankings were victorious over the weekend.

Rashad Greene had seven catches for 123 yards and two scores and freshman Dalvin Cook had 220 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown in his first college start to help extend the Seminoles’ winning streak to 29 games.

Nick O’Leary added three catches for 97 yards and a touchdown.

Synjyn Days ran for 67 yards and three touchdowns and Justin Thomas ran for 104 yards threw for a score for Georgia Tech (10-3, 6-3, No. 11 CFP), which rushed for 331 yards.

Winston, who threw four interceptions in a win over Florida last Saturday, was near perfect against the Yellow Jackets.

He completed 21 of 30 passes, didn’t turn the ball over and seemed in total command throughout most of the game as Florida State scored on its final seven possessions.

The turning point came with 7:47 left in the game when Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson went for it on fourth and 5 near midfield.

The gamble failed when Thomas’ pass to Darren Waller was underthrown. Until then, the Yellow Jackets had run the ball 58 times and thrown it just five.

Florida State quickly took advantage, moving into field goal range for Roberto Aguayo.

He converted his third field goal the second half from 28yards to make it a two-

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston celebrates against Georgia Tech on Saturday in Charlotte, N.C. CHUCK BURTON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

possession game at 37-28 with 4:28 left.

The Seminoles sealed the game when LaMarcus Brutus intercepted Thomas on a fourth down heave with 3:22 remaining.

Georgia Tech scored on a 25-yard TD strike from Thomas to Darren Waller to cut the lead to 37-35 with 1:47 left. The Yellow Jackets attempted an onside kick, but Florida State recovered and ran out the clock.

As they’ve done most of the season, the Seminoles dug themselves an early hole.

Georgia Tech’s defense forced a three-and-out on the game’s first possession when Winston threw behind an open Jesus Wilson on third down while under pressure. The Yellow Jackets immediately seized the momentum, moving 71 yards in eight plays — all on the ground —with Days scoring on a 1-yard run to take a 7-0 lead.

But the Seminoles wouldn’t let this one get away from them.

Florida State scored on its next four possessions to take a 28-21 lead at halftime.

Winston threw for 222 yards and three scores in the first

half, including a 45-yarder to 46-yarder to O’Leary and a 44-yard strike to Greene, who became the ACC’s all-time leader in yards receiving.

One score came on a blown coverage and the other when a Georgia Tech defensive back fell down.

Georgia Tech, which entered the game with nation’s thirdbest ground attack averaging 333.8 yards per game, had its bread and butter working early.

The Yellow Jackson opened the game with 26 straight running plays and scored on touchdown drives of 71, 75 and 75 yards.

But the game turned near the end of the second quarter when the Seminoles finally managed a defensive stop near midfield and forced a punt.

By then Winston was in top form.

He quickly moved the Seminoles 75 yards in less than two minutes, finding Greene in the left corner of the end zone for a -yard touchdown to give his team its first lead at 28-21 with 30 seconds left in the first half.

Winston has led the team to another undefeated regular season despite off-field distractions.

WACO, Texas — No. 5 Baylor did what it had to do keep alive its chance for a spot in the College Football Playoff.

Bryce Petty and company grabbed a share of a second consecutive Big 12 title.

Up next 5 Baylor 38 for the Bears is 9 Kansas St. 27 wait and see.

Petty threw for 412 yards, Johnny Jefferson had two touchdown runs and Baylor beat No. 9 Kansas State 38-27 on Saturday night.

Baylor (11-1, 8-1, No. 6 CFP) and TCU (11-1, 8-1, No. 3 CFP) tied for the top spot in the Big 12. The Horned Frogs were ranked higher in the most recent committee poll, but they lost to the Bears 61-58 on Oct. 11.

“There’s one true champion and it’s the Baylor Bears,” coach Art Briles screamed to the celebratory crowd after the victory over the Wildcats.

The Bears became the only team with consecutive Big 12 titles other than Oklahoma from 2006-08. They are a sure thing for one of the top six New Year’s bowls, but the new four-team playoff appears to be a long shot.

TCU has won seven in a row since its loss at Baylor.

The Frogs, who beat Kansas State (9-3, 7-2) by 21 points last month, earned their share of the Big 12 title with a 55-3 win over Iowa State on Saturday.

Petty completed 34 of 40 passes with a touchdown and an interception a week after getting knocked out of the Bears’ last game with a concussion.

While Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby presented Baylor its championship trophy -after giving one to TCU about 90 miles away more than seven hours earlier -- Baylor fans booed the commissioner, voicing their displeasure of having to share a title even with the head-to-head victory.

NO. 6 OHIO ST. 59 NO. 11 WISCONSIN 0 In Indianapolis, Ohio State’s No. 3 quarterback looked every bit as good as the other two.

Cardale Jones even did something his two all-conference predecessors could not.

He led the Buckeyes to a Big Ten title.

Jones threw for 257 yards and three touchdowns and was named the game’s MVP in his first career start, leading No. 6 Ohio State to a 59-0 rout of No. 11 Wisconsin in Saturday night’s conference championship game an emphatic statement to the College Football Playoff selection committee.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt we’re one of the top four teams in America,” coach Urban Meyer said after one of the most lopsided title games in Big Ten history.

Heading into championship weekend, it looked like the Buckeyes would be the first team out.

Ohio State (12-1, 8-0 Big Ten, No. 5 CFP) has won 11 straight since losing at home to Virginia Tech and has beaten nine bowl-eligible teams all but two by double digits. Still, some wondered whether losing record-setting quarterback J.T. Barrett with a broken right ankle in the regular season finale after losing Heisman Trophy candidate Braxton Miller with a right shoulder injury in August, would be too much to overcome.

Not a chance.

Jones was efficient and effective Saturday, going 12 of 17. Ezekiel Elliott carried 12 times for 150 yards and two scores in the first half and finished with 20 carries for a career high 220 yards.

NO. 1 ALABAMA 42, NO. 14 MISSOURI 13 In Atlanta, Alabama locked up another title, with plenty of style points for the playoff committee.

Now, the Crimson Tide can go after the crown it really wants.

Blake Sims threw a pair of touchdown passes, T.J. Yeldon and Derrick Henry each had a couple of touchdown runs, and top-ranked Alabama pulled away in the fourth quarter to win its 24th Southeastern Conference championship with a 42-13 rout of No. 14 Missouri on Saturday.

Amari Cooper did nothing to hurt his Heisman chances with 12 receptions, the most in the game’s 23-year history.

Missouri made it a one-score contest in the third quarter, but Alabama (12-1) put up three touchdowns over the final 15 minutes to lock up its spot in college football’s inaugural playoff. And if the committee was impressed by second-

ranked Oregon’s 51-13 rout of Arizona in the Pac-12 title game Friday night, they got another equally dominating performance from the team on top of its latest rankings.

For coach Nick Saban and the Tide, this one was especially sweet.

A year ago, Alabama was poised to make a run at its third straight national title when Auburn won the Iron Bowl on the final play — a 109-yard return of a missed field goal.

NO. 4 TCU 55, IOWA STATE 3 In Fort Worth, Texas, TCU coach Gary Patterson fired a football into the stands at Amon G. Carter Stadium, toward the Horned Frogs fans waving Big 12 championship towels and chanting, “Gary!

Gary!”

The players sported their Big 12 champion baseball caps and conference commissioner Bob Bowlsby gave the Frogs a trophy.

“TCU is the Big 12 co-champion,” Patterson, soaked from a Gatorade bath, yelled to the crowd. Whether the Frogs get to play for another championship — a national title — remains to be seen.

Trevone Boykin passed for a career-high 460 yards and caught a touchdown pass as No. 4 TCU earned a share of the conference title and kept its playoff bid alive with a 55-3 victory against lowly Iowa State on Saturday.

The Horned Frogs (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) came into championship weekend ranked third in the College Football Playoff selection committee’s rankings.

OKLAHOMA ST 38, NO. 18 OKLAHOMA 35 (OT) In Norman, Okla., injuries finally caught up with Oklahoma.

Samaje Perine ran for 151 yards and two touchdowns before leaving Saturday’s game against Oklahoma State with a severely sprained left ankle, and he didn’t return.

The Sooners squandered a two-touchdown lead after the injury, and Oklahoma State rallied for a 38-35 win in overtime.

The Sooners also were without quarterback Trevor Knight for the third straight game with a neck injury. Top receiver Sterling Shepard, who has been in and out of the lineup with a groin injury, left the game early again.

Playoffs: Figuring out No. 3, 4 teams will challenge committee Continued from Page D-1 era will be represented in the playoff. Maybe underrepresented in the minds of many in the Deep South, but that’s another debate.

Both the Tide and Ducks made a case to be No. 1, but it might not matter much. Expect Alabama to be in the semifinal held at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans and Oregon to be at the one held at the Rose Bowl in

Pasadena, California.

Who they’ll play is still up in the air.

TCU has stated its case.

The Horned Frogs (11-1) were the first of the contenders to take the field on Saturday and the only one not facing another ranked team. The Frogs did what was expected to Iowa State, burying the Big 12’s worst team 55-3. The Horned Frogs earned a share of the conference title, celebrated the accom-

plishment at home with their fans, but couldn’t feel totally comfortable that they were in the playoff.

The committee has said it would start with a clean slate when it ranks teams each week.

Could it really demote the Frogs this late in the game?

“You just go to have patience,” TCU coach Gary Patterson said.

“The committee’s made of a lot of good people. You just kind of watch and see how it goes.”

Patterson and the Frogs will be keeping a keen eye on Big 12 rival Baylor and Ohio State, both lurking and playing big games Saturday night.

The Buckeyes (11-1) were fifth in the playoff ranking heading into the Big Ten championship game against Wisconsin.

The Bears (10-1) were sixth with a chance to be co-champions of the Big 12 by beating Kansas State in sold-out McLane Stadium.

Yes, co-champions, but with a victory against TCU back in October. That 61-58 comeback victory in Waco hasn’t been enough to convince the committee that the Bears are better than the Frogs nor is it being used as a tiebreaker in the Big 12. The conference that touted its “One True Champion” at the beginning of the season was set to give out multiple championship trophies on Saturday.

The 12-member selection

committee will get to figure it out.

As committee chairman Jeff Long has said, the resumes between TCU and Baylor haven’t been close enough for the head-to-head to come into play. But by the time Saturday night is over the Bears and Frogs will have played 10 common opponents. The only real difference will be that Baylor played Buffalo and TCU played Minnesota.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL TOP 25

No. 2 Wildcats defeat Gonzaga The Associated Press

TUCSON, Ariz. — T.J. McConnell scored six of his 12 points in overtime and Arizona held on for the win after Byron Wesley air-balled the first of three missed free throws with 3.3 seconds left.

Arizona 66 Arizona (8-0) rallied from a poorGonzaga 63 shooting first half and a couple of deficits in the second half to force overtime. Brandon Ashley had 14 points in the Wildcats’ 26th straight home win.

Gonzaga (7-1) shot well inside, but went 4 for 17 from 3-point range and had two key turnovers late in overtime.

Wesley had a chance to tie the game after being fouled on a 3-pointer, but was well short on his first attempt and clanged away the other two.

Anderson showed no signs of the twisted right ankle that knocked him out of Virginia’s victory at Maryland on Wednesday night. He hit 6 of 7 shots while helping the Cavaliers move to 9-0 for the first time since 2001-02.

Gonzaga guard Kevin Pangos, left, drives on Arizona guard Gabe York during the first half of Saturday’s game.

leading Ohio State to the win.

The Buckeyes (6-1) lost at No. 5 Louisville 64-55 in their last outing in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Tuesday night.

Ohio State used an 11-0 run to put Colgate away in the second half. Kam Williams capped the surge with a fourpoint play with 5:03 left and finished with 11 points.

NO. 8 WICHITA STATE 81, SAINT LOUIS 52 In Wichita, Kan., Ron Baker scored 18 points, and Wichita State rebounded from Wednesday’s overtime loss at Utah.

Evan Wessel and Rauno Nurger had 15 points apiece for the Shockers (5-1).

The setback against the Utes was Wichita State’s first regular-season loss since March 2, 2013. Baker, Nurger and Wessel were a combined 17 of 25 from the floor. Marcus Bartley scored 13 points for Saint Louis (5-3).

GREEN BAY 68, NO. 15 MIAMI 55 In Coral Gables, Fla., Carrington Love scored a career-high 20 points, and Green Bay deployed an effective zone defense in the second half on the way to the road win.

Miami (8-1) scored only one basket in the first 12 minutes of the second half.

It shot a season-low 33 percent, including 5 for 20 from 3-point range.

NO. 2 WISCONSIN 49, MARQUETTE 38 In Milwaukee, Josh Gasser scored 12 points on four 3-pointers, 7-footer Frank Kaminsky added 15 points and 10 rebounds and No. 2 Wisconsin managed a 49-38 win Saturday over Marquette. The Badgers (8-1) shot 32 percent while contending with a 2-3 zone defense by the undersized Golden Eagles, who don’t have a starter taller than 6-7.

NO. 10 VILLANOVA 74, SAINT JOSEPH’S 46 In Villanova, Pa., Josh Hart scored 12 points for unbeaten Villanova, and Phil Booth and Darrun Hilliard each had 11.

The Wildcats (8-0) scored the first eight points, led by 15 only 6 minutes into the game and treated the rest of the afternoon like a glorified exhibition against one of their biggest rivals.

Villanova thumped Saint Joseph’s 98-68 last year and has remained the class of Philadelphia’s six Division I teams.

