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No jail time for armed robber Deal suspends 12-year sentence for former cop. LOcAL, A-7

Poll: Bushee ahead With 39% of city voters still undecided in mayor’s race, contest isn’t over. LOcAL, A-7

Lottery scholarship:

Losing bet for state’s kids?

For sickest patients, time to find insurance runs short

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Man pleads guilty to assault via toe-biting

Coverage through pools ends soon; those suffering chronic conditions face dangerous lapse

Anaya still faces charges in Albuquerque incident

By Gosia Wozniacka The Associated Press

By Chris Quintana

The New Mexican

A Santa Fe man accused of attacking his former lover several times by biting her toes — and even biting off the tip of a big toe — pleaded guilty Wednesday to several charges of battery and assault.

The victim has claimed that Daniel Anaya, reportedly a onetime clerk in the shoe department of the Dillard’s departDaniel Anaya ment store in Santa Fe, suffers from a “severe foot fetish.”

Anaya, 28, pleaded guilty in First District Judge Mary Marlowe’s courtroom to a charge of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm, two counts of false imprisonment, an aggravated assault charge and a battery charge.

He had been accused in three separate assaults on the 32-year-old woman — on Nov. 22, 2012, Feb. 3 and April

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Chef and culinary instructor Jerry Jeff Dakan speaks with student Monica Anduio, 18, at Santa Fe Community College on Wednesday. Anduio, who is working toward an associate degree, benefits from the lottery scholarship, but it is running out of funds. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Task force seeks ways to shore up fund also works 20 hours a week at Kmart, but she said the tuition assistance is “an enormous help.” If she wants to continue to get tuition help through the state’s lottery scholarship fund, Avila can transfer to a four-year school in the state. But a letter she received last week warned that there is no guarantee the money will be there.

Demand for lottery scholarships is exceeding the funds in the program.

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Planetarium program Killer Comets and Ominous Asteroids, 7-8 p.m., Santa Fe Community College Planetarium, 6401 Richards Ave. 505-428-1744, no charge.

Jill Morin of Raleigh, N.C., shown with her son, Kyle, suffers from a heart condition. She and thousands of others with pre-existing conditions will see their insurance pools dissolve soon — and many are struggling to find new coverage. GERRY BROOME/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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raceli Avila isn’t sure whether she would have made it through four semesters at Santa Fe Community College without the New Mexico Lottery Scholarship.

“It has meant so much to me,” she said Wednesday. “It makes a huge difference in my education.” She is close to earning her associate degree. Avila

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PORTLAND, Ore. — With federal and state online health care marketplaces experiencing glitches a month into implementation, concern is mounting for a vulnerable group of people who were supposed to be among the health law’s earliest beneficiaries.

Hundreds of thousands of people across the country with pre-existing chronic conditions such as cancer, heart failure or kidney disease who are covered through high risk-insurance pools will see their coverage dissolve by year’s end.

They are supposed to gain regular coverage under the Affordable Care Act, which requires insurers to cover those with severe medical problems. But many of them have had trouble signing up for health insurance through the exchanges and could find themselves without coverage in January if they don’t meet a Dec. 15 deadline to enroll.

Administration officials say the federal exchange, which covers more than half the states, won’t be working probably until the end of November, leaving people just two weeks to sign up if they want coverage by Jan. 1.

“These individuals can’t be without coverage for even a month,” said Tanya Case, the chairwoman of the National Association of State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans, which represents the nation’s high-risk pools. “It’s a matter of life or death.”

High-risk pools were created by state legislatures to provide a safety net for people who have been denied or priced out of coverage. The Affordable Care Act will forbid insurers from turning away people in poor health. And while coverage can be purchased outside the exchanges,

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LOS ANGELES — They loved it.

Now they hate it.

A growing number of celebrities, athletes and self-promoters are burned out and signing off of Twit-

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ter. Many have gotten overwhelmed.

Some people built big audiences on the short messaging service only to have their followers turn against them. Others complain that tweets that once drew lots of attention now get lost in the noise.

As Twitter Inc. prepares to go public this week, the company is selling potential investors on the idea that its user base of 232 million will continue to grow along with the 500 million tweets that are sent each day. The company’s revenue

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depends on ads it inserts into the stream of messages.

But Wall Street could lose its big bet on social media if prolific tweeters lose their voice.

Evidence of Twitter burnout isn’t hard to find. Just look at the celebrities who — at one time or another

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Report indicates Arafat was poisoned

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Swiss scientists have found evidence suggesting Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with a radioactive substance, a TV station reported Wednesday, prompting new allegations by his widow that the Palestinian leader was the victim of a “shocking” crime.

Arafat died under mysterious circumstances at a French military hospital in 2004, a month after falling ill at his Israeli-besieged West Bank compound.

An investigation into Arafat’s death was initiated by his widow, Suha, and the satellite TV station Al-Jazeera.

Last year, Switzerland’s Institute of Radiation Physics discovered traces of polonium-210, a deadly radioactive isotope, on some of Arafat’s belongings. Soil and bone samples were subsequently taken from Arafat’s grave in the West Bank.

FLORENCE, Italy — U.S. student Amanda Knox’s defense got a boost on Wednesday when a new DNA test on a kitchen knife failed to conclusively prove that it was the murder weapon used to kill her British roommate. An expert witness testified that the minuscule DNA trace on the knife handle near the blade showed “considerable affinity” with Knox’s own DNA. No DNA belonging to the slain British student, Meredith Kercher, was identified.

Navy nominee deals with sexual assaults WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s nominee for a top civilian job in the Navy is in the crosshairs of female senators determined to overhaul the military justice system to stanch the increasing number of sexual assaults.

Jo Ann Rooney, tapped to be undersecretary of the Navy, responded to a Senate panel last month and offered her opinion on a proposal to remove commanders from the process of deciding whether serious crimes, including sexual misconduct cases, go to trial.

That judgment would rest instead with seasoned trial lawyers who have prosecutorial experience and hold the rank of colonel or above.

“A judge advocate outside the chain of command will be looking at a case through a different lens than a military commander,” Rooney said.

“I believe the impact would be decisions based on evidence rather than the interest in preserving good order and discipline.”

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., chief proponent of that far-reaching change, was furious and is blocking Rooney’s nomination.

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1 in 6 Americans face economic insecurity

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Clockwise, top, George Strait accepts the award for entertainer of the year at the 47th annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday; Taylor Swift earned the Pinnacle award; Blake Shelton received the award for male vocalist of the year; Miranda Lambert earned the female vocalist of the year award. PHOTOS BY WADE PAYNE/INVISION/AP

Strait wins CMA top honor Sheldon takes album of year; Lambert earns top female vocalist

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. lake Shelton captured album of the year, Miranda Lambert won female vocalist of the year and Taylor Swift was honored with the Pinnacle award for her achievements, but it was George Strait who won the night’s top honor at the Country Music Awards — entertainer of the year.

Strait, who is retiring from the road, nabbed his third trophy in the category but hadn’t won the prestigious award since 1990.

He capped a night where there was no clear favorite. Shelton, Swift, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw and Florida Georgia Line won two awards each.

But Shelton won the other big award of the night — album of the year for Based on a True Story — besides grabbing male vocalist of the year, his fourth time winning the latter award.

Lambert, his wife, also won her fourth straight female vocalist of the year award.

“I really didn’t think this was going to happen this year,” Lambert said before thanking each of the other nominees.

The husband and wife have been favorites of the CMA’s 6,000

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voters for the last three years and Wednesday as no different, “I had mentioned earlier today that if there was an award that would mean the most to me tonight, it would be album of the year,” said Shelton, who won entertainer of the year last year and was in contention for it again this year.

Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley scored single and vocal duo of the year.

Their quick tally was more proof the so-called bro country movement is the sound of the moment in mainstream country. FGL kicked off the show performing a fistpumping medley with Luke Bryan, and very quickly returned to the stage to take the trophy for single of the year for their “Cruise” remix featuring Nelly. They also played the new song “Round Here.”

“It’s been a constant thing all year — we’ve been trying to wrap our minds around what’s going on,” Hubbard said backstage. “It’s been a dream come true for us and a huge blessing for us and something we could have never imagined.”

Kacey Musgraves — who, along with Taylor Swift, led all nominees with six — won the new artist trophy. With smart songwriting, a progressive bent and a strong sense of self like country’s other top women, Musgraves made an auspicious mainstream country debut this year with her album Same Trailer Different Park.

Hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley got the show going on a jovial note as they took the

stage with their opening skit, first joking about feuds in music. They also skewered Obamacare to a Nashville audience that roared with approval, and brought out the guys from the hit show Duck Dynasty and parodied Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines.

Lee Brice’s “I’d Drive Your Truck,” about a fallen soldier whose father still drives his truck, won song of the year, and Little Big Town took its second straight vocal group of the year.

Swift later performed a somber, acoustic version of her hit “Red” with Vince Gill, Alison Krauss and Sam Bush and was given the CMA’s Pinnacle Award. The award goes to artists who take country music to a worldwide audience. Garth Brooks is the only previous winner. He won in 2005.

The CMA brought a star-studded welcoming group out of stage for Swift that included George Strait, Rascal Flatts, McGraw, Urban, Faith Hill and Paisley — all of whom gave Swift a chance to open for them on the road a teenager. A video salute followed with appearances by Justin Timberlake, Julia Roberts, Carly Simon, Ethel Kennedy and Mick Jagger.

Swift also was nominated for her third entertainer of the year award, the night’s top honor.

And in one of the night’s most anticipated moments, Kenny Rogers received the CMA’s Willie Nelson lifetime achievement award.

WASHINGTON — The number of poor people in America is 3 million higher than the official count, encompassing 1 in 6 residents due to out-of-pocket medical costs and work-related expenses, according to a revised census measure released Wednesday.

The new measure is aimed at providing a fuller picture of poverty, but does not replace the official government numbers.

Based on the revised formula, the number of poor people in 2012 was 49.7 million, or 16 percent. That exceeds the record 46.5 million, or 15 percent, that was officially reported in September.

“This is a real incongruity, when 1 in 6 people face economic insecurity here in the richest country in the world,” said Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University economist and former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Among states, California had the highest share of poor people, hurt in part by high housing costs and large numbers of immigrants, followed by the District of Columbia, Nevada and Florida. Under the official poverty rate, more rural states were more likely to be at the top of list, led by Mississippi, Louisiana and New Mexico.

Some other findings: u Food stamps helped lift about 5 million people above the poverty line. Without such aid, the overall poverty rate would increase from 16 percent to 17.6 percent. u Working-age adults ages 18-64 saw an increase in poverty from 13.7 percent based on the official calculation to 15.5 percent. u Child poverty declined from 22.3 percent to 18 percent under the new measure. u By race, Hispanics and Asians saw higher rates of poverty, 27.8 percent and 16.7 percent respectively, compared with rates of 25.8 percent and 11.8 percent under the official formula. In contrast, African-Americans saw a modest decrease, from 27.3 percent to 25.8 percent based on the revised numbers. Among nonHispanic whites, poverty rose from 9.8 percent to 10.7 percent.

“The primary reason that poverty remains so high is that the benefits of a growing economy are no longer being shared by all workers as they were in the quarter-century following the end of World War II,” said Sheldon Danziger, a University of Michigan economist.

“Given current economic conditions, poverty will not be substantially reduced unless government does more to help the working poor.”

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AARP TAX-AIDE: Volunteer tax preparers and greeters for the tax season are needed from Feb. 1 to April 15. Volunteers work one or more 4-hour shifts a week. Training will be offered in January for those with tax preparation experience and more extensive training for those with no experience. Volunteers can work at Santa Fe Community College or at the Pasatiempo Senior Center on Alta Vista Street.

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By Matthew Lee behavior in The Associated Press the peace talks.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank “I’m con— U.S. Secretary of State cerned about John Kerry John Kerry waded again into their progress the nitty-gritty of faltering because I see Israeli-Palestinian peace talks the Palestinians continuing on Wednesday, saying he was with incitement, continuing to optimistic that tensions and create artificial crises, continudifficulties could be overcome, ing to avoid, run away from even between “two proud the historic decisions that are people” struggling to reach an needed to make a genuine accommodation. peace,” Netanyahu told Kerry Kerry was upbeat after as they started their two hour separate meetings with Israeli and 45-minute meeting in a Prime Minister Benjamin Jerusalem hotel. “I hope that Netanyahu and Jerusalem and your visit will help steer them Palestinian President Mahback to a place where we could moud Abbas in the West Bank achieve the historical peace town of Bethlehem. that we seek and that our people deserve.”

“As in any negotiation there will be moments of up and Despite Netanyahu’s slap at moments of down,” Kerry said, the Palestinians, Kerry said he even as both sides traded barbs was optimistic that the difficulabout who is to blame for the ties could be overcome. current poor state of negoKerry said he would contiations. “But … we are detertinue to plug away despite the mined to try to bring lasting problems. peace to this region.”

“We need the space to The secretary said, “We negotiate privately, secretly, are convinced that despite quietly and we will continue the difficulties, both leaders, to do that,” he said. “We have President Abbas and Prime six months ahead of us on Minister Netanyahu, are also the timetable we have set for determined to work toward ourselves, and I am confident this goal.” we have the ability to make Yet tension between the two progress.” sides was running high and on After seeing Netanyahu, clear display after the Palestin- Kerry traveled to Bethlehem ians said a secret negotiating where he announced that the session on Tuesday broke U.S. would give an additional down in an acrimonious dis$75 million in aid to create pute over Israeli settlement Palestinian jobs and help them construction. Introducing improve roads, schools and Kerry in Bethlehem, the town’s other infrastructure. U.S. offimayor denounced Israeli settle- cials said the aid is designed to boost Palestinian public supments as a “siege” and Netanport for the peace process. yahu opened his meeting with

Kerry said he had a “very, very good meeting” and an “excellent lunch” with Abbas, during which the president assured him that he was “100 percent committed to the” peace talks.

In a bid to calm rising Palestinian anger at Abbas for a perceived acquiescence to Israeli settlements, Kerry flatly denied suggestions that Abbas had in any way agreed to “condone or accept” such activity as part of the deal to return to the talks.

“The Palestinians believe that the settlements are illegal, the United States continues to believe the settlements are not helpful and are illegitimate,” he said. Kerry added, “That is not to say that they were not aware or we were not aware that there would be construction but that that would be much better off in our judgment limited as much as possible.”

Kerry said that Abbas had agreed not to take the Palestinian case for statehood to the United Nations as long as the talks are ongoing and as long as Israel continues prisoner releases.

“I am convinced that President Abbas is serious about these talks and that he wants to find peace,” Kerry said, noting that Abbas had restated his understanding that compromises would have to be made.

Once he finishes his talks with Abbas in Bethlehem, Kerry is to return to Jerusalem for a meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres and have a working dinner with Netanyahu. On Thursday, Kerry plans to travel to Jordan, where he expects to see Abbas for a second time on his current mission.

its networks largely undergroup, blaming the governmentground. That made it difficult formed committee of stalling on for authorities to track, since implementing the court ruling.

CAIRO — A court in Egypt many institutions were regisOn Wednesday, the Cabinet upheld Wednesday an earlier tered under individuals’ names. asked the committee to issue ruling that banned the Muslim Brotherhood lawyer Osama regular reports about its work.

Brotherhood and ordered its el-Helw said the group will file The leftist Tagammu party, assets confiscated, the state another appeal against Wednes- which filed the case demanding news agency reported. The day’s ruling, but this appeal the banning of the group, said decision moves forward the unlike the first will not suspend the new ruling should give the complicated process of the gov- implementation of the ban authorities the green light to ernment taking control of the unless it is accepted by a court. move.

Islamist group’s far-reaching It is also unlikely to reverse “The government must take social network and its finances. the initial ruling, legal experts urgent measures to implement The Cairo Court for Urgent said. the court ruling … and prove it Matters rejected the BrotherAhmed Ragheb, an indepenis serious about implementing hood’s appeal to suspend the dent rights lawyer, said the deci- the law,” Hani el-Husseini, a Sept. 23 ruling that ordered the sion has legal flaws: It comes Tagammu member, told the offigroup’s assets confiscated and from the wrong court and its cial MENA news agency. its activities banned. guidelines for a government El-Helw said the government The sweeping September ver- monitoring Brotherhood assets has already violated due process dict was viewed as a legal preare unclear. by forming the committee and text for the interim authorities Technically, Wednesday’s allowing it to begin its work to move against assets owned or verdict allows the government administered by Brotherhood to move in on the group’s assets. while the group had filed for members, including schools, suspension of ruling.

