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The lure of legal bud Grass may seem greener north of state line, but N.M. residents face limitations

Former Santa Fe Community College President Ana ‘Cha’ Guzmán discusses her fight to reclaim her job and back pay Saturday at her home. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Ex-SFCC president fights to get ‘good name back’ Guzmán defends management style, speaks frankly about ‘white women’s country club’ By Robert Nott The New Mexican

Employee David Marlow, right, helps a customer, who smells a strain of marijuana before buying it, at the crowded sales counter at Denver’s Medicine Man, which opened as a legal recreational cannabis retail outlet on Jan. 1. Medicine Man’s plants, left, mature at its dispensary and grow operation in northeast Denver. BRENNAN LINSLEY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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arijuana is still illegal in New Mexico. But less than 100 miles north of the Colorado state line, in the town of Pueblo, there are two stores — soon to be three — in which New Mexicans over the age of 21 can buy limited amounts of the drug. That’s been true since New Year’s Day, when Colorado implemented the legalization, taxation and regulation of recreational marijuana for adults, as approved by the state’s voters in the 2012 election. Although Washington state voters approved a similar ballot initiative in 2012, according to the Marijuana Policy Project, Colorado is “the first jurisdiction in the world to establish a system in which marijuana is regulated and taxed similarly to alcohol.” Now, New Mexicans who want to legally smoke marijuana — but don’t qualify for this state’s Medical Cannabis Program — may travel to the neighboring state to do so. But they should be aware that the Colorado law comes with some restrictions.

Buying in Colorado According to The Associated Press, Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division mailed licenses to 136 marijuana stores last Monday — 102 of them in Denver. So far, only a fraction of those have gone through

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all the legal hoops of getting licenses and other necessary approvals from local governments. About three dozen stores were ready to open New Year’s Day. Some Colorado cities, such as Colorado Springs, have decided not to allow recreational pot sales within their borders. Others, like Boulder, have not yet established regulations for weed sales. For Santa Feans, the closest stores are in the town of Pueblo, on Interstate 25 south of Colorado Springs. Both shops — Marisol Therapeutics and The Greener Side Caregiving and Wellness, which previously served as dispensaries for the state’s medical marijuana program — began selling under the new rules Jan. 1. An employee of a third store, Pueblo West Organics, said last week that sales likely will start there “in a couple of weeks.” To buy pot in Colorado, you must have valid identification. A New Mexico driver’s license is fine. And you must pay with cash. While pot sales are legal under Colorado state law, marijuana is still illegal under federal law. Checks and credit-card transactions are governed by federal regulations, which prohibit commercial banks from accepting deposits they suspect are the profits of illegal activity. So, in what seems like a Catch 22, non-cash financial transactions for the state’s recreational marijuana business are still in limbo.

DOOBIE DO’S Here are some reminders for visitors to Colorado from the website of the Colorado chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. DO purchase up to one-quarter of an ounce of marijuana if you are 21 or older, but only from a licensed retail marijuana store. (Residents may purchase up to 1 ounce.) DO bring cash and a valid photo ID when you shop at a licensed marijuana store. DO remember that the marijuana you enjoy in Colorado may be stronger than what you are accustomed to. DO check with your hotel, lodge, restaurant or club about their policy regarding marijuana smoking. DO ski in Colorado, but be aware some ski runs are on federal land where possession of marijuana is still illegal. DO be aware of any restrictions on “open and public” consumption in the community you are visiting. It varies across the state. DO remember that out-of-state medical marijuana cards are not recognized in Colorado. DO enjoy marijuana while you are visiting Colorado, but remember it is illegal to take it with you when you leave.

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Obituaries Ruth Louise Bull Demuth, 82, Dec. 27 Robert H. Dominguez, 78, Santa Fe, Jan. 3 Virginia Thomas Nydes, 91, Santa Fe, Dec. 19 Felicia (Alice) Gonzales Rodriguez, 88, Dec. 29 Jack Boyd Ryan, 89, Jan. 1

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Ana “Cha” Guzmán says she took on the job of president at Santa Fe Community College in the summer of 2012 so she could help push the 30-year-old institute to the next level. And that meant examining the college’s finances, administration and academic programs with an eye toward reform. And when she did so, Guzmán said Saturday, what she found was waste, improprieties, favoritism and a need to improve the school’s graduation rate to ensure student success. Speaking during an interview at her home about the SFCC Governing Board’s decision to fire her Dec. 2 and her fight to reclaim her job under the state’s Whistleblower Protection Act, Guzmán said that as she worked to address challenges at the school, she met resistance from staffers who seemed to be satisfied with the status quo. She believes their complaints were among the reasons for the Governing Board’s decision to terminate her four-year contract.

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ATLANTA — Fifty years ago, ashtrays seemed to be on every table and desk. Athletes and even Fred Flintstone endorsed cigarettes in TV commercials. Smoke hung in the air in restaurants, offices and airplane cabins. More than 42 percent of U.S. adults smoked, and there was a good chance your doctor was among them. The turning point came on Jan. 11, 1964. It was on that Saturday morning that U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released an emphatic and authoritative report that said smoking causes illness and death — and the government should do something about it. In the decades that followed, warning labels were put on cigarette packs, cigarette commercials were banned, taxes were raised and new restrictions were placed on where people could light up. “It was the beginning,” said Kenneth Warner, a University of Michigan public health professor who is a leading authority on smoking and health.

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NATION&WORLD N.Y. set to ease rules on medical marijuana By Michael Virtanen The Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York would become the 21st state to allow medical use of marijuana under an initiative Gov. Andrew Cuomo will unveil this week. Cuomo plans to use administrative powers rather than legislative action to allow a limited number of hospitals to dispense marijuana for certain ailments. He will formally announce his plans in his state of the state speech Wednesday. The New York Times first reported Cuomo’s plan Saturday. It represents an about-face by Cuomo, who had previously opposed medical marijuana. Administration officials told the newspaper the medical marijuana policy will be more restrictive than in states like Colorado and California and subject to New York Health Department standards. In states that permit medical marijuana, it is commonly prescribed for chronic pain, nausea from cancer chemotherapy, glaucoma and some other conditions. Other controlled substances like narcotics are already authorized for medical use in New York. Although marijuana remains illegal in New York, possession of small amounts has been reduced to a low-level violation subject to a fine. The Drug Policy Alliance, which was briefed on the Cuomo plan Saturday, said it would be a huge change, but New York should still enact legislation authorizing a state medical marijuana program that has been blocked so far by the state Senate’s Republicans. “This is a good development as an interim step,” said Gabriel Sayegh, state director of the Drug Policy Alliance. After the briefing, he said the timing was still unclear as well as precisely who will have access to the program. Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, a Manhattan Democrat, and Democratic Sen. Diane Savino of Staten Island have recently held hearings on a bill they are sponsoring called the “Compassionate Care Act,” which would regulate and tax medical marijuana. It has previously passed in the Assembly, but failed to get through the Senate. State Sen. Liz Krueger, another Manhattan Democrat, has been pushing legislation to legalize and tax recreational use of marijuana, arguing state policy outlawing the drug has been costly in terms of law enforcement resources and the futures of people convicted of crimes.

In brief U.S. braces for ‘polar vortex’

By Emily Alpert Reyes Los Angeles Times

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The deep freeze expected soon in the Midwest, New England and even the South will be one to remember, with potential record-low temperatures heightening fears of frostbite and hypothermia. It hasn’t been this cold for decades — 20 years in Washington, D.C., 18 years in Milwaukee, 15 in Missouri — even in the Midwest, where bundling up is second nature. Weather Bell meteorologist Ryan Maue said, “If you’re under 40 [years old], you’ve not seen this stuff before.” Preceded by snow in much of the Midwest, the frigid air will begin Sunday and extend into early next week, funneled as far south as the Gulf Coast. Blame it on a “polar vortex,” as one meteorologist calls it, a counterclockwise-rotating pool of cold, dense air. The predictions are startling: 25 below zero in Fargo, N.D.; minus 31 in International Falls, Minn.; and 15 below in Indianapolis and Chicago. At those temperatures, exposed skin can get frostbitten in minutes and hypothermia can quickly set in as wind chills may reach 50, 60 or even 70 below zero.

Plane lands on NYC highway NEW YORK — A small plane traveling to Connecticut after taking a tour of the Statue of Liberty made an emergency landing Saturday on a New York City interstate highway, startling drivers but touching down safely with no serious injuries to anyone aboard or on the ground, officials said. The aircraft, a Piper PA-28, set down at around 3:20 p.m. on the northbound side of the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx, in an area where the highway passes through Van Cortlandt Park. The Federal Aviation Administration said three people were on board. Police and fire officials said neither the male pilot nor two female passengers appeared to have been badly hurt. All were taken to a Bronx hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, said Mayor Bill de Blasio. De Blasio told reporters the plane had departed from Danbury Municipal Airport and was making the return trip when it experienced engine problems.

U.S. to rescue two ships in Antarctica CANBERRA, Australia — A U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker will leave Australia for

CHILLY CLIMB Ice climber Howie Mievogel uses ice tools and crampons to ascend a frozen waterfall on the cliffs in Riegelsville, Pa., near the Delaware River, on Saturday. Below zero temperatures have brought ice climbers out of hiding the past few days. STEVE KLAVER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Antarctica on Sunday to rescue more than 120 crew members aboard two icebreakers trapped in pack ice near the frozen continent’s eastern edge, officials said. The 399-foot cutter, the Polar Star, is responding to a Jan. 3 request from Australia, Russia and China to assist the Russian and Chinese ships because “there is sufficient concern that the vessels may not be able to free themselves from the ice,” the Coast Guard said in a statement. The Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy has been trapped in ice-clogged Commonwealth Bay since Christmas Eve, while the Chinese ship which came to its rescue, Xue Long or Snow Dragon in Chinese, reported on Friday it too had become stuck nearby. A day earlier, the Chinese ship’s helicopter had retrieved from the Russian ship 52 scientists, journalists and tourists who are now on their way home aboard an Australian icebreaker, Aurora Australis. Authorities say the 101 crew aboard the Chinese ship and 22 aboard the Russian ship were well provisioned and in no immediate danger. The Polar Star was cutting short its planned stop in Sydney, Australia, to assist. “Our highest priority is safety of life at sea, which is why we are assisting in breaking a navigational path for both of these vessels.” Vice Adm. Paul

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LOS ANGELES — A controversial new study argues that a host of research on gay, lesbian and bisexual teenagers could be based on faulty data because of confused teens and “jokesters” who later said they were straight. The report focuses on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a survey that followed a nationally representative group of tens of thousands of teens into adulthood. Add Health, as it is known, is considered one of the most important sources of data on the lives of young people, including those who are gay, lesbian and bisexual. What caught the attention of Ritch Savin-Williams, a professor at Cornell University, was the fact that more than 70 percent of the teens who said they had ever had a “romantic attraction” to someone of the same sex later told researchers that they were straight. That struck Savin-Williams as odd, since teens usually come out of the closet, not the other way around, he said. In his analysis published last month in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Savin-Williams and a fellow researcher contend that the surprising result showed that some teens didn’t understand the question, while others were “jokesters” who were having fun with the survey. People who were “inconsistent” on their sexual attraction scored lower in intelligence and got lower grades, the researchers found. The questions about “romantic attraction” might have confused them, especially since the survey did not define what that meant, said Savin-Williams, the director of Cornell’s Sex and Gender Lab. Others may have answered falsely for fun, he added. Earlier research on the Add Health survey found some signs of dishonesty, the study noted. For instance, hundreds of teens said they had an artificial hand, arm, leg or foot, yet few reported the same thing when interviewed at home. The new study found “inconsistent” boys and girls were more delinquent and more likely to say they weren’t honest when they filled out the survey. Savin-Williams said the findings raise questions about a wide swath of research on “sexual minority” youth that is based on the Add Health survey. Many such studies have shown worse physical and mental health for teens attracted to the same sex, for instance. The study argued confused teens and “jokesters” may have distorted those results, making “sexual minority” teens seem to be in worse shape than they were, the Archives study argued. The existence of “inconsistent” teens isn’t new to social science researchers. “It’s not that we saw something that no one else had seen,” Savin-Williams added. “But they kept using the data. … People should have said, ‘Hold on here. Who are these kids?’ ” Other experts challenged the assertion that the existence of “inconsistent” teens undermines findings from earlier studies. The notion that gay, lesbian and bisexual teens are at higher risk of suffering worse physical and mental health is consistent with many other studies based on different sources of data, said Ilan Meyer, a scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Williams Institute, which conducts research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. Though the new study points to some “interesting issues,” Meyer said, “we don’t know what the results would look like if these inconsistent youth were not included.” The study raises the question but doesn’t actually answer it, he argued. Other experts argued that “inconsistent” teens aren’t necessarily just “jokesters” or confused. University of Arizona sociologist Stephen Russell, who has used the Add Health data in his own research on sexual attraction and health risks, said it makes perfect sense that young people might have romantic feelings for the same sex, yet later call themselves straight — especially in light of enduring stigma against gays, lesbians and bisexuals in many parts of the country.

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Sunday, Jan. 5 LIFE PLANNING IN NEW MEXICO: At 11 a.m., Journey Santa Fe presents authors Merri Rudd and Shannon Bulman at Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Gailisteo St. The talk is free and open to the public. IAIA WRITERS FESTIVAL: Graduate students and instructors, including Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis, author Sherman Alexie, screenwriter and poet Ken White, author Sherwin Bitsui, and Santa Fe novelist Ramona Ausubel, read from and sign copies of their works, 6 p.m. daily through Jan. 10 at IAIA, 83 Avan Nu Po Road. MELANIE MONSOUR: From noon to 2 p.m. piano recital serie with bassist Paul Brown, jazz, Middle Eastern and Latin music at Museum Hill Café, 710 Camino Lejo. Free and open to the public. Noon-2 p.m. SERENATA OF SANTA FE: At 3 p.m. at el Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, Harpsichord Fandango featuring Kathleen McIntosh, with special guest mezzosoprano Consuelo Sañudo. $25, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234, discounts for seniors and students available at the door, 3 p.m. SANTA FE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Train Week. Become

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NIGHTLIFE Sunday, Jan. 5 COWGIRL BBQ: The Santa Fe Revue, Americana/bluegrass/ R&B noon-3 p.m.; folk-punk singer-songwriter Ryan Dishen, 8 p.m. 319 S. Guadalupe St. EL FAROL: Pan-Latin chanteuse Nacha Mendez, 7-10 p.m. 808 Canyon Road VANESSIE: Pianist Doug Montgomery, 6:30-10:30 p.m. 427 W. Water St.

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TAOS SKI VALLEY: Distance from Santa Fe: 90 miles. Snowboarding is allowed. Call 575-776-2291. Visit www. skitaos.org. Call 776-2916 for snow report. ANGEL FIRE: Distance from Santa Fe: 94 miles. Call 575-377-6401. Visit www. angelfireresort.com. Call 800-633-7463, ext. 4222, for snow report. RED RIVER SKI AREA: Distance from Santa Fe: 106 miles. Call 575-754-2223. Visit www.redriverskiarea.com. Call 575-754-2223 for snow report. SKI ENCHANTED FOREST CROSSCOUNTRY SKIING & SNOW-SHOE AREA: Distance from Santa Fe: 106 miles. No downhill skiing or snowboarding. Call 800-966-9381, 575754-2374 and 800-966-9381. Visit www.enchantedforestxc. com. Call 575-754-2374 for snow report. SKI APACHE: Distance from Santa Fe: 200 miles. Call 575-336-4356. Visit www.skiapache.com. 575-257-9001 for snow report.

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Death toll climbs to 17 in Egypt’s latest clashes

Al-Qaida group carried out Beirut attack By Bassem Mroue and Diaa Hadid The Associated Press

BEIRUT — An al-Qaidalinked group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a suicide car bombing last week in a Shiite-dominated neighborhood in Lebanon, as its fighters fought other rebels in neighboring Syria in the most serious infighting since the uprising began. It was the first time at the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for an attack in Lebanon, underscoring how the ever more complex Syrian war is increasingly spilling over into its smaller neighbor. The group may have rushed to claim responsibility to try to divert attention from the infighting in Syria, said Aymenn al-Tamimi, an expert on the

The father, right, and brother of Ali Khadra, who was killed Thursday by a bomb explosion, carry his coffin Saturday during his funeral procession in the southern suburb of Beirut. HUSSEIN MALLA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

neighborhood that is bastion of support for the Shiite group Hezbollah. ISIL vowed more attacks.

country’s militant groups. At least five people were killed in the Thursday attack that targeted a south Beirut

It was “the first small payment of a heavy account which these criminal hypocrites should wait for,” it said in a statement, referring to Hezbollah. The statement was posted on a website used by Sunni militants. The al-Qaida group sought to punish Hezbollah — and their ordinary Shiite Lebanese backers — for sending fighters to Syria to shore up forces of the Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is trying to quell an armed uprising against his rule. The bombing was the latest in a wave of attacks to hit Lebanon in recent months. The violence has targeted both Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods, further stoking sectarian tensions that are already running high as each community in Lebanon lines up with its brethren in Syria on opposing sides of the war.

forces, who responded with water cannons and tear gas. CAIRO — The death Health Ministry Spokesman toll from the latest clashes Mohammed Fathallah said between Islamist protesters 62 people were injured in the and security forces in Egypt violence. The security official, has risen to 17, a security offispeaking on condition of anocial said Saturday, less than nymity because he was not two weeks ahead of a key authorized to talk to the media, referendum on an amended said police arrested 258 protestconstitution. ers and confiscated homemade Meanwhile, 13 of the country’s bombs, firearms, knives, firemost prominent human rights works and Molotov cocktails. groups issued a report conAmong the security forces, demning the authorities’ human 17 were injured in the clashes, rights violations and recent and three vehicles and a traffic arrests of political activists. office in Egypt’s second largest In what were the deadliest city of Alexandria were set on street battles in months, Cairo fire, he said. and other heavily populated The streets were mostly residential areas on Friday calm Saturday, and Interior witnessed hundreds of Muslim Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Brotherhood members and warned that the police “will their supporters throw firenot tolerate assaults on the bombs and rocks at security safety of Egypt’s citizens.” The Associated Press

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BAGHDAD — The city center of Iraq’s Fallujah has fallen completely into the hands of fighters from the al-Qaidalinked Islamic State in Iraq and Levant, police said Saturday, yet another victory for the hardline group that has made waves across the region in recent days. ISIL is also one of the strongest rebel units in Syria. Hadi Razeij, head of the Anbar province police force, said police had left the city center entirely and had positioned themselves on the edge of town.

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Lure: For state officers on this side of border, it’s business as usual Continued from Page A-1 The Denver Post reported in December that the U.S. Treasury and Justice departments are working to develop new guidelines for the industry. Plan to do some pot-shop hopping. Although out-of-state residents may only purchase a quarter of an ounce of cannabis at a time in Colorado, there’s nothing to prevent a tourist in Pueblo from buying a quarter-ounce from The Greener Side and then driving over to Marisol and buying a second quarter-ounce. There is no statewide or citywide pot purchaser registry. But don’t overdo it. The state law allows marijuana users who are not enrolled in Colorado’s medical cannabis program to be in possession of only 1 ounce of marijuana. The first day of legal marijuana sales saw a spike in prices throughout the state. The Associated Press reported that “by midafternoon, one dispensary was charging $70 for one-eighth of an ounce of high-quality pot. Medical marijuana patients just a day earlier paid as little as $25 for the same amount.” However, the Wall Street Journal predicted last week that prices might decline before long. “Marijuana is expensive only because of prohibition; there’s a reason it’s called ‘weed,’ ” the Journal reported. “Competition may transform what is now both an in-state cottage business and a transnational criminal market, and prices will find an equilibrium like any other commodity.”

Where to smoke it Finding a place to light up poses a potential problem for ganja-loving outof-staters. Unlike the city of Amsterdam, where there are countless “coffeehouses” where you can buy grass and smoke it right on the premises, smoking at a licensed marijuana seller is prohibited by Colorado law. And so is smoking in public places, like parks. Anti-smoking laws, originally aimed at tobacco users, also prevent bars and restaurants from allowing customers to smoke marijuana. If you don’t have a friend in Colorado who owns his own house — landlords there still have the right to forbid marijuana use by renters — finding a place to smoke could be a challenge. How about your motel room? You’d better check with the management first, but some hotels and motels will allow you to smoke marijuana in your room, said Mason Tvert, the Denver-based spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project. One option, Tvert said, is to use a vaporizer, a device that operates under the same principles as e-cigarettes, emitting a vaporized form of the drug rather than smoke. If you’ve got the money, you can book a trip with a marijuana-centric travel agency. Peter Johnson, owner of Colorado Green Tours, said Thursday that his business works with specific “cannabis-friendly” hotels in Colorado, where he rents blocks of rooms for visiting marijuana enthusiasts. But the services of such tour compa-

A long line of buyers trails from Marisol Therapeutics, which began selling retail marijuana Wednesday in Pueblo, Colo., under the state’s new recreational pot law. The store is one of the closest to the New Mexico border. JOHN WARK/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

nies aren’t cheap. A trip can cost hundreds of dollars, or even more than a thousand dollars, depending on the package. But apparently, the demand is high. One agency, My 420 Tours, has a notice on its website that says, “Due to the overwhelming demand for our 2014 tours, we will initially limit tour purchases to people who have signed up to our email list this year.” Christine O’Donnell, president of the Colorado Hotel & Lodging Association, said Thursday that she didn’t know any hotel in the state with a policy that allows guests to smoke marijuana. She said there has been discussion of the new law among members of the organization, but most of the talks have centered on informing hoteliers of their rights and the fact that the marijuana law does not equal “a free-for-all.” “We’re not fighting the new law,” O’Donnell said. “We just want to ensure the comfort and safety of all our guests.”

Bringing it back home Colorado law specifically prohibits people from taking legally purchased marijuana out of the state. Those flying from Colorado to New Mexico take heed: Denver International Airport has prohibited marijuana, several news organizations have reported. The Transportation Security Administration’s website says, “TSA officers do not search for

marijuana or other drugs; however, if an item is found that may violate federal law during security screening, TSA will refer the matter to law enforcement.” As for those driving back from Colorado, New Mexico State Police say they haven’t planned a crackdown in response to Colorado’s law. Lt. Emmanuel Gutierrez, a state police spokesman, said Thursday that his agency won’t be conducting marijuana checkpoints near the Colorado state line. “We’ll continue to conduct business as we always have,” he said. He noted, however, that state police in Northern New Mexico have been “proactive” in looking for erratic driving and other indications that a driver is impaired. Officers need a reasonable cause to stop a vehicle. “Give it a year or so,” Gutierrez said. “We’ll see if there’s been an increase in arrests.” Although a state senator, Jerry Ortiz y Pino of Albuquerque, has announced he plans to introduce a proposed constitutional amendment in the upcoming session that would let voters decide whether pot should be legal, don’t expect New Mexico to follow Colorado’s lead anytime soon. The state House, in a close vote last year, passed a bill that would have reduced penalties for possession of up to 4 ounces of marijuana to a civil penalty with increasing fines, and would have eliminated the potential for jail time for anyone caught with up to 8 ounces of pot. But that bill, sponsored by Rep. Emily Kane,

Customers wait in line outside the Cannabis Club in downtown Breckenridge, Colo., on Wednesday for the store’s 8 a.m. opening on the first day of legal recreational pot sales. KATHRYN SCOTT OSLER/THE DENVER POST

D-Albuquerque, passed late in the session, so it never got heard in the Senate. Near the end of the session, two Senate committees voted in favor of a measure sponsored by Ortiz y Pino that called for the state Economic Development Department to convene a group to study the possible impacts of legalizing and taxing marijuana in New Mexico. But the full Senate never voted on it.

Currently, possession of 1 ounce or less of marijuana for nonmedical purposes in this state is punishable by a $50 to $100 fine and up to 15 days in jail. A second offense, or a conviction for possession of more than an ounce, can lead to a fine of up to $1,000 and a prison term of up to one year. Contact Steve Terrell at sterrell@ sfnewmexican.com. Read his political blog at roundhouseroundup.com.

Smoking: Rate has fallen by more than half, but problem persists Continued from Page A-1 It was not the end. While the U.S. smoking rate has fallen by more than half to 18 percent, that still translates to more than 43 million smokers. Smoking is still far and away the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. Some experts predict large numbers of Americans will puff away for decades to come. Nevertheless, the Terry report has been called one of the most important documents in U.S. public health history, and on its 50th anniversary, officials are not only rolling out new anti-smoking campaigns but reflecting on what the nation did right that day. The report’s bottom-line message was hardly revolutionary. Since 1950, head-turning studies that found higher rates of lung cancer in heavy smokers had been appearing in medical journals. A widely read article in Reader’s Digest in 1952, “Cancer by the Carton,” contributed to the largest drop in cigarette consumption since the Great Depression. In 1954, the American Cancer Society announced that smokers had a higher cancer risk. But the tobacco industry fought back. Manufacturers came out with cigarettes with filters that they claimed would trap toxins before they settled into smokers’ lungs. And in 1954, they placed a full-page ad in hundreds of newspapers in which they argued that research linking their products and cancer was inconclusive. It was a brilliant counter-offensive that left physicians and the public unsure how dangerous smoking really was. Cigarette sales rebounded. In 1957 and 1959, Surgeon General Leroy Burney issued statements that heavy smoking causes lung cancer. But they had little impact.

Luther Terry, then U.S. surgeon general, testifies before the House Commerce Committee in Washington on the proposed labeling of cigarette packages on April 9, 1965. A year earlier, Terry released an emphatic and authoritative report that said smoking causes illness and death — and the government should do something about it. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Amid pressure from health advocates, President John F. Kennedy’s surgeon general, Dr. Luther Terry, announced in 1962 that he was convening an expert panel to examine all the evidence and issue a comprehensive, debate-settling report. To ensure the panel was unimpeachable, he let the tobacco industry veto any proposed members it regarded as biased. Surveys indicated a third to a half of all physicians smoked tobacco products at the time, and the committee reflected the culture: Half its 10 members were smokers, who puffed away during committee meetings. Terry himself was a cigarette smoker. Dr. Eugene Guthrie, an assistant surgeon general, helped persuade Terry to kick the habit a few months

before the news conference releasing the report. “I told him, ‘You gotta quit that. I think you can get away with a pipe — if you don’t do it openly.’ He said, ‘You gotta be kidding!’ I said, ‘No, I’m not. It just wouldn’t do. If you smoke any cigarettes, you better do it in a closet,’ ” Guthrie recalled in a recent interview with The Associated Press. The news conference was held on a Saturday partly out of concern about its effect on the stock market. About 200 reporters attended. The committee said cigarette smoking clearly did cause lung cancer and was responsible for the nation’s escalating male cancer death rate. It also said there was no valid evidence filters were reducing the danger. The com-

mittee also said — more vaguely — that the government should address the problem. “This was front-page news, and every American knew it,” said Robin Koval, president of Legacy, an antismoking organization. Cigarette consumption dropped a whopping 15 percent over the next three months but then began to rebound. Health officials realized it would take more than one report. In 1965, Congress required cigarette packs to carry warning labels. Two years later, the Federal Communications Commission ordered TV and radio stations to provide free air time for anti-smoking public service announcements. Cigarette commercials were banned in 1971. Still, progress was slow. Warner recalled teaching at the University of Michigan in 1972, when nearly half the faculty members at the school of public health were smokers. He was one of them. “I felt like a hypocrite and an idiot,” he said. But smoking was still the norm, and it was difficult to quit, he said. The 1970s also saw the birth of a movement to protect nonsmokers from cigarette fumes, with no-smoking sections on airplanes, in restaurants and in other places. Those eventually gave way to complete smoking bans. Cigarette machines disappeared, cigarette taxes rose, and restrictions on the sale of cigarettes to minors got tougher. Tobacco companies also came under increasing legal attack. In the biggest case of them all, more than 40 states brought lawsuits demanding compensation for the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses. Big Tobacco settled in 1998 by agreeing to pay about $200 billion and curtail market-

ing of cigarettes to youths. In 1998, while the settlement was being completed, tobacco executives appeared before Congress and publicly acknowledged for the first time that their products can cause lung cancer and be addictive. Experts agree that the Terry report clearly triggered decades of changes that whittled the smoking rate down. But it was based on data that was already out there. Why, then, did it make such a difference? For one thing, the drumbeat about the dangers of smoking was getting louder in 1964, experts said. But the way the committee was assembled and the carefully neutral manner in which it reached its conclusion were at least as important, said Dr. Tim McAfee, director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the same time, he and others said any celebration of the anniversary must be tempered by the size of the problem that still exists. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking, according to the CDC. Donald Shopland finds that depressing. Fifty years ago, he was a 19-year-old who smoked two packs a day while working as a clerk for the surgeon general’s committee. He quit cigarettes right after the 1964 report came out, and went on to a long and distinguished public health career in which he wrote or edited scores of books and reports on smoking’s effects. “We should be much further along than we are,” the Georgia retiree lamented.

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Guzmán: Ousted president maintains actions didn’t warrant firing Continued from Page A-1 Board members Kathy Keith, Martha Romero and Linda Siegle voted to fire Guzmán, while board members Chris Abeyta and Andrea Bermúdez opposed the move. The latter has since resigned her position in protest. Now, the former SFCC president is seeking arbitration and a District Court ruling to reclaim her job and back pay, and — as she put it Saturday — “get my good name back.” She maintains she did nothing wrong, aside from moving too fast to make changes and underestimating the board’s ability to stand heat from naysayers who stood against her reform efforts. “I’m not a bully,” Guzmán said. “I’m just not afraid of bullies.” Some of her critics have pointed out her aggressive management style. But she defends her approach. “I believe in everyone being held accountable,” Guzmán said Saturday, “everyone working hard, things being equitable. There has always been a group of people [at the college] who have always played favorites, who did what they wanted to do and who were not held accountable.” The SFCC Governing Board hired Guzmán — who previously served as president of Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas, for more 10 than years — to replace retiring president Sheila Ortego at a salary of about $196,000. When the board fired Guzmán, her pay and all of her benefits immediately stopped. She and her lawyers, Timothy White and Kate Ferlic, insist the board fired Guzmán in retaliation and that there was no justification for the action. Specifically, the attorneys say the board was responding to a letter she had written to State Auditor Hector Balderas in mid-October, asking him to examine financial mistakes and improprieties at the college.

Board lays out reasons for firing A copy of the board’s intentto-terminate letter, dated Nov. 18, lists members’ reasons for letting her go. Among the charges: u Guzmán had made derogatory remarks about Ortego. u Guzmán had asked the college’s attorneys to draft a settlement agreement with a former financial officer — and then denied making the request. u Guzmán had refused to cooperate with a private investigation by Nick Bakas regarding allegations against her of discrimination. u Guzmán had made racial remarks, referring to the administrative leadership of the college as a “white women’s country club” and saying that she planned to go to the pueblos and “talk to the Indians in the teepees to get them to come to the college.” u Guzmán had told lawmakers, including Congressman Ben Ray Luján and state Rep. Jim Trujillo, D-Santa Fe, that board members Siegle and Keith were out to fire her because she was looking into wrongdoing at the college. On Saturday, Guzmán candidly addressed many of those allegations. She said she did cooperate with the private investigator, and she explained her comments about Ortego: She said she had wondered aloud, “What did Sheila do?” Guzmán confirmed that she had reached out to local legislators for help and advice because she was concerned about her future at the college. “I wasn’t paranoid,” she said. “They fired me two weeks later.” She flatly denied making any comment about “Indians in the teepees” and said board members never have told her who made that allegation. As for the remark about a “white women’s country club,” Guzmán said she didn’t coin the phrase, but she recalled a conversation in which it was used. After a meeting of SCFF leaders, where she discovered that 13 out of 16 administrators were white women, Guzmán said, a college staffer had remarked, “This is a country club run by white women.” And Guzmán responded, “I agree.” But that wasn’t the only time the phrase was used. In an Aug. 28 email to board members, Guzmán suggests that a small group of white women were working to oust her and that she intended to break up the “white women’s country club.” Both Abeyta and Bermúdez have said they didn’t think there was enough in the charges against Guzmán to warrant firing her. And on Saturday, Bermúdez said

Former Santa Fe Community College President Ana ‘Cha’ Guzmán looks over her records at her home on Saturday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

via email that she remains baffled either of those views. by the action, calling it “hasty Although Bakas says in the and capricious.” Abeyta did not report that he tried to remain return a call seeking comment. neutral, he writes, “It is the opinion of [the] investigator that the Investigation finds apprehension, emotion and fear displayed by many of those intercampus divided viewed demonstrates a signifiA two-page summary of Bakas’ cant rift within SFCC faculty/staff report on the investigation into with respect to the performance Guzmán’s performance notes of President Guzmán. This rift that he interviewed more than is also reflected in the views and 40 college employees and that opinions within the board.” many did not want their names Guzmán summed up Bakas’ revealed for fear of retaliation. report in her own words: “Some The summary states that people like me, some people “three distinct views emerged don’t.” She said the college camfrom the interviews. There pus is divided, but she believes is a view that supports Presimuch of the division existed dent Guzmán and her agenda. before she arrived, and she feels Another view does not support the Governing Board has further President Guzmán. The third exacerbated the tension. view offers qualified support of Guzmán defended her manPresident Guzmán.” Based on his agement style, saying she is interviews, he writes, a person not a racist, a bully or even an could make a persuasive case for aggressive person. Rather, she

said, the board members were uneasy about her approach. She described herself as “very patient and very thorough, which may have made them uncomfortable. People [at the college] were not accustomed to being questioned,” she added. Guzmán also said she had uncovered waste and loss in the operation of the Santa Fe Community College Foundation, which raises money for scholarships and to help support the school. She said she had found improper procurement procedures, and she claimed that close to $2 million had been wasted by maintaining temporary employee positions. Additionally, she said, $140,000 had been paid in stipends to fulltime employees, and the board seemed unaware of the payments. The problems don’t stop

there, Guzmán said. For seven years, she said, the college has employed the equivalent of two and a half contract employees to run a software program at a cost of $700,000 per year when, in fact, the college could have trained its own technicians to do the work at half the cost. She said the questionable contract was cited in an audit report, but a finance official who is no longer employed by the college hid the audit’s findings from the president and the board. Board members began expressing concerns about Guzmán last spring, after members of the college’s faculty and staff senates expressed dissatisfaction with her and proclaimed that morale was at an all-time low on campus. A May 3, 2013, directive from the board to Guzmán expresses recognition and support for many of her initiatives, including her five-year strategic plan and her focus on student success and strengthening the core faculty. But it also addresses concerns that she blamed others for her own mistakes (which Guzmán denies), that she chastised employees in front of others (which she denies), and that she created an environment where employees fear retaliation (which she also denies). The board members held an August retreat to discuss their concerns with the president, and later that month, at Guzmán’s one-year mark, they announced they would review her job per-

formance in another six months. The move suggested they did not have enough confidence in Guzmán to renew her contract for another year. Reached by phone Saturday, Siegle said the board did not fire Guzmán for being a whistleblower or because it disapproved of her investigation into college finances. “The board evaluated her on performance, and as you can see, there are many aspects to performance,” Siegle said. Keith said Saturday, “I think Dr. Guzmán and her legal team are trying hard to put a spin on the reasons for her termination. She was given an extensive letter detailing the cause for her termination. I think the most important thing for our community is to move forward.” She said the board likely will discuss its upcoming presidential search by the end of January. The board has appointed Randy Grissom, former vice president of academic affairs, to serve as acting president through the spring of 2014. It is unclear how long it will take for the arbitration process to be completed or for the District Court to move on Guzmán’s lawsuit, which was filed Friday. But if she is reinstated, Guzmán said, she would “assure everyone that Santa Fe Community College is a safe place to work, a good place to work, and that together we will make it a better place.” Contact Robert Nott at 986-3021 or rnott@sfnewmexican.com.