NJIT 72, NO. 17 MICHIGAN 70 In Ann Arbor, Mich., Damon Lynn made a critical 3-pointer and finished with 20 points to help New Jersey Institute of Technology get the upset.

Willis Winfield and Ky Howard had 17 points apiece for the only independent basketball program in Division I. The Highlanders (3-5) went 11 for 17 from 3-point range.

Caris LeVert scored 32 points for Michigan (6-2), which shot 42 percent from the field. Derrick Walton added 16 points.

NO. 7 VIRGINIA 74, VCU 57 In Richmond, Va., Justin Anderson scored 21 points, and Virginia ended VCU’s 22-game home winning streak.

NO. 14 OHIO STATE 70, COLGATE 50 In Columbus, Ohio, D’Angelo Russell scored 14 of his 19 points in the second half and Marc Loving added 17 points,

NO. 23 BUTLER 65, NORTHWESTERN 56 In Indianapolis, Kellen Dunham scored 19 points, and Butler held off a

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late charge by Northwestern.

Roosevelt Jones added 12 points and six rebounds for the Bulldogs.

Bryant McIntosh had 12 points for Northwestern (5-3), which shot 41 percent. Alex Olah scored 11 points, and Vic Law finished with 10.

NO. 24 ILLINOIS 70, AMERICAN 55 In Champaign, Ill., Malcolm Hill scored 13 points, powering Illinois to the win. The Illini (7-1) shot 48 percent from the field and outrebounded the Eagles 29-18. Rayvonte Rice had 10 points for Illinois on 1-of-7 shooting.

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL NO. 3 CONNECTICUT 76, NO. 2 NOTRE DAME 58 In South Bend, Ind., Morgan Tuck scored a career-high 25 points and Kiah Stokes added 18 rebounds to help No. 3 Connecticut beat second-ranked Notre Dame 76-58 on Saturday in the Jimmy V Classic. UConn (6-1) trailed 28-18

midway through the first half before Tuck and Stokes took over, keying a 22-4 run over the next 10 minutes and giving the Huskies control of the game.

NO. 17 OREGON STATE 109, SACRAMENTO STATE 61 In Corvallis, Ore., Deven Hunter had 20 points, nine rebounds and five assists, and Oregon State broke the school record for assists in the victory.

Oregon State (7-0) shot 57.1 percent from the field with assists on 40 of its 45 field goals. The previous record was 34, set against Pacific Christian on Jan. 9, 1982.

NO. 24 WEST VIRGINIA 83, COPPIN STATE 43 In Morgantown, W.Va., Bria Holmes scored 20 points for West Virginia, and Averee Fields added 15 points and 10 rebounds.

Lanay Montgomery had 10 points, 12 rebounds and five blocked shots, and the Mountaineers (6-1) outrebounded the Eagles 54-38.

Lobos: Only nine players suited up for the injury-depleted team Continued from Page D-1 Sam Logwood hails from Indianapolis.

Lobos head coach Craig Neal was born and raised in Washington, Ind. All of them had people in attendance cheering for them.

“It’s amazing,” Neal said. “You grow up here and you know a lot of people.”

Aget, Devon Williams and Hugh Greenwood had 10 points each for New Mexico, which never trailed. The Lobos held Valpo (8-2) to 30 percent shooting, including an anemic 14 percent (3-for-22) from

3-point range.

The Crusaders had their seven-game winning streak snapped. This was also their first home loss of the season.

UNM led 30-20 at halftime and led by double digits for most of the second half. The Crusaders cut it to 49-41 with eight minutes remaining, but the Lobos responded with a pair of buckets from Tim Jacobs and Greenwood — each assisted by the other just 22 seconds apart — to regain a 13-point margin.

Valparaiso never got closer than 12 points the rest of the way.

Delaney did most of his work by slicing to the basket. Abandoning the open jumper, he used his athleticism to generate points on slashing buckets or by getting fouled at the rim.

“I said, ‘D.D., there’s nobody that can guard you on the drive,’ ” Neal said. “Let’s get to the rim, let’s get fouled and then, if you’re jump shot’s there — which he made a big one from 18 feet in the second half late in the game — you know, there’s a reason why you’re open early in the clock on 3-point shots.”

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nine 3-pointers, hitting three.

Aget and Williams combined to hit 8 of 11 shots from the floor while grabbing 10 rebounds.

Only nine players suited up for the injury depleted Lobos.

Of those, all but forward J.J. N’Ganga got playing time.

New Mexico took advantage of Valpo’s man-to-man defense, building an early lead by pounding the ball inside to Aget and getting a number of attacking drives from the guards. UNM shot 52 percent in each half and outrebounded the Crusaders 38-28.

Valparaiso didn’t have a single

player reach double figures in the scoring column, the first time that has happened to a UNM opponent in 17 years NOTES The Lobos were again without the services of power forward Jordan Goodman, who still has not gained medical clearance after suffering a concussion during practice nearly two weeks ago. He did not make the trip with the team.

“The whole thing about Jordan Goodman’s this: He has not been healthy since he’s been [at UNM],” Neal said. “It has nothing to do with dog house, has nothing to do about discipline.

It has something to do about he has a surgery. He doesn’t come back from it. He hurts the other knee, then he hurts his quad.

Now he’s got a concussion.

“Has nothing to do with Jordan Goodman’s behavior,” Neal continued. “Has nothing to do about how I feel about him. I can’t have anything to do with him because that’s doctor’s orders; that’s not coach’s orders.

So, everybody can speculate.

That is the truth and the bottom line is — the problem that I have is when I get in trouble — is I’m too honest. Well, that’s the truth. Sometimes we can’t handle the truth.”

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HERO WORLD CHALLENGE

Well-traveled Jordan Spieth opens up 7-shot lead Tournament host Woods in last place

By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press

WINDERMERE, Fla. — Jordan Spieth flew from Japan to Australia to Dallas the last two weeks, took a day off and then came over to Florida for the Hero World Challenge.

His game traveled with him.

One week and half a world away from his six-shot victory in the Australian Open, Spieth was practically flawless Saturday at Isleworth. He opened with three straight birdies and

capped his day with a 50-foot birdie putt for a 9-under 63 and a seven-shot lead over Keegan Bradley and Henrik Stenson.

“Felt strong coming off last week,” Spieth said. “Job is not done this week, but I’m a believer in my own momentum.

I’m going to go out tomorrow with a very similar strategy to today. If the putts go and the breaks go my way, hopefully shoot a round like today. If not, I’m still going to have to shoot under par to win this golf tournament.”

Spieth was at 20-under 196.

He said he has never been 20 under on any course through 54 holes, and he has never fin-

NFL matchups Seahawks (8-4) at Eagles (9-3) Time: 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia relies on team speed and quick thinking to wear out opposing defenses.

The Chip Kelly-designed offense averages an NFL-high 73 offensive plays a game and has been firing on all cylinders recently.

LeSean McCoy has reasserted his standing as a leading running back, and Mark Sanchez has kept the offense going while Nick Foles recovers from an injury.

Unfortunately for the Eagles, running 73 plays in a game means facing the punishing Seattle defense 73 times.

Line: Eagles by 1.

Pick: Seahawks.

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to Johnny Manziel would be raising a white flag.

Line: Colts by 3½.

Pick: Colts.

49ers (7-5) at Raiders (1-11) Time: 2:25 p.m.

Line: 49ers by 9.

Pick: 49ers.

Buccaneers (2-10) at Lions (8-4) Time: 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay is not a good team by any stretch of the imagination, but the Buccaneers are not nearly as bad as their record indicates.

Line: Lions by 10.

Pick: Lions.

Steelers (7-5) at Bengals (8-3-1)

Texans (6-6) at Jaguars (2-10)

Time: 11 a.m.

Things are not going well for Ben Roethlisberger. He has cooled off considerably after throwing a total of 12 touchdown passes for Pittsburgh in Weeks 8 and 9. He has struggled on the road, has denied rumors that he has a broken bone in his wrist and is going up against a Cincinnati secondary that has given up only 11 passing touchdowns this season.

Line: Bengals by 3.

Pick: Bengals.

Time: 11 a.m.

Defensive end J.J. Watt’s show seems to get better every week.

He has 11 ½ sacks, five fumble recoveries, an interception and two defensive touchdowns, and

Jordan Spieth tees off Saturday at the Hero World Challenge in Windermere, Fla. WILLIE J. ALLEN JR./THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ished a tournament that many under par. That gave him a target for Sunday, when he goes

after his second straight victory.

Tournament host Tiger Woods was 20 shots behind and

has added offense to his repertory with three receptions, all of which went for touchdowns.

Line: Texans by 6½.

Pick: Texans.

Giants (3-9) at Titans (2-10)

Rams (5-7) at Redskins (3-9) Time: 11 a.m.

Winning a game by 52-0 is hard even against Oakland, but St. Louis was firing on all cylinders in its Week 13 victory over the Raiders. Washington can be expected to put up more of a fight.

Line: Rams by 3½.

Pick: Rams.

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Patriots (9-3) at Chargers (8-4) Time: 6:30 p.m.

Line: Patriots by 4.

Pick: Patriots.

Panthers (3-8-1) at Saints (5-7)

Time: 11 a.m.

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It will be no fun to play quarterback in this game. With Denver, there is a tendency to talk about offense, but the Broncos’ defense can be just as intimidating. Opposing quarterbacks are faced with the joyless task of running from Von Miller (12 sacks) and DeMarcus Ware (10).

Line: Broncos by 10.

Pick: Broncos.

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Time: 11 a.m.

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Line: Saints by 10.

Pick: Saints.

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The Giants put five more players on the team’s overflowing injured reserve list and have lost seven games in a row, including their collapse against Jacksonville. But they are only the second-worst team in this game.

Line: Giants by 1½.

Pick: Giants.

Time: 11 a.m.

The Jets’ Geno Smith threw only 13 passes Monday night, and that was at least one too many. His final pass of the game was intercepted with his team trailing Miami by 3 with 39 seconds left. Expected to start again, Smith may throw even less against a Minnesota defense that is tough on quarterbacks.

Line: Vikings by 6.

Pick: Vikings.

Time: 11 a.m.

Miami’s run defense has seemingly fallen apart in its last two games. Denver shredded the Dolphins for 201 yards on the ground, and the New York Jets ran for 277. Before that, Miami had allowed 94.5 yards a game on the ground.

Line: Dolphins by 3.

Pick: Dolphins.

Time: 2:05 p.m.

Arizona’s season has begun going downhill, but coach Bruce Arians is not panicking.

Line: Chiefs by 1.

Pick: Chiefs.

Stenson, who played in the final group with Spieth on Saturday, recovered from a sluggish start with four birdies over his last eight holes for a 68. “I don’t think anybody is going to catch him tomorrow unless he’s having a really bad day,” Stenson said. “Seems to be a one-horse race going into Sunday. He’s a very solid player and playing solid golf at a very young age.”

Stenson recalls Spieth making a spirited charge at the Swede in the Tour Championship last year. He also is aware that Spieth finished one shot out of a playoff in Japan and won in Sydney against a field that included Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott.

Jets (2-10) at Vikings (5-7)

Ravens (7-5) at Dolphins (7-5)

Chiefs (7-5) at Cardinals (9-3)

in dire need of his antibiotics taking effect. Woods lost his voice overnight and had nausea on the practice range and the golf course. He felt slightly better at the end of his round when he made three straight birdies for a 69.

He remained in last place.

Bradley made four straight birdies around the turn on his way to a 65. He will play in the final group with Spieth.

“I’ve got to shoot a low one and get some help from Jordan,” said Bradley, who has not won in more than two years.

“He’s such a good player. I don’t expect that. I’m going to have to shoot a really low one.”

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Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 0.000 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 4.687 City Wells: 1.028 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 5.715 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.045 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 10.5 percent of capacity; daily inflow 1.94 million gallons.

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Huth’s civil suit claims Cosby forced her to perform a sex act on him in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she was underage.

Attorney Gloria Allred said Huth met with two special victim unit detectives Friday, three days after her lawsuit was filed.

“We are going to provide any and all evidence that she has,” Allred said.

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Huth did not take questions during a news conference.

Police did not give any additional details about the investigation. Police Chief Charlie Beck on Thursday urged potential victims of sex abuse by Cosby to speak with detectives, regardless of whether their claims were outside the statute of limitations.

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FLORENCE Saturday, December 13th at 5pm In October 2013, my spouse, David, and I rented a small, centrally located apartment in Florence (on the Arno River, directly across from the Uffizi Gallery), so that we could re-visit the city after 4 decades of absence, and deeply immerse ourselves in its incomparable art and architectural riches. With a month to dedicate to the city, we could discover wonderful hidden gems that most visitors spending a few days simply do not have time for, and we could go back, repeatedly, to see the masterpieces two or three times. October is truly an enchanted month in central Italy, so that doing side trips to the surrounding countryside, and long, exploratory walks in the city itself were very comfortable. This program will cover not only great art in and near Florence, but secret discoveries, food, shops with their knock-out displays, and many other aspects of experiencing life in Florence that are available to those who give the city enough time. Some practical advice for such visitors will also be part of the program (e.g., renting an apartment, good guidebooks, museum passes, eating out and cooking in).

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A living room showcases designer Brian Patrick Flynn’s love of flocked artificial trees. Flynn suggests that the white flocking tones down the vivid green of the trees, making them fit more effortlessly with any color scheme. BRIAN PATRICK FLYNN, HGTV.COM

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or generations, the choice was simple: 1. Strap a live Christmas tree to the roof of your car, wrestle it into a tree stand at home and hope it wouldn’t fall over. Or, 2. Put up an artificial tree that was unmistakably fake.