The committee that includes hospitals, charities, and busi“We will pursue legal means. judicial, security and intelnesses.

Let the law be the arbiter,” elligence officials has started to It is part of a wider governHelw said. do an inventory of the group’s ment crackdown against the Brotherhood lawyers also said finances. group following the poputhey were considering other The government has come larly backed coup in July that under pressure from politicians legal options, such as filing new removed President Mohammed and public figures to fast-track court cases against the verdict Morsi, a Brotherhood member in a different court. the financial crackdown on the and Egypt’s first elected leader after the 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

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U.S. trashes, sells unwanted gear in Afghanistan

By Kathy Gannon

The Associated Press

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The withdrawing U.S. military is destroying most of the equipment it is leaving behind in Afghanistan after 13 years of war, selling the scrap for millions of dollars to those willing to buy it.

The policy stands in stark contrast to the Americans’ withdrawal from Iraq, when they donated or sold still-usable items worth about $100 million.

The equipment is being trashed, U.S. officials say, because of fears that anything left behind in Afghanistan could fall into the hands of insurgents and used to make bombs. Leaving it behind also saves the U.S. billions of dollars in transportation costs.

Afghans are angry at the policy, arguing that even furniture and appliances that could improve their lives is being turned into useless junk.

“They use everything while they are here, and then they give it to us after breaking it,” said Mohammed Qasim, a junk dealer in the volatile southern province of Kandahar. He gestured toward the large yellow frame of a gutted generator, saying it would have been more useful in somebody’s home, given the lack of electricity in the area.

The twisted mounds of metal, steel and industrial rubber scattered over a vast field had once been armored vehicles, trucks and huge blast walls that protected troops from suicide bombers. Giant black treads were pulled from tanks.

Even air conditioners, exercise machines and office equipment were crushed and stuffed into multicolored shipping containers piled on top of each other in the junkyard.

In the last year, the U.S. has turned equipment and vehicles into 387 million pounds of scrap that it sold to Afghans for $46.5 million, according to Mimi Schirmacher, a spokeswoman for the military’s Defense Logistics Agency in Virginia.

The scrapped material was too worn out to repair or not worth the expense of carrying it back to the U.S., officials said.

Not everything in Afghanistan was destroyed. Coalition forces have handed over $71 million in equipment intact

U.S. troops will have left, the Americans will move an estimated 50,000 vehicles — tens of thousands of them hardened to make them resistant to mines.

They will also ship an estimated 100,000 metal containers — each about 20 feet long.

Placed end-to-end, the containers would stretch nearly 400 miles.

The military faced a similar logistics dilemma when it pulled out of Iraq in 2011, but it left most of the equipment with the government, including water tanks, generators, furniture and armored vehicles.

Nearly $100 million in equipment was donated or sold to the Afghan scrap collectors transport a load of destroyed U.S. Iraqis as of 2010, military offiequipment Nov. 2 from the departing military in Kandahar, cials said at the time. southern Afghanistan. ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Crichton said the Iraqis were better prepared to receive and to the Afghans, said Col. Jane ment has “repeatedly” asked maintain the equipment.

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Twitter sets IPO price at $26

By Barbara Ortutay The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Twitter has set a price of $26 for its initial public offering of stock, which means the company’s shares can begin trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange.

The price values Twitter at more than $18 billion based on its outstanding stock, options and restricted stock that’ll be available after the IPO. That’s more than Macy’s, which has a market capitalization of $17 billion, and Bed Bath & Beyond, which is around $16 billion.

The pricing means the short messaging service will raise $1.8 billion in the offering, before expenses.

Twitter, which has never turned a profit in its seven years in existence, had originally set a price range of $17 to $20 per share for the IPO, but that was an obvious lowball designed to temper expectations. It was widely expected that the price range would go higher.

Back in August, for example, the company priced some of its employee stock options at $20.62, based on an appraisal by an investment firm and it’s unlikely to have lost value since.

On Monday, Twitter raised the price range to $23 and $25 per share, signaling

an enthusiastic response from prospective investors. The San Francisco-based company is offering 70 million shares in the IPO, plus an option to buy another 10.5 million. It is set to begin trading Thursday morning under the symbol “TWTR.” Twitter’s public debut is the most highly-anticipated IPO since Facebook’s in May 2012.

But Twitter has valued itself at just a fraction of Facebook and has sought to cool expectations in the months and weeks leading up to the offering. With that, the San Francisco-based company is likely hoping its stock will avoid the fate Facebook’s shares, which didn’t surpass their IPO price until more than a year after the offering.

Tempering expectations has been a big theme in the weeks leading up to Twitter’s IPO. The company has tried to avoid the trouble that plagued Facebook’s high-profile IPO nearly 18 months ago. Facebook’s public debut was marred by technical glitches on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in May of 2012. As a result, the Securities and Exchange Commission fined Nasdaq $10 million, the largest ever levied against an exchange. Those problems likely led Twitter to the New York Stock Exchange.

TwITTer’s wInners Most of Twitter’s founders and early leaders will benefit, and one will likely become a billionaire. Here’s a look at how much the key Twitter figures are worth: Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chairman, was CEO from 2006 to 2008. His 4.3 percent stake in the company is now worth about $610 million.

Noah Glass, co-founder. His name isn’t mentioned in Twitter’s IPO filings, and he apparently won’t make much money, if any, from the company’s success.

Evan Williams, co-founder, CEO from 2008 to 2010. He emerged as Twitter’s largest shareholder when he bought the service for an undisclosed amount through a company called Obvious, which he owns.

Williams has now joined the ranks of billionaires. His 10.4 percent stake is worth nearly $1.5 billion.

Biz Stone, co-founder. Although his remaining stake in Twitter is too small to be listed in the company’s IPO papers, Stone is believed to have made millions already by selling some of his holdings in previous years.

Dick Costolo, CEO from 2010 to present, joined Twitter in 2009 as chief operating officer. He owns a 1.4 percent stake in Twitter, a stake that is worth about $200 million.

Tweet: Some say it’s a time-sucking seduction Continued from Page A-1 — have taken a break from the service.

The long list includes everyone from Alec Baldwin to Miley Cyrus to Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof.

Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt lamented “all the negativity” she saw on the service when she quit, temporarily, in July. Actress Megan Fox left nearly a million followers dangling when she checked out in January, explaining that “Facebook is as much as I can handle.” Pop star John Mayer deleted his account in 2011, saying Twitter absorbed so much of his thinking, he couldn’t write a song.

“I was a tweetaholic,” he told students during a talk at the Berklee College of Music.

If Twitter turns off celebrities who have a financial incentive to stay in close contact with fans, how can the company prevent average users from becoming disenchanted?

For some users, Twitter tiredness sets in slowly. At first, they enjoy seeing their tweets of 140 characters or less bounce around the Web with retweets and favorites. But new connections soon get overwhelming. Obligation sets in — not only to post more, but to reply to followers and read their tweets.

Many users conclude that Twitter is a time-sucking seduction and turn away. One who calls herself patrilla$$$thrilla excitedly tweeted “first tweet, wocka wocka” just after she joined in July.

On Wednesday, 161 tweets and 27 followers later, the romance was over. She quit to “fully enjoy the little details in life I miss because I’m too busy here,” she tweeted.

The cacophony creeps into everyday life. Twitter fanatics tweet from the dinner table, during a movie, in the bathroom, in bed. Vacations can seem like time wasted not tweeting.

The overdoers suffer from a “fear of missing out” (or FOMO), says Tom Edwards, vice president at themarketingarm, a Dallas-based advertising agency.

“Managing our virtual personas, including all of the etiquette that comes with, can be tiresome, especially for those with large followings.”

It happens — even to people who ought to know better. Just ask Gary Schirr, an assistant professor who teaches a course on social media at Radford University.

In August, while vacationing on a beach, Schirr felt a pang of withdrawal because he had stopped tweeting to his 70,000-plus followers. Then he saw an old condemned house about to be washed away and posted a photo to Facebook and Twitter. He felt relieved when the likes and retweets rolled in.

“You feel forgotten if you’re not out there,” he says. “It’s another sign of addiction. You feel bad if you don’t tweet.”

Prolific tweeters stay engaged partly because there are real benefits to a big following, which usually requires tweeting a lot.

Journalists who have large Twitter followings have used them to land better-paying jobs because every click on stories can make more money for their new employer.

Actors can land roles on TV or the movies if their digital audience is expected to tag along.

Matt Lewis, a columnist with The Week magazine, says his Twitter following is like “portable equity” that gave him an edge over more established writers earlier in his career. He’s now got nearly 33,000 followers.

Even so, one of Lewis’ more popular stories is titled “Why I hate Twitter.” It goes into why the social network became, for him, “a dark place” overrun by “angry cynics and partisan cranks.” He became demoralized by the criticism, but he couldn’t pull himself away.

“It’s also like a prison. You can’t check out,” he says.

Today, Lewis rarely interacts with his followers and hopes the service will come up with new ways to filter out the hate tweets. “Why should I be harassed if I look at my button?” he says.

But he remains amazed at how Twitter has helped him reach new readers, and after some 67,000 tweets, he isn’t giving it up.

Others find that as more people join the service, the deluge of tweets can drown out individual voices.

So says Bob Lefsetz, a music industry analyst who writes an email column titled the Lefsetz Letter.

Twitter, he wrote in July, is “toast.”

“Over. Done. History.” His follower count isn’t rising as quickly as before, although it’s still a respectable 57,000-plus. And his tweets don’t see as much action as in the past, which he attributes to too many people tweeting “too much irrelevant information.”

“In the old days, I’d get 20 retweets. Now I’ll get none,” Lefsetz says. “It makes me not want to play.”

Along with the potential for burnout, there’s also the risk that Twitter becomes uncool to the younger generation, especially when services such as Pinterest and Instagram are a tap away.

Devon Powers, an assistant professor of communications at Drexel University, says many of her students have moved on to Snapchat. But there can still be pressure to keep up with the other services.

“There’s all these new obligations to update and report and check in,” she says.

It can make dropping offline feel like a relief.

“If I get really busy, the first thing I stop doing is checking Twitter,” she says. “I’m living my life. I’m not having a commentary about it.”

Insurance: Website woes impede patients Sebelius takes GOP heat over ‘Obamacare’

Continued from Page A-1 those who qualify for subsidies can only get them through a state or federal marketplace.

More than a dozen of the 35 states that run insurance pools for people with serious medical issues will permanently close their pools within a month and half. Other states will keep their pools running for a few more months.

The federal pool covers about 100,000 people and was created in 2010 by the Affordable Care Act as a temporary bridge until the law fully kicks in. It will cease to exist at the end of December.

“I’m scared. I’m in the middle of my cancer treatment, and if my insurance ends, I’m going to have to cancel the rest of my treatment,” said Kelly Bachi, an Oklahoma boat repair business owner who has breast cancer and is covered through a pool.

Cancer treatment without insurance would cost her about $500,000, she said.

Bachi has not been able to enroll via the healthcare.gov federal website, although not for lack of trying. She attempted to sign up half a dozen times, was eventually able to create an account, but was later blocked from accessing the account.

Others — including Jill Morin of Raleigh, N.C., who has a severe heart condition and is covered by her state’s pool — have not attempted to enroll.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday about the difficulties plaguing healthcare. gov. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Republicans blistered Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday over the nation’s controversial health care law, bluntly challenging her honesty, pushing for her resignation and demanding unsuccessfully she concede that President Barack Obama deliberately misled the public.

“We’re not in it to just give

“It’s the unknown, the uncertainty that gets to me,” said, Morin, 42. “I don’t know what my cost will be at the end of the day. I don’t know if my two cardiologists and my procedures are going to be covered under the plan. There just isn’t enough information on that website.”

But, she said, she has no choice. She must pick a plan soon because she can’t afford to go without. She plans to go to an insurance broker for advice, then contact the federal call center to bypass the online marketplace altogether.

State officials throughout the nation have been scrambling to figure out how to help people like Bachi and Morin.

Last week, the board of the Oregon Medical Insurance Pool — which covers about 11,000 people — ordered the state to

create a contingency plan for its members because the state’s online exchange still has not enrolled a single person.

For now, the only way to enroll for coverage in Oregon is to fill out a 19-page paper application.

The state has so far received just 7,300 such applications from all Oregonians, not just those in the pool, but it has not yet processed any of them. The process takes up to several weeks, so no one has completed it and successfully enrolled, Cover Oregon spokesman Michael Cox said.

Oregon pool administrator Don Myron said he hopes to speed up enrollment for its members by mailing them a paper application and following up to make sure they filled it out.

In Indiana, the Department of Insurance extended the highrisk pool coverage until at least

you a rough time. We’re in it to try and hopefully get it right,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, at a hearing where Republicans focused on the program’s flawed sign-up website as well as costs, policy cancellations, security concerns and other issues.

Sebelius offered few if any concessions about a program.

Nor did she provide much in the way of new information about the launch of a website that she has conceded was deeply flawed.

Even now, she said, “we’re not where we need to be.”

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Jan. 31 because of difficulties with the federal health insurance exchange. Its pool covers about 6,800 people.

The move was crucial, officials said, because people in the pool were not able to schedule treatments without proof of health coverage for the coming year. Indiana will spend $6.3 million to extend the coverage.

In Wisconsin, the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan that covers 24,500 people is rolling out an outreach effort to make sure their members are signed up by the deadline, chief executive Amie Goldman said.

The state created a worksheet and directories of carriers to help people prepare for enrollment, has sent postcard reminders and is answering questions through its Facebook page and weekly newsletters.

Assault: Anaya could face 7 years Continued from Page A-1 3. The first two assaults occurred in Santa Fe. He still faces charges in the 2nd District Court in Bernalillo County in the third incident, an alleged assault in Albuquerque.

A Santa Fe grand jury indictment also had charged Anaya with breaking and entering, two counts of interference with communications and one count of criminal sexual contact. His attorney, Chris Romero, said those charges have been dropped.

Anaya could be sentenced to up to seven years behind bars for the Santa Fe assaults. In both of those incidents, city police records say, Anaya bit the woman’s toe. But in the second assault, records say, he bit hard enough to remove a portion of her toe.

Assistant District Attorney Susan Stinson asked Marlowe to delay the sentencing hearing for several weeks because the victim wants to be present to confront her attacker.

Marlowe agreed and also ordered Anaya to undergo a presentencing evaluation with the Department of Corrections.

Anaya, shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit, told Marlowe that he had never committed a crime before the assaults on his ex-girlfriend and that he had spent eight years in school, “getting good grades.”

He also said he was a month shy of obtaining a degree.

He said he wanted to work in the health care field. Romero declined to say which school Anaya has been attending.

Anaya faces several charges in the alleged assault in April: kidnapping, aggravated burglary, three counts of battery, two counts of aggravated battery that resulted in great bodily harm, aggravated stalking, interference with communications and violation of a restraining order.

According to an arrest warrant filed in Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court, Anaya had tracked the woman to her new home in Albuquerque after she left Santa Fe. In that incident, the warrant says, Anaya bit the woman’s right big toe and then tried to remove the toe with a cigar cutter, causing severe bleeding. According to the warrant, Anaya told the woman she had “ruined” his life.

In May, Anaya claimed he had been attacked in jail and asked several judges to reconsider his $100,000 cash-only bond requirement to get out of jail. Instead, Anaya was placed in protective custody, where he has been since June.

Lottery: Group fails to find answer Continued from Page A-1 Revenues are stalled at about $40 million a year, while requests for the tuition assistance are around $60 million.

Lottery scholarship supporters will be asking the Legislature in January for $15 million to $20 million to shore up the fund through spring 2014.

A task force of legislators, educators and college students that met last summer could not agree on a solution to the fund’s woes. “There were basically two viewpoints: We will find more money or, no, there is no more money,” said Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, vice chairman of the Legislative Finance Committee and a member of the task force.