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Study suggests Mexican Americans may develop memory problems earlier By Mary Ann Roser Austin American-Statesman

A vehicle drives by Forest Avenue Elementary School in Glen Ridge, N.J., on Dec. 27. The school is among a growing number of schools across the county that have stopped serving as polling sites amid security concerns. JULIO CORTEZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Schools move to stop serving as voting sites amid safety worries had to move polling out of eight city schools last year. He faced budget constraints to rent other facilities and said the move was a hardship on voters confused about the change. By Nedra Pickler But he said most voters underThe Associated Press stood the need, and it was clear to him after Sandy Hook that GLEN RIDGE, N.J. — Some balloting didn’t need to be in the schools want to end their traschools. ditional role as polling places “The schools have mandated because of security concerns that any visitor must go through since the 2012 massacre at a security check. That would be Sandy Hook Elementary School impossible for voters coming in in Connecticut, leaving their to pass ballots,” Belangia said in communities without easy alter- a telephone interview. “Hopenatives for voting sites. fully those security measures A presidential commission will thwart shootings happening has been hearing from elecin this part of the country.” tion officials across the country Doug Lewis, executive direcworried about schools trying tor of The Election Center, a to move balloting out of their nonpartisan, nonprofit organibuildings. Among them is the zation representing the nation’s Glen Ridge School District, a election officials, encouraged prosperous community less Obama’s commission to address than 20 miles from Manhatthe matter as part of its goal of tan, where the Linden Avenue reducing long lines. and Forest Avenue Elementary “Any consideration of forcing Schools are now closed to balthe election process to abandon loting. schools as voting locations is The picturesque two-story likely to have one of the most schoolhouses in quiet neighdramatic impacts on the cost borhoods had long welcomed and conduct of elections in the residents on Election Day. Now, U.S.,” he said in written testired signs posted at entrances mony. instruct visitors they must ring After the 1999 Columbine the bell and show photo ID to shooting in Colorado, voting in cameras above the doors before schools was banned in Jefferson they can be buzzed in. County, the state’s third-largest The district strengthened county with more than 400,000 access control last year after people, according to state elecadministrators, police and an tions director Judd Choate. outside security consultant It’s hard to tell how wideconducted a review in the wake spread school voting restricof the December 2012 shooting tions have become since Sandy in Newtown, Conn., and the Hook. locked doors also were closed None of the national school to voters. A gunman had shot associations contacted by The his way into the locked Sandy Associated Press tracks the Hook and killed 20 first-graders issue, and the commission and six adults in a matter of doesn’t have figures. A search minutes, so leaving schools of news articles from the past open to voters suddenly seemed year found that more than three too risky in Glen Ridge. dozen U.S. schools either had “After the Newtown tragedy, closed to voting or considered as you can imagine, we had it because of Sandy Hook, and many, many, many parents who election officials repeatedly teswere concerned about security tified at the commission’s public on Election Day,” said Elisabeth meetings that it’s a growing Ginsburg, president of the Glen problem. Ridge Public Schools Board of “Schools are less and less Education. inclined to want to make those The district’s two elementary facilities locations for voting, schools house children in prebecause you have access from kindergarten through second people coming in off the street,” grade, while the middle and Ohio Secretary of State John high schools weren’t used as Husted testified at the compolling places. “Particularly the mission’s Cincinnati meeting in parents of very young children, September. you can imagine how Newtown He said most schools are resonated with them,” she said. accommodating and some have Similar moves have been been motivated to stay open made elsewhere, and that’s because they rely financially on caught the attention of the taxes that have to be approved Presidential Commission on by the voters. Some studies Election Administration. The have shown that voters are commission plans to make rec- more likely to support a school ommendations this month to funding proposal if they are President Barack Obama about casting a ballot in a school. ways to improve access to the In some other states, schools polls, and hopes to encourage are required to be available on schools to stay open for voting, Election Day, although there among many other suggestions. was an effort in the past year in “Schools are in many ways a some states to allow schools to perfect polling place because close. of accessibility concerns, they The National Conference of usually have adequate parking, State Legislatures says there they’re large facilities, large were at least 15 bills introduced rooms, they’ve historically been in seven states regarding school used as polling places, and safety on Election Day, although they’re ubiquitous,” the comnone was passed. mission’s senior research direcObama’s commission can’t tor, Nathaniel Persily, told com- change laws. Its job is to recmissioners as he summarized ommend how to shorten lines, months of research at their final promote efficiency and provide better access to the polls. public meeting Dec. 3. “The Obama appointed his camclosing of schools poses a real paign lawyer, Bob Bauer, and problem for finding adequate the lawyer from Republican facilities for polling places.” rival Mitt Romney’s campaign, Conway Belangia, elections Ben Ginsberg, to lead the comdirector for South Carolina’s Greenville County, struggled to mission after a pledge during his last State of the Union find replacement sites after he

Elections officials struggling to find polling places

address to identify nonpartisan ways to improve voting. David Orr, who manages elections for about 1.4 million voters in Cook County, Ill., said he’s had to remind school officials that state law there requires they stay open, or more would close for elections. But he says scheduling a day off for students seems to be a good solution in some districts. “That way that the kids aren’t there. There’s room for the polling places. There’s room for parking. And of course, you don’t have those safety issues,” Orr testified in Cincinnati. Not all districts are open to that idea. Delaware’s elections commissioner, Elaine Manlove, testified at the presidential commission’s Philadelphia meeting that she’s been trying for years to make Election Day a school holiday or in-service day. “After the tragedy in Sandy Hook last year, I thought, well I’ll look at it from their standpoint and as a security issue. They certainly don’t want these people wandering around the building. And I’m stunned that … was not good enough either,” she testified.

AUSTIN, Texas — New research suggests that Mexican Americans might develop memory problems that could lead to Alzheimer’s disease as much as a decade earlier than non-Hispanics. If the work is confirmed by additional studies, Mexican Americans with mild cognitive impairment could be identified earlier and put into treatment sooner, said Sid O’Bryant, the study’s leader. His team has done other work that suggests Mexican Americans get MCI earlier, but “I would never have expected there to be that much of an age difference,” said O’Bryant, an associate professor and interim director of the Institute for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Little research has been

done on MCI and Mexican Americans, who make up 65 percent of the nation’s Hispanic population. The study — recently published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia — included researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. Researchers not affiliated with the study called it a good first step but said larger groups from the general population need to be studied over time to verify the stark difference in MCI onset age and the reasons for it. O’Bryant’s team looked at two groups of Mexican Americans in Texas who were taking part in either a communitybased or a clinical study of mental aging. Those in the clinical group already were having memory problems. Studying such groups, which is common in research, limits the ability to draw conclusions

to the population at large, said Mary Haan, a biostatistics and epidemiology professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Haan has studied cognitive impairment in older Mexican Americans in Sacramento, Calif., and found that they have an earlier onset of certain chronic conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, she said. Those conditions are risk factors for dementia, so “it’s reasonable to think they might have an earlier onset” of MCI as well, she said. O’Bryant’s team also saw a similar early onset of diabetes: at an average age of 48 for Mexican Americans and 57 for non-Hispanics, according to the study. His group suspects that depression, education level and metabolic dysfunction, which can include diabetes, are risk factors for Mexican Americans who develop cognitive impairment.

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OPINIONS Water suit returns to the news

Letter spurs confusion before vote on abortion

he surreal 50-year-old drama known as the Aamodt lawsuit is about to rear its ugly head once more. As one of the oldest waterrights lawsuits in the U.S., pitting state, county and the federal government as ward for the tribes, its history, its shenanigans and machinations are enough to fill vaults full of archives. After years of litigation with various parties winning minor battles for their sides, the end of the war seemed to be eternal. After years of mediation, all parties were supposed to come up with a settlement that, if it did not please everyone, at least fulfilled the legal obligations not only to the tribes but also the defendants who, at one point, were threatened that their wells were going to be capped. Sometime in January through February, this magnificent Orlando document, painsRomero takingly crafted Commentary first in secrecy and then, finally, during the implementation meetings, opened to the public, will be released so that the defendants can either sign an agreement or disagree, with their objections finally to be heard by a federal court. The Pojoaque Basin Water Alliance did manage to get an “objection sheet” included with the agreement. However, to show cause, the defendants will have to sign the agreement. Unlike the Magna Carta or our own Constitution, this agreement (settlement) smacks more of the script from Chinatown, where a water grab is meant to satisfy the water abusers. Unfortunately, because of global warming, reduced flows from the Rio Grande and the San Juan-Chama Diversion, this settlement will affect all downstream users, from Santa Fe and Albuquerque all the way down to Texas and Mexico. That is not to say that all the “settlement” is bad. Here are some issues, however. In an interview with Dick Rochester, head of the Pojoaque Basin Water Alliance, he said, “We are not opposed to the ‘settlement’ per se. However, major reasons to object to the settlement are obvious, and those include the following. There is no agreement on how the water delivery system is supposed to operate, except for a joint powers agreement, which has not yet been defined. There is no public information about how the Regional Water System is managed. Who will be on the board? Will it be an even number of Indians and non-Indians?” Rochester went on to say, “What happens if the proposed water transfer from the Top of the World Farms and the San Juan Diversion Project does not satisfy the settlement requirements? How are the non-Indian parties protected from extended litigation?” Defendants, he said, also are concerned about how the settlement is being put together. “The settlement results will be based on meetings with the four pueblos [Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Nambe and Tesuque], the [Bureau of Indian Affairs] and the Bureau of Reclamation on changes to the HKM Report that was created by the tribes,” Rochester said. “The HKM engineering report has to be used by the [Bureau of Reclamation] to design the regional water system. Yet, those meetings are not open to non-Indians.” What’s more, Rochester said, “The county and state have strong anti-donation rules. So how are they going to be able to enter private property and connect to owners’ private water lines? The county can only connect to the edge of the property owner’s line, so the burden of the expense to connect to the home falls on the homeowner. That could be prohibitive to many people.” Basically, Rochester emphasized, “We are being asked to sign a settlement that is incomplete. It’s like signing a contract for a luxury home without knowing if the plumbing, electrical and roofing have been completed. I don’t think many people will sign on to that.” In other words, despite congressional authorization and approval of a regional water plan, more remains to be written about the Aamodt settlement. Stay tuned. Orlando Romero is a writer/historian who has followed the Aamodt litigation for decades.

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COMMENTARY: KATHY KORTE

Improving education does not mean more tests

hese feel-good phrases sound great to the general public: “We need to raise education standards in New Mexico.” “Our kids deserve better.” “Kids First.” No one in our state, which has ranked persistently at the bottom of the nation in child poverty and graduation rates, would argue. But dig deep into the world where concerned parents, students and teachers are operating, and Gov. Susana Martinez’s reforms are not about kids. Her reforms — spearheaded by Secretarydesignate Hanna Skandera, a non-teacher and a nonparent — are really about corporate money and reelection campaign slogans. The state Public Education Department won’t acknowledge the huge elephant in the room: Not every child has a supportive adult at home. Many of our state’s children live in poverty and endure abuse and neglect. In Albuquerque Public Schools alone, 6,000 of 87,000 students are homeless, and 64 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Despite these challenges, APS has increased its graduation rate from 63.2 percent in 2008 to 70.1 percent in 2012. As an APS Board of Education member, I can assure you that nowhere in our game plan to close the poverty learning gap has the district ever looked to standardized tests as the answer. Instead, we have been innovative in reaching out to children of poverty and helping them — and their parents — improve academic outcomes. Skandera, on the other hand, works from a corporate playbook that forces districts to measure student and teacher “progress” with mathematical models that even Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists can’t figure out. The problem with her business approach to education is that kids — and the challenges they face in our economically depressed state — are not robots. Skandera’s new standardized bubble test, the Endof-Course exam, is a corporate boondoggle. It is spearheaded with the help of a New Hampshire company called Measured Progress, which has been paid more than $7.3 million since Skandera came on board. It has another $2.4 million coming to it for contract work in 2013. How many more out-of-state companies are profiting from the governor’s “reforms?” Let’s hope New Mexico’s major news providers will devote resources to following the money. What should informed citizens know about these bubble tests? Well, the required pass scores for a few End-ofCourse exams were recently revealed by state officials: chemistry, 13 out of 50 (26 percent); algebra II, 20 out of 50 (40 percent); biology, 22 out of 50 (44 percent). The Public Education Department is spending millions to

develop and administer End-of-Course exams and yet the required pass scores are so low, you have to wonder: Why bother taking them? A teacher would call such a score an F. In January, the Education Department will ask the Legislature for an additional 3.9 percent for its programs. That’s $99 million in additional Kathy funds for reforms. That’s outrageous Korte to teachers and parents who know that the $99 million isn’t going directly to our classrooms. So where is it going exactly? The governor and Skandera are increasing education spending, but they’re doing it on the backs of kids. They’ll spend much of the $99 million on expanding testing for K-3 students and the ridiculous End-ofCourse standardized exams for grades 4-12. They’ll give first-year teachers a 10 percent pay raise when every teacher deserves an increase, and they’ll spend some of the millions on merit pay that benefits just a few teachers as part of a pilot program that is based on a faulty and subjective evaluation system. If we really value education, we’ll scrutinize the claims Skandera and Martinez make when they defend their corporate reform model — the same model that is failing in Tennessee, Florida, New York, Oregon and Washington, D.C. If Skandera and Martinez were true collaborators, they wouldn’t ask the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council for insight. If they truly valued collaboration, they would put a hold on their destructive path and consult those of us in the trenches about what we want in our New Mexico schools. Here is my short wish list: art and music classes for elementary students every year; basic classroom needs such as paper towels and copy paper so teachers and parents don’t have to pay for them; adequate materials and professional development for teachers so they can apply the new Common Core state standards with fidelity; and more money for middle and high school arts programs. Here is what would never be on my wish list: more standardized tests! In 2014, many of us will “opt out” of unnecessary and excessive tests and “vote out” the politicians who arrogantly refuse to listen to our concerns and frustrations as we actually do the hands-on work of teaching and parenting our children. Kathy Korte is the vice president of the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education.

MY VIEW: MARK MITCHELL

Natives should utilize health insurance

s the governor of Tesuque Pueblo, I believe health is always a priority at the community, state and federal levels. Between the Affordable Care Act, Centennial Care and Medicaid expansion, changes in the health insurance can seem overwhelming and confusing. That is why I think it is important to be informed about the options Native Americans have, so they may make good decisions to protect their health and ensure the health of their families. New Mexico tribal leaders have long been fighting for access to quality health care for our tribal members. Through the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange, tribal members now have the platform to find low- and no-cost health insurance. This is an extraordinary opportunity for Native Americans in New Mexico. The exchange offers an array of health insurance plans. If you sign up for a health insurance plan under the exchange, you can use Indian

Health Service or other providers and have peace of mind that all your specialty services, hospitals visits and more will be covered. As tribal people, we must take a proactive stance in our own health. There are excellent health insurance coverage options available that strengthen our access to quality Mark health care. Go to www.bewellnm. Mitchell com to review the options, or call Native American Professional Parent Resources at 855-241-8137. New Mexico tribes are known for their care and commitment to culture and community. Let’s demonstrate that care by making sure all our members have the health coverage they need. Be informed, be protected and be covered! Mark Mitchell is the governor of the Pueblo of Tesuque.

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n early November, members of the New Mexico Green Party received a letter from Secretary of State Dianna Duran’s office that caused some confusion — right before a high-profile election in the state’s largest city. “Dear Green Party registered voter,” the message began. “In the 2012 General Election, the Green Party’s candidate for president of the United States did not receive the required percentage required by law for the Green Party to remain an active political party in New Mexico.” The state election code says a party shall “cease to be qualified” if its candidate for president or governor fail to receive at least one-half of 1 percent of the Steve Terrell total votes cast Roundhouse for president or Roundup governor, or if the party doesn’t have any candidates on the ballot in two consecutive general elections. Green Party candidate Jill Stein received just above onethird of 1 percent of the vote. “The Secretary of State’s Office is required by law to notify all registered Green Party voters that the party is no longer a qualified political party,” the letter, signed by Elections Bureau Director Bobbie Shearer said. The letter is correct. The Greens, as well as the Constitution Party and the New Mexico Independent Party, fell short in 2012 and will have to scramble and get petition signatures if they want to get back on the general election ballot. Decertifying the party doesn’t mean that the individual party members are thrown off the voter rolls — and the letter doesn’t make that claim. Still, the notification got some Albuquerque Greens confused. Especially because the letters, dated Nov. 5, came less than two weeks before the Nov. 19 vote in Albuquerque on a controversial ballot initiative to prohibit late-term abortions. Lonna Atkeson, a political science professor at The University of New Mexico, said that she received calls from two registered Greens worried they couldn’t vote on the abortion question because their party no longer was recognized. Voters can’t be taken off the rolls because the party has been disqualified. But, as Atkeson pointed out Thursday, there’s nothing in the letter stating that. Atkeson said she’s also concerned about the timing of the letter. State law says the secretary of state must notify parties by March 15 in the year before the election that they were disqualified for the ballot and that individual party members must be notified within 45 days after that. But officials for the Green and the other parties were not notified until July. And party members weren’t notified until about four months later. The state Constitution Party last month filed a court action to try to reverse its disqualification based on those broken deadlines. Why didn’t the secretary of state didn’t meet this deadline? “Initially we did not conclude that the parties were disqualified,” Duran’s chief of staff, Ken Ortiz, said. “However, the Attorney General’s Office subsequently reviewed the law and historical evidence and advised us that three minor parties were disqualified by operation of law and that the Secretary of State’s Office should proceed with the notification letters.” Ortiz said this wasn’t an effort to suppress the Green vote for the abortion referendum, which was soundly voted down by a 55 percent to 45 percent margin. “There are elections practically every month of the year all over the state in the 33 counties, 104 municipalities, 89 school districts and many special districts,” he said. “We do our best to communicate with voters fairly and accurately, and always try to comply with the law. It would be virtually impossible to ‘time’ required notices to voters so as to avoid any and all elections that might be taking place somewhere in the state.” There’s no reason to doubt that. But the addition of a simple sentence on those letters saying something like, “You are still eligible to vote” would have cleared any confusion.

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OUR VIEW

Marijuana goes mainstream?

t’s generally acknowledged that the decades-old War on Drugs has failed in the United States, with more than 20 million Americans arrested for using marijuana since 1965. What we don’t know, however, is what will happen as a result of the growing movement to legalize marijuana. We are moving into uncharted waters. Thanks to the federalist nature of the country — with states establishing their own laws independent of the federal government so long as the measure is constitutional — the nation will be able to watch Colorado’s experiment to see how the legalization of marijuana works on a statewide level, perhaps giving clues to what the rest of the nation should do. Washington state also has decriminalized use of marijuana. For New Mexico, the lesson is but a short drive away. Right now, the closest dispensers of marijuana to our state appear to be in Pueblo, Colo., just 100 miles or so from the state line. Residents can drive there, buy pot legally and either find a place to smoke or consume it in Colorado, or bring it back — illegally — to New Mexico. State police told reporter Steve Terrell they won’t be erecting pot roadblocks, but we would not be surprised to see more arrests on charges of marijuana possession as a result of routine traffic stops on Interstate 25. The bigger question is whether Colorado’s choice to legalize pot will embolden New Mexicans. Already, state Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino has said he will introduce a constitutional amendment during this year’s legislative session that would mimic the Colorado law. The amendment would have to make it through the Legislature and be approved by voters before it could become law; then, legislators would write rules and regulations to carry out the will of the voters. We doubt this will make it to the ballot in its first go-round, but Ortiz y Pino is forward thinking to put the issue on the table for debate. What we need to see, watching Colorado, is what unintended consequences occur because of pot legalization. These can be both good and bad — more money in the state treasury because of taxes on pot, revivals of small towns where farming is brought back to raise marijuana and less money spent prosecuting petty crimes and jailing pot smokers. Or there could be a rash of car accidents because of pot-impaired drivers, teens starting to get high at an earlier age or pot sales being used to cover the delivery of hard drugs. We don’t know, in other words. What we do know is that the people of Colorado freely chose to legalize pot. They believe in liberty and personal freedom, setting an example for New Mexico and the entire nation. Whether the consequences are more than they anticipated remains to be seen.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Jan. 5, 1914: A Tungsten mine has been located in the western part of Luna County, near Gage, and a number of wealthy gentlemen from the east are arranging to have the mine fully developed, an expert now being engaged in the erection of a stamp mill for the reduction of the ore as the mine is located within a short distance of the Southern Pacific railroad, so it will be a very easy matter to ship the product with but very little expense, as there is a great demand for the metal at $300 per ton, the mining of the same will be a profitable enterprise. Jan. 5, 1964: Tres Piedras — The U.S. Forest Service has hit water in two of four test wells drilled near here giving residents of this community promise of a reliable water supply. Four wells are being financed with Accelerated Public Works funds and will probably total about $15,000 each. The wells were drilled to provide water for the Forest Service installation at Tres Piedras, but the town is welcome to the water the USFA doesn’t need. Jan. 5, 1989: When corks begin popping in celebration of President-elect George Bush’s inauguration Jan. 20, two New Mexico wines will be served to mayors and state officials gathered in Washington, D.C. Santa Fe Vineyards and Europa Vintners are among 62 wineries asked to pour their finest for a gala midday food and wine festival.

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COMMENTARY: SARAH KLIFF

Four ways to measure ‘Obamacare’

e are now days into the health care law’s insurance expansion, which began at midnight on Jan. 1. And it is, alas, far too early to tell if the nation’s new health care reform is working. We know that no “death panels” have materialized but, aside from that, have very little information about how the Affordable Care Act’s newly insured are changing our health care system. It is not too early though to think a bit about what “working” actually means. There are a handful of ways that we tend to measure the success of health insurance expansions in the United States. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is no exception here; it’s a complex law where there are at least four policy outcomes that all count as some definition of “working.” Do more people have health insurance? One key goal of the health law was to reduce the uninsured rate by making it easier for the 48 million Americans without insurance coverage to get it. The Congressional Budget Office projects that about 30 million people will gain coverage over the next decade, compared to a scenario where the health law had never passed. That will be one yardstick by which to tell if the health care law is working: Whether more people have coverage. This is actually difficult to measure, at least in the short term, because there’s no national clearinghouse of people who do or don’t have insurance. The combination of insurance cancellations and exchange sign-ups make it really hard to know, at this very moment, whether the health law has led to a net gain in coverage. The Census Bureau does do annual surveys on insured rates, but those come out on

a bit of a delay. The federal agency won’t publish data on 2014, for example, until the fall of 2015. Do Americans have better access to health care? Insurance cards, on their own, are not very much fun. In fact, they’re probably among the more boring pieces of plastic you own. Nobody pays hundreds of dollars each year in premiums to get a small plastic card; they do it for the access that card gives to insurance coverage. So another metric to measure the law is whether Americans have an easier time seeing the doctor, for example, or meeting their medical needs without financial hardship. This is true both for those gaining coverage under the health law and for those who already have it. One metric researchers were really interested in comes from Massachusetts, where they can measure what happened to those who already had coverage when many more people gained access to it. They can look at this by researching wait times to see doctors and surveying the general population about whether they can afford the care they need more easily. A much-watched study of Oregon’s Medicaid expansion — where coverage was assigned randomly, by lottery — was one example where researchers showed a reduction in financial hardships when Oregonians enrolled in the public program. Are Americans getting healthier? The whole idea of health insurance — as the name pretty bluntly implies — is improving health. That’s why this is another metric that will likely be tracked with the health law, whether the insurance expansion is making the population healthier. Proving a link between health insurance coverage and health status improve-

ment can be challenging. Trips to the doctor are, obviously, only one factor among dozens that contribute to an individual’s physical well-being. That same study of the Oregon Medicaid expansion showed a 30 percent reduction in depression rates, but found no short-term impact on physical health measures, such as cholesterol and blood pressure. Is health care becoming more affordable? The president regularly talks about the health care law as both an expansion of insurance coverage and an attempt to control health care costs. (That’s one reason why the word affordable turned up in the law’s name.) The health care law contains dozens of experiments, mostly in Medicare, meant to encourage lower spending on health care without cutting into quality. The Obama administration is also optimistic that the new insurance exchanges will drive down the cost of premiums, by putting all insurers into a regulated marketplace. There are a few ways to measure affordability, one being the country’s overall tab for health spending, and watching how quickly — or slowly — it grows. (Right now, health care cost growth is at a historic low — but it’s unclear how much that has to do with the health care law.) You can also survey Americans directly about whether they feel it’s easier to afford health care. Perhaps surprisingly, these two metrics don’t always add up: Even with health costs growth slowing dramatically. public survey research shows Americans feel even more pinched when it comes to their health bills. Sarah Kliff covers health policy for The Washington Post and writes for the Post’s Wonkblog.

COMMENTARY: BEN BARBER

Extremists hijack revolutions around world

round the world, hijacking is in. Ukraine is the latest example. Extremists let moderates do the heavy lifting (protests, strikes, marches, sit-ins, blogs, public speeches) to win the support of the center. Then, when the old leaders have been removed from power, and the new leaders don’t even know where to find a bathroom in the parliament, the extremists take over. Here’s some recent examples: Syria: Al-Qaida and other extremist killer groups have hijacked what was initially a secular, moderate movement for freedom from the repressive Assad clan. Tunisia: A secular uprising against injustice after the self-immolation of a poor fruit vendor was hijacked by Islamist groups. Egypt: The peaceful, pro-democracy uprising by secular Egyptians was hijacked by the Muslim Brotherhood, which immediately grasped for all seats of power, rewrote the constitution and pushed its orthodox vision of Islam on a largely religiously tolerant nation. Israel: The conservative Likud party was hijacked by the settlers’ movement which is hawkish, intolerant, absolutist and opposed to giving Palestinians their own homeland on the West Bank. Gaza: After Israel relinquished control to the Palestinian Authority, the wellarmed and zealous Hamas movement hijacked military control of the enclave and continues for seven years to repress all opposition, demand the destruction of Israel. United States: The tea party hijacked the Republican Party for about two years, forcing moderate Republicans to vote to shut down the government and move to renege on the nation’s debt. Afghanistan: The Taliban — armed

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and inspired by Pakistan — hijacked the mujahideen movement that ousted the Soviet army in the early 1990s. Taliban extremists now seethe along the AfghanPakistan border, murder all who refuse to obey them and await the U.S. departure in 2014 to try and hijack the nation once more. Iran: The massive general uprising in Tehran in 1979 led to the ouster of the Shah and installation of a government with academics, moderates and mullahs. Guess who threw all the moderates out, killed many of them and hijacked the nation of 70 million people? Iranian clerics I met in Europe at the time assured me that the clergy had no wish to take power and would install democracy. It was sweet talk to someone they saw as a foolish young journalist. In the Ukraine we see the latest hijacking attempt taking place. It is, in fact, a double hijacking. The Russian-speaking minority in the east won power through elections and are attempting to shift the ship of state toward the past and join a Russian-dominated customs union. The hundreds of thousands of people in Kiev we see each night on TV news are protesting this hijacking of their country. These protesters are mainly Ukrainian-speakers from the center and west of the huge agricultural and industrial nation that was the crown jewel in the Soviet system of satellites. The second hijacking is within the protest movement that aims to link Ukraine to Europe. What began as a liberal, secular, modern, pro-Europe movement in 2004 — during the Orange Revolution against Russian-backed oligarchs — appears to be hijacked by Ukrainian Catholic, neo-

Nazi, nationalists. The New York Times reported Dec. 17 that the nationalist Svoboda Party have taken over the center of the protests and barred liberal elements from the city hall. This is the standard way democracy movements have been hijacked. The Bolsheviks worked with the moderate Russian revolutionaries in 1917 at first, but as soon as the czar was removed, the communists ousted and often executed the middle-class liberals — their duped former partners. When you lie down with wolves it is wise to expect they will soon turn on you. Hijacking is an effective and ruthless route to power. You only need back moderates who will place themselves in the way of danger, provide martyrs for the cause, spark international retribution against the ruling authorities and then prove incapable of managing the country. What is the answer to these hijackers? u Expose extremist, racist and other undemocratic tendencies on all sides. u Divide power on decision-making bodies so extremists are only a minority. u Throw the wolves a bone such as limited responsibility for small sectors in rotation with moderate groups. u Insist that universal laws apply to all groups and anyone who jails or executes unarmed people will end up in international courts. We must hijack the hijackers and clearly back only groups and individuals who shun extremism and observe the rule of law as set forth in United Nations instruments or treaties. Ben Barber has covered the Middle East for 30 years for the Baltimore Sun, London Observer, Toronto Globe and Mail and other publications. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune News Service.

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MY VIEW: ROBERT GLICK

Community college will overcome obstacles U

nlike the mission of a corporation, which is to make money for shareholders, a college’s mission is to profit its community by educating students to become informed and productive citizens. As a member of the Santa Fe Community College Foundation Board of Directors for the past five years, I’ve watched from a front-row seat as the college has grown and responded to challenges. The latest one will not detract or derail the institution’s focus on the future. For 30 years, this beloved institution has unwaveringly empowered students and strengthened our community. Recent events surrounding the college board of trustees’ removal of Dr. Ana Guzmán as president in no way will detract from the core competency and forward progress of such a great institution. Nor will it hinder the foundation’s ability to assist the college in fulfilling its mission. From my inside view, I am proud to report that, contrary to innuendos by the former president reported in The Santa Fe New Mexican, the college

MY VIEW: JAMES JONES

Horse slaughter a responsible solution

orses are beautiful. We see them on the screen running in the open meadows with the handsome stallion leading the pack, or in the old movies with buddies like Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in The Electric Horseman or with Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet. Not to mention the thousands of cowboy movies with good guys chasing the bad guys, horses galloping over the range and through the brush — very heady stuff. But what about the reality of wild horses on the range lands of the West? In the first place, these wild horses are considered by biologists as feral — a once-domesticated animal brought into the Americas by the Spanish and now cross-bred with many of the other horses introduced into the North American continent. Horses are an invasive species, just like the kudzu in the South and the salt cedar (tamarisk) in the West. And like those plants, wild horses compete with native species for food, water and space. The indigenous species like deer, antelope and elk all battle with wild horses for the essentials of life. And it puzzles me that we can raise and sell bison meat and elk meat (both indigenous species) in supermarkets, but cannot even touch a horse in a slaughterhouse. This ban on horse slaughter is clearly more emotional than practical. It is a fact that the Bureau of Land Management continues to communicate to the world that there are too many horses and not enough land to sustain the herds. The result is that many horses die of malnutrition or disease caused by malnutrition. If only the uncompromising horse lovers could see a wild horse yard strewn with the starved corpses of these magnificent animals killed by the benighted sentimentalists who oppose the realistic harvesting of the wild horse population. If they could only understand that when man introduces an invasive population, he has an obligation to control that population, to ensure it does not in any way harm the indigenous species. Failing to take action to keep herds healthy and in balance often results in a virtual wiping out of all, not just a few, of the animals in the area. The proposed operation of a house slaughterhouse is an environmentally responsible solution to the overpopulation of wild horses. James Jones holds a doctorate in science and is a conservationist who firmly believes that as the dominant species, humans have an obligation to care for the others.

foundation has just concluded its most successful year ever, with overall fundraising in excess of $1 million and nearly $200,000 raised in the annual campaign for scholarships. This is due in no small measure to the outstanding leadership of Executive Director Deborah Boldt and our dedicated board members who are honored to serve SFCC. SFCC is admired statewide as a frontrunner in education and the workplace. The staff and faculty are known as leaders who consistently bring acclaim to the institution and our community. Among the many accolades received recently: the Albuquerque Business First top award for Sustainable Workplaces, and recognition as the 2013 New Mexico Association of Energy Engineers’ “Renewable Innovator of the Year.” The New Mexico Restaurant Association named one of the college’s culinary arts instructors, Leslie Chavez, Chef of the Year. The New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering, partnering with the state’s Commission on the Status of Women,

SFCC is admired statewide as a frontrunner in education and the workplace. The staff and faculty are known as leaders who consistently bring acclaim to the institution and our community. honored faculty member Phyllis Baca with its seventh annual Impact Award for her mentorship of young women in engineering. The 2013 Education Leadership Award and Seed Grant from the Climate Change Leadership Institute went to Xubi Wilson of SFCC’s Trades and Technology School. And AARP just awarded the college a $165,000 grant to work with unemployed women over the age of 50, connecting them to training, education, mentorship and resources to find new pathways to career success. Most notably, in just a few weeks, construction on the college’s latest

innovation will get underway. When completed in 2015, the Higher Education Center will take local students to the next level by providing access to affordable bachelor’s and master’s degrees from several of the state’s well-respected universities. This new facility, located right across the street from Santa Fe High School, will stand as a testimonial to SFCC’s steadfast commitment to the betterment of our community. Partnering with the college in this remarkable success story will be the Santa Fe Community College Foundation. In the last five years, the foundation has raised funds to help equip the

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new Health Sciences Center and the new Trades and Advanced Technology Center, and it has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars for student scholarships. Through effective fundraising and sound management, the foundation’s endowment has grown by approximately 35 percent to about $5.5 million, and the foundation has transferred approximately $3 million to the college to assist its efforts to serve this community. The community college is up to its current challenges. Acting President Randy Grissom and the executive team are highly qualified and dedicated to the students and the community. I, along with my fellow foundation members, have no doubt that SFCC will emerge a stronger institution of which we can all continue to be proud and for which we are excited to help raise the necessary funds. Robert Glick is a member of the board of the Santa Fe Community College Foundation and is president and CEO of St. Vincent Hospital Foundation.

MY VIEW: JOHN MCPHEE

Doctors declare wireless standards in U.S. inadequate

his last August, the American Academy of Pediatrics, representing 60,000 pediatricians, pediatric medical and surgical specialists, wrote an official letter of public comment to the Federal Communications Commission stating that “Current FCC standards [for wireless devices] do not account for the unique vulnerability and use patterns specific to pregnant women and children.” The FCC itself has noted that it does not provide consumers with sufficient information about the radio frequency “exposure profile of individual phones to allow consumers to make informed purchasing decisions.” The academy further notes that, “The current metric of RF exposure available to consumers, the Specific Absorption Rate, is not an accurate predictor of actual exposure. FCC regulations should reflect how people are using their phones today.” The Specific Absorption Rate does not address: 1) the long-term biological effect of radio frequencies penetrating brain cell tissue; 2) the repeated penetration of the brain with numerous calls per day; 3) the deeper penetration of a child’s smaller brain with a thinner skull membrane, more fluid and developing neurotransmitters; and 4) the increased radiation exposure of 4G networks via iPads required to transport increased loads of information. New, small-print warnings by iPad manufacturers are also alarming: “Discontinue use of iPad and consult a physician if you experience headaches, blackouts, seizures, convulsion, eye or muscle twitching, loss of awareness, involuntary movement, or disorientation.” The pediatricians’ letter also points out that the prevalence of wireless phones and other devices has increased almost sevenfold in one generation, from approximately 44 million in 1996 to more than 300 million now, and that human exposure to electromagnetic radiation also has been drastically increased by the ever-growing “number of mobile phone calls per day, the length of each call, and the amount of time people use mobile phones. Many children, adolescents, and young adults now use cellphones as their only phone line and … at much younger ages. Preg-

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nant women may carry their phones … in a pocket … close to their uterus.” Underground shielded wire fiber optics is the wave of the future, not slow, insecure and dangerous Wi-Fi. Kansas City, Mo., and Chattanooga, Tenn., already are embarking on citywide installation, including Internet that is three to five times as fast, the best television selection and landline clarity ever known, as well as all utilities, consolidated to one cable entering every building. Recent policy declarations by the European Parliamentary Assembly, French National Assembly, and the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health give preference to wired Internet connections in schools and classrooms, and in alliance with the United Kingdom Department of Health, to “strictly regulate the use of mobile phones by schoolchildren on school premises.” Children born today will already experience a longer duration of exposure to more radiofrequency fields than any generation in history. Children born during the past few years are already exhibiting symptoms of overexposure such as insomnia, hyperactivity, anxiety, lack of focus and aggressive behavior, as identified by the American Academy of Environmental Medicine at www.aaem.org. Please join us in choosing a precautionary approach, advocating for the installation of underground shielded wire fiber optics citywide, which will also attract new businesses to Santa Fe, turning off the Wi-Fi in schools districtwide, opting for wired connections in our homes or at least shutting off Wi-Fi modems except when in use, as well as using landlines whenever possible. Please also join us in directing our children to once again enjoy “real life” — hugging, talking face to face, reading books, playing, painting, exploring, gardening, cooking, dancing and singing instead of using electronic devices to occupy their preciously limited time for emotional, physical and intellectual development. John McPhee of Santa Fe is affiliated with DOCTORS Wireless and Radiation Network (WARN) and the Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety.

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Daniel Malachowski, left, and Thomas Chelena hold candles Dec. 19 during a gathering in front of the state Supreme Court after justices ruled that the New Mexico Constitution does not allow a ban on gay marriage. Malachowski and Chelena were married in Santa Fe on Aug. 26. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

MY VIEW: ADELE E. ZIMMERMANN

Marriage for all should be preserved

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ince we very much need to put more Americans back to work, isn’t it long past time for the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes? Eleven million of us are still looking for jobs and 10 million more have given up. Half our fast-food workers aren’t paid enough to live, and so rely on public assistance. One in 5 Americans is mired in poverty. Meanwhile, CEO pay for the 1 percent has risen 40 percent since the 2008 financial crisis — to a record high averaging $10 million a year. A top-bracket CEO makes more in a day than an employee makes in a year. Why aren’t the president and Congress raising taxes on the rich and thereby boosting our economy? What are they waiting for? We are in a national emergency.

of its inhabitants (“South-side assessment,” Dec. 27). Judy Moore Kraichnan’s criticism of the Lannan Foundation’s presentation of Amy Goodman, Palestinian radical Omar Barghouti and their purported “honest debate” on the Israeli/Palestinian issue earns second place (“Not so honest,” Feb. 18). As the writer discovered, “honest debates” involving Amy Goodman are rare. My choice for the winner, Barry Hornstein, correctly observed that the three major fascist governments of the 20th century emerged from Marxist socialism (“A different source,” July 13). The 2013 loser, John St. Peter, somehow blames the rise of the tea party and the election of governors Rick Snyder and Scott Walker for Detroit’s financial collapse (“Dissolving Robert Stearns democracy,” Oct. 10). Santa Fe

Standout letters Here are my 2013 outstanding letter awards: Honorable mention goes to Irene Sanchez’s plea to curb special interest groups (“Time for reform,” April 20) and Lissa Reidel’s support of urban gardens (“Sustainable community: An illegal act?” July 5). James Garland wins third place for criticizing The New Mexican’s story on “Little Chihuahua” for not providing more information about the south-side community including the immigration status

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their decision by ensuring that no one who performs the actual marriage ceremony would be compelled to do so in violation of his/her personal religious beliefs. I respect these legislators’ religious beliefs. In turn, they must respect mine. For the most part, theirs is based on the Bible which is not, nor which can never be, a part of our constitution. They may use it to guide their own lives, but they may not demand that it guide mine. They are going to spend taxpayer dollars in an attempt to impose their personal beliefs on all of us. Given the lack of the bare necessities of life suffered by many New Mexicans, I cannot but wonder at any action that would divert funding from providing these necessities. It flies in the face in of the example set by a figure prominent in their Bible, who fed the multitudes — virtually and actually. What would Jesus do? Adele E. Zimmermann resides in Embudo.

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that she can do from home. Due to a generous gift of money from her brother this year, she decided to distribute 10 envelopes with $50 each to the day laborers outside the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. These men wait in all types of weather in hopes of some work in order to support themselves and their families. She distributed the envelopes to those men who seemed kind. Imagine these men returning home, their families seeing the twinkle in their eyes as they present food, or Christmas gifts or are able to pay enough on their utility bill for another month. These are things that most of us take for granted while many of our neighbors struggle to provide these basics for their families. I hope that you can take a moment to look around your home, your office, your heart and find what you can spare during this season of giving.

for the first time. Scrooge takes advantage of a loyal employee who is struggling to support his family, but he eventually has a change of heart. What will it take to stop unscrupulous employers from stealing wages in Santa Fe? Shall we wait for ghosts to show them the error of their ways? Immigrant workers have long been organizing to expand and enforce the minimum wage. We are speaking up and taking action. We invite all low-wage workers to join us! Patrón que no paga por ley es ladrón, or a boss who does not pay is a thief.

he New Mexico Supreme Court got it right. In rendering a decision that denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples violates the New Mexico Constitution, justices used the term “civil marriage” to describe all marriages in the state. They distinguish between unions licensed and registered with the state and the ceremonies that solemnize the union. “Marriage” is not a term unique to any religion, nor may it be defined for persons who do not adhere to that religion. “Marriage” is a term that may only be defined for all residents of a state by that state. People who advocate “civil unions” rather than “marriages” for same-sex couples are using the “separate but equal” argument used for decades to maintain segregation. “Separate but equal” is as much a violation of the civil rights of persons separated as actual unequal treatment. The state legislators who are scrambling to amend the New Mexico Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman are attempting to insert their personal religious beliefs into a purely civil document. The court addressed this issue in

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MY VIEW: DAVID VAN WINKLE

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congratulate Public Service Co. of New Mexico on its announcement on Dec. 20 that the company is requesting approval from the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission to retire two units (900 megawatts) of the San Juan coal-fired power plant. This transition away from coal-fired electricity is certainly the right direction for New Mexicans. The best alternative to replace the energy from the coal retirement is a mix of energy efficiency, renewable energy and natural gas, sourced in New Mexico. This is lower-cost, saving PNM bill-payers millions of dollars every year. It provides significant job and economic opportunity for New Mexicans. It also is a better environmental outcome. However, PNM’s replacement plan includes 134 megawatts of nuclear power imported from Arizona, 78 megawatts of coal power from California owners of San Juan, a new 177 megawatt gas plant in Farmington and 40 megawatts of solar power or gas. Inclusion of nuclear power from Arizona in the replacement plan imports energy into New Mexico that could easily be generated here in New Mexico. Building and operating natural gas, wind and solar facilities would create jobs for New Mexicans. Nuclear energy is very expensive. It is significantly more expensive than a combination of New Mexico wind/solar/ natural gas solutions. Including more coal is not cost-effective, continues the cost structure that has caused PNM to increase residential rates by more than 40 percent since 2008, and increases future rate increases and risk. Coal costs will continue to increase due to: 1) escalating costs of pollution controls to meet Clean Air Act requirements; 2) volume reductions in the coal mine; 3) future volume reductions at the power plant; 4) carbon and coal ash costs. PNM’s board and investors should recognize that continued investments in San Juan are not prudent. The lower-cost approach, which creates more jobs, includes: 1) Utilizing energy efficiency to reduce bill-payers costs. Energy efficiency is

cheaper than any generating resource. 2) Replace the remaining energy with a mix of natural gas and wind/solar. Renewable energy approaches were the lowest cost solution to meet electricity needs in New Mexico in 2013. El Paso Electric’s 2013 lowest cost solution to meet peaking needs was a 50 megawatt solar facility at 5.8 cents per kilowatt-hour in combination with 100 megawatts of natural gas. Southwestern Public Service bought 700 megawatts of wind power at 2.3 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2013 so that they could reduce lifetime costs by $590 million vs natural gas fuel costs. PNM’s 2013 Integrated Resource Plan low cost solution includes 40 megawatts of solar power at 7.3 cents per kilowatthour. This approach would provide significant economic benefits for New Mexicans. As an example, one cost-effective solution would require significant solar and about 200 megawatts of new wind capacity to be built in New Mexico. According to a Department of Energy 2011 report that studied the successful ramp up of wind in Texas from zero in 2000 to 12,200 megawatts now ( New Mexico’s current wind power is 778 megawatts), the following economic benefits would be realized by building and operating another 200 megawatts of wind power in New Mexico: 1) 420 full-time equivalent jobs in New Mexico during construction; 2) 48 permanent New Mexico jobs; 3) $52 million of economic activity during construction; 4) $7 million of economic activity during operations; 5) $3 million in annual property taxes and income to New Mexico landowners. Likewise, adding 200 megawatts of solar would generate about 1,500 jobs during construction. Utilizing nuclear power from Arizona creates zero employment for New Mexicans. Adding coal increases costs and future rate increases. Building wind and solar reduces costs for New Mexico bill-payers and creates jobs in New Mexico. David Van Winkle is a retired executive from Texas Instruments and has been involved in the energy issues in New Mexico since 2008.

ecent headlines paint a dismal picture for New Mexico. Across a broad swath of measures that truly matter, our state ranks last or near the bottom. Job growth, per capita income, health, education, child well-being — they all point to a state in serious trouble. Economic growth and job creation are essential to meeting the state’s myriad challenges. While thoughtful proposals for economic development have been advanced recently, these efforts emphasize longer-term payoffs. New Mexico’s families and businesses are struggling today. Business as usual won’t cut it. We need results sooner. Lots of ideas abound, but energy is by far the biggest. Energy and related industries can deliver thousands of new jobs and billions of dollars in new economic activity for New Mexico quickly, cleanly, and profitably, without sacrificing the values that make New Mexico special. Yet, there is an alarming gap between the state’s energy potential and its realization. New Mexico is squandering crucial opportunities to create jobs and wealth throughout the state in renewable energy, oil and gas, energy efficiency and related industries. How can this be happening, and why? Blame a lack of vision, leadership and collaboration to seize the opportunities within reach. More importantly, what can be done to change course and grow New Mexico’s economy with energy-related development? Fortunately, the United States is in the midst of a transformative energy boom driven by a convergence of advances in oil and gas, renewable energy and energy efficiency. Our decadesold paradigm of energy deficit is turning into one of comparative abundance. The U.S. now produces more oil than Saudi Arabia and more natural gas than Russia. Wind, solar and geothermal energy production hit new highs each year. This energy revolution is a prime contributor to our national economic recovery, while simultaneously bringing U.S. CO2 emissions down to the lowest level since the mid-1990s. Unfortunately, while the world enviously watches this U.S. energy transformation, New Mexico barely shows up on the radar screen. The consultancy IHS projects that by 2025, the value chain for U.S. unconventional oil and gas will exceed

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$500 billion per year, contribute $138 billion to federal and state government revenues, $269 billion to workers’ earnings, cumulative investment of $346 billion, and nearly 1.8 million new jobs. What is New Mexico’s share of this tremendous windfall? Our state currently ranks sixth in oil and gas production, but is projected to garner only 1 percent to 2 percent of the overall benefits from unconventional oil and gas. Many less endowed states rank higher because they are developing downstream industries that add economic value to oil and gas. These benefits need not come at the expense of New Mexico’s agriculture, tourism and outdoor industries, its cherished environment or the health of our families. Environmental, industry and government interests can collaborate to find practical solutions that enable responsible energy development. Such collaboration produced the recent agreement on the San Juan Generating Station, which meets EPA air quality goals, saves hundreds of millions of dollars, saves billions of gallons of water each year and represents the largest CO2 reduction in state history. This success can be replicated. New Mexico has some of the nation’s best renewable resources for solar, wind and geothermal energy. Yet, we produce barely 1 percent of total U.S. renewable generation. Potential increased in-state sales and sales to larger markets like California remain largely untapped. Closing this gap — between

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where we are and where we could be as a producer of clean, reliable and affordable energy — would have profound impacts throughout the state. There could be thousands more jobs in energy production and downstream industries. State income taxes on this expanded tax base could grow by hundreds of millions. Revenues from state and tribal lands could also grow by hundreds of millions, benefitting education and

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ove was Once a Little Boy.” So wrote D.H. Lawrence. His soul was so moved by the sky and earth of New Mexico. The ancient Greeks were “pantheists and pluralists and so am I,” he said. In the indigenous people, Lawrence understood those who had a true cosmology and a way of honoring the Earth, which our globalized civilization has dismembered in the name of profit. He would have been daunted and ashamed of how modern-day America treats not only its people but also the other species of this Earth, of which we are but one. He would have been embarrassed by the continued persecution of the wolf in the name of cows and profits. He would have pointed to the land and reminded us that cows do not belong here and that the water waste produced, including the methane, is a climate time bomb that could very well wreak irrevocable damage to future generations. Lawrence had no children, but he would ask of us, “Don’t you love yours? Are you fighting for their future?” He would have cited the recent Time magazine article, “Why We Don’t Care About Saving our Grandchildren from Climate Change.” He would have reminded the Navy that its exercises and oil prospecting are blowing the ear out of hundreds of whales worldwide, beings which have been brought to the brink of extinction. He would remind us of the folly of cutting rain forests for palm oil and pointed to the tenuous hold of the old man of the forest, the orangutan, for longterm survival in the wild. He would have pointed to the great Western black rhino and said, “You have just lost this species

forever, like the thylacine and the passenger pigeon and dodo for all time.” He would have admonished us about the Sumatran tiger and said, “Be very wary, it might disappear within a few years.” He would have ranted against the Chinese decimation of the African elephant for trinkets and said, “Your once great culture is depraved beyond recognition. The monarch of Africa cannot be lost. The trinkets are a stake in your soul. Its loss will mark the beginning of the end of humanity. Turn back now. Become a force for conservation once and for all before it is too late. The tiger’s body parts are of no use medicinally except for what it means for humanity ecologically and spiritu-

ally. Redeem yourselves. Your children will want to know that these great beings roam the hinterlands. Save the sharks. They rarely disturb us. Compared to the tens of millions we destroy for soup, they only hurt or kill us incidentally. They are predators, you are wanton and bloodthirsty murderers.” He would scold the dam builders and loggers putting at risk the tribes that still revere the life force present in the Amazon, the Congo and Indonesia. He would be ashamed of how we have burning the great green gift of existence and ask if such miracles are to be found anywhere else in the universe. He would remind scientists that nature’s immune system is failing and that it is on emer-

scrapers would blow away like thistledown. Lawrence called this time an interregnum. An interregnum before catastrophe or renewal? And he would remind us that America, which holds so much promise, has been the agent of so much violence inflicted on the world. We who are so beholden to betting and business should stop gambling with the life force. In black jack, the highest number one can get is 21 — as in the 21st century.

gency alert. He would remind us of Elspeth Huxley’s words that, “No man should build only for his own lifetime and his

aggrandizement, so that when he goes, nothing will remain.” He presciently, clairvoyantly foresaw the day when the sky-

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Dimas takes pass on candidate forums Councilor says series of public debates are hosted by ‘special-interest’ groups; Bushee, Gonzales to face off By Daniel J. Chacón and Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

While two out of the three candidates vying for the mayor’s job in the city’s March election are looking forward to a series of public forums that will kick off Monday, candidate Bill Dimas, a city councilor, says he won’t attend any of them because they’re being hosted by “special-interest” groups.

“I have found from past experience in forums that the questions from the audience are often ‘planted’ — softball questions for the favorite candidate or ambush questions for the opposition,” Dimas said in a paid advertisement appearing in the Sunday edition of The New Mexican. Asked to elaborate on his reasons for skipping the forums, Dimas referred all questions to the ad, saying,

participate in these special interest forums. I’m sure that I will be criticized for this position, but it’s my commitment to speak directly to voters.” Javier Gonzales, a mayoral candidate who was endorsed by Mayor David Javier Bill Patti Coss during a campaign Gonzales Dimas Bushee event Saturday, said he will use the forums as an “All my feelings and reasoning is in opportunity to reach out to voters and [the ad].” to explain his vision for the city if he is “After much thought,” he says in the elected as the new mayor. “If you want to be the mayor of ad, “I have made the decision not to

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Santa Fe, you have to make yourself available, not only while you’re in office, but while you’re running for office,” said Gonzales, a former county commissioner and state Democratic Party chairman. “If we’re not willing to make ourselves available now, what’s the public to think about making ourselves available after?” City Councilor Patti Bushee, the race’s third candidate, did not return a call Saturday seeking comment on the upcoming forums.

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Gun-toting woman robs store, fires two rounds Sheriff investigates possible connection to earlier robberies The New Mexican

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arehouse 21 is in the midst of a fundraising drive to keep the teen center running and expand its programs — and an anonymous donor is at the heart of the effort. The donor has pledged to contribute $1 for every $2 that the campaign raises up to $100,000. If the nonprofit meets its goal, said Warehouse 21 board President Paul Grace, that means the nonprofit will have $150,000 more to keep the teen center — which has been around for almost two decades — running in the Railyard building it has occupied since 2008. “Basically, as a nonprofit, we’re fundraising all the time,” Executive Director Ana Gallegos y Reinhardt said. But reaching this recent fundraising goal would mean the group

In brief Sheriff: Pedestrian hit by two vehicles A man walking on Interstate 25 near the exit to Cochiti Pueblo was struck by a pickup at about 7:20 p.m Friday and died at the scene, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said. Sheriff Robert Garcia said investigators believe the pedestrian was trying to cross the highway when he was stuck by a driver traveling northbound in the center lane. After the pickup hit the man, Garcia said, he was hit a second time by another driver passing by in the outside lane. Deputies have not yet identified the man yet, and the death is still under investigation, the sheriff said.

could continue “managing the facility, developing new programs and increasing our staff.” So far, the campaign has raised close to $45,000 toward its goal. An email sent out Dec. 26 said Warehouse 21 had gathered $43,699 on its own and had collected $1,880 from 17 supporters through the crowdfunding site Fundly — with 26 days left to go in the funding period. “I think I’m feeling that there’s an upcoming surge of new energy and money,” Gallegos y Reinhardt said, reflecting on the rough years Warehouse 21 has had since the recession hit hard. “The economy is really changing for nonprofits right now. … I think everyone’s feeling a little bit more optimistic.” Grace said that although the nonprofit does draw grant funding, much of its revenue is through earned income — such as event

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Comedian Andres Gonzales takes the stage during an open mic event at Warehouse 21 in 2010. The teen center, which is in the midst of a fundraising drive, provides low-cost events for area youth.

Women dies in Madrid cycle crash A 39-year-old Albuquerque woman traveling northbound on N.M. 14 was killed in a crash near the village of Madrid Saturday after losing control of her motorcycle, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said. Sheriff Robert Garcia said the woman wasn’t wearing a helmet when she crashed about three miles south of Madrid. The sheriff said alcohol and speed weren’t factors in the crash, and officers are still investigating the incident. Garcia said about six other motorcyclists were traveling with the woman at the time.

Volunteers gather for Abiquiú eagle count ABIQUIÚ — Volunteers are gath-

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ering Saturday at Abiquiú Lake in Northern New Mexico for the annual midwinter bald eagle count. The count is hosted every year by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The goal is to collect data that will help with national and local tracking of eagle numbers. Officials with the National Wildlife Federation have asked that participants in each state count eagles along standard routes to provide data trends. Aside from getting a better gauge of the bald eagle population, the wildlife group is trying to identify previously unrecognized areas of important winter habitat. Unlike nesting surveys, the midwinter survey provides information on both breeding and non-breeding segments of the population at a potentially limiting time of year. The count has been a national tradition since 1984.

Santa Fe County sheriff’s officials say a lone armed woman robbed an Allsup’s convenience store in the southern part of Santa Fe on Friday night, just an hour after city police investigated a similar incident at the MVD Express on St. Michael’s Drive. After taking an undisclosed amount of money from the store’s cash register, Sheriff Robert Garcia said, the female suspect fired two rounds outside the business. No injuries were reported, but witnesses told sheriff’s deputies that the woman, who covered her face with a hoodie, ran west on Agua Fría Street after she fired two shots in the air at about 7 p.m., Garcia said. “At this point, we don’t have much information beyond that,” he said. The incident is similar to two armed robberies in the city this week — one on New Year’s Eve at an Airport Road Dollar Mart and another Friday night at the MVD store. However, the suspects in those incidents were men. A heavy-set man wearing a demon mask and a thin man wearing a bandanna across his face stole an undisclosed amount of cash at the Dollar Mart and left a couple of bullet holes in the business’s wall and ceiling at about 6:30 p.m. New Year’s Eve. The duo threatened a female cashier, but no injuries were reported. At about 6 p.m. Friday, two suspects with similar discriptions and similar weapons — a black handgun and silver revolver — entered the MVD Express, 850 St. Michael’s Drive, and shot a round into the wall. Santa Fe Police Department spokeswoman Celina Westervelt said in a statement that one suspect in that incident struck an employee in the face. She said there were six employees in the store during the robbery, and one customer with a 2-year-old child. Both men were wearing black masks, police said. One suspect was described as 5-foot-11 and about 230 pounds and the other was about 5-foot-8 and 140 pounds. Garcia said the sheriff’s office is investigating whether the robbery at Allsup’s, 5166 Agua Fría St., is linked to either of the two other robberies, but they have not been able to confirm any connections. Garcia said he’s still awaiting surveillance video from the convenience store. Contact Uriel J. Garcia at 986-3062 or ugarcia@sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter @ujohnnyg.

Man indicted in child beating in Las Cruces LAS CRUCES — A New Mexico man wanted in Arizona has been indicted for breaking the arm of a 2-year-old and beating the toddler’s mother. The Las Cruces Sun-News reported that a Doña Ana County grand jury Thursday indicted 33-year-old Joshua Brown on charges of intentional child abuse, a first-degree felony, and misdemeanor battery. According to court documents, Brown originally told the mother that the boy had fallen during a bath last month. But authorities say he refused to go to the doctor’s office with the mother because he had warrants. The mother later told police that Brown had beat her. Police say Brown had outstanding warrants from Arizona and New

Mexico’s Catron County on drug and battery charges.

Man trained in MMA kills home invader LAS CRUCES — Authorities say a man suspected of taking part in a New Mexico home invasion was killed by the homeowner, who is a trained mixed martial artist. According to KVIA-TV, Doña Ana County sheriff’s officials said 25-yearold Sal Garces died after he and three other men broke into the home of Joseph Torrez north of Las Cruces. Deputies say Torrez, his fiancée and a toddler were all at home at the time of the invasion. Authorities say the fiancée tried to use her body against the front door to keep the men from entering the home. Staff and wire reports

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FUNERAL SERVICES & MEMORIALS

THE NEW MEXICAN Sunday, January 5, 2014

RUTH LOUISE BULL DEMUTH

FELICIA (ALICE) GONZALES RODRIGUEZ

Died peacefully at home on December 27, 2013 at the age of 82, from Alzheimer’s Disease and its associated complications. She spent the past several years being cared for by Thomas Alfred Sandford, her loving husband of 33 years, and many of her children, grandchildren, friends and caregivers. Ruth was born in Los Angeles, CA on May 30, 1931 to Verena Elizabeth Miescher Bull and Howard Walworth Bull . She was preceded in death by her mother, father, and brother Richard Fredrick Bull. She is survived by her husband, Tom; daughters Katherine Alison Demuth (Mark Johnson), Kimberly Verena Demuth (Fred Glick), Mary Demuth Sandoval (Anthony); son Hal Pierce Demuth II (Monette); 29 grandchildren and step grandchildren; two great grandchildren; and many cousins and nieces. Ruth grew up in and attended school in southern California, southern Arizona, Michigan, and northern California. She played several instruments, including the piano and violin, and she graduated as Valedictorian from Red Bluff High School. Starting in 1949, she worked summers at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and attended Chico State University, CA, before marrying Howard B. Demuth in February 1951 and moving to Los Alamos. As a single mother in the early ’70s, she returned to work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory at the Meson Physics Facility and simultaneously earned a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of New Mexico. She attained the status of Staff Member and worked in Groups T-3, G-5, and EES-5. She was fortunate to have Francis Harlow as her mentor early in her laboratory career and as a friend for life. Ruth was an effective manager and mentor, and a terrific communicator with her co-workers, friends, and family members. She was a strong advocate for the right to equality for women in society, the work force, and especially in education. She was a member of LANL’s Women in Science Program from its beginning, and she was a member of the Humanities Council, and on the board of the Los Alamos Family Council. Ruth loved music of all types. Classical music was her favorite and she delighted in attending and participating in musical presentations all the while she lived in Los Alamos. She continued to play piano all her life and was a member of the Los Alamos Choral Society. She was an accomplished seamstress and a prolific knitter, providing many family members with sweaters and afghans. Ruth loved the outdoors; she enjoyed her women’s hiking group, skiing, and became the family’s wildflower expert. Ruth taught Tom to ski, and together they also enjoyed dancing, playing Bridge, and being with family and friends. She enjoyed gardening, especially loved raising flowers that she and Tom spent many hours working on in their yards and gardens. Ruth and Tom traveled to many parts of the world, and used their cabin and ranch in Colorado as retreats for rest, relaxation, renewal, and for gatherings with friends and family. Ruth loved her family and friends, and she amassed a huge collection of family photographs that tell the story of her life and that continue to delight family members. She avidly compiled the genealogical history of her family becoming the family’s historian. She also had a lifelong passion for working jigsaw puzzles; one was always in process on the card table in her home. Ruth was a fierce supporter of her children and grandchildren’s development. She prepared tea parties for her young grandchildren, and took them to Santa Fe youth operas after explaining the plot and music beforehand; as teens, her daughters all ushered at the Opera. Ruth will be missed. Her blue eyes and quick smile will always be treasured. Ruth and her family were fortunate and are thankful for the many caring providers that attended to her in Los Alamos and the Pagosa Springs area. Cremation will take place at De Vargas Funeral Home and Crematory, Española. A memorial service celebrating Ruth’s life will be held on Friday, January 10, 2014, at 1:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, 1738 North Sage St., Los Alamos. In her memory the family asks that donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Association (1-800-272-3900), or to the Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service Hospice House. Also, a plant or flower can be planted in her memory.

VIRGINIA THOMAS NYDES Virginia Thomas Nydes passed on very peacefully at her home on December 19, 2013 at the age of 91. Born in Santa Fe, the daughter of Bess Poindexter Gills and Bradley Morris Thomas Sr., Virginia had a scholarly, vibrant and adventurous spirit. She loved to travel and visited almost every country in the world. Always willing and eager to try new things, she rode camels through the Sinai Desert, climbed Moses Mountain, spent the night in the Great Pyramid, walked on the Great Wall of China, and rode elephants through the African Bush to name just a few of her many adventures. Always inspired by her children, she took up both ballroom dancing and scuba diving in her mid-70’s. She received her undergraduate pre-med degree from Michigan State University, her graduate degree in Psychology from Columbia University and eventually her PHD in Psychology from Adelphi University. In 1947, she was accepted to Rochester Medical School but chose instead to marry Jule Nydes, live in New York and raise a family. Throughout her life, her pride and joy were her three children, Katherine Nydes, Caroline Ravenfox and David Nydes and her four grandchildren, Dylan Ravenfox, Heather Carbine, Mara Nydes and Lia Nydes. Virginia was also an astute business woman. Approximately 10 years after her husband’s death in 1967, she moved back to Santa Fe to help rescue the family real estate business and continued to help it grow and thrive for many years. Always open-minded and interested in learning new things, Virginia studied and became certified in Polarity Therapy, CranioSacral Therapy and Visceral Manipulation. Her true passion was her love of spiritual and personal growth. Throughout her life she studied with many well-known and gifted teachers and therapists going on numerous spiritual pilgrimages in the US and abroad. Virginia met the renowned Indian saint Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi) in 1989. She was profoundly influenced by and spent a lot of time with Amma whom she considered to be her Guru and divine mother. For most of her life Virginia was a sophisticated and somewhat quiet woman with a very kind and generous heart. In the last few years of her life, she became very playful and extroverted; singing and talking to everyone. She loved to give large parties that included entertainment by belly dancers, magicians and tarot readers. Inspiring many people, she was deeply loved by family and friends. We miss her very much and invite you to send your blessings and prayers to her as she continues her journey into Love’s Light. Virginia will always be in our hearts and in the big beautiful blue skies of New Mexico that she loved so much. Services and a celebration of her life will be held at First Presbyterian Church, 203 Grant Ave, Santa Fe, NM on Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Reception to follow at the Santa Fe Convention Center - Lamy Room located across the street from the church. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Virginia’s name to Amma’s charities at www.amma.org.

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ARTHUR WILLIAM SANCHEZ Passed away Friday, December 20, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas at the age of 57. Memorial Services: 10 a.m. Monday, January 6, 2014 in Brown, Owens & Brumley’s Joe B. Brown Memorial Chapel in Fort Worth. Mass for Christian Burial 9 AM Friday, January 10, 2014 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Santa Fe, NM. Inurnment will be held at 2 PM on Friday, January 10, 2014 at Rosario Cemetery in Santa Fe, NM. Arthur was born December 14, 1956 to Arthur G. and Gloria F. Sanchez in Santa Fe, NM. He graduated from Saint Michael’s High School and received his Bachelor’s degree at The University of New Mexico. Arthur is preceded in death by his father, Arthur G. Sanchez; paternal grandparents, Willie and Nellie Sanchez; and maternal grandparents, Christobal and Estella Sanchez. Survivors: Mother, Gloria Sanchez of Santa Fe, NM; brother, Clifford Sanchez and wife Kathy and their sons, Jordan Sanchez and Luke Sanchez of O’Fallon, IL.; sister, Shirley Gonzales and husband David and their son, David Gonzales II of San Antonio, TX; brother, David Sanchez and wife Monique of Durango, CO.; many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Brown, Owens & Brumley Funeral Directors 425 S. Henderson, Fort Worth, TX 817-335-4557

DR. ROGER LEE SMITHPETER Dr. Roger Lee Smithpeter was born April 5, 1932, in Geary, OK, the only child of Delmar and Ruby Smithpeter. After Delmar’s untimely death in 1933, Roger was raised by his beloved grandmother, Madge Shawver. He attended high school in Los Angeles, CA, where he developed an encyclopedic knowledge of tropical fish and lectured at the LA Aquarium. He attended college at UCLA and the University of Oklahoma. He later joined the US Navy, serving as a Lieutenant on a destroyer in the Pacific during the Korean Conflict. Roger married Ruthann Noret and fathered two sons, Mark and David Fairbairn. Following their divorce, Roger attended medical school at the University of Oklahoma. He successfully completed a pyramid surgical residency program in CA at Santa Barbara Cottage and County Hospitals, where he met his second wife, Jeanne Roos, whom he married in 1967. They relocated to Santa Fe, NM, in 1968, and had three children, Colin, Tracy, and Margaret Smithpeter. Roger served the people of New Mexico for more than 30 years as a talented general and vascular surgeon. His family is proud of the many lives he saved and bettered. He had a lifelong interest in art, fine clothing and interior design. In his retirement, Roger was an avid news watcher, enjoyed OU college football, participating in medical and political committees, and studying Buddhist philosophy. Roger died peacefully December 27, 2013, with family present following a long-standing respiratory illness. In addition to his five children, he leaves behind daughter-in-law Fleur Smithpeter and two grandchildren, Ian and Arden Smithpeter. Roger’s wit, intelligence and Okie charm will be missed by all who knew and loved him. A private family service was held. In lieu of flowers, donations to Doctors Without Borders or the American Red Cross in his honor would be appreciated.

BENJAMIN JAMES WEST 75, longtime resident of Albuquerque, died December 9, 2013. He is survived by two sons: Mark West of Santa Fe, and Jock West of Albuquerque; sisters: Hilia Jackson (Al), Charlene Murphy and Phyllis Gelabert (Joe), all of Albuquerque; many nephews, nieces, other relative and friends. Mr. West is preceded in death by son, Bruce West; parents, Ben nie and Dora West; and brother, Charlie West. Jim, or Jimmy as he was better known, was born in Gallup, NM and lettered in football at Gallup High School. He graduated June 2, 1961 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Arts, Health and Physical Education, with a concentration in Secondary Education and August 16, 1963 a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Guidance and Health and Physical Education from New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM. He taught school and was acting superintendent in several New Mexico schools and Division Director of Vocational Education, State New Mexico schools and Division Director of Vocational Education, State of New Mexico Department of Education from where he retired. Cremation will take place. Mass will be celebrated Saturday, January 11, 2014, 9 a.m., Shrine of Saint Bernadette, 11509 Indian School Road, NE, Albuquerque, NM with Father Leo Padget, Celebrant. Interment to be private.

NATIVIDAD A. VIGIL (TONY) 76, of Santa Fe, NM passed away on December 29, 2013. He was born in Logan, NM to Adelina and Antonio Vigil. He is preceded in death by his parents, Adelina and Antonio Vigil, Mother and father in law, Guadalupita and Juan Maes. He is survived by, wife, Mela Vigil A Rosary will be recited on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 10 am and Funeral services at 11 am at St. Francis Cathedral followed by Interment at the Rosario Cemetery.

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Born on March 30, 1925 in Roy, NM and returned to the Lord on December 29, 2013. Alice passed peacefully in her home after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. She was watched over by her devoted care provider, Gloria Rodriguez, whom she cherished and loved dearly. Her husband, Alfonso Rodriguez, and parents Elena and Alfredo Gonzales, brother, George Gonzales and sister, Priscilla Vigil, precede her in death. Alice was a homemaker, wife, mother, sister, aunt, cousin and friend to many. She gave tirelessly to her family, friends, and community, was a member of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Auxiliary and church choir, the AFL-CIO Women’s Auxiliary, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, and Honor Guard for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. She always gave unconditional love; support and prayers to anyone blessed enough to know her. She is remembered for her commitment to family, and her love of dancing and sense of humor. She is survived by son, Charles (Chuck) Rodriguez and wife, Charlene (Char), Chuck’s son, Jared and his wife, Roseanne and great-grand daughter, Sierra; daughter, Mary Ellen Flores and husband, Martin, and their daughter, Andrea Flores and her husband, Jonathan Grossman, son, Martin Flores Jr. and his wife, Kathleen Flores, great grand children, Elena, Samuel, and Mia; son, Dennis Rodriguez and his sons, Brian and Christopher; daughter, Melinda Wedemeyer and husband, Robert (Bob) Wedemeyer and daughters, Cassandra (Cassie) and Annalise (Lise); daughter, Annette Brumley and husband, Mark Brumley, and son, Gabriel Alfonso Rodriguez. She is also survived by her brother, Alfredo Gonzales; sister, Rose Padilla; brother, Leo Paul Gonzales and his wife, Emma; brother, Cristobal Gonzales and his wife, Elsie; sister, Cecelia Hernandez and husband, Edward Hernandez; sister, Gertrude Oliver; and sister in law, Martha Jones. Also numerous nieces, nephews, and many close friends and loved ones in Santa Fe. A visitation will be held on Sunday, January 5, 2014 from 3 - 5 p.m. at Rivera Family Funeral Home. A rosary will be held on Sunday, January 5, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Anne’s Catholic Church. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, January 6, 2014 at 10 a.m. at St. Anne’s Catholic Church with Interment to follow at 11:15 a.m. at Santa Fe National Cemetery.

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JACK BOYD RYAN Jack Boyd Ryan passed away on January 1, 2014 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jack was born in El Paso, Texas on January 11, 1924 and was a graduate of El Paso Austin High School. He attended Texas A&M University for a short time prior to enlisting in the Army at the outbreak of WWII. He was stationed in France and Germany. He was discharged as a 1st Lieutenant. He continued his education at the University of Texas where he was a proud Sigma Chi. After graduation Jack returned to El Paso, joining the El Paso National Bank’s Foreign Department and putting to use the Spanish he learned in his early childhood in Mexico where his father was consignee for Standard Oil Company. Later Jack joined his father and his uncle in the auto parts business. Car Parts Depot had more than ten stores in Texas and New Mexico, which required and allowed Jack to pursue one of his favorite avocations - driving. Gulf and Western acquired Car Parts Depot and Jack concentrated on business interests in Ruidoso, New Mexico: Rancho Ruidoso, now the home of the Spencer Theater and Rainmakers Real Estate and Golf Community, as well as numerous homes. After retirement, Jack relocated to Cochiti Lake, New Mexico where he enjoyed the grand vistas of the Jemez Mountains and the spectacular show provided by the aspens and the cottonwoods in the fall. Jack was preceded in death by his parents, Boyd Eastlack Ryan and Belle Wangberg Ryan. He is survived by his wife Lou Emma Shugart Ryan and by son, Robert Ryan, his wife Laurie and their children Maggy and Mei; daughter Becky Ryan and her son, Zachary Nields; daughter Tina Kuhnline, her husband Mike, their son Cody and his wife Davina; daughter Susie Ryan Cox, her husband John; stepdaughter Cindy Webb Eakin, and her husband David as well as nieces, nephews and friends. Funeral Services will be held at the McGee Memorial Chapel, 1320 Luisa St., Santa Fe, NM, on Tuesday, January 7 at 1 pm. Interment at Santa Fe National Cemetery on Wednesday, January 8 at 10:30 am. Visitation from 11:00 - 12:30 at McGee Memorial Chapel, Tuesday, January 7, 2014. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the Spencer Theater, Alto, NM or the charity of your choice.

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Flu strain growing in state “People need to know that and get their shots.” ALBUQUERQUE — A flu KRQE reported Saturday that strain that spurred the 2009 the state Health Department’s influenza pandemic is causing Scientific Laboratory Division widespread illness again this has confirmed eight H1N1 cases season in New Mexico, state in seven counties, including officials said, prompting calls Santa Fe. The other counties for residents to get vaccinated. were Bernalillo, Chaves, Doña New Mexico Department of Ana, Grant, Luna and San Juan. Health epidemiologist Chad Albuquerque-area hospitals Smelser told the Albuquerque reported that H1N1 is likely Journal on Friday that the H1N1 responsible for a majority of flu influenza strain was especially hospitalizations. hitting children and younger At University Hospital, offiadults. cials said nine patients, from Activity and hospitalizations young children to people in their 60s, have been hospitalfor flu in Albuquerque began rising in late December, Smelser ized for flu since Christmas. said. “The point is, it has really taken off,” said Meghan Brett, an “The long and the short of it epidemiologist at the hospital. is that influenza is increasing throughout the state,” he said. David Stryker, medical direcThe Associated Press

Eric Porras of Costa Rica helps people onto the ‘magic carpet’ at the Red River Ski Area. Porras is one of several international students working at the resort. ERIC HEINZ/ SANGRE DE CRISTO CHRONICLE

Foreign students adjust to life on the slopes in Red River Winter sports add to new experiences By Eric Heinz The Sangre de Cristo Chronicle

RED RIVER — Since the average December temperature in his home country is 79 degrees, said Eric Porras of Costa Rica, he had to find proper clothing when he arrived in New Mexico last month to work at the Red River Ski Area. “I’ve never skied or snowboarded before. I never have seen the snow,” said Porras, a lift operator in Red River. “All this is crazy, but it’s awesome, you know? It’s like a beautiful experience — something that I would not be able to do in my country.” Porras, who is in the U.S. through an English language program, studies physical therapy at a university in Costa Rica. He said a host family here convinced him to try to get a job in Colorado, but when that didn’t work out, he chose to apply for work at the ski area in New Mexico. “My host family, they helped me a lot,” Porras said. “They contacted some friends to find me some clothes, some

[goggles], everything I need to wear. … I took like two days or three days of [altitude] adaptation, but right now I feel good.” Porras said it is difficult to be so far from his family, but the experience he is gaining outweighs the homesickness. And his friends back home are envious, he said. “Right now, all my friends are at the beaches, and I’m here in the snow. But they all say, ‘Oh, man, I want to be where you are — I don’t mind if it’s cold or not,’ ” Porras said. Porras had his first snowboarding lesson in late December. He said he hopes to learn to snowboard well enough to do the year-end pond skim, in which people ski or snowboard down the face of the ski area across a small pond of water. “I know that it’s hard and you have to be going very fast, but for sure I will try it,” Porras said, adding that he wants to absorb everything about the local area before he leaves. “I want to learn more of the language and the culture, and I want to do what I cannot do in Costa Rica,” he said. “For example, in Costa Rica, I cannot jump from a plane … skydiving, and I want to do that before I go back to Costa Rica.”

Another international student working at the Red River Ski Area, Milady Selma Rebolledo, is studying to teach English in her home country of Peru. She traveled to Red River through a program at her university, and, like Porras, she also had never been skiing or snowboarding before working at the resort. “This idea was to improve my English,” Rebolledo said. “In my country, we have ski areas, but I’ve never been there.” Ailen Berezin and Firella Greco came from Argentina to work at the ski area. Greco is studying medicine at her university, and Berezin studies public relations. “I thought it was a good experience to learn another culture that we are not used to,” Greco said. Both women work in the cafeteria and rental shops at the ski area. “For me, it’s important because my career is public relations, so it’s very important for me to have good experiences with people,” Berezin said, adding that she wants to do public relations in the business sector. “There’s a lot of time for you to travel, so I think that’s important.”

Sculpture to promote border peace a piece to celebrate that transformation,” she told the El Paso Times. EL PASO — A 20-foot metal The 40-year-old native sculpture about to go up on a of Monterrey, Mexico, who city roundabout was designed moved with her family to El in part by Mexican children Paso when she was 10, added who have survived the violence that the sculpture is also a metin Juárez. aphor that symbolizes a unified And the sculpture will use border community. recycled metal that came from Since last fall, Cabrera began parts of confiscated guns that organizing workshops in El were melted. Paso and Juárez so that resiThe $70,000 project, called dents from both cities could be Uplift, is a representation of a involved in the project. flock of 600 birds taking flight. In mid-December, 38 fourthThe piece of art aims to proto sixth-graders from the Juan mote unity and peace on both José Martínez “El Pípila” elesides of the border. mentary school in southwest Juárez joined in making the Artist Margarita Cabrera, sculpture. who was commissioned last year by the city of El Paso to With Cabrera’s direction, create the public sculpture they created the art for the for the roundabout, said she wings of the birds. wanted to capture the violent, The students, who are part of changing realities existing the FEMAP Foundation’s afteralong the U.S.-Mexico border. school program, have lived “Right now the border is less amid the violence in Juárez, violent and has less killings said Brenda Rodriguez, spokesthan before. I wanted to make woman for the foundation. By Lorena Figueroa El Paso Times

“They decided what to draw, what violence meant to them or what they wanted for Juárez to make it better,” she said. The students used papel picado, or perforated paper, a Mexican decorative craft made out of paper cut into elaborate designs. Cabrera said she wanted to use the traditional technique as a way for the students to learn a Mexican crafting tradition. Each drawing on the papel picado will be scanned in a computer. The saved images will be programmed into a machine that will cut the design into the metal. Cabrera said the sculpture will be made of fragments of confiscated guns donated by the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. The purpose of using recycled guns is to give the message of transforming an object that symbolizes death and violence into one of peace and hope, she said.

Funeral services and memorials We appreciate the honor of serving the families of: Virginia Nydes, July 26, 1922 - December 19, 2013 Jose Benjamin Romero, October 16, 1920 - December 19, 2013 Michelle D. Ortega, November 14, 1978 - December 20, 2013 Charles E. Galvan June 11, 1954 - December 22, 2013

8 p.m. Friday. The victim reported that a Toshiba laptop and an Apple MacBook Pro were stolen from the house. u Someone stole a .25 caliber Jimenez Arms pistol from a 2007 Lincoln SUV, which was parked in the 2600 block of Sycamore Loop. The victim reported that the incident happened between 5:30 p.m. Thursday and about 7 a.m. Friday. u A 67-year-old man was found dead at his Santa Fe home. First responders tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. A sheriff’s deputy report said no foul play is suspected.

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Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families hotline: 800-473-5220 St. Elizabeth Shelter for men, women and children: 982-6611 Interfaith Community Shelter: 795-7494 New Mexico suicide prevention hotline: 866-435-7166 Solace Crisis Treatment Center: 986-9111, 800-7217273 or TTY 471-1624 Speed SUVs Youth Emergency Shelter/ u The Santa Fe Police Depart- Youth Shelters: 438-0502 Police and fire emergency: ment listed the following locations for mobile speed-enforce- 911 ment vehicles: SUV No. 1 on Graffiti hotline: 955-CALL (2255) Siringo Road between Botulph

ROBERT H. DOMINGUEZ Robert H. Dominguez (Bobby) age 78, native of Santa Fe, passed away on January 3, 2014. He is preceded in death by his mother, Alejandra Rael and sister, Eufelia Roybal (Cedar). He is Survived by his loving nieces and nephews; Marsha Roybal and husband Jerry Vasilik, Wanda Roybal, Dennis Roybal and wife Florinda, Richard Roybal and wife Donna, Brotherin-Law Joe V. Roybal and numerous other relatives and friends. A visitation will be held on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 from 5 pm to 7 pm with a Rosary recited at 7 pm at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service Chapel. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 10 am at The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi with a burial to follow at 11:15 am at the Santa Fe National Cemetery.

Vera Louise Kegel February 27, 1924 - December 26, 2013 Dolores D. Ortiz August 8, 1925 - December 27, 2013 Lorencita Vigil Martinez August 10, 1925 - December 29, 2013 Barbara Goldman March 18, 1929 - December 30, 2013 Jack Boyd Ryan January 11, 1924 - January 1, 2014

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Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: u Arthur Harman of Virginia was arrested on a charge of shoplifting after an employee at Kmart, 1712 St. Michael’s Drive, reported that a man was seen concealing an MP3 player at about 4 p.m. Friday. u Someone broke into Rael’s Propane, 2621 Cerrillos Road, between 5 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Thursday and stole $5 worth of coins. u An employee of Party City, 528 W. Cordova Road, reported that someone paid for merchandise using a fake $100 bill at about 4 p.m. Thursday. The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the following reports: u Someone entered a house by breaking a front window in the 4700 block of Morning Street between 9 a.m. and

tor of infection control at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, says 15 people remained hospitalized for flu on Friday. H1N1 is responsible for most of those cases, which are affecting patients of all ages, he said. Smelser did not have figures on the number of flu hospitalizations statewide. Health officials advise people to cover their cough, avoid large crowds, wash their hands frequently and thoroughly, and stay at home if they have flu-like symptoms. Symptoms of influenza include sudden fever, muscle pain, headache, extreme tiredness, dry cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose and nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, according to the department’s website.

Wednesday, January 8 7:30 p.m. James A. Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Rd., Santa Fe Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

Our planet’s biology and its climate are inexorably coupled. Warmer and less predictable climates will continue to diminish the planet’s biodiversity. But biological systems can be part of a solution. Conservation biology pioneer Tom Lovejoy will examine the present and possible future impacts of climate change and explore how we might manage both biological and human economic systems to reduce its long-term effects.

Tom Lovejoy is a senior fellow, United Nations Foundation, and University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University. Generous support for SFI’s 2014 Community Lecture series is provided by Los Alamos National Bank.

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Jan. 13 at The Forum at the Fogelson Library complex at the Santa Santa Fe Neighborhood Fe University of Art and Design, Network: The first in a series of 1600 St. Michael’s Drive. forums for mayoral candidates, Democratic Party of Santa as well as City Council candiFe County: Democrats are dates, will be held Monday. That event — from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in hosting four forums, all of which will be held from 6 to the Southwest Conference 7:30 p.m. at the Center for ProgRoom of Christus St. Vincent ress & Justice, 1420 Cerrillos Regional Medical Center, 465 St. Michael’s Drive — is one Road. The forum for the candiof three sponsored by the Santa dates in City Council Districts 1 and 4 will be held Tuesday, Jan. Fe Neighborhood Network. 7; the District 3 forum will be In the first forum, Bushee and Thursday, Jan. 9; the forum for Gonzales will face off. District 2 candidates will be Jan. The Neighborhood Network 14; and the forum for the mayalso is sponsoring a forum Jan. 13 for City Council candidates in oral candidates will be Jan. 15. League of Women Voters: Districts 1 and 3 and Jan. 20 for The Santa Fe County chapter candidates in Districts 2 and 4. Those forums also will be from of the League of women Voters 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the hospital’s is sponsoring three forums in February. The forum for council Southwest Conference Room. candidates in Districts 3 and In City Council District 1, Signe Lindell is running against 4 will be Feb. 10 at the Southside Branch Library, 6599 Jaguar Michael Segura. In District 2, the candidates are Joe Arellano, Drive. The forum for mayoral candidates will be Feb. 11 at the Joseph Maestas, Mary Louise Bonney and Rad Acton. In Dis- Main Library, 145 Washington trict 3, incumbent Councilor Ave.; and the forum for candiCarmichael Dominguez is rundates in Districts 1 and 2 will be ning against Angelo Jaramillo Feb. 19, also at the Main Library. and Marie Campos, and District All of the league’s forums will 4’s Councilor Ron Trujillo is be from 6 to 8 p.m. running unopposed. Contact Daniel J. Chacón ProgressNow New Mexico: The liberal-leaning ProgressNow at 986-3089 or dchacon@ sfnewmexican.com. Contact New Mexico, based in Albuquerque, is sponsoring a mayoral Uriel J. Garcia at 986-3062 or ugarcia@sfnewmexican.com. forum from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

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LOS ALAMOS — Flood impacts from the Las Conchas Fire and Thompson Ridge Fire are likely to pose an ongoing problem in the Valles Caldera National Preserve for many years to come, officials said. Valles Caldera National Preserve staff are working to mitigate the damage at the same time they are facing limited resources, the Los Alamos Monitor reported. Staff says erosion will continue to be a major problem in high-intensity burn scar areas until vegetation is able to take root. But they say reseeding certain areas is virtually impossible, due to the steepness of the slopes and the water-resistant soil that high-intensity fires generate. The Valles Caldera’s Watershed Program manager, Scott Compton, said staff are taking some steps to slow runoff and reintroduce vegetation. “We did a little reseeding with the barley up there, but we have a couple of issues with that,”

The 2013 Thompson Ridge Fire, pictured, and the 2011 Las Conchas Fire in the Jemez Mountains will likely cause erosion problems in the Valles Caldera for years, officials say. NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Compton said. “We don’t want to incorporate invasive weeds with anything up here. So that kind of halts the use of mulch, and also the use of seed.” The flooding has been the result of runoff from the Las Conchas burn scar. The 2011 wildfire raced across more than

230 square miles, including lands held sacred by the pueblo. The Thompson Ridge Fire on the Valles Caldera National Preserve charred nearly 36 square miles last year. The U.S. Forest Service has launched plans to plant trees this spring in an area burned by

the Las Conchas blaze. Around 56 acres at the base of Pajarito Ski Hill were slated to be planted with Douglas firs. The effort will be part of a larger planting initiative that will cover about 2,000 acres and involve almost 500,000 trees.

Forest Service eyes logging after Calif.’s Rim Fire Other than cutting burned trees that pose a hazard along roads, the National Park Service is not doing any salvage logging, a Yosemite spokesman said. The Forest Service, which is guided by a multiuse mandate to produce timber as well provide recreation and fish and wildlife habitat, has different ideas. Forest managers want to

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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Forest Service is proposing an extensive salvage operation to log dead trees on about 46 square miles of timberland charred in last year’s massive Rim fire in the Sierra Nevada. The project would be one of the largest federal salvage efforts in California in years. If approved, it could yield more lumber than the com8 TO 10 bined annual output of all the WEEK national forests in the state. CLASSES But it is already triggering a fight by some environmentalists who argue that the post-fire logging would destroy valuable habitat for rare birds and other species that thrive in blackened forests. The Rim, ignited by a hunter’s illegal campfire in mid-August, was the biggest wildfire to hit the Sierra in more than a century of record keeping. It burned for more than two months, spreading over 154,430 acres of chaparral and timberland in the Stanislaus National Forest, about 24,000 acres of private land and roughly 77,000 acres in neighboring Yosemite National Park. Most of the park acreage falls within the boundaries of federally designated wilderness areas.

offer salvage sales on nearly 30,000 of the roughly 103,000 acres of Stanislaus timberland burned in the fire. They also propose to construct 22 miles of temporary roads and six miles of new, permanent roads to serve the salvage operations, as well as rebuild hundreds of miles of forest roads damaged

in the blaze. The Stanislaus has launched an environmental review of the proposal and is asking the Forest Service chief in Washington to designate an “emergency situation” that would allow salvage to begin immediately after approval without going through an administrative appeal process.

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After he won the historic discrimination case, many national media publications — including The Washington Post and The New York Times — sought out Pérez for scores of interviews. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

AGENT FOR CHANGE After taking on FBI, former top Hispanic official opened doors for equality at agency

Bernardo ‘Mat’ Pérez, 74, a former FBI agent who sued the agency in 1987 in a landmark discrimination case, now works as a private investigator in Santa Fe. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

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n the early 1980s, when he was the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Puerto Rico office, Bernardo “Mat” Pérez was the highest-ranking official of Hispanic origin in the agency. But the Mexican American didn’t last long in his position in turmoil-plagued Puerto Rico, where groups labeled as terrorists were fighting for independence.

Eventually, Pérez said, he was demoted and sent to the FBI’s Los Angeles bureau, where he worked as second in command. Pérez said his boss in Puerto Rico didn’t seem to understand the volatile situation there and didn’t seem to respect him because of his Mexican heritage. And when he got to L.A., it wasn’t any better. The retired agent, who now works as a private investigator in Santa Fe, said he had been naive about racism because he

had grown up in a small but diverse community where everyone got along. But his experience in the FBI opened his eyes to the rampant discrimination that minority people faced in the federal workforce. In 1987, when he finally had become fed up with the way he had been treated by those at the highest levels of the FBI because of his Mexican heritage, Pérez

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I still feel the sting of recrimination for having filed suit “ against the FBI. … Latinos in the FBI continue the battle that we started. Regrettably, this battle is far from over.” Bernardo “Mat” Pérez

El mitote Actor Esai Morales was spotted at the French Pastry Shop on New Year’s Day. Morales is known for his role in the Richie Valens biopic La Bamba, alongside Lou Diamond Phillips, as well as his role in the Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica. More recently, he could be seen in the Starz original series Magic City. He is currently working on a film called Playin’ For Love. uuu

If you watched the Holiday Bowl between Texas Tech University and Arizona State University on Monday, you may have spotted a familiar face during one of the ads. A commercial for Texas Tech showcasing its famous alumni includes New Mexico-born and part-time Santa Fe resident Susan

Graham, an acclaimed mezzosoprano who starred in The Santa Fe Opera’s Grand Duchess of Gerolstein in 2013. Other celebrities in the ad are CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley and Broncos receiver Wes Welker. Watch the commercial here: http://tinyurl.com/k3t3h57.

April includes the release of Johnny Depp’s sci-fi movie Transcendence, alongside other heavy hitters like the Captain America sequel, The Winter Soldier. In May, some big names take on Esai Morales the box office, including The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and what looks like a pretty fun Godzilla reboot and a new X-Men movie with James McAvoy and uuu Michael Fassbender called Days of Future Past. But the May release El Mitotero is most It’s only January, and it’s already promising excited about is Seth MacFarlane’s comedy to be a good year to hit the theaters, with a handful of movies set for release this year with Western, A Million Ways to Die in the West. The eagerly awaited big-screen follow-up to New Mexico connections. Ted was shot in New Mexico and boasts an January will see the wide release of August: impressive cast that includes Wes Studi, Osage County, as well as Lone Survivor. Neil Patrick Harris, Charlize Theron and March will see the release of the feel-good more. It’s set for a May 30 release. flick 50 to 1, starring Skeet Ulrich and Christian Also in May is the Santa Fe Film Festival, Kane. Filmed in New Mexico, 50 to 1 tells the which is still accepting submissions. Learn true story of horse-racing long-shot Mine That more at http://tinyurl.com/mmqsjla. Bird, who defied big odds to win the Kentucky One more film on El Mitotero’s radar is Derby in 2009. Mine That Bird’s eccentric and George Lopez’s La Vida Robot. loveable jockey, Calvin Borel, will play himself in the film, slated for release March 21. uuu

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is the new year, and my resolution is to install a bell system in the house so that I may ring for tea or breakfast in bed when I awake. It is a most technological and civilized advancement that would surely increase my property value. I don’t know anyone else doing it, nor who to phone to install it, but surely it’s a niche market just waiting to take off. My flights of fancy (or delusions of grandeur) can be influenced by just one thing, and that is the season premier of Downton Abbey Bizia Greene this evening on your PBS affiliate. Etiquette Rules! Downton, you had me at “M’lady” in the first season, and here we are at round four, recovering from the shocking and rather unnecessary departure of Matthew Crawley. Absolutely dreadful what happened to him, but it opens the door to infinite storylines — most likely dapper gents courting the mourning young widow Lady Mary for a piece of her heir’s fortune … and her love and affection, of course. For those of us not living in a great house — I’m in a single-story, so I’m wearing the upstairs and downstairs titles — there is great intrigue in the Edwardianera soap opera, Masterpiece’s most-watched series. Follow the scandals, marriages and heartbreak of the aristocratic Crawleys and their servants, set to the backdrop of early 20th-century England. Downton offers a glimpse into another world where the etiquette is as stiff as the starched shirts. There is no gray area. For better or worse, everyone knows how to navigate in their world. And for the better, we witness the rule-breakers questioning their roles during and after the First World War, and life is never the same. Before we get so informal that we start referring to Lord Grantham as “Bob,” here is a refresher on what these titles and coattails are all about. The British peerage system is divided into five ranks: Duke/Duchess, Marquess (sometimes Marquis)/Marchioness, Earl/Countess, Viscount/Viscountess, and Baron/Baroness. Above dukes are the members of the royal family, with the sovereign at the top. In Downton Abbey, the patriarch is the earl of Grantham, aka Robert Crawley. He is addressed as Lord Grantham. The servants address him as “My Lord” and refer to him as “His Lordship.” His wife refers to him as Robert privately and refers to him as Lord Grantham to others. The lady of the house is the countess of Grantham, aka Cora Crawley. She is addressed as Lady Grantham, “My Lady” and “Her Ladyship.” The other peerage ranks would use the same forms of address except for duke/duchess. Lady Mary, as a daughter of an earl, uses the “Lady Given name” style. Servants address her as “Lady Mary” or “My Lady,” and refer to her as “Her Ladyship.” Her sisters, Lady Edith and Lady Sybil, follow the same usage. The dowager countess of Grantham, aka Violet, is the earl’s widowed mother. She is addressed as “Lady Grantham,” but is usually referred to as “the Dowager,” “the Dowager Lady Grantham” and more formally as “the Dowager Countess” to distinguish her from her daughter-in-law. The servants address her as “My Lady” and refer to her as “Her Ladyship.” Downstairs, the hierarchy is as black-and-white as a tux (an American export). The butler and housekeeper oversee the cook, valets, footmen, housemaids, chauffeurs and more. Unlike upstairs, you can work your way up and competition is fierce. Several of these characters often converge in the dining room after the butler announces dinner is served. White tie and gowns are the norm at these sixplus-course feasts, although dress codes start to relax with the introduction of the dinner jacket, a touch too casual for the dowager, who once exclaimed, “Why don’t you just wear pajamas?” The period drama’s historical accuracy of the protocol, pomp and circumstance of the day has renewed interest in all things etiquette in an age where few rules are taught or enforced. Selecting a few pointers from Downton — like lingering over dinner, paying a visit to “Granny” or bringing your sweetheart breakfast in bed — are applicable in any house, great or not. Bizia Greene is an etiquette consultant and founder of the Etiquette School of Santa Fe. Send your comments and conundrums to etiquette@etiquettesantafe.com or 988-2070.

Taos resident Julia Roberts is making the rounds to promote her new movie, August: Osage County, hitting theaters Jan. 10. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Roberts talked about making the transition from America’s Sweetheart to a mother of three. In a separate interview with USA Today, she talked about not getting entangled in social media and the lure of the Internet. In an interview with a British website, she revealed that one director had asked her to get her freckles removed. This mini-media blitz comes on the cusp of the release of her latest film, an adaptation of Julia Roberts a play with an all-star cast that includes Meryl Streep, Ewan McGregor and 2013’s most ubiquitous actor, Benedict Cumberbatch. Send your celebrity sightings to elmitote@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow the El Mitote blog at www.santafenewmexican.com/news/blogs/ neighbors.

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sued the agency, along with 310 other Hispanic agents. At the time, Pérez said, only about 450 of the agency’s 9,000 agents were Hispanic. The historic discrimination case was heard in 1988 in El Paso, and the Hispanic agents prevailed. A New York Times headline declared, “Judge Finds F.B.I is Discriminatory.” National media sought out Pérez for scores of interviews, and he won awards and acclaim from civilrights organizations. But he said he brought the lawsuit only because he wanted Hispanics in the field to be rewarded for their hard work and to make the FBI a good career choice for younger generations of Latinos.

Klan crossburnings in Florida, police brutality cases in Texas and other civil rights violations. … But I refused to accept and admit that discrimination existed at my beloved FBI.”

Growing up proud Pérez, 74, was born and raised in a diverse mining town — Lone Pine, Calif. — with Italian and Irish families. His parents told him that he should be always proud of the family’s Mexican heritage. Growing up in that small-town community, he said, he didn’t think racism existed in the U.S. “There was no barrio,” he said. “We were all mixed into the town.” Pérez got into law enforcement after following advice from his uncle, a former officer with the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1960s, when the department had few Hispanic officers. “I had told him I wanted to be an officer, too,” Pérez said of his uncle. “But instead, he told me, ‘Go apply at the FBI. They’re more respected and better paid.’ ” He applied for a position with the FBI’s Los Angeles office, but he was told he needed a college education to be an agent. Pérez wanted to get his feet wet in the field, so he applied at the FBI’s Washington, D.C., office, where he got a job in 1960 as a messenger and file clerk. His duties included handling top-secret files and delivering them to agency officials such J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s controversial director. While he was living in D.C., Pérez got accepted to Georgetown University, where he majored in Spanish literature and became fluent in the Spanish language. And in 1963, when he achieved his college degree, he finally became an agent. He was assigned to offices in Florida, Texas and Washington, D.C.

Advancement and retaliation Pérez met Hoover in 1969, when he was sent on an assignment to Mexico. It was nervewracking, he said, because he knew the meeting could determine his rest of his FBI career. “At the end of the meeting, he says, ‘You have anything to ask of me?’ ” Pérez said of Hoover. “And I told him, ‘Yes sir, I have one request: I would like more responsibility.’ ” Hoover was delighted to hear that, Pérez said, and he responded, “As long as I’m the director of this organization, young man, you are going places.” Pérez worked in several FBI divisions before he was designated as special agent in charge of the Puerto Rico office in 1979. Pérez quickly launched his first major investigation in his new position — one of the Puerto Rican nationalist groups fighting for independence from the U.S. had gunned down a bus full of sailors. Two were killed and nine others wounded. Pérez had hoped that with such terrorist attacks occurring on U.S. soil, his bosses would give him the resources he needed to apprehend the nationalist fighters. He asked for computers and more Spanish-speaking agents. But his bosses didn’t take him seriously, he said. After the bus attack, Pérez did get more Spanish-speaking agents, but he was told he would have to wait years for the computers. He had no intention of waiting. He said he went around his bosses at the FBI and secured computers from another government agency. And then he got his manpower

Bernardo “Mat” Pérez Pérez photographed with his wife, Yvonne, for a 1990 Washington Post article. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

focused on Puerto Rico’s terrorists. When it was time for an evaluation, however, Pérez was told by his bosses that they weren’t going to consider his investigative work on the island’s nationalist organizations. Instead, they said, he would be evaluated on his administrative abilities. And he didn’t fare well. Pérez maintains the evaluation was used as an opportunity for his bosses to retaliate against him for going above his director’s head to get computers for his office. A judge later agreed that the evaluation was a pretext for Pérez’s demotion. “I had been demoted and bounced out of San Juan because I lacked administrative abilities — that was the reason [they told me],” Pérez said. “But the real reason was because I was acting like a Latino. I was talking back, and I wasn’t going along with the company line.” Pérez was made an assistant special agent in charge in the Los Angeles bureau, working under Special Agent in Charge Richard Bretzing. “When I got there, [Bretzing] told me, ‘I’m going to try to overlook the fact that you’re a Mexican,’ ” Pérez said.

many agents were outraged, accusing him of embarrassing the agency, and he even threatened to bring another lawsuit just to get respect from his bosses, he said. He was transferred to Albuquerque in 1991, where worked as special agent in charge for several years until retiring to Santa Fe in 1995 after 33 years of FBI service. Since then, he has worked as an international security consultant and a private investigator. Pérez said he has been talking to movie producers who are interested in making a film about his fight for equality in the FBI. Despite the 1988 court ruling, however, that battle isn’t over. “I still feel the sting of recrimination for having filed suit against the FBI,” he told the EEOC in 2008. “… Latinos in the FBI continue the battle that we started. Regrettably, this battle is far from over. It continues in the FBI and throughout our federal government and our nation.” Contact Uriel J. Garcia at 9863062 or ugarcia@sfnewmexican. com. Follow him on Twitter @ ujohnnyg.

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A painful, costly lawsuit Although he had experienced discrimination firsthand, accepting that it was widespread in the agency was difficult for Pérez. At an October 2008 meeting of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about issues facing Hispanic federal workers, he described his dilemma at the FBI: “I had investigated Klan cross-burnings in Florida, police brutality cases in Texas and other civil rights violations,” he said. ” … But I refused to accept and admit that discrimination existed at my beloved FBI. I even argued with my own father and insisted that the FBI was incapable of discrimination. But I finally came to understand a painful truth — He was right, I was wrong.” Initiating the historic lawsuit was costly for Pérez. He had to borrow thousands of dollars from friends and family members, and he maxed out his credit cards, he said. And even though the court ruled in his favor, there was no monetary compensation. During his talk at the EEOC meeting, he said his successful attorneys had gone bankrupt after the trial. Still, he said, the case opened the doors for major changes at the FBI — and more lawsuits against federal agencies that were discriminating against minorities.

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We had no “ Bairstow, Lobos hold off Colorado State answer for him. The University of New Mexico power CSU 73 forward scored the Lobos’ first seven points en route to matching a career By Will Webber high for points (29) and establishing a The New Mexican new standard for rebounds (14), free throws made (13) and attempted (20) in ALBUQUERQUE — It didn’t take long helping UNM claim an 80-73 win over for everyone in The Pit to figure out that Colorado State. no one was capable of guarding CamThe Mountain West Conference eron Bairstow on Saturday afternoon. opener for New Mexico (10-3, 1-0) was

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the program’s 16th straight conference win at home. For Bairstow, it was just another reason for Colorado State to shudder at the site of a UNM player getting hot. Last February, guard Kendall Williams likely sealed his status as MWC player of the year when he dropped in a career-high 46 points in a win in Fort Collins, Colo. This time around, it was Bairstow’s turn to light up the Rams. “We had no answer for him,” said

CSU head coach Larry Eustachy. “We even put our guards on him and we couldn’t stay in front of him.” With center Alex Kirk again having a sub-par game by his standards — he did manage his ninth double-double of the season with 10 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks, but was just 5-for-14 from the field and 0-for-3 from 3-point distance — Bairstow quickly became the

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It must have been something he said at halftime. When the Santa Fe Preparatory boys basketball team came out to start the second half of their nondistrict game against Tularosa on Saturday in Prep Gymnasium, the game was tied at 25, which was upsetting to Blue Griffin head Prep 65 coach Dennis Casados. Tularosa 33 Whatever Casados told his team at halftime must have worked, because the Blue Griffins outscored the Wildcats 40-8 in the second half to pick up a 65-33 victory to start the new year. Prep (8-4) had a 14-9 lead at the end of the first quarter, but they allowed Tularosa to go on a 12-7 run in the second quarter to tie the game at the break. The run also gave Casados fuel for a halftime speech. “We had a little talk with them at halftime about how we were doing things, both offensively and defensively,” Casados said. The Blue Griffins heeded his words and opened the second quarter with an 18-0 run, which essentially dashed any of Tularosa’s hopes

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PASADENA, Calif. hat you probably didn’t know about Monday’s Bowl Championship Series championship is that it will be played on an entirely fresh field, placed directly atop the one you saw Wednesday at the Rose Bowl. Like a blanket over another blanket. Senseless, right? By all accounts, that Rose Bowl field was still nearly flawless after Wednesday’s game, but that didn’t stop groundskeepers. Foolish perfectionism is a Pasadena birthright and one I don’t condone. Yet that’s

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JACONA rianna Pacheco saves her smiles for off the basketball court. On it, she’s all business. “I am,” said Mora’s junior forward. “I don’t like to lose. It’s not that I’m not happy or mad. I don’t take it as a joke. I love this sport and I have a heart for it.” The problem on Saturday night, though, was that her traditional game-face scowl might have indicated something more than business as usual. While Mora claimed its third straight Northern Rio Grande Tournament title with a 41-34 win over District 2AA foe Pecos in Pojoaque Valley’s Ben Luján Gymnasium, it was not the same ol’ Rangerettes. The Rangerettes (9-0) looked flat at times throughout the tournament and disorganized at others. They made bad passes, missed free throws and, in the championship game, allowed Pecos to stay in the game when they had a chance to seal the win. Perhaps the perplexity of the weekend was apparent when senior wing Gerty Herrera took a midcourt inbounds pass with a little more than a minute left in the game with no one in front of her. She hesitated, then went to the basket before being fouled. To cap it off, she missed both free throws. “She thought too much,” Mora head coach Mark Cassidy said. “And maybe we are. I don’t know. I can’t put my finger on it yet.” One thing Cassidy knew was that Pecos (4-5) couldn’t contain Mora in the paint. It didn’t help that Pecos has been without 5-foot-11 post Bianca Soliz for most of the season with a hip injury. With the 5-foot-6 Ida Valencia and the 5-foot-7 Brook Gallegos to defend the paint, Pacheco, cousin Destiny Pacheco and Carmel-

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We even put our guards on him and we couldn’t stay in front of him.”

Pecos’ Cassie CdeBaca, right, tries to block Mora’s Gerty Herrera as she goes up for a layup during the fourth quarter of their game in the Northern Rio Grande Tournament on Saturday at Pojoaque Valley High School. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

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Peñasco wins 1st tourney trophy since 2010 By James Barron The New Mexican

Two weeks ago, the Peñasco Panthers hit rock bottom. On Saturday, they brought home a reward for enduring their worst loss of the season. The PanPeñasco 60 thers put McCurdy 48 on one of their best performances of the season in the championship of the Northern Rio Grande Tournament in Ben Luján Gymnasium, beating McCurdy 60-48 to take home the tournament trophy for the first time since 2010. More important, though, is that Peñasco regained a measure of confidence and respect that was lost in the mire of a 75-30 loss to Laguna-Acoma in opening round of the Ben Luján Tournament on Dec. 19. Panthers head coach Tom

Shields already knows where that game stands in the context of this season. “We bottomed out that day,” said Shields, in his first year as head coach. “We were hurt, we were embarrassed. I had their attention more after that, but we still have a long way to go.” But winning can make that path more enjoyable. So can playing tough, sound defense. The Panthers (7-4) did that during a crucial 6-minute stretch that saw a slim 43-40 lead grow into a more comfortable 53-40 margin when Tim Fernandez buried a 3-pointer with 5:29 left in the game. McCurdy (10-4) missed six straight shots during that stretch, and the cold streak wasn’t snapped until Richard Wisecarver hit a pair of free throws with 3:57 left to make it 53-42. “Guys were just trying to hard to make things happen,”

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McCurdy head coach Ruben Archuleta said. “They just couldn’t let the game come to them.” Fernandez and Alex Gonzales had no problems with that. Fernandez had 12 of his 15 points in the second half as he showed a smooth 3-point stroke and an ability to get to the rim despite his 5-foot-6 frame. He twice had offensive rebounds that led to putbacks, including one among bigger Bobcats with 1:16 left in the third quarter that started the 10-0 run. Not even teammates could explain his ability to be in the right place at the right time. “I don’t know, but he’s improved so much in the last couple of years,” senior post Josh Gurule said. Gonzales had 25 points — some

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Peñasco’s Tim Fernandez, right, tries to block McCurdy’s David Sanchez during the first quarter of their game in the Northern Rio Grande Tournament on Saturday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

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FOOTBALL FOOTBALL NFL PLAYOFFS Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 45, Kansas City 44 New Orleans 26, Philadelphia 24 Sunday, Jan. 5 San Diego at Cincinnati, 11:05 a.m. (CBS) San Fran. at Green Bay, 2:40 p.m. (FOX)

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 11 Green Bay, San Francisco or New Orleans at Seattle, 2:35 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati or Indianpolis at New England, 6:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday, Jan. 12 Green Bay or San Francisco at Carolina, 11:05 a.m. (FOX) Indianapolis or San Diego at Denver, 2:40 p.m. (CBS)

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 19 AFC, 1 p.m. (CBS) NFC, 4:30 p.m. (FOX)

Colts 45, Chiefs 44 Kansas City 10 21 10 3—44 Indianapolis 7 3 21 14—45 First Quarter KC—Bowe 6 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 8:11. Ind—Hilton 10 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 4:34. KC—FG Succop 19, :53. Second Quarter KC—Avery 79 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 14:39. KC—Sherman 5 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 13:05. Ind—FG Vinatieri 37, 9:14. KC—Davis 4 run (Succop kick), 1:51. Third Quarter KC—Davis 10 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 13:39. Ind—D.Brown 10 run (Vinatieri kick), 11:47. Ind—D.Brown 3 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 7:32. KC—FG Succop 42, 4:12. Ind—Fleener 12 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 2:31. Fourth Quarter Ind—Luck 2 offensive fumble return (Vinatieri kick), 10:38. KC—FG Succop 43, 5:36. Ind—Hilton 64 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 4:21. A—63,551. KC Ind First downs 30 28 Total Net Yards 513 536 Rushes-yards 32-150 19-100 Passing 363 436 Punt Returns 1-6 0-0 Kickoff Returns 7-187 3-90 Interceptions Ret. 3-22 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 30-46-0 29-45-3 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-15 1-7 Punts 2-39.0 1-51.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-1 Penalties-Yards 2-15 4-19 Time of Possession 37:33 22:27 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Kansas City, Davis 18-67, A.Smith 8-57, Charles 3-18, Gray 2-5, McCluster 1-3. Indianapolis, D.Brown 11-55, Luck 7-45, Richardson 1-0. PASSING—Kansas City, A.Smith 30-460-378. Indianapolis, Luck 29-45-3-443. RECEIVING—Kansas City, Bowe 8-150, McCluster 7-52, Davis 7-33, Hemingway 2-30, Fasano 2-6, Sherman 2-1, Avery 1-79, Jenkins 1-27. Indianapolis, Hilton 13-224, Fleener 5-46, Brazill 4-54, D.Brown 4-47, Whalen 2-26, Rogers 1-46. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Saints 26, Eagles 24 New Orleans 0 6 14 6—26 Philadelphia 0 7 7 10—24 Second Quarter NO—FG S.Graham 36, 8:37. Phi—Cooper 10 pass from Foles (Henery kick), 1:48. NO—FG S.Graham 46, :00. Third Quarter NO—Moore 24 pass from Brees (S.Graham kick), 10:08. NO—Ingram 4 run (S.Graham kick), 3:54. Phi—McCoy 1 run (Henery kick), :32. Fourth Quarter Phi—FG Henery 31, 11:14. NO—FG S.Graham 35, 8:04. Phi—Ertz 3 pass from Foles (Henery kick), 4:54. NO—FG S.Graham 32, :00. A—69,144. NO Phi First downs 26 17 Total Net Yards 434 256 Rushes-yards 36-185 22-80 Passing 249 176 Punt Returns 3-31 1-29 Kickoff Returns 4-98 5-124 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-47 Comp-Att-Int 20-30-2 23-33-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-1 2-19 Punts 3-35.0 5-48.8 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 7-85 4-38 Time of Possession 34:53 25:07 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—New Orleans, Ingram 18-97, K.Robinson 8-45, Sproles 4-29, Brees 5-13, Stills 1-1. Philadelphia, McCoy 21-77, Foles 1-3. PASSING—New Orleans, Brees 20-302-250. Philadelphia, Foles 23-33-0-195. RECEIVING—New Orleans, Sproles 4-31, J.Graham 3-44, Stills 3-35, Ingram 3-17, Moore 2-31, Colston 2-16, Meachem 1-40, Watson 1-27, Hill 1-9. Philadelphia, Cooper 6-68, Avant 5-21, McCoy 4-15, Jackson 3-53, Ertz 3-22, Celek 2-16. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Philadelphia, Henery 48 (WL).

NFL Injury Report SAN DIEGO CHARGERS at CINCINNATI BENGALS CHARGERS: QUESTIONABLE: DE Sean Lissemore (shoulder), WR Eddie Royal (toe). PROBABLE: RB Ryan Mathews (ankle), DE Kendall Reyes (ankle). BENGALS: DOUBTFUL: CB Terence Newman (knee). QUESTIONABLE: C Kyle Cook (foot), TE Tyler Eifert (neck), DE Wallace Gilberry (concussion), TE Jermaine Gresham (hamstring). PROBABLE: T Anthony Collins (ankle), S Chris Crocker (knee), WR A.J. Green (knee), CB Dre Kirkpatrick (illness), LB Vincent Rey (ankle), T Andre Smith (ankle), G Andrew Whitworth (ankle). SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS at GREEN BAY PACKERS 49ERS: QUESTIONABLE: CB Carlos Rogers (hamstring), LB Dan Skuta (foot), CB Eric Wright (hamstring). PROBABLE: WR Jon Baldwin (illness), LB NaVorro Bowman (wrist), CB Tarell Brown (ribs), WR Michael Crabtree (quadriceps), C Jonathan Goodwin (not injury related), RB Frank Gore (knee), G Mike Iupati (knee), DT Justin Smith (shoulder). PACKERS: OUT: LB Clay Matthews (thumb). PROBABLE: LB Brad Jones (ankle), RB Eddie Lacy (ankle), LB Mike Neal (abdomen), LB Nick Perry (foot), DT Ryan Pickett (knee).

NCAA FOOTBALL FBS Bowls Saturday’s Result BBVA Compass Bowl Vanderbilt 41 Houston 24 Friday’s Results Discover Orange Bowl Clemson 40 Ohio State 35 AT&T Cotton Bowl Missouri 41 Oklahoma State 31 Sunday’s Game GoDaddy Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State (7-5) vs. Ball State (10-2), 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 6 VIZIO BCS National Championship At Pasadena, Calif. Florida State (13-0) vs. Auburn (12-1), 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18 East-West Shrine Classic East vs. West, 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25 Senior Bowl South vs. North, 2 p.m.

Previous Results Valero Alamo Bowl Oregon 30 Texas 7 National University Holiday Bowl Texas Tech 37 Arizona State 23 AdvoCare V100 Bowl Arizona 42 Boston College 19 Hyundai Sun Bowl UCLA 42 Virginia Tech 12 AutoZone Liberty Bowl Mississippi State 44 Rice 7 Chick-ﬁl-A Bowl Texas A&M 52 Duke 48 Heart of Dallas Bowl North Texas 36 UNLV 14 TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl Nebraska 24 Georgia 19 Capital One Bowl South Carolina 34 Wisconsin 24 Outback Bowl: LSU 21 Iowa 14 Rose Bowl pres. by VIZIO Michigan State 24 Stanford 20 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl UCF 52 Baylor 42 Allstate Sugar Bowl Oklahoma 45 Alabama 31

Vanderbilt 41, Houston 24 Vanderbilt 14 10 0 17—41 Houston 0 0 24 0—24 First Quarter Van—Matthews 50 pass from Robinette (Spear kick), 9:57. Van—Robinette 8 run (Spear kick), 1:33. Second Quarter Van—FG Spear 24, 10:27. Van—Matthews 50 pass from Robinette (Spear kick), 7:09. Third Quarter Hou—Farrow 6 run (Bullard kick), 10:12. Hou—Ambles 6 pass from O’Korn (Bullard kick), 6:25. Hou—FG Bullard 30, 3:19. Hou—Greenberry 67 pass from O’Korn (Bullard kick), :19. Fourth Quarter Van—Kimbrow 21 run (Spear kick), 9:28. Van—FG Spear 35, 6:17. Van—Seymour 2 run (Spear kick), 1:42. A—42,717. Van Hou First downs 14 12 Rushes-yards 52-211 27-146 Passing 154 238 Comp-Att-Int 6-19-2 21-49-2 Return Yards 72 2 Punts-Avg. 10-45.2 10-43.6 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 2-1 Penalties-Yards 2-10 8-72 Time of Possession 35:41 24:19 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Vanderbilt, Seymour 20-89, Kimbrow 13-75, Robinette 15-37, Matthews 1-8, Tate 3-2. Houston, Spencer 3-69, O’Korn 7-38, Farrow 8-28, Brooks 2-8, R.Jackson 2-6, Ward Jr. 5-(minus 3). PASSING—Vanderbilt, Robinette 6-192-154. Houston, O’Korn 20-47-2-228, Ward Jr. 1-2-0-10. RECEIVING—Vanderbilt, Matthews 5-143, Krause 1-11. Houston, Ambles 6-105, Greenberry 6-96, R.Jackson 2-26, Ayers 2-14, Spencer 2-4, Harper 1-(minus 2), Ward Jr. 1-(minus 2), McDuffey 1-(minus 3).

TENNIS TENNIS ATP-WTA TOUR Brisbane International Saturday At Queensland Tennis Centre Brisbane, Australia Purse: Men, $511,825 (WT250); Women, $1 million (Premier) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men Semiﬁnals Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, def. Kei Nishikori (2), Japan, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3. Roger Federer (1), Switzerland, def. Jeremy Chardy (8), France, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-3. Women Championship Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Victoria Azarenka (2), Belarus, 6-4, 7-5.

ATP WORLD TOUR Qatar ExxonMobil Open Saturday At The Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex, Doha, Qatar; Purse: $1.195 million (WT250) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Championship Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Gael Monﬁls, France, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2.

GOLF GOLF PGA TOUR Tournament of Champions Saturday At Kapalua Resort, The Plantation Course, Kapalua, Hawaii Purse: $5.7 million; Yardage: 7,452; Par 73; Second Round Zach Johnson 67-66—133 Dustin Johnson 70-66—136 Matt Kuchar 68-68—136 Jordan Spieth 66-70—136 Webb Simpson 66-71—137 Michael Thompson 66-71—137 Ryan Moore 67-71—138 Kevin Streelman 67-71—138 Brandt Snedeker 70-69—139 Ken Duke 70-69—139 Jason Dufner 67-72—139 Adam Scott 70-70—140 Gary Woodland 71-70—141 Harris English 70-71—141 Chris Kirk 66-75—141 Woody Austin 72-70—142 Patrick Reed 70-72—142 Sang-Moon Bae 69-73—142 Martin Laird 71-72—143 Billy Horschel 72-72—144 Russell Henley 72-72—144 Bill Haas 71-73—144 Scott Brown 71-73—144 Boo Weekley 71-74—145 Jonas Blixt 76-70—146 Jimmy Walker 73-73—146 D.A. Points 72-74—146 Brian Gay 70-76—146 John Merrick 71-76—147 Derek Ernst 79-76—155

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Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB San Antonio 26 8 .765 — Houston 22 13 .629 4½ Dallas 19 14 .576 6½ New Orleans 15 17 .469 10 Memphis 14 18 .438 11 Northwest W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 26 7 .788 — Portland 26 8 .765 ½ Minnesota 16 17 .485 10 Denver 15 17 .469 10½ Utah 11 25 .306 16½ Paciﬁc W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 23 13 .639 — Golden State 22 13 .629 ½ Phoenix 20 12 .625 1 L.A. Lakers 14 19 .424 7½ Sacramento 10 22 .313 11 Saturday’s Games Miami 110, Orlando 94 Indiana 99, New Orleans 82 Brooklyn 89, Cleveland 82 Chicago 91, Atlanta 84 Oklahoma City 115, Minnesota 111 San Antonio 116, L.A. Clippers 92 Phoenix 116, Milwaukee 100 Philadelphia 101, Portland 99 Charlotte 113, Sacramento 103 Friday’s Games Toronto 101, Washington 88 New Orleans 95, Boston 92 Golden State 101, Atlanta 100 Houston 102, New York 100 L.A. Clippers 119, Dallas 112 Denver 111, Memphis 108 L.A. Lakers 110, Utah 99 Sunday’s Games Memphis at Detroit, 11 a.m. Golden State at Washington, 4 p.m. Indiana at Cleveland, 4 p.m. Toronto at Miami, 4 p.m. Boston at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m. New York at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Denver at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

Heat 110, Magic 94 MIAMI (110) James 5-13 5-8 15, Lewis 6-11 3-3 18, Bosh 9-9 2-3 20, Chalmers 4-6 0-0 9, Wade 8-15 4-5 20, Allen 0-4 1-1 1, Andersen 1-3 4-4 6, Cole 3-5 0-0 8, Beasley 4-7 5-7 13, Anthony 0-1 0-0 0, Mason Jr. 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-74 24-31 110. ORLANDO (94) Harris 7-16 2-2 17, Nicholson 0-4 0-0 0, Davis 5-9 4-6 14, Nelson 7-11 2-2 21, Afﬂalo 5-16 6-6 16, Oladipo 5-13 4-4 16, Maxiell 0-1 0-2 0, Moore 2-5 2-2 6, Harkless 2-4 0-0 4, Price 0-1 0-0 0, O’Quinn 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-80 20-24 94. Miami 30 18 33 29—110 Orlando 24 22 24 24—94 3-Point Goals—Miami 6-16 (Lewis 3-6, Cole 2-3, Chalmers 1-3, James 0-1, Andersen 0-1, Allen 0-2), Orlando 8-26 (Nelson 5-8, Oladipo 2-6, Harris 1-5, Harkless 0-1, Moore 0-1, Afﬂalo 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Miami 48 (James 8), Orlando 44 (Harris 10). Assists—Miami 23 (James 8), Orlando 16 (Nelson 6). Total Fouls—Miami 16, Orlando 24. Technicals—Orlando defensive three second. A—18,846 (18,500).

Spurs 116, Clippers 92 L.A. CLIPPERS (92) Dudley 3-6 0-0 6, Grifﬁn 7-15 5-7 19, Jordan 2-5 0-0 4, Collison 6-9 1-2 14, Crawford 10-22 3-5 24, W.Green 4-8 0-0 8, Barnes 2-9 3-4 7, Jackson 0-0 0-0 0, Jamison 0-2 2-2 2, Hollins 1-1 1-1 3, Mullens 2-2 0-0 5. Totals 37-79 15-21 92. SAN ANTONIO (116) Leonard 5-8 0-0 10, Duncan 9-18 1-1 19, Splitter 8-12 6-9 22, Parker 8-9 1-1 17, Belinelli 2-5 0-0 5, Ginobili 6-11 2-3 15, D.Green 1-8 0-0 3, Ayres 3-5 0-0 6, Mills 3-6 0-0 7, De Colo 0-2 2-2 2, Bonner 1-1 0-0 2, Baynes 3-4 0-0 6, Joseph 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 50-90 12-16 116. L.A. Clippers 17 18 35 22—92 San Antonio 37 33 18 28—116 3-Point Goals—L.A. Clippers 3-15 (Mullens 1-1, Crawford 1-2, Collison 1-2, Jamison 0-1, W.Green 0-2, Dudley 0-2, Barnes 0-5), San Antonio 4-18 (Belinelli 1-1, Mills 1-4, Ginobili 1-4, D.Green 1-7, Leonard 0-1, De Colo 0-1). Fouled Out—Jordan. Rebounds— L.A. Clippers 44 (Jordan 10), San Antonio 48 (Duncan 11). Assists—L.A. Clippers 21 (Crawford 7), San Antonio 34 (Parker 9). Total Fouls—L.A. Clippers 24, San Antonio 20. A—18,581 (18,797).

Thunder 115, T’wolves 111 OKLAHOMA CITY (115) Durant 16-32 12-13 48, Ibaka 6-13 0-0 12, Perkins 0-0 0-0 0, Jackson 3-6 4-4 10, Sefolosha 2-7 0-0 5, Collison 4-6 0-0 8, Lamb 2-7 5-5 9, Adams 4-5 2-2 10, Fisher 3-7 4-4 13, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-83 27-28 115. MINNESOTA (111) Brewer 6-14 2-4 15, Love 11-21 3-7 30, Pekovic 13-22 5-8 31, Rubio 4-13 5-6 13, Martin 7-14 2-3 17, Shved 0-2 0-0 0, Cunningham 0-2 0-0 0, Barea 2-5 1-1 5, Hummel 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 43-94 18-29 111. Oklahoma City 26 23 28 38—115 Minnesota 30 25 32 24—111 3-Point Goals—Oklahoma City 8-24 (Durant 4-9, Fisher 3-6, Sefolosha 1-4, Jackson 0-1, Lamb 0-2, Ibaka 0-2), Minnesota 7-20 (Love 5-9, Martin 1-3, Brewer 1-4, Barea 0-2, Rubio 0-2). Fouled Out—Brewer. Rebounds— Oklahoma City 53 (Adams 9), Minnesota 53 (Love 14). Assists—Oklahoma City 22 (Durant 7), Minnesota 25 (Rubio 10). Total Fouls—Oklahoma City 29, Minnesota 24. Technicals— Durant, Oklahoma City defensive three second. A—18,065 (19,356).

Bulls 91, Hawks 84 ATLANTA (84) Carroll 4-8 1-2 10, Millsap 5-18 6-6 16, Antic 3-8 0-0 9, J.Teague 7-16 2-2 16, Korver 3-9 0-0 8, Brand 2-4 0-0 4, Williams 2-6 1-1 5, Scott 4-10 2-3 12, Mack 2-7 0-0 4. Totals 32-86 12-14 84. CHICAGO (91) Deng 5-15 6-6 17, Gibson 4-12 2-2 10, Noah 3-7 4-6 10, Hinrich 2-3 0-0 5, Butler 4-11 2-4 11, Dunleavy 9-14 0-0 20, Mohammed 2-6 3-4 7, Augustin 4-13 2-2 11, Snell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-81 19-24 91. Atlanta 18 27 19 20—84 Chicago 26 24 17 24—91

3-Point Goals—Atlanta 8-28 (Antic 3-5, Scott 2-4, Korver 2-7, Carroll 1-2, Williams 0-1, Mack 0-2, Millsap 0-3, J.Teague 0-4), Chicago 6-17 (Dunleavy 2-3, Deng 1-1, Hinrich 1-2, Butler 1-5, Augustin 1-6). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Atlanta 50 (Millsap 12), Chicago 59 (Gibson, Noah 12). Assists—Atlanta 21 (J.Teague 6), Chicago 19 (Augustin 7). Total Fouls— Atlanta 20, Chicago 15. Technicals— Chicago defensive three second. A—21,539 (20,917).

Nets 89, Cavaliers 82 CLEVELAND (82) Clark 3-9 0-0 7, Thompson 3-8 3-4 9, Varejao 2-6 0-0 4, Jack 1-8 0-0 2, Miles 6-19 5-8 19, Waiters 9-18 5-6 26, Zeller 1-2 0-0 2, Dellavedova 4-7 1-2 13, Bennett 0-2 0-0 0, Sims 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-79 14-20 82. BROOKLYN (89) Johnson 1-7 0-0 2, Pierce 6-14 3-3 17, Evans 3-6 2-4 8, Williams 7-10 6-7 21, Livingston 3-8 0-0 6, Kirilenko 2-3 4-4 8, Anderson 1-6 0-0 3, Blatche 4-10 4-4 12, Teletovic 3-6 0-0 9, Terry 1-1 0-0 3, Plumlee 0-0 0-0 0, Taylor 0-0 0-0 0, Shengelia 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-71 19-22 89. Cleveland 17 21 27 17—82 Brooklyn 22 29 16 22—89 3-Point Goals—Cleveland 10-22 (Dellavedova 4-4, Waiters 3-5, Miles 2-8, Clark 1-4, Jack 0-1), Brooklyn 8-24 (Teletovic 3-6, Pierce 2-6, Terry 1-1, Anderson 1-3, Williams 1-3, Johnson 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Cleveland 60 (Varejao 12), Brooklyn 39 (Evans 11). Assists—Cleveland 14 (Jack 7), Brooklyn 24 (Williams 6). Total Fouls—Cleveland 22, Brooklyn 18. Technicals—Waiters. A—17,732 (17,732).

Pacers 99, Pelicans 82 NEW ORLEANS (82) Aminu 4-8 0-0 8, Davis 4-12 2-4 10, Ajinca 5-7 7-10 17, Holiday 4-9 0-2 8, Gordon 9-16 0-0 21, Stiemsma 0-2 0-0 0, Evans 3-9 6-7 12, Miller 0-0 0-0 0, Roberts 2-5 2-3 6, Withey 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-68 17-26 82. INDIANA (99) George 8-24 6-7 24, West 4-8 0-0 8, Hibbert 2-7 2-4 6, G.Hill 4-9 0-0 10, Stephenson 8-12 3-4 19, Granger 4-7 3-3 13, Scola 4-7 0-0 8, Watson 3-5 0-0 6, Mahinmi 1-3 0-1 2, Butler 1-1 0-0 3, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0, Sloan 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-83 14-19 99. New Orleans 27 22 12 21—82 Indiana 15 29 30 25—99 3-Point Goals—New Orleans 3-9 (Gordon 3-5, Evans 0-1, Aminu 0-1, Roberts 0-1, Holiday 0-1), Indiana 7-22 (Granger 2-4, G.Hill 2-6, George 2-9, Butler 1-1, Stephenson 0-1, Watson 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— New Orleans 44 (Davis 8), Indiana 51 (George 10). Assists—New Orleans 15 (Holiday 7), Indiana 20 (George, West 5). Total Fouls—New Orleans 18, Indiana 23. Technicals—Davis, Holiday, New Orleans Bench. A—18,165 (18,165).

Suns 116, Bucks 100 MILWAUKEE (100) Antetokounmpo 0-2 0-0 0, Ilyasova 6-9 0-1 12, Sanders 3-5 1-2 7, Knight 8-12 8-9 25, Ridnour 1-4 0-0 2, Middleton 3-6 1-2 7, Butler 6-11 0-0 16, Mayo 7-11 2-2 20, Udoh 0-0 2-2 2, Neal 3-8 2-2 9, Wolters 0-0 0-0 0, Raduljica 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-68 16-20 100. PHOENIX (116) Tucker 3-8 2-2 8, Frye 7-12 2-2 22, Plumlee 2-4 5-7 9, Dragic 5-13 4-4 15, Green 9-14 2-2 24, Goodwin 2-4 3-4 7, Mark.Morris 5-6 4-4 14, Marc.Morris 3-12 0-0 7, Smith 4-10 0-0 8, Christmas 1-2 0-0 2, Kravtsov 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-85 22-25 116. Milwaukee 26 23 29 22—100 Phoenix 28 32 27 29—116 3-Point Goals—Milwaukee 10-21 (Mayo 4-5, Butler 4-6, Knight 1-1, Neal 1-5, Middleton 0-1, Ilyasova 0-3), Phoenix 12-27 (Frye 6-9, Green 4-7, Dragic 1-2, Marc.Morris 1-4, Christmas 0-1, Tucker 0-2, Smith 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Milwaukee 40 (Middleton 8), Phoenix 42 (Plumlee 9). Assists—Milwaukee 18 (Knight 8), Phoenix 20 (Smith 8). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 20, Phoenix 21. Technicals—Antetokounmpo, Green. A—14,344 (18,422).

76ers 101, Trail Blazers 99 PHILADELPHIA (101) Young 14-20 1-2 30, Turner 9-20 3-4 23, Hawes 3-8 2-2 9, Carter-Williams 5-16 6-8 16, Thompson 1-3 0-0 2, Anderson 1-4 1-1 3, Allen 3-6 0-0 6, Wroten 4-10 4-7 12, E.Williams 0-1 0-0 0, Davies 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-88 17-24 101. PORTLAND (99) Batum 1-9 2-2 4, Aldridge 13-30 3-3 29, Lopez 4-8 6-10 14, Lillard 6-20 4-4 17, Matthews 4-12 5-7 13, Freeland 2-4 0-0 4, M.Williams 5-13 4-4 16, Wright 0-1 0-0 0, Leonard 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 36-99 24-30 99. Philadelphia 32 20 17 32—101 Portland 19 31 26 23—99 3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 4-14 (Turner 2-3, Hawes 1-1, Young 1-3, Wroten 0-1, Thompson 0-2, CarterWilliams 0-2, Anderson 0-2), Portland 3-22 (M.Williams 2-6, Lillard 1-6, Wright 0-1, Batum 0-4, Matthews 0-5). Fouled Out—Batum. Rebounds— Philadelphia 51 (Hawes, CarterWilliams 9), Portland 73 (Lopez 15). Assists—Philadelphia 18 (Hawes 7), Portland 26 (Batum 10). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 25, Portland 20. A—20,004 (19,980).

Bobcats 113, Kings 103 CHARLOTTE (113) Douglas-Roberts 4-9 1-2 10, McRoberts 2-6 0-0 5, Jefferson 11-21 5-7 27, Walker 12-19 2-3 30, Henderson 7-13 1-2 16, Sessions 5-9 2-4 12, Zeller 2-2 2-3 6, Tolliver 2-3 0-0 6, Biyombo 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 45-83 14-23 113. SACRAMENTO (103) Gay 8-14 1-2 17, Thompson 7-9 1-2 15, Cousins 8-23 10-14 26, Thomas 9-17 1-1 21, McLemore 2-8 0-0 5, Williams 2-4 0-0 5, Acy 0-0 0-0 0, Thornton 5-10 0-0 12, Fredette 1-7 0-0 2, Gray 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 42-92 13-19 103. Charlotte 32 33 24 24—113 Sacramento 27 25 30 21—103 3-Point Goals—Charlotte 9-15 (Walker 4-6, Tolliver 2-2, McRoberts 1-2, Henderson 1-2, Douglas-Roberts 1-3), Sacramento 6-17 (Thornton 2-3, Thomas 2-5, Williams 1-1, McLemore 1-4, Cousins 0-2, Fredette 0-2). Fouled Out—Biyombo. Rebounds—Charlotte 45 (McRoberts 11), Sacramento 58 (Thompson 14). Assists—Charlotte 22 (Walker 6), Sacramento 17 (Thomas 8). Total Fouls—Charlotte 19, Sacramento 23. Technicals—Acy. A—16,410 (17,317).

NBA Leaders Through Jan. 3 Scoring Durant, OKC Love, MIN Anthony, NYK James, MIA Harden, HOU

G 32 31 29 31 29

FG 296 271 271 289 212

FT 260 197 175 167 224

PTS 916 815 761 790 708

AVG 28.6 26.3 26.2 25.5 24.4

NCAA Men’s Top 25 Saturday’s Results No. 1 Arizona 71 Washington 62 No. 2 Syracuse 49 Miami 44 No. 3 Ohio State 84 Nebraska 53 No. 5 Michigan State 73 Indiana 56 Kansas State 74 No. 6 Okla State 71 Notre Dame 79 No. 7 Duke 77 No. 12 Florida 67 Richmond 58 No. 13 Iowa State 73 Texas Tech 62 No. 14 Louisville 83 Rutgers 76 SMU 74 No. 17 UConn 65 Cincinnati 69 No. 18 Memphis 53 No. 23 UMass 73 Miami (Ohio) 65 No. 24 Gonzaga 86, Paciﬁc 64 No. 25 Missouri 69 Long Beach St 59 Sunday’s Games No. 4 Wisconsin vs. No. 22 Iowa No. 8 Wichita State vs. Northern Iowa No. 10 Oregon at No. 20 Colorado No. 11 Villanova vs. Providence No. 16 Kansas vs. No. 21 San Diego St. No. 19 North Carolina at Wake Forest

Men’s Division I East Albany (NY) 81, Hartford 56 Canisius 67, St. Peter’s 63 Clemson 62, Boston College 60 Columbia 81, St. Francis (NY) 61 Creighton 79, Seton Hall 66 Delaware 82, Cal Poly 72 Georgetown 77, St. John’s 60 Iona 118, Niagara 92 La Salle 76, Penn 57 Louisville 83, Rutgers 76 Manhattan 83, Fairfield 57 NJIT 64, St. Francis (Pa.) 56 Quinnipiac 94, Monmouth (NJ) 77 Sacred Heart 66, New Hampshire 53 Saint Joseph’s 53, Denver 52 Siena 62, Rider 47 St. Bonaventure 81, Cornell 57 Syracuse 49, Miami 44 UMass 73, Miami (Ohio) 65 Vermont 62, Dartmouth 53 South Alabama 64, Robert Morris 56 Alabama A&M 68, Jackson St. 61 Alabama St. 68, Grambling St. 51 Ark.-Pine Bluff 78, MVSU 73 Auburn 81, Florida A&M 50 Austin Peay 80, SE Missouri 74 Belmont 64, Tennessee Tech 62 Charlotte 88, NC A&T 72 Chattanooga 72, Furman 63 Cincinnati 69, Memphis 53 Coll. of Charleston 60, Howard 50 Davidson 78, Wofford 63 Dayton 83, Mississippi 80, OT Delaware St. 70, Campbell 60 ETSU 71, Kennesaw St. 55 Florida 67, Richmond 58 Georgia Southern 80, Samford 78 Georgia St. 73, South Alabama 63 Hampton 87, Radford 60 Houston 67, South Florida 58 James Madison 60, UNC Wilmngtn 55 Louisiana Tech 126, Longwood 52 Louisiana-Monroe 103, LouisianaLafayette 98, 2OT Maryland 77, Georgia Tech 61 McNeese St. 82, New Orleans 69 Mercer 62, SC-Upstate 60, OT N. Kentucky 73, Jacksonville 66 Nicholls St. 64, SE Louisiana 61 North Florida 78, Lipscomb 73 Northwestern St. 99, Lamar 85 Ohio 79, UNC Asheville 70 Old Dominion 71, George Mason 66 Pittsburgh 74, NC State 62 Princeton 80, Liberty 74 Rhode Island 74, LSU 70 Tennessee 98, Tusculum 51 Tennessee St. 70, Jacksonville St. 65 Towson 81, Coppin St. 79 UAB 96, Newberry 75 UCF 78, Temple 76 VMI 128, Washington (Md.) 54 Vanderbilt 79, Northeastern 49 Virginia 62, Florida St. 50 W. Carolina 74, Elon 62 W. Kentucky 60, Troy 51 Midwest Bradley 68, Drake 57 Cleveland St. 77, Milwaukee 49 Detroit 58, Wright St. 53 E. Michigan 92, Rochester (Mich.) 54 Green Bay 85, Youngstown St. 69 IPFW 110, Kalamazoo 74 Illinois 75, Penn St. 55 Indiana St. 81, Evansville 62 Kansas St. 74, Oklahoma St. 71 Marquette 66, DePaul 56 Michigan St. 73, Indiana 56 Missouri 69, Long Beach St. 59 Morehead St. 85, E. Illinois 77 N. Dakota St. 96, Mayville St. 45 Notre Dame 79, Duke 77 Oakland 75, Valparaiso 70 Ohio St. 84, Nebraska 53 SIU-Edwardsville 85, E. Kentucky 79 Saint Louis 75, Yale 55 William & Mary 78, W. Illinois 67 Xavier 79, Butler 68 Southwest Arkansas 104, UTSA 71 Arkansas St. 74, Texas St. 69 Cent. Arkansas 86, Houston Baptist 69 Harvard 69, Rice 54 Incarnate Word 100, Our Lady 85 Iowa St. 73, Texas Tech 62 North Texas 76, UC Riverside 72 Oklahoma 88, Texas 85 SMU 74, UConn 65 Southern U. 60, Prairie View 57 Stephen F. Austin 73, Sam Hstn St. 56 Texas A&M 63, Texas-Pan Am 46 Texas A&M-CC 71, Oral Roberts 64 Texas Southern 83, Alcorn St. 66 Tulsa 73, Cal St.-Fullerton 57 UALR 72, Texas-Arlington 70 West Virginia 74, TCU 69 Far West Air Force 75, UNLV 68 Arizona 71, Washington 62 BYU 87, San Diego 53 Boise St. 86, Fresno St. 79 Chicago St. 57, Idaho 55 Gonzaga 86, Pacific 64 Idaho St. 83, E. Washington 72 Montana 82, Sacramento St. 70 Montana St. 68, N. Arizona 66 N. Colorado 91, S. Utah 55 Nevada 61, Wyoming 58 New Mexico 80, Colorado St. 73 New Mexico St. 84, Grand Canyon 62 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 72, Portland 63 San Francisco 76, Pepperdine 66 Santa Clara 86, Loy Marymount 81, OT UC Irvine 91, San Diego Christian 56 UC Santa Barbara 81, Master’s 52 UMKC 95, Seattle 84 Utah 80, Oregon St. 69 Utah St. 86, San Jose St. 67 Utah Valley 82, CS Bakersfield 74 Weber St. 79, Portland St. 62

Women’s Top 25 Saturday’s Results No. 1 UConn 90 Memphis 49 No. 7 Louisville 64 Cincinnati 45 West Virginia 71 No. 11 Okla. State 67 Friday’s Results No. 4 Stanford 96 Oregon 66 Southern Cal 55 No. 12 Colorado 45 No. 23 California 72 Oregon State 63 Wash. State 85 No. 24 Arizona St. 78

HOCKEY HOCKEY NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic GP Boston 42 Tampa Bay 41 Montreal 43 Detroit 43 Toronto 43 Ottawa 44 Florida 42 Buffalo 42 Metro GP Pittsburgh 43 Philadelphia 42 Washington 42 N.Y. Rangers 43 Carolina 42 New Jersey 43 Columbus 42 N.Y. Islanders 43

W 28 25 24 19 21 19 16 12 W 30 21 20 21 17 17 18 14

L OL Pts GF 12 2 58 124 12 4 54 116 14 5 53 112 14 10 48 114 17 5 47 119 18 7 45 126 20 6 38 101 26 4 28 74 L OL Pts GF 12 1 61 136 17 4 46 111 16 6 46 128 20 2 44 105 16 9 43 103 18 8 42 101 20 4 40 113 22 7 35 112

GA 89 95 102 121 127 141 134 118 GA 98 116 128 115 123 110 123 143

Western Conference Central GP W L OL Pts GF GA Chicago 44 29 7 8 66 165 121 St. Louis 41 29 7 5 63 150 95 Colorado 41 26 11 4 56 120 104 Minnesota 44 22 17 5 49 106 113 Dallas 41 20 14 7 47 120 124 Winnipeg 44 19 20 5 43 118 129 Nashville 42 18 18 6 42 101 127 Paciﬁc GP W L OL Pts GF GA Anaheim 43 30 8 5 65 142 108 San Jose 42 26 10 6 58 139 109 Los Angeles 43 26 13 4 56 113 89 Vancouver 43 23 13 7 53 114 104 Phoenix 41 20 12 9 49 123 127 Calgary 41 14 21 6 34 96 128 Edmonton 44 13 26 5 31 112 153 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Saturday’s Games Florida 5, Nashville 4, SO Boston 4, Winnipeg 1 Colorado 4, San Jose 3 Buffalo 2, New Jersey 1 N.Y. Rangers 7, Toronto 1 Ottawa 4, Montreal 3, OT Carolina 3, N.Y. Islanders 2 St. Louis 6, Columbus 2 Detroit 5, Dallas 1 Minnesota 5, Washington 3 Philadelphia 5, Phoenix 3 Los Angeles 3, Vancouver 1 Sunday’s Games Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m. Nashville at Carolina, 5 p.m. San Jose at Chicago, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at Edmonton, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

Rangers 7 Maple Leafs 1 N.Y. Rangers 2 3 2—7 Toronto 0 1 0—1 First Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, Hagelin 10 (Girardi, McDonagh), 6:57. 2, N.Y. Rangers, D.Moore 2, 15:57. Second Period—3, N.Y. Rangers, Pouliot 8 (Staal, Brassard), 10:39. 4, N.Y. Rangers, Kreider 11 (Stepan, J.Moore), 14:39. 5, N.Y. Rangers, D.Moore 3, 16:35. 6, Toronto, Lupul 12 (Bozak, Rielly), 17:42. Third Period—7, N.Y. Rangers, Richards 10 (Callahan, Hagelin), 9:03. 8, N.Y. Rangers, Boyle 2 (Del Zotto, Miller), 16:04 (pp). Shots on Goal—N.Y. Rangers 18-1616—50. Toronto 7-11-8—26. Goalies—N.Y. Rangers, Talbot. Toronto, Bernier, Reimer. A—19,362 (18,819). T—2:36.

Panthers 5, Predators 4, SO Nashville 1 1 2 0—4 Florida 2 1 1 0—5 Florida won shootout 2-1 First Period—1, Nashville, Smith 12 (Spaling, Legwand), 6:32. 2, Florida, Boyes 11 (Barkov, Gilbert), 11:03. 3, Florida, Kopecky 4 (Goc, Huberdeau), 17:56. Second Period—4, Nashville, Fisher 11 (C.Wilson), 16:32. 5, Florida, Bergenheim 9 (Barkov, Boyes), 17:29. Third Period—6, Florida, Goc 8 (Huberdeau), 1:34. 7, Nashville, Jones 4 (Josi, Weber), 14:52. 8, Nashville, Gaustad 6 (Hornqvist, Weber), 19:12. Overtime—None. Shootout—Nashville 1 (Smith NG, Legwand G, C.Wilson NG, Hendricks NG, Hornqvist NG, Bourque NG), Florida 2 (Barkov NG, Huberdeau G, Boyes NG, Bjugstad NG, Kulikov NG, Kopecky G). Shots on Goal—Nashville 10-12-164—42. Florida 10-7-11-1—29. Goalies—Nashville, Mazanec. Florida, Thomas. A—15,796 (17,040). T—2:41.

Sabres 2, Devils 1 New Jersey 0 0 1—1 Buffalo 0 1 1—2 First Period—None. Second Period—1, Buffalo, Moulson 14 (Ennis, Ehrhoff), 19:29 (pp). Third Period—2, New Jersey, Ryder 13 (T.Zajac, Zidlicky), 7:46 (pp). 3, Buffalo, D’Agostini 1 (Ott, Omark), 11:49 (pp). Shots on Goal—New Jersey 7-7-8—22. Buffalo 4-12-6—22. Goalies—New Jersey, Schneider. Buffalo, Miller. A—19,070 (19,070). T—2:32.

Hurricanes 3, Islanders 2 Carolina 0 3 0—3 N.Y. Islanders 0 1 1—2 First Period—None. Second Period—1, Carolina, Malhotra 4 (Dwyer), 6:57. 2, N.Y. Islanders, Tavares 17 (Vanek), 7:41. 3, Carolina, Jo.Staal 9 (Dwyer, Gerbe), 13:12. 4, Carolina, Bre.Sutter 1 (Skinner, Sekera), 14:09. Third Period—5, N.Y. Islanders, Vanek 15 (MacDonald, Strome), 19:35 (pp). Shots on Goal—Carolina 7-14-9—30. N.Y. Islanders 10-14-16—40. Goalies—Carolina, Khudobin. N.Y. Islanders, Nabokov. A—14,208 (16,170). T—2:23.

Avalanche 4, Sharks 3 San Jose 0 2 1—3 Colorado 1 3 0—4 First Period—1, Colorado, MacKinnon 11 (Benoit, Stastny), 15:28 (pp). Second Period—2, Colorado, McGinn 9 (Duchene), 4:53. 3, Colorado, Johnson 7 (Landeskog, Stastny), 5:45. 4, Colorado, MacKinnon 12 (Mitchell, McLeod), 5:59. 5, San Jose, Pavelski 18 (Marleau, Thornton), 8:35 (pp). 6, San Jose, Marleau 19 (Demers, Nieto), 10:11. Third Period—7, San Jose, Couture 14 (Marleau, Hannan), 5:44. Shots on Goal—San Jose 10-13-10— 33. Colorado 8-9-4—21. Goalies—San Jose, Niemi, Stalock. Colorado, Varlamov. A—17,154 (18,007). T—2:32.

Bruins 4, Jets 1 Winnipeg 1 0 0—1 Boston 1 2 1—4 First Period—1, Winnipeg, Byfuglien 9, 10:54. 2, Boston, Paille 6 (Krug, Campbell), 14:06. Second Period—3, Boston, Krug 9 (Paille), 3:08. 4, Boston, Krug 10 (McQuaid, Soderberg), 7:18. Third Period—5, Boston, Smith 15 (Marchand, Bergeron), 9:59. Shots on Goal—Winnipeg 9-19-9—37. Boston 10-12-7—29. Goalies—Winnipeg, Pavelec. Boston, Rask. A—17,565 (17,565). T—2:26.

SPORTS

Sunday, January 5, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

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Lady Sundevils take first in tournament The New Mexican

Defense was once again the name of the game for the Española Valley girls basketball team. Holding Miyamura to just 11 points over the final two quarters of Saturday’s championship game in the Rumble in the Jungle in Aztec, the Lady Sundevils (10-3) got a last-minute bucket from Kaitlin Romero to win 37-36. Romero drove into the lane and looped a 10-foot floater over the Lady Patriots’ defense to provide what was the gamewinning basket with just eight seconds left. A long 30-foot 3-point try by Miyamura’s Presleigh Smiley bounced off the rim as the buzzer sounded. “Our defense in the second half is what did it for us,” said Ray Romero, Española head coach. “That’s what’s been doing it for us lately. We can score on anybody, but our defense has been coming up big.” Ashlynn Trujillo was named tournament MVP. She had 17 points in Saturday’s win. Romero had six points, including the game-winner. She has seen her playing time increase the in past few days after missing a few weeks with a strained muscle in her leg. Alexis Lovato-Gurule added seven points for the Lady Sundevils, who have now won two straight tournaments: the Lady Horse-

men Christmas Tournament last week at St. Michael’s, and now this. BELEN 47, LOS ALAMOS 35 In Belen, the visiting Lady Hilltoppers (6-7) dropped back below the .500 mark with a non-district loss against the Lady Eagles (6-2). Kiana Zerr led Los Alamos with a team-high 10 points. Amber Logan contributed eight. BOYS ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY 41, ST. MICHAEL’S 36 At Perez-Shelley Memorial Gymnasium, the visiting Chargers held the Horsemen to a single point in the second quarter and five in the fourth for a non-district road win. Chris Martin led both teams with 18 points for Academy. Carlos C de Baca added 12. Justin Flores had a team-high eight points for St. Michael’s (8-3) while Luke Archuleta and Bradley Vaughn each had seven. The Horsemen trailed 22-15 a halftime but were within one possession of tying it in the final moments of the fourth quarter. A missed jumper led to a transition bucket for the Chargers, sealing the win in the closing seconds. St. Michael’s returns to action Wednesday with a road game at Las Vegas Robertson. GRANTS 58, POJOAQUE VALLEY 50 In Grants, the visiting Elks did everything

right. Until the fourth quarter. Leading 35-32 after three periods, the proverbial roof caved in during the final eight minutes as the Pirates outscored Pojoaque 26-15 to claim a non-district win. Orlando Ware had 14 points and Jacob Wilcox 13 to lead the Pirates. Chris Martinez had a game-high 19 points while John Ainsworth finished with 14 for the Elks (5-5). Pojoaque’s lead actually held until the last four minutes. That’s when Grants seized control by forcing bad passes, tough shots and one miscue after another. The Elks return home for a non-district game Tuesday against Los Alamos. TIERRA ENCANTADA 52, DES MOINES 42 The Alacranes took third place in the Wagon Mound Tournament behind increased defensive pressure in the final minutes. “We grinded it out at the end,” Tierra Encantada head coach Mark Archuleta said. “We got a little sloppy in the second half, and straining it out was the difference.” The Alacranes (6-4) were led by Andrew Vanderbilt’s 25 points while Cesar Serrer added 10 points. Tristan McNabb had 14 points to lead Des Moines and was the only Demon to score in double figures. Tierra Encantada will travel to Wagon Mound again next week to avenge a 55-49 loss to the Trojans in the opening game of the season.

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Mora: McCurdy beats Peñasco for 3rd place Despite some of the struggles the Rangerettes suffered ita Padilla controlled the low through in the tournament, Caspost. Brianna had four points, sidy wasn’t about to diminish four rebounds and a block in the the unbeaten start by his team. first half, which helped Mora And with games against AA stay within 18-16 of the Lady schools Clayton and Cuba plus Panthers at the break. How AAA’s West Las Vegas and Las did Pecos manage to do what Vegas Robertson in the next two the previous eight opponents weeks, he and the Rangerettes couldn’t against the Rangerettes? will find out how good they It helped that Mora commitreally are. ted 12 turnovers, and it couldn’t For now, it was a moment to contain Valencia, who had 10 bask in Mora’s accomplishment. points in the half. “We’re 9-0,” Cassidy said. “We “She’s just a competitor, like shouldn’t be looking for proball the rest out there,” said Leroy lems. I should be praising the Barela, Pecos head coach. “Her girls. We’re winning.” basketball IQ is getting better by And that’s something to smile the possession. Looking for the about. open man, looking for the jump shots. We are really excited THIRD PLACE about what she is doing.” Valencia had to take on more MCCURDY 71, PEÑASCO 43 of the scoring load with point The Lady Bobcats held the guard KeeAnna Trujillo out Lady Panthers to just 11 first-half points to take a 31-11 lead and after the first minute with a never looked back to take third sprained ankle and ended up place. being the only player in double Tenisha Velasquez scored all figures for Pecos. 15 of her team-high points for Mora showed why it is the McCurdy (5-4) In the second top-ranked team in Class AA, half, including three 3-pointers. according to MaxPreps.com, in Amanda Romero added 12 and the third quarter as they forced Patricia Loera had 11. Penasco’s six turnovers and pounded the Shannon Medina led all scorball inside. Five of the Rangerers with 23 points as only three ettes’ seven field goals in the other players scored for the quarter came in the paint. Lady Panthers (4-7). Brianna Pacheco had a pair FIFTH PLACE of baskets inside of 6 feet, and Shauntae Rivera’s breakaway MESA VISTA 46, DULCE 39 layup with 3 minutes, 39 secThe Lady Trojans (8-3) built a onds left gave Mora a 24-22 lead. That was a part of a 15-2 run that 25-9 lead at the half and held on saw Pecos’ 22-16 lead evaporate, to take fifth place over the Lady Hawks. Mesa Vista led 33-23 never to return. after three quarters, and scored The lead grew to 36-27 on its final 13 points from the freePadilla’s backdoor layup with throw line – all from Selena 5:23 left, but the Lady Panthers Siquieros and Azzy Griego. got within 36-32 after Gallegos’ They combined to hit 13 of 14 layup and a Valencia triple shots from the stripe to seal the with 3:19 left. It was as closes as win. Griego led the Lady Trojans Pecos got.

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PREP SCORES

Boys Basketball Bosque School 44, Tucumcari 43 Carlsbad 58, Onate 38 Centennial 61, Artesia 49 Cliff 91, Reserve 38 Grants 58, Pojoaque 52 Hatch Valley 64, Animas 24 Hobbs 70, EP Harmony, Texas 62 Las Cruces 61, Clovis 51 Los Lunas 64, Sandia Prep 46 Lovington 48, Lubbock, Texas 43 Pecos 61, Coronado 47 Questa 91, Reserve 38 Raton 66, Springer 54 Red Valley-Cove, Ariz. 50, Shiprock Northwest 34 Santa Fe Prep 65, Tularosa 33

Valencia 57, Mayfield 47 NM American Indian Classic Tohajilee 72, Native American Community Academy 64

Girls Basketball Artesia 50, Tohatchi 47 Belen 47, Los Alamos 35 Clayton 49, Robertson 40 Cliff 67, Reserve 21 Corona 49, San Jon 32 Hobbs 56, Midland Christian, Texas 33 Hope Christian 65, Pojoaque 29 Las Cruces 78, Cleveland 42 Logan 53, Raton 50 Mesa Vista 46, Dulce 39 Piedra Vista 40, Albuquerque Academy 23

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Mora’s Destiny Pacheco, right, covers Pecos’ Megan Armijo during the fourth quarter of their game in the Northern Rio Grande Tournament on Saturday at Pojoaque High School. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

with 17 points, while Griego and Ashlee Alire each had 10. Jae Vigil led Dulce (5-7) with nine points. SEVENTH PLACE ESCALANTE 58, CORONADO 34 The Lady Lobos (4-4) led by just 34-25 entering the fourth quarter before outscoring the

Lady Leopards 24-9 the rest of the way. Tori Salazar had 12 of her 14 points in the final quarter for Escalante, while Victoria Valdez scored seven of her 14 in the same span. Tanisha Torrez added 12 points. Eliana Serrano led Coronado (2-10) with 11 points.

Prep: Tularosa’s top scorer benched for fouls on the bench in foul trouble for most of the second half. of getting a win after another long trip to Saenz scored 12 consecutive points on The City Different. four 3-pointers in the second quarter and “We just realized that we had to come kept the Wildcats in the game in the first out with some energy,” Prep senior post half. It was obvious who the Blue Griffins William Lenfestey said. “We didn’t want to had to keep from scoring in the second start 2014 with a loss at home, so we just half. fed off the crowd and had a good run.” “We definitely had to shut off [Saenz],” What started the offensive run in the Casados said. “He was killing us.” third quarter was the Blue Griffins’ defense. Saenz committed his fourth foul with Prep would get a rebound or a steal on the 5:30 left in the third quarter and didn’t see defensive side then hit outlets downcourt any action until the fourth quarter. With to pick up easy buckets. Most of the 18-0 just under four minutes in the game, Saenz run was layups or, in the case of the first committed his fifth foul and was forced to points of the second half, a two-handed exit stage left. dunk by 6-foot-5 junior Ian Andersson. With a 54-30 Prep lead, the game was “Our defense makes our offense go,” almost in the books at that point. That lead Casados said. “They came out and they extended into what was Prep’s first win executed, and we had a heck of a third over a varsity opponent since they beat quarter and that’s what blew the game Escalante 57-41 on Dec. 10. open.” After that win, the Blue Griffins took sevThe game was indeed blown wide open, enth place in the Capital City Tournament and Tularosa head coach Sergio Castanon by beating Santa Fe High’s junior varsity. offered no excuses on the sudden turnThe Blue Griffins didn’t do as well as around. they had hoped to in that tournament, so “They made some easy buckets, things they were trying to erase those memories didn’t go our way, and we got down right away,” he said. “They just came out and just by pulling out a win on Saturday. That tournament, which took place in mid-Decemoutplayed us in the third quarter.” ber, was also the last time Prep stepped on But it didn’t help that Castanon’s top scorer, senior guard Brett Saenz, was sitting the hardwood.

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They made some “ easy buckets, things didn’t go our way, and we got down right away.” Sergio Castanon Tularosa head coach

“We didn’t play well in the Capital City Tournament, so we had that in the back of our minds,” Lenfestey said. Before Saturday’s game, the Blue Griffins were the No. 5 team in Class AA according to the MaxPreps.com rankings. While a 32-point win over No.7 Tularosa might boost their ranking, it really doesn’t mean anything to Casados. The only thing he cares about is where his team is in March, even though he admits he hasn’t put too much thought into that either. “We’re not going to look too far ahead,” Casados said. “I’m not one of those futuristic thinkers at all.”

scored six straight points over the final 2:22 to secure some came off finishing fast- third place in the tournabreak chances, but he also ment. Norman Salazar had 10 of consistent challenged for his team-high 18 points in the rebounds and came up with fourth quarter for Escalante, them more often than not. while 6-foot-6 center Adam “That guy, he’d go up four Edwards added 13 points or five times and come up with the ball,” Archuleta said. overall. Cody Casados added 10. “They’re long and more athFresquez kept the Rangers letic than you think.” (4-8) in the game with 28 And more dynamic offen- points that included seven sively. Shields feels he has 3s. He hit four of them in the four or five scorers who second quarter to help Mora cut a 21-12 deficit to 24-21 at can take control, but none the half. of them feel the need to demand the ball. FIFTH PLACE “I don’t think they have ever been selfish,” Shields DULCE 60, MESA VISTA 50 said. “They are used to payA scoring duel turned ing together, and now they into a defensive struggle are learning how to play the in the second half, but the system. And I like balance.” Hawks never lost their 36-29 Gurule, who had nine halftime lead. Louis Salazar points as he struggled with paced Dulce with 16 points, foul trouble, said he’d rather while Anfernae Callado pass than shoot, even though added 14. Harlan Richardson led the he has been the focal point of Trojans (2-5) with 14 points, the offense for much of the and Isaac Baldonado added past two years. 12. “Coach tells me he wants me to drive more,” Gurule SEVENTH PLACE said. “But I’m more of a passer, and I’m showing that PECOS 61, CORONADO 47 skill more.” The Panthers (5-8) used a Then again, Peñasco is 22-15 scoring advantage in showing a lot more than it the third quarter to extend a did just two weeks ago. 25-22 halftime lead and went on to capture seventh place THIRD PLACE in the tournament. Christopher Vigil led the ESCALANTE 55, MORA 47 charge with 11 of his 25 Mora trailed 48-38 with 6 points in the quarter, and he minutes left before cutting had 20 points in the second the margin to 49-44 thanks half. to 3s from Santiago LaumJason Madrid had 13 points bach and Casimiro Fresquez. to pace Coronado (3-5), and Randy Linney added 12. However, the Lobos (7-3)

Boxing card scheduled for Jan. 25 The boxing card at Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino has a name — and a date change. The seven-card bout is set for 6 p.m. Jan. 25 and will be called “Return of the Warrior.” The event will be headlined by a flyweight battle between Española’s Tony Valdez and Jaime Gutierrez, and a super bantamweight bout between Santa Fe’s Brandon Holmes and Brandon Muñoz. Tickets for the event are on sale, and fight promoter Patrick Holmes, who is Brandon’s dad, said there are about 300 tickets left. Ticket prices range from $30 to $40. To purchase tickets and for more information, call 670-2269 or 699-2845. The New Mexican

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Youth in spotlight for Chargers-Bengals game By Joe Kay The Associated Press

CINCINNATI — The crowd, the intensity, the feeling that everything was riding on every play. Pro Bowl linebacker Vontaze Burfict was overwhelmed by all of it at the start of his first NFL playoff game. The Bengals lost in Houston 19-13 last season, when Burfict was a rookie, and Cincinnati didn’t do a very good job of handling the high-stakes atmosphere. “There’s a different speed to the game,” Burfict said. “It was kind of shocking to me being in the playoffs my first year. Man, everything was going fast for me. I had to adapt to it. The first time I went out there on the

field in the playoffs, I thought, ‘Man, is everybody going faster, or am I just moving slow?’ “I understand that now. We’ve got a lot of guys who understand how the playoffs work, and hopefully that will get us ready for Sunday.” The Bengals (11-5) and the Chargers (9-7) will have a lot of young players in the playoff spotlight at Paul Brown Stadium. Rookie running back Giovani Bernard gave the Bengals a new dimension, piling up 1,209 yards on runs and catches, the second-most by a rookie in team history. Rookie tight end Tyler Eifert was sixth on the team in receiving with 39 catches for 445 yards. Burfict, a second-year player, led the team in tackles. Cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick,

who missed most of his rookie season in 2012 because of injury, moved into a starting role late in the season because of injuries. Kirkpatrick had a pair of interceptions, one of which he returned for a touchdown, during a 34-17 win over the Ravens last Sunday. “It was a big game,” said Kirkpatrick, who has been burned in coverage several times this season. “I really needed it. I haven’t made plays like that in so long. It was a burden off my back.” Receiver Marvin Jones, a fifth-round pick from California in 2012, missed time during his rookie season because of a knee injury and developed into Cincinnati’s No. 2 receiver this year, complementing A.J. Green. Green finished with 11 touchdown catches and

Jones had 10, giving the Bengals their first pair of receivers with double-digit TD receptions. Jones will be reunited with Chargers receiver Keenan Allen, who was a close friend at California. Allen was picked in the third round this season and led NFL rookies with 1,046 yards receiving, 72 catches and eight touchdowns. When the Bengals beat the Chargers in San Diego 17-10 on Dec. 1, Allen had game highs with eight catches for 106 yards. Jones calls Allen his little brother. The two of them did things together off the field in college and have stayed in close touch in the pros. “He hosted me on my visit and was my mentor the whole time there,” Allen said.

Both of them like music, and they would get together at the team hotel and entertain before games. “He plays the piano,” Jones said. “Sometimes before games he’d go on the piano and I’d sing. I’m telling you, everything we do is essentially the same.” Jones had three catches for only 34 yards during Cincinnati’s playoff loss last season. He and Allen will have big roles in this one. “We have had a lot of time to talk about everything,” Jones said. “‘When we are on the big stage, maybe we’ll be on the same team? What if we play against each other?’ Stuff like that. It’s happened in his first year in the league. It’s pretty cool to see that happen.”

Saints edge Eagles in NFC wild-card game

49ers’ playoff path starts with Packers

New Orleans captures first playoff road victory

By Genaro C. Armas

NFL PLAYOFFS

The Associated Press

By Barry Wilner The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — The Saints finally came up with the right plan for outdoor playoff football in cold weather. It got them their first postseason road victory. Shayne Graham’s 32-yard field goal, the fourth of the game for the recent addition to the team, won it on the final play, 26-24 Saints 26 over the Eagles on Eagles 24 Saturday night. Drew Brees, who threw for a touchdown and guided the 34-yard drive to the winning kick, didn’t need to be a big star because the Saints’ running game and defense — along with Graham’s leg — provided the heroics. “It’s just, man, believing in each other, ignoring what everyone else has to say,” Brees said. New Orleans had been 0-5 in postseason games outside of the Big Easy since entering the league in 1967. The Saints (12-5) will play at NFC top-seed Seattle next Saturday; they lost there 34-7 in the regular season. “It’s loud, it’s crazy, they’ve got a good thing going there,” Brees said of the next challenge. Graham, signed by the Saints just over two weeks ago to replace long-time kicker Garrett Hartley, also connected from 36, 46 and 35 yards. Brees threw for a touchdown, Mark Ingram rushed for 97 yards and another score, and the Saints’ defense slowed Chip Kelly’s up-tempo offense just enough. Philadelphia wound up 10-7 in Kelly’s first year as coach. He guided them from worst to first in the NFC East, but they were only 4-5 at home. Nick Foles hit rookie Zach Ertz for a 3-yard touchdown with 4:54 remaining as Philadelphia rallied from a 13-point deficit to take a one-point lead. But Darren Sproles had a 39-yard kickoff return and a horse-collar tackle brought New Orleans to the Philadelphia 48. Using mostly runs, the Saints ate up the clock and set up Graham’s winner. “We know what we’re all about,” he said. “This was a great testament to that. Com-

The Saints’ Lance Moore celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the second half of Saturday’s wild-card playoff game against the Eagles in Philadelphia. The Saints won 26-24. MATT ROURKE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ing on the road, hostile environment, great team, one of the hottest teams in football and getting one of those big victories.” Two teams with prolific offenses couldn’t get on track for much of the wildcard game. Graham’s 46-yarder as the first half ended made it 7-6 as everyone wondered where all the offensive fireworks went. The teams combined for an average of 816.7 yards and 53.5 points per game during the regular season. When Riley Cooper, who earlier scored Philadelphia’s first touchdown, had a huge drop in the third quarter, the Saints immediately made Philly pay. A 66-yard drive highlighted by Benjamin Watson’s 27-yard reception led to Ingram’s TD from the 4 for a 20-7 lead. That’s when the Eagles finally made a dynamic play with the ball, DeSean Jackson’s leaping 40-yard catch over Corey White. NFL rushing leader LeSean McCoy scored from the 1 on fourth down to make things close. Jackson helped make it closer with a 29-yard punt return that set up Alex Henery’s 31-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter, cutting the Saints’ lead to 20-17. Another 40-yard completion, from

Brees to seldom-used Robert Meachem, led to Graham’s 35-yard field goal, setting up the frantic finish. Jackson was the central figure in setting up Ertz’s go-ahead score, drawing a 40-yard pass interference call on the beleaguered White. But Brees then guided the winning drive. COLTS 45, CHIEFS 44 In Indianapolis, Andrew Luck threw three touchdown passes after halftime, including a 64-yarder to a wide-open T.Y. Hilton for the go-ahead score with 4:22 left, leading the Colts from a four-TD deficit to an improbable comeback victory over the Chiefs in an AFC wild-card game. Indianapolis (12-5) became the second team in playoff history to win after trailing by 28 or more points, according to STATS. The other: Buffalo over Houston 41-38 in overtime in January 1993. The Colts will travel to either Denver or New England next weekend for the divisional round with four straight wins. Luck was 29 of 45 for 443 yards, the second-highest total in franchise history for a playoff game, with four TDs and three interceptions. He also picked up a fumble and ran it in for a 5-yard score. Hilton broke a franchise playoff record with 13 catches and 224 yards, finishing with two TDs — including the winner.

Grass: Five days between bowl games

GREEN BAY, Wis. — As a reward for finishing the regular season tied for the second-best record in the NFL, the San Francisco 49ers get what may be one of the coldest playoff games in league history. Doesn’t seem fair to the defending NFC champions. But the playoff-tested 49ers are up for the challenge of hitting the road, trying to return to the Super Bowl. It starts Sunday with a wild-card game against the Green Bay Packers at frigid Lambeau Field. “Even when you have a home playoff game it’s not easy. We understand that it’s all about the team that’s playing the best at the moment and that’s how you do it,” safety Donte Whitner said. “It doesn’t matter where we play.” Well, maybe this weekend it might. The high temperature on Sunday might be in the single digits — if the 49ers (12-4) and Packers (8-7-1) are lucky. The wind promises to make it feel even colder. Five things to watch ahead of Sunday’s game: Warm-weather team?: Quarterback Aaron Rodgers shared his trick for playing in the bitter cold: “Eat a lot of chicken noodle soup.” San Francisco linebacker Patrick Willis liked that one: “Chicken noodle soup’s pretty good, can’t argue with that. Give me a ‘W’ and that will take care of all the warmth I need.” The 49ers took the practice field on New Year’s Day with the temperature in the mid-60s. Sunday’s high in Green Bay is projected to be 8 degrees. Captain comeback: Funny how one player can change the Packers’ playoff

games, the old turf is not removed; the new grass plops right on top. You’re wondering, probably, how it will stay put for the BCS game, since sium, calcium — are making their way it’s sod atop sod, and there’s no way Many of you have never touched one. Continued from Page D-1 up into the grass. More of you prefer not to. it can root. The simple answer: sheer exactly what is behind this all-new Anyone who’s been around Schnell But I did. Just to take you inside the heft. The rolls are 50 feet long, three grass, which requires a Herculean ultimate L.A. makeover. A blanket over for any length of time has a story to tell feet wide and a brick-like 3 inches effort on a frazzled five-day time about seeing him belly down on the another blanket. A Rembrandt over a thick. frame. field, measuring to see if it needs mowVermeer. They weigh more than your KenSure, they have modified forklifts ing, or counting new shoots of winter more and nothing — not a fullback’s uuu that unspool the sod in giant swatches. rye to be sure it’s germinating. karate kick or a tuba player’s stutter But in the end, laying a new field For the past dozen years, the Rose Like lashes on a starlet, the Rose step — could ever unseat it. requires nearly 75 groundskeepers Bowl’s Marquis de Sod has been Will Bowl can never have too much heavy The key for the grounds crew is to to push the puzzle together, starting Schnell, a former schoolboy football growth. One of the first things teams get the seams jigsaw tight, so the whole work as soon as the Rose Bowl ends, star with a Hans Christian Andersen do when they see the field is to kneel quilt becomes one. blowing away the confetti, marking face, by way of Missouri. Each season, down to tousle it as you would a child’s For the Rose Bowl game, we laid the the sprinkler heads, then as midnight he passes along his country-boy skills hair, to run their fingers across its sable slabs sideline to sideline, filled the gaps approaches — then passes, then sunup to a cast of groundskeepers worthy of a surface, to check to see if it’s made by with green sand, watered it, mowed, comes — laying down this magic carBroadway comedy. God or Monsanto. fertilized, painted the end zones using pet, by many estimates the finest playThere’s George, a mechanical You have to touch it to be sure. giant plastic tarps as stencils. Unique ing field in the country. genius who invented the stadium’s to the Rose Bowl, participating teams uuu Add six pockets and you’ve got your- fold-down uprights. Kyle, who grew select the exact shade from color strips self a very nice pool table. up with Schnell and flies in every fall My role is simple: to carry this band applied to sample swatches of sod. As is my nature, I pitched in on this to help his old buddy prep the field. of experts to the next level, using a Five days after sodding for the Rose transformation. It really began a month Neal, another accomplished field gen- rake and muscles dormant since the Bowl game, Schnell is happy with the ago. Soon as the last UCLA game eral, who came in from the Cleveland Reagan administration. look of the field, which gives him conended Nov. 23, I joined Rose Bowl Browns as soon as the season ended. The Rose Bowl turf is mostly Berfidence they can get things right with groundskeepers as they scraped out There are many more: Phil, Bobby, muda, grown near Palm Springs, three the same five-day window he has to the old field and began to put in a new Edgar, Chris. Most essential are Miguel fields of the stuff — one for the Rose work with before the BCS. one. Yepez and Martin Rodriguez, the only Bowl, one for the BCS, a third as a By the time the 100th Rose Bowl I was there from the beginning, digfull-timers in the bunch, who underspare, in case something goes wrong is over, 702 total yards not including ging out clumps of old sod, thick and stand all the technical stuff, ranging with the other two. marching bands, TV crews and a poststubborn, like thatches of Einstein’s from the 36 embedded moisture sengame mob, the field is still nearly flawThe field you’ll see Monday night hair. Wouldn’t budge, most of it, till you sors to the nutrition reports Schnell less — a divot here, a pimple there. was cut by West Coast Turf the same got your mitts into it good — clawing, Then it begins all over again. receives from a New York lab each day it was laid (Wednesday), rolled pulling and twisting. Schnell, 51, says he picked his profesweek. like hay, then transported by semis to When that didn’t work, I’d attack the sion because it blended the two things Schnell calls them “tissue samples,” an exit off the 210 Freeway, where it stubborn turf with a shovel, chased he liked best: farming and football. In blades of Bermuda and winter rye he waited for the Rose Bowl to end, then with a couple of Tylenol. sends to the lab. In return, he gets a full arrived about 8 p.m. at the tunnel near the Missouri state final in 1981, Schnell, an undersized offensive lineman for A shovel, by the way, is this giant report on whether the nutrients in the the Stanford locker room. Because the Marshall Owls, is remembered for soil — nitrogen, phosphorous, potasspoon you use to move dirt and sand. there are only five days between

outlook. When that guy is Rodgers, anything is possible. Green Bay won a third straight NFC North title in large part because of the fourth-quarter drive led by Rodgers last week in a 33-28 win over the Bears. It culminated with a stunning 48-yard touchdown pass to Randall Cobb on fourthand-8 with 38 seconds left. Stopping Boldin: Among the tall tasks for the Packers’ defense will be dealing with receiver Anquan Boldin. Green Bay got thoroughly embarrassed by Boldin in Week 1, when the wideout had 13 catches for 208 yards and a touchdown. He finished the regular season with 85 catches for 1,179 yards and seven TDs. The 49ers also have Michael Crabtree back after the receiver missed the opener with an Achilles tendon injury. Spy game: In two games, Colin Kaepernick has beaten the Packers with his arm and his legs. Kaepernick was on the passing end of Boldin’s big day in September. A year ago, he had a quarterback playoff record of 181 yards rushing against the Packers out of the read-option. Making things tougher for the Packers is that they’ll be without linebacker Clay Matthews [right thumb], the defender Capers would have employed to “spy” on Kaepernick. Easing Eddie: Rookie running back Eddie Lacy apparently won’t let a sprained right ankle slow him down. Coach Mike McCarthy said his 1,100-yard rusher looked good this week in practice. The ankle has bothered Lacy for much of the past month, though the bruising back keeps on barreling over defenders.

running down the other team’s fastest player from behind. So, more than most, he understands what it would mean Monday if a receiver stumbled over a sprinkler head or a lip of sod at a pivotal moment. There are 102 sprinkler heads in the Rose Bowl. There are almost countless lips of sod. uuu

If I can do this, you could do this. I’ve got a rake, and when someone yells “Push!” I shove the rake into the edge of the sod, so that the big green ribbon slides exactly into place, snug as a dog against your thigh. The first row Wednesday night, right down the middle of the field, again running from sideline to sideline, takes a while to get right. Think of it as laying a ship’s keel. Mess it up, and you’ve got a Titanic. Behind us, leaf blowers make a pass, shooing out the excess sand. Then Kyle Naylor, Schnell’s childhood buddy, follows up with a watering hose, hydrating the sod as soon as possible, spritzing it awake again. It’s not complicated work, but there’s a heave-ho quality to it, a sense of teamwork, everyone rowing in the same direction. “You’ve got to get a rhythm,” one of Schnell’s supervisors yells to his crew. “It’s like a dance.” Yeah, a very big dance, on what Monday will be college football’s greatest stage. Still think this new sod is senseless? Not hardly.

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FCS CHAMPIONSHIP

NDSU clobbers Towson, wins 3rd title in a row I’ll put on a Bison jersey, but man, it’s been fun ride.” Bohl was 104-32 in 11 seasons at FRISCO, Texas — From Fargo to North Dakota State, which has won Frisco again, and a perfect champion24 consecutive games to match the ship ending for senior quarterback FCS record. Brock Jensen and The Bison went ahead to stay coach Craig Bohl at on Ryan Smith’s 5-yard TD run in NDSU 35 North Dakota State. the second quarter that snapped a Towson 7 Jensen threw a 7-7 tie. That came one play after Colten touchdown pass Heagle blocked a field goal try that and ran for another score, and the was scooped up by defensive end Kyle Bison capped a 15-0 season with a Emanuel and returned 59 yards. It was 35-7 victory over Towson on Saturday the first of three consecutive possesto claim their third consecutive FCS sions when North Dakota State scored title in Bohl’s final game at the school. touchdowns. “It hasn’t [set in] right now, but I “We made a mistake, and they made think in a couple of months it’s going us pay for it,” Towson coach Rob to,” said Bohl, who stayed with the Ambrose said. “I think we all knew Bison for their playoff run after accept- what kind of game it was at that point. ing the job as Wyoming’s coach. “This … Things were moving in the right team was possessed with perfection. direction, at least for us, head to head, And they relentlessly pursued it. … It’s pretty even.” pretty remarkable.” Towson (13-3), the first school to The Bison joined Appalachian State play in championship games at the (2005-07) as the only FCS teams to FCS and NCAA Division III levels, was win three consecutive championships. 1-10 only three years ago in Ambrose’s They are the first undefeated champs second season. But the Tigers had their at that level since Marshall in 1996, lowest scoring total since a 28-3 loss the year before the Thundering Herd at Maryland four games into the 2011 moved to Division I. season. “It gets better every time. Definitely,” This was the fourth consecutive year the title game was played in the Jensen said. “That was the last time By Stephen Hawkins The Associated Press

having problems at times with footing. The most obvious was Towson running back Darius Victor falling down behind the line for a 3-yard loss after stepping into one of the divots, two plays before the blocked field goal. “It’s really unfortunate but those things come up. Both teams where in the same position,” Bohl said. “This was atypical. The last several times we’ve been down here, it’s been a great track.” Terrance West ran 3 yards on the final play of the first quarter for Towson’s only touchdown, his 41st TD rushing and 42nd overall this season. The junior finished with 22 carries for 99 yards, pushing his season total to 2,509 — the most ever by an FCS player. After CJ Smith reached over his shoulder for an interception and a 32-yard return just before halftime, North Dakota State players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Jensen threw a 12-yard TD to Zach FCS championship on Saturday. TONY GUTIERREZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Vraa, his school-record 15th scoring catch this season, for a 21-7 lead. Jensen professional soccer stadium in North that the turf between the hash marks ran 9 yards for a score on the Bison’s Texas, but this game was plagued by was replaced Nov. 18. Soon after that, possession after halftime, and Sam problems with the grass turf. During the area was hit by an extended stretch Ojuri added a 1-yard TD in the fourth each timeout, groups of workers and of unusual freezing weather and ice sat quarter. volunteers had to pat down chunks of on the field for a week. Shafer says that There was a sellout crowd of 19,802, turf that were coming up during play. “prevented the grass from taking root most of them dressed in Bison colors Nick Shafer, the stadium’s vice presi- underneath the turf.” in what has becoming an annual Janudent of operations, said in a statement Players from both teams clearly were ary trek.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Seminoles nickname not a problem at FSU

No. 1 Arizona tops Washington

By Eddie Pells The Associated Press

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — A student sitting atop a speckled Appaloosa and wearing a headdress and war paint will ride to the 30-yard line before the BCS title game and plant a flaming spear into the turf. Some might cringe at the 35-year-old tradition carried out by “Osceola” and “Renegade” — the Florida State mascots that will lead the cheering when the Seminoles play the Auburn Tigers for the national championship Monday night. But in a football season shadowed by controversy over the Washington Redskins nickname, nary a complaint has been heard out of Tallahassee, Fla., where “Seminoles” is more or less synonymous with the university, its football team and, of course, winning. The key reason: The Seminole Tribe of Florida counts itself among the very biggest fans of Florida State, its nickname and all it represents. “The relationship is treated with reverence,” said Liz Maryanski, Florida State’s vice president for university relations. “We are very respectful of them and we honor them because they, frankly, allow us to use their name.” The university, in fact, refuses to call the horse and rider its mascots, choosing instead to call them symbols of the Seminole that represents the school’s sports teams. Neither tribal President Tony Sanchez Jr., nor Chairman James Billie responded to interview

requests from The Associated Press. But in an interview last month on CNN, Billie made it clear that neither the Redskins controversy nor any other outside force would alter the position tribal leaders agreed upon decades ago. “Anybody come here into Florida trying to tell us to change the name, they better go someplace else, because we’re not changing the name,” Billie said. The nickname “Seminoles” has been in place at Florida State since 1947 and the tradition of Osceola, the rider, and Renegade, the horse, dates to 1978 when a student on horseback led the football team out of the tunnel before a game against Oklahoma State. The school refuses to use them for more “traditional” mascot activities such as cheerleading or promotional appearances. Florida State’s decision to stick with the Seminole nickname counters a trend that started in 1972, when Stanford changed its nickname from Indians to Cardinal. That sparked a number of other universities with Native American nicknames to consider similar changes. Some did, while others stuck with their names. Among them, the Utah Utes, who have a red-tailed hawk as their mascot, and North Dakota, where they held onto “Fighting Sioux” until 2012, when more than two-thirds of voters in a statewide election cast ballots to dump the nickname. And, of course, Florida State, where “Seminoles,” along with Osceola and Renegade, remain a central part of the football tradition.

Thunder rally to beat Timberwolves MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Durant scored 23 of his seasonhigh 48 points in the fourth quarter and hit the winner with 4 seconds to play to rally the Oklahoma City Thunder from 13 points down in a 115-111 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night. SPURS 116, CLIPPERS 92 In San Antonio, Texas, Tiago Splitter had 22 points before leaving with a right shoulder injury, Tim Duncan added 19 points and 11 rebounds, and San Antonio beat Los Angeles in the Clippers’ first game without injured AllStar Chris Paul. HEAT 110, MAGIC 94 In Orlando, Fla., Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh each had 20 points, helping Miami rally for the win.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Nick Johnson scored 24 points, Aaron Gordon had 18 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 1 Arizona beat Washington 71-62 on Saturday. The Wildcats (15-0, 2-0 Pacific-12) are off to their best start since 1931-32, when the team set a school record with 16 wins to open the season. NO. 2 SYRACUSE 49, MIAMI 44 In Syracuse, N.Y., C.J. Fair scored 15 points, including the go-ahead basket with 4:16 to go, and Syracuse rallied late in its Atlantic Coast Conference debut. Syracuse (14-0, 1-0) struggled against Miami (8-6, 0-2), the reigning conference champion. NO. 3 OHIO ST. 84, NEBRASKA 53 In Columbus, Ohio, LaQuinton Ross scored 11 points, including two 3-pointers as Ohio State pulled away. Amedeo Della Valle had 15 points, Marc Loving scored a career-high 13, Shannon Scott also had 13, and Amir Williams chipped in with 10 points for Ohio State. NO. 5 MICHIGAN ST. 73, INDIANA 56 In Bloomington, Ind., Gary Harris scored 26 points to lead Michigan State. Harris had 17 points in the first half for the Spartans (13-1, 2-0 Big Ten) and he had a 5-point play midway through the second half. KANSAS ST. 74, NO. 6 OKLAHOMA ST. 71 In Manhattan, Kan., Marcus Foster scored 17 points and Nino Williams made two free throws with 5.7 seconds left for Kansas State in the Big 12 opener for both teams. NOTRE DAME 79, NO. 7 DUKE 77 In South Bend, Ind., Eric Atkins scored seven of his 19 points during a decisive 20-4 run to lead Notre Dame to an upset of Duke in the Atlantic Coast Conference debut for the Fighting Irish.

PACERS 99, PELICANS 82 In Indianapolis, Paul George had 24 points and 10 rebounds to lead four Pacers in double figures, and Indiana rallied from a sevenpoint halftime deficit for the win. NETS 89, CAVALIERS 82 In New York, Deron Williams scored 21 points for Brooklyn, and Paul Pierce added 17 while moving past Allen Iverson into 19th place on the NBA’s career scoring list. BULLS 91, HAWKS 84 In Chicago, Mike Dunleavy scored 11 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter, leading Chicago to its fifth win in seven games. SUNS 116, BUCKS 100 In Phoenix, Gerald Green had 24 points and a career-high five steals starting in place of the injured Eric Bledsoe, pushing Phoenix to the win.

NO. 12 FLORIDA 67, RICHMOND 58 In Gainesville, Fla., Michael Frazier II scored 18 points, including three huge 3-pointers in the second half, as Florida rallied. The Gators trailed 48-45 with about 6 minutes to play before seniors Scottie Wilbekin, Casey Prather and Pat Young took over. NO. 13 IOWA ST. 73, TEXAS TECH 62 In Lubbock, Texas, Georges Niang scored 17 points and Melvin Ejim added 16 to extend Iowa State’s winning streak to a school record-tying 13 games. DeAndre Kane had 15 points for the Cyclones (13-0, 1-0) in the Big 12 opener for both teams. NO. 14 LOUISVILLE 83, RUTGERS 76 In Piscataway, N.J., Russ Smith scored 22 points and Louisville used its press and free-throw shooting to win a foulplagued game. Luke Hancock added 15 points, Terry Rozier had a career-high 14 and Wayne Blackshear 13 as the Cardinals (13-2, 2-0 American Athletic Conference) forced Rutgers to commit a season-high 19 turnovers. SMU 74, NO. 17 UCONN 65 In Dallas, Nic Moore had 20 points and six assists to lead SMU in the Mustangs’ first game of the season played on campus in refurbished Moody Coliseum. Nick Russell added 14 points for SMU (11-3, 1-1) in its first conference win as a member of the American Athletic Conference. CINCINNATI 69, NO. 18 MEMPHIS 53 In Memphis, Tenn., Sean Kilpatrick scored 11 of his 18 points down the stretch and Cincinnati won its sixth straight, while Memphis saw an end to a three-game winning streak. NO. 23 MASSACHUSETTS 73, MIAMI OF OHIO 65 In Amherst, Mass., Chaz Williams had

Washington’s C.J. Wilcox looks to pass the ball against the jumping defense of Arizona’s Nick Johnson on Saturday. JOHN MILLER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

18 points and eight assists, leading Massachusetts to the win. Maxie Esho added 15 points and seven rebounds for the Minutemen (12-1), who host Saint Joseph’s on Wednesday in their Atlantic-10 opener. NO. 25 MISSOURI 69, LONG BEACH STATE 59 In Columbia, Mo., Jabari Brown scored 22 points to power Missouri to the victory. Earnest Ross added 16 points and Ryan Rosburg had 11 rebounds for the Tigers (12-1), who open Southeastern Conference play at home against Georgia on Wednesday.

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primary option in the low post against the smaller, younger Rams front court. After the Rams scored the game’s first five points, Bairstow tied the game over the next three possessions with two buckets and a free throw. He added another basket moments later. At times it seemed the entire offense ran through him. At what point did he realize he was going to have his way? “Uh, probably pretty early on,” Bairstow said. “I just had a couple of quick drives to the hoop and it kind of went from there.” Trailing 15-13 less than seven minutes into the game, the Lobos took the lead for good with a 7-0 run sparked by Hugh Greenwood’s tip-in off a missed Bairstow jumper in the lane. Swooping in from the left side along the baseline, Greenwood rose under the basket from the opposite side for his first bucket in nearly a month. The Australian combo guard sat out the last three

games with an injury to his right hand and wrist. He hadn’t made a field goal since a Dec. 7 win over Cincinnati. He finished with eight points, hitting a pair of 3-pointers later in the game, much to the delight of the sellout crowd of 15,411. Bairstow and Williams combined for 51 points, with Williams matching his career high with eight rebounds. The two also took all 30 of UNM’s free throw attempts. The Lobos led 39-31 at halftime and were up by as many as 15 in the second half, but what irked head coach Craig Neal was the team’s lack of defensive presence in the final five-plus minutes of regulation. Trailing 63-48, the Rams scored 25 points in the final 5:50 by hitting four of the eight 3-pointers they had in the game. “You can’t be up and give a team 25 points in the last [5:50],” Neal said. “You know, we played really really good defense but you can’t do that.” The Lobos got just nine points from three players

coming in off the bench. Starter Deshawn Delaney had just two points, those coming off a long-range jumper in the second half. Former Arizona guard Daniel Bejarano had 25 points and eight rebounds to lead Colorado State (9-6, 0-2). He was 5 of 7 from distance. Another transfer, former Navy forward J.J. Avila, had 14 points with seven rebounds. He scored the Rams’ final eight points in the first half. Eustachy said the simple solution was limiting Bairstow’s touches in the low post. It turned out to be a pretty complex problem since Bairstow was seemingly everywhere. “When we didn’t [deny him the ball], they were good and we paid for it,” Eustachy said. “They’re a special team.”

Game notes u Greenwood played 34 minutes, taking six shots and grabbing two rebounds with three assists. Neal said the Aussie’s biggest concern was actually a sore elbow, the product of having his arm in a

soft cast for nearly two weeks. u Always the entertainer, Eustachy delivered in full color after the game. Addressing the media with a Diet Coke can in one hand, he twice refused to answer a harmless game-related question from an unidentified Colorado State beat writer. “Pass,” is how he answered the second question. He also had an interesting take on Lobo superfan Mark Tischenor, aka “Snake.” “I’ve been here a lot,” Eustachy said when asked about The Pit. “It’s really cool. It’s really a cool place. I love the fans. I love to get met by whatshisname out there. … Snake, yeah. Snake’s excited about the new [legalization of marijuana sales] law passed in Colorado.” u The Lobos outscored CSU 34-16 in the paint. That includes the game’s first 16 points down low. u UNM travels to Wyoming on Wednesday for its next game. The Cowboys (9-5, 0-1) lost their MWC opener Saturday, dropping a 61-58 decision at Nevada.

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THE NEW MEXICAN Sunday, January 5, 2014

The weather

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Adrian Gutierrez of Santa Fe County took this picture on a recent trip to East Africa.

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0-2, Low; 3-5, Moderate; 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.

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The following water statistics of January 2 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons). Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 1.243 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 5.090 City Wells: 0.000 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 6.633 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.085 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 64.3 percent of capacity; daily inﬂow 1.42 million gallons. A partial list of the City of Santa Fe’s Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: • Irrigation water leaving the intended area is not permitted. Wasting water is not allowed. • Using water to clean hard surfaces with a hose or power washer is prohibited. • Hoses used in manual car washing MUST be equipped with a positive shut-off nozzle. • Swimming pools and spas must be covered when not in use. For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/waterconservation

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

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Saturday’s rating ................................ Good Today’s forecast ................................. Good 0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very Unhealthy, 301500, Hazardous Source: EPA

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Weather history

Weather trivia™

When rain falls and freezes on cold objects, it is called freezing rain. Freezing rain on Jan. 5, 1983, tied up morning traffic from North Carolina to eastern Pennsylvania.

is the U.S. record for one day Q: What temperature variation? 100 degrees F. From 56F to -44F at A: Browning, Mont., January 1916

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The fees for air tour operators who use technology to quiet the sound of aircraft at Grand Canyon National Park have been reduced. The new $20 fee per flight took effect Jan. 1 for any of eight operators authorized to take visitors sightseeing over the massive gorge. Operators who don’t have the technology considered to be quiet will continue to pay $25 per flight. The National Park Service and the Federal Aviation Administration were required to come up with incentives for quiet air technology aircraft at the Grand Canyon as part of a massive transportation bill passed in 2012. Hikers and tourists on the ground have complained that aircraft noise interferes with the feeling of solitude and appreciation of nature. “Any kind of a reduction from noise is going to provide a better experience for park visitors,” said park spokeswoman Maureen Oltrogge. “It’s not quiet, but it’s quieter than the standard technology.” The FAA determines whether aircraft is considered quiet using a formula that takes into account noise certification levels and number of seats. About 60 percent of the aircraft conducting tours at the Grand Canyon already meet that standard, Oltrogge said. At full conversion, the reduced fee would save operators $250,000 a year, she said. Quiet technology is in use at other national parks, including Volcanoes and Haleakala in Hawaii and the Statue of Liberty in New York, according to the FAA. The standard doesn’t neces-

sarily mean aircraft will be completely quiet. Operators could, for example, add more seats to existing aircraft or switch out engines to meet the definition of quiet technology. The benefit to visitors at the Grand Canyon depends on what action the operators take, said Jim McCarthy of the Sierra Club. “It potentially could be counterproductive,” McCarthy said. The National Park Service was close to finalizing rules to manage air tours and noise at the Grand Canyon before the federal legislation forced the agency to change its goal for restoring natural quiet to the park. The Park Service wanted to make 67 percent of the canyon quiet for three-fourths of the day or longer. Some members of Congress pushed a provision in the 2012 federal transportation bill to make half of the park free from commercial air tour noise for at least 75 percent of the day and provide incentives for quiet air technology. Many of the tours originate from Las Vegas, Nev. Oltrogge said the Park Service’s plan that had been in the works for decades since has been halted. U.S. Sen. John McCain applauded the incentive and said he is looking forward to more meaningful initiatives that would improve access to popular flight corridors for quieter aircraft. “This is the first step toward meeting the requirement set by Congress to convert all aircraft at the park to quiet technology in a way that protects tourism jobs and allows all visitors to enjoy some of the most breathtaking views of the Grand Canyon,” he said in a statement.

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Zimbabwee Saturday, January 11 at 5 pm Zimbabwe is not ﬁrst on the list for most people’s travel plans. But in spite of the recent economic and political turmoil, Zimbabweans are wonderfully hospitable and eagerly trying to again attract travelers to this remarkable region of wildlife and world renowned natural wonders. As I discovered again in June of 2013, it’s not to be missed. Two weeks of walking in the bush, viewing vast amounts of wildlife in national parks, experiencing Victoria Falls, rafting the Zambezi and visiting with people in rural communities and schools, left everyone with both a deep sense of the natural gifts of the area as well as the warmth and kindness of the people. This slide presentation is a look at a remarkable corner of southern Africa.

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Artifacts from Blackbeard’s ship on display at Tryon Palace NEW BERN, N.C. — Artifacts from the flagship of Blackbeard the pirate will be on display at Tryon Palace in New Bern. Artifacts from the Queen Anne’s Revenge, including cannon balls, a wine bottle and nautical tools, are on display in the Duffy Gallery from Jan. 3 through Feb. 15. The exhibit also includes multimedia displays explaining what life was like aboard the ship. It features Tryon Pal-

ace’s royal portrait of Queen Anne, the ship’s namesake. The artifacts are on loan from the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort, the official repository for artifacts from the Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck. The Queen Anne’s Revenge ran aground in Beaufort Inlet in 1718. The shipwreck was discovered in 1996. The Associated Press

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Future looks bright in Santa Fe By Francis Phillips For The New Mexican

ow did Santa Fe real estate perform in 2013? Give us an A. In 2010, BusinessWeek forecast that Santa Fe real estate would grow 25 percent through 2014. In March 2013, CNN Money predicted that Santa Fe would rank No. 3 in the country for real estate performance at 9 percent growth annually for the next five years. On Dec. 4, National Association of Realtors chief economist Lawrence Yun addressed the Santa Fe Association of Realtors with great news on the past year’s performance (comparing the third quarter of 2013 to 2012): Santa Fe home sales were up 12 percent, median prices were up 16 percent, dollar volume was up 18 percent, and inventory was up 9 percent. It’s now clear that the market hit bottom over the last two years and is now headed up. Yun also said that nationwide, home prices are almost halfway back to their 2005 highs. What is the forecast for 2014 major indices compared to Santa Fe real estate? Housing affordability is at its fifth highest level of the last 40 years (according to Yun), so first-time homebuyers will continue to buy homes as rates and values remain near historic lows. VA loans will continue with 100 percent financing. FHA will continue to offer low minimum 3.5 percent-down purchases, and downpayment money can still be gifted from family members. Conventional home loans with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will continue to be available with a minimum 5 percent down payment for primary home purchases. As banks’ profitability levels continue to soar, you’ll see more funds available for real estate investors and secondhomebuyers. When reviewing top stocks to buy for 2014, many stock pickers continue to point to national and regional banks as top contenders for growth, along with tech, biomedical, retail and home improvement retail companies. Interesting to note, commercial real estate developers and real estate investment trusts (REITs) are forecast to do well given the continued anticipated low interest rate environment and continued stock growth for 2014. Almost a third of Santa Fe real estate purchases in 2013 were cash deals. Cash buyers will continue along with mortgage borrowers for 2014 as investors take profits from record gains in stocks through 2014. Amber Haskell of Santa Fe Properties expects to see cash buyers do more of the same in 2014 because “investor/cash buyers seek real estate as a safer haven than volatile investment markets.” Watch for the Federal Reserve Board to continue discussion of tapering the government bond buyback

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program, leading to higher rates. They have mentioned lower unemployment rates as a trigger for tapering, and the rate dropped to 7 percent last month.

The Fed could start pulling back its stimulus as early as this month: 6.5 percent is the magic number forecasters want to see. Last year, when 30-year, fixed-rate loans were in the 3’s, I said grab your gold medals while you can. These were historic low rates. Later in the summer, when rates rose to the 4’s, I said grab your silver medals while you can. For 2014, with forecasts for 5 percent to 6 percent to become the norm, you’ll be running for the bronze medal. Remember, historically, the normal 30-year fixed rate is 6.57 percent. So grab your silver or bronze during this reduced interest-rate environment. We will see more refi cash-out loans as home values increase. Past borrowers with loans with PMI (mortgage insurance) may possibly refinance to under 80 percent loan to appraised values or combine a new first mortgage with a second-mortgage home equity line of credit to remove PMI on their loans. Debt-consolidation loans will occur more often as borrowers refinance and borrow more from their homes to pay off other debts, lowering their overall rate and moving to taxdeductible interest. The financial markets showed less anxiety as 2013 progressed, with investors becoming more comfortable

knowing the bond buyback program will cease as stocks are forecasted to continue to rise. Five reasons the markets will rally again in the new year? One, the Federal Reserve will continue to keep rates low; two, fear that the market will continue to rise will actually drive the market higher, as history has shown; three, fund flows will continue as bonds become less attractive as investors move to stocks and real estate; four, compelling valuations in corporate America continue to drive stocks given the low-interest-rate environment of the last five years; and five, a continuing stable geopolitical climate fostered by U.S. foreign policy will keep U.S. stocks positive. However, U.S. bonds will drop significantly in value. Because a 1 percent increase in rates can cause almost a 10 percent drop in bond values, as rates rise, investors will continue to sell off bonds to buy stocks and real estate, or move to cash. In his December presentation, Yun stated that, nationally, real estate is expected to maintain the same sales levels as 2013 because of decreasing inventories. But sales in Santa Fe are expected to rise because Santa Fe has higher inventory levels. This is good news for Santa Fe as growth in sales and prices will help fuel the local economy. What about higher-end homes?

Michael Morgner of Sotheby’s International Realty gave me his perspective: “Sales in the $500,000 to $1 million price range were slow during the first three quarters of 2013, but we saw strong activity in the last quarter. I believe this upswing will continue into 2014 based on two key factors in our location-driven market: strong demand and lack of supply. This is not necessarily a one-size-fits-all statement for all parts of Santa Fe, but I believe that prices will increase in many areas, even if interest rates rise, as these buyers are less affected by higher rates.” Mark Banham of Barker Realty concurs: “This is a stable segment of the market, and I expect a modest singledigit increase in sales in 2014 for jumbos. If the economy continues to improve, this number could be much better.” Maybe BusinessWeek and CNN Money were right on target, and Santa Fe is on track for higher-than-average real estate performance as they predicted. Hooray for Santa Fe — 2014 is off to a great start. Francis Phillips (FPhillips@fcbmtg. com) is senior mortgage loan originator with First Choice Loan Services in Santa Fe. He has served as director of business development for national mortgage companies.

Lights going out on incandescent bulb in 2014 By Kate Martin The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)

TACOMA, Wash. — Thomas Edison’s first public demonstration of the incandescent light bulb happened 134 years ago Tuesday. But on Wednesday, the lights dimmed for the incandescent because of federal energy efficiency standards approved in 2007. As of Jan. 1, companies no longer can import or make 60- and 40-watt incandescent light bulbs — the most popular bulb for indoor lighting. Instead, LED (light-emitting diode)

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and CFL (compact fluorescent) will replace incandescents as the dominant home fixture. The new light bulbs reduce energy use and save consumers money. Experts say 90 percent of the electricity used by traditional incandescent light bulbs is radiated in the form of heat, rather than light. While the bulb ban prevents the manufacture or import of incandescents, shoppers still can find the bulbs on the shelves. Traditional 75- and 100-watt incandescent bulbs were to be phased out

at the beginning of 2013. Home Depot stores in some areas of the country have a six-month supply of incandescent bulbs. Early on, the CFL was met with lots of criticism. The lights flickered, took a while to attain full brightness and emitted a harsher light than the warm, familiar incandescent. Much of that has changed as manufacturers began adding features. And the price of bulbs dropped as competition increased, said Tacoma Power’s Patrick Urain, the retail program manager who concentrates on

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residential energy conservation. Those who switch out 80 percent of their old, energy-inefficient incandescent bulbs can expect to see a corresponding drop in their utility bill, between $6 and $7 per month. Urain said. Some public utilities offer incentives to help bring down the cost of qualified CFL and LED bulbs. The utility offers incentives because when customers use less energy the utility is less likely to have to buy expensive power from outside sources to supplement demand, Urain said. The use of LED and CFL bulbs will

reduce the environmental impact of commercial and residential lighting, and save consumers money, said Kevin Hallinan, a University of Dayton engineering professor and co-founder of the school’s master’s degree program in renewable and clean energy. “The reason why the federal government legislated the change is because these incandescent bulbs use four times or more energy than other technologies,” Hallinan said. “That’s more pollution coming out of power plants, that’s more carbon emissions, so this is really a good thing for the U.S.”

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34 & 64 VIA DE LOS ROMERO $4,600,000 Historic ranch and farm property located at the end of a private road just south of Santa Fe, at the base of a spectacular, petroglyph-laden black basalt mesa. One-of-a-kind rural estate known as La Estancia de Cieneguilla, spanning approximately 45+/- acres.

23 CAMINO AZULEJO $1,399,000 Luxurious home with quality design and finishes throughout. Soaring ceilings with signature entry finishes, plaster walls (even in the garage), beams and vigas, wood and tile floors, granite slab and limestone counters. Gourmet kitchen with everything.

600 LOS ALTOS NORTE $1,345,000 Gorgeous Northside home, just minutes from the Plaza, perched on a hillside and handcrafted by John LeMaster, this 3 bedroom, 3 bath approx. 2,796 sq ft residence on .65 acre features exceptional design and quality.

2 TAMARISK TRAIL $1,198,000 Private cul-de-sac location in Las Campanas Estates IV with picture perfect Jemez Mountain vistas and peaceful sunset views. This approx. 4,000 sq ft New Mexico Pueblo Revival design home has all the updated features desired.

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23 RISING MOON $895,000 Immaculate custom home in a private cul-de-sac location on over 2 acres affording vast views. In addition to 2 bedrooms and 2.5 baths, there are also 2 contiguous offices, an activity/ family room, and a sunroom.

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19 VALENCIA LOOP $425,000 Park Setting. House and studio/guest quarters opening out to Los Alamos Park, a verdant swath of open space that ﬂows through the Eldorado community, this outstanding 2,255 sq ft residence on 1.64 acres includes a 3BR, 2BA main house plus separate studio/guest quarters.

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48 COUNTY ROAD 126 $220,000 Beautiful views in a great location just minutes to Santa Fe or Los Alamos. Stunning Black Mesa can be seen from one of two of your portal retreats or from inside this charming adobe in La Mesilla. Privacy, cozy passive solar adobe home and gardens.

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THE HOME YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR IS HERE! 1103 BISHOP’S LODGE ROAD Enjoy absolutely mesmerizing views of the Sangre de Cristos from this completely-remodeled adobe/concrete home on nearly twoand-a-half wooded acres, less than two miles from the Santa Fe Plaza. You’ll be ‘wowed’ by this transformation! There are stunning ﬁnishes including oak ﬂoors, plastered walls, Carrera honed marble, leathered granite, Noche travertine, and an open kitchen with top-of-the-line Bosch appliances, new wiring, plumbing, heating and air conditioning. The detached 800 sq.ft. garage has a large storage room, and the circular drive has gates at each end. 4 br, 4 ba, 3,164 sq.ft., 2-car garage, 2.34 acres. MLS #201305598

Offered at $1,250,000 LAURIE FARBER-CONDON 505.412.9912 · Laurie.Farber@sfprops.com SANTA FE PROPERTIES 505.982.4466 · SantaFeProperties.com

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LOTS & ACREAGE Quaint Southside Townhome Just Reduced! 3 beds, 2 baths, over 1,600 square feet, kiva fireplace, tile floors, large gameroom or office, convenient location, only $220,000. Jefferson Welch, 505-577-7001

OUT OF STATE PASSIVE ACTIVE SOLAR HOME on 2 Acres. Salida Colorado. 3 Bedrooms 3.5 Baths, Office, Gourmet Kitchen, Adobe Brick & Tinted Concrete, Green House, Energy Star Certified, 2 CG, 3337SF. Call Carol NOW 970846-5368. Western Mtn Real Estate. www.WesternMtn.com

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SANTA FE Substantial Renovation in 2006. Zoned BCD (Business Capitol District) Approximately 29,511 square feet - East Marcy, East Palace Subdistrict.

FOUND DOG in Eldorado, 1/1/14. Very small. Tan color. Male. 505-470-0526

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Get it right the first time! Build your own house and guest or caretaker’s house on this lot when you are ready. Very private and quiet.

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$179,900.00 Great Heated Workshop- Studio 520 sq.ft., 3 car garage. 1250 Square foot home, 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, Updated kitchen cabinets, Appliances, and Baths. Pergo wood flooring though out.

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LOST DOG. White, grey, brown Shitzu. Responds to Princess Fiona or "Fi-Fi". Lost near Camino de los Montoyas. Reward! 505-954-4993.

Unspoiled 5 Acre Lot Set Back from Old Santa Fe Trail. Easily buildable, mature Pinon and Juniper tree-covered land only 12 minutes from the Plaza and 5 minutes from I-25 exit and entrance.

In Pecos area, 3 beds, 1 bath on 6 treed acres. Panoramic views of Pecos Wilderness. Horses ok. Shared well. $199,000. JEFFERSON WELCH, 505-577-7001

Office, retail, gallery, hospitality, residential, etc. Pueblo style architecture, computer controlled HVAC, cat 6, water catchment, brick and carpet flooring, Cummins diesel back-up electricity generator, multiple conference rooms, vault, climate controlled server room, power conditioners, privacy windows, double blinds on windows, break room, outdoor break area, executive offices, corporate reception, close proximity to restaurants, parking garages and the convention center. Paved parking for 100+ spaces. Parking ratio = 1:275 which includes the offsite parking across the street.

Neighboring land around the lot is well protected from further development by reasonable covenants and existing zoning; 100 mile south and west sunset views of Jemez and Sandia Mountains with Mt. Taylor in between and secluded by Sangre de Cristo foothills to northeast. Land slightly slopes to southwest with pretty arroyo within northern boundary; good operating shared well; water, electricity, centurylink fiber and telephone to lot’s boundary; lot entrance protected by electric remote controlled gate; foot and horse trails to National Forest. For sale by seller at $435,000. Realtor representing only buyer welcome at 5% commission. Serious inquiries only. Call 505-670-8779 or unspoiledland@gmail.com

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The Leukemia Lymphoma Society (LLS) is pleased to announce our partnership with Palliative Care Services of Santa Fe in offering a new Blood Cancer Support Group in the Santa Fe area. The group is scheduled to start January 2014 and will meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month from 2:003:30pm. Our first group meeting is scheduled to take place on January 14th. This group is facilitated by Eileen Joyce, Palliative Care Services Director and Caregiver, Hudson Institute Certified Coach, and Certified Grief Recovery Specialist. For location or more information about the group please contact Eileen at (505) 428-0670. LLS is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services. We offer a wide variety of programs and services in support of our mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS provides the following services at no cost to patients and families: -Patient Financial Aid Grant -Co-Pay Assistance Program -Peer-to-Peer Support -Family Support Groups -Local Education Programs -Trish Greene Back to School Program -Free Education Materials -Online Chats & Discussion Boards -Web Seminar/Teleconferences For more information about these services, please contact our Patient Access, Education Advocacy Manager, Ana Portillo, at (505) 8720141 or at Ana.Portillo@lls.org.

Gated lot and spectacular views with this home in Cienega. Over 2,000 sqft of home plus 2 car garage. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, study – modern, big kitchen. 2 ﬁreplaces and tiled ﬂoors. 988-5585

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Barker Realty 505-982-9836 ESPANOLA FSBO IN Espanola $120,000 3/2 1200sq.ft. Karsten on permanent foundation. Large yard, city utilities. E-mail pxarellano@windstream.net or call 505-367-0049.

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Now Showing Rancho Viejo Townhome $232,500

360 degree views, Spectacular walking trails, Automated drip watering, Finished 2 car garage, 2 BDR, 2 ½ bath plus office.

575-694-5444

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146.17 AC. 1 hour from Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Electricity, views of Sangre De Cristo Mnts and Glorieta Mesa. $675, acre, 20 year owner financing. Toll Free 8 7 7 - 7 9 7 - 2 6 2 4 newmexicoranchland.net

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(3) 2.5 Acre Lots, Senda Artemisia, Old Galisteo Road, Close to town. Easy building sites. Views, utilities, shared well. Owner financing. No Mobile homes. $119,700- $129,700 each. Greg. 505-690-8503, Equity Real Estate.

RARE 2.3 ACRE LOT. CountryConvenient to Town. Arroyo Hondo West. Spectacular Views. Hiking, Biking, and Riding Trail. $125,000. Jennifer, 505-204-6988.

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RIVER RANCH PRIVATE RIVER FRONTAGE 1,000 Acres, High Ponderosa Pine Ridges. Well, utilities, rare opportunity to own this quality ranch. $1,599,000. Great New Mexico Properties. One hour from Santa Fe. 802-483-6060

CHARMING, CLEAN 2 BEDROOM, $800

Private estate. Walled yard, kiva fireplace. Safe, quiet. Utilities paid. Sorry, No Pets. 505-471-0839

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202 E. MARCY STREET SANTA FE

Substantial Renovation in 2006. Zoned BCD (Business Capitol District) Approximately 29,511 square feet — East Marcy/East Palace Subdistrict. Office, retail, gallery, hospitality, residential, etc. Pueblo style architecture, computer controlled HVAC, cat 6, water catchment, brick and carpet ﬂooring, Cummins diesel back-up electricity generator, multiple conference rooms, vault, climate controlled server room, power conditioners, privacy windows, double blinds on windows, break room, outdoor break area, executive offices, corporate reception, close proximity to restaurants, parking garages and the convention center. Paved parking for 100+ spaces. Parking ratio = 1:275 which includes the off-site parking across the street. JOHN HANCOCK | 505-470-5604 JHancock@SantaFeRealEstate.com BARKER REALTY | 505-982-9836

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X-43 1:00PM-3:00PM - 1 Cerro Gordo - Ideal Santa Fe location - corner of Palace Ave & Cerro Gordo! Perfect pieda-tierre. Stroll to Plaza or Canyon Rd. Colorful 1 bedroom, beautifully appointed. Brick floors, kiva, a/c,radiant heat. $550,000. MLS 201305136. (Palace Avenue, left on Cerro Gordo, first building on left as you turn onto Cerro Gordo.) Jane Hiltbrand 505-946-8475 Barker Realty.

W-42 1:00PM-3:30PM - 309 Armijo/Rodriguez Unit D - Nestled into a view-filled ridge above Palace Avenue is a beautiful Zachery designed home. Fine detailing and superior finishes, wood cabinets, granite surfaces, and elegant fireplaces. $749,000. MLS 201301510. (3 br, 3 ba, Follow Hillside North, bear right and East to top of hill on Rodriguez on right.) David Woodard 505-920-2000 Santa Fe Properties.

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OO-13 12:00PM-4:30PM - 7213 Rio del Luna - Come see our three move-in-ready new-construction homes, and find out why our homes rate high in quality performance and energy efficiency. Move-in ready from $249,900. Plans start at $214,900. (Located near the Santa Fe Country Club. From Airport Road, turn on Paseo del Sol WEST, then turn right at Plaza Central. Turn left on Contenta Ridge to the model home.) Patrice Von Eschen 505-6901811 Homewise, Inc.

12:00PM-4:30PM - 7364 Avenida El Nido - Brand-new home in Las Palomas development of Tierra Contenta. Stop in to find out how Homewise can help you buy the perfect resale or new home for you. New home plans starting at $212,900. (From Airport Road, turn onto Paseo del Sol WEST. Turn right on Jaguar Road to the dead end, then turn right on Avenida El Nido. Model homes are on the right on Avenida El Nido.) Patrice Von Eschen 505690-1811 Homewise, Inc.

O-74 12:30PM-2:00PM - 23 S. Chamisa Drive - Newly remodeled Northern NM home with office/den, formal dining room, lovely kitchen and baths, incredible landscaping including fabulous rock waterfall, lawn, flagstone patios and view decks. $329,000. MLS 201303737. (4 br, 3 ba, Exit 290 onto 285, left onto Alma, right onto Chamisa Drive South.) Sue Garfitt 505-577-2007 Santa Fe Properties.

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Y-40 1:00PM-3:30PM - 627 Webber Street - Spacious 1400 square foot, 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo with old Santa Fe ambience close to shopping, the State Capitol building and one block from Wood Gormley school. $359,900. MLS 201304113. (S. Paseo de Peralta to Webber Street between Don Gaspar and Old Santa Fe Trail; turn in driveway on North side of church and go down drive to Pueblo de Capital Condo Complex on east side of Webber St.) MaryJoy Ford 505-577-0177 Sotheby’s International Realty.

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

2nd Floor 2 bedroom, 2 bath. New carpet & paint. San Mateo Condos. No pets, non-smokers. $925 monthly; alsromero@q.com; 505-920-3233

QUIET LOCATION. FURNISHED. 1 Bedroom, 1 bath. Hardwood. Screened patio. Washer, dryer. Parking. Includes utilities & cable. No Smoking or pets. $900. 520-472-7489

TIDY 2 bedroom guest quarters, gorgeous setting on paved road. 1200 monthly, UTILITIES INCLUDED. Calm, meditative. fireplace, washer, dryer, dishwasher, patio. 781-259-9881 or Shoshanni@aol.com.

APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED 1 BEDROOM, 1 bath, washer, dryer hookups, spacious. Off Siringo Road. $700 monthly plus uitiltites and deposit. NO Pets. 505-690-8502. 1 OR 2 BEDROOM AVAILABLE, RUFINA LANE. Laundry facility onsite, cozy fire place, balcony, patio. Near Walmart. $625 or $699 monthly. One Month Free Rent, No Application Fee.

Chamisa Management Corp. 988-5299 2 BEDROOM, 1 bath. Tile floors, washer, dryer. In town country setting. Off West Alameda. $795 monthly plus utilities. 575-430-1269

CALLE DE ORIENTE NORTE 2 bedroom 2 bath, upstairs unit. $775 plus utilites. Security deposit. No pets. 505-988-7658 or 505-690-3989

DOS SANTOS, one bedroom, one bath, upper level, upgraded, reserve parking. $800 Western Equities, 505-982-4201 LEASE & OWN. ZERO DOWN! PAY EXACTLY WHAT OWNER PAYS: $1200 includes mortgage, taxes, insurance, maintenance (HOA). ZIA VISTA’S LARGEST 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH CONDO. Save thousands. Incredible "Sangre" views. 505-204-2210

RANCHO SANTOS, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, pretty unit, 2nd story, 1 car garage. $1000. Western Equities, 505-982-4201.

GUESTHOUSES EASTSIDE, WALK TO CANYON ROAD! Furnished, short-term vacation home. Walled .5 acre, mountain views, fireplace, 2 bedroom, washer, dryer. Private. Pets okay. Large yard. 970-626-5936.

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OUT OF Africa House on 12.5 acres. 1,700 squ.ft., radiant heat, fireplaces, washer, dryer, Wifi. $2,350 monthly plus utilities. 505-5777707, 505-820-6002.

DON’T MISS 2 BEDROOM JUANITA STREET ($775) & 1 BEDROOM RANCHO SIRINGO ($720). Santa Fe Style. Laundry room. No pets. 505-310-1516.

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Ring in the New Year with extra cash in your pocket! Las Palomas Apartments offers affordable, spacious 2 Bedrooms & Studios that make your hard-earned dollars go farther. Come see the changes we’ve made! Call 888-4828216 today for a tour. Se habla español.

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SAN MIGUEL COURT APARTMENTS 2029 CALLE LORCA (January move in , 12 Mo. Lease, required for special)

505-471-8325 SPACIOUS, NICE & CLEAN. 1 Bedroom, 1 Living room, kitchen, bath. water paid. Off-street parking. $695 plus deposit. No pets. References. 505982-1141, 505-466-3568.

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1 BEDROOM homes (2) in popular rail yard district. $850 and $925. water paid, charming and quiet neighborhood. 505-231-8272 2 BEDROOM, 2.5 BATHS TOWNHOME, RANCHO VIEJO. 1150 sq.ft. 2 car garage. Across from park. $1250 monthly plus utilities. 505-471-7050 2 BEDROOM 2 BATH, 2 car garage, washer, dryer. Breathtaking mountain view, trails, golf course, lake. 20 minutes South of Santa Fe. $875. 505359-4778, 505-980-2400. 2BR, 1BA newly remodeled, quaint adobe home in private compound. Available now. Washer, dryer, off street parking. Columbia St. $1050 monthly. 505-983-9722.

COMMERCIAL SPACE 1,900 squ.ft. Warehouse, 600 squ.ft Office Space, reception area, two offices, kitchen, security, fenced yard, On-site parking. $1,500 plus utilities. 505-982-2511.

805 EARLY Street. 2700 sq.ft. architecturally designed space, high ceilings, open floor plan along with conventional space. Property can be divided into two spaces. Good for hair salon, art or yoga studio, retail, or office. Call Phillip 984-7343 Owner NMREB.

Commercial Restaurant Available

60-70 chairs, 3200 sq.ft, Full large equipped kitchen, Built in customer base. Serious inquiries only. 505-660-1586. *Adjacent 1500 sq.ft. available for tap room, beer and wine bar or restaurant-bar combination. FOR RENT with option to buy. Catering kitchen. Fully equipped. Call 505471-9149 for more information.

MEDICAL DENTAL RETAIL OFFICE. 5716 sq.ft. Allegro Center, 2008 St. Michaels Drive, Unit B. George Jimenez, owner-broker. 505-470-3346

COZY 1 bedroom plus Loft. Refrigerator, 2 car garage, enclosed backyard. No Pets. $885 monthly, $700 deposit. 480-236-5178. DARLING 1 BEDROOM DUPLEX. Fireplace, saltillos. Great location. Year lease, no pets. $750. 1875 Calle Quedo B.

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CHILDREN’S SERVICES PROJECT SPECIALIST Full-time position oversees implementation of programwide evaluation plan. Includes data collection and outcome evaluation activities. Provides admin support to department.

Year round positions available working with either Head Start (children ages 3 to 5) or Early Head Start (children ages birth to 5)

FAMILY SERVICES ASSISTANT Full-time position working with families of Head Start students. Bilingual English, Spanish preferred.

TEACHER ASSISTANT Full-time with Head Start program.

WAREHOUSES Excellent benefits. Apply on line at www.pms-inc.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491. EOE/ M/ F/ D/ V/ AA Follow us on Facebook.

GLORIETA, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, studio, 4 acres. $1050 monthly plus security deposit. References required. 303-913-4965.

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TESUQUE TRAILER VILLAGE "A PLACE TO CALL HOME" 505-9899133 VACANCY 1/2 OFF IRST MONTH Single & Double Wide Spaces

WAREHOUSE WORK SPACE AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY 2000 sq.ft. Workshop, fine studio, light manuafacturing. Siler Road area. $1470 monthly, $1000 deposit. 505-670-1733.

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PART-TIME Office Manager. Scheduling and billing for small yet busy counseling practice. Please call 505438-1853 or fax resume to 505-4382475.

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CENTER SUPERVISOR II Full-time with Head Start program.

TEACHER I Full-time with Head Start program or working 20, 30 or 40 hours per week with Early Head Start. Excellent benefits. For job requirements and to apply on-line, go to www.pms-inc.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491 EOE/ M/ F/ D/ V/ AA. Follow us on Facebook.

GALLERIES WEB CONTENT - Social Media Coordinator for established business to develop maintain outstanding global online presence. 3-years experience. Email resume: alina@patina-gallery.com

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3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH, WOODSTOVE, Washer, Dryer, Dishwasher!! $850. $500 deposit NO PETS 982-7579 GREAT VIEWS!! 15 minutes N of Santa Fe.

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OFFICES ACCOUNTING $975 PLUS UTILITIES, OFFICE SUITE, GALISTEO CENTER . Two bright, private offices plus reception area, kitchenette, bathroom. Hospital proximity. 518-672-7370

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE

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Room for rent. Private Bath, gated complex, 2 small dogs. $550 monthly included utilities. 505-280-2803

AN EXTRA LARGE UNIT BLOWOUT SPECIAL. Airport Cerrillos Storage. UHaul. Cargo Van. 505-474-4330. airportcerrillos.com

CREDIT ANALYST Valley National Bank is now accepting applications for a Credit Analyst. The applicant must have two years experience or educational equivalent in the field of accounting and, or finance. This position supports loan operations with primary duties of financial statement & cash flow analysis. Knowledge of banking laws, Federal and State regulations pertaining to bank lending practices preferred. We offer an excellent benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision and 401K-Pension Plan. Competitive salary based upon experience. Send resume and salary requirements, or apply in person between the hours of 9:00a.m.and 4:00p.m. Monday through Friday. HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT VALLEY NATIONAL BANK 322 Riverside Drive Espanola, New Mexico 87532 EOE, Member FDIC

THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS Is recruiting for three full-time Court Clerk 2 positions in Santa Fe, NM. For more information please go to the Judicial Web site at w w w . n m c o u r t s . g o v under Job Opportunities. Equal Opportunity Employer.

DINING SERVICE POSITIONS:

Part time server & dishwasher positions. Must be professional. Weekends and Holidays a must. Wonderful work environment. Complete application at El Castillo, 250 E Alameda; Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. or email resume to: hum anresources@ elcnm .com or fax to 505-983-3828.

EDUCATION Santa Fe Community College invites you to apply for the position(s) noted below:

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FOR SALE OR LEASE- Great opportunity! 3 building Showroom, warehouse, office space. 7,000 to 27,480 SqFt. All or part. Fantastic location1591 Pacheco Street. Qualified HubZone, Zoned I-2. Contact David Oberstein: 505-986-0700

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OFFICE- STUDIO NEAR RAILYARD Can also be used as u n f u r n i s h e d a p a r t m e n t . $900 monthly. All utilities included. Reserved parking. Call 505-471-1238 additional details.

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Beautiful 1 bedroom, 1 bath Model home. Fully furnished and all utilities, project amenities, pets welcome. $1000 monthly. Jim, 505-470-0932

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EXQUISITE SANTA FE COMPOUND PROPERTY situated on 5 acres, boasts majestic mountain views, 6200 sqft of living space, 8 bedrooms, 7 baths, 2 car garage. $3500 plus utilities. Call for personal showing QUIET AND FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD 3 bedroom, 2 bath, fireplace, AC, 2 car garage, enclosed backyard, washer, dryer, $1200 plus utilities WALKING DISTANCE TO SHOPPING 2 bedroom, plus loft, 1 bath, granite counter tops, upgraded washer, dryer, 2 car garage $1200 plus utilities CHARMING CONDO 2 bedroom, 2 bath, granite counters, washer, dryer, upgraded appliances, access to all amenities $975 plus utilities SPACIOUS HOME IN DESIRABLE NEIGHBORHOOD 3 bedroom, 2 bath, fireplace, washer, dryer hook-up, large fenced in backyard, 2 car garage $1200 plus utilities 5 PLEX CONVENIENTLY LOCATED ON CAMINO CAPITAN this unit is a one bedroom loft, fireplace, and fenced back yard $650 plus utilities $580. 2 SMALL BEDROOMS. V e r y clean, quiet, safe. Off Agua Fria. Has gas heating. Pay only electric. No pets. 505-473-0278

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

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

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

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PROFESSIONAL SALES CONSULTANT American Home, the leading furniture retailer in New Mexico is seeking professional sales associates. Our top performers earn 30-50K, and enjoy a generous benefit package that includes insurance, paid vacation, 401k and more. We will train the right individual who is energetic and customer focused. Apply during business hours at: 901 St. Michael’s Drive or send resume to: dthompson@americanhome.com American Home is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER The New Mexico Lottery Authority is seeking applications for its vacant Chief Executive Officer position. The CEO provides leadership for all aspects of the Lottery and is expected to carry out its objectives and overall statutory mission with a view toward maximizing net revenues for its beneficiaries. The CEO establishes and directs the organization’s day-to-day operating strategy and plan. While this individual serves at the pleasure of the Board, it also acts as a liaison to the Governor, Legislature, other governmental entities, external providers of goods and services, retailers, the public, as well as the employees. Executive experience is required as a manager or leader of another lottery or in an environment similar or equal to the Lottery as an organization. Previous lottery experience is preferred, but not required. A Master’s degree in business administration or public administration or its equivalent in a related field is desirable, but not essential. Compensation will be commensurate with experience and education. Must be able to pass an extensive background check and able to work in a high security environment. Applicants are required to provide a letter of interest, resume/with references and representative examples of the following: · Educational profile/certifications · Contact information · Listing of involvement in various professional and volunteer organizations, clubs, etc. · Samples of candidate’s ability to communicate (both oral and written), i.e., recorded speeches, presentations, position papers, research, etc. · A sample of a prepared strategic plan(s) and a framework of a business plan.

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2006 LEXUS 400H. Hybrid. AWD. 68,000 miles. Lexus Certified Warranty. Approximately 25 MPG. Great condition. Green-grey. $21,950. 505-3100309 THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST JEEP ON THE MARKET RIGHT NOW! PLEASE COME BY AND TAKE A LOOK, WE CAN TALK PRICE. 3.8 LITER V6, 4 WHEEL DRIVE, 6 SPEED, GREY 2-DOOR SOFT TOP WITH ONLY 42,000 MILES. JEEP BOUGHT NEW AT SANTA FE DEALERSHIP EQUIPPED WITH PRO-COMP LIFT PACKAGE. CALL DAN @ 505-466-6281. FRESH SERVICE AND FULL OF GAS, READY TO GO!

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Horoscope HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014: This year you experience an unusual amount of intensity, especially regarding your emotions. You generally assume a reasonable attitude, and you experience situations and life in that manner; however, in the next few months, you could take some extreme stances, become very emotional and perhaps overdramatic. This is just a phase. If you are single, someone you choose to be your sweetie might lose his or her appeal as time goes on. If you are attached, your sweetie frequently will be found taking an opposite stance from you. Try to compromise more often. Pisces understands your emotional extremes. 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) HHH Use your intuition, and you naturally will be at the right spot at the right time. Extremes mark the day. If you hit a snafu, recognize that much might be blown out of portion. A discussion with a partner could reveal a different perspective. Tonight: Do your thing.

This Week: Ponder less and act more. Tension builds.

This Week: Think carefully Monday before acting on a major plan.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Happiness surrounds loved ones. You might decide to spontaneously invite some of your family over for a special dessert. Watch a close friend process very strong feelings. Tonight: A late talk is better than no talk. This Week: Decide on your goals early Monday. Follow through the remainder of the week.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Deal with someone directly, and allow this person to really express his or her feelings. Don’t be surprised if you sense some anger. Discuss different ways to handle a situation, so that he or she can mellow out a bit. Tonight: Feelings are extreme. This Week: You will be forced to rethink a project.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Someone you feel you need to respond to could become demanding. No matter what you do, you can’t seem to please this person. Ask for direction rather than push yourself beyond your limits. Tonight: Out till the wee hours. This Week: When someone goes to hand you the reins, you might want to say “no.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH You might be quite content but not realistic. Given some time and a change in tone in a conversation with a loved one, you will become more grounded in your thinking. Detach, and you will see everything work out. Tonight: Sort through invitations. This Week: You can defer only so much, and then others will rebel. Just watch!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH Reach out to someone you care about. You might want to call this person on Sunday and catch up on his or her news. A family member could be grouchy because you aren’t doting on him or her. Tonight: Take a walk to do some thinking.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You might need to slow down; you have been a whirlwind of activity. You will gain a new perspective once you detach from a volatile situation. You might gain more than one. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. This Week: Many opportunities come your way. Choose with care. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Honor a change that involves a loved one. Realize that you have no other choice, especially

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if you want to maintain a good relationship with this person. You might want to rethink your position. Tonight: Act like it is Friday night. This Week: Someone could give you some flak; let it wash over you. SAGITTARIUS(Nov.22-Dec.21) HHH You feel intensely about a partner or loved one. If you should get into a tiff, you could feel as if it is a disaster, which it is not. You might want to take some personal time to rethink your feelings toward this person. Tonight: Favorite place, favorite people. This Week: Your creativity helps you bypass a problem. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH You are likely to give someone a compliment that is so effusive that he or she will question whether you are telling the truth. Hold back some if you want people to take your words seriously. Tonight: Out late. This Week: Take your stance early on; otherwise, someone could ignore your thoughts. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Be aware of your spending. You can’t afford to keep buying a present here and there for yourself, even if you think you need it. Deal with an authority figure who has been very difficult to work with. Accept that this person will not change. Tonight: Make it your treat. This Week: Communication is of the utmost importance. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH You beam, and others seem to be unusually responsive. A possible trip could be altered by someone in some way. Flex with this person. You might be surprised at how he or she responds to your different, more flexible attitude. Tonight: The world is your oyster. This Week: Roll with the moment, but do not invest all of your time on any one project.

Scratch pad

s the world’s leading connoisseur and curator of Bad Writing on the Internet, I often get letters from people about some common misuse of language that happens to annoy them. Most of these complaints are pedestrian. (Yes, I know “ATM machine” is redundant. Zzzz.) But reader Amity Horowitz just wrote in with an eye-opener. Coyly, Amity invited me to Google the peculiar expression “defiantly recommend.” “Defiantly recommend” has been used more than 1.5 million times! While one might occasionally recommend something defiantly, at the risk of censure or ridicule — say, the ritual eating of one’s placenta — how often would Gene that sort of thing happen? Not a millionodd times. So I investigated. Weingarten “Defiantly recommend” turns out to The Washington be a classic example of Internet-induced Post idiocy, an elegant collision of incompetence and indifference: A person wants to write “I definitely recommend” in, say, a product review but spells it “definately,” which is the illiterate’s go-to version of the word. Spellcheck (and its co-conspirator, autocorrect) realizes something is wrong and suggests “defiantly.” The incompetent writer doesn’t know this is wrong or doesn’t care or doesn’t notice. And so “defiantly recommend” gets published a million-plus times. A similar thing happens when inept spellers write “alot,” meaning “a lot,” but spellcheck turns it into “allot,” which explains the hemorrhage of Google hits for expressions like “I have allot of weapons.” This phenomenon has happened more than 2.2 million times, which is allot. We will call this sort of thing The Law of Incorrect Corrections, and it leads indirectly to: The Law of Uninformed Uniformity Before the Web, to be published as a writer, you pretty much had to be a professional. Professionals are unafraid of words and know a lot of them and take pains to use them in entertaining, unexpected combinations. This is not so with many amateurs of the Web, who have much they wish to say but lack the professional’s confidence and extensive arsenal of words. They are to writing as I am to fashion: I know I have to put something on every day, but I have no confidence in my ability to mix and match with style or taste. And so I tend to dress in “uniforms”: safe combinations of familiar things, such as khaki pants with blue shirts. The modern Web-sters are like that with words. With words, they are ... woefully inadequate. Consider that very expression, a staple of the Internet. A Google search confirms that 80 percent of the time the word “woefully” is used, it is modifying the word “inadequate.” It’s difficult to explain how preposterous this is, but I’ll try: It’s as though 80 percent of the time people use salt, it’s on scrambled eggs. Think of all the missed opportunities for flavor. Finally, The Principle of Trite & Wrong Cliche is easy — it pops into the mind in an instant and often sounds profound or at least comfortingly familiar. Therefore, cliche infests the Internet, even when it is completely inappropriate to the point being made. Consider “nothing could be further from the truth.” This expression is always a lie. Repeat: This expression is always a lie. If we scan the Web, however, we find it has been used 13 million times, generally in pompous defense of oneself or of another against allegedly scurrilous allegations. Charles Colson, for example, once decried the popular image of Martin Luther King Jr. as “a liberal firebrand, waging war on traditional values.” Says Colson: “Nothing could be further from the truth.” Really, now! I think I can refute this without getting into a tedious discussion of a dead man‚s politics. Here is one statement, for example, that is palpably further from the truth: “Martin Luther King Jr. was a subspecies of avocado.” See? I could go on and on, but whatever I said about the absurdity of the situation would be woefully inadequate.

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