Fortunately, the options have expanded dramatically, from realistic fake trees pre-lit with softly glowing LED lights to environmentally friendly, abstract “trees” made from reclaimed shipping pallets. Options for a real, live tree include “white glove” service that includes delivery

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Here, three interior designers help sort out some options and share advice on stylishly decorating with holiday trees and branches, even in households where Christmas isn’t celebrated.

Exquisitely artificial Designer Brian Patrick Flynn, founder of Flynnside Out Productions, loves the look and scent of real trees. But he is “hands down, 100 percent on Team Artificial,” thanks to the convenience and range of today’s fake trees.

White trees are “excellent for more elegant, sophisticated spaces,” Flynn says. He layers on ornaments in shades of white and metallics “for a less-is-more, tone-on-tone look.”

Designer Lee Kleinhelter, founder of the Pieces home decor store in Atlanta, agrees. She uses a high-quality, fake

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Designer Brian Patrick Flynn put an up-cycled spin on the décor of his outdoor living room with Christmas trees made from reclaimed shipping pallets. Flynn suggests using sculptural trees rather than real or artificial ones if you’re too short on time to add ornaments and lights. ATLANTA HOMES & LIFESTYLES, SARAH DORIO

The ’80s are back again: Dhurries are in Retailers bring Indian rugs to new generation

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The Shapes dhurrie designed by Alyson Fox in collaboration with Hawkins New York is from Dwell Store. Dhurrie rugs, once all the rage in the 1980s, are showing up at retailers including West Elm and Anthropologie. DWELL STORE

ne of the cornerstones of the homebuying process is the home mortgage. Whether or not you receive a loan chiefly depends on your employment history, how much you earn, how much you owe, how much you own and your FICO (credit) score. As experienced Realtors who work hard to get people into homeownership, we find that of all of these lending variables, the FICO score is least understood. Since your FICO score has the greatest impact on how much your loan is going to cost, we thought we would share a little about what we know.

FICO was created in 1987 as a way to quickly address creditworthiness at a time of tremendous credit expansion. The information FICO uses comes from three national bureaus that gather credit information: Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. The FICO score is based on a proprietary algorithmic scoring tate Guide model that computes scores Santa Fe Real Es on a scale from 300 to 850.

Your FICO score is used by lending institutions to determine a risk premium.

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Additionally, the effect of the recession on the average American caused their FICO scores to fall. In 2006, the average FICO score was 723, and in 2011 it was 711.

Those who had a decrease in their scores will now be paying more money for the loans they get.

If you, your children or anyone else you care about has a low score, now is the time to improve it. You may want to consider creating a FICO plan with a credit counselor to help guide your credit habits.

FICO is like Google in that they keep their business methods secret, but we know that they gather information from five categories: payment history, length of credit history, types of credit, new credit and debts owed. Negative information is typically captured in your payment history, which makes up 35 percent of the total score.

According to Integrated Loan Assistance, a company that helps repair credit, 79 percent of all credit reports contain errors, and out of that, 25 percent contain serious errors that would deny credit. Due to the increasing importance of credit ratings, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act was created, allowing every U.S. citizen to obtain an annual credit report for free. It’s well worth your time to examine your credit and remove any incorrect or erroneous data.

It’s not about how much you make, it’s about how you spend. Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, earned more than $2 billion in his lifetime (plus $1 billion posthumously), which may not sound surprising, but what most people don’t know is that in 2007, he had a FICO score of only 563. Not too thrilling to the eyes of a loan officer, since that probably wouldn’t qualify for a loan today. The best interest rates live in the land above 720, so if you’re not already there, review your credit habits or work with a credit counselor to get that score up.

In the 1980s, dhurrie rugs from India, with their bright colors, geometric designs and sturdy flat weaves, were all the rage. In 1983, one of the first things my husband and I selected for our new apartment in Washington was a $499 red and white 9-by-12-foot dhurrie rug from the Kellogg Collection. I wish I still owned it.

Dhurries sort of disappeared in the 1990s (I gave mine away), but they’re back. Today, affordably priced dhurries are showing up at retailers including West Elm and Anthropologie, bringing this versatile, reversible floor

covering to a new generation.

“Dhurries are wonderful rugs and look beautiful in many settings,” says Pam Green, owner of the home decor store Kellogg Collection, which recently brought dhurries back into the inventory of its four stores. Dhurries, which have been woven for hundreds of years, are the reason that Green opened her original Kellogg store in Washington in 1982. She had seen dhurries featured in design magazines such as House Beautiful, and she found the look both fresh and classic. Yet she couldn’t find one for sale in the nation’s capital.

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1242 Cerro Gordo Casa Cabra redesigned by Trey Jordan, is only a mile from the Plaza. Offering mountain views, this adobe is highlighted

by Asian accents and southwestern motifs. There is an outside portal with fireplace. 3 br, 3 ba, 3,254 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 0.35 acre. Directions: East Palace Avenue to Cerro Gordo Road. $1,400,000 MLS# 201404807

231 Artist Road Contemporary, stylish and completely remodeled by renowned designer Susan Trowbridge, this delightful single-level condo, with no steps, is only four blocks from the Plaza. A freestanding studio/guest quarters with a three-quarter bath and artist’s sink was built within the last 13 months. 3 br, 3 ba, 1834 sq.ft., 1-car garage. Directions: Bishop’s Lodge Road to Artist Road. $710,000 MLS# 201405272

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Versatile Santa Fe style home with studio/office/3rd br and views. 2 br, 2 ba, 3,629 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 5.6 acres. Directions: Nine Mile Road, right West Sunlit Drive, left on Camino Sudeste. $625,000 MLS# 201404936

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133 Jacinto Remarkable horse property in highly desirable area!

11 Sierra Dawn Beautiful, custom built, 3906 sqft home with guest

6 Arroyo Ridge Road Rancho Viejo Team custom home

Northern-New-Mexico-style home on 15+ acres in Los Caballos.

1,945 sqft. with pitched, beamed, wood ceilings, tile floors, large windows. Living room has focal-point brick fireplace, floor-to-ceiling windows with sliding doors to living portal and mountain view.

Attached two-car garage, storage building and best of all: 2,164 sqft. barn with five stalls, turnout, arena. $595,000 MLS# 201403954

quarters sited on a 1.24 acre village estate lot with views. Main level has master suite, living room with fireplace, formal dining, 2 beds, 3 baths, office/library, wonderful cooks kitchen with granite counters and viewing decks. Guest quarters: bedroom plus living room/kitchen combo and full bath. Professionally landscaped and so much more!

features 4 beds/3.5 baths, 3137 sq. ft. on 1 acre Estate lot with Sangre views! Tile floors (carpet in bedrooms), granite/tile counters, vigas, skylights, 2 kiva F/P’s, plaster walls, radiant heat & 2 evap. coolers. Entry courtyard, covered back portal, flagstone patio & drip system. New stucco & 2 yrs. on roof warranty. $579,000

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Zocalo model w/3 BR’s, 2 BA’s, 1550+/- sq. ft, kiva FP, P 2-car garage & mature landscaping! Stainless steel appliances, some mountain views & recently painted. Nice home close to school & shopping! $249,900

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1024 MANSION RIDGE ROAD $2,800,000 This beautiful estate celebrates sweeping Sangre de Cristo Mountain vistas and city lights, from its expansive three-acre hilltop setting. It includes lovely gardens and multiple outdoor living areas.

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103 AVENIDA DE LAS CASAS $1,595,000 A Santa Fe-style Tuscan palazzo with spectacular mountain views, this unique house and guesthouse near the Opera in prestigious Casas de San Juan offer fabulous finishes, details, and privacy.

Ashley Margetson 505.984.5186 #201401580

437 AVENIDA PRIMERA SOUTH $1,575,000 Sited on a private 1.8-acre lot in Estancia Primera, this custom two-bedroom home includes an office, a one-bedroom guesthouse, and Sangre de Cristo and Sandia mountain views.

Ray Rush &TimVan Camp 505.984.5117 #201405427

145 GENERAL GOODWIN $1,295,000 Impeccably maintained 4,640± sq.ft. main house with an open floor plan, plaster walls, vigas, beams, and a gourmet kitchen. Remodeled 2,360± sq.ft. guest house, and horse facilities.

Maureen Mestas 505.984.5130 #201304518

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WONDERLAND COMPOUND $1,280,000 This 30-acre Abiquiú compound bordering the Chama River includes a 2,800-square-foot home, barns, a studio, a workshop, cottages, corrals, two wells, 15.06 acre-feet of water rights, and gardens.

Cindy Volper 505.901.1436 #201402833

16 CLOUD MARCH EAST $1,180,000 Inspired by classic haciendas, this single-level home is centered around a beautiful courtyard and enjoys Jemez mountain views. It features well-separated bedroom suites, a portal, and a roof deck.

Caroline D. Russell, CRS 505.954.5530 #201404045

1264 NORTH SUMMIT DRIVE $1,125,000 This custom 3,857-square-foot Summit home has amazing views, a heated driveway, a three-car garage, a media room, hand-waxed plaster walls, Anasazistone fireplaces, skylights, and lighted nichos.

SusanKline &LyndenGalloway505.501.1111#201404410

152 BARRANCA ROAD $995,000 Only minutes from the historic Plaza, this custombuilt Yardman home offers unique architectural design and privacy in a high-desert setting with spectacular mountain vistas. 3BR, 4BA. #201405457 Roxanne Apple & Johnnie Gillespie 505.954.0723

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100 VICTORIA $929,999 In the heart of the Eastside, this charming adobe home with guest quarters is centered around a lush courtyard with a chapel. The property was recently renovated yet retains its authentic charm.

The Santa Fe Team 505.988.2533 #201402674

970 THUNDERBIRD COURT $875,000 On a quiet cul-de-sac with valley views, this wellmaintained home has an open plan with formal dining and eat-in kitchen with cabinets galore. Two master suites plus two guest rooms. Deck, hot tub.

Penelope Vasquez 505.954.5551 #201405232

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3101 OLD PECOS TRAIL, UNIT 645 $659,000 In the resort development of Quail Run, the Pinon C floor plan is one of the most desirable and sought after. This unit features 2BR plus a den/office or third bedroom, two full bathrooms, and gracefully flowing living room.

Paul Stenberg 505.670.4242 #201405367

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173 CAMINO ACOTE $625,000 Dramatic and interesting residence with horse facilities. High ceilings, plaster walls, enormous views, 5 acres of land and 2,800 square feet. Wonderful cook’s kitchen. NYC loft open floor plan. #201404764 Evelyn Spiker & Greg McMillan 505.954.5556

125 APACHE CANYON TRAIL $559,000 Horse paradise. Immaculate pitched-roof log home on 24.48 acres bordering Santa Fe National Forest. Two BR, enclosed loft, 2BA, 2 sunrooms, gorgeous views.

Barn, tack room, round pen, hay shed. #201402859 Elayne Patton & Kendra Henington 505.660.8865

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85 AVENIDA FRIJOLES $549,000 Former award-winning and HGTV featured home features dazzling views and an open floor plan. French doors open onto a remarkable deck with 270-degree views.

Upper level master suite has its own private balcony.

Darlene Streit 505.920.8001 #201405404

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409 APODACA HILL STREET $650,000 Located on the Eastside off Upper Canyon Road, this appealing 3,200-square-foot hacienda-style adobe, on nearly one-half acre with gardens, has views of the foothills and a new kitchen. #201404931 Santa Fe Real Estate Consultants 505.231.4046

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32 CAMINO DE COLORES $499,000 Enjoy phenomenal views of the Jemez Mountains and the 14th hole of the Jack Nicklaus Golf Course. Oneyear-old custom home features Southwest style, tiled floors, vigas, kiva fireplace, gourmet kitchen, 3BR, 3BA. Gary Bobolsky 505.984.5185 #201404805

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97-B CAMINO CHUPADERO $440,000 This delightful two-story 2BR, 1.5BA Northern New Mexican home features a spacious work area, large country kitchen, pine plank and brick floors, hand plastered walls, excellent storage, and two portales.

Deborah Day 505.954.5501 #201403071

96 OLD CANONCITO ROAD $368,000 Down a country road, across a creek, and through the trees, this enchanting 1,360-square-foot custombuilt home offers peace and quiet amid 10 acres of wonderful natural surroundings.

Jody Spehar 505.946.2871 #201401842

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2 CAMINO CHUPADERO $299,000 Welcome to the gateway to Chupadero. Beautiful views of the Sangre de Cristo and Jemez Mountains, plus views of Chupadero Valley off the deck. This contemporary home has an amazing open floor plan.

Ricky Allen 505.946.2855 #201400949

11 NORTH RANCHO DE BOSQUE $425,000 Northern NM home with endless Santa Fe finishes.

Emily Garcia 505.955.7963 #201402828

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O-39 1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 1729 Ridge Pointe Loop - Delightful, single level home in Las Estrellas, just minutes to the Plaza, 3 bedrooms/ 2 baths, shows like a model, wonderful gardens and trees. Easy access to 599 for Los Alamos commute. $469,500. MLS 201405184. (St. Francis to 285. Hwy 599 to Ridge Top off ramp, right on Ridge Top, right on Rincon, left on Ridge Pointe Loop.) David Sorenson 505-670-5515 Sotheby’s International Realty.

P-14 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 41 Violet Circle - This is a rare opportunity. Priced well below its construction cost, this fabulous compound on two hilltop acres includes a three-bedroom soft contemporary home and private three-bedroom guesthouse. $1,495,000. MLS 201404233.

(Camino La Tierra, right on Parkside Drive, left on to Violet Circle, home is on right.) Patricia Love 505-670-1229 Sotheby’s International Realty.

P-37 1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 1668 Via Bosque - Past Chapman model home, 2 bed 2 bath, radiant heat, granite, beams, oversized 2 car garage on over an acre. MUST SEE trees all around paved driveway, landscaped again this is a MUST SEE. $549,000. MLS 201405470. (St. Francis Drive (285) to 599 exit south. Then first right (Ridgetop) to Ave. Rincon to Via Bosque, follow Chapman realty signs.)

Phillip Meek 505-577-4588 Chapman Homes/Realty.

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2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 7B W Via Plaza Nueva - Light and bright and privately located on one of Aldea’s largest lots. Featuring an open floor plan with Travertine tile, beamed ceilings, granite counters, viewing desks, radiant heat and a/c. $499,000. MLS 201405182. (3 br, 3 ba, 599 to Camino La Tierra exit, left on frontage, right on Avenida Frijoles (2nd entrance), right on W. Via Plaza Nueva. 3rd drive on left, 7B is down the shared drive.)

Kate Prusack 505-670-1409 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 231 Artist Road - Contemporary, stylish & completely remodeled by designer Susan Trowbridge. Delightful single-level condo with no steps, only four blocks from Plaza. Freestanding studio/guest quarters with a 3/4 bath. $710,000. MLS 201405272. (3 br, 3 ba, Bishop’s Lodge Road to Artist Road.) Marilyn Foss & Mari Tennison 505-795-8000 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

12:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 20 Canto del Pajaro – La Pradera Model Home - La Pradera Model Home. The Correlada Contemporary model features clean lines and modern angle. One-bedroom attached casita with interior courtyard. Owner/Broker. $359,900. MLS 201403744. (3 br, 3 ba, Richards Ave. turn right at stop light at the Dinosaur Trail intersection and turn left at 2nd entrance of La Pradera (Old Dinosaur Trail) right onto Bosquecillo to Canto del Pajaro.) Bob Lee Trujillo & Ernie Zapata 505470-0002 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

NORTH EAST

A-42 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 21 Pajarito De Azul - Acreage, water, and an adobe home 20 minutes from downtown.

Welcome to the lush and charming village of Chupadero. This special 7+/- acre property abuts the Rio Chupadero with an abundance of trees. $685,000.

MLS 201404952. (Hwy 592 into Chupadero Valley to left on 78, follow west to Pajarito de Azul on left. Follow Pajarito de Azul straight south to top of knoll.) Ricky Allen 505-470-8233 Sotheby’s International Realty.

1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 2 Camino Chupadero - Welcome to the Gateway to Chupadero. Beautiful views of the Sangres and the Jemez mountains, plus views of Chupadero Valley off the deck. This contemporary home has an amazing open floor plan. $299,000. MLS 201400949. (285/84 North to NM 592, Stay on NM 592 past Encantado, turn left at stop sign at top of hill to go down into valley and jaunt past fire station on right will be Camino Chupadero on left. 1st house.) Ricky Allen 505-5147817 Sotheby’s International Realty.

V-44 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 780 Aspen Compound - Well-priced home, quiet location, adjacent to greenbelt. Expansive west views. Spacious living room w/high ceilings, upgraded kitchen, huge master. Low-maintenance landscaping. Clubhouse pool & tennis $650,000. MLS 201402509. (3 br, 2 ba, Hyde park Road. Second Entry into Estancia Primera..go 1/4 mile over arroyo bridge. Aspen Compound on right. Turn left into circle.) Patrick Kerwick 505-920-0822 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

V-45 12:30p.m. - 4:30p.m. — 1214 Calle Luna - Desirable northeast home, close to Plaza yet private & quiet. 3BR, 2 Bath, French doors, brick floors, beams/vigas, 4 fireplaces, wrought iron fixtures, private office/entry. 1.33 acres. A Must See. $725,000. MLS 201402228. (from downtown, north on Bishop’s Lodge Road, right on Hyde Park Road, right on Gonzales. Corner of Gonzales and Calle Luna.) Giacomo Zafarano 505-660-9657 Prince Fine Homes.

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1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 32 Camino de Colores - Enjoy phenomenal views of the Jemez and the 14th hole of the Jack Nicklaus golf course. One-yr-old custom home features Southwest style, tiled floors, vigas, kiva fireplace, gourmet kitchen, 3BR, 3BA. $499,000. MLS 201404805.

(From 599, exit off onto Camino La Tierra (Las Campanas), follow signage to Las Melodias, make a right at Paseo Aragon (at gate contact Realtor), make a right onto Camino de Colores.) Gary Bobolsky 505-4700927 Sotheby’s International Realty.

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1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 1000 Hillcrest - Perfectly located with panoramic mountain views from this open-concept home. Enjoy the best of indoor outdoor living from both levels with generous covered portals, decks, and exterior fireplace. $1,550,000. MLS 201403652. (Bishops Lodge Road north to Hillcrest. Hillcrest turns to the right and Stagecoach is straight ahead. Take Hillcrest to the right.

House is at top of the hill.) Sara Sacra 505-946-7163 Sotheby’s International Realty.

11:00a.m. - 1:00p.m. — 1304 Lujan St. - Classic Stamm home with top finishes throughout. Located on a quiet street in Casa Alegre on a large lot with mature landscaping front and back. $269,000. MLS 201404731.

(Cerrillos road to Lujan street.) Brian Tercero 505-9309586 Keller Williams Realty.

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1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 605 Avenida Colima - Wonderful Zocalo condo, 2 bedrooms/2 1/2 baths, extra large master suite, shows like new. 2 car attached garage. Located near clubhouse/pool/amenities. $419,000. MLS 201404739. (St. Francis to 599 bypass to Ridgetop, turn right, turn right on Avenida Rincon. Follow to Avenida Colima.) Bonnie Sorenson 505-954-0736 Sotheby’s International Realty.

2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 1024 Mansion Ridge Road - This beautiful estate celebrates sweeping Sangre de Cristo vistas and city lights, from its expansive three acre hilltop setting. It includes lovely gardens and multiple outdoor living areas. $2,800,000. MLS 201301903. (Bishops Lodge Road, left on Mansion Drive, right on Mansion Ridge Road.) Mary Kehoe 505-310-1422 Sotheby’s International Realty.

1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 3433 San Luis St. - MUST SEE! This charming 3BR - 2BA home has an open floor concept living room with wood-planked ceiling & vigas opens to dining room, kitchen & fenced back yard. Refrigerated AC. Drip irrigation $239,900. MLS 201404896. (Take Cerrillos Rd. to Zafarano Dr., go north to Rufina St., turn left and go to San Luis, turn left. Property at end of block on left.) Dave Brazda 505-819-1345 Keller Williams Realty.

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1:30p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 140 Calle Ventoso West - Contemporary Custom 3 BR, 2 BA, 2 fireplaces, luxurious marble bath in Las Campanas, mountain views! Cooks kitchen, Thermador range & glass splash back. Htd garage 1,091 sf! Roof deck patio.2+- acres! $749,500. MLS 201405396.

(3 fabulous patios with portals off living areas and master! (In Las Campanas, take Las Campanas Drive, left on Ranch Estates Drive, right on Calle Venotoso West to 140 Calle Ventoso West on the left)) Fateh Ferrari 505-6903075 Keller Williams Realty.

1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 970 Thunderbird Court - On a quiet cul-de-sac with valley views, this well-maintained home has an open plan with formal dining room and eat-in kitchen with cabinets galore. Two master suites plus 2 guest rooms. Deck, hot tub $875,000. MLS 201405232.

(Bishop’s Lodge Road, right on Valley Drive, right on Vallecita Drive, left on Paseo Del Sur, right on Este, right on Thunderbird Drive. Property is first driveway on right.) Penelope Vasquez 505-690-3751 Sotheby’s International Realty.

T-22 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 1 Camino Barranca - Beautiful corner lot in Aldea de Santa Fe, new single-level 3bedroom, 3-bath home with easy access to the 599 bypass. Prime location offers beautiful mountain and sunset views. Great outdoor portal. $575,000. MLS 201405314. (599 to Avenida Aldea, Right on Camino Barranca.) Darlene Streit 505-920-8001 Sotheby’s International Realty.

U-23 12:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 34 Via Summa - Visit Tessera, the newest Homewise Homes community designed to fit your lifestyle from $293,500. Tucked in the northwest hills, enjoy great views, trails and open space only six miles from the Plaza. $469,900. (Take 599 to the Camino La Tierra exit, then take the Frontage Road south to Tessera. Follow the signs to Tessera Model Homes.) Augusta Candelaria (505) 603-5337 Homewise, Inc.

T-43 12:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 851 Magee - Sophisticated contemporary home in the foothills, minutes from the Plaza.

At the end of a cul-de-sac, offers wonderful surroundings and valley view. Remodeled by legendary local designer David Naylor. $698,000. MLS 201405337. (3 br, 3 ba, Bishops Lodge Road to right on Valley, right on Vallecita, right on Magee) Georgette Romero 505-6031494 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

U-42 2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 116 Valley Drive - New Listing!

Come see this mid-century modern home that is within easy walking distance of the Plaza! 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, over 2000 square feet, ample storage, 2-car garage, private lot. $539,900. MLS 201404143. (Bishops Lodge Road to Valley Drive. See signs.) Jeff and Jack Welch 505-577-7001 Keller Williams Realty.

2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 136 Valley Dr. - A short walk to downtown, This 2580 sq.ft. Adobe 2 Master Bed/2 Bath on a private .33 acre lot has all the feel & charm of a classic East Side property. Includes a Great Room, Den & Remodeled Kitchen $739,000. MLS 201404963. (Paseo De Peralta to Bishop’s Lodge Road North to Valley Dr. Turn Right and follow signs.) Michael D’Alfonso 505-670-8201 Barker Realty LLC.

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GG-32 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 2204 Camino Rancho Siringo Great neighborhood! This home features Kiva fireplace, Saltillo tile floors in living areas + open floor plan. New insulated windows/doors, central heating/cooling system. Enjoy Arroyo Chamisos Trail! $239,000. MLS 201404094. (West Zia to North on Yucca to West on Cactus Lane to South on Rancho Siringo to West on Calle Anna Jean enter thru front open gate @ Plaza de Castillo go West on Camino Rancho Siringo, 3rd house right) John Foster 505-660-6399 Keller Williams Realty.

KK-33 12:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 2807 Plaza Rojo - This brilliantly renovated townhouse is light, bright, incredibly handsome and sophisticated in a sleek, contemporary style.

There are big Sangre views from the sundeck and it’s 100% move-in ready! $324,500. MLS 201404598. (2 br, 2 ba, From Rodeo Rd., south on Camino Carlos Rey, turn R at 1st street onto Plaza Blanca, then R on 2nd street, Plaza Rojo, go to end and turn R into Ristra Plaza. Follow to end of cul-de-sac.) Jeanne Hertz 505-660-6345 Santa Fe Properties, Inc.

OO-13 12:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 7326 Avenida El Nido - From $194,900, Homewise Homes are designed to fit your lifestyle and save up to 45% in energy costs. Quality construction and design at a price you can afford. Special financing may be available. $194,900. (From Airport Rd, turn onto Paseo del Sol WEST. Turn right onto Jaguar Rd to dead end, then turn right on Avenida El Nido.) Cande Toner 505-699-4252 Homewise, Inc.

UU-25 1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 11 Sierra Dawn - Btfl, custom, 3906 sqft hm w/ guest quarters sited on a 1.24 acre lot w/ views. Main living w/ LR, master, formal dining, kitchen w/ granite cntrs & more. Guest: bedroom + LR/Kitchen combo-Lots more! $589,000. MLS 201405451. (Rodeo Rd to Richards Avenue towards community college- Left on Avenida del Sur-Left on Canada del Rancho-Left on Silver Rock- Left on Sierra Dawn to home on Left.) Sabine Andraud 505-690-4857 Coldwell Banker Trails West Realty.

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Y-41 1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 456 A Acequia Madre - Dating to the 1920s, the classic two-bedroom, two-bath Eastside home was reincarnated in 2008 as a modern rendition of classic Pueblo-style architecture appointed with only the finest finishes. $835,000. MLS 201404745. (Paseo de Peralta to Acequia Madre) Stan Jones 505-310-2426 Sotheby’s International Realty.

Y-42 12:30p.m. - 2:30p.m. — 463 Camino Don Miguel - In the heart of the Eastside, minutes to the Historic Santa Fe Plaza, Patrick Smith Park, Sun Mountain and the last remaining neighborhood grocery store; Johnnies Cash Store. $639,000. MLS 201404949. (Paseo de Peralta to Acequia Madre, Camino Don Miguel to the property.) J.C. Linson 505-690-7333 Barker Realty LLC.

Y-44 11:00a.m. - 1:00p.m. — 1122 E Alameda - A magical oasis on the historic Eastside, this home is bordered by the Santa Fe River and the Acequia Madre. Spectacular gardens surround the hacienda-style residence, studio, and separate casita. $999,000. MLS 201403120. (East Alameda, use entrance to Patrick Smith Park. First house on the left.) Mary Kehoe 505-310-1422 Sotheby’s International Realty.

Z-38 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 306 Don Fernando - Bright & spacious South Capitol neighborhood home. 1802 sq ft, 3 large bedrooms, 2 baths. Lovely wood floors, great kitchen. Big backyard. Walk to Wood Gormley school, Trader Joes, Railyard, Plaza. $500,000. MLS 201403633.

(Galisteo or Don Cubero to Don Fernando.) F O’Mahony 505-699-3985 Evolve Real Estate.

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N-78 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. — 22 Immanuel - Gorgeous home, fabulous feeling. Enter a brick walkway nestled with trees through a portal to the residence, beautifully sited on a ridge, to see wonderful views. Owner/broker. $579,000. MLS 201404728. (Hwy 285 South. Left on Alma Drive/up Alma aka Principe de Paz to Agua Viviendo.

Left on Agua Viviendo.1st Left on Immanuel to last property on left at cul de sac) Alan Vorenberg 505-470-3118 Sotheby’s International Realty.

R-75 1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. — 11 N Rancho de Bosque - NNM home with endless Santa Fe finishes. Built in 2005 with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2,197 sq ft and a 2 car garage on 1.44 acres in horse country, with gardens and privacy. Located on 20 minutes to town. $425,000. MLS 201402828.

(Hwy 285 passt Eldorado, left to Ranch Road, right on Old Road, left on Bishop Lamy, and left on N. Rancho de Bosque.) Emily Garcia 505-577-2907 Sotheby’s International Realty.

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CONTEMPORARY MASTERPIECE 962 Cerro de La Paz Truly magnificent, this 7,655-square-foot hilltop estate is a masterpiece of contemporary design. The home is sited on 12.6 acres and enjoys mesmerizing panoramas of surrounding mountain ranges. Among the noteworthy elements are three luxurious bedroom suites; a professionally designed and equipped kitchen; a spacious living room; concrete and wood floors; furniture built-ins; a wine room; a balcony, desk and porches; an in-ground lap pool; landscaping and gardens; and, a two-car garage. MLS 201404709 Offered at $3,900,000 CHRIS WEBSTER | 505.780.9500 chris.webster@sothebyshomes.com SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY | 505.988.2533 sothebyshomes.com/santafe

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Trees: Pre-lit LED trees make setup simple and are safer Continued from Page E-1 white tree in her home because “it feels a little modern and is a clean slate where I can use interesting objects to accessorize.”

If you can’t quite imagine your handmade or hand-me-down ornaments on a sleek, white tree, consider getting a real tree for keepsake ornaments and putting a white tree in another location, perhaps near the front door, decked out in monochromatic ornaments. Sarah Fishburne, director of trend and design for The Home Depot, says many Americans now use one fake tree and one real one.

If white isn’t your style, Flynn recommends realistic fake green trees with a “woodsy, rustic” look, or fake green trees coated with fake white snow, which are called “flocked” trees.

“Flocked trees add amazing texture and can really tone down the overall greenness of an artificial tree, making it a little softer,” he says.

He has created flat, abstract trees out of plywood, covering them with festive fabric secured with brass nail heads. And he has two “trees” made from reclaimed shipping pallets. “To make them,” he says, “the pallets were dismantled, painted dark green, then assembled with screws. It’s a more sculptural approach, and it doesn’t require any decorating whatsoever.”

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Really easy Beginning this year, Home Depot is making it simpler to bring home a full-size real tree with “white glove” delivery service, says Fishburne. Choose a tree online and the company will bring it to your home and set it up in the stand for you.

Another way to make real trees more manageable is to buy several small, potted trees in varying sizes, rather than one large one.

“Groupings of trees really make an impact in any space,” Flynn says, “and if you’re going the untraditional route, or don’t have lots of windows to dress up or have an actual fireplace mantel, I think a grouping of trees in one spot creates enough of a focal point and it can stand on its own.”

Designer Brian Patrick Flynn created flat-packing upholstered Christmas tree sculptures from plywood, batting and green fabrics, for an alternative approach to holiday trees. During the off-season months, the trees collapse into two pieces which store easily in closets. ATLANTA HOMES & LIFESTYLES, SARAH DORIO

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Pre-lit LED trees save you the time and effort of stringing lights. Some models also resolve any arguments over whether to use white lights or colored ones, says Fishburne; you can buy LED-lit trees that let you switch between them.

LED lights also don’t burn as hot as traditional bulbs, so they may be a safer option, especially for rooms where children play and might try to touch the tree.

“When I was little,” Fishburne says, “we knocked over a lot of trees.”

Once you’ve chosen your tree, where should you put it?

“The size and scale of your house can dictate a tall skinny tree by a staircase, or a more round, robust tree in a sunroom visible to the street,” Kleinhelter says.

Rather than tucking your tree in a corner, she suggests finding a spot “where you can enjoy the tree on all sides.”

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It’s easy to put tree lights on a timer so they glow on schedule each evening.

Flynn agrees that “if you really want your tree to make an impact inside and outside, sticking with a room toward the front of the home is the way to go.” But for maximum enjoyment, he says, “it’s also wise to make sure it’s just as much of a focal point from adjacent rooms as it is inside the space and from outside of the house.”

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FARMS & RANCHES For Sale Historic 426 Acre Ranch Adjacent to Tent Rocks National Monument. (LIC. No. 13371) Call 505-843-7643.

1258 CANYON ROAD Open 1-3 Sunday

REMODELED UPDATED 3 Bedrooms, 3 Baths, 3309 sq.ft guest house, garage, chefs kitchen, wood floors, vigas, 4 kivas, great views.

MLS#201402480. New Price $1,275,000.00 Taylor Properties 505-470-0818 $99,000 FIRM. $120,000 owner carry. 2 bedroom, 1 bath. 900 sq.ft. Fixer upper. 3/4 acre. Southside. 5 Ceramic Court. 505-470-5877 BEST HOME in Area, exceptional features!! 2,484 squ.ft., 4 bedrooms, custom kitchen, upgraded finishes!!

Sunday Open House!! Bogle Realty, 505-982-7559.

FOR SALE OR LEASE: 2006 sq.ft. adobe 3 bedroom, 3 bath. 36 miles Highway 84N. $1200 monthly or $325,000. 505-927-3373

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

Northern New Mexico Two Tanks Ranch 574 acres, Spectacular vistas over valley, High wooded ridges, Well & corrals. Great horse or hunting property. Easy drive from Santa Fe. $499,000. 802-483-6060

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APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED

Chamisa Management 505-988-5299 2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH. Washer, dryer.

1493 NICOLE PLACE, Apt 3. $700 monthly utilities included. $250 deposit. 505-982-4174, 505-316-0882 813 CAMINO DE MONTE REY: 1 bedroom, 1 bath, living room, $750 gas, water paid.

2700 GALISTEO: 1 bedroom, 1 bath.

Fireplace. $750, water paid.

NO PETS! 505-471-4405

BEST LOCATION & Best Views!! Lots 1 acre, double-wide mobile homes allowed, easy access!! Owner Financing Possible. Bogle Realty, 505-9827559.

SELL BY owner. 2.5 acres. Has electiricy, well, sewer. 22 Oak Street, off HWY 14. Asking $90,000. 505-9468757.

MANUFACTURED HOMES RE FOOD TRUCK. 1999 Utility Wells Cargo Trailer. In park. All appliances. Asking $20,000. 505-570-0239.

OUT OF TOWN 505-471-1183 donaltshul@aol.com

Las Campanas

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

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APARTMENTS FURNISHED 2 BEDROOM, $800. 1 BEDROOM, $700.

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

Sorry, No Pets. 505-471-0839

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

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

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

APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT 941 Rio Vista. Casa Solana area. $695 monthly plus deposits. Water paid.

No pets. Non-smoking. 505-470-0396

GUESTHOUSES

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

4 Bedrooms, 3 Baths ESTANCIA PRIMERA, Walk to Plaza, 27oo squ.ft. Double garage, great views, fenced yard.

Satellite, Clubhouse amenities included. $2,500. 954-829-7205.

CLOSE TO DOWNTOWN, $650 monthly.

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE

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

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

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

3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS. 1200 sq.ft.

East Alameda, pueblo style. Vigas, kiva fireplace. Refrigerator, washer, dryer. Radiant heating.

Walking distance to Plaza. No pets, nonsmoking. $1700 monthly. 505-9823907

With a walk-score of 83 you can’t beat our location, minutes away from beautiful downtown. IT’S A SNAP to apply at Las Palomas Apartments. Call us today 888-4828216 for a tour of our amazing community!! ¿Mencionamos, hablamos español!

RANCHO VIEJO 4 BEDROOM, 2 BATH, 2 car garage, 2,353 sq.ft. $1700 monthly plus utilities and $1700 deposit. 505-473-7938

STUDIO EFFICIENCY. Near La Cienega.

Includes washer dryer, gas, water.

Non-smoking. No pets. $650 monthly, $650 deposit. 505-690-5159

1 BEDROOM CONDO. Gated, pool, fireplace. $700 monthly plus electric, water and deposit. Call Eddie, 505470-3148.

1441 St. Francis Drive, across from the Clock Tower Professional Center. All or part available up to 3750 square feet. Kitchenettes, private and public baths, and outdoor balcony with views.

Utilities paid (except gas).

1 bedroom, Enclosed yard, no pets.

Call 505-320-8765

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MODERN OFFICE BUILDING FOR LEASE

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

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Bedrooms, 4 Baths, Office, Chefs Kitchen, 3 Car Garage 3,504 sq.ft.

Fantastic views.

Like new.

MLS#201403470 $1,140,000.

Taylor Properties 505-470-0818

TOWNHOUSE, CONVENIENT LOCATION. 1200 sq.ft. 2 bedroom, 1 bath.

Beautifully furnished. Large bright kitchen. Garage, patio, storage.

Washer, dryer, refrigerator. $1025 monthly. 866-363-4657

FO R RENT in Pojaque. 1 bedroom apartment. $650. Utilities included.

No pets. 505-455-2130, 505-699-0375.

3 BEDROOM townhouse in Aldea for rent. January 1 - June 1. Property is also for sale-505-989-3966.

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

Move-in today. 804 Colbert. $49,000 Price, $1550 down payment. $422 monthly payment. Owner financed 480-392-8550

3000 SQ.FT. ULTIMATE SERENITY & VIEWS

EFFICIENCY, SAFE, QUIET, PRIVATE parking, no pets. Walking distance to PLaza & Railyard. $515 monthly includes utilities. 505-471-8329, 505795-1395.

INTOWN 2-bedroom unit with fireplace in a private walled compound.

Available immediately. $800 plus utilities. Deposit required. Mares Realty, 505-988-5585.

OFFICES

Clean, ready to move-in.

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

Private parking, yard.

No smoking or pets. 505-231-0010

GREAT 1 BEDROOM. Fenced yard, washer dryer in unit. Cozy floor plan with spacious kitchen. Plenty of off-street parking. Only $650 monthly.

RODEO ROAD AREA. 2 excellent apartments, nice amenities. $729 or $750 monthly.

Home for the Holidays!

HOUSES UNFURNISHED 2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH CASITA

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

104 FAITHWAY: Downtown 7-plex $1,200,000.

1425 PASEO DE PERALTA: Downtown 9-plex $1,350,000. 813 CAMINO DE MONTE REY: 8-plex $750,000, 1 3 0 1 - 1 3 0 3 RUFINA LANE: 9-plex, $1,050,000.

1616 BRAE: Triplex $350,000. Lot for Sale: Puesta del Sol, 2.5 Acres, water well, electric near, $185,000. Fo r Details: 505-471-4405.

Investors Only, NO Realtors , NO Owner Financing.

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

TWO-BEDROOM MOBILE home in Pojaque on private land. $700 monthly. All utilities included, including direct TV. Call 490-0609.

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

Please call (505)983-9646.

THERAPIST OFFICE SHARE: PRIVATE OFFICE & GROUP ROOM AVAILABLE. Good location & parking.

Call Marty, 505-438-1853.

Have an empty house or apartment you need to rent?

Read the WANT TO RENT column for prospective tenants.

OUT OF TOWN RENTAL ABIQUIU 3 bedrooms, 2 baths manufactured home on 1/2 acre. Off Highway 554.

1120 sq.ft. Beautiful views. Rent or buy. $680 monthly plus utilities. 505466-6661

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

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

OFFICES HOUSES UNFURNISHED 3 BEDROOM, 2 bathroom, Modular home. 15 miles from town on Highway 14. $800 monthly, $500 deposit.

505-471-4290

WAREHOUSES IMMACULATE SMALL OFFICE SUITE

Large entry area, private office, and handicapped bathroom. Convenient location. $720 monthly, includes water. 505-983-4631, 505-470-8151.

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

505-470-9213.

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

Director of HIM Director of Care Management Clinical Business Informatics, RN FT & PRN ER RN, Days & Nights FT & PRN ICU RN, Days & Nights

FT, PT, PRN, Days/Nights RN OB FT & PRN Scrub Techs FT RN Case Manager, CDI Lead Cook PRN Nutrition Svcs. Aides

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

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PRN Speech Therapist PRN Accounting Clerk Los Alamos Physician Services, LLC FT Medical Assistant, Urology Clinic FT Clinic RN, Urology Clinic

Administrative Office of the Courts Judicial Information Division Information Technology Position The Administrative Office of the Courts in Santa Fe seeks to fill the vacancy for one (1) AOC Deputy Chief Information Officer. Please visit our Web Site at http://www.nmcourts.gov under human resources/job opportunities or call 505-476-6913 for further information.

Remittance of a New Mexico Judicial Branch Application, or a resume, Resume Supplemental Form and proof of education if applicable is required.

World-Class City. World-Class Schools.

We are looking for individuals who would like to become a Teacher in one of our high needs areas (Math, Science, Special Education, or Bilingual Education) to become a Classroom Fellow.

To find out more about Classroom Fellows or to apply, please visit www.sfps.info and click on the jobs tab and select Classroom Fellows.

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IN HOME CARE CAREGIVER WANTED. Experience mature woman. English speaking. 2 days a week. 505-629-7978

MANAGEMENT Children’s Services Coordinator for Family Services Full-time position in Santa Fe with Head Start and Early Head Start programs.

Requires degree and experience working with families. See website for specific job requirements.

Excellent benefits.

Apply on-line at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Hotline 1-866661-5491. EOE/ M/ F/ D/ V/ AA. Follow us on Facebook.

Clinical Psychologist Needs

Medical Insurance Biller

Preferably with therapy notes experience. Part-time, work from home, weekly meetings with Dr. on phone. Approximately 15-20 hours weekly. 915-525-2796

CHILDREN’S SERVICES MANAGER Responsible for overall operations of programs serving young children (0-5 years) and their families in Santa Fe County. See PMS website for specific position requirements.

Excellent benefits.

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

New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources MANAGER PUBLICATIONS PROGRAM

EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Full-time position provides support to the Director of Children’s Services.

Business administration and computer experience required.

Excellent benefits.

Apply on-line at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-549 EOE/ M/ F/ D/ V/ AA. Follow us on Facebook.

WANTED PART-TIME secretary. $300 per week to start. For more details txt 201- 372- 4313 or email only4freesky47@yahoo.com

DOMESTIC JOBS FULL-TIME HOUSEKEEPER with duties to include Cooking & shopping.

Monday- Friday, 9:30- 3:30. English required. References required. Arroyo Hondo in Santa Fe. 210-912-5444

DRIVERS LOCAL CONTRACT DRIVERS NEEDED.

Jump starts, fuel delivery, tire changes.

Vehicle required.

No experience necessary. Call Manny, at 267-270-5225.

EDUCATION New Vistas is hiring for Early Childhood Development Positions. Bilingual candidates highly preferred.

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TEACHER I Full and part-time positons working with Early Head Start (children 0 to 3) in classroom.

TEACHER II Full-time positon managing Head Start program operations (children 3 to 5).

Includes classroom duties.

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

HOSPITALITY BON APPETIT @ the Institute of American Indian Arts, scratch cooking, banquet style, 2 yrs exp.vac, benefits, EOE 505-306-0027, guido.lambelet@cafebonappetit.com

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT LIVING IN TAOS? LAMBERTS OF TAOS is looking for talented and inspired professional CHEFS & LINE COOKS. Send resume trg.lamberts@yahoo.com

The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, a division of New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico, is seeking a full time manager skilled in project development for its Publications Program. Applicant must have an undergraduate degree in the earth sciences (Bachelor’s required, Masters preferred), experience in writing as well as knowledge of the publishing world, both print and electronic. Position requires supervisory and project development experience, strong writing and editorial skills, and the ability to interpret complex scientific issues for the general public. Must have a demonstrated ability to write and produce both technical and general scientific literature. The bureau is a research and service division of New Mexico Tech and has served as the state’s geological survey since 1927. Position is based on campus in the bureau’s new building open March 2015.

Starting salary: $50,960 range, as negotiated. Applicants must apply to New Mexico Tech, Human Resources 801 Leroy Place, Brown Hall Box 056, Socorro, New Mexico 87801.

POSITION OPENING. Executive Director reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall financial and operations responsibility for WNCR’s staff, volunteers, programs and execution of its mission. Areas of responsibility include leadership, management, fundraising and communications.

Founded in 2002, Walkin N Circles Ranch, Inc. is a 501(c)3 corporation. Our mission is to rescue and rehabilitate horses for placement in appropriate homes. Deadline to receive application is December 10. To learn more about our organization, position and application, please visit www.wncr.org.

MEDICAL DENTAL EIGHT NORTHERN INDIAN PUEBLOS COUNCIL, INC. LICENSED MASTER LEVEL THERAPISTS ALBUQUERQUE and ESPANOLA OPENINGS LICENSED MASTER LEVEL T H E R A P IS T S : Immediate openings. Serving Northern New Mexico, several locations available, Albuquerque & Espanola. Experience in individual, group, adult, family & couples therapy Experience working with addictions a plus.

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

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

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

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

PART TIME ESTABLISHED DOGGY DAY CARE LOOKING FOR AFTERNOON HELP. Duties include supervising dog play, clean-up, & light janitorial work. Dog experience preferred. Send resume to luckydawgdaycare@gmail.com

SALES MARKETING

Multimedia Consultant

The Santa Fe New Mexican is seeking a dynamic media sales executive to represent its award winning publications and state of the art digital platforms to existing and future advertising clients.

This position manages relationships with clients to grow and develop their business needs. Maintains a thorough understanding of each customer’s business goals, products and services. In addition, is aware of client’s industry and provides appropriate advertising solutions. Will be expected to maintain comprehensive understanding of competitive media and understand how the utilization of other media sources fit with customer’s strategic business objectives. Actively seeks out new business to meet or exceed sales goals.

Qualifications Requires a college degree or equivalent sales experience. Must have a minimum of two years plus consultative sales experience. Must have demonstrated ability to prospect qualified leads. Ability to sell a wide range of products. Must have knowledge of sales process, the ability to establish product value and close a sale in a timely manner. Understands strengths and weaknesses of competitive media.

Must have demonstrated team sales experience. Must have strong negotiation and problemsolving skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills and be proficient in Microsoft Office applications. Must be driven, proactive and have a strong desire to achieve results and be successful.

Must have proof of valid driver’s license, auto insurance and have reliable transportation.

Base salary, team bonus and commission plan are offered with an excellent benefits package.

Apply with cover letter and resume to: Wayne Barnard, Classified Advertising Manager The Santa Fe New Mexican, 202 East Marcy St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 or e-mail wbarnard@sfnewmexican.com No phone calls, please.

SALES ASSOCIATE Full or Part-time.

Women’s fashion & jewelry experience required, be energetic, computer literate, team player. Base, highest commissions in town, bonuses, parking, vacation benefits.

Fax resume: 505-989-8288.

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FULL-TIME MEDICAL OFFICE ASSISTANT. Full-time office assistant needed for busy private practice. Medical experience preferred.

Benefits after 90 days, pay DOE. Fax Resume: 505-983-7643

MDS Coordinator (Santa Fe Care Center)

We are currently looking for a Fulltime MDS Coordinator. Hours will flexible according to census.

R e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s : Would be to complete MDS according to State and Federal Regulations.

Q u a lific a tio n s : Licensed Nurse, experience in completing MDS. If interested please come by 635 Harkle Rd Santa Fe, NM 87505

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2 MEXICAN TIN MIRRORS, floor length. $300 each. 505-988-1715

QUEEN HEADBOARD- solid wood off white cottage, holes for frame attachment. 5 months new. $350 obo.

505-699-8028

THOUSANDS OF PICTURE FRAMES (EMMANUELS) . New Shipment arrived. 20-50% off Everything!

1807 CERRILLOS ROAD, SANTA FE, 505-438-0640.

BUILDING MATERIALS PLUMBING FITTINGS PVC. 4" - 1".

Take all for $350. 505-862-3690

CLOTHING

54" round CHERRY WOOD DINING TABLE with matching 4 chairs and hutch. Asking $600. Must see to appreciate. 505-501-3395

1977 HESSTON NFR RODEO BUCKLE with Tony Lama matching belt, size 34 waist, $95. More COLLECTIBLE BUCKLES from 1976-1984. 505-4666205

MEN’S LIGHTWEIGHT BLACK Wool sports coat. Size 40-42. High quality.

Great shape. $20. Grey wool Sweater Vest, large. $5. 505-954-1144 MEN’S SWEATERS, long sleeved, size small. $5 each. Good quality. 505-9541144

COLLECTIBLES 1984 HESSTON RODEO JR. BUCKLE & BELT, size 26" waist. $95 for set.

REDMAN BELT BUCKLE, solid brass, $30. 505-466-6205

COFFEE TABLE, from India. Teak. Very heavy. 19"Hx35"Wx70"L. $700. 505577-4647

NATIVE AMERICAN Collector Plates.

Certificates of authenticity included.

50 pieces $40 each. 814-969-3943

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

Jewelry, decorative and fine art, furniture. *** GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS! *** Wednesay thru Saturday, 12 to 5, or call for appointment. 505988-2013 or 847-567-3991.

Full and part-time positions.

See website for details.

Most positions benefits eligible.

Apply on-line at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Tollfree hotline 1-866-661-5491.

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PRONTO M91 Sure Step Power Wheelchair, $995. Call, 505-660-8007.

MISCELLANEOUS

93,000 COLOMBION Pesos for sale at 2,000 = $46.50. 505-310-1829 ATTENTION! WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE SALE! VINYL AND STEEL SIDING, skirting for mobile homes (cheap), miscellaneous tools, new double pane vinyl windows, 12.5’ metal brake, metal coil stock. 2 30’ metal walk boards with ladder jacks. 2 shell campers for 8’ pickup bed. 1 tool cap with ladder rack for 8’ pickup bed. 2 desks with chairs and file cabinets. All in Arroyo Seco. Call 505-690-1133 for appointment.

50% OFF!! ALL EXERCISE Equipment. DONATIONS AND Purchases Support Santa Fe Habitat! OPEN MONDAY thru Saturday - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

CEILING FAN UNIVERSAL REMOTE, in the package. (does not include fan). $10. 505-954-1144

LOG QUEEN SIZE 87"x81". Footboard 34". Includes mattress. Good condition. $500 firm. 505-577-4647 MULTI-PURPOSE CABINET, white, 70" x 48" x 20". Excellent condition. On wheels. $100. 986-1780.

TOTAL GYM 1800 Club Exerciser, hardly used, original box with instructions and all accessories. Folds up compactly. $300. 505-467-8820

THOMASVILLE DINING TABLE and 8 Chairs. 44" by 68" oval table with two 20 inch leaves. Excellent Condition. $2,900. Call 505-670-3538

CIGAR BLOWOUT: REFORMED SMOKER sells 10-year collection. Trunk humidor (value over $300), 2 desk humidors, 3 travel humidors, cigar cases, lighters, cutters etc. Plus 4 boxes premium cigars and 35 loose. $250 firm, no partial sales. Dick, 505428-0560.

PANCHINKO GAME. Nishijin brand.

Good condition. 20"Wx32"H with cover. Hours of fun! $40. 505-984-2646

FIREWOOD-FUEL FIREWOOD FOR sale. 1 full cord $200.

1/2 cord $125. Delivery Included! 505470-2789, 505-470-3859, 505-753-0303.

Administrative Assistant to Admissions

FIREWOOD PINON and cedar 16" long $220 cord. 10" 20" stovecut, $240 cord. Well seasoned. Free delivery with minimum 2 cords. 505259-3368, 505-832-4604

For a complete description of the job and compensation, visit our website: www.sjc.edu. Go to the bottom of the home page and Click on—“Administrative Offices” under Santa Fe “Employment.”

This is a temporary position, 35 hours per week, $14 per hour.

FIREWOOD PINON and cedar 16" long $220 cord. 10" 20" stovecut, $240 cord. Well seasoned. Free delivery with minimum 2 cords. 505259-3368, 505-832-4604 SEASONED FIREWOOD: P ONDEROSA, $100 PER LOAD. J u niper, $120 per load. CALL: 508444-0087. Delivery FREE TO ALBUQUERQUE & SANTA FE !

Send resume, letter of intent, salary history and names, addresses and phone numbers of three professional references to santafe.jobs@sjc.edu. Resume packets will be accepted until interviews begin EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

FOOD FRUIT PATIENT REGISTRATION CHECK-OUT SPECIALIST

FURNITURE

ANTIQUES

LARGE ARMOIRE ENTERTAINMENT CENTER, 72"Hx63"Wx26"D. $500 firm.

SMALL ARMOIRE ENTERTAINMENT CENTER, 72"Hx45"Wx32"D. $400. Both solid wood, pine. 5 05-577-4647

4 SNOW Tires Blizzak P245/55 R19.

Will fit a Toyota Venza. Great condition and provide excellent traction on snow and ice. $200 obo. Call Janie 505-412-0288.

NEARLY NEW pool table. Includes ping pong table and hockey table inserts. Can also be used for a dining table. Includes all accessories for all games. $1200 is a great deal for this item. Please call 660-8311 with any questions.

New 40" Round Southwest Pine Table with bullet carvings by local craftsman, $250. Chairs to match, $125 each. You choose finish & upholstery. Fabio, 505-982-3214.

Santa Fe Clinic

NURSING ASSISTANT 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 Clinic and Surgery Center. Some positions require travel between our Northern New Mexico clinics, please check the listing. To learn more about these positions and our organization, see the expanded information on www.jobing.com.

Please send resume and cover letter stating the specific POSITION and LOCATION for which you are applying to: Eye Associates of New Mexico, 8801 Horizon Blvd. NE #360, Albuquerque, NM 87113 Attn: Human Resources; fax to (800) 548-5213 or email to employment@eyenm.com.

No phone calls please. Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug-FreeWorkplace.

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3 Days for as low as $40*!

APPLIANCES WORKING GAS range, $75. Working gas dryer, $50. 2 white LG appliance pedestals, $100 each (cost $250 each new.) 505-920-1868.

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ESTATE SALES

1587 PACHECO STREET. Metamorphosis Warehouse- Santa Fe’s Premier Home Stager- and Interior Designer David Naylor are having a huge warehouse sale! FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5th and 6th, 9am3pm. Beautiful designer furniture and accessories at rock bottom prices! DON’T MISS THIS EVENT!

ALYCE FRANK "Hayfields in Arroyo Hondo" 244/300. $3125. Call a.m. only. 505-753-7839.

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MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

DARK WOOD rocking chair with two large cushions. Excellent condition. $60. 986-9765

ART

PMS Community Home Health Care and The Hospice Center

TIBET RUG made by refuges in Nepal.

Wool- silk. 177"x116". $2,500. (was $9000) 505-577-4647

(4) WORCHESTER PEWTER Currier & Ives plates. Dated 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977. 8.75 diameter. Very heavy pewter. $150 all. 505-466-3802

***HOLIDAY*** foods for sale. Meat empanaditas, pumpkin rolls and biscochitos. Homemade & Delicious!

Taking orders now for the holidays.

505-471-0163.

Sell your car in a hurry!

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2 BOONES FARM BUCKLES: Strawberry Hill, $25; Apple Wine, $20. 505-4666205

Positions close when filled, unless otherwise noted. Send resume to: RCata@enipc.org or 505-747-1599 (fax) 505-747-1593 (office) or PO Box 969, Ohkay Owingeh, NM, 87566. ENIPC, Inc. is a Drug Free Workplace.

Excellent Salary Generous Benefits Package. *Drug testing and criminal background check completed prior to employment*

VISITOR & HOUSING COORDINATOR The Santa Fe Institute seeks someone to coordinate the visitor invitation process; work closely with other departments to ensure a quality visitor program; coordinate researcher and visitor space allocation, housing procurement for guests, research visitors, and visiting students.

Requires two years of experience as an administrative assistant, senior hospitality manager, contract negotiation, or equivalent. Selfstarter works under minimal supervision, independently sets priorities and organizes work, and proactively seeks information. Requires excellent communication, organizational, and computer skills.

For a list of the full job requirements and instructions on how to apply, see our web site WWW.SANTAFE.EDU/ABOUT/JOBS/ No phone calls please. Application deadline is December 19, 2014. Position available January 2015. EOE.

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ART BOOKS Plus: Large Selection, with dust covers. GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS! Only $3- $12. Other reasonable books. First editions. 505-474-9020 DECEMBER 6TH 1-5pm. 4001 Office Court Drive, Suite 500 Buyers entree fee $5. A variety of work featuring different artists will be featured Come support your local artists!

TRINA BADARAK STUDIO HOLIDAY SALE. December 6th & 7th, Saturday & Sunday, 10-4. Great prices on jewelry, ceramics, art objects, books, paintings, cards, & lots more. Refreshments. 825 Old Santa Fe Trail.

VINTAGE BLACK Velvet Painting, circa 1950’s. Unicorns & Hearts. GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT! Framed & Signed. Only $35. 505-474-9020

GARAGE SALE NORTH HOLIDAY TREASURES Sale: Sunday, December 7, 10am-3pm. Jewelry, clothes, pottery, pashminas, books, and more. Gift boxes available while supplies last! 121 Michelle Drive.

Near the Frank Ortiz dog park.

PAINTINGS AT REDUCED PRICES, 121 West San Francisco. Originals by Macaione, Gorman, T.C. Cannon, Guardipee, Anderson Kee, H. Begay, Ned Jacob. Ledger drawings, contemporary New Mexico landscapes.

Living Pueblo painters (buffalo, deer, elk dancers.) 10 - 7 Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

MAGICAL HOLIDAY SALE! Sunday, December 7th, 9 am - 3 pm. Enjoy a selection of treasures & gifts, handmade beaded & metal jewelry, Balinese textiles, fabrics & silks, fetishes & collectibles. 11 Calle Medico, Suite 6. 505-983-8722

CLASSIFIEDS Where treasures are found daily

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Call 986-3000 to place your ad! * FREE Signs with every ad. *Tax & enhancements not included.

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to place your ad, call TOOLS MACHINERY

TOOLS AND accessories, brand new.

20 piece set. $30. 310-4179.

USED CARPENTRY TOOLS FOR SALE. Some vintage. Solana area- Come see on Sunday 7:30- 10am. Call for address. 505-983-0511

CREATE YOUR OWN CEREMONY for Holy Days and New Year’s Evolutions. A bundle of surprise and delight from Santa Fe artisans and authors. www.MitrasEyes.com 505-986-1106 SONY NI-MH BATTERY CHARGER, AA or A. $10. 505-954-1144 WESTON MANDOLINE VEGETABLE SLICER. Stainless. NEW! Never used. $38. 505-466-6205

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS "NALA" WEST ALAMEDA/599.

Nala is a 1.5 year old German/Australian Shepard mix. Please help bring Nala home! Call or text 505-7955301. Lost Sunday, Nov. 30.

1922 KNABE Baby Grand has been restored inside and out. Original ivory keys. Excellent condition. $12,000.

Negotiable. 505-690-5930.

SET OF KEYS to Ford vehicle with house keys attached. Found on Juniper Street, 12/3. 505-983-8409, 505603-0255.

1936 STEINWAY Model M. Excellent condition, 5’7", mahogony finish, from the golden age of Steinway.

Perfect for living-room. $20,000. 505501-5887

PUBLIC NOTICES THE LIBERTARIAN Party of Santa Fe County will be holding its biannual convention on Saturday, December 13, 2014, 11:30 am, at the Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, 87505.The convention will begin with informal introductions at 11:30am, followed by a buy-your-own lunch at 12:00 pm, and party business at 12:30 pm.

MISCELLANEOUS

big box quality wrapping paper. several rolls unopened. $20 OBO solid wood ookshelf. doule-stacked, painted white, 4’ high x 4’ wide. $30. costruction ceiling medallion. good condition.

28" diamater. pretty filligree design. $25. 231-9133

DVD’S, NEW never opened. Best of Carol Burnett (22). Asking $125. New $199. Downtown Abbey Seasons 1-3, $50. 505-989-8024.

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SONY DSC-HX1, 9.1MP Digital Camera w/20x Optical Zoom, Image Stabilization, HD Movies. Perfect condition, instructions, accessories, battery, 2GB Chip. $150 505-467-8820 SONY DSC-HX200V 18.2Mp Digital Camera, w/60x Optical/Digital Zoom, HD movies. Perfect condition 2012 Model w/instructions, 2GB chip, batteries. $250. 505-467-8820.

Santa Fe Animal Shelter’s largest Adoption Event: *Professional holiday photos, with or without pets; free digital image to all adopters. *Free digital photo with any Shelter donation. *Prints available for purchase, along with mugs, ceramic tiles, and other products with images available for order.

Friday, December 12 1-6 p.m.

FOR SALE ALFALFA, San Acacia. 2strand heavy bales. $12 per bale.

Available in Santa Fe, Mondays only, corner of Cerrillos and Airport. 505220-4441. Leave message.

HORSE TRAILER EQUIPMENT

HORSE TRAILER FOR SALE 4-horse slant load gooseneck (or fifth wheel) Exiss Event Trailer with living package. Drop down windows, 4-horse tack room, steel reinforced aluminum floors with mats and padded sides. $14,000.

Used very little. Call 505-466-1525.

Money Supports PAWS Spay & Neuter Program

PETS SUPPLIES

SPORTS EQUIPMENT

AAA T-CUP POODLES 575-910-1818 txt4more pics. Papers, shots, health guarantee, POTTY PAD trained and GROOMED. Non-shedding, Hypoallergenic. $600 SALE! cingard1@hotmail.com GREAT PAYMENT PLAN. We take CREDIT/DEBIT cards. PAYPAL. USDA licensed, FREE delivery. Financing available

7’ SPORTCRAFT POOL TABLE. Cues, balls, additional table tennis top.

Very good condition. $150. 505-4739336

BEAUTIFUL CHOCOLATE B R O W N L A B R A D O O D L E S . 9 weeks old. 2 boys 1 girl. Sweet, non-shedding. $1300. 575-613-2309

Saturday, December 13 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Premier Motorcars of Santa Fe 4480 Cerrillos Rd Santa Fe, NM 87507

WE’RE SO DOG GONE GOOD! We always get results!

TONY, A young, sweet Chi- Terrier boy. SMALL DOG RESCUE OF SANTA FE. Call 505-438-3749 for information.

Airport Road and 599 505-660-3039 www.collectorcarssantafe.com

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$25 Adoption Fee on all Animals including Puppies & Kittens.

2011 CADILLAC SRX AWD 44K, Luxury Collection pkg, auto and loaded, just..$26,981 Call 505-216-3800.

Santa Fe Animal Shelter PET ADOPTION EVENTS Meet Adoptable Animals

AUTO PARTS ACCESSORIES Saturday, December 6 Spirit Clothing 109 W. San Francisco St. Noon-3 p.m.

SUNDAY, December 7 PetSmart 3561 Zafarano Drive 1- 4 p.m.

Adult Pet adoption fee only $25 through December.

Visit sfhumanesociety.org

CLASSIFIEDS

’67-’68 MUSTANG HUBCAPS & WINDSHIELDS. All in good shape. Make Offer. Lalo, 505-316-1133.

THESE SNOW tires will fit a Toyota Venza. They are in great condition and provide excellent traction on snow and ice. $200 OBO. Call Janie 505-412-0288.

2008 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN 4X4, HARD LOADED, HARD TO FIND, HARD TO BEAT PRICE, T1871, $ 21988 CALL 505-473-1234.

AUTOS WANTED $$WANTED JUNK CAR$ & TRUCK$$ Wrecked or Not Running, with or without title or keys. We will haul away for Free! 505-699-4424

Where treasures are found daily

CALL 986-3000

CONTENDER POOL TABLE, great condition. 55" width x 6’ length x 31" tall. $500. 505-577-4647

PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT Fifty year-old classic. Meticulously maintained; continuously garaged, excellent running condition. No rust.

Good suspension, new carburetor.

Red/white interior, new carpeting.

Great in town cruising, and weekend excursions. This half-century old classic German coupe is fun to drive, easy to park, and maintain. Comes with tools, Ghia books and maintenance records. 505-690-2901.

Toy Box Too Full?

CAR STORAGE FACILITY

TV, Box style, flat screen, SONY 24" $30.

505-986-9765. If no answer, leave message.

FEED EQUIPMENT SERVICES

PIANO STEINWAY, Medium Grand, Model M Ebony. Excellent condition. $21,000. 505-881-2711

Shihtzu Imperial puppies (above).

Registered. Includes 1st shots. $450 male; $500 females. Chihuahua T-cup long hair puppies (below). 1st shots, ready now. $400 males; $450 female. 505-901-2094 or 505-753-0000.

Place an ad Today!

NATIVITY SCENES FOR SALE. Unique, handcrafted Nativity Scenes with figurines www.bklaswoodcrafts.com 505-369-6551. $175 - $195 (complete set)

CLASSIC CARS

Holiday Adoptions & Photos with Santa PAWS!

DENON TURNTABLE QUARTZ DP-33F with Audio Technica cartridge. $150.

505-310-1829

HOURGLASS 4 string dulcimer with traditional scroll head design. Plus extra strings and tuner. Original hard case. Like new condition. $325. 505628-6925.

COOKING DISCO, Discadas for Sale.

17" to 32" diameter. Hundreds available. Starting at $60. Sold at Aldona’s Restaurant, 3875 Cerrillos Road. 505469-3355.

stained glass celing light. crafstman style. barely used. very beautiful. paid $120. asking $40. 231-9133

PETS SUPPLIES

TV RADIO STEREO

PHOTO EQUIPMENT

MISC. MEN’S LANDSEND snowboots. size 13. waterproofed and insulated. New. leather uppers. $50. 231-9133.

PETS SUPPLIES

Have a product or service to offer?

Call our small business experts today!

21" SINGLE-STAGE SNOWBLOWER clearing width 10" intake height.

123cc POWERMORE OHV 4-cycle engine. E-Z Chute rotation. Used once. $200. Contact 505-220-0355.

MITRA’S EYES BLESSING GIFT BASKET

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YORKIES! Full-Blooded & Yorkiepoos, Morkies, Shorkies. Reg, shots and guaranteed.

POTTYPAD trained. $500-1800 CreditCards, PAYPAL PAYMENT plan 575-910-1818 txt4pics cingard1@hotmail.com

2014 Ford Edge Limited AWD 19K, super nice, new body and loaded...$27,871 Call 505-216-3800.

WE WILL BUY YOUR USED CAR REGARDLESS IF YOU BUY A CAR FROM US! COME SEE US TODAY! 505-216-3800 2001 FORD Taurus, runs strong, new tires. Maintenance records for past 2+ years, good commuter car. $2,500, OBO. Peter, 505-929-7969.

business & service exploresantafetcom CARETAKING CAREGIVER WILL PROVIDE NONMEDICAL CARE, COMPANIONSHIP & HOME HELP. Experienced, compassionate, mature, & dependable. 505603-4045 EXPERIENCED, RELIABLE CARE PROVIDER. Elderly, Disabled, Stroke & Alzheimer’s. Excellent references.

Live-in 4 days. Errands, Doctor appointments. Reliable transportation.

505-470-8350

Your business in print and online for as little as $89 per month!

CLEANING PREPARE FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

ISN’T IT TIME TO COME CLEAN? HOUSECLEANING. 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. $15 AN HOUR. Flexible * Reliable * References .

505-316-4579

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

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

Reasonable, reliable, punctual. 505670-6100

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

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

PC/MAC COMPUTER SERVICES in SANTA FE. Virus removal, hardware, software upgrades, troubleshooting, wifi upgrades, etc. Experienced, certified, professional. 505-577-0350.

Free estimates!

CONSTRUCTION BATHROOM & KITCHEN REMODELING EXPERTS

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

HANDYMAN

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

Reasonable, reliable, punctual. 505670-6100

PAINTING ANDY ORTIZ PAINTING

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

PLASTERING AFFORDABLE HOME REPAIR

COMPUTER-INTERNET-WE

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

Licensed, bonded, insured.

References available. 505-795-9062.

Will clean houses and offices. Good references. Reasonable prices. Call Silvia Membreno 505-316-2402

RM FLOORING Re-finishing of wood floors. Installation of wood, tile, brick and flagstone flooring. Licensed, Bonded.

Senior Discount 15%.

505-469-6363

FIRESCAPING

CALL 986-3000

MENDOZA’S & FLORES’ PROFESSIONAL MAINTENANCE

STORAGE

CALL 986-3000

Let our small business experts help you grow your business.

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

Handyman, Landscaping, Roofing.

FREE estimates, BNS. 505-316-6449.

HAULING OR YARD WORK

So can you with a classified ad

Have a product or service to offer?

Clean Houses

FLOORING

WE GET RESULTS!

CLEANING AVAILABLE FOR HOUSEWORK. Many years experience & references available. One time, or as needed. 505670-8467 or 505-753-8967.

CONSTRUCTION

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IT’S THE perfect time of year to clean up your property. Fuel Mitigation for potential wildfires, tree cutting, mulching, hydro-seeding, bobcat services, fencing, snow removal. Local Firefighter owned and operated.

505-500-6106

Housecleaning, garage cleaning, hauling trash.

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

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

Free estimates. 505-470-5877

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

ROOFING

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

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

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

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

YARD MAINTENANCE

Seasonal planting. Lawn care.

Weed Removal.

Dump runs.

Painting. Snow Removal. Honest & Dependable.

Free estimates.

References.

FIREWOOD

Berry Clean - 505-501-3395 Dry Pinon & Cedar

Free Kindling, Delivery & Stack.

145.00 pick up load.

Deliver Anytime.

505-983-2872, 505-470-4117

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

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

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

SELL YOUR PROPERTY! with a classified ad. Get Results!

CALL 986-3000

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2014 TOYOTA RAV-4 AWD SAVE BIG, SAVE ON FUEL, SAVE THOUSANDS, T1853, $25,488 CALL 505473-1234.

2010 Audi A6 Prestige quattro

2010 Lexus RX350 AWD

Local 1 owner, every option, AWD, Nav, supercharged, clean CarFax, a real gem! $25,741 505-913-2900

ANOTHER Mercedes-Benz Trade-in! local & well-maintained, heated/cooled leather, new tires, NICE Just $24,931 505-913-2900

986-3000

Have a product or service to offer?

Call our small business experts today!

PICKUP TRUCKS

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TOYOTA PRIUS, 43,025 one owner miles, pine green, tan interior, always dealer serviced since new in 2006. $13,900. Dave 505-660-8868

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2014 Volkswagen Passat SEL Premium TDI- Rare DIESEL!!! Over 40 mpg, every option, heated leather, sunroof, Fender sound, pristine.

Clean CarFax $28,971 . 505-913-2900

2014 NISSAN Frontier 4WD Crew Cab 14K, auto, SV pkg, loaded and ready to go, 1 owner...$27,871 Call 505-2163800.

4X4s 2014 Toyota RAV4 AWD 14k, CLE pkg, auto, nice options, 1 owner...$23,981 Call 505-216-3800.

2013 TOYOTA Tacoma Double Cab 4x4, ONLY 6K, Auto, TRD Off-Road Extra Value Package, come see this one.. Call 505-216-3800.

2014 JEEP Cherokee Latitude 4WD 17K, loaded, auto, 1 owner...$25,641 Call 505-216-3800.

2014 BMW X3 low miles and even lower price, auto, moonroof, heated seats, why buy new... Call 505-2163800.

2010 LEXUS RX350 AWD Lexus Certified, loaded up, full svc and ready to go...$29,871 Call 505-216-3800.

2014 TOYOTA RAV4 XLE AWD 7K, auto, loaded, super clean and 1 owner...$24,981 Call 505-216-3800.

SELL IT, BUY IT, OR FIND IT...

2014 Volkswagen Passat Wolfsburg Edition, turbo, super clean, single owner clean CarFax, SAVE over new, $17,991. 505-9132900

Only in the the SFNM Classifieds!

986-3000

2013 TOYOTA 4RUNNERSR5 4X4 Another One Owner, Local, Records, Garaged, Non-Smoker, Remaining Factory warranty, 22,447 Miles, Every Available Option, WHY BUY NEW, Pristine, Soooo TOYOTA LUXURIOUS AND DEPENDABLE $32,950

WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE! View vehicle & Carfax:

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505-983-4945

SUVs

2006 LEXUS GS300 AWD loaded, nav, leather, 1 owner...$18,981 Call 505216-3800.

2008 BMW 535xi SEDAN AWD

2013 Toyota Avalon XLE

Another One Owner, Local, Garaged, Non-Smoker, Manuals, XKeysEvery Service Record, New Tires, Every Available Option, Pristine, Soooo SOPHISTICATED $18,950

Premium another Mercedes trade! Low miles, leather, local one owner clean CarFax $25,923 505913-2900 .

WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE!

2012 Volkswagen CC

View vehicle & Carfax:

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Luxury ANOTHER Mercedes tradein! Loaded, leather, navigation, immaculate, clean CarFax $17,951 505-913-2900

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2002 LEXUS LX470 4WD 63K, super loaded and serviced religiously, super nice..$22,981 Call 505-216-3800.

2007 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER SUV 4WD

Very clean, 3.6 V6, automatic, alloy wheels, runs great, new oil change, 99K miles, charcoal grey, power driver seat, power windows and locks, roof rack, tow package hitch. $10,500. CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED! El Dorado, Santa Fe. 520-906-9399

HEAVY EQUIPMENT

PICKUP TRUCKS 2013 Toyota Corolla L, auto, A/C, equipt right and priced at only...$13,871 Call 505-216-3800.

2014 Hyundai Santa Fe 1981 FORD 2 TON F-700 Diesel. V-8. 5speed, with 2-speed axel. 6 new tires.

Runs well. $4000 OBO. 505-474-5978, 505-577-0764

Sport, merely 5k miles! Just traded, leather, 1 owner clean CarFax, LIKE NEW $23,751 505-913-2900 .

2011 Mercedes-Benz GLK350 4matic CERTIFIED! w/factory warranty, local trade, just serviced, AWD, ask about finance specials $26,991 505-913-2900

2000 CHEVY PU C2500 SILVERADO. 3/4 ton. 6-liter engine. Tires almost new.

White. $4,500. Ask for John, 505-4714138.

2006 FORD F-150. Standard 6-cylinder.

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2009 FORD Escape XLT, AWD, 68k miles, new battery, new tires, fully serviced. Great condition. $8,500 or best offer. 575-737-0628.

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E-12

THE NEW MEXICAN Sunday, December 7, 2014

TIME OUT

Bad-news riders

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Horoscope HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014: This year you often feel conflicted. You will decide to go with the flow rather than start a crusade over each issue.

You will be a lot happier if you refuse to get so uptight. It is important to understand different perspectives. If you are single, you could have difficulty settling down with one person.

Someone very different could stop you in your tracks. If you are attached, you enjoy teasing your significant other. Cancer reads you cold.

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) HHHHH You have the ability to see beyond the obvious, and your perceptions will give you a broader vision of what is happening around you. Communicating your thoughts could be difficult, as others don’t seem to have the same bank of knowledge. Tonight: Happily at home.

This Week: Your personal life demands attention.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You could be overly con-

cerned about your holiday budget. Do whatever you need to do to relax. If you have to balance your checkbook or redo your shopping list, do it. Others simply want your company.

Join a loved one for a late lunch.

Tonight: Catch up on news.

This Week: Make calls and schedule meetings by Wednesday.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You might have a certain idea for how you want to indulge a loved one, only to discover that he or she would prefer something completely different.

Express your caring in a way that is meaningful to the other party. Tonight: Time for family affairs.

This Week: Deal with a money issue Monday or Tuesday.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Make it OK for you to be unavailable, at least in the morning; detailed explanations won’t be necessary. When you meet up with family or friends later on in the day with a smile on your face, they will understand. Tonight: Follow your heart.

This Week: Use Monday and Tuesday for what you think is important.

Last week’s answer

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Zero in on what you want to do as opposed to what you think you should do. Your mood will be more upbeat as a result.

You might need to spend some time alone. What you do with that time is your business.

Tonight: Keep it private and personal.

This Week: Lie low until midweek, when the Force is with you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Touch base with an older friend or family member. Plans in the afternoon might need to involve friends. Whether you are at an informal gathering or out playing racquetball, it is the company that makes the difference. Tonight: Among crowds.

This Week: Your best days for socializing will be Monday and Tuesday.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Reach out to a distant friend who loves to chat and visit with you. Consider meeting each other halfway sometime during the next few months. Plan a busy afternoon of shopping or perhaps finding a Christmas tree. Tonight: Get a head start on tomorrow.

This Week: You will take responsibility for a situation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You have a naughty side that tends to emerge around one particular person. The fun and laughter that stem from this interaction are likely to erase any tension. You might want to

Chess quiz

WHITE FORCES MATE Hint: Sacrifice and mate.

Solution: 1. Qxg7ch! Kxg7 2. Rg5ch (a double-check!)

Kh6 3. Bg7 mate!

New York Times Sunday Crossword

limit contact with others today and be with just this person.

Tonight: Continue as you have all day.

This Week: Seek out more information.

SAGITTARIUS(Nov.22-Dec.21) HHHHH Like or not, you’ll need to continue deferring to a partner and/ or friends. If you do, you will feel better, as you might have too much on your plate right now. Think in terms of having more free time as opposed to thinking that you have control.

Tonight: Time to be a duo.

This Week: Deal with a partner directly to get good results.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Pace yourself. You might need to free up some time to be with your friends. You demand a lot from yourself, and you have a lot of responsibilities on your shoulders. Use the morning for chores, and leave the afternoon open. Tonight: Have a merry good time.

This Week: Others seem to be at your beck and call.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You can’t seem to contain yourself in your present mood.

Is there really a reason to?

Make the most of your Sunday.

You even might consider doing some holiday decorating in the afternoon. Invite your friends to help out. Tonight: The fun continues.

This Week: Get as much done as you can at the beginning of the week.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You might want to stay close to home, especially in the morning. Your afternoon plans could involve a dear friend or loved one. Many of you are likely to get into a holiday or winter type of happening, especially if it involves your family. Tonight: Hang some mistletoe.

This Week: Allow your creativity to color your days.

Scratch pad

urrent events have been so crummy of late that even good news seems to arrive with a bad-news rider attached. About four hours after news broke about a breakthrough with China on global warming, a turning point in the desperate race to save our planet from annihilation through carbon poisoning, the new Republican congressional majority announced that it would stomp the plan to smithereens because it is poisonous to the American economy and a sniveling cave-in to the godless commies.

Next, I saw a headline that the United States is developing more realistic crash-test dummies in order to build safer cars. How nice for us all! The badnews follow-up took only two seconds, Gene because when I clicked on the story, Weingarten it turns out that the new dummies are being made grotesquely fat to corThe Washington respond to the new American shape.

Post These new-norm dummies are an exact replica — except with Barbie-doll hinged joints — of John Goodman before he went on a diet.

They weigh 270 pounds. They will evidently help us better survive car crashes long enough to die in our 50s from lardengorged arteries.

The good news-bad news trend even holds up on the intensely personal level. When I saw a recent story in The New York Times wondering whether mustaches are getting cool again — believe me, this qualifies as good news for yours truly, who has been ludicrously out of fashion for the better part of the past 40 years — I expected an immediate take-back, and, alas, wasn’t disappointed.

The article basically answered its own question with a “no.” It pointed out that although a number of cool celebs have been of late seen with mustaches — Ryan Gosling, James Franco and George Clooney, among others — there won’t be a resurgence of the style for ordinary folk. Why? A fashion expert told them: “Most guys can’t afford to walk around with that extra bit of sleaze on their faces.” The fashionista struggled to find the perfect adjective to describe mustaches, and came up with “louche,” which I had to look up. It means “disreputable or sordid,” such as “a neighborhood to which people go in search of illegal drugs.”

None of this surprised me. I am constantly getting emails from people joyfully reporting having sighted the spittin’ image of me somewhere. Many include helpful cellphone snapshots. These are not of, say, James Franco. Sometimes, it’s a Mario brother, or the mug shot of some pimp. Many times it is that famous photo of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, in a T-shirt, as he was being arrested by CIA operatives, who woke him in the middle of night and then, apparently, shampooed him with Vaseline.

But the most common sighting of me is when people come across a photo of 1980s porn star Ron Jeremy. I don’t want to suggest Ron is a sleazeball, and his website tries very hard to dispel that image, but with limited success.

It emphasizes, for example, that Ron has been featured in many movies that aren’t porn. Here are some of the titles: Orgazmo, Tales From the Crapper and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.

Miserably, I trawled the Times article for some tiny bit of solace. No luck. For example, it ended by suggesting that the only reason Messrs. Gosling, Franco and the like can get away with a mustache is that they are, otherwise, so “insanely handsome.”

Finally, I asked several women of my acquaintance to level with me: Does my mustache made me look sleazy?

The consensus was no!

Why not?

The consensus was that to be sleazy one must seem potentially threatening, and I am too much of a clueless old schlump for that.

Good news, bad news.

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