He said in a phone interview Wednesday that his goal is to ensure the state fulfills its commitment to students who are using the fund through the spring. And the only way to do that is to ask the Legislature for the money.

More than 13,000 New Mexico students are receiving lottery scholarships, which pay their tuition. A portion of the sale of lottery tickets in the state goes into the program.

The scholarships are available to students who have graduated from high school or have gotten a GED degree and are attending one of the state’s 25 public colleges. They must begin college the semester after graduation and must maintain at least a 2.5 grade-point average.

The task force considered a number of ways to boost funds for the program, including raising property taxes or gross-receipts taxes, dipping into the state’s permanent funds or paying less than 100 percent of the cost of tuition for each scholarship recipient.

José Garcia, secretary of the state’s Higher Education Department, said by phone Monday that his department has the power to decrease the size of the scholarship.

Other ideas aim to reduce the number of scholarship applicants — by raising the grade-point average students are required to maintain or by increasing the number of credit hours students must take each semester, to 15 from 12 — or by asking scholarship recipients to pay for a portion of their education themselves.

Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, said he is against cutting the scholarship by any amount. He believes the task force should find other alternatives — which do not include raising taxes — to keep the fund solvent. “We have to keep our promise to students,” he said.

He said he chided some university presidents on the task force for raising tuition and warned that they should not assume the lottery scholarship will pay for the increases.

He said a lottery scholarship recipient should be able to continue paying the same cost each year, even if the college raises its tuition.

Another task force idea, floated by Rep. Dennis Roch, R-Texico, is to tie the scholarship to fields of study that would benefit New Mexico’s workforce and the state’s economic development, perhaps making health care, hydrology and engineering top priorities. Roch said most of the suggestions raised in the meetings offered only small savings and didn’t solve the funding problem. He said he doesn’t support short-term fixes, and he isn’t sure the Legislature can help find a longer-term solution. “I don’t know that we will have any revenue sources available,” he said. “Everyone is looking for revenue source. There just isn’t any.”

Since the scholarship program began in 1996, about 75,000 students have received help paying for their college education. A total of about $433.6 million has been awarded to New Mexico college students.

Two recent reports — one from the Higher Education Department and another from the Albuquerque-based nonprofit advocacy organization New Mexico Voices for Children — warned that the fund would not be able to support all of the students applying for it.

The fund is available to all students regardless of need. For instance, the Higher Education Department report notes that about 290 students attending The University of New Mexico on the scholarship fund last year are from families earning under $30,000, while another 390 come from families earning more than $120,000 per year.

Monica Andujo is in her third semester at Santa Fe Community College, where she is studying culinary arts on a lottery scholarship. “I know I can get by” if the lottery program runs out of money, she said. “But I know a lot of students who can’t. They really need that money.”

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Supreme Court weighs whether praying before governing is legal

By Michael Doyle

McClatchy Washington Bureau

A meteorite contrail over the Ural Mountains’ city of Chelyabinsk, about 930 miles east of Moscow, in February. AP/CHELYABINSK.RU

Meteor risks higher Russian fireball in February triggers reassessment of dangers from smaller rocks

By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Scientists studying the terrifying meteor that exploded without warning over a Russian city last winter say the threat of space rocks smashing into Earth is bigger than they thought.

Meteors about the size of the one that streaked through the sky at 42,000 mph and burst over Chelyabinsk in February — and ones even larger and more dangerous — are probably four, five or even seven times more likely to hit the planet than scientists believed before the fireball, according to three studies published Wednesday in the journals Nature and Science.

That means about 20 million space rocks the size of the Chelyabinsk one may be zipping around the solar system, instead of 3 million, NASA scientist Paul Chodas said at a news conference.

Until Chelyabinsk, NASA had looked only for space rocks about 100 feet wide and bigger, figuring there was little danger below that.

This meteor was only 62 feet across but burst with the force of 40 Hiroshima-type atom bombs, scientists say. Its shock wave shattered thousands of windows, and its flash temporarily blinded 70 people and caused dozens of skin-peeling sunburns just after dawn in icy Russia. More than 1,600 people in all were injured.

Up until then, scientists had figured a meteor causing an airburst like that was a once-in-150-years event, based on how many space rocks have been identified in orbit. But one of the studies now says it is likely to happen once every 30 years or so, based on how often these things are actually hitting.

By readjusting how often these rocks strike and how damaging even small ones can be, “those two things together can increase the risk by an order of magnitude,” said Mark Boslough, a Sandia national labs physicist and co-author of one of the studies.

Lindley Johnson, manager of NASA’s Near Earth Object program, which scans

This photo provided by The Field Museum shows pieces of a meteor that exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains in February after they were catalogued on their arrival at the Chicago museum. The museum received nearly 2 pounds of small meteorite pieces donated by a collector. AP/COURTESY OF THE FIELD MUSEUM

the heavens for dangerous objects, said the space agency is reassessing what size rocks to look for and how often they are likely to hit.

In addition, NASA this fall reactivated a dormant orbiting telescope called WISE specifically to hunt for asteroids, Johnson said. And the agency is expanding ground-based sky searches.

At the same time, NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are looking into the need for evacuations in the case of an asteroid headed for Earth and how to keep the public informed without scaring people.

Those issues came up after the two agencies quietly held a disaster drill last spring in Washington that was meant to simulate what would happen if a space rock slightly bigger than the Chelyabinsk one threatened the East Coast.

During the drill, when it looked as if the meteor would hit just outside the nation’s capital, experts predicted 78,000 people could die. But when the mock meteor ended up in the ocean, the fake damage featured a 49-foot tsunami and shortages of supplies along the East Coast, according to an after-action report obtained by The Associated Press.

The exercise and the studies show

there’s a risk from smaller space rocks that strike before they are detected — not just from the giant, long-seen-in-advance ones like in the movie Armageddon, said Bill Ailor, a space debris expert at the Aerospace Corporation who helped coordinate the drill.

“The biggest hazard from asteroids right now is the city-busting airbursts, not the civilization-busting impacts from 1-kilometer-diameter objects that has so far been the target of most astronomical surveys,” Purdue University astronomer Jay Melosh, who wasn’t part of the studies, wrote in an email. “Old-fashioned civil defense, not Bruce Willis and his atom bombs, might be the best insurance against hazards of this kind.”

Chodas said the Chelyabinsk rock surprised astronomers because it was coming from the direction of the sun and was not detectable. Telescopes can see some space rocks as small as 3 feet wide, but some are simply too dark to spot, he said.

Scientists said a 1908 giant blast over Siberia, a 1963 airborne explosion off the coast of South Africa and others were of the type that is supposed to happen less than once a century, or in the case of Siberia, once every 8,000 years, yet they all occurred in a 105-year timespan.

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices who started work Wednesday with a public exhortation that “God save” the court wrestled with claims that legislative prayers violate the First Amendment.

In a closely watched case that tests government entanglement with religion, conservative justices bluntly showed support for public prayer. Liberal justices, while worrying about citizens feeling coerced by prayers conducted before public sessions, likewise voiced doubts about how the government can readily determine which prayers are acceptable and which are not.

“I don’t think this is an easy question. I think it’s hard,” Justice Elena Kagan acknowledged. “Part of what we are trying to do here is to maintain a multi-religious society in a peaceful and harmonious way.

And every time the court gets involved in things like this, it seems to make the problem worse rather than better.”

The tenor of the hourlong oral argument in the case called Town of Greece v. Galloway suggested that the justices, although divided, are likely to reverse an appeals court and uphold the town’s policy of starting legislative sessions with public prayers. The biggest question appears to be what guidelines the court sets for judging future prayer challenges.

“You hear the resistance of some members of the court to sitting as arbiters of what’s sectarian and nonsectarian,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor told the attorney who was arguing for more restrictions on prayers before public meetings, “and I join some skepticism as to knowing exactly where to draw that line.”

Greece, a town of 96,000 near Rochester, N.Y., has opened its monthly town board meetings since 1999 with prayers delivered by local clergy and volunteers. During the first nine years, every public prayer was led by a Christian.

Two residents — one a Jew, the other an atheist — sued in 2008. The two women, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, noted that town residents attending the board meetings must sit through the prayers.

“It coerces the people who are about to stand up and ask for something from the board,” attorney Douglas Laycock told the court Wednesday.

Conservative justices dismissed the idea.

“What exactly is coercive in this environment? Having to sit and listen to this prayer?”

Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. asked rhetorically. “They’re asked to participate, but not in any tangible way. Everybody’s just sitting there.”

Justice Antonin Scalia, one of six Roman Catholics on the court, was even more explicit in articulating support for prayer.

“People who have religious beliefs ought to be able to invoke the deity when they are acting as citizens,” Scalia said.

“It seems to me that when they do that, so long as all groups are allowed to be in, it seems to me an imposition upon them to stifle the manner in which they invoke their deity.”

Since Galloway and Stephens sued, the town has broadened its offerings, with one session opened by a Wiccan priestess. Nonetheless, an appellate court ruled last year that a “reasonable observer” would consider the town’s prayer program “an endorsement of a particular religious viewpoint.”

In 1983, the Supreme Court decided that opening legislative sessions with prayers didn’t violate the First Amendment. Under the ruling, called Marsh v. Chambers, legislative prayer is prohibited only if the government acts with “impermissible motive” in selecting prayer-givers or uses the prayers to promote one religion or denigrate another.

The Senate and the House of Representatives have opened their daily sessions with prayers for more than 200 years. The court itself kicked off the oral argument with a public exhortation that “God save the United States and this honorable court.”

“The history of this country from its very founding has recognized the propriety of legislative prayer,” attorney Thomas G. Hungar, representing the town of Greece, told the court Wednesday.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, the potential swing vote, stressed doubts about the wisdom of requiring government officials to wade through prayer specifics to ensure that no particular sect or denomination is being promoted, warning that it “involves the state very heavily in the censorship and the approval or disapproval of prayers.”

Justice Clarence Thomas, as is his custom, was the only one of the court’s nine justices not to speak or ask questions during the oral argument.

A decision is expected by the end of June.

ELECTION ANALYSIS

Outcomes set up battle for power in Republican Party GOP’s competing wings: Tea party vs. establishment

By Dan Balz

The Washington Post

Tuesday’s elections, which produced a resounding Republican victory in New Jersey and a dispiriting loss for the GOP in Virginia, highlighted the challenges ahead for a badly divided party — and will probably intensify an internal debate about how to win back the White House in 2016.

At a time when the party’s image has sunk to record lows nationally, the results of the gubernatorial elections will reverberate far beyond the borders of Virginia and New Jersey. Off-year elections are hardly foolproof in predicting the future, but as GOP leaders digest what happened Tuesday, the lessons they take away from the races after their autumn of discontent will shape the coming rounds.

In New Jersey, Republican

Gov. Chris Christie rolled to re-election by a margin that will make him a leading contender for his party’s presidential nomination in 2016, should he decide to run. His victory in a solidly blue state will be touted as a model for a party that needs to expand its coalition in national campaigns. But will the formula Christie employed in New Jersey work in Republican primaries and caucuses or in a national election for president?

In Virginia, Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, a tea party favorite, came closer than many expected but fell short in his race against Democratic businessman and party fundraiser Terry McAuliffe. What Republicans will debate was whether Cuccinelli was personally too conservative — and his party too toxic after the recent government shutdown — for what is now a classic swing state.

The outcomes set up a battle for power between competing wings of the Republican Party.

Call it the establishment vs. the tea party, or the gubernatorial

wing against the congressional wing. This competition is less about ideology or policy — there is no disunity, for example, when it comes to the party’s dislike of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act — than about purity vs. pragmatism, tactics and strategy. Or, as Christie has put it, it is about winning an argument vs. winning elections.

Christie’s campaign will embolden the establishment wing and many of the GOP’s major fundraisers, who have been on the defensive as tea party conservatives flexed their muscles in Republican primaries and in the battle in Congress that led to the shutdown.

Those establishment forces have vowed to become more active in opposing the insurgency that has moved Republicans to the right.

But Cuccinelli’s narrow loss will not necessarily change the underlying shape of the party or the attitudes of many grassroots conservatives about the need to oppose Obama and the Democrats at every turn.

Cuccinelli ran hard against

Obama’s health care law in the closing days of the campaign, and many Republicans might conclude that with another week or two, he would have prevailed. They will make opposition to the health care law the first page of the playbook for 2014 races, and possibly for 2016 as well.

Nor will Christie’s victory necessarily translate easily into a winning strategy in a national election. His win was personal, not an endorsement of his party. What has worked for him in New Jersey may or may not be easily transported to states with very different electorates.

One exit poll question pitted Christie against Hillary Rodham Clinton in a hypothetical presidential race. Even in New Jersey, Clinton prevails.

What sank Cuccinelli will be the topic of debate among Republicans as they consider the tea party’s culpability in the defeat. There is little doubt that Cuccinelli’s past policies and statements badly hurt him.

McAuliffe’s campaign, which had a sizable financial edge,

pounded Cuccinelli early, leaving him deeply wounded politically.

But factors beyond his control also contributed. One was an ethics scandal that engulfed incumbent Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell and that touched Cuccinelli. The other was the shutdown, though Cuccinelli compounded the problem by inviting an architect of the GOP strategy, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to campaign for him.

Christie did not run from his party, noting throughout the campaign that he opposed abortion rights and same-sex marriage and favored the kind of tax cuts that are part of conservative orthodoxy. As one of many governors who criticized the shutdown, he also kept himself insulated from its damage.

His success was testament to his powerful personality, his authenticity and his governing strategy, which combined conservative principles with a willingness to work with Democrats. Most significantly, perhaps, was the leadership he showed after Hurricane Sandy

devastated parts of his state a year ago.

What Christie pointed to throughout his campaign was winning a bigger share of traditionally Democratic constituencies. Early exit polls showed that he boosted his numbers over his 2009 election among Hispanics and blacks.

One glaring contrast with Cuccinelli was the women’s vote. Christie was winning a majority of the votes among men and women. Cuccinelli was losing among women, and he was losing among unmarried women, a key Democratic constituency, by better than 2 to 1.

As they look to 2016, Republicans can anticipate a potentially brawling nomination contest.

A GOP strategist who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid said many primary and caucus voters will not look favorably on Christie’s willingness to work with Democrats.

“They want you pure,” he said.

That suggests that the debate about the way forward for the Republicans will continue to rage.

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THE NEW MEXICAN Thursday, November 7, 2013

Illinois gears up for gay marriage

Is that film feminist enough?

Wedding plans in the works after law passed Tuesday

Swedish cinemas launch new ratings; not everyone approves

By Malin Rising

The Associated Press

By Sophia Tareen

The Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Just a few hours after state lawmakers approved same-sex marriage in Illinois on Tuesday, Chicago wedding planner Lindsay Parrott started getting her first inquiries for summer weddings.

“I got an email at 11 p.m.,” she said. “Everybody is really excited to be able to do this.”

From the wedding industry to tourism, Illinois businesses are gearing up for June 1, the first day that same-sex marriage licenses can be issued under legislation approved by lawmakers on Tuesday.

While legislators in favor and the state’s top elected officials have touted gay marriage as a matter of equality and civil rights, businesses hope the start of weddings will be a nice boost to the state’s economy, too. But that start date — which falls on a Sunday — also is causing some logistical problems for the state’s county clerks who’ll be issuing marriage licenses.

Illinois is set to become the 15th state to legalize samesex marriage when Gov. Pat Quinn signs the bill, which the Chicago Democrat said Wednesday he’ll do with a festive celebration this month.

The measure says that starting June 1, all Illinois couples can go about the usual way of getting married: Head to the County Clerk’s Office, get a license and then have it officiated a day later by the government or religious official.

However, businesses and tourism officials say it means that Illinois can expand a niche business, too. They cite a 2013 study by UCLA’s The Williams Institute that says allowing same-sex couples to marry in Illinois would generate up to $103 million in new spending in the first three years.

The Illinois Office of Tourism beefed up its website Wednesday to promote gayfriendly spots in Illinois. State travel director Jen Hoelzle said the site will soon include a list of places to get married once the bill is signed. The Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau, which already promotes Chicago’s gayfriendly neighborhoods and events such as the massive Pride Parades, expects more hotel and restaurant business.

“This is like a final piece of the puzzle for us,” said Jack Johnson, the head of the Chicago bureau.

However, the logistics of the state’s same-sex marriage bill are still in the works.

While those already in civil unions will be able to get a marriage license without an additional fee, the start date is causing some headaches.

Some county clerks have said they’ll open on June 1 and others aren’t so sure.

The bulk the state’s civil unions — roughly 4,000 of the 5,000 in the state — were issued in Cook County. After being undecided on whether their facilities would be open on a Sunday, officials with Cook County Clerk David Orr’s office announced Wednesday that they’d open June 1. “There will be people competing to get the first license,” Orr said.

The issue could be moot, however.

State Sen. Don Harmon, an Oak Park Democrat, has filed legislation to move up the effective date on the samesex marriage bill, but a vote isn’t expected this week as lawmakers finish up the final days of veto session. That’s because legislation approved in veto session needs a heftier vote for it to take effect immediately and the gay marriage vote squeaked by in the House with little more than a simple majority.

Harmon’s legislation could come up in January, allowing couples to wed earlier.

Geoff Pryce of Santa Barbara, Calif., walks past the massive beachfront estate owned by Huguette Clark, a reclusive heiress who died in 2011. Now, Santa Barbara is poised to open the doors of the estate, Bellosguardo, for the first time in decades. ANNE CUSACK/LOS ANGELES TIMES

Mysterious heiress’s sea-side estate set to open in California

A bluff-top time capsule

By Scott Gold

Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES erched on a rock, steps away from the gentle waves licking at the shore of Santa Barbara, 20-yearold Michael Jimenez allowed his eyes to wander up an oceanfront cliff, to a majestic estate nestled in a grove of cypress and eucalyptus trees. He shuddered.

For decades, legend has swirled around the manor known as Bellosguardo, where every blade of grass seemed to be in place, but no one ever seemed to be home. Among young people like Jimenez, who grew up here, there were whispers about an abandoned orphan, about spirits from the nearby cemetery.

You’ve heard the ancient legend of the girl who was born with every privilege, but cursed with the face of a pig? “It’s got to be something like that,” Jimenez said. “Nobody’s going up there.”

The truth, as is sometimes the case, might have been better than the myth.

It was owned by a mysterious copper heiress — a shy woman who hadn’t been photographed for 80 years, who lived an almost monastic life, cloistered away from a curious public, residing in a New York hospital room for her last 22 years despite being in sturdy health for most of that time. She had not set foot in Bellosguardo since the 1950s, but financed a full staff to maintain it, to the tune of $40,000 a month.

Now, two years after Huguette Clark’s death, Santa Barbara is poised to open the doors of Bellosguardo for the first time in decades.

If it happens, an enchanted public will discover a still life of old California — with a 1933 Cadillac limousine parked in the garage — and a snapshot of a bygone era when the wealthy could effectively purchase a piece of the sea.

“It’s like a time capsule — a bluff-top estate that amazes, a house that is a page out of the Gilded Age,” said Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider. “Where else in California do you have this?

You don’t.”

A public Bellosguardo, dedicated to the arts according to the wishes of its late owner, could be transformational to Santa Barbara’s already lively cultural community, and regionally significant.

One hurdle remains: The IRS.

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Painfully shy heiress It’s hard to envision, but Bellosguardo — where the “garage” was large enough to accommodate a ballroom — was a modest little place by the standards of the Clark family.

The daughter of a mining mogul, Huguette Clark was born in the summer of 1906 in Paris and raised in a 121-room mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Her father, William Andrews Clark, had been determined to build the most expensive home in America. The result was widely derided as tacky and unwieldy.

It had 31 bathrooms, a life-size depiction of Neptune carved into a fireplace, and wood panels purportedly stripped from Sherwood Forest itself.

When the mansion was torn down to make way for an apart-

ment house, the New Republic sniffed: “Time has consecrated its ugliness.”

Bellosguardo, by contrast, was an undertaking of Huguette Clark’s mother, Anna.

Huguette and her mother had been captivated by the property after the family rented a home there one summer in the 1920s.

The Clarks bought the estate, tore down the existing house and built their own — 23 rooms of Frenchinfused elegance on an immaculate 23 acres, perched on a bluff on the eastern tip of Santa Barbara.

Huguette Clark kept her primary residence in New York but visited Bellosguardo regularly until the 1950s. She was bright and gifted, and excelled at writing, art and photography. The house was alive with music. According to Empty Mansions, a new book about Huguette Clark, a 1,000-squarefoot space was dedicated to music. Anna played a pedal harp, Huguette played a Stradivarius violin, and two Steinway pianos were positioned back-to-back.

But Huguette Clark was also painfully shy from an early age — “lively in private but clearly uncomfortable in public,” said Bill Dedman, an author of the book.

At some point in the 1960s, she became a recluse in New York, retreating altogether from public view. She continued to collect art and valuable dolls, sometimes negotiating her purchases by speaking through people through closed doors. In the spring of 1991, she underwent a minor procedure at a Manhattan hospital — and though she was otherwise in good health, she elected to stay, for good.

She spent 7,364 nights in the hospital, until her death at 104.

Cash-poor foundation Clark’s passing sparked a convoluted legal tussle involving two wills, allegations that she’d been victimized by unscrupulous advisers and financial claims from relatives, including some she’d never met. Last month, a judge in New York signed off on a settlement of her estate, valued at more than $300 million.

Roughly $34.5 million went to a collective of 19 living relatives, said their Long Island attorney, John Morken. Millions more went to lawyers. There was also a thicket of estate and gift taxes to fight through, complicated by Clark’s “relentless generosity,” Dedman said.

Clark once wrote a $25,000 check to the hospital cafeteria worker who brought her two glasses of warm milk every morning. A Filipino immigrant was working as a registered nurse the day Clark first checked into the hospital, and she was randomly assigned to the patient. Twenty years later, they were still together, and the nurse and her family had been given millions of dollars in cash and gifts, including one cash gift that was used to buy a Bentley.

“Money was like water to her,” Dedman said.

In the settlement, the crown jewel of Clark’s estate, Bellosguardo, was set aside as the centerpiece of a nonprofit Bellosguardo Foundation that will be established to “foster and promote the arts.”

The possibilities are both scintillating and problematic.

Huguette Clark, daughter of the late Sen. William A. Clark of Montana, a copper magnate, is shown in August 1930.

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Schneider will be responsible for nominating seven of the foundation’s 10 charter members. She is one of the few people who has been allowed inside the mansion in recent years, and said it has been “meticulously maintained.”

Lemon trees are pruned to the leaf, and “you could eat off the floor,” the mayor said.

Although no one knows yet what it might mean to harness the estate in an effort to further the arts, ideas are already percolating.

Some have suggested a partnership with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art — turning the mansion into an annex of sorts — and the possibility of opening the manor’s music room to a local conservatory. There could be open-air concerts like the ones the Clarks used to host in the ’40s.

Schneider said there could be an artists’ residency program housed in Huguette Clark’s own studio.

“The possibilities are endless,” she said. But there are bills to pay, too. Big ones.

The foundation didn’t just inherit a gorgeous mansion.

Though the settlement of Clark’s estate resolved her tax bills, it did not resolve as much as $18 million in penalties associated with delays in Huguette Clark’s payment of gift taxes, the mayor said.

Authorities in California are lobbying the Internal Revenue Service to waive those penalties, citing the enormous share of Clark’s estate that is being given to charity. But if the IRS declines, the foundation will start out in a hole; the tax-penalty bill would be counted against the worth of the foundation, which received roughly $6 million in cash and gift assets in the settlement.

In short, the foundation would be house-rich and cash-poor from the start, Schneider said.

Community leaders are tossing around ideas, too, for the foundation to earn money while furthering the arts — opening Bellosguardo to weddings, for example, or corporate events. But if it’s not enough, the fledgling foundation could be forced into a corner — forced to sell the property that was supposed to be its bedrock.

A sale would probably generate tens of millions of dollars, money that would be funneled to the arts community — “quite a consolation prize,” the mayor said.

“Not so bad,” she said. “But I really don’t want to start there.

It’s a big question mark. And this thing is a big deal.”

STOCKHOLM — You expect movie ratings to tell you whether a film contains nudity, sex, profanity or violence. Now movie theaters in equality-minded Sweden are introducing a new rating to highlight gender bias, or rather the absence of it. To get an “A” rating, a movie must pass the so-called Bechdel test, which means it must have at least two named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.

“The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, all Star Wars movies, The Social Network, and all but one of the Harry Potter movies fail this test,” said Ellen Tejle, the director of Bio Rio, an arthouse movie theater in Stockholm’s trendy Sodermalm district.

Bio Rio is one of four Swedish movie theaters that launched the new rating last month to draw attention to how few movies pass. Most visitors have reacted positively to the initiative “and for some people, it has been an eyeopener,” said Tejle, reclining in one of Bio Rio’s cushy red seats.

Beliefs about women’s roles in society are influenced by the fact that movie watchers rarely see “a female superhero or a female professor or person who makes it through exciting challenges and masters them,” Tejle said, noting that the rating doesn’t say anything about the quality of the film. “The goal is to see more female stories and perspectives on cinema screens.”

The state-funded Swedish Film Institute supports the initiative, which is starting to catch on. Scandinavian cable TV channel Viasat Film says it will start using the ratings in its film reviews and has scheduled an “A” rated “Super Sunday” on Nov. 17, when it will show only films that pass the test, such as The Hunger Games, The Iron Lady and Savages.

The Bechdel test got its name from American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, who introduced the concept in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985. It has been discussed among feminists and film critics since then, but Tejle hopes the “A” rating system will help spread awareness among moviegoers about how women are portrayed in films.

In Bio Rio’s wood-paneled lobby, students Nikolaj Gula and Vincent Fremont acknowledged that most of their favorite films probably wouldn’t get an “A” rating. “I guess it does make sense, but to me it would not influence the way I watch films because I’m not so aware about these questions,” said Fremont, 29.

The “A” rating is the latest Swedish move to promote gender equality by addressing how women are portrayed in the public sphere.

Sweden’s advertising ombudsman watches out for sexism in that industry and reprimands companies seen as reinforcing gender stereotypes, for example by including skimpily clad women in their ads for no apparent reason other than to draw eyeballs. Since 2010, the Equalisters project has been trying to boost the number of women appearing as expert commentators in Swedish media through a Facebook page with 44,000 followers. The project has recently expanded to Finland, Norway and Italy.

For some, though, Sweden’s focus on gender equality has gone too far.

“If they want different kind of movies, they should produce some themselves and not just point fingers at other people,” said Tanja Bergkvist, a physicist and blogger The “A” rating also has been criticized as a blunt tool that doesn’t actually reveal whether a movie is gender-balanced.

“There are far too many films that pass the Bechdel test that don’t help at all in making society more equal or better, and lots of films that don’t pass the test but are fantastic at those things,” said Swedish film critic Hynek Pallas.

Research in the U.S. supports the notion that women are underrepresented on the screen and that little has changed in the past 60 years.

Of the U.S. top 100 films in 2011, women accounted for 33 percent of all characters and only 11 percent of the protagonists, according to a study by the San Diego-based Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film.

Another study, by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, showed the ratio of male to female characters in movies has remained at about 2 to 1 for at least six decades. That study, which examined 855 top box-office films from 1950-2006, showed female characters were twice as likely to be seen in explicit sexual scenes as males.

In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker. That movie doesn’t pass the Bechdel test.

The director of art-house movie theater Bio Rio in Stockholm, Ellen Tejle, holds a Bechdel certificate of approval. Cinemas in Sweden are introducing the new feminist rating system to highlight gender bias in films. AMI BRAMME/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Thursday, November 7, 2013 THE NEW MEXICAN

LOCAL NEWS Armed robber to serve no time in N.M. DA: Man could face stiffer penalties in South Carolina

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

A man who pleaded guilty to armed robbery and attempted armed robbery in Santa Fe won’t serve any time in New Mexico.

George Smith, 44, a former South Carolina sheriff’s lieutenant and husband of Santa Fe County Assistant District Attorney Dorie Biagianti-Smith, received a suspended 12-year sentence last Friday.

Additional charges against him of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon were dropped.

In return, Smith must surrender himself

by Nov. 19 to authorities in South Carolina, where he is wanted on charges of armed robbery, possession of a firearm during a violent crime and three counts of kidnapping.

Donald Gallegos, district attorney for Taos, Colfax and Union counties, who handled the case, offered the deal apparently because he believed Smith would face stiffer penalties there.

Gallegos said he is aware his decision, “may raise some eyebrows,” but he said South Car-

olina laws are more stringent and that Smith would likely get an equal or greater sentence than he would in New Mexico. And the decision saves taxpayers’ money on trial and jail costs.

“We knew early that he was wanted out of South George Carolina,” Gallegos said.

Smith “He’s not our problem anymore.”

But David Nuñez, the owner of Medicap Pharmacy, the Eldorado store that Smith robbed, said he was disappointed with the decision.

“I guess there is some closure in that something has been done,” he said in a brief phone conversation Wednesday afternoon. “But I don’t know what will ultimately come of this.

I would have thought what occurred here would have had carried more weight.”

If South Carolina prosecutors fail to convict Smith, he won’t receive punishment for his serious crimes, Nuñez pointed out.

“In a sense we are taking a risk,” Gallegos acknowledged. “But barring something crazy happening, I am confident he’s going to be held accountable.”

The South Carolina charges stem from

Smith’s alleged theft of four bottles of the painkiller oxycodone from a stores in Conway in October 2012.

Maria Vélez, an associate professor of sociology at The University of New Mexico who studies criminology, said she wasn’t shocked at the decision, but added the public can often be surprised at the discretion in sentencing exercised by prosecutors and judges.

In December 2012, Smith, armed with a revolver, attempted to hold up Wiley Chemists, 1676 Hospital Drive, and later successfully stole 500 oxycodone pills from Nuñez’s pharmacy in the Agora Shopping Center in Eldorado.

Gallegos took over the case after Santa Fe County District Attorney Angela “Spence” Pacheco filed a notice of conflict.

A Santa Fe court also on Friday dismissed charges against Smith of aggravated battery and assault stemming from threats he made against his wife last July, which led to a SWAT team standoff. Smith was arrested in the 1800 block of Calle de Sebastian after agents launched canisters of tear gas.

Smith’s suspended sentence was first reported in the Albuquerque Journal North.

Contact Chris Quintana at 986-3093 or cquintana@sfnewmexican.com.

PROJECT TO OFFER WAYS TO IMPROVE SANTA FE’S ‘WALKABILITY’

Carmen Peer, a volunteer with Creative Santa Fe, removes the stencil from a sidewalk painting Monday for WALK [Santa Fe], a monthlong city prototyping project demonstrating simple, affordable and practical solutions to increase walkability in Santa Fe. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

In brief

The project continues to 2 p.m. Dec. 8.

The public is invited to view the process from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday at the Seret & Sons Gallery, 121 Sandoval St. There will the daily prayers and meditations between 4:30 and 5 p.m. at the mandala site.

The Department of Agriculture will be in There will be a panel discussion at 7 p.m.

Abiquiú on Thursday to celebrate a new medNov. 20 on what can be done to reduce our ical clinic funded with money from the Rural carbon footprint through knowledge of Development Community Facility Program.

Tibetan, Native American, Western and technological traditions. The panelists include The program has pledged $2 million for The Drepung Loseling monks will return to Tibetan scholars, an elder from Tesuque a 6,700-square-foot facility for Las Clinicas Pueblo, and a local environmentalist.

Del Norte Medical Clinic, 21192 U.S. 84 in Santa Fe, and on Nov. 16, they will begin conAbiquiú. structing a sand mandala for environmental healing.

The New Mexican The facility will provide medical services

New health clinic for Northern New Mexico

as well as a part-time dental hygienist and an additional mental health counselor for the communities of Abiquiú, Coyote, Youngsville, Ghost Ranch, Medanales, Tierra Azul and Gallina.

The program specifically funds needed construction project in rural communities with less than 20,000 residents.

Drepung Loseling monks return to Santa Fe

FIDEL LEE GUTIERREZ, 1962-2013

Community leader called caring, civic-minded

By Uriel J. Garcia

The New Mexican

Fidel Lee Gutierrez, senior vice president of the Los Alamos National Bank, community leader and a member of various local boards and committees, died Nov. 3 at his home. He was 51.

The cause was liver cancer, friends said.

Gutierrez worked for Los Alamos National Bank for the past 26 years. He volunteered with the Santa Fe Children’s Museum, First Tee of New Mexico, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Life Center Foundation, the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market and the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce.

Steve Wells, the current president of the Los Alamos National Bank who has worked

Fidel Gutierrez

with Gutierrez for more than two decades, said Gutierrez “felt a sense of responsibility to the community.” He added that Gutierrez always brought a positive attitude to work and that is something his co-workers will miss.

“I never saw him down,” Wells said “Even in illness he always had a smile in his

voice.”

Gutierrez took some time off of work in September because he didn’t feel well, Wells said.

Billie Blair, a former president of the Santa Fe Community Foundation who knew Gutierrez through his community service activities,

said, “He was one of the most civic-minded, caring people in Santa Fe. “Whenever you went to Fidel and asked the bank to give to something that would benefit our children, he always said yes,” Blair said. “Whenever you asked him to roll up his sleeves and help, he was eager to join hands to build community.”

Donations are being accepted at all Los Alamos National Bank locations and all funds will be given to nonprofits that Gutierrez supported, Wells said.

A memorial service is scheduled for 5:30 p.m Thursday at the McGee Memorial Chapel, 1320 Luisa St. The funeral service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place.

Section editor: Howard Houghton, 986-3015, hhoughton@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Eric J. Hedlund, ehedlund@sfnewmexican.com

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Poll shows Bushee with big lead in mayoral race With 39 percent undecided, still much potential for other hopefuls

By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican

Patti Bushee has a commanding lead over other mayoral hopefuls, according to the results of a recent poll.

ProgressiveNow New Mexico, a liberal-leaning Albuquerque group, paid for the Oct. 21-24 poll by Springfield, Va.-based Third Eye Strategies of 400 likely voters in Santa Fe’s March 4 municipal election.

Twenty-four percent of the respondents preferred Bushee for mayor — compared to 11 percent for both Javier Gonzales and Bill Dimas, 8 percent for Rebecca Wurzburger and 7 percent for Roman Abeyta.

Thirty-nine percent were undecided or would not answer. The poll did not include candidates Margaret Patti Bushee Josina Campos or Michael D’Anna.

Brian Sanderoff, whose Research & Polling Inc. of Albuquerque has conducted polls in Santa Fe and other New Mexico towns for 30 years, said that because this poll’s percentage of undecided voters is greater than the gap between the front runner and the next two candidates, Bushee doesn’t yet have a lock on the race.

“I’d much rather be in Bushee’s position with twice as many votes as anyone else,” he said. “But you can’t look at these results with all those undecideds and say the race is over by any means.”

Bushee, who was appointed to the City Council in 1994 and elected to the position five times, is now serving her fifth term as a city councilor. Bushee also had the highest negativity rating of any mayoral candidate in the poll. Eight percent of the respondents said they absolutely would not vote for her. Gonzales, Dimas and Wurzburger each had 5 percent who said they would not vote for them. Abeyta’s negative rate was 2 percent.

Fifty-one percent said there is no one that they absolutely would reject and 22 percent didn’t know.

Bushee is one of two openly gay candidates in the race, but the poll found most voters are not influenced by sexual orientation. Thirteen percent said they would be more likely to vote for a gay or lesbian candidate, 14 percent said they would be less likely and 65 percent said it would make no difference.

Asked whether the next mayor should consider raising gross receipts taxes slightly (to make up for the nearly $1 million less the city expects from the state as a result of legislative action this year) or cutting services, 54 percent chose raising taxes, versus 28 percent for cutting services.

Asked about what issues were very important to them, 86 percent said protecting water, 84 percent said improving schools, followed by creating jobs (79 percent), reducing crime (77 percent), maintaining the “living wage (64 percent), creating affordable housing (58 percent), expanding the use of “green energy” (56 percent), marriage equality (50 percent) supporting union rights (34 percent), supporting the movie industry (30 percent) and acquiring the municipal power system (23 percent).

Asked whose endorsement in the mayoral election might influence their vote, 28 percent said environmental groups like the Sierra Club, 23 percent outgoing Mayor David Coss, 18 percent labor unions, 16 percent newspapers like The New Mexican or the Santa Fe Reporter, 9 percent the Chamber of Commerce and 7 percent developers.

Sanderoff said the poll’s 4.9 percent margin of error was acceptable and there were no questions on the poll that were misleading. But he said the poll appears to be skewed toward older, Anglo and better educated voters who tend to favor Bushee.

For example, 12 percent of the respondents were under age 40 and 85 percent were 40 or older (3 percent declined to state their age), 60 percent were Anglo and 29 percent Hispanic (in a city where Hispanics make up about 48 percent) and 63 percent had a college degree or more versus 13 percent with a high school degree or less.

“I think Bushee is ahead, but I think the gap is narrower than this poll is showing because of the fact that certain groups that were a little over-represented happen to be more supportive of Bushee,” Sanderoff said.

ProgressiveNow New Mexico Executive Director Pat Davis had no argument with Sanderoff’s critique.

“Since it is really early, it is anybody’s race,” he said.

“But I think most of us were surprised to see Patti having such a large gap between Javier and perhaps Bill, maybe Rebecca even,” he said. “But the opportunity for, say, Javier to grow is larger because, if you’ll look, his strongest base of support are Hispanic women and that makes up the bloc of undecided voters.”

Contact Tom Sharpe at 986-3080 or tsharpe@ sfnewmexican.com.

I think Bushee is ahead, “ but I think the gap is

narrower than this poll is showing because of the fact that certain groups that were a little overrepresented happen to be more supportive of Bushee.”

Brian Sanderoff, Research & Polling Inc.

BREAKING NEWS AT www.sAntAfenewmexicAn.com

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THE NEW MEXICAN Thursday, November 7, 2013

Suit says anal probes ordered after traffic stop he appeared to be clenching his buttocks when he got out of his car Jan. 2. According to the lawALBUQUERQUE — A South- suit, Hildalgo County sheriff’s ern New Mexico man who was deputies officers told the Dempulled over for not making a ing police officers Eckert was complete stop was taken to two known in the area for carrying hospitals and forced to have drugs inside his body. Police anal probes, three enemas, two also brought in a drug-sniffing body X-rays and a colonoscopy dog, which detected something because police thought he in the driver’s seat. was hiding drugs, according The Deming police chief did a federal lawsuit. In El Paso, a not immediately respond to a woman crossing the border was call for comment Wednesday, stripped searched, vaginally but in their response to the probed then taken to the hoslawsuit, the officers said they pital for more invasive tests, a were lawfully carrying out their forced bowel movement, X-rays duties. and scans, the American Civil In a separate case, Schauer Liberties Union says.

Ives said she is preparing to file a No drugs were found in lawsuit against the Border Patrol either of the cases, and both on behalf of a New Mexico people are now being billed for woman who was subjected to thousands of dollars by the hos- similar treatment after crosspitals, according to attorneys, ing from Mexico into El Paso in who say the cases raise serious December. She declined to name question about law enforcement the woman because her client practices along the border. “considers it a sexual assault.”

“It’s terrifying,” said Laura The biggest difference in the Schauer Ives, an attorney with cases, she said, is the Border the ACLU in Albuquerque.

Patrol had no search warrant “I think law enforcement has when it took her client to the been emboldened, particularly hospital in El Paso. when it comes to drug interdicIn the Deming case, the lawtion. It’s kind of anything goes. suit details a host of violations You couple that with drug inter- of Eckert’s rights, including his diction at the border and you being denied the right to make have a recipe for serious civil a phone call from the police liberties violations.” station, the fact that the search warrant that was filed to search The lawsuit, filed on behalf his body was valid only in Luna of David Eckert against police County but he was taken to a and sheriff’s officials in Demdifferent country after a doctor ing and Hidalgo County, which borders Mexico, alleges Deming at the local hospital refused to do the searches, citing ethical police sought a search warrant for Eckert because they thought violations.

By Jeri Clausing

The Associated Press

Volunteers install American flags in May at Santa Fe National Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day weekend. The cemetery, along with sites in Silver City and El Paso, are the only three veterans cemeteries in the region.

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Taos County may be pilot site to build new veterans cemetery

By Elizabeth Cleary The Taos News

TAOS aos County is vying to be one of the “pilot counties” for a statewide project to install veterans cemeteries in rural New Mexico areas.

In a letter to New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, Taos County Manager Steve Archuleta pushed for Taos County to have one of the first cemeteries installed as part of Martinez’s plan to install small cemeteries around the state. In the letter, Archuleta cited a $75,000 legislative appropriation the county received for fencing and design. He also noted that the county set aside 25 acres of property for the potential cemetery.

“I cannot think of a better community to place a veterans cemetery than Taos, New Mexico, which is a tri-cultural community rich in military history of men and women who have served their country, and which is also unique and diverse, reaching back at least 8,000 years …”

Archuleta wrote to the governor.

According to a news release from the Governor’s Office, Martinez’s initiative would allow deceased veterans to be buried closer to their homes, and closer to where their loved ones live. As it stands, only three veterans cemeteries exist in the region: one in Santa Fe, one in Silver City and one in El Paso.

In the release, Martinez said that in a state as large in area as New Mexico, it is

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Sites such as the Santa Fe National Cemetery are filling up, and are too remote for some rural New Mexico families. imperative that veterans have the option to be buried closer to their homes.

“Our veterans and their spouses — no matter where they live — deserve a special, dignified final resting place befitting a man or woman who has sacrificed so much to serve and protect our country as a member of the United States Armed Forces,” Martinez said in the release.

Francis Cordova, a veteran who lives in Taos County and has been active in cemetery installation effort, said the county has been working with the Kit Carson Electrical Co-op to have electricity installed in the area.

“The Santa Fe cemetery is getting very full,” Cordova said. “And it’s difficult to get there.”

New Mexico’s push for smaller veterans cemeteries is part of a nationwide effort to have them built in more rural areas, because the few that exist are getting full.

Families of veterans across the U.S. have begun opting to bury their deceased veterans in civilian cemeteries because it is easier for them to visit the plots.

But the obstacle that stands in the way of building these cemeteries is the Veterans Administration requirement that 100,000 veterans live within a 75-mile

radius of any proposed veterans cemetery site. The states haven’t found a way to get around this requirement, but Archuleta said Taos County is making itself more appealing to the VA as a cemetery site by setting aside a large plot of land, 25 acres, to be considered a regional site for both Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado.

The New Mexico Department of Veteran’s Services is drafting a plan to develop three to four cemeteries in rural areas around New Mexico, with the hope of eventually developing 10 locations.

Each site will cost $1.3 million to $1.6 million, paid for by the federal government, but the state must come up with 10 percent of the startup costs, which totals between $340,000 to $640,000.

The federal government will eventually reimburse the state for the amount it put into the cemeteries. The $75,000 grant is separate from the money the state would have to shell out for the cemeteries.

The New Mexico Department of Veteran’s Services will submit applications to the Veterans Administration, which must be completed by July of next year, for the three to four proposed sites.

Durango voters reject grocery bag fee Santa Fe’s ban begins in early 2014 The New Mexican

While the city of Santa Fe prepares to ban plastic shopping bags early next year and impose a dime fee for a paper grocery sack, Durango, Colo., voters this week repealed a bag-fee ordinance passed by their city council.

The Durango law, which was repealed before it was to take effect, would have charged shoppers 10 cents for each disposable bag they carried away from grocery stores.

“The fee was intended to encourage shoppers to bring reusable bags,” the Durango Herald reported Tuesday, “but it was seen by opponents as nanny-state meddling.”

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Opponents said the planned fee, which was overwhelmingly passed this summer by city councilors in the southwestern Colorado community, wouldn’t have had a big enough impact to make it worthwhile.

According to The Associated Press, Ellen Stein, who led the campaign for the fee, blamed the defeat on what she sees as an anti-government political environment following the federal government shutdown and problems with implementation of health care reform.

The Durango newspaper, which reported that such a repeal of a city council vote was unprecedented, quoted Kristen Smith, part of a prorepeal group, as saying after Tuesday’s balloting: “I’m just happy that the voters in Durango exercised some adult

Man accused of pointing handgun at motorists

supervision on their extreme and juvenile city council.

We worked hard to defeat it, and would encourage other citizens to run for council who think the voice of reason should be there to represent the people.”

The Santa Fe City Council on Aug. 27 voted 7-1 to prohibit stores from providing shoppers with plastic bags thinner than 2.25 mils, eliminating the type of plastic bag typically made available in grocery-store check-out lines.

Paper bags, containing at least 40 percent recycled materials, can still be offered, but shoppers will have to pay 10 cents apiece for those.

The ordinance was scheduled to take effect six months after the vote, which means businesses inside city limits will have to comply beginning

in late February.

The Santa Fe ban won’t apply to restaurants or food banks, and grocery stores will still be able to supply smaller plastic bags for bulk items such as meat, produce or bakery goods. And they will still be able to sell garbage bags.

The measure also allows the city Environmental Services Division to provide reusable bags to low-income families.

Simon Brackley, CEO and president of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, said in August that several members of his organization had complained that the ordinance will “add additional bureaucracy and inconvenience” to the task of shopping.

Some other cities have already banned plastic bags, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Austin, Texas.

Authorities located Kee but say he wouldn’t acknowledge any of their commands and was walking into traffic.

They say Kee was tased twice with a stun gun and taken into custody and a handgun was found in his right hand.

There were no reported injuries.

Sheriff’s officials didn’t know Wednesday if Kee has a lawyer yet.

FARMINGTON — A Farmington man has been arrested for allegedly pointing a gun at passing motorists.

San Juan County sheriff’s officials say 29-yearold Ernesto Lorenzo Kee Jr. is being held on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico State Fair weapon. attendance was down this year, and fair officials Sheriff’s deputies and Farmington police were dispatched to the area of Oscar Thomas Park late are blaming Mother Nature.

According to the Albuquerque Journal, attenTuesday after a report of a man in a hoodie with dance during the Sept. 11-22 fair totaled 392,299. a gun who appeared to be intoxicated.

Owners of starving dog charged with animal cruelty

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that it is charging the owners of a starving dog found Oct. 28 with animal cruelty.

Capt. Adan Mendoza of the sheriff’s office said the agency filed charges in the Santa Fe Magistrate Court on Wednesday against Michael Riggs and Dolores Lujan, the reported owners of the emaciated dog.

The brown dog was first found near Camino Iglesia in Pojoaque by a person walking his own dog, Santa Fe County Animal Control officers said.

Mendoza said animal cruelty is a misdemeanor offense.

In an interview on KRQE, Riggs said that he didn’t intentionally starve the dog, but rather the animal refused to eat because of an ongoing sickness.

Riggs said the dog’s name

is Jackson, though staff at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society, where the dog is being cared for, have started calling the animal Raphael.

Ben Swan, the shelter’s spokesman, said staff there have been feeding the dog a diet of bland hamburger and rice at half-hour intervals, and that the animal has slowly been gaining weight. At last check, the animal weighed a little over 50 pounds, although his ideal weight is closer to 75 points. Recent photos show the dog’s ribs and other bones are still clearly visible beneath his skin and fur.

Swan also said staff haven’t found an underlying cause for the dog’s condition other than “extreme malnutrition.” He said the shelter now has legal custody of the animal. He also said that a reward offered for information about the dog’s circumstances or the owner’s identity has yet to be paid out.

Event celebrates cancer survival An evening of staged readings is planned this weekend to benefit the Cancer Foundation for New Mexico.

The performance is presented

by Clio Productions with the Santa Fe Shakespeare Society at the Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St. Performances are at 7:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, and at 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $15.

For reservations call 986-1801.

The event also includes a silent

That’s below last year’s attendance of 407,265 and well below the recent peak of 738,664 in 2006 when the fair ran 15 days.

Fair manager Dan Mourning says this year’s fair was hampered by record rainfall during the beginning of the 12-day run.

Mourning says one positive was record-breaking attendance of 70,451 on the fair’s final Saturday on Sept. 21.

The previous last-Saturday attendance record was 67,030 set last year.

State Fair officials say rain dampened attendance Albuquerque teacher in trouble over Facebook post ALBUQUERQUE — Bernalillo County sheriff’s deputies investigated an Albuquerque high school teacher’s Facebook post that states she

auction.

The playwrights were instructed to write a short work that deals with cancer, from any perspective, and the battles faced confronting diversity.

The idea came from Michael Burgan, a veteran of the Benchwarmers festival, who wanted to mark the 25th anniversary of his own successful battle with cancer.

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wanted to “kill” students, but they determined the teacher was just frustrated by a classroom prank.

The sheriff’s department says the Rio Grande High School teacher’s name isn’t being released because she wasn’t arrested or charged.

However, the teacher is now on paid leave and a school district’s discipline committee will consider her case.

Sheriff’s deputies’ reports say the teacher says she made the Facebook post because she was furious that a student had glued his shoes to the classroom floor and pulled up the tile.

A district administrator says the teacher told school officials that she never intended to harm students and didn’t think her Facebook post would be taken seriously.

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benefit with photographer Tony Stromberg.

The 3 p.m. Nov. 17 event in Got a pet photograph you’d like to see in The New Mexican? support of the Street Homeless Email your pictures to bbarker@sfnew mexican.com. All subAnimal Project will take place at mitted photos should be at least 4 inches wide at 220 dpi. Suba Santa Fe-area home. The event missions will be printed once a week as space is available. No will feature refreshments and money will be paid for published photographs. Images must be a chance to talk with the interoriginal and submitted by the copyright owner. Please include A retired major general is nationally renowned photograa descriptive caption. The New Mexican reserves the right to organizing a get-together for pher. Stromberg, who recently reject any photo without notice or stated reason. veterans, offering them a chance collaborated with SHAP to to meet one another. The Santa produce a series of photographs Fe Animal Shelter & Humane of the project’s clients and their together and get to know each make a huge difference in many Society also is announcing companion animals, is known other.” of their lives,” Schober said. special adoption discounts for for his photography of horses.

“This is a wonderful program.

The Santa Fe animal shelter, veterans at the event.

Stromberg, organizers said, The shelter will have photos in connection with the event, Frank Schober Jr. said the “loves animals of all kinds and of available dogs at the event, also is planning to announce a 7 p.m. Nov. 12 gathering at Duel truly knows the value they can along with information about Brewery, 1228 Parkway Drive off special adoption discount for bring to our lives, especially the the shelter and volunteering Rufina Street, is an opportunity pets for veterans, called Pets homeless, whose companion opportunities. for Vets.

The adoption fee for for veterans to share a real VA Tuesday’s event is sponsored animal may be the only family experience — a veterans assem- all adult dogs and cats will be waived for veterans, said Dylan by the state Department of Vet- they have.” bly.

SHAP, founded and run by Moore, the shelter’s adoptions erans Services, the New Mexico The party, which offers Karen Cain, offers food, supNational Guard, the Santa Fe snacks, fussball, darts and table manager. The adoption fee for all puppies, kittens and Shelter Chapter of the Military Order of plies and veterinary care for games, isn’t a formal or official Heroes — purebred or highly New Mexico, Patriot Guard Rid- companion animals of the street assembly, but it aims to give ers of New Mexico and explore homeless community. Cain has veterans an opportunity to meet sought-after dogs — will be 50 percent off.

Media. been honored for her project other veterans. He’s targeting The Pets for Vets adoption For more information, call and work with animals by Aniveterans of the Iraq and Afghandiscount starts on Veterans Day 310-8593 or email genschober@ mal Protection New Mexico. istan wars and their “senior and will be ongoing, he said. gmail.com. brothers.”

Admission is limited. Those Schober said dogs have been “Many of these people have interested in attending the event served three or four tours in a godsend for many veterans, are asked to RSVP by Nov. 12 Iraq or Afghanistan,” he said. and he hopes veterans will by calling 982-3928 or emailing “We’ve had nothing like this take advantage of the shelter nmstreethomelessproject@ before in our history. It really program. “Getting a dependgmail.com.

A project that helps homeless takes a toll, and the idea is able companion, someone who The New Mexican people with pets is hosting a to just get them to hang out is dependent upon them, will

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Española Valley Humane Society: Bart, a friendly American Staffordshire terrier, was found as a stray with his best buddy, a rat-terrier mix. He loves other dogs. JJ is a friendly, fun cat who loves to run and play.

He’s great with other cats and loves people.

This 1-year-old is a great all-around guy.

Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane These and other animals are available Society: Smokey, 6, is one of the sweetest boys at the shelter. He is the perfect lap cat from adoption at the shelter, 108 Hamm and loves nothing more than to purr in your Parkway. The shelter is open from 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Saturday and arms and have his coat brushed. He loves from noon to 4:45 p.m. Sunday. Visit www. people and enjoys the company of other espanolashelter.org. or call 753-8662. felines. Li Ning, an 11-month-old male Shar Felines & Friends: Sweet and playful Pei mix, is playful and energetic. He would Solari loves being petted and getting attenlove to go home to a family with lots of time to spend with him and a big yard. Talk tion. She’s a beautiful girl with a short, black-and-white coat. A bit skittish at first, about the perfect jogging partner!

Willa quickly responds to petting with loud These and other animals are available purring. She’s quite playful and would do for adoption from the shelter, 100 Caja del Rio Road. The shelter’s adoption hours are well in a home with another kitten or cat to 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Visit www.sfhumane- play with. society.org or call 983-4309, ext. 610.

Cats of all ages are available for adoption

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After grating potatoes, put them in bowl and squeeze in a little lemon juice to keep them from turning brown.

Add the eggs, flour or matzo meal, onion, salt and baking soda, and mix until well combined.

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For one Santa Fe chef, Hanukkah is a time for family and food

s the sun sets behind the Sandia Mountains on Saturday, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah will commence. All over the world, families of the Jewish faith will begin to kindle their menorahs to celebrate religious freedom and the miracle of oil.

Ever since the second century B.C. — when the Maccabees used a single vial of oil to light their sacred temple for eight days after reclaiming Jerusalem from King Antiochus IV of Syria — oil has played a significant role in the Festival of Lights.

Today, many in the Jewish faith use oil as a food medium to remember the story of Hanukkah, and their traditional holiday meals often include potato latkes, various types of sufganiyots, jelly-filled doughnuts, and buñuelos or fritters — all of which are fried in oil.

In Santa Fe, one chef in particular has embraced the traditions of Hanukkah for nearly two decades. As a child, however, chef Martín Rios had never heard of the celebrated Jewish holiday. Yet, Judaism has become an integral part of his life.

Rios, who was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and raised in Santa Fe from age 14 as a Catholic, had never met a Jewish person until he met his wife, Jennifer. “When I was the executive chef of The Old House at the Eldorado Hotel, my boss introduced me to Jennifer, who came in to do an apprenticeship in hotel management for her MBA from Georgetown University,” said Rios, who owns Restaurant Martín on Galisteo Street.

Soon after meeting on that summer day in 1993, a friendship sparked between the pair, and eventually, a romance blossomed. The two spent the rest of the summer together, sharing secrets, thoughts and beliefs. For Jennifer, that meant telling Rios about her Jewish upbringing and how her faith plays a significant role in her life.

Rios said he admired her strong sense of faith. “Judaism has always been a strong part of my identity,” Jennifer Rios said. “It has been the one constant in my life, the common theme and my comfort place.”

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With the holiday season approaching comes its attendant tree trimmings of glimmering glass ornaments and tinsel so shiny it looks good enough to eat. That is, from a cat’s perspective.

“I’ve had to remove tinsel from more than one animal, and that’s more than one animal than I would like to have to deal with,” said Mark Russak, retired veterinarian and immediate past president of the American Animal Hospital Association.

For nearly 25 years, Russak treated pets for common household injuries at the AAHA practice he owned in Kensington, Conn.

When it comes to keeping pets safe at home, common sense “is really what it boils down to,” he said. Russak shared some advice on harmful household items, foods and plants that could threaten the well-being of cats and dogs.

Household items: “Anything that’s small that can fit in a dog or cat’s mouth will end up inside a dog or cat’s mouth,” Russak said. Some items to look out for include rubber bands, balloons, cigarette butts, sewing needles, string, ribbons, even pantyhose. Also keep pets away from: Plastic shopping bags: Small pets, particularly cats, can get inside of them and suffocate.

Anything hot: Irons, space heaters, coffee pots — anything that heats up — can be dangerous; curious pets can jump on them. Also, it’s wise to seal off fireplaces with a screen while they’re in use.

Chemicals: Use child locks on cabinets. Don’t let pets near disinfectants and other chemicals such as ant houses and rodenticides, snow-removing salts, lawn chemicals and, especially, antifreeze.

There are some chemicals labeled “pet-safe,” but Russak advises keeping all chemicals out of reach. “Dogs and cats

are curious,” Russak said. “Any kind of spill, they’re going to lick up.”

Unsafe snacks: Russak said it’s best to avoid feeding human food to pets, but if you’re going to do it, do so in moderation. “Anything toxic to dogs is toxic to cats, but cats have more discerning palates” (and so are less likely to consume something toxic). However, some foods should never be given or made available to a dog or cat, Russak said: Meat fat and bones: Though dogs like to chew on bones, the sharp edges can cut their intestines. Additionally, any kind of fatty food can cause vomiting and diarrhea.

Also, avoid feeding them anything spicy.

Chocolate: It’s a stimulant that can cause heart and intestinal issues in pets. “[Pets are] going to eat the wrapper and all — it’s not going to matter to them,” Russak said.

Grapes and raisins: Certain toxins in the fruit can cause kidney failure and other problems that can be lethal in dogs.

Precarious plants: The list is long. Among the most poisonous: azaleas (heart failure, death), lilies (kidney failure, death in cats), oleander (muscles tremors, heart failure), daffodils (tremors, cardiac arrhythmia) and milkweed (kidney/liver failure, death).

“Some [plants] are very toxic, and some just cause nasty [gastrointestinal] upsets,” Russak said. u The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has a list of unsafe plants at tinyurl.com/ nmpb8p6. u Call the vet: If you think your pet is in serious danger, call your veterinarian or an animal emergency hospital immediately.

“Animals can’t speak for themselves,” said retired veterinarian Mark Russak. “You’re their keeper. They deserve, and we owe them, the best medical care we can.”

Courthouse dog begins job in Colo.

BOULDER, Colo. — When Amigo the golden retriever goes to work at the Boulder County courthouse, his important job of comforting witnesses and victims should come fairly naturally.

“He just has to come in and be a dog,” Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said.

Amigo began his job Friday after two months of training.

The Daily Camera reported that Amigo is the first courthouse dog in Colorado.

Amigo is trained to be calm and quiet and allow people to pet him.

“We’re hoping he can be a friend to victims and witnesses,” said Kim Stalnacker, who works as a victim’s advocate in Boulder. She’s also Amigo’s primary handler.

The 20-month-old pup will don a harness with the seal of the 20th Judicial District as his uniform. His first day on the job included touring the Boulder County Justice Center, playing with his bone in the courtyard and getting acquainted with staff.

Amigo’s first case was a sexual assault trial on Monday.

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Prosecutors: Killer should be executed

By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — Anything less than execution for an Arizona convict who killed an Oklahoma couple in 2010 would not be justice, federal prosecutors told jurors Wednesday at the start of the third and final phase of John McCluskey’s capital murder trial.

McCluskey’s defense team, meanwhile, argued their client’s life should be spared, saying the prosecution shouldn’t diminish the idea of him serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison without the possibility of release.

McCluskey, 48, was convicted last month of carjacking resulting in death, witness tampering by causing death and other charges in the slayings of McCluskey killed the retired couple just days after escaping from a medium-security prison in Arizona.

Jurors are expected to hear weeks of additional testimony before deciding whether McCluskey should be executed or sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The victims’ family members and friends were in court Wednesday as prosecutors urged jurors to weigh what would be a just punishment and whether that punishment would protect others from McCluskey.

Former escaped fugitive John McCluskey sits in court Aug. 30 for his initial appearance at the Apache County Superior Court in St. Johns, Ariz. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Aside from highlighting McCluskey’s criminal past, prosecutor Greg Fouratt said jurors also needed to learn something about the Haases, high school sweethearts who had been married for more than 40 years and were expecting their first grandchild.

Fouratt said their murders have had a devastating effect on their family and friends.

“Nothing will mitigate what he did to Gary and Linda Haas,” Fouratt said. “The only sentencing option you have that imposes a meaningful punishment on a man who is already facing years and years of prison

time is to sentence him to death. Anything less is no justice at all.”

McCluskey, fellow escaped prisoner Tracy Province and McCluskey’s cousin and girlfriend, Casslyn Welch, targeted the Haases for their pickup truck and travel trailer after spotting the couple at a rest stop near the New MexicoTexas border.

Within an hour of being carjacked at gunpoint, the Haases were dead. Their charred remains were found days later among the wreckage of their burned out trailer. Welch and Province, who pleaded guilty

in the case last year, named McCluskey as the triggerman.

Defense attorney Gary Mitchell tried to counter the prosecution’s argument that McCluskey is callous and has shown no regard for human life by recounting his client’s troubled childhood, spent growing up in a mining and ranching community in rural Arizona under the strict rule of an abusive father.

“He was a broken child. It was common knowledge in the community,” he said.

Saying that McCluskey did not choose to have brain damage or to be abused, Mitchell asked jurors to “look to science and medicine rather than the vengeance of the death penalty” to cure and heal McCluskey and people like him.

Steve Walker, a longtime friend of Gary Haas, said Wednesday before the proceedings that there can be no punishment other than death for someone who takes a life in the way McCluskey killed the Haases.

“He was like my brother,” Walker said of Gary Haas. “The camaraderie we had was special. I miss him every day.”

Prosecutors plan to call Walker and other family members to the stand over the next couple of weeks, while the defense has indicated it plans to call childhood friends of McCluskey as well as medical experts.

Mexican colleges look to expand in U.S. Demand rising for schools to serve immigrant population

have been dealing with deep budget cuts and enrollment limits, probably will be the principal target of Mexican universities.

There’s a huge market in the state, where

By Matt Krupnick Latinos account for more than 52 percent The Hechinger Report of public school students who’ll eventually be college-aged. A quarter of elementaryLYNWOOD, Calif. — In an ethnically school students nationwide are Hispanic, themed shopping center called Plaza Mex- the Pew Research Center reports. ico just south of Los Angeles, a public uniConversations between Mexican and versity from the Mexican state of Colima U.S. universities have increased to the has planted its flag. point that U.S. accreditors, knowing Alongside the shopping center’s stores they’ll be asked to evaluate more Mexican and taquerias, the University of Colima schools soon, are working with their Mexioffers mostly remedial education in readcan counterparts to find out more about ing, writing and math to about 100 Mexihigher education south of the border, said can immigrants. But a handful of students William Plater, who advises the Western here are preparing to take their final exams Association of Schools and Colleges — the for Mexican degrees, just one of several primary accreditor in the Western United recent efforts by Mexican universities to States — on international affairs. branch into providing full-fledged univer“We think it’s in our best interest to learn sity educations in the United States. more about quality assurance,” he said.

“It’s important for at least one university The days of Mexican campuses in the to pursue this,” said Ana Uribe, a UniverUnited States are just around the corner, sity of Colima professor who runs the Lyn- some said. wood branch.

“I don’t think it will be five, 10, 20 years” In fact, several Mexican universities are before Mexican universities build U.S. considering stepping in to offer accredited campuses, said Jonathan Brown, a higheruniversity classes in California and other education consultant who’s working with states primarily to serve an immigrant Mexico’s Center for Higher and Technical population that lags far behind others in Education as it decides whether to expand college education. to Sacramento. “I think it will be sooner. In California, where public universities the next few years, we’re going to be

2 million degrees short of what California needs. Who wouldn’t want to go to a firstrate [Mexican] university close to home?”

Nearly 34 million people in the United States identify themselves as Mexican or of Mexican origin, but only 5 out of every 100 have university degrees, compared with about a third of immigrants in general, according to the Migration Policy Institute. About 35 percent of native-born citizens do.

In California, only 10 percent of Hispanic immigrants ages 25 and 26 have completed at least two-year degrees, compared with the state average of 36 percent, according to a report to be released soon by the institute. Latino youth — both immigrants and those born in the United States — have the lowest rate of college attainment in California, researchers found.

Even Hispanics who do enroll in American colleges and universities are 50 percent less likely than non-Hispanics are to earn bachelor’s degrees by age 24, Pew reports.

Many U.S. universities, coping with competing demands for stretched resources, have been struggling to provide the kinds of support that could increase the number of Mexican-Americans who graduate.

The Hechinger Report is a nonprofit education-news outlet based at Teachers College, Columbia University.

State regulator orders insurance equality for same-sex marriages Insurance companies in New Mexico must provide same-sex married couples with the same discounts and benefits offered to opposite-sex married couples, the state insurance regulator announced Wednesday.

Insurance Superintendent John Franchini said couples with valid marriage licenses — regardless of their sexual orientation or gender — must be treated equally and without discrimination by insurers.

“This is an important step forward for New Mexico,” Shannon Minter, legal director of

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Funeral services and memorials FIDEL LEE GUTIERREZ NOVEMBER 3, 1962 ~ NOVEMBER 3, 2013 Fidel Lee Gutierrez of Santa Fe, New Mexico passed away peacefully on his birthday, November 3, 2013, in his home after a short, but courageous battle with cancer. He was a beloved son; husband, brother, uncle, friend, banker and leader in the community.

Fidel was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico on November 3, 1962. He graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1980. After attending UNM and UCLA, he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from New Mexico State University in 1985.

Fidel is survived by his wife, Gina Imprescia and step-daughters: Melissa Mendoza (Julio), Mandy Vigil, Gabrielle Vigil, and Licia Vigil; his mother, Grace J. Gutierrez; his siblings: Pablo Gutierrez (Mary), Joaquin Gutierrez (Melinda), Benjamin Gutierrez (Alice), Sylvianna Gutierrez and Leah Gutierrez-Wier (Patrick); his former wife Carolann; his nephews and nieces: Leandro Lane (Emily), Javier Lane, Olina Pino (Jonathan), Brandon Gutierrez, Ashley Gutierrez, Josh Gutierrez, Marcus Gutierrez, Deanna Gutierrez and James Gutierrez.

Fidel was preceded in death by grandparents: Alberto and Mary Jaramillo and Felimon and Luisa Gutierrez; father, Elie S. Gutierrez; brother, Simon; and nephew, Jorge Lane.

Fidel held numerous positions in his 26 years with Los Alamos National Bank, the last several years as Senior Vice President. He was very active within the Santa Fe community and served as a member and officer of several boards and committees, including: Girls, Inc., Santa Fe Children’s Museum, First Tee of New Mexico, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Life Center Foundation, Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, City of Santa Fe Economic Development Review Committee, Tierra Contenta Corporation, and numerous others.

A Rosary and Memorial Service will be held Thursday, November 7, 2013, at McGee Memorial Chapel, 1320 Luisa Street, with visitation beginning at 5:30 p.m. and Rosary beginning at 7:00 p.m.

A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Francis Basilica on Friday November 8, 2013, at 10:00 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Fidel Gutierrez Memorial Fund at any Los Alamos National Bank location, to be donated to various non-profit foundations that Fidel supported.

Berardinelli Family Funeral Service 1399 Luisa Street Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505) 984-8600 Please sign our guestbook for the family at: www.berardinellifuneralhome.com

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MICHAEL A. ROBINS 1936-2013 In his own words

Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: u A 30-inch LCD monitor was taken from an unlocked car parked in the 500 block of Camino Piñones between midnight and 11:09 a.m. Tuesday. u Someone entered an unlocked car in the 200 block of Zozobra Lane sometime Tuesday. Nothing was reported missing. u A 65-inch TV, Xbox and several laptop computers were taken from a home in the 800 block of Palomino Street between 10:30 a.m. and 6:50 p.m. Tuesday. u Tonya Nelson, 34, 1844 Mann St., was arrested on a charge of battery against a household member in the 1800 block of Mann Street between 6:21 and 7:29 p.m.

Tuesday. u Samuel Pacheco, 31, of Santa Fe was arrested at 4 p.m. Tuesday on two counts of assault against a peace officer, two counts of resisting or obstructing an officer, battery on a peace officer, disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia at Wal-Mart, 3251 Cerrillos Road. u A man reported that someone stole his wallet at Sam’s Club, 4201 Rodeo Road, between 4:30 and 5:26 p.m. Tuesday. u Someone stole a carbon road bike from a home in the 2000 block of Calle Lejano sometime Monday. u A woman reported that someone stole her English bulldog worth $2,800 from her front yard in the 1600 block of Ben Hur Drive. The woman found the dog in the 500

the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said in a statement.

“Superintendent Franchini’s guidance appears to be the first official statement that the marriages of same-sex couples will be respected by a New Mexico state agency in carrying out its enforcement duties.”

Eight counties have started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The state Supreme Court is considering a lawsuit that could determine whether gay marriage is legal statewide.

block of Montezuma Avenue at 7:11 a.m.

Tuesday in the possession of Erin Corvin, 33, 04 Alarid St. The owner asked for the dog back, but Corvin refused, according to the police report. Corvin was eventually arrested by officers on charges of receiving or transferring stolen property. u Several pieces of jewelry were taken from a home in the 700 block of Calle Francisca between 9 a.m. Friday and 4:45 p.m.

Monday. u Matthew Torres, 30, of Cordova was arrested on charges of burglary and shoplifting at Wal-Mart, 3251 Cerrillos Road, between 9:55 and 10 a.m. Tuesday.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the following reports: u Someone took a TV, a Xbox gaming console and games, a notebook and change worth a combined $1,540 from a home in the 2700 block of Boylan Circle sometime Tuesday. u A man who lives on Cholla Circle reported that someone cashed several checks worth a combined $1,728 from his bank account between Oct. 4 and Wednesday. u Everett Ortega, 55, of Española was arrested on Avenida de Molina in Española sometime Tuesday on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, battery and unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon after he brandished a handgun and allegedly placed it underneath a man’s chin.

He then fired the gun in the air.

The Dove Elusive, uncanny bird Withdrawn to a high twig of pine, Still as a noonday shadow, Cooing in the pace of lament, Sighs counted for the fallen, For those who said their last word And will not waken To sunrise tomorrow.

DWI arrest u Penpa Tsering, 1416 Paseo Norteño, was arrested on a charge of drunken driving at St. Michael’s Drive and Cerrillos Road between 9:09 and 9:46 p.m. Tuesday.

Speed SUVs u The Santa Fe Police Department listed the following locations for mobile speedenforcement vehicles: SUV No. 1 at E.J. Martinez Elementary School from 7:25 to 8:15 a.m. and 2:10 to 2:55 p.m., and on West San Mateo Road between Galisteo Street and St. Francis Drive at other times; SUV No. 2 at Salazar Elementary School from 7:25 to 8:15 a.m. and 2:10 to 2:55 p.m., and on Agua Fría Street at other times; SUV No. 3 at Siringo Road between Botulph Road and St. Francis Drive.

Help lines Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families hotline: 800-473-5220 St. Elizabeth Shelter for men, women and children: 982-6611 Interfaith Community Shelter: 795-7494 New Mexico suicide prevention hotline: 866-435-7166 Solace Crisis Treatment Center: 986-9111, 800-721-7273 or TTY 471-1624 Youth Emergency Shelter/Youth Shelters: 438-0502 Police and fire emergency: 911 Graffiti hotline: 955-CALL (2255)

Safely Home I am home in Heaven, dear ones; Oh, so happy and so bright!

There is perfect joy and beauty, In this everlasting light.

We Love You Momma...

You Are In Our Hearts Forever.

DeVargas Funeral Home and Crematory Cleo Donna Vigil Ortiz, Age, 61, Cochiti Lake, November 4, 2013 Tony "El Gallo" Brian Gallegos, Age 46, Espanola, October 27, 2013 Tonnie Abeyta, Age 93, Espanola, November 2, 2013

Survived by his loving wife, Maureen Curran Robins, his son Nico Robins and wife Melissa, and the mother of his son, Donna Rae Peth.

In his memory, please perform an act of kindness.

GERALD BYRON SIMPSON Gerald Byron Simpson passed away peacefully on Friday, November 1st.

Brother, Father, Grandfather and Husband; Gerald lived a noble life and loved New Mexico.

He is preceded in death by his parents and survived by a large and extended family. A private memorial will be held at a later date.

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COMMENTARY

Unwrap the bubble, President Obama

Robert M. McKinney Owner, 1949-2001 Inez Russell Gomez Editorial Page Editor

Ray Rivera Editor

OUR VIEW

That’s the ticket?

Not yet, anyway

Dana Milbank

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON ear the end of his new book, Days of Fire, my friend and former colleague Peter Baker recounts a moment in the White House Situation Room in 2008 when President George W. Bush was uncharacteristically reflective.

“The president looked at [Defense Secretary] Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, who had succeeded Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and harked back to the critical days in 2003 before he launched the war that had become so problematic. ‘You know,’ he recalled, ‘when I made the decision on Iraq, I went around the room to everybody at that table, every principal. “You in? Any doubts?”

Nothing from anybody.’”

As President Barack Obama sifts through the wreckage of his health care rollout, let’s hope he’s having similar reflections about why he didn’t know the launch of his presidency’s signature policy would be so ugly.

In one account of what even administration officials acknowledge is a debacle, The Wall Street Journal reported that Obama’s policy advisers were aware long ago that the president’s promise that “if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it” wouldn’t hold up. “White House policy advisers objected to the breadth of Mr. Obama’s ‘keep your plan’ promise,” the Journal reported, citing a former senior administration official. “They were overruled by political aides, the former official said. The White House said it was unaware of the objections.”

Obama, to borrow Bush’s phrase, heard “nothing from anybody.”

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No, the Obamacare pratfall is not Obama’s Iraq: The magnitude is entirely different, and the problems — website malfunctions and a wave of policy cancellations — are fixable. But the decisionmaking is disturbingly similar: In both cases, insular administrations, staffed by loyalists and obsessed with secrecy, participated in group-think and let the president hear only what they thought he wanted to hear.

In a damning account of the Obamacare implementation, my Washington Post colleagues Amy Goldstein and Juliet Eilperin described how Obama rejected pleas from outside experts and even some of his own advisers to bring in people with the expertise to handle the mammoth task; he instead left the project in the care of inhouse loyalists. “Three and a half years later, such insularity — in that decision and others that would follow — has emerged as a central factor in the disastrous rollout,” Goldstein and Eilperin reported.

Their report is based in part on a prescient memo sent to the White House in May 2010

by Harvard professor David Cutler, an outside adviser on health care reform. “I am

concerned that the personnel and processes you have in place are not up to the task, and that health reform will be unsuccessful as a result,” he wrote. “My general view is that the early implementation efforts are far short of what it will take to implement reform successfully. … I do not believe the relevant members of the administration understand the president’s vision or have the capability to carry it out.”

Cutler identified many of the problems that would later plague the Obamacare rollout: the perception of secrecy, the lack of qualified personnel and the likelihood that “if you cannot find a way to work with hesitant states and insurers, reform will blow up.”

Instead, Obama followed a different governing philosophy: Dance with the one that brung ya. He figured that those who helped him enact the health care law should be the ones to implement it.

I’ve written frequently about Obama’s insularity.

Like his predecessor, he has rewarded loyalty and surrounded himself with likeminded advisers disinclined to dissent. This, combined with a Bush-like fetish for secrecy, has left the president in a bubble, struggling to find

support in Congress or among the public.

That’s what makes the Iraq comparison resonate, even without Obama’s call for a technology “surge” to HealthCare.gov inviting the comparison. Although the policies are entirely different, both were unforced errors aggravated by a president’s insularity. Both men failed to hear warnings (about the intelligence and the military plan, in Bush’s case; about problems with the exchanges and the website, in Obama’s), overstated their cases (Bush’s hysteria about Iraq’s nuclear program; Obama’s keep-yourplan promise) and used the other side’s partisanship as an excuse to withhold information.

One of those who has made the Iraq comparison, National Journal’s Ron Fournier, argues that Obama “needs to do some soul-searching. ‘What did I miss, and why? What was kept from me, and why?’ ” Bush didn’t ask those questions until his presidency was nearly over. Obama still has some time to cure the ills of insularity.

Follow Dana Milbank on Twitter @milbank.

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hile not surprised, I am disappointed. Gov. Susana Martinez has once again ignored or made an end run around the desires and opinions of New Mexico citizens. This time, it is by appointing a Republican to a seat tragically vacated by the death of an elected Democrat. The late Stephen Easley has been replaced as a state representative by Vickie Perea. She was nominated by one of four county commissions in District 50. Santa Fe and Bernalillo commissions, representing by far the majority of the voters, nominated Democrat Ann Jenkins.

The governor apparently never feels chagrin as she pursues her own agenda and that of her corporate puppet masters.

She does not hesitate to undermine the democratic (pun intended) rights and expressed desires of voters. They have lost not only the excellent representation of Easley, but also the representation of their party, which won the last election.

Shame!

Are the San Francisco Plaza buildings really “non-contributing” historically?

Imagine 7-year-old Roque García in 1945 living with his family in the unique 1902 structure that’s now the Thai Café.

After his beginnings in this unique Santa Fe structure on the corner of Guadalupe and San Francisco Streets, Garcia now sells delicious food from his cart on the southeast corner of the Plaza, a few blocks up from his early home. People come from far and wide to enjoy his New Mexican cooking and he has been active in the local community for decades.

The people who lived in buildings make history, and the designation “noncontributing” is a shameful insult to the hardworking people who kept this town alive for centuries. Garcia, his family and the places they lived are integral parts of Santa Fe history and shouldn’t be replaced by fake portals and buildings that reach far too high into the beautiful Santa Fe sky.

Bernard Ewell

Ellen McCracken

Santa Fe

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Lowering the bar I am very saddened to yet, again, see Gov. Susana Martinez, ignore the wishes of her constituents. We, the people of District 50, elected a fine, caring person (Stephen Easley) to represent us in the New Mexico Legislature. Ann Jenkins was put forward by the county commissions of both Santa Fe and Bernalillo as a strong candidate honoring the will of the people in those counties. Gov. Martinez should be ashamed of herself for repeatedly putting politics ahead of the welfare of the people. Her credibility and integrity has just been lowered another notch.

Peter Fessenden

Santa Fe

lection 2013 is over — for the rest of the country, of course, as New Mexico didn’t vote this November.

But the national implications spill over to the Land of Enchantment. Political reporters noticed that Gov. Susana Martinez went on the campaign trail for victorious Gov. Chris Christie in New Jersey. Their question was simple: “Is this the ticket in 2016?”

That’s a couple of years away, obviously, but it’s just as obvious that Christie is running for president of the United States. His message to Republicans is simple — reach out to people who are different than you and broaden your base of support. He believes that by winning in a heavily Democratic state, he has shown that he can win support from Democrats across the country. Martinez, of course, is another red governor in a blue state, and she has the added advantage of speaking Spanish. That ticket could appeal more broadly than to the ever-shrinking GOP base.

Of course, the scramble for the Republican nomination will not be that simple. The base of the party is not overly fond of Christie; die-hard conservatives love Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. After establishment Republicans winning the nomination in 2012 and 2008 with Mitt Romney and John McCain, the tea party folks want one of their own. How that all shakes out might be hard on governing, but will certainly be fun for lovers of political theater.

The election was about more than Christie’s big reelection win, of course. A Democrat was elected governor in Virginia, beating back a tea party Republican on the strength of the female vote. Perhaps wise political strategists will extrapolate forward. Christie is winning on the strength of his personality; he’s still quite conservative, no matter if the tea party doesn’t trust him. Like George W. Bush, though, Christie wins favor from groups that generally vote for Democrats.

However, women, minorities and young people do not like the policies of the GOP — even when they look past laws they dislike to vote for a person they do like. Christie’s candidacy would be an attempt to push personality over policy.

In the 2014 mid-term elections and in the presidential election of 2016, Democrats will have to tie unpopular policies around the necks of GOP candidates. From transvaginal ultrasounds of women in Virginia to the government shutdown in D.C., there’s plenty with which to work.

And on the GOP side, watch for Republicans to go after Democrats for their support of the Affordable Care Act and — should the president’s poll numbers stay in the tank — President Barack Obama.

And Christie’s status as the Republican to beat could be short-lived. Since Obama won re-election one short year ago, we’ve seen Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida touted as a presidential possibility, with Cruz, Paul and others having their time in the spotlight. Now, it’s Christie’s turn.

Whether it lasts or whether the big-talking governor exits stage left after a public fight with an average voter (a tendency of his back home in New Jersey) or whether the base revolts against him, we shall see. Meanwhile, Gov. Martinez will return home to try and improve her legislative record.

Then, it’s election season, with a Republican House of Representatives and a second term on her to-do list. Watch for Christie to campaign in New Mexico — he has before for Martinez, and we will get a better notion of what kind of ticket could be shaping up.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Nov. 7, 1913: U.S. Marshal Hudspeth just returned last evening from three weeks on the Navajo reservation, during which time the Navajo chiefs secured promises from the eleven renegades to surrender on Nov. 12. Today a wire from Agent Shelton on the reservation states that with their friends, the Indians will visit Shiprock on Monday and that unless their offenses are pardoned, they will massacre the agency force. The marshal wired the McKinley county sheriff to go to Shiprock with deputies, while he himself with a posse leaves at once for the scene of the trouble.

Nov. 7, 1988: Los Alamos National Lab officials said Friday that there was no damage to computer systems or data from the computer virus that swept through the lab and other facilities throughout the United States on Wednesday. The virus, so called because it invades a computer system and reproduces like an organic virus, entered the lab’s computers by way of electronic mail.

The “virus” program that has plagued many of the nation’s computer networks since Wednesday night was created by a computerscience student who is the son of one of the government’s most respected computer-security experts. The graduate student at Cornell University whom friends describe as “brilliant,” wrote the set of computer instructions as an experiment.

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N.M. fishing report Catches of the week GRINDSTONE RESERVOIR: On Nov. 2, Nathan Pratt of Albuquerque caught a 20-inch rainbow trout. He was fishing the south side of the lake and using a gold Kastmaster.

NAVAJO LAKE: On Oct. 30, Andrew Orlicky of Albuquerque caught two 28.5-inch channel catfish. He was using roe sacs.

NOTE: If you have a catch of the week story or want to syour latest New Mexico fishing experience, send it to fishforfun2@hotmail. com. For catches of the week, include name, date and location, as well as type of fish, length and weight, bait, lure or fly used.

Northeast CHARETTE LAKES: The lakes are close for the season.

CIMARRON RIVER: Conditions this time of year make for some tough fishing.

CLAYTON LAKE: The lake is closed for the season.

CONCHAS LAKE: The shallow and steep boat ramps on the north side of the lake are now open along with the Cove campground ramp. Fishing was slow to fair using spoons and grubs for white bass.

EAGLE NEST LAKE: Kokanee snagging seemed to pick up again this past weekend as several anglers reported taking limits near the boat ramp. Kokanee snagging is not allowed on the ramp.

Fishing for trout was fair to good using roe sacs, salmon eggs and Power Bait. A few were also taken by anglers trolling Platte River specials tipped with Power Bait.

LAGUNITAS LAKES: Trout fishing on the upper lake was slow to fair for anglers using Power Bait and salmon eggs.

LAKE MALOYA: Fishing was good using salmon eggs and Power Bait for trout. A few were also caught by anglers using homemade dough bait.

LOS PINOS: Trout fishing was slow to fair using salmon eggs and Power Bait.

MAXWELL LAKES: The lakes are closed for the season.

MONASTERY LAKE: Trout fishing was fair using Power Bait, salmon eggs and homemade dough bait.

MORPHY LAKE: The lake is closed for the season.

PECOS RIVER: The Mora and Jamie Koch fishing and recreation areas have reopened. The Bert Clancy and Terrero campgrounds remain closed. Trout fishing was fair to good using bead head hares ears, Panther Martin spinners, Power Bait and salmon eggs.

RED RIVER: Trout fishing was fair to good using poundmeisters, wooly buggers, worms and salmon eggs.

RIO GRANDE: Trout fishing was slow to fair using bead head hares ears, copper John Barrs, streamers, spinners, Kastmasters and salmon eggs.

RIO MORA: Fishing was fair to good using bead head prince nymphs and salmon eggs.

UTE LAKE: Fishing was slow to fair using blade baits and spoons for walleye. Fishing for white bass was described as sporadic with just a few taken by anglers using spoons and blade baits. Fishing for catfish was slow to fair using liver.

Fishing for largemouth bass and smallmouth bass was slow.

Northwest ABIQUIÚ LAKE: Fishing was generally slow for all species with very light fishing pressure.

BLUEWATER LAKE: Fishing was slow for all species. Anglers should be aware that it is illegal to use bait fish at this lake.

CHAMA RIVER: Fishing below El Vado was fair using salmon eggs, wooly buggers and bead head hares ears for a mixed bag of brown and rainbow trout. Fishing below Abiquiú was slow with murky water conditions. We had no reports on kokanee snagging

Today’s talk shows 3:00 p.m. KOAT The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Wanted perform.

KRQE Dr. Phil KTFQ Laura KWBQ The Bill Cunningham Show A man learns whether he fathered his ex’s children.

KLUZ El Gordo y la Flaca KASY Jerry Springer CNN The Situation Room FNC The Five MSNBC The Ed Show 4:00 p.m. KOAT The Dr. Oz Show KTEL Al Rojo Vivo con María Celeste KASY The Steve Wilkos Show FNC Special Report With Bret Baier 5:00 p.m. KASA Steve Harvey Sex; cooking a turkey; Tabatha Coffey helps an entrepreneur realize her business dream.

KCHF The 700 Club KASY Maury

FNC On the Record With Greta Van Susteren 6:00 p.m. CNN Anderson Cooper 360 FNC The O’Reilly Factor 7:00 p.m. MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 8:00 p.m. E! E! News FNC Hannity 9:00 p.m. FNC The O’Reilly Factor TBS Conan 10:00 p.m.KASA The Arsenio Hall Show KTEL Al Rojo Vivo MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show TBS Pete Holmes Show Guest Deepak Chopra.

10:30 p.m. TBS Conan 10:34 p.m. KOB The Tonight Show With Jay Leno The Neighbourhood performs.

10:35 p.m. KRQE Late Show With David Letterman Gary Clark Jr. performs.

11:00 p.m. KNME Charlie Rose

KOAT Jimmy Kimmel Live Rob Lowe; Columbus Short; Nine Inch Nails performs.

FNC Hannity 11:30 p.m. KASA Dish Nation TBS Pete Holmes Show Guest Deepak Chopra.

11:37 p.m. KRQE The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Actress Kat Dennings; video game developer Markus Persson.

12:00 a.m. CNN AC 360 Later E! Chelsea Lately FNC On the Record With Greta Van Susteren 12:02 a.m. KOAT Nightline 12:06 a.m. KOB Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Rapper M.I.A. 12:30 a.m. E! E! News 1:00 a.m. KASY The Trisha Goddard Show CNN Piers Morgan Live FNC Red Eye 1:06 a.m. KOB Last Call With Carson Daly

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Southwest BEAR CANYON: Trout fishing was fair to good using Power Bait, salmon eggs and Panther Martin spinners.

BILL EVANS LAKE: Fishing for trout was good using Power Bait, salmon eggs and spinners.

GLENWOOD POND: Fishing was good using Power Bait for trout.

LAKE ROBERTS: A construction project to improve the dam has begun and falling lake levels makes it difficult to fish.

Southeast BLUE HOLE PARK POND: Fishing was good using Power Bait and salmon eggs for trout.

BONITO LAKE: Closed.

BRANTLEY LAKE: The State Park office announced the reopening of the lake to boating and swimming. Anglers are to practice catch-and-release for all fish here as high levels of DDT were found in several fish.

GRINDSTONE RESERVOIR: Fishing was good for some and very good for others. Best baits for trout were Power Bait, salmon eggs and small Kastmasters.

OASIS PARK LAKE: Fishing was very good using Power Bait, spinners and spoons for trout.

This fishing report, provided by Bill Dunn and the Department of Game and Fish, has been generated from the best information available from area officers, anglers, guides and local businesses. Conditions may vary as stream, lake and weather conditions alter fish and angler activities.

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7 p.m. on CW The Vampire Diaries Silas (Paul Wesley) tells Damon and Elena (Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev) about his new goal and asks for their help in return for accomplishing a major task, but they’re skeptical. After telling Stefan (Wesley) about her next move, Tessa (Janina Gavankar) realizes Silas has outsmarted her. Katherine (Dobrev) offers Caroline (Candice Accola) a deal for a spot in the dorm room in the new episode “Handle With Care.” Kat Graham also stars.

7:30 p.m. on CBS The Millers In an effort to get his parents (Beau Bridges, Margo Martindale) back together, Nathan (Will Arnett) gathers all their possessions with sentimental value, hoping they’ll remember the good times and set their differences aside.

Jayma Mays also stars in the new episode “Stuff.”

8 p.m. on ABC Grey’s Anatomy The conflict between Meredith and Cristina (Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh) escalates with a betrayal. Derek (Patrick Dempsey) tells Jackson (Jesse Williams) he needs to let the second-year doctors work on his patients. April and Matthew (Sarah Drew, Justin Bruening) make a decision about their relationship.

Ben’s (Jason George) return is dif-

on the portion of the river from El Vado Lake to the west boundary of the Rio Chama Wildlife and Fishing Area. The season runs through December.

COCHITI LAKE: The Tetilla Peak area and the day use area are closed for the season, but other areas are open for bank fishing.

EL VADO LAKE: Kokanee snagging as sporadic again this past week with anglers having their best luck working the west side of the dam.

HERON LAKE: The only boat ramp open is the primitive ramp in the Ridge Rock area. Boaters are able to launch but advised to use caution. Launching with four wheel drive vehicles is recommended. Fishing remained slow for all species and fishing pressure was extremely light. Salmon snagging opens here and on Willow Creek Nov. 8 and runs through Dec. 31.

JEMEZ WATERS: Trout fishing here and on the Rio Cebolla was fair using copper John Barrs and salmon eggs. Fishing on the Rio Guadalupe was slow. The East Fork on the Valles Caldera remains open to fishing Fridays through Sundays weather permitting. No reservation is required but angler must check in on site..

LAGUNA DEL CAMPO: The lake is closed for the season.

NAVAJO LAKE: Kokanee snagging continued to be quite good for anglers working the south corner of the dam this past week as several limits were taken. Fishing for catfish in the same area was very good for anglers using roe sacs.

Fishing for smallmouth bass and largemouth bass was slow with just a few caught by anglers using jigs.

SAN JUAN: Trout fishing through the Quality Waters was good using leeches, red annelids, cream and red midge larva and parachute adams. Fishing through the bait waters was fair to good using salmon eggs, Power Bait, streamers and small spinners..

TINGLEY BEACH: Trout fishing was fair to good at the Central and Youth Ponds for anglers using salmon eggs and Power Bait. Fishing for all other species was slow.

ficult for Bailey (Chandra Wilson) in the new episode “Two Against One.” Sara Ramirez also stars.

8 p.m. on HIST Pawn Stars In this new episode, the guys check out a Winchester rifle that the U.S. Army captured from a Native American at the Wounded Knee massacre. Also submitted for their approval: a nickel slot machine from the 1940s. Later, Chumlee tries to find the owner of a stray dog the guys find outside the shop in “Winchester, Lose or Draw.”

8 p.m. on LIFE Million Dollar Shoppers Andrea, a celebrity caterer, hires Amy, pictured, to create a new signature look for her in this new episode. Barbet’s client, Devorah, shares her passion for fashion, but she’s not thrilled with the clothes Barbet chooses, which offend her animal rights activist sensibilities, in the new episode “This Isn’t Brain Surgery, It’s Fashion.”

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All Sierra Club Rio Grande chapter outings are free and open to the public. Always call leader to confirm participation and details.

Please see nmsierraclub.org/ outings for the most updated information.

SATURDAY, NOV. 9: Easy hike to Ortiz Mountain (formerly called Pankey Peak). Nice views from this peak in the Caja del Rio area.

About three miles and 600-foot elevation gain. Send email to Nm5s@yahoo.com or call Alan Shapiro at 424-9242.

SUNDAY, NOV. 10: Strenuous hike on Arroyo Palacio-Window Rock Loop hike. Great views, about 10 miles, 700 feet of elevation gain. Some off-trail and significant sand portions. Call Aku at 577-2594.

SATURDAY, NOV. 16: Moderatestenuous hike up Picacho Peak in Las Cruces, part of the proposed Organ Mountain-Desert Peaks National Monument. There is a 360-degree view of the proposed monument from the summit. We will descend the east side of the mountain, with a dramatic view of the Organ Mountains, and return via part of the historic Butterfield Stage Route and around the west side of the peak, approximately 5.5 miles roundtrip; elevation gain is 700 feet. 9 a.m., RSVP for meet-

ing place. Send email to howiedash@aol.com or call Howie Dash at 575-652-7550.

SATURDAY, NOV. 16: Santa Fe River Cleanup. Meet at Closson Street Footbridge by 9 a.m., ends by 11 a.m. Bring work gloves; rubber boots helpful if there have been recent rains. Leader will supply trash bags. Contact leader if attending. Send email to paigeanna@comcast.net or call Paige Grant at 570-7633.

SATURDAY, NOV. 16: Tent Rocks National Monument, 3.3-mile, easy-moderate hike, great for families. Carpool at 9 a.m. Entry fee of $3. The rock formations are spectacular, we will learn about the geology and the effect of volcanoes on climate. Send email to odile@pitot.org or call Odile de La Beaujardiere at 433-4692.

SUNDAY, NOV. 17: Moderate hike in Bandelier, either to Alamo Canyon or up Frijoles Canyon. About 6 miles, 800-foot gain. Bring park pass if you have it. Call Les Drapela at 438-3306.

SUNDAY, NOV. 24: Moderate figure-8 hike in Eldorado Preserve.

Historic landscape, including summit of Bishop’s Peak and overlook of Glorieta Pass. Eight miles, maximum of 1,000-foot gain. Up to three dogs OK. Late start. Call Lajla or Dag Ryen at 466-4063.

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Oregon, Stanford set for showdown

By Antonio Gonzalez The Associated Press

STANFORD, Calif. — The matchup between Oregon and Stanford the past three seasons has been billed as the biggest game of the year on the West Coast, a de facto Pac-12 title game and national semifinal.

What it also has been is a spoiler.

In each of the past three years, the loser was handed its only regularseason defeat and would’ve surely

played in the BCS championship game otherwise. The winner went on to claim the Pac-12 title.

The stakes are just as high this year. The stage is even bigger.

When No. 2 Oregon (8-0, 5-0) visits sixth-ranked Stanford (7-1, 5-1) in prime time Thursday, one team will announce itself as the best in the West and the other will watch its championship dreams wither away again.

The showdown at sold-out Stanford Stadium sets up similarly to the

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UNM routs Jamestown The New Mexican

The second half was more like what The University of New Mexico men’s basketball team wants to look like this weekend.

The Lobos want to look UNM 94 like the team that held Jamestown to 20 points after Jamestown 51 halftime to walk away with a 94-51 win in their final exhibition game of the season.

They want to be the team that shot 56.7 percent (17-for-30) from the field and went 4-for-10 from 3-point range.

When UNM steps onto the floor of The Pit on Saturday to play its season opener against Alabama A&M at 8:05 p.m., it wants to be the dominant team from the opening tip.

The first half of Wednesday’s game, though, showed that the Lobos are still searching for an identity of their own. Even though Jamestