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Proposed solar facility south of city in limbo First public hearing for controversial Rancho Viejo Solar project likely remains months away

By Maya Hilty mhilty@sfnewmexican.com

A large solar and energy storage facility south of the city of Santa Fe remains under review nearly one year after it was proposed.

The first public hearing on the development, which has already sparked

opposition from some residents of nearby Rancho San Marcos and Eldorado, likely remains months away.

AES Corp., an Arlington, Va.-based global energy company, applied for a conditional-use permit for the Rancho Viejo Solar facility in January 2023. The proposed facility includes 96 megawatts of solar generation and 48 megawatts

of battery storage on about 800 acres — enough to power 30,000 homes annually, according to the company.

In May, the county hired Terracon Consultants Inc. to provide a third-party review of the AES application. Terracon completed the review in July, asking AES for more detail on several parts of the application. Santa Fe County staff

members are in the process of hiring another third-party consultant to review the proposed battery energy storage system, county spokeswoman Olivia Romo wrote in an email in December.

AES then will respond to questions from both reviews and update its application, Joshua Mayer, senior manager for project development and lead developer for the Rancho Viejo Solar project, wrote in an email.

Breathtaking start to 2024 for more than 100 taking chilly plunge into Storrie Lake

Once county staff has reviewed AES’ response, it will submit a report to the Sustainable Land Development Code hearing officer and county Planning Commission to begin the “quasi-judicial public hearings,” Romo wrote. The application would only go before the County Commission on an appeal, she added.

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Top court rejects law to curb its power Constitutional crisis looms amid war against Hamas

By Miriam Berger and Ruby Mellen

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JERUSALEM — Israel’s high court on Monday struck down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s polarizing law that sought to limit the court’s power over government decisions, putting the country on the brink of a constitutional crisis just three months after Israelis united behind the war effort in Gaza.

Netanyahu’s plans to overhaul the judiciary sparked nearly a year of widespread social unrest before the Israel-Gaza war. The unprecedented standoff drew international condemnation and extraordinary opposition from military and senior security officials.

Monday’s ruling comes at a sensitive moment for Netanyahu, who remains embroiled in a corruption trial and is facing calls for his resignation over his government’s failure to thwart the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas, as well as its handling of the hostage crisis. The militant group killed about 1,200 Israelis and took about 240 hostage, according to Israeli officials.

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ABOVE: The first group of over 100 polar bear plungers jumps into Storrie Lake outside of Las Vegas, N.M. “It’s like a renewal,” said Las Vegas resident Denise Medina, who was on her eighth plunge.

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LAS VEGAS, N.M. hilip Romero was out of town during the very first polar bear plunge 28 years ago, when members of the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas jumped into Storrie Lake on a dare.

Since then, every New Year’s Day, he hasn’t missed a single one.

“It’s a harmless, clean, simple event,” Romero said about what he loves about the plunge, which he’s kept running over the years.

More than 100 people gathered at Storrie Lake State Park near Las Vegas for this year’s plunge off the lake’s boat dock.

While Monday’s noontime temperature was relatively balmy this year — in the 40s — Romero said plungers have gathered in all types of weather.

Several years ago, there was a foot of snow on the ground. Once, it was too windy for people to jump off the dock so everyone had to run into the water. There also was the time a drought forced participants to a different part of the lake and splash through mud to get to the water.

There has even been half a foot of ice covering the lake, which Romero had to break up before the park rangers took over that responsibility.

“I would have to break the ice the day before and then come the next day at 10 a.m. and clear the little sheet of ice,” he said.

The only thing that managed to stop the plunge was the coronavirus pandemic, which led to the event’s cancellation in 2021.

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BELOW: Jordan Garcia, left, and her daughter, Jayda Lozano, 4, warm up in the Montezuma Hot Springs after a much chillier leap into Storrie Lake on New Year’s Day. PHOTOS BY JIM WEBER/THE NEW MEXICAN

Some troops to withdraw from Gaza

By Ruby Mellen and Miriam Berger

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TEL AVIV — Israel said it will be withdrawing some troops from Gaza this week, an indication it may be changing its tactics on the ground even as it remains committed to the war effort.

In a statement Monday, the Israel Defense Forces said two brigades would be pulled back from Gaza this week.

Three others would follow at an undisclosed date, the IDF said.

The details about the planned withdrawal come after Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an IDF spokesperson, said Sunday night that pulling back reservists “will significantly ease the burden on the economy and allow them to gather strength for the upcoming activities in the next year.”

Israel’s withdrawal of the five brigades could include several thousand soldiers, but Hagari vowed that “prolonged fighting” would continue into 2024. Analysts Please see story on Page A-4

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Putin vows to intensify attacks amid record drone strike on Ukraine KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched a record 90 Shahed-type drones across Ukraine during the early hours of the new year, and Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country would “intensify” its attacks on its neighbor.

Speaking during a New Year’s Day visit to a military hospital, Putin said Ukraine could expect more such strikes after shelling of the Russian border city of Belgorod killed more than two dozen people and wounded more than 100 others.

Russia has blamed Ukraine for Saturday’s attack, which was one of the deadliest to take place on Russian soil since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine started more than 22 months ago. Russian officials said the death toll stood at 25 as of Monday, including five children.

A 15-year-old boy was killed and seven people wounded after falling debris from one of 87 downed drones hit a residential building in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, the head of the region’s military administration, Oleh Kiper, said. Debris also sparked a number of small fires, including at the city’s port.

U.K. police arrest Colo. mother sought in deaths of her children

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A Colorado mother suspected of killing two of her young children and injuring a third was arrested Saturday in the United Kingdom, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department.

Kimberlee Singler’s 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son were found dead Dec. 19 when police responded to a report of a burglary at their home. Police later said the report turned out to be unfounded.

Singler, 35, initially cooperated with police but disappeared during the investigation, said Ira Cronin, spokesperson for the Colorado Springs Police Department.

Singler was not under surveillance and was last seen in Colorado Springs on Dec. 23, said Cronin.

Authorities did not provide further details on the overseas arrest, but said they are working with multiple law enforcement agencies.

The children’s deaths came amid an ongoing legal battle between Singler and her ex-husband over parenting time and other issues, according to court filings.

South Korean opposition leader stabbed in neck during airport tour SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck by an unidentified knife-wielding man Tuesday during a visit to the southeastern city of Busan, police said.

Lee, head of the main opposition Democratic Party, was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Police and emergency officials said he was conscious and wasn’t in critical condition, but his status was unknown.

The attack happened as Lee walked through a crowd of journalists and others after finishing a tour of the site of a new airport in Busan. The attacker, posing as a supporter, approached Lee, saying he wanted to get his autograph, and then stabbed Lee in the neck with a knife, according to Busan police.

President Yoon Suk Yeol expressed concern about Lee’s health and ordered authorities to investigate the attack, saying such violence would not be tolerated, according to Yoon’s office.

Lee lost the 2022 presidential election to Yoon by a narrow margin.

‘Wonka’ ends year atop box office; 2023 sales hit post-pandemic high NEW YORK — Hollywood closed out an up and down 2023 with Wonka regaining No. 1 at the box office, strong sales for The Color Purple and an overall $9 billion in ticket sales that improved on 2022’s grosses but fell about $2 billion shy of pre-pandemic norms.

The New Year’s weekend box office this year lacked a true blockbuster. Instead, a wide array of films — among them Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, The Boys in the Boat, Migration, Ferrari, The Iron Claw and Anyone But You — sought to break out over the year’s most lucrative box-office corridor.

The top choice, though, remained Wonka, Paul King’s musical starring Timothée Chalamet as a young Willy Wonka. In its third weekend, the Warner Bros. release collected an estimated $24 million Friday through Sunday and $31.8 million factoring in estimates for the Monday holiday.

That brings the film’s domestic total to $142.5 million.

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A memorial to Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., in 2020. Since the death of George Floyd, a national movement promised sweeping justice reform. So far, police prosecutions have resulted in a mixed bag of convictions, acquittals, and in one case, a mistrial.

More police being charged, but convictions not certain Experts: Mixed record since Floyd murder points to shifting sentiments

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few days before Christmas, a jury in Washington state cleared three Tacoma police officers of criminal charges in the death of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man who died in police custody in 2020 after pleading he could not breathe.

The next day, on Dec. 22, a jury in Colorado convicted two paramedics of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in police custody in 2019 after officers subdued him and medics injected him with the powerful sedative ketamine.

In the three years since the murder of George Floyd, whose death in police custody ignited a national movement against police brutality, prosecutors have charged police and emergency medical workers in a number of high-profile cases.

The result has been a mixed bag of verdicts: convictions, acquittals and in one case, a mistrial.

Civil rights activists and legal experts say the different outcomes reflect a country still struggling with how to view cases of police use of lethal force as well as shifting public sentiment on law enforcement and safety.

“Police accountability is still up for debate.

Even with actual evidence, even with bodycam footage, we’re still in a place where we cannot be certain that an officer’s conviction for wrongdoing will take place through our judicial system,” Charles Coleman Jr., a civil rights lawyer, former New York City prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst, said in an interview in October.

The deaths of Floyd, McClain, Ellis and Breonna Taylor — all killed in fatal police encounters within a nine-month span — came to occupy a central place in the racial justice movement and in some cases inspired reforms in the cities where they were killed.

In total, 16 police officers and paramedics faced state and federal charges in the four cases, with eight convictions so far, including a former police detective who pleaded guilty to federal charges in Taylor’s case.

But convictions are only one piece of the

justice system, reform activists pointed out.

“The algorithm of justice are charges, arrest, conviction and sentencing,” MiDian Holmes, a community activist in Aurora, Colo., said after the paramedics’ conviction in McClain’s death. She said she is thankful for the three convictions in the case, but “we do not know justice until we see sentencing.”

No organization comprehensively tracks the number of law enforcement prosecutions.

But legal experts and those pushing for police reform say prosecutors seem more willing to bring charges against police officers though juries are not as willing to convict.

“There’s at least a situation in which police are subjected to the same criminal law processes as the rest of us would be,” said Ian Farrell, associate professor of law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Jurors, however, are often reluctant to second-guess “the split-second decisions of police officers in potentially violent street encounters,” said Philip Stinson, a criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University.

Stinson, whose research includes police misconduct, has built a public database of police officers charged in shootings compiled from media reports.

From 2020-23, 71 officers were charged with murder or manslaughter stemming from an on-duty shooting, compared with 43 officers from 2016-19. Even in cases of failed criminal convictions, families have been awarded millions and dedicated some of that to furthering police reform.

Four years after the 2018 death of 19-year-old Anton Black in police custody in Maryland, his family and a community coalition partially settled a federal civil rights lawsuit that included $5 million payout and reform initiatives.

The partial settlement requires the three Maryland law enforcement agencies involved to overhaul their use-of-force policies, and requires training for implicit bias and de-escalation. It also includes a requirement for more resources for police officers who encounter people with mental health issues in crisis.

“No family should have to go through what we went through,” Black’s mother, Jennell Black, said in a statement after the settlement.

N.J. mayor: Migrant buses dodging NYC mayor’s order The Associated Press

SECAUCUS, N.J. — A New Jersey mayor says buses of migrants bound for New York City have been stopping at the train station in his town and others in an apparent effort to evade an executive order by New York’s mayor trying to regulate how and when migrants can be dropped off in the city.

Secaucus Mayor Michael Gonnelli said Sunday that Secaucus police and town officials had been told by Hudson County officials about the arrival of

buses at the train station in Secaucus Junction beginning Saturday.

He said four buses were believed to have arrived and dropped off migrants who then took trains into New York City.

Gonnelli said the executive order signed recently by Mayor Eric Adams of New York requires bus operators to provide at least 32 hours’ advance notice of arrivals and to limit the hours of drop-off times.

“It seems quite clear the bus operators are finding a way to thwart the

requirements of the executive order by dropping migrants at the train station in Secaucus and having them continue to their final destination,” Gonnelli said in a statement.

He suggested the order may be “too stringent” and is resulting in “unexpected consequences.”

Gonnelli called the tactic a “loophole” bus operators have found to allow migrants to reach New York City, and added that state police have reported that “this is now happening at train stations throughout the state.”

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When Joseph Arujo, a 20-year-old content creator and student in Los Angeles, began seeing 2023 recap videos in his feed last month, he began scouring his hard drive for content. He hunted down old photos and videos and compiled them in a video for TikTok. 2023 recap videos were “everywhere,” he said.

In yearly recap videos, you — or your friends, cousins or people you barely know — string together dozens of videos and photos from the past 12 months, often set to the beat of a trending audio track. This new year, they’ve become an online phenomenon, allowing users an outlet to reflect while also generating anxiety and pressure among young people to commodify their lives into viral content. The trend also shows how the content formats and behavior of professional influencers are increasingly being adopted by average users.

“I think this phenomenon strongly relates to the sentiment that, ‘if you didn’t post it, is it even real?’ ” said Jules Terpak, a content creator who makes videos about digital culture.

“People not only have to document their years for others, but for their future selves to take in the significance of the year.”

Videos including the hashtag #2023recap have amassed a collective 1.6 billion views on TikTok. “2023 recap” was listed as one of the most popular searches on Instagram in the days leading up to New Year’s Eve. Snapchat is incentivizing recap video creation by prompting users to create TikTok-like 2023 recap videos for the app.

“Everyone wants to show their life looking the best that it can,” said Annie Wu Henry, a digital strategist in Philadelphia, “and that now includes ... these videos.”

Apps have begun making it easier to package the year into a digestible format for a while now. In 2016, an app called Top Nine went viral, allowing Instagram users to share a grid of their top posts.

That same year Spotify introduced Spotify Wrapped, a personalized round up of each user’s listening activity.

Strava, a social fitness app, now provides users with an annual report of their fitness activity, and Goodreads, a platform for book lovers, offers a “Year in Books” feature summarizing users’ reading accomplishments.

On TikTok, yearly recap videos became popular with high-profile content creators, eventually trickling down to average users.

“You’re getting a recap fed to you in every form of content,” Arujo said.

The ideas one should romanticize their life, be the main character and treat life like a movie have become commonplace on TikTok. So it’s no surprise users would begin regurgitating their memories into cinematic highlight reels.

“We have democratized being a content creator where now even your aunt is posting an app downloaded slide show of videos that summarized her year,” said Luke Anderson, a producer in Los Angeles.

However as year-end recap videos have skyrocketed in popularity, the format has also led to increased pressure among users.

Several people on social media told The Post they felt frustrated and overwhelmed at the prospect of summarizing an entire year into engaging short-form content.

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concerns about immigration climbed to 35% from 27% last The Associated Press year. Most Republicans, 55%, said the government needs to WASHINGTON — In this focus on immigration in 2024, time of war overseas, more while 22% of Democrats listed Americans think foreign policy immigration as a priority. That’s should be a top focus for the up from 45% and 14%, respecU.S. government in 2024, with a tively, compared with December new poll showing international 2022. concerns and immigration rising Janet Brewer has lived all her in importance with the public. life in San Diego, across from About 4 in 10 U.S. adults Tijuana, Mexico, and said the named foreign policy topics situation on the border has detein an open-ended question riorated in recent years. that asked people to listup to “It’s a disaster,” said Brewer, five issues for the government 69, who works part time after to work on in the next year, running a secretarial and legal according to a December poll and medical transcription small from The Associated Pressbusiness. “It’s crazy.”

NORC Center for Public Affairs The politics of foreign miliResearch. tary aid and immigration policy That’s about twice as many are entangled, with President who mentioned the topic in the Joe Biden‘s administration poll conducted last year. promoting a $110 billion package Long-standing economic including aid for Ukraine and worries still overshadow other Israel that remains stalled in issues. But the new poll’s findCongress while Republicans ings point to increased concern push for a deal allowing major about U.S. involvement overseas changes in immigration policy — 20% voiced that sentiment in and stricter enforcement along the poll, versus 5% a year ago. the U.S.-Mexico border.

It also shows the IsraelBrewer said she wouldn’t Hamas war is feeding public vote for Biden or a Republican anxiety. The conflict was menfor president in 2024, and may tioned by 5%, while almost no opt for independent Robert F. one cited it a year ago. The issue Kennedy Jr. But she also queshas dominated geopolitics since tions whether a change in the Israel declared war on Hamas in White House would necessarily Gaza after that group’s improve immigration policy.

Oct. 7 attack on Israeli soil.

As for foreign aid, she said: “I Four percent of U.S. adults know that we need to help. But mentioned the conflict between come on. We’ve done enough.”

Russia and Ukraine as someEven as immigration and thing for the government to foreign policy rose as concerns, focus on this year. That’s similar those issues were no match for to the 6% who mentioned it at worries about the economy. the end of 2022.

Inflation has fallen, unemployForeign policy has gained ment is low and the U.S. has importance among respondents repeatedly defied predictions of from both parties. Some a recession — yet the poll adds 46% of Republicans named it, to a string of surveys showing a up from 23% last year. And gloomy outlook on the economy.

34% of Democrats list foreign Some 76% of U.S. adults said policy as a focal point, comthey want the government to pared with 16% a year ago. work on issues related to the Warren E. Capito, a Republieconomy in 2024, nearly the can from Gordonsville, Va., wor- same as the 75% who said so in ries China could soon invade December 2022. Meanwhile, 3 in Taiwan, creating a third major 10 U.S. adults listed inflation as potential source of global conan issue the government should flict for the U.S. “They would focus on, unchanged from 2022. love to have us split three ways,” The poll of 1,074 adults was he said of China, and “we’re conducted Nov. 30–Dec. 4 using already spread so thin.” a sample designed to represent Immigration is also a rising the U.S. population. The margin bipartisan concern. of error is plus or minus 4 perOverall, the poll found centage points.

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With sizable poll lead, campaign mobilizing supporters for caucuses

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A merchant carts Donald Trump memorabilia before an event where the former president spoke at Fort Dodge Senior High School in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in November. Trump is leading by large margins in the state, but his campaign wants to make sure his supporters turn out for the caucuses.

show up.

“We already have the votes to win,” one aide said. “All we have to do is turn them out.”

The campaign has focused much of its effort on enlisting and training its most ardent supporters to become “caucus captains” who can help recruit other Trump supporters to be present at caucus sites and to speak on Trump’s behalf.

The campaign is also engaged in the standard fare of political operations: distributing lawn signs, holding events where Trump addresses voters and collecting phone numbers and emails to solicit donations and motivate likely supporters.

Trump’s advisers have pointed in particular to an extensive database the campaign has compiled over his past two presidential runs that has been used to identify potential caucusgoers who need a nudge to show up Jan. 15.

The campaign has drawn on the contact information of voters who attended Trump events and on the records of campaign donors who live in Iowa. Many of those people voted for Trump in general elections but did not participate in the 2016 caucuses, advisers said.

Staff members have sent a blitz of text messages, phone calls, emails and direct mail urging those supporters to caucus.

A senior adviser to the campaign who was not authorized to speak

publicly said the data might give the campaign a distinct advantage that reduced its dependence on door knocking, a costly and labor-intensive effort central to rival campaigns.

Super political action committees backing both Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, have undertaken large-scale door knocking operations aimed at identifying likely supporters or at convincing undecided voters.

The Iowa caucuses create a challenge for turnout different from primary elections, in which voters simply need to go to a polling place and mark a ballot.

Participants of the caucuses must arrive on time and stay until the end. The meetings open with speeches by attendees on behalf of their preferred candidates in a final bid to win over their friends and neighbors.

Then everybody votes.

Trump blamed his secondplace finish in Iowa in 2016 — when he fell about 6,000 votes and one delegate short — on a weak ground game that did not effectively drive turnout.

Past and present advisers have acknowledged Trump had a scant Iowa operation at the time.

During that campaign, Trump visited the state far less often than his rivals did. He eschewed meet-and-greet retail politicking for rallies. And though he drew crowds, many in his audience

had never caucused, and his campaign lacked a robust operation to target, educate or motivate them.

During his current bid, Trump has still been a relatively sparse presence in the state when compared with candidates like DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur, who have barnstormed Iowa for months.

But starting in September, Trump began to appear in the state more frequently at so-called Commit to Caucus events, where his campaign made a more concerted effort to collect information from his supporters and to recruit them as volunteers.

Trump is slated to return to Iowa on Friday and Saturday, where he will hold two events each day — a busy schedule for him but not compared with that of some of his rivals. To fill the gaps, his campaign is drawing on a network of prominent Republican surrogates, allies with national name recognition who are popular among his base.

This week, Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, a popular conservative, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a farright star, will appear in Iowa on Trump’s behalf.

Last month, the campaign held events with Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon who served as Trump’s secretary of housing and urban development.

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Weather forecasters predicted The warning was downgraded Aftershocks continued to shake rain, setting off worries about several hours later, and all tsuIshikawa prefecture and nearby already crumbling buildings and nami warnings were lifted as of areas a day after a magnitude infrastructure. early Tuesday.

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DES MOINES, Iowa — As former President Donald Trump campaigned in Iowa in the fall, he projected the utmost confidence. He told his supporters during speeches his advisers had constantly warned him not to take the state for granted.

Buoyed by his dominance in state polls, Trump insisted he had no reason to worry.

“We’re going to win the Iowa caucuses in a historic landslide,” Trump predicted in speeches in September and October.

But as he returned to Iowa last month, with the state’s Jan. 15 caucuses fast approaching, Trump injected a note of concern. Although he retained his confidence, he warned his supporters of a rising threat: complacency.

“The poll numbers are scary, because we’re leading by so much,” Trump said Dec. 19 in Waterloo during his final trip to Iowa of 2023. “The key is, you have to get out and vote.”

“Don’t sit home and say, ‘I think we’ll take it easy, darling.

It’s a wonderful day, beautiful.

Let’s just take it easy, watch television and watch the results,’ ” Trump later added. “No, because crazy things can happen.”

With just two weeks until Iowa’s first-in-the-nation nominating contest, Trump’s campaign is dedicated to meeting high expectations and avoiding a repeat of 2016, when Trump narrowly came in second in Iowa despite being ahead in polls.

But while his Republican rivals are more focused on knocking on doors and swaying minds, Trump and his campaign have directed their efforts toward teaching supporters how to caucus and recruiting a grassroots network to help guarantee they

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Japan is frequently hit by earthquakes because of its location along the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.

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wrote the company no longer has a timeline for the facility’s construction as it focuses on getting the project approved. If it is approved, construction will take about one year, he wrote.

Some nearby residents have organized in opposition to the project, mostly over concerns about the risk of a thermal runaway fire caused by its lithium-ion battery energy storage system. Thermal runaway is a process by which lithium-ion cells heat up uncontrollably, sometimes causing a fire or explosion.

Residents’ other concerns about the project include excessive water use and effects on wildlife, such as migratory birds and burrowing owls.

Construction would require approximately 32.6 million to 48.9 million gallons of water over a one-year period, and maintenance would require about 650,000-980,000 gallons per year, according to AES’ application.

“I am all for renewable energy, but it needs to be in a rational, responsible location,” said Camilla Brom, a Rancho San Marcos resident who started a website called “New Mexicans for Responsible Renewable Energy” with information about the project and people’s concerns about it.

The open area where AES proposed the facility, which is about one mile south of Santa Fe city limits, is dry and windy “almost on a daily basis,” she said.

“Putting something that is a fire risk into an already-known [area of] fire risk is just ludicrous; it doesn’t make

sense,” she said. “If there’s a fire and it gets out of the facility, I’m pretty certain it would get to our neighborhoods before the fire department could get here just because of the winds that we have out in this area all the time.”

She and other concerned residents have pointed to battery fires at two AES facilities in Arizona in 2019 and 2022.

Mayer contends AES has been operating a “global fleet” of battery energy storage systems for over 15 years, at which fire incidents have been “rare occurrences.”

Fires, “including those in Arizona, have reshaped the energy storage industry’s approach to … system design and safety,” and the “technology planned for the Rancho Viejo project will look and operate very differently from the technology used just a few years ago,” he wrote, adding the project will have advanced safety monitoring, among other things.

The company’s application received a preliminary approval “with conditions” from the county fire department in September, and its engineering process would include another hazard mitigation analysis with a site-specific fire risk assessment and first-responder plan, Mayer wrote.

The battery storage is a critical component of the project for reducing reliance on fossil fuels, he said, noting the facility would help New Mexico reach its goal of having 50% renewable energy by 2030.

County commissioners voted unanimously last month to adopt more stringent fire safety standards for energy storage systems.

The county fire department had recommended the change after Eldorado resident Ashley Schannauer wrote a letter to the county, calling energy storage system standards

TAKEAWAYS ◆ Global energy company AES Corp. anticipates submitting an updated conditional-use permit application for its Rancho Viejo Solar project — a large solar and energy storage facility proposed south of the city of Santa Fe — after the county completes a third-party review of the project focused on its lithium-ion battery energy storage system. ◆ The project has already sparked opposition from some nearby residents, mostly due to concerns the lithium-ion batteries would present a fire hazard. ◆ AES project leaders say advancing technology has increased the safety of battery energy storage systems and the project will help New Mexico reach its renewable energy goals.

commissioners had adopted in August outdated.

The National Fire Protection Association updated its fire safety standards this year in response to “international incidents” of energy storage systems fires, Public Safety Department Director Jaome Blay told commissioners.

The new standards include clearer requirements that energy storage systems will be able to detect and suppress fires, control explosions and address thermal runaway.

The county also updated its definition of commercial solar facilities earlier this year to include energy storage — a change that led some to allege a violation of the Open Meetings Act, a contention the county denied.

Brom — who thinks the county should be categorizing the project as utility-scale solar, rather than commercial solar — said the county should ensure it has thoroughly updated relevant ordinances and regulations before reviewing AES’ application.

“Hopefully, the county decides this isn’t a good place [for it],” she said.

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ABOVE: The Romero family gathers on the banks of Storrie Lake before braving its icy waters on New Year’s Day. BELOW: Jordan Garcia and her daughter, Jayda Lozano, scramble out of the freezing water after taking the plunge.

New Year’s ‘awakening’

S.F. businessman, performer charged with securities fraud

By Phaedra Haywood

phaywood@sfnewmexican.com

A man well known in Santa Fe’s music, theater and political circles has been indicted on charges accusing him of illegally withholding information from people who invested in his hemp company.

A grand jury indictment filed Dec. 15 in state District Court charges Loveless Johnson III, founder of Amerigreen Organics, with six felony counts alleging securities fraud and six alleging the offer or sale of an unregistered security.

About $57,000 was invested in the securities alleged to have been sold, state Regulation and Licensing Department spokeswoman Andrea Brown wrote in an email Friday.

An online profile for Johnson, a local singer, actor and self-described “independent entrepreneur,” says he is a U.S. Navy veteran, served as director of environmental justice at the U.S. Department of Energy during the Clinton administration and has worked on several political campaigns.

He said he’s innocent of the charges.

“Amerigreen Organics has investors who will stand with me in court as its CEO to testify as to how hard I work and have always worked to make Amerigreen the success that I had promised,” he said in a phone interview Friday. “Six of the 26 [investors] are disgruntled and I understand why. But I’m not guilty until proven so.

“They will still receive the same benefit as every other investor in the company when our day of victory comes,” he added.

The six-page indictment — signed by District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies and Benjamin Schrope, acting director of the state Regulation and Licensing Department’s Securities Division — alleges Johnson, 58, failed to reveal details about his past that a reasonable person would have needed to make a decision about investing, including: ◆ Failing to disclose he had been convicted of fraud and forgery in 2005. ◆ Failing to disclose he had a pending criminal case in Arizona in which he was charged with the unregistered sale of securities. ◆ Failing to disclose multiple lawsuits and judgments against him for outstanding debts.

He is also accused of using investor money for personal expenses, according to the indictment, which says at the time the alleged victims made investments — between June and December of 2019 — Amerigreen Organics had “little or no capital.”

The fraud charges are third-degree felonies punishable by up to three years in prison each, and the counts of offering or sale of unregistered security are fourth-degree felonies punishable by up to 18 months in prison, exposing Johnson to a total maximum period of incarceration of more than 20 years.

Online court records show Johnson pleaded guilty in 2005 to one count of forgery and one count of fraud after being accused of forging a $1,950 check belonging to an Albuquerque man. Johnson received a deferred sentence that called for him to serve three years of probation and pay restitution.

Johnson has been the subject of numerous civil complaints in New Mexico dating to 1998, according to online court records, including complaints filed by previous landlords.

He was evicted from his apartment in Santa Fe’s South Capitol neighborhood earlier this year, court records show.

Former landlord Gerard Izard said in a phone interview Friday it took him years to remove Johnson, in part due to the

coronavirus pandemic.

Court records show Izard and Johnson have been involved in a landlord-tenant dispute since 2018. When Izard regained control of his property last spring Loveless with the assistance of Johnson III the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, he said Johnson owed him close to $5,000 and he discovered water service had been turned off at the property for nearly a year.

Little Earth School obtained a $4,122 judgment against Johnson in a 2004 case, according to online court records.

He used a 1999 Porsche 911 Carrera as collateral for a $1,500 loan from Title Loans Express in 2000, according to a complaint the company filed in Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court in 2001, accusing him of defaulting on the loan and attempting to take possession of the car to satisfy the debt.

A Santa Fe couple filed a complaint in state District Court in 2005 accusing Johnson and a company called Misunderstood Entertainment of defaulting on a $4,000 loan.

Some cases against Johnson are so old the files have been destroyed, making it difficult to determine the outcomes.

Johnson has an IMDb profile that lists him as an actor known for the 2007 movie The Lives of Angels, a creation of Santa Fe writer and director Stephen Jules Rubin.

Johnson also is a trustee for the Santa Fe Playhouse.

“The Santa Fe Playhouse was surprised to hear the recent allegations concerning Mr. Loveless Johnson III,” Playhouse management wrote in an email sent by a spokesman Thursday. “Mr. Johnson III has been a dedicated member of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Playhouse. At this point, the Playhouse can only comment further once the legal process has concluded.”

Johnson attended Southern University in Louisiana, majoring in mathematics and physics, according to an online biography that noted work on campaigns in Georgia that included Andrew Young for governor. The biography said he was state director for Bill Clinton’s presidential primary campaign in 1992.

The New Mexican quoted Johnson in 2017 as the head of Smart Progress New Mexico, a group that opposed a proposed city tax on sugary beverages.

Johnson acknowledged in the story the group was late filing its campaign finance report but intended to do so. It quoted Johnson as saying that despite an initial reluctance to reveal donors and donation amounts, he didn’t want to be accused of using “dark money” to influence the election.

“We were never trying to be sneaky about it,” Johnson is quoted as saying in the story.

The Sierra County Sun highlighted Johnson in a 2020 story that quoted him as saying he was “dedicated” to the town of Truth or Consequences after being rejuvenated in its hot springs following a car accident. He said he was “determined” to bring Amerigreen Organics and 90 jobs to the community where he had spearheaded a “state-championship karaoke competition” in 2009.

More recently, Johnson has gotten press for his musical acumen.

The Santa Fe Reporter spotlighted Johnson in a story in the weekly’s Aug. 30 edition, noting his recent performances at multiple downtown night spots, saying Johnson has become “a ubiquitous musical presence at jazz shows, blues shows [and] R&B shows” in the city.

Johnson is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in state District Court in Santa Fe.

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But even that didn’t deter Romero.

“I got into the Rio Grande in Albuquerque and did it,” he said with a laugh.

This year’s plunge drew Las Vegas locals as well as people from out of town. When the clock struck noon, the crowd counted down from 10 and the first group jumped off the dock into the water as onlookers lined the shore.

This year’s participants included those who do the plunge every year and others taking the leap for the first time.

“It’s like a renewal,” said Las Vegas resident Denise Medina, who was on her eighth plunge. She said the event is a fun way to start the year, and she enjoys going with friends.

William Shay and Gloria Polaco traveled to Las Vegas from Rio Rancho for the plunge, which they were doing for the first time. The couple like to travel over New Year’s, and Polaco said the plunge sounded like a fun thing to do that was off the beaten track.

“It’s like an awakening,” Shay said.

“It’s something to get powered up and get going to say we did.”

Las Vegas residents Michael Maddox and nephew Brandon Maddox were at the lake with a large group of family members, who do the plunge every year.

“It chases the demons away,” Michael Maddox said of the plunge.

“It’s refreshing,” Brandon Maddox said.

Romero said the fair weather, with a light breeze around noon, drew a larger crowd this year than in past years. But the water was plenty cold — park manager Manuel Villanueva gauged it at 33 degrees at the time of

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the plunge, typical for New Year’s Day. He and park ranger Joseph Apodaca were monitoring the plunge from the water, both wearing dry suits. The pair had first entered the lake around 8 a.m. to break the ice around the dock, Villanueva said.

“It’s like a billion needles hitting you,” Romero said of the sensation of diving into the water.

“It’s hard to catch your breath when you come up,” Medina added.

One young man was more concise. “[Expletive] that!” he yelled after surfacing from the water, to laughs from the rangers.

Most people who participated opted to wear just swim trunks or a regular bathing suit instead of a wetsuit. After diving off the dock, they quickly swam to the shore and raced to towel off.

Plungers varied in age from young children to senior citizens. Four-yearold Jayda Lozano did the plunge for the first time with her mother, Jordan Garcia, but hesitated when she got to the dock. Garcia held her hand, and everyone on the shore shouted encouragement until they jumped in together to cheers.

“That was awesome,” Garcia said

later at the Montezuma Hot Springs, where she and a handful of others went following the plunge to relax.

Young Jayda appeared to be enjoying the springs much more than the cold water of Storrie Lake. Asked if she would do the plunge again next year, she smiled and shook her head no.

“I don’t know if I’ll get her out there ever again,” Garcia said. “I hope I do, but I’m really glad I was able to get her this first time.”

Nestled along N.M. 65 within view of the United World College, the natural spring drew a crowd of several dozen, including plungers warming up, locals who wanted a less brisk start to their new year and tourists.

Friends of Montezuma Hot Springs President Martín Leger was at the springs with his son after the pair took the plunge. The organization was founded five years ago and took over responsibility for the springs from the college, which includes locking it up nightly and monthly cleanups. He said he’s proud of the work the group has done to preserve the springs.

“The goal is to keep it open, keep it clean, keep it safe and keep it free,” he said.

“in opposition to the nation’s desire for unity, especially in a time of war.” Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin, a key force behind the law, said the ruling threatened the unity needed “so our troops can succeed at the front.” He pledged to pass the entire overhaul package after the war ends.

Opponents of the overhaul welcomed the ruling but refrained from public celebrations.

“Today the Supreme Court faithfully fulfilled its role in protecting the citizens of Israel,” opposition leader Yair Lapid said on X, formerly Twitter.

The news came a day after Israel said it would be withdrawing some troops from the Gaza Strip this week, an indication that it may be changing its tactics on the ground even as it rebuffs calls for a cease-fire.

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said the move indicated the military may be shifting to a more targeted approach amid pressure from the United States and other countries to mitigate the civilian toll of its operations in Gaza.

“This appears to be the start of the gradual shift to lower intensity operations in the north that we have been encouraging, which reflects the success the IDF

Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Sunday night that pulling back reservists “will significantly ease the burden on the economy and allow them to gather strength for the upcoming activities in the next year.”

Some critics of the judicial overhaul plan, which Netanyahu’s coalition introduced as a series of bills last January, said Israel’s domestic divides weakened its ability to respond to regional threats.

Monday’s ruling concerned one part of the package, an amendment to Israel’s Basic Law — which serves in place of a constitution — that was pushed through and passed

by Netanyahu’s far-right government in July. The altered law removed the right of the Israeli Supreme Court to block decisions made by government ministers that the judges deem “unreasonable.”

In striking down the law 8 to 7 on Monday, the top court’s ruling calls for the legislation to be removed. If Netanyahu’s government refuses to honor the ruling, the wartime country could face a constitutional crisis.

Netanyahu has not said whether he would abide by the decision. has had in dismantling Hamas’ military capabilities there,” said a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Israel’s military operations.

The IDF declined to provide figures for how many troops would be withdrawn.

Reducing the number of troops in Gaza appeared to signal a new stage of the war, one “of long-term, lower intensity combat, as the Biden administration has pushed for,” said Charles D. Freilich, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and a former Israeli deputy national security adviser.

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y Holy Trinity of Finance

Learn to pay yourself first W

hich bill do you hate the most? The credit card? The rent or mortgage? Are there any bills you like to pay? If you are normal and sane, you probably hate all your bills.

But I’d like to challenge that.

If you are financially wise, you’ll learn to love the first bill you pay each month.

The trick is to pick the right place to start: with paying yourself. Paying yourself first is a concept that helps set your priorities and keep your financial house in order.

It means that the first dollar of every paycheck gets spent on you. More specifically, the future you, by saving a healthy portion of everything you earn.

In your budget, you have fixed expenses and flexible expenses. The first fixed expense must be to your savings. Decide your savings goal, then save that amount first — and it must be non-negotiable.

Automatically pay yourself by scheduling regular payments to a savings account or retirement account. Make it happen before you spend a single penny.

Then focus on staying inside your budget, keeping other fixed expenses to a minimum, and the rest is your flexible spending to use any way you like. Easy.

Well, easy to say, hard to do.

If savings are a flexible expense, they will rarely happen. Your money will disappear faster than doughnuts in a teacher’s lounge. The world’s demands will consume your income before you save any of it.

Once you decide to pay yourself first, your next decision is how much. My suggestion is to work toward the goal of saving 15% of your money automatically when you get paid. Make that your priority on every single penny you make.

Paying yourself first will be difficult initially, but maintaining this good habit gets easier over time. Eventually, you’ll hardly notice it — until you wake up several years from now with a nice nest egg.

After you decide how much to pay yourself, the next question will be what to do with the money you save.

Thankfully, that’s an easy one. Start by building your emergency fund.

Ideally, your emergency fund will cover three to six months of living expenses. It must pay for the random crises that can hit you at the worst possible times, like a job layoff or serious accident for you or a loved one.

When your emergency fund is in solid shape, you can deal with crises that hit, not the resulting money problems. Should you ever deplete your emergency fund, that becomes your first savings priority again.

After establishing your emergency fund, the next thing is to put your 15% savings into a retirement fund. It can be through your employer, or you may need to open an IRA (Individual Retirement Account). Make this your second savings priority — if you’ve already paid off all credit card debt.

Hopefully, you get an employer match on your retirement savings, which can instantly double your money. That’s a great deal. Don’t pass up an employer match — ever. No other investment is this good.

If you make an annual return of 30% in the stock market, the world will think you are a genius. However, you can make a 100% return or double your money just by getting an employer match on your retirement savings. And it’s sheltered from taxes. That should make you grin like the Cheshire Cat. When you have a strong emergency fund, have paid off all credit card debt and are contributing at least 15% to your retirement account, that’s when you can start saving for bigger things like cars, college tuition for kids and that vacation to a tropical resort.

Financial freedom requires money, and you’ll probably never have any money unless you learn to set priorities and pay yourself first.

Doug Lynam is a partner at LongView Asset Management in Santa Fe and a former Benedictine monk. He is the author of From Monk to Money Manager: A Former Monk’s Financial Guide to Becoming A Little Bit Wealthy — And Why That’s Okay. Contact him at douglas@longviewasset.com

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From left, José Rubén Cob, Carlos Guerra and Rigoberto Ortíz prepare food for the buffet at the all-inclusive Hyatt last month in Cancún. The Mexican Congress is debating a constitutional amendment to guarantee employees two days off per week, a proposal embraced by unions.

Mexican workers fight 6-day week global debate over work schedules. Yet Though nation works long there is a vast divide in how that conhours, productivity lags other versation is playing out. While North Americans and Europeans experiment countries in hemisphere with a four-day week, many employees

By Mary Beth Sheridan The Washington Post

CANCÚN, Mexico n a recent Friday, like nearly every day, Maricela de la Cruz woke up at 5 a.m. She caught two buses to get from her parents’ modest apartment on the outskirts of Cancún to the J.W. Marriott Resort & Spa. As tourists sunned on the white-sand beach outside, she spent eight hours scrubbing bathrooms and making beds.

The 28-year-old housekeeper works six days every week. So do millions of other working-class people in Mexico — hotel staff, auto assemblers, waiters.

But now, workers in the United States’ No. 1 trading partner are rebelling. The Mexican Congress is debating a constitutional amendment to guarantee employees two days off per week, a proposal pushed by unions.

Over eight decades after President Franklin D. Roosevelt ushered in the five-day workweek in the United States, it finally might be coming to Mexico.

“Every worker dreams of this,” de la Cruz said. “More social justice.”

The Mexican workers’ fight for the 40-hour week comes amid a growing

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in developing countries toil six days or more. In India, a tech billionaire recently caused an uproar by suggesting a 70-hour week.

The debate goes to fundamental questions of workers’ rights and their obligations to their companies and their nations’ development.

De la Cruz joined thousands of cooks, waitresses gardeners marching through downtown Cancún under a late-afternoon sun last month, chanting “Yes to two days off!”

“We’ve seen how other countries have shorter hours than us,” she said.

But Mexico is less productive than more developed countries, said Jesús Almaguer, president of the Hotel Association of Cancún. “First, we have to develop economically and industrially in order to have these” — he paused — “these privileges.”

‘This is the moment’ The five-day fight’s most visible champion is Susana Prieto, a raspyvoiced labor lawyer who once worked in an assembly plant in Juárez, Mexico, across from El Paso. After she won election to Congress in 2021 with the governing Morena party, she discovered there had been prior efforts to leg-

Workers line up to buy tacos out of a vendor’s trunk last month outside the J.W. Marriott resort in Cancún, Mexico.

islate a five-day workweek. Seventeen of them, to be precise. All failed.

Prieto recalled saying, ‘I think this is the moment.’ ” Morena had a majority in Congress and controlled more than half of state

legislatures — crucial for amending the constitution. And party founder Andrés Manuel López Obrador had emerged as Mexico’s most pro-labor president in Please see story on Page A-7

Tax credits more than pay off, N.M. film office says

By Teya Vitu

tvitu@sfnewmexican.com

An economic impact study commissioned by the New Mexico Film Office found the film industry directly spent $2.6 billion in the state over the past four years.

Including indirect and induced spending — i.e., household spending by film employees — the film office said, the industry yields a $7.77 return on every $1 in state tax credits offered

to film productions.

The film industry directly employs an estimated 3,572 people at a median wage of $35.51 per hour, according to Olsberg-SPI, which calculated a 2023 update of its 2021 Economic Impact of the New Mexico Film Production Tax Credit report.

The report comes a little before the start of the 2024 legislative session, and as some lawmakers, including Senate Finance Committee Chairman George Muñoz, D-Gallup, have been ques-

RESTAURANT BITES The Hollar in Madrid closed Dec. 17 after being in business since 2008. Owner Joshua Novak said in a Facebook post he was “no longer able to dedicate the time, energy and effort it takes to run The Hollar at the high standard myself, this community and my patrons expect and deserve.” uuu

The popular Craft Donuts & Coffee food truck has finally gone brick-and-mortar. Owners Craig and Michelle McGregor anticipated a potential summer launch, but they opened Dec. 26 at 3482B Zafarano Drive, next to El Milagro Restaurant at San Isidro Plaza. The food truck remains in the pod at the intersection of Old Santa Fe Trail and Paseo de Peralta.

Business editor: Teya Vitu, tvitu@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: John R. Roby, jroby@sfnewmexican.com

tioning the value of the program and calling for increased oversight.

Direct film industry spending New Mexico in fiscal year 2023 was $730.6 million, the report says, a slight decrease from $787 million in 2022 but substantially higher than the $505 million, $234 million and $525 million in the 2017, 2018 and 2019 fiscal years before the coronavirus pandemic.

The state offers a 25% film production tax credit with an additional 10% offered to productions more than 60

uuu Alkem Heritage Cuisine Reimagined, 227 Don Gaspar Ave., will be closed for winter break through Jan. 31. uuu Bakery Feliz opened Dec. 16 in the former Wild Leaven space at 130 N. Guadalupe St. uuu San Francisco Street Bar & Grill, 50 E. San Francisco St., received its liquor license Dec. 5. uuu Capital Coal Neighborhood Eatery, 326 S. Guada-

miles from Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

“When asked how much of their productions would have happened in New Mexico without the incentive, the median response [from film production companies] was that there would be no production without the incentive and all production companies based out of New Mexico responded zero to this question,” the report stated. “The mean response was that 8% of production would have happened without the incentive.”

lupe St., finally opened for real Dec. 13 after a couple months of frequent pop-up events. Its initial hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday. uuu

The Venezuelan restaurant Santarepa Cafe, 229 Johnson St., closed for business Dec. 22. Owner Isabel Mendoza opened Santarepa in March 2019. A Facebook post announcing the closure quoted Dr. Seuss: “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” uuu Bo’s Authentic Thai, 502 Old Santa Fe Trail, is closed through Jan. 18.

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A special paid supplement to the Santa Fe New Mexican Business Section January 2024

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The Santa Fe infrastructure for remote Chamber of education. We advocate Commerce for support to educational is dedicated institutions and coordinated to fostering workforce development economic programs for high school growth, and college students, education, and a including opportunities for favorable business environment meaningful apprenticeships in New Mexico. In alignment and internships. with our mission, we want to Regulatory and Government highlight our key priorities and Accountability positions on various issues The Chamber supports the that affect our membership. implementation of a one-stop Economic Development business portal, statewide The Chamber fervently business licensing system, supports initiatives for and evaluation of the state economic growth, including the tax code. We also endorse establishment of a permanent the statewide economic workforce training program development plan, increased and fund. We advocate for funding for public safety, and increased investment in tourism consistent, efficient regulations and economic departments, and permitting processes. a broadband policy to boost Chamber Opposes private sector innovation, and We oppose the creation of a continued investment in road State Public Bank and funding and bridge infrastructure.

Additionally, we emphasize the non-governmental entities to importance of maintaining the enforce state regulations. exclusive use of Lodgers Tax Workplace Issues for marketing and diversifying revenue streams for struggling The Chamber supports state preemption of local counties and municipalities. government mandates on Chamber Opposes employers, policies favoring local cannabis businesses, We oppose policies favoring and regulations ensuring out-of-state businesses affordable healthcare. We over local ones, increased oppose excessive employment regulations that burden laws and policies restricting struggling businesses, any employee access to affordable tax hikes on small and local healthcare options. businesses, and additional collections or redistributions Overall, the Santa Fe of GRT. Stringent regulations Chamber of Commerce beyond federal standards remains committed to are also opposed, unless supporting initiatives that necessary for unique state drive economic development, or local conditions. enhance education and workforce opportunities, Education and Workforce ensure regulatory efficiency, Development and create a conducive In the realm of education workplace environment and workforce development, for all our residents. the Chamber supports Bridget Dixson expanding access to early President & CEO childhood services, quality Santa Fe Chamber childcare and education of Commerce programs, and broadband

MEMBERS OF THE MONTH The St. Vincent Hospital Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization established in 1980 by a group of forwardthinking community leaders.

This group of philanthropic visionaries recognized the value that charitable support would bring to CHRISTUS St. Vincent and its many talented associates. Governed by our own independent volunteer Board of Directors, the St. Vincent Hospital Foundation continues to improve the health of the community by supporting CHRISTUS St. Vincent.

In our 40+-year history, the evolvement and partnership with CHRISTUS St. Vincent has afforded us many opportunities to collaborate and unify our vision and impact. In 2020, the Foundation partnered together with CHRISTUS St. Vincent to employ staff to support the Foundation and to provide office space and back-office support. All tax-deductible donations that are made to the Foundation benefit programs of the hospital or support additional fundraising activities. No funds from donors are used to cover any overhead costs because of this partnership. This alignment furthers our mission to support CHRISTUS St. Vincent in providing exceptional and compassionate healthcare to the community of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico.

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Wednesday, January 10th – 4:30 PM Legislative Preview – Hear Priorities and Predictions from the Santa Fe Legislative – Hotel Santa, Hacienda & Spa – 1510 Paseo de Peralta Saturday, January 20th – 2:30 PM Ribbon Cutting – Kingston Residence of Santa Fe – Grand Re-opening for the Memory Care Center – 2400 Legacy Ct. Thursday, January 25th – 9:30 AM New Mexico Organized Retail Crime Association Meeting (NMORCA) – Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce – 1611 Calle Lorca, Suite 301 Monday, January 29th – 5:00 PM Legislative Reception – Santa Fe Community Convention Center – 201 W. Marcy St

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Allied Electric Inc. celebrates their new location at 3155 Agua Fria with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Established in 2004 to serve locally and throughout Northern New Mexico.

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The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce celebrates their ribbon cutting for their new office at the new State Employees Credit Union building at 1611 Calle Lorca St, Suite 301.

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The Empty Stocking Fund is a long-standing project of The New Mexican. Each year, hundreds of people receive aid from the fund during the holiday season to help cover rent payments, medical bills, utility costs, car repairs, home improvements and other needs.

Who it helps: Applicants, who must live within 50 miles of Santa Fe and must provide documents that provide proof of their identity, are considered without regard to race, age, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation. Applications are closed.

How it works: Applications for funding are vetted. Members of the Empty Stocking Committee review requests, meet with each qualifying applicant to examine records of outstanding bills or other needs. If a request is approved, the committee sends a check directly to the service supplier.

Requests can be as much as $2,500 per household depending on the need.

2023 goal: $399,000.

This holiday charity project, which began in 1981, is jointly administered by the Santa Fe Community Foundation, Enterprise Bank and Trust, the Salvation Army, Presbyterian Medical Services, The Life Link, Habitat for Humanity, Esperanza Shelter, Youth Shelters and Family Services, Gerard’s House and a private individual.

To donate: Make your tax-deductible donation online by visiting santafenewmexican. com/empty_stocking or mail a check to The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund c/o The Santa Fe Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, 87504-1827. Cash and coin donations are always welcome.

Those can be dropped off at the offices of the newspaper at 150 Washington Ave., Suite 206.

Donors can request to remain anonymous.

If you can provide a service such as roofing or home repairs, contact Habitat for Humanity at repairs@santafehabitat.org.

DONATIONS Anonymous: $250 Anonymous: $250 Anonymous: $257.73 Anonymous: $300 Anonymous: $300 Anonymous: $309.28 Anonymous: $500 Anonymous: $500 Anonymous: $500 George and Tiia McLaughlin: $1,000 Barbara Medrano: $103.09 Michael Melody and Bonnie Binkert: $1,000 Mikki, Cristobal and Evie, in memory of Ernest F. Padilla: $300 Monroe Gallery of Photography LLC: $250 Montgomery & Andrews, P.A.: $2,000 Troy and Carol Moore: $550 MarknBarbara Mortier: $30.93 G.A. Nathanson, in memory of Albert Nathanson: $1,030.93 Karen Nelson: $10 Les Niemi: $257.73 NMSurf: $2,556.54 Matthew, Sandra and Ajax Noe: $257.73 Aku Ed Oppenheimer: $206.19 Cecil and Lorraine Ortega: $200 Mary Overpeck: $500 Alexanna Padilla and Rick Roseman: $257.73 Dan and Carol Pava: $103.09 Carolina Peralta, in memory of Victoria Belen Peralta; Dora, Albert and V.J. Gomez; Priscilla M. Blea: $150 Trudy Perry: $103.09 Judith Polich and Gayler Price: $100 Lucille Quintana and family, in memory of Peter B. Quintana: $103.09 Judy Greaves Rainger: $206.19 Paul and Donna Reeves: $100 Steve and Elaine Rivera: $100 Sally Rodgers, in memory of Andy Clipper: $206.19 James and Elizabeth Roghair: $100 Paul and Adella Romero, in memory of Paul and Jerome Romero, James Gutierrez: $150 Velda Romero, in memory of Manuel and Kate Miera: $50 Allen and Diana Russell: $200 Christine E. and R.G. Russell: $200 Cumulative total: $352,242.73

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at $3.12, AAA reported.

Santa Fe gas prices hit lowest point since Dec. 2022 Santa Fe finished off the year with the cheapest gasoline in exactly one year, notching an average price of $2.78 per gallon of regular unleaded fuel Thursday.

That is the lowest since Dec. 27, 2022, the AAA New Mexico Weekend Gas Watch reported.

The statewide average reached its lowest point this year Dec. 14 at $2.89 per gallon, 1 cent lower than last week’s $2.90 average.

Santa Fe gas prices have dropped 15 cents per gallon since the end of November and last week were the lowest in the four New Mexico metro areas, AAA data shows.

Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Las Cruces average gas prices are clumped close together at $2.79 for the Duke City and $2.80 for Las Cruces.

Farmington’s average price was $3.51 per gallon.

Gas prices throughout the mountain states dropped last week while other regions held steady or saw increases.

The nationwide average was unchanged for regular unleaded

decades.

Since taking office in 2018, he has tripled the minimum wage, to the equivalent of around $1.80 an hour. He has doubled mandated vacation time, to 12 days a year.

He has outlawed the abusive “subcontracting” of full-time employees.

And Latin America was beginning to change. Traditionally, “our model of development has been based on low salaries and raw materials,” said Juan Carlos Moreno Brid, an economist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. But Colombia and Chile, both led by leftists, passed laws last year to shorten the workweek.

In April, Prieto’s bill was approved by the House Committee on Constitutional Issues.

“The business owners had a heart attack,” she said.

mute — at least an hour each way — she has little personal time.

She is determined to change that. Another day off each week “would change my life,” she said.

“I’d see my family.”

José Rubén Cob, 33, a cook at the Hyatt Ziva resort, has no doubt what is driving the worker mobilization. He holds up his iPhone. “It’s because of this,” he said.

Workers are using Facebook and WhatsApp to organize demonstrations.

“Now, if we share something here in Cancún, you can find out about it all over the country.”

Low productivity

Meow Wolf co-founder Benji Geary and Meow Wolf Chief Creative Strategy Officer Anne Mullen will take part in the Game Industry track March 10-12 at the South by Southwest Conference, one of the components of the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas. Geary, who is also Meow Wolf’s senior art director, and Mullen will be panelists in the session Kaleidoscopic Worldbuilding in a Fractured World. They will “discuss how worldbuilders are creating new opportunities for engagement across both physical and digital platforms.”

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Michelle Katz is the new executive director of Communities in Schools of New Mexico. She was previously the organization’s deputy director. Katz was executive director of Cerros Consulting in Santa Fe from 2014 to 2022. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Ithaca

European countries, averaged 1.1% during that period. And around half the workforce still labors in the informal sector, with little access to legal protections or benefits. Economists warn the informal sector could grow as employers try to dodge new salary and schedule reforms.

In Cancún, a top foreign destination for American tourists, employers worry they will have to hire more workers to fill shifts and then pass on the costs to consumers. Angélica Frías, the state representative of Coparmex, the national business owners’ association, has two words for the pro-labor folks: Punta Cana.

The Dominican resort “will take away the tourists,” she said.

“It will be cheaper to go to other destinations.”

Frías, head of a consulting firm, prides herself on running a modern company. She wears a banana-yellow blazer and jeans.

On the wall is a giant stencil of Steve Jobs. But even she has been taken aback by the flurry of labor reforms.

The delay hasn’t discouraged the workers in Cancún, who are prepared to march again.

“This is something we need,” said Chang, the Seadust worker.

“Two days off.”

Organizations win equity grants Two Santa Fe entities received $40,000 each in Outdoor Equity Fund grants in December.

The Santa Fe Children’s Museum is partnering with Earth Care Santa Fe to offer paid stipends to 10 teenagers to work in the museum’s garden and outdoor space from May through September.

“They will help plant and harvest the garden, and they will teach younger children,” said Hannah Hausman, the museum’s executive director.

“This just gives us the ability to serve more kids. We can probably do twice as much with this funding.”

Girls Inc. of Santa Fe immerses more than 250 girls in outdoor programs throughout the year.

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Del Norte Credit Union has promoted Mark Riek to chief financial officer. He has been with Del Norte for nearly 20 years, starting as a senior accountant and rising through finance officer and vice president of business intelligence. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Central Oklahoma. uuu

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Rebecca Estrada is Communities in Schools of New Mexico’s new board chair. She is a higher education and workforce development specialist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Previously, she was executive director for the Higher Education Center and Academic Partnerships at Santa Fe Community College, where she worked

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The money comes from the state Outdoor Recreation Division, which gave out $1 million total to 30 entities to create “transformative outdoor experiences” for low-income youth.

The state division has given out nearly $5 million in Outdoor Equity Fund grants to 211 organizations since 2020. The division awarded $2.8 million in 2023, with the fund composed of state and federal money, including more than $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds, the division reported.

Auto dealership in Española closes Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Española closed last week after employees were given notice a few days before Christmas.

Garcia Auto Group in Albuquerque has owned the dealership for four years.

Desert Sun Auto Group of Alamogordo had brought Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram to 517 N. Riverside Drive in 2015 after the property had sat vacant since about 2008, the Rio Grande Sun reported.

A Garcia Auto representative did not respond to phone calls or an email from The New Mexican.

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for 15 years. Estrada has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Women’s Studies from New Mexico State University and a master’s degree from the University of Colorado. She is pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership and administration from NMSU. uuu Jan M. McCray is the new chief executive officer at the Esperanza Shelter. She previously was the vice president of client services at SafeNest in Las Vegas, Nev. Before that, McCray was trauma-informed project coordinator at Hubbard House in Jacksonville, Fla. She has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Eastern Connecticut State University and a law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law. uuu Anita Schwing has retired as chief financial officer at beWellnm, the state health insurance exchange. She has been CFO since 2013. She previously was CFO at Healthcare USA of Missouri and Molina Healthcare of New Mexico. Schwing has a bachelor’s in economics and an MBA from Temple University.

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Survey of Chinese manufacturers shows another slowdown in Dec. The Associated Press

BANGKOK — A survey of factory managers in China shows manufacturing contracted in December in the latest sign the world’s second-largest economy remains sluggish.

The official purchasing managers index, or PMI, fell to 49 last month in what officials said was evidence of weak demand, the National Bureau of Statistics reported Sunday.

It was the third straight month of contraction.

The PMI is on a scale up to 100 where 50 marks the cutoff between expansion and contraction. The index has fallen in eight of the past nine months, with an increase only in September. In November, the index was at 49.4, down from 49.5 the month before.

Despite unexpectedly prolonged weakness after the

pandemic, China’s economy grew at a 5.2% pace in the first three quarters of the year and showed signs of improvement in November.

In recent months, the government has raised spending on construction of ports and other infrastructure, cut interest rates and eased curbs on home-buying to try to stimulate the domestic demand economists say is needed to sustain growth.

In his New Year’s speech, President Xi Jinping said China had achieved a “smooth transition” from the country’s response to the pandemic, which at times involved the shut downs of factories and parts of or entire cities. China’s economy has become “more resilient and dynamic than before,” Xi said in remarks carried by the official Xinhua News Agency.

Global demand for manufactured goods has suffered

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The push for change hasn’t But Mexico has lagged woecome only from above. Unions have become more independent, fully in productivity: GDP per worker grew just 0.1% a year in part thanks to the revamped North American free-trade agree- from 1991 to 2020, according to the World Bank. Growth across ment that took effect in 2020. In the OECD, a group of mostly the negotiations, Mexico agreed wealthy North American and to reform its system of weak, business-controlled unions. Now, NAPRAPATHY MANUAL THERAPY & JIN SHIN JYUTSU ENERGY BALANCING workers have the right to choose their labor leaders by secret of body, mind, heart & spirit G MININ GIntegration B RBIR MM ININ GBGIB UM U MMM IR IR ballot.

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(505) 930-4121 “Today, those of us who are [union] leaders can raise our www. HummingbirdIntegrativeHealth .com voices in favor of the workers,” he said. “Because we really are their legitimate representatives.”

The labor reforms are getting an additional boost from a new generation of Mexicans who are more connected to the world — and each other — by the internet, migration and tourism.

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Local internet service provider NMSurf went live two months ago with Next Generation Fixed Wireless Access internet at Tesuque Pueblo, adjacent Rio En Medio and Chupadero, and the La Tierra area at Las Campanas.

That gives those areas 400 megabits per second download service and 100 megabits per second upload capacity, NMSurf President Albert Catanach said in an interview.

“Some didn’t have any internet service and some had copper wire service,” Catanach said.

“Fixed wireless is better than cable or DSL [digital subscriber line]. Within 3 miles you don’t need direct line of sight.”

Catanach said manufacturer upgrades to the system will increase the speeds in the first quarter to 1 gigabyte download and 500 Mbps upload in those areas as well as the Santa Fe outskirts, where NMsurf has installed Next Generation Fixed Wireless Access in the past year.

NMsurf received a $599,000 grant from the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission through the state Rural Universal Service Fund to install fixed

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wireless in the Tesuque Pueblo area.

It got an additional $4.6 million in grants to install the service, with work now underway, at Pecos, San Ildefonso Pueblo and Cochiti Lake, and to start installation this month in Eldorado, Lamy, San Pedro, Chamita and the surrounding areas, Tijeras, Los Cerrillos and Canoncito.

NMSurf provided a 25% match to all the grants, Catanach said.

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as central banks around the world have raised interest rates to battle decades-high rates of inflation. Price pressures have eased in recent months, but demand has yet to rebound to prepandemic levels. That has ramifications across the region because supply chains linked to China are scattered across many Asian countries.

China’s non-manufacturing PMI rose in December to 50.4, the statistics bureau reported.

The service sector PMI sub-index was 49.3, however, unchanged from November’s reading. Despite a slump in the housing market brought about by a crackdown on excess borrowing by property developers, the construction industry is thriving: the sub-index for that sector climbed to 56.9 in December, well into expansionary territory, from 55 in November, the report said.

COMING SUN. 1/7/24 It’s a new year and everyone’s hoping for mucho prospero in the months ahead. To see what might be coming, we asked some of the city’s top realtors and builders and others what they see for Santa Fe’s future. We also asked one of last year’s favorite roomies, Chef Johnny Vee, for tips on entertaining at home. Which he gladly offered up. In addition, this month’s favorite roomer is artist Joanne LeFrak, who, ironically, unlike Chef Johnny, spends most of her me-time in her kitchen. (Go figure.)

Elsewhere, Saguna Severson talks with La Fonda ambassador and woman about town Jenny Kimball, and Ylise Kessler takes stock of AI in art.

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or the United States, 2024 is an election year — a potentially historic one. Congress and the White House are at stake; former President Donald Trump is bidding to retake the presidency from President Joe Biden, with all that could entail for the stability of U.S. political institutions.

Perhaps less widely appreciated, but no less significant, is that this will be a year of elections for the world. In 2024, votes for president, a national legislature or both are set to take place in dozens of countries — including some of the world’s most populous (India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Mexico); some of those most closely aligned with the United States (eight European NATO members and, probably, Britain); and some 18 of Africa’s 54 countries (among them Ghana and South Africa, where the African National Congress is at risk of losing its majority for the first time since the 1994 transition to democracy).

The Economist — whose count includes not only countries’ national elections but

also municipal ones, as well as voting in 27 European Union countries for the relatively powerless European Parliament — estimates that 2024 will be the biggest election year ever. Voters will cast ballots in countries accounting for about 4.2 billion people, or about 50% of global population.

It’s difficult to specify the likely impact of all this voting, but it’s surely unwise to underestimate it. By the time it is over, power might change hands between incumbents and oppositions in multiple nations; new political generations might come into their own. The shift from the left to the libertarian right in Argentina at the end of 2023 provides a preview of how dramatic such changes can be. Election results could transform key nations’ foreign policies and relationships with the United States — whose own policies, of course, could take a radical new direction if Trump wins the presidency.

The stakes might be highest in Taiwan, which votes Jan. 13. The Kuomintang (KMT) Party, which is relatively conciliatory toward Beijing, is bidding to replace the governing Democratic Progressive Party,

whose roots lie in the island’s human rights movement and which sees close ties with the United States as Taiwanese democracy’s best guarantee against China. There is also a strong third-party contender. China is meddling, mostly by feeding pro-KMT propaganda to Taiwanese voters via social media.

In Russia, reelection for the incumbent — President Vladimir Putin — is the inevitable outcome of a rigged vote in March. Opponents of his war in Ukraine will have no meaningful opportunity to campaign. In tiny El Salvador, meanwhile, President Nayib Bukele has manipulated the system to allow for his reelection despite constitutional provisions that had appeared to prohibit it. The twist is that Bukele is so popular — based on his sweeping, legally questionable and, for now, successful crackdown on crime — that few Salvadorans seem inclined to resist his machinations.

El Salvador is one of six Latin American countries slated to hold presidential elections in 2024. This number includes Venezuela, though it is unclear if the deeply unpopular leftist authoritarian regime in Caracas will permit a free and fair process, as the Biden

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on the employer? I know someone has to pay for parking, but why put the burden on the employer and employee? Food prices at restaurants have increased drastically after COVID and as a result of inflation. Why not allow restaurant workers a free monthly pass instead of the added bureaucracy of a new program? The employee shows their pay stub to the parking division as proof of employment and as long as they are employed, their pass is valid and renewed monthly. This could also apply to gallery workers, retail workers, etc. whose hourly wage is below cap.” Scott Hamilton

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Jan. 2, 1974: A lingering winter snowstorm which moved into the state New Year’s Eve dumped up to 12 inches of snow in Santa Fe and throughout Northern New Mexico last night, making driving hazardous as roads became snowpacked.

Jan. 2, 1999: Fran works 59 hours a week as a teacher’s assistant and as a waitress. But she says the health-insurance plan available through the school system is a $25-a-week luxury she can’t afford for herself or her 10-year-old son right now.

“By the time they take out all the other deductions, I don’t have much of a check left,” said the Pojoaque woman, who earns about $5.25 an hour at her teacher’s assistant job.

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administration is pressuring it to do. If Venezuela votes legitimately, however, the result could be an inspiring democratic comeback for a country whose economic and political collapse has destabilized the hemisphere.

In short, 2024 will deliver masses of fresh data on democracy’s prospects in the world.

Many indicators, such as those published

by Freedom House, show “backsliding,” including in Hungary, India, Israel and, yes, the United States. Still, on one key objective metric — whether losing incumbents accept defeat and leave power — there has been little erosion worldwide over the past decade, according to a recent paper by political scientists Andrew Little and Anne Meng.

Another reason for optimism: the backhanded compliment that autocrats such as Putin feel they must pay democracy by holding elections, even if they are a sham.

Such exercises implicitly concede that, in the modern world, the people’s votes are the only universally recognized source of political legitimacy. This norm is the hardwon achievement of centuries, one which the year of elections will surely test, but just might reinforce.

ood thing the Biden administration is trying to address the danger of forest wildfires.

Smokey Bear policies in the early 20th century shut fire out of our forests and created overly dense and dangerously flammable forests. The Biden administration will fund new initiatives to make forest treatments safer, reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire, restore forests to natural densities and protect old-growth stands.

Melissa Savage

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state has cut a “deal” in which we spend $30 million right now to plug abandoned wells, to be paid back over decades by the oil company whose wells need to be plugged, at a rate that is (per the oil company’s statement) “based on output and profits”? We’re essentially loaning tax dollars (interest free) to a company with a known declining asset, from which we will be paid back (or not) in dollars worth far less in decades than they are today. This, from a company that is unlikely to still be in business? What state economic genius took this deal on our behalf?

Why is such a “deal” even possible or necessary?

Brian Weiss

Who benefits?

As a Jewish woman elder, I can only recoil with unspeakable horror at the current killing frenzy justified by the need to exterminate Hamas by any means necessary — bombing hospitals, churches, refugee camps, schools, etc., in the name of Israeli self-defense. War began at least 17 years ago if not in 1948, and has been ongoing under the occupation.

The Hamas atrocity of Oct. 7 was no surprise. And how was it missed by Mossad?

This is a tragedy for both Israelis and Palestinians, and for us as witnesses. The clear intention is genocide, of Jews by Hamas and of Palestinians by Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces under Netanyahu appears to be collectively possessed with a state-sanctioned murderous rage born of revenge. The recent killings by the IDF of three Israeli young men waving white flags of surrender far exceed the fog of war. And the U.S. government defies calls by world leaders and our own citizenry for a cease-fire. In the background, the madman Donald Trump quotes Mein Kampf. Ethnic cleansing resurrects Hitler’s ghost. Is Trump a metaphor for this collective madness, or maybe worse, not a metaphor but a sign of forces already unleashed here and elsewhere?

Which political and economic powers benefit from and perpetrate this butchery? What entities sustain this insanity? I wonder. Do you?

Ellen Shabshai Fox

Santa Fe

A bad deal Let me see if I understand this correctly (“State to pay $30M upfront to plug almost 300 idle wells,” Dec. 28). In an era when we are dedicated to reducing and eventually eliminating fossil fuel use, the

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Try him I think that the trial of former President Donald Trump is taking too long. The date is being extended for political reasons. I think the trial should be in January, not March, and the primaries should focus on the other Republicans, most notably Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley. This is ridiculous.

Christopher Thompson

Santa Fe

Beautiful music A Santa Fe Institute physicist, when asked to describe music, said; “Music is a celebration of time through sound.” In other words, music is ethereal.

It exists only in the now, in the moment, and in its essence, it is about time. I had a discussion with a musician friend of mine, and I queried whether music could be understood as an analogy of life in that both are ethereal and exist as a succession of acts or notes over time. My friend commented that a boring life is like bad music where one plays the same notes over and over, while an interesting life is one where one learns and plays new and different notes over time.

A beautiful life, like beautiful music, is made of a succession of beautiful acts or notes over time. It can be challenging to make new notes, new music as it is to reinvent new acts or notes in your life. A New Year’s wish to all that we can each learn and play new beautiful notes, that we as a country can reinvent ourselves so not to play the same bad music as we have been in recent years, that we can create new and beautiful harmonies together.

Jack Hicks

Santa Fe

s the year ends, civilians are dying at a staggering pace in the Gaza Strip and the genocide in Darfur may be resuming. A man charged with 91 felonies is leading in American presidential polls, and our carbon emissions risk cooking our planet.

But something else is also true: In some ways, 2023 may still have been the best year in the history of humanity.

How can that possibly be?

Just about the worst calamity that can befall a human is to lose a child, and historically, almost half of children worldwide died before they reached the age of 15. That share has declined steadily since the 19th century, and the United Nations Population Division projects that in 2023 a record low was reached in global child mortality, with just 3.6% of newborns dying by the age of 5.

That’s the lowest such figure in human history. It still means about 4.9 million children died this year — but that’s 1 million fewer than died as recently as 2016.

Or consider extreme poverty. It, too, has reached a record low, affecting a bit more than 8% of humans worldwide, according to United Nations projections.

All these figures are rough, but it seems that about 100,000 people are now emerging from extreme poverty each day — so they are better able to access clean water, to feed and educate their children, to buy medicines.

None of this eases the pain of those who have lost their children in 2023, nor is it a balm for those caught in war or climate catastrophes. Yet, at year’s end, it’s worth acknowledging this backdrop of progress — not to distract anyone from all that is going wrong, but to offer a reminder that when we try hard enough, we can accomplish amazing things. Right now, looking at the anguish worldwide, I’d say we’re not trying hard enough.

I write a version of this column each year at around this time, and it upsets many readers. They believe it is offensive to hail progress when so many are dying unnecessarily from wars and disease, when the future seems so bleak to so many.

I understand their point; my career has been dedicated to covering genocide, war and poverty. But one thing I learned long ago as a journalist is that when our coverage is unremittingly negative, people tune out and give up. If we want to tackle problems — from the Israel-Hamas war to climate change — then it helps to know that progress is possible.

Other health news is also encouraging, a reflection of the way public health tools are behind many of the advances in well-being. Two horrifying diseases are close to eradication: polio and Guinea worm disease. Only 12 cases of wild poliovirus have been reported worldwide in 2023 (there were also small numbers of vaccine-derived polio, a secondary problem), and 2024 may be the last year in which wild polio is transmitted. (Shoutout to Rotary International for its heroic work against this disease.) Meanwhile, only 11 cases of Guinea worm disease were reported in humans in the first nine months of 2023. (The hat-tip here goes to former President Jimmy Carter for his extraordinary work against the parasite.)

Likewise, the United States government recently approved new CRISPR gene-editing techniques to treat sickle cell disease — and the hope is similar approaches can transform the treatment of cancer and other ailments.

Another landmark: New vaccines have been approved for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, and malaria, and both are expected to save children’s lives.

Blinding trachoma is also on its way out in several countries. A woman suffering from trachoma in Mali once told me the worst part of the disease wasn’t the blindness but, rather, the excruciating pain, which she said was as bad as childbirth but lasted for years. So, I’m thrilled that Mali and 16 other countries have eliminated trachoma.

Those who see 2023 as a notably grim year are also right, of course. My reporting in the Middle East late this year was personally depressing, and climate change threatens the gains in poor nations such as Bangladesh and Madagascar. Yet, despair is paralyzing, not empowering. It seems contradictory in a world brimming with pain, but the most important trend in the world in my lifetime may be the revolution in child mortality, the enormous decline in global poverty and the vast increase in literacy that many people seem unaware of.

I highlight this backdrop of progress so it may fortify us in 2024 to tackle all the other suffering that persists.

Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times.

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ROSE BOWL NO. 1 MICHIGAN 27, NO. 4 AL ABAMA 20 (OT)

‘That was glorious’ Michigan beats Alabama in overtime on Corum’s TD run to reach national title game for first time since ‘97

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49ers quarterback Brock Purdy throws a pass during Sunday’s game against the Commanders in Landover, Md. San Francisco won 27-10 to clinch the top seed in the NFC.

’Boys got all the breaks; Ravens, 49ers were big winners

By Rob Maaddi

The Associated Press

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he Dallas Cowboys got another big victory without taking the field Sunday. The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers took care of business to make sure they get an extra week of rest.

The NFL’s playoff picture is clearer with one week to go.

Nine teams are in. Five spots remain open. Twenty clubs are still chasing the Super Bowl.

Baltimore secured the AFC’s No. 1 seed with a 56-19 victory over Miami.

Lamar Jackson threw five touchdown passes and had a perfect passer rating, helping the Ravens (13-3) secure a firstround bye and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs while also boosting his chances to win his second NFL MVP award.

The 49ers wrapped up the NFC’s No. 1 seed with a 27-10 victory at Washington and help from Arizona. When the Cardinals rallied to beat Philadelphia 35-31, that gave San Francisco (12-4) the top spot.

The Ravens and 49ers can rest their starters next week and they don’t have to play until the divisional round on Jan. 20-21.

Arizona’s stunning comeback win over the Eagles (11-5) also gave the Cowboys (11-5) control of the NFC East.

Dallas would secure the division and lock up the No. 2 seed with a win at Washington in Week 18.

The Cowboys got all the breaks over the weekend. After poor clock management by coach Mike McCarthy nearly blew the game Saturday night, the officials gave Dallas a reprieve and the Cowboys held on to beat Detroit 20-19. The Lions were successful on a 2-point conversion to take the lead in the final minute only to have it negated by a penalty because offensive lineman Taylor Decker was an ineligible receiver when he caught the pass.

Referee Brad Allen said Decker never reported as eligible. Allen and his officiating crew missed a call on the previous drive by Dallas that may have prevented Please see story on Page B-2

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From left, Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy, head coach Jim Harbaugh and running back Blake Corum celebrate on the podium after a 27-20 overtime win over Alabama in the Rose Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal Monday in Pasadena, Calif.

By Greg Beacham

The Associated Press

PASADENA, Calif. alen Milroe caught a low snap on fourth down in overtime at the Rose Bowl and ran straight ahead into wall of blue and maize.

That wall of Michigan defenders had been hardened by the Wolverines’ violent practice drills. Toughened by two previous College Football Playoff losses. Made impenetrable by months of turmoil that battered the program and its beloved head coach, Jim Harbaugh.

Alabama’s quarterback went nowhere.

The Wolverines are going to Houston.

Blake Corum rushed for a 17-yard touchdown on

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the second snap of overtime, and top-seeded Michigan advanced to its first CFP championship game with a 27-20 victory over fourth-seeded Alabama in the Rose Bowl on Monday night.

Harbaugh’s Wolverines (14-0) will play for their school’s first national title since 1997 against Washington on Monday — but only after a fourth-quarter comeback and a hair-raising finish when the two winningest programs in college football history played just the second overtime game in the 110 editions of the Granddaddy of Them All. “Glorious. That was glorious,” Harbaugh said. “It was a tremendous football game.”

Roman Wilson made a 4-yard TD catch with 1:34 left in regulation for the Wolverines, who hadn’t scored in the second half until that gritty 75-yard

MONDAY ON TV 5:30 p.m. on ESPN — College Football Playoff championship: No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 2 Washington, NRG Stadium, Houston

drive led by J.J. McCarthy.

Corum, who caught an early TD pass and rushed for 83 yards, needed only two snaps to score in the first overtime period, breaking tackles and spinning wildly into the end zone.

After Milroe was stopped 2 yards short of the end zone on the final snap, the Wolverines’ entire sideline sprinted onto the field, throwing a few Please see story on Page B-3

SU GAR BOWL NO. 2 WA SHINGTON 37, NO. 3 TE X A S 31

Penix Jr. leads Washington to victory over Texas

By Ralph D. Russo

The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Michael Penix Jr. passed for 430 yards and two touchdowns, and Washington held off Texas 37-31 in the Sugar Bowl on Monday night to advance to the College Football Playoff championship game, earning both the sixth-year quarterback with two surgically repaired knees and the beleaguered Pac-12 one more game this season.

The second-ranked Huskies (14-0) will face No. 1 Michigan on Monday night in Houston, looking for their first national championship since 1991 and the Pac-12’s first since Southern

California in 2004.

Washington is one of 10 schools fleeing the Pac-12 for other Power Five conferences next year, with the Huskies headed to join Michigan in the Big Ten. Michael But first, the final Penix Jr. season of the fourteam playoff before expansion to 12 in 2024 comes down to a Pac-12-Big Ten matchup, just like the first when Ohio State beat Oregon.

No. 3 Texas (12-2) had four shots at the end zone after getting to the UW 12 with 15 seconds left, but Quinn Ewers

missed on the last three. The final throw was a fade to a well-covered Adonai Mitchell that sailed long.

In Texas’ first CFP appearance and final football game as a member of the Big 12 before it goes to the Southeastern Conference, Ewers passed for 318 yards and a touchdown. But it wasn’t enough against Penix and his array of talented receivers.

Penix spent his first four college seasons at Indiana, suffering three season-ending injuries. When his former offensive coordinator at Indiana, Kalen DeBoer, took over at Washington, Penix didn’t think twice before moving to Seattle.

The left-hander stayed healthy and

blossomed into a star, the Heisman Trophy runner-up this year, and now has a chance to win a national championship after another brilliant performance.

Penix went 29 for 38 with no turnovers. He completed 12 straight at one point, the longest on-target streak in the CFP’s 10-year history.

And he did it attacking down field as usual. He completed six passes of at least 20 yards, connecting with Rome Odunze six times for 125 yards and Ja’Lynn Polk five times for 122.

It was in some ways a perfect CFP semifinal for the last season before massive changes in college football: Please see story on Page B-3

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LET THE (BIG) GAMES BEGIN 10 things to watch as Lobos prepare to begin league play in Mountain West

By Will Webber wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

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nd now the fun begins.

Tuesday night delivers the first wave of games for the Mountain West Conference, an 11-team men’s basketball conference that had four schools make last year’s NCAA Tournament. New Mexico’s strong start and deep roster puts it squarely in the race for the league title as the Lobos prepare for their opener at nationally ranked Colorado State.

Here are 10 things to look for as things heat up:

10. The cream will rise

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Four teams cruised through the nonconference with one loss each (Nevada went 13-1 while New Mexico, Utah State and Colorado State all went 12-1) while San Diego State was 11-2 and preseason No. 2 pick Boise State went 9-4. Something has to give, and the smart money is on SDSU to again rise above the fray to become the MWC’s bell cow. The Aztecs have played the league’s toughest schedule, have its best defense and have 6-9 forward Jaedon LeDee leading the MWC in scoring. Then there’s the whole Final Four thing from last year. A 14-4 record sounds about right.

New Mexico Lobos (12-1) at Colorado State Rams (12-1), 8:30 p.m. in Fort Collins, Colo.

TV: Fox Sports 1 Online: Mountain West Network, themw.com Radio: KKOB 770 AM Live stats: GoLobos.com/mbbstats

9. Are they ready?

Lobos coach Richard Pitino told his staff after the team’s loss to Saint Mary’s two months ago that UNM would need to run the table in its final 11 nonconference games to keep its season chugging Please see story on Page B-3

New Mexico’s Jaelen House tries to get past San Diego State’s Darrion Trammell during a Feb. 25 game in The Pit. The Lobos (12-1) open Mountain West play tonight against Colorado State in Fort Collins, Colo. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Eric J. Hedlund, ehedlund@sfnewmexican.com

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TODAY ON TV Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local.

6:30 a.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship: Canada vs. Czech Republic, Quarterfinal, Gothenburg, Sweden 9 a.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship: U.S. vs. Latvia, Quarterfinal, Gothenburg, Sweden 11:30 a.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship: Sweden vs. Switzerland, Quarterfinal, Gothenburg, Sweden

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 4:30 p.m. FS1 — DePaul at UConn 5 p.m. ACCN — Wake Forest at Boston College 5 p.m. BTN — Iowa at Wisconsin 5 p.m. CBSSN — Creighton at Georgetown 5 p.m. ESPN — North Carolina at Pittsburgh 5 p.m. ESPN2 — East Carolina at FAU 5 p.m. ESPNU — Toledo at Ohio 5 p.m. PEACOCK — Purdue at Maryland 5 p.m. SECN — Norfolk St. at Tennessee 6:30 p.m. FS1 — Butler at St. John’s 7 p.m. BTN — Northwestern at Illinois 7 p.m. CBSSN — Illinois St. at Drake 7 p.m. ESPN — Syracuse at Duke 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Charlotte at SMU 7 p.m. ESPNU — UAB at UTSA 7 p.m. SECN — Penn at Auburn 8:30 p.m. FS1 — New Mexico at Colorado St.

NBA 5 p.m. NBATV — Chicago at Philadelphia 8 p.m. NBATV — Orlando at Golden State SOCCER (MEN’S) 9:55 a.m. CBSSN — SPFL: Celtic at St. Mirren 12:30 p.m. USA — Premier League: Brighton & Hove Albion at West Ham United TENNIS 4 a.m. TENNIS — United Cup Group Stage; Brisbane-ATP/WTA, Auckland-WTA, Hong Kong-ATP Early Rounds 4 p.m. TENNIS — United Cup Group Stage, Quarterfinals; Brisbane-ATP/WTA, Auckland-WTA, Hong Kong-ATP Early Rounds 4 a.m. Wednesday TENNIS — United Cup Group Stage, Quarterfinals; Brisbane-ATP/WTA, Auckland-WTA, Hong Kong-ATP Early Rounds

HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL 2:30 p.m. ESPNU — Under Armour Volleyball IIHF HOCKEY (MEN’S) 4 a.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship: Slovakia vs. Finland, Quarterfinal, Gothenburg, Sweden

Jan. 1, 1949 — Northwestern 20, California 14 Jan. 1, 1948 — Michigan 49, Southern Cal 0 Jan. 1, 1947 — Illinois 45, UCLA 14 Jan. 1, 1946 — Alabama 34, Southern Cal 14 Jan. 1, 1945 — Southern Cal 25, Tennessee 0 Jan. 1, 1944 — Southern Cal 29, Washington 0 Jan. 1, 1943 — Georgia 9, UCLA 0 Jan. 1, 1942 — Oregon State 20, Duke 16 Jan. 1, 1941 — Stanford 21, Nebraska 13 Jan. 1, 1940 — Southern Cal 14, Tennessee 0 Jan. 2, 1939 — Southern Cal 7, Duke 3 Jan. 1, 1938 — California 13, Alabama 0 Jan. 1, 1937 — Pittsburgh 21, Washington 0 Jan. 1, 1936 — Stanford 7, SMU 0 Jan. 1, 1935 — Alabama 29, Stanford 13 Jan. 1, 1934 — Columbia 7, Stanford 0 Jan. 2, 1933 — Southern Cal 35, Pittsburgh 0 Jan. 1, 1932 — Southern Cal 21, Tulane 12 Jan. 1, 1931 — Alabama 24, Washington State 10 Jan. 1, 1930 — Southern Cal 47, Pittsburgh 14 Jan. 1, 1929 — Georgia Tech 8, California 7 Jan. 2, 1928 — Stanford 7, Pittsburgh 6 Jan. 1, 1927 — Alabama 7, Stanford 7 Jan. 1, 1926 — Alabama 20, Washington 19 Jan. 1, 1925 — Notre Dame 27, Stanford 10 Jan. 1, 1924 — Navy 14, Washington 14 Jan. 1, 1923 — Southern Cal 14, Penn State 3 Jan. 2, 1922 — Washington & Jefferson 0, California 0 Jan. 1, 1921 — California 28, Ohio State 0 Jan. 1, 1920 — Harvard 7, Oregon 6 Jan. 1, 1919 — Great Lakes 17, Mare Island 0 Jan. 1, 1918 — Mare Island 19, Camp Lewis 7 Jan. 1, 1917 — Oregon 14, Pennsylvania 0 Jan. 1, 1916 — Washington State 14, Brown 0 Jan. 1, 1902 — Michigan 49, Stanford 0

NO. 2 WASHINGTON 37, NO. 3 TEXAS 31 TEXAS WASHINGTON

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e-Eliminated from playoffs x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division *-clinched home-field advantage Cleveland 37, N.Y. Jets 20 Saturday’s Games Dallas 20, Detroit 19

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Arizona 35, Philadelphia 31 Baltimore 56, Miami 19 Buffalo 27, New England 21 Chicago 37, Atlanta 17 Houston 26, Tennessee 3 Indianapolis 23, Las Vegas 20 Jacksonville 26, Carolina 0 L.A. Rams 26, N.Y. Giants 25 New Orleans 23, Tampa Bay 13 San Francisco 27, Washington 10 Pittsburgh 30, Seattle 23 Denver 16, L.A. Chargers 9 Kansas City 25, Cincinnati 17 Green Bay 33, Minnesota 10 Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 2:30 p.m.

Houston at Indianapolis, 6:15 p.m.

SUNDAY, JAN. 7

Atlanta at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 11 a.m.

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

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at Washington, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at Las Vegas, 2:25 p.m.

Kansas City at L.A. Chargers, 2:25 p.m.

L.A. Rams at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 2:25 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Buffalo at Miami, 6:20 p.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL MONDAY, JAN. 1

ReliaQuest Bowl Tampa, Fla. No. 13 LSU 35, Wisconsin 31 Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. No. 25 Tennessee 35, No. 20 Iowa 0 Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz.

No. 8 Oregon 45, No. 18 Liberty 6 Rose Bowl College Football Playoff Semifinal Pasadena, Calif.

No. 1 Michigan 27, No. 5 Alabama 20, OT Allstate Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff Semifinal New Orleans No. 2 Washington 37, No. 3 Texas 31

MONDAY, JAN. 8

CFP National Championship Houston No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 2 Washington, 5:30 p.m.

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First Quarter ALA: McClellan 34 run (Reichard kick), 9:41.

MICH: Corum 8 pass from McCarthy (J.Turner kick), 4:23.

Second Quarter MICH: Morris 38 pass from McCarthy (run failed), 3:49.

ALA: FG Reichard 50, :07.

Fourth Quarter ALA: McClellan 3 run (Reichard kick), 14:30.

ALA: FG Reichard 52, 4:41.

MICH: Wilson 4 pass from McCarthy (J.Turner kick), 1:34.

First Overtime MICH: Corum 17 run (J.Turner kick), :00.

A: 96,371.

First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost

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ROSE BOWL WINNERS

SATURDAY, JAN. 6

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Punts 7-50.286 6-39.5 Fumbles-Lost 4-1 3-1 Penalties-Yards 3-15 2-25 Time of Possession 32:19 27:41 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING: Alabama, McClellan 14-87, Milroe 2163, Haynes 4-31, Miller 1-11, Williams 1-(minus 1), (Team) 2-(minus 19). Michigan, Corum 1983, McCarthy 3-25, Edwards 4-11, S.Morgan 1-6, Mullings 1-6, Orji 2-2, (Team) 2-(minus 3).

PASSING: Alabama, Milroe 16-23-0-116. Michigan, McCarthy 17-27-0-221.

RECEIVING: Alabama, Bond 4-47, Burton 4-21, Dippre 2-15, McClellan 2-11, Prentice 1-13, Niblack 1-6, Miller 1-2, Law 1-1. Michigan, Wilson 4-73, S.Morgan 4-24, Morris 2-45, Corum 2-35, Loveland 2-13, C.Johnson 2-12, Mullings 1-19.

MISSED FIELD GOALS: Michigan, J.Turner 49.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

NO. 1 MICHIGAN 27, NO. 5 ALABAMA 20, OT

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Jan. 1, 2024 — CFP: No. 1 Michigan 27, No. 5 Alabama 20, OT Jan. 2, 2023 — No. 9 Penn St. 35, No. 7 Utah 21 Jan. 1, 2022 — No. 6 Ohio State 48, No. 11 Utah 45 Jan. 1, 2021 — CFP: No. 1 Alabama 31, No. 4 Notre Dame 14 Jan. 1, 2020 — Oregon 28, Wisconsin 27 Jan. 1, 2019 — Ohio State 28, Washington 23 Jan. 2, 2017 — Southern Cal 52, Penn State 49 Jan. 1, 2016 — Stanford 45, Iowa 16 Jan. 1, 2015 — Oregon 59, Florida State 20 Jan. 1, 2014 — Michigan State 24, Stanford 20 Jan. 1, 2013 — Stanford 20, Wisconsin 14 Jan. 2, 2012 — Oregon 45, Wisconsin 38 Jan. 1, 2011 — TCU 21, Wisconsin 19 Jan. 1, 2010 — Ohio State 26, Oregon 17 Jan. 1, 2009 — Southern Cal 38, Penn State 24 Jan. 1, 2008 — Southern Cal 49, Illinois 17 Jan. 1, 2007 — Southern Cal 32, Michigan 18 Jan. 4, 2006 — Texas 41, Southern Cal 38 Jan. 1, 2005 — Texas 38, Michigan 37 Jan. 1, 2004 — Southern Cal 28, Michigan 14 Jan. 1, 2003 — Oklahoma 34, Washington State 14 Jan. 3, 2002 — Miami 37, Nebraska 14 Jan. 1, 2001 — Washington 34, Purdue 24 Jan. 1, 2000 — Wisconsin 17, Stanford 9 Jan. 1, 1999 — Wisconsin 38, UCLA 31 Jan. 1, 1998 — Michigan 21, Washington State 16 Jan. 1, 1997 — Ohio State 20, Arizona State 17 Jan. 1, 1996 — Southern Cal 41, Northwestern 32 Jan. 2, 1995 — Penn State 38, Oregon 20 Jan. 1, 1994 — Wisconsin 21, UCLA 16 Jan. 1, 1993 — Michigan 38, Washington 31 Jan. 1, 1992 — Washington 34, Michigan 14 Jan. 1, 1991 — Washington 46, Iowa 34 Jan. 1, 1990 — Southern Cal 17, Michigan 10 Jan. 2, 1989 — Michigan 22, Southern Cal 14 Jan. 1, 1988 — Michigan State 20, Southern Cal 17 Jan. 1, 1987 — Arizona State 22, Michigan 15 Jan. 1, 1986 — UCLA 45, Iowa 28 Jan. 1, 1985 — Southern Cal 20, Ohio State 17 Jan. 2, 1984 — UCLA 45, Illinois 9 Jan. 1, 1983 — UCLA 24, Michigan 14 Jan. 1, 1982 — Washington 28, Iowa 0 Jan. 1, 1981 — Michigan 23, Washington 6 Jan. 1, 1980 — Southern Cal 17, Ohio State 16 Jan. 1, 1979 — Southern Cal 17, Michigan 10 Jan. 2, 1978 — Washington 27, Michigan 20 Jan. 1, 1977 — Southern Cal 14, Michigan 6 Jan. 1, 1976 — UCLA 23, Ohio State 10 Jan. 1, 1975 — Southern Cal 18, Ohio State 17 Jan. 1, 1974 — Ohio State 42, Southern Cal 21 Jan. 1, 1973 — Southern Cal 42, Ohio State 17 Jan. 1, 1972 — Stanford 13, Michigan 12 Jan. 1, 1971 — Stanford 27, Ohio State 17 Jan. 1, 1970 — Southern Cal 10, Michigan 3 Jan. 1, 1969 — Ohio State 27, Southern Cal 16 Jan. 1, 1968 — Southern Cal 14, Indiana 3 Jan. 2, 1967 — Purdue 14, Southern Cal 13 Jan. 1, 1966 — UCLA 14, Michigan State 12 Jan. 1, 1965 — Michigan 34, Oregon State 7 Jan. 1, 1964 — Illinois 17, Washington 7 Jan. 1, 1963 — Southern Cal 42, Wisconsin 37 Jan. 1, 1962 — Minnesota 21, UCLA 3 Jan. 2, 1961 — Washington 17, Minnesota 7 Jan. 1, 1960 — Washington 44, Wisconsin 8 Jan. 1, 1959 — Iowa 38, California 12 Jan. 1, 1958 — Ohio State 10, Oregon 7 Jan. 1, 1957 — Iowa 35, Oregon State 19 Jan. 2, 1956 — Michigan State 17, UCLA 14 Jan. 1, 1955 — Ohio State 20, Southern Cal 7 Jan. 1, 1954 — Michigan State 28, UCLA 20 Jan. 1, 1953 — Southern Cal 7, Wisconsin 0 Jan. 1, 1952 — Illinois 40, Stanford 7 Jan. 1, 1951 — Michigan 14, California 6 Jan. 2, 1950 — Ohio State 17, California 14

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First Quarter WASH: D.Johnson 2 run (Gross kick), 11:04.

TEX: Blue 5 run (Auburn kick), 7:06.

Second Quarter WASH: D.Johnson 1 run (Gross kick), 13:08.

TEX: B.Murphy 1 run (Auburn kick), 10:08.

WASH: Polk 29 pass from Penix (Gross kick), 1:27.

TEX: Baxter 3 run (Auburn kick), :17.

Third Quarter WASH: McMillan 19 pass from Penix (Gross kick), 10:30.

WASH: FG Gross 26, 7:44.

Fourth Quarter WASH: FG Gross 40, 14:51.

TEX: A.Mitchell 1 pass from Ewers (Auburn kick), 7:23.

WASH: FG Gross 27, 2:40.

TEX: FG Auburn 25, 1:09.

WASH

First downs 22 25 Total Net Yards 498 532 Rushes-yards 28-180 31-102 Passing 318 430 Punt Returns 2-13 1-0 Kickoff Returns 7-132 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 24-43-0 29-39-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-9 0-0 Punts 5-47.4 3-36.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-2 1-1 Penalties-Yards 10-66 5-39 Time of Possession 23:40 36:20 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING: Texas, Baxter 9-64, Blue 9-59, Ewers 8-54, Whittington 1-2, B.Murphy 1-1. Washington, D.Johnson 21-49, Penix 3-31, Rogers 5-19, Bernard 1-4, (Team) 1-(minus 1).

PASSING: Texas, Ewers 24-43-0-318. Washington, Penix 29-38-0-430, McMillan 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING: Texas, Sanders 6-75, Whittington 4-70, Blue 4-45, A.Mitchell 4-32, Worthy 2-45, Baxter 2-39, Agbo 1-6, Helm 1-6. Washington, Odunze 6-125, Westover 6-59, Polk 5-122, McMillan 5-58, Bernard 3-48, D.Johnson 3-18, Rogers 1-0.

MISSED FIELD GOALS: None.

SUGAR BOWL WINNERS

Jan. 1, 2024 — CFP: No. 2 Washington 37, No. 3 Texas 31 Dec. 31, 2022 — No. 5 Alabama 45, No. 11 Kansas St. 20 Jan. 1, 2022 — No. 7 Baylor 21, No. 8 Ole Miss 7 Jan. 1, 2021 — CFP: No. 3 Ohio State 49, No. Clemson 28 Jan. 1, 2020 — Georgia 26, Baylor 14 Jan. 1, 2019 — Texas 28, Georgia 21 Jan. 1, 2018 — Alabama 24, Clemson 6 (CFC SF) Jan. 2, 2017 — Oklahoma 35, Auburn 19 Jan. 1, 2016 — Mississippi 48, Oklahoma St. 20 Jan. 1, 2015 — Ohio St. 42, Alabama 35 (CFC SF) Jan. 2, 2014 — Oklahoma 45, Alabama 31 Jan. 2, 2013 — Louisville 33, Florida 23 Jan. 3, 2012 — Michigan 23, Virginia Tech 20, OT Jan. 4, 2011 — Ohio St. 31, Arkansas 26 Jan. 1, 2010 — Florida 51, Cincinnati 24 Jan. 2, 2009 — Utah 31, Alabama 17 Jan. 1, 2008 — Georgia 41, Hawaii 10 Jan. 3, 2007 — LSU 41, Notre Dame 14 Jan. 2, 2006 — West Virginia 38, Georgia 35 Jan. 3, 2005 — Auburn 16, Virginia Tech 13 Jan. 4, 2004 — LSU 21, Oklahoma 14 Jan. 1, 2003 — Georgia 26, Florida St. 13 Jan. 1, 2002 — LSU 47, Illinois 34 Jan. 2, 2001 — Miami 37, Florida 20 Jan. 4, 2000 — Florida St. 46, Virginia Tech 29 Jan. 1, 1999 — Ohio St. 24, Texas A&M 14 Jan. 1, 1998 — Florida St. 31, Ohio St. 14 Jan. 2, 1997 — Florida 52, Florida St. 20 Dec. 31, 1995 — Virginia Tech 28, Texas 10 Jan. 2, 1995 — Florida St. 23, Florida 17 Jan. 1, 1994 — Florida 41, West Virginia 7 Jan. 1, 1993 — Alabama 34, Miami 13 Jan. 1, 1992 — Notre Dame 39, Florida 28 Jan. 1, 1991 — Tennessee 23, Virginia 22 Jan. 1, 1990 — Miami 33, Alabama 25 Jan. 2, 1989 — Florida St. 13, Auburn 7 Jan. 1, 1988 — Syracuse 16, Auburn 16, tie Jan. 1, 1987 — Nebraska 30, LSU 15 Jan. 1, 1986 — Tennessee 35, Miami 7 Jan. 1, 1985 — Nebraska 28, LSU 10 Jan. 2, 1984 — Auburn 9, Michigan 7 Jan. 1, 1983 — Penn St. 27, Georgia 23 Jan. 1, 1982 — Pittsburgh 24, Georgia 20 Jan. 1, 1981 — Georgia 17, Notre Dame 10 Jan. 1, 1980 — Alabama 24, Arkansas 9 Jan. 1, 1979 — Alabama 14, Penn St. 7 Jan. 2, 1978 — Alabama 35, Ohio St. 6 Jan. 1, 1977 — Pittsburgh 27, Georgia 3 Dec. 31, 1975 — Alabama 13, Penn St. 6 Dec. 31, 1974 — Nebraska 13, Florida 10 Dec. 31, 1973 — Notre Dame 24, Alabama 23 Dec. 31, 1972 — Oklahoma 14, Penn St. 0 Jan. 1, 1972 — Oklahoma 40, Auburn 22 Jan. 1, 1971 — Tennessee 34, Air Force 13 Jan. 1, 1970 — Mississippi 27, Arkansas 22 Jan. 1, 1969 — Arkansas 16, Georgia 2 Jan. 1, 1968 — LSU 20, Wyoming 13 Jan. 2, 1967 — Alabama 34, Nebraska 7 Jan. 1, 1966 — Missouri 20, Florida 18 Jan. 1, 1965 — LSU 13, Syracuse 10 Jan. 1, 1964 — Alabama 12, Mississippi 7 Jan. 1, 1963 — Mississippi 17, Arkansas 13 Jan. 1, 1962 — Alabama 10, Arkansas 3 Jan. 2, 1961 — Mississippi 14, Rice 6 Jan. 1, 1960 — Mississippi 21, LSU 0 Jan. 1, 1959 — LSU 7, Clemson 0 Jan. 1, 1958 — Mississippi 39, Texas 7 Jan. 1, 1957 — Baylor 13, Tennessee 7 Jan. 2, 1956 — Georgia Tech 7, Pittsburgh 0 Jan. 1, 1955 — Navy 21, Mississippi 0 Jan. 1, 1954 — Georgia Tech 42, West Virginia 19 Jan. 1, 1953 — Georgia Tech 24, Mississippi 7 Jan. 1, 1952 — Maryland 28, Tennessee 13 Jan. 1, 1951 — Kentucky 13, Oklahoma 7 Jan. 2, 1950 — Oklahoma 35, LSU 0 Jan. 1, 1949 — Oklahoma 14, North Carolina 6 Jan. 1, 1948 — Texas 27, Alabama 7 Jan. 1, 1947 — Georgia 20, North Carolina 10 Jan. 1, 1946 — Oklahoma A&M 33, Saint Mary’s (Cal.) 13 Jan. 1, 1945 — Duke 29, Alabama 26 Jan. 1, 1944 — Georgia Tech 20, Tulsa 18 Jan. 1, 1943 — Tennessee 14, Tulsa 7 Jan. 1, 1942 — Fordham 2, Missouri 0 Jan. 1, 1941 — Boston College 19, Tennessee 13 Jan. 1, 1940 — Texas A&M 14, Tulane 13 Jan. 2, 1939 — TCU 15, Carnegie Tech 7 Jan. 1, 1938 — Santa Clara 6, LSU 0 Jan. 1, 1937 — Santa Clara 21, LSU 14 Jan. 1, 1936 — TCU 3, LSU 2 Jan. 1, 1935 — Tulane 20, Temple 14

BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

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Boston Phila.

New York Brooklyn Toronto

26 22 18 15 13

6 10 15 18 20

Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

19 19 13 7 6

13 14 19 24 26

Milwaukee Indiana Cleveland Chicago Detroit

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.594 .576 .406 .226 .188

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.727 .563 .545 .441 .091

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.576 .559 .516 .313 .156

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Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

24 22 24 15 9

8 9 11 19 23

L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers Golden State

20 19 18 17 15

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W

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.750 .710 .686 .441 .281

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Atlanta 130, Washington 126 Boston 134, San Antonio 101 New Orleans 129, L.A. Lakers 109 Oklahoma City 124, Brooklyn 108 Phoenix 112, Orlando 107 Sacramento 123, Memphis 92

MONDAY’S GAMES

New York 112, Minnesota 106 Toronto 124, Cleveland 121 Houston 136, Detroit 113 Indiana 122, Milwaukee 113 Denver 111, Charlotte 93 Utah 127, Dallas 90 Phoenix 109, Portland 88 L.A. Clippers 121, Miami 104

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Chicago at Phila., 5 p.m.

Boston at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Orlando at Golden State, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Milwaukee at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Washington at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Houston, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Chicago at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Utah, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m.

Orlando at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Milwaukee at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.

Denver at Golden State, 8 p.m.

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL THE AP TOP 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, and total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and previous ranking.

RECORD

PTS

PRV

1. Purdue (49) 12-1 1561 1 2. Kansas (5) 12-1 1497 2 3. Houston (9) 13-0 1477 3 4. UConn 11-2 1302 5 5. Tennessee 9-3 1234 6 6. Kentucky 10-2 1196 8 7. Marquette 11-3 1137 10 8. North Carolina 9-3 1088 9 9. Illinois 10-2 980 11 10. Arizona 10-3 975 4 11. Oklahoma 12-1 898 12 12. BYU 12-1 723 14 13. Colorado St. 12-1 694 15 14. Duke 9-3 662 16 15. Memphis 11-2 631 19 16. Clemson 11-1 630 18 17. FAU 10-3 603 7 18. Baylor 10-2 589 17 19. James Madison 13-0 469 20 20. Texas 10-2 374 21 21. Wisconsin 9-3 355 23 22. Mississippi 13-0 329 24 23. Providence 11-2 198 25 24. Gonzaga 9-4 173 13 25. Auburn 10-2 168 Others receiving votes: San Diego St. 113, Creighton 106, Colorado 86, Utah 82, Miami 41, Iowa St. 22, Michigan St. 15, Nevada 13, Texas A&M 13, Ohio St. 8, New Mexico 6, Dayton 5, Grand Canyon 5, South Carolina 4, Mississippi St. 4, Northwestern 3, Villanova 3, Alabama 3.

W L PCT W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

SUNDAY’S GAMES

the wacky ending.

A tripping penalty on Cowboys tight end Peyton Hendershot turned a second-and-3 into a first-and-25 at the Detroit 44.

The tripping penalty should’ve been called against Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson instead of Hendershot. There was no comment from the league about the call on Sunday.

Now the Cowboys are in position to start the playoffs at home, where they went 8-0. All they have to do is beat the Commanders (4-12) on the road.

The Dolphins (11-5) went from playing for the AFC’s No. 1 seed to having to beat Buffalo next week to clinch the division title.

If the Bills (10-6) beat Miami on the road, they’d secure the AFC East and the Dolphins would drop to the No. 6 spot. Buffalo would finish sixth, seventh or out of the playoffs with a loss.

The defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs (10-6) took the AFC West for the eighth straight season by beating Cincinnati 25-17. The Chiefs will enter the playoffs as the No. 3 seed. They’ve hosted the AFC championship game five straight years, but the path to doing it again requires a couple of teams to get upset.

The Jaguars, Colts and Texans each won to stay in the race for the AFC South at 9-7 apiece.

Jacksonville holds the tiebreakers and would clinch the divi-

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3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 10

.786 .733 .643 .571 .533 .429 .400 .357 .333

Jacksonville St. 107, Trevecca Nazarene 67

MONDAY’S GAMES Liberty 88, Boyce 46

TUESDAY’S GAMES

NFL SATURDAY FAVORITE

Pittsburgh at INDIANAPOLIS

NBA TUESDAY

MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE Nevada Colorado St. New Mexico Utah St. San Diego St. Boise St. Air Force UNLV Fresno St. San Jose St. Wyoming

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PCT

.929 .923 .923 .923 .846 .692 .583 .545 .538 .538 .538

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Utah St. at Air Force, 2 p.m.

San Jose St. at Wyoming, 6:30 p.m.

New Mexico at Colorado St., 8:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Fresno St. at San Diego St., 8:30 p.m.

MONDAY’S SCORES EAST Drexel 99, Hampton 65

SOUTH

Christopher Newport 76, Berry 71 Emmanuel 85, Augusta 71 Liberty 88, Boyce 46

MIDWEST

McKendree 107, Baptist Bible 73

SOUTHWEST

TCU 77, Texas A&M Commerce 42 Texas 79, Texas-Arlington 62 Texas Tech 85, North Alabama 57

FAR WEST

Colorado Christian 85, Northern New Mexico 64

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL THE AP TOP 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, and total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking.

RECORD

PTS

PRV

1. South Carolina (34) 12-0 874 1 2. UCLA (1) 12-0 839 2 3. NC State 13-0 784 3 4. Iowa 13-1 754 4 5. Colorado 11-1 692 8 6. Baylor 12-0 689 10 7. LSU 13-1 674 7 8. Stanford 12-1 630 9 9. Southern Cal 10-1 601 6 10. Texas 13-1 585 5 11. Kansas St 13-1 519 11 12. UConn 10-3 469 15 13. Virginia Tech 10-2 435 14 14. Indiana 11-1 425 16 15. Utah 10-3 409 12 16. Notre Dame 9-2 309 13 17. Louisville 12-2 306 19 18. Gonzaga 13-2 246 20 19. Marquette 12-1 189 18 20. Ohio St. 10-3 181 17 21. Creighton 10-2 157 21 22. Florida St. 11-3 154 22 23. TCU 14-0 120 23 24. West Virginia 12-0 106 25 25. Syracuse 11-1 56 Others receiving votes: North Carolina 49, Washington 36, Oregon St. 19, Texas A&M 16, UNLV 15, Michigan St. 9, Michigan 8, Miami 8, Davidson 6, Mississippi St. 3, Vanderbilt 3.

MONDAY’S SCORES EAST

Monmouth (NJ) 91, Georgian Court 51

SOUTH

Wofford 74, North Greenville 43

MIDWEST

Cleveland St. 64, Milwaukee 59 Detroit 67, N. Kentucky 55 Green Bay 72, Fort Wayne 46

TODAY

San Francisco 75, Brown 70

HOCKEY NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L OT PTS GF GA 35 22 7 36 22 12 34 17 10 38 18 15 37 17 16

6 2 7 5 4

50 114 91 46 107 93 41 124 118 41 125 131 38 132 128

3½ 4½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 2½ 3 3 2½ 5½ 2½ 3½ 13½ 3

LINE

UNDERDOG

(37½) (47½)

at BALTIMORE Houston

O/U

UNDERDOG

(42) (38½) (46½) (40½) (37½) (30½) (47½) (44) (35½) (41½) (37½) (42) (44½) (49½)

Atlanta Cleveland Minnesota at TENNESSEE at CAROLINA N.Y. Jets at ARIZONA Chicago Kansas City at N.Y. GIANTS Denver L.A. Rams at WASHINGTON at MIAMI

O/U

11 12 3 6½ 15½ 3½

COLLEGE BASKETBALL TUESDAY

O/U

4 1½

3½ 3½ 3½ 3 4 1½ 3 2½ 3 7 2½ 3 13 3

at PHILADELPHIA at MEMPHIS Boston at NEW ORLEANS at SACRAMENTO at GOLDEN STATE

UNDERDOG

(223½) (232½) (239½) (230½) (233½) (231)

FAVORITE

LINE

Utah State at UCONN at MIAMI (OH) Vermont at HARVARD at TENNESSEE Purdue at OHIO North Carolina at CENTRAL MICHIGAN at FLORIDA ATLANTIC Wake Forest at BOWLING GREEN at WISCONSIN Creighton at KENT STATE at BAYLOR at SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Akron at MURRAY STATE at KANSAS STATE at ST. JOHN’S at WYOMING at SMU at DRAKE at AUBURN at ILLINOIS at DUKE UAB at COLORADO STATE

Chicago San Antonio at OKLAHOMA CITY Brooklyn Charlotte Orlando

UNDERDOG

6½ 24½ 5½ 4½ 3½ 23½ 8½ 2½ 3½ 3½ 17½ 1½ 10½ 7½ 13½ 11½ 16½ 6½ 5½ 2½ 19½ 6½ 5½ 8½ 12½ 21½ 5½ 14½ 5½ 3½

at AIR FORCE DePaul Western Michigan at BROWN Albany (NY) Norfolk State at MARYLAND Toledo at PITTSBURGH Buffalo East Carolina at BOSTON COLLEGE Eastern Michigan Iowa at GEORGETOWN Ball State Cornell Belmont at NORTHERN ILLINOIS UIC Chicago State Butler San Jose State Charlotte Illinois State Pennsylvania Northwestern Syracuse at UTSA New Mexico

NHL TUESDAY FAVORITE

LINE

Boston at N.Y. RANGERS at PITTSBURGH at WINNIPEG at DALLAS at MINNESOTA at NASHVILLE at EDMONTON at COLORADO Florida at VANCOUVER at LOS ANGELES Detroit

UNDERDOG

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at COLUMBUS Carolina Washington Tampa Bay Montreal Calgary Chicago Philadelphia N.Y. Islanders at ARIZONA Ottawa Toronto at SAN JOSE

Dallas 8, Chicago 1 Calgary 4, Philadelphia 3 Colorado 3, San Jose 1

Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

36 15 16 38 15 19 32 14 18

5 4 0

35 102 125 34 111 132 28 111 112

N.Y. Rangers Carolina Philadelphia N.Y. Islanders Washington New Jersey Pittsburgh Columbus

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51 121 95 44 124 117 43 109 99 43 110 119 40 81 99 40 121 125 40 107 93 32 119 140

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Vancouver Vegas Los Angeles Seattle Edmonton Calgary Anaheim San Jose

FAR WEST

Boston Florida Toronto Tampa Bay Detroit

OPEN

FAVORITE

UNLV 87, Carroll College 51

ATLANTIC

TODAY

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FAVORITE

Dallas Christian at Louisiana Tech, 5 p.m.

Reinhardt at Middle Tennessee, 5:30 p.m.

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OPEN

at NEW ORLEANS at CINCINNATI at DETROIT Jacksonville Tampa Bay at NEW ENGLAND Seattle at GREEN BAY at L.A. CHARGERS Philadelphia at LAS VEGAS at SAN FRANCISCO Dallas Buffalo

Dallas at Sam Houston St., 3 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

sion and the No. 4 seed for the second straight year with a win at Tennessee (5-11) next week.

Indianapolis visits Houston with the winner advancing as division champion or wild-card winner and the loser eliminated.

The Steelers (9-7) kept their playoff hopes alive with a 30-23 win at Seattle. Pittsburgh needs a win over Baltimore plus help to get a wild-card spot.

Joe Flacco and the Cleveland Browns (11-5) already have the AFC’s No. 5 seed locked up and will play the AFC South champion in the wild-card round.

Tampa Bay missed an opportunity to clinch its third straight NFC South with a flat performance in a 23-13 loss at home to New Orleans. The Buccaneers (8-8) still can wrap up the division crown with a win at Carolina (2-14) next week.

The Saints (8-8) and Falcons (7-9) face off with a chance to win the division if the Panthers upset Tampa Bay. New Orleans still would have a shot at a wildcard spot if the Buccaneers win.

The Los Angeles Rams (9-7) edged the New York Giants 26-25 to clinch a wild-card berth.

Green Bay routed Minnesota 33-10 to surpass Seattle and take control of the final wild-card spot. The Packers (8-8) would get in with a win at home over Chicago. The Vikings (7-9) need a win at Detroit and a lot of help. The Seahawks (8-8) have to win at Arizona and need the Packers to lose.

SPORTS BETTING LINE

SUNDAY

CONFERENCE USA W. Kentucky Liberty Louisiana Tech UTEP Jacksonville St. Sam Houston St. New Mexico St. Middle Tennessee FIU

Cowboys got all the breaks; Ravens, 49ers were big winners

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GF GA

New Jersey at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

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136 127 116 102 123 107 93 75

93 106 80 114 110 120 122 153

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Winnipeg 3, Minnesota 2 Boston 5, Detroit 3 Ottawa 5, Buffalo 1 Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Tampa Bay 4, Montreal 3 Edmonton 7, Anaheim 2

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Boston at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Washington at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Florida at Arizona, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Detroit at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Toronto at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

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MONDAY’S GAMES

Seattle 3, Vegas 0

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Buffalo at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Chicago at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Boston, 5 p.m.

Calgary at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Florida at Vegas, 8 p.m.

Ottawa at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

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TODAY'S UV INDEX + 10 8 6 4 2 0

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Santa Fe 44 / 24

Los Alamos 41 / 26

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Pecos 47 / 22

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Albuquerque 52 / 25

Truth or Consequences 55 / 29

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WIND TRACKER

The stick-togetherness — I guess what people don’t know, how could they know, what the togetherness is like? There’s just nothing that can separate these guys.”

Michigan is one win away from reaching the primary goal set by Harbaugh when he returned to his alma mater in 2015 to restore its dominance. The former Wolverines quarterback won no Big Ten titles in his first six seasons, but Michigan has been elite since 2021, winning three straight conference titles and advancing to three Playoffs.

“We broke through after the COVID year, getting here,” linebacker Michael Barrett said. “We fell short a couple of times, man, but finally doing this, especially against Alabama, especially with a great coach like Nick Saban, great athletes they have, just having this tone-setting win, it’s definitely a turning point for the program.”

The Wolverines’ pristine record masked a profoundly messy season bookended by two three-game suspensions for Harbaugh — the first issued preemptively by the school amid an investigation of possible recruiting violations, and the second mandated by the Big Ten over allegations of sign-stealing and in-game scouting.

“It’s almost been an unfair advantage, all the things that the team has gone through,” Harbaugh said. “We don’t care anymore. Don’t care what people say. Don’t care about anything that comes up. We just know we’re going to overcome it.”

Michigan defensive coordinator Jesse Minter acknowledged that the program’s infamously difficult 9-on-7 tackling drills are “definitely” done for moments just like the end of this Rose Bowl.

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ers and trust their training, and when the game’s on the line, you let them go play fast and don’t overthink it,” Minter said. “The game comes down to the last play.

We’re going after him, and that’s what we’re able to do. So proud of our guys for the win.”

Michigan was the dominant team for long stretches of the first three quarters of the Rose Bowl, yet Alabama hung in impressively with big plays and just enough defensive stops.

The Wolverines snapped their six-bowl losing streak and survived a handful of potentially disastrous mistakes that undercut their long stretches of superiority in this matchup. The biggest was a muffed punt by Jake Thaw, who was tackled at the Michigan 1 with 43 seconds left in regulation and barely avoided what would have been one of the most spectacular safeties in football history.

McClellan made an untouched 34-yard TD run in the first quarter, and Michigan answered with Corum’s 8-yard catch for his FBS-leading 25th TD — his first on a reception. Corum has been at Michigan for three straight appearances in the CFP, but he barely played two years ago when the Wolverines were routed by Georgia, and he was injured when they were upset by TCU last year.

The Wolverines went ahead shortly before halftime when Tyler Morris made a 38-yard TD catch, but McClellan put the Tide up 17-13 with a 3-yard TD run on the second snap of the fourth quarter. Down seven moments later, Michigan finally got moving with Corum and Wilson making big plays before Wilson’s tying TD. “It’s very frustrating, man,” Alabama defensive back Malachi Moore said. “We always preach finishing, and we’re competitors at the end of the day, so when it come down to stuff like that it really eat at you.”

Penix Jr. leads Washington to victory two teams switching conferences next season, led by star quarterbacks who transferred in.

A wild first half included a 77-yard connection with Polk on Penix’s second pass of the game, defensive tackle Byron Murphy II plunging into the end zone for a 1-yard TD run for Texas, a Penix-to-Polk

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‘That was glorious’ helmets in the air while fireworks soared from behind the Rose Bowl scoreboard.

“Everything that we went through this entire year made us unbreakable, and in the biggest moments, we were going to show up,” said McCarthy, who passed for 221 yards and three touchdowns to win the Offensive Player of the Game award.

Jase McClellan rushed for 87 yards and two touchdowns for Alabama (12-2), which fell heartbreakingly short of the chance to play for Nick Saban’s seventh national title at the school. The Tide led 20-13 on Will Reichard’s 52-yard field goal with 4:41 to play, but their defense couldn’t preserve it.

“We just didn’t finish the last four minutes of the game like we would like to, and we’re all very disappointed,” Saban said. “But one thing I told them in the locker room, this is one of the most amazing seasons in Alabama football history in terms of where this team came from and what they were able to accomplish.”

Milroe passed for 116 yards and rushed for 63 for the Tide, whose 11-game winning streak ended.

Michigan is the sixth straight No. 1 seed to win its semifinal game in the CFP’s 10 years of existence — but only after surviving just the third overtime Playoff game. After everything that has happened to Michigan in the past several months, Harbaugh believes his team is primed to keep fighting.

“If ever a game was going to be won up front, it was going to be won with toughness and physicality,” Harbaugh said. “Our guys were just there in rhythm and got it done. Epic game. Epic game.

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TD pass where the receiver tipped the ball to himself and the Longhorns capping the second quarter with a long touchdown drive to tie it at 21-all at the intermission.

There was a fourth-and-1 stop by Texas of Washington deep in Longhorns territory, which didn’t deter DeBoer from going for a fourth-and-1 at his own UW 33, and converting.

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along. They did. The question now is if the road they’ve traveled has prepared them for what they’re about to face. The eye test says no.

UNM’s nonconference slate ranks 196th in Division I as seven games were against teams with a .500 record or worse entering the new year. Are they up for the MWC gantlet, and how will they react when they face an opponent that can take your best punch? We’ll get a feel Tuesday night.

8. Healthy or not UNM hasn’t had a single game this season in which all 12 scholarship players have been available at the same time. Jemarl Baker Jr., Jaelen House, Donovan Dent, Jamal Mashburn Jr., Braden Appelhans, Sebastian Forsling, Tru Washington and Isaac MushJamal ila have all missed time due Mashburn Jr. to injury or illness. That said, it’s safe to assume the trend will continue the rest of the way. An unforgiving 18-game conference season is sure to provide more issues. At some point, those who are MIA will cost the Lobos in a game that really matters.

7. Going big time The Lobos’ Jan. 13 game in The Pit against San Diego State has been picked up by CBS and will air nationally as the main network’s game of the week. It will likely go head to head with the first NFL wild-card game aired online by Peacock.

As of New Year’s Day, only about 1,800 tickets remained for a game that should be a sellout.

The stakes against SDSU are high regardless of circumstance, but if both teams can roll through the first three games of the MWC, it will arguably be UNM’s biggest regular season contest in years.

6. Contenders, pretenders Colorado State’s win over Creighton vaulted it into the Top 25 and made the Rams the highest-profile team from the outside looking in, but is CSU for real? How about Utah State? Or, for that matter, UNM or a completely overhauled Nevada roster that looks better than anyone expected? Five teams are inside the current KenPom top 40. It stands to reason that at least two of the top six teams will fade into the middle of the MWC pack. It seems every team except for San Diego State has legitimate question marks, the Lobos included.

5. Erasing history As beloved and popular as Pitino has become in his two-plus years with UNM, there’s a track

record of struggles in conference play. In 11 seasons at Florida International, Minnesota and New Mexico, he has posted a winning record in league play just twice — in 2012-13 with FIU (11-9 in the Sun Belt) and 2016-17 at Minnesota (11-7) in the Big Ten — and never coached his team higher than a fourth-place finish. His first Lobos team went 5-12 and finished 10th; last year’s club went 8-10 and was sixth.

4. Monkeys on the back UNM has Nevada and Utah State in its crosshairs. The Lobos have never beaten Nevada since former coach Steve Alford took over five years ago, dropping all eight meetings. The Wolf Pack has won nine straight and 13 of the last 14, the lone UNM win coming on Jan. 5, 2019, when the Lobos donned special yellow uniforms and beat the unbeaten Pack coached by Eric Musselman. UNM has lost seven in a row (and nine of 10) to Utah State. The Lobos play host to both teams in The Pit over 12 days later this month.

3. Pre-MWC all-conference It’s an 18-game war of attrition to close out the regular season. On the dawn of conference play, here are the top five players the MWC has to offer to this point: Jaedon LeDee, San Diego State; Kenan Blackshear, Nevada; Isaiah Stevens, Colorado State; Jarod Lucas, Nevada; Great Osobor, Utah State. The MVP goes to LeDee with Stevens and Blackshear close behind. No Lobos, you say? Dent has been the best player thus far and J.T. Toppin is the league’s best freshman, but each will see their impressive numbers dip if guards House and Mashburn manage to produce and, more importantly, stay healthy.

2. Lobos depth Pitino has said since the start that playing all 12 scholarship players in every game is impossible. He’s right. So what is the actual depth of this team? Look for a regular rotation of nine or possibly 10. Of those, Mashburn, House, Dent, Toppin and Nelly Junior Joseph will get the bulk of playing time. Washington and Baker will get 20 minutes a game while Mushila, Mustapha Amzil and Quinton Webb have the talent to play their way into valuable minutes. Barring injuries to those higher on the depth chart, Forsling and Appelhans will likely see their time diminish.

1. Crystal ball says …

The Lobos will win 11, possibly 12 conference games and finish in the top four behind San Diego State, Nevada and either Boise State or Colorado State. Someone will knock them off at home; it always happens. The key will be picking off a contender or two on the road while going 8-1, maybe 7-2 at home. The Lobos will head to the MWC Tournament with a 23-8 record and need at least one win in Las Vegas, Nev., to have a shot at an at-large berth in the NCAA. With the talent on hand to do just that, it’s all a matter of staying healthy and using the bigs like Nelly and Toppin to lighten the load.

NCAA? Sure, why not?

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23 ___ José, Costa Rica 24 Colorful rhyme for a filming background 29 Copied 31 Church council 32 Lyra’s brightest star 35 Go bananas 37 What a street musician may use to collect tips 38 Domain 39 “___ the season ...”

40 Sign seen at an S.P.C.A. center, perhaps 43 Outdo

44 & 46 Colorful rhyme for a 1966 Donovan hit 48 Hoppin’, as a party 49 Soccer star Hamm 50 Hot and spicy, as salsa 54 Sticky notes 58 Colorful (albeit rare!) rhyme for an item at a hardware store 60 Finland joined it in 2023 61 Big name in tractors 62 Ruckus 63 Grandson of Adam 64 Pages that point to other pages 65 Benjamin who wrote “The Tao of Pooh” DOWN 1 Reacts to an awful smell, maybe 2 Dublin’s land, to Dubliners 3 “Piehole” 4 Matthew ___ of “The Americans” 5 I, on the periodic table 6 College catalog assortment

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HOROSCOPE The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024: You are intuitive, sensitive and aware of your surroundings.

Because you’re observant, you know what makes people tick.

This year is slower paced.

strong focus might apply to your job or your health. It might even relate to your pet. Tonight: Be cooperative.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Avoid arguments with kids today. Start this year off on a positive note. Take the high road. You might see better ways to teach them. Tonight: Help someone.

MOON ALERT: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. EST today (3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. PST). After that, the Moon moves into Libra.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You will have a powerful encounter with a family member today, probably a female.

One of you might have ideas about how to introduce reforms or improvements.Tonight: You need to be yourself.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Today you’re determined to accomplish something. This

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You’ll be convincing in your conversations with others

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today. This could be because you’re a bit obsessed about an idea and you won’t let it go. Be ready for some opposition from a co-worker or someone dealing with your health or your pet.

Tonight: Enjoy some privacy.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You’re keen to work today. In fact, you might see new ways to earn money or new uses for something you already own. Avoid squabbles about the cost of social events or children’s support. Tonight: Conversations are important.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You’re ready to get back in the saddle today, which is why you want to work!

You also might want to teach others how to do something, because you see a better way of approaching a situation.

TODAY IN HISTORY

Tonight: You identify with something you own.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH This is an excellent day to research something or do a little sleuthing. Secrets might come out. You might discover something that amazes you.

Tonight: Talk to someone.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Discussions with a friend or a member of a group will be intense today. This could be because you feel obsessed about an idea. Tonight: Solitude.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH A conversation with a parent, boss, teacher or member of the police will be intense today.

You might be intent on getting your POV across, or vice versa.

Tonight: Contact a friend.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Today you might have strong feelings about sharing your beliefs about politics or religion with others. You think you’re doing them a favor.

Tonight: You’re high-viz.

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Relationship feels like a waste Dear Annie: I’ve dated my boyfriend for more than 12 years. We got along fine when his grown kids were out of the picture, but now they’re back living with him. His youngest is 21, yet he treats them like infants. The daughters are manipulating and controlling. When I bring up my feelings about the situation, he accuses me of being jealous and insecure. I feel I’ve wasted years in a relationship going nowhere.

I always helped him with rent, paying up to $700 a month, even though his kids don’t pay rent. Recently, I moved out. His response to my moving out was “We’re glad you’re gone!”

— Feeling Left Out Dear Feeling: I, too, am glad you’re out of that house. Now you need to get out of the relationship. Having been in it for 12 years is not a justification to stay in it another second. Ahead of you is the rest of your life, and I believe the coming years can be your best. If you’re having trouble finding the strength to seek out that better future, I encourage you to seek therapy.

You deserve so much better than what you’re getting now.

Dear Annie: Hurricane Irma hit my neighborhood two years ago. I need access to electricity for my CPAP, nebulizer and oxygen concentrator, and so I went to the hospital before the storm hit.

My nephew thought that I acted like a 3-year-old. We had a wonderful relationship before the storm, but Irma changed all that. Since then, I’ve read about noncompliant nursing homes and assisted-living communities whose residents died during the storm. How can I convince my nephew that I did the right thing?

— Safe Senior Dear Safe: Your nephew thought it was immature of you to seek shelter at a hospital during a hurricane? I’m flummoxed. But rather than continuing to try to convince him, let it be enough to know that you did nothing wrong, and divert your energy instead toward developing a thorough disaster preparedness plan. Start by letting your power company, local police and local fire department know that you are oxygendependent. The Red Cross offers a free downloadable guide on its website entitled “Disaster Preparedness: For Seniors By Seniors” that includes some additional tips if and when the next storm hits.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Discussions about shared property, taxes, inheritances or anything to do with the wealth and resources of someone else could be intense today. It might be a standoff. Tonight: Explore!

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com. To find out more about Annie Lane and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Either you or someone close to you is obsessed about an idea today, which is why discussions will be intense.

Ultimately, this could lead to arguments. Tonight: Check your finances.

SUPER QUIZ

SHEINWOLD’S BRIDGE

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2024. There are 364 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Jan. 2, 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts launched his successful bid for the presidency.

Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: ONOMATOPOEIAS Words that imitate or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. Provide an onomatopoeia to complete the sentence. (Alternate answers may be possible.) (e.g., I heard the loud ____ of the ducks flying overhead.

Answer: Quacking.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. We could hear an owl ____ in the woods.

Answer________ 2. All that could be heard was the ____ of the young birds.

Answer________ 3. They ____ glasses and drank to each other’s health.

Answer________

KENKEN Rules • Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating.

• The numbers within the heavily outlines boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

• Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

GRADUATE LEVEL 4. The logs ____ in the fire.

Answer________ 5. The taxi gave a ____ as it pulled up to the house.

Answer________ 6. She heard the floors ____ upstairs.

Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. She did not know the words, but she began to ____ along with the music.

Answer________ 8. I filled the glass with water and ____ a couple of ice cubes into it.

Answer________ 9. When the oil is hot, add the garlic and allow to _____ for 5 minutes.

Answer________

ANSWERS: 1. Hooting. 2. Chirping. 3. Clinked. 4. Crackled.

5. Beep or honk. 6. Creak. 7. Hum. 8. Plopped. 9. Sizzle (simmer).

SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2024 Ken Fisher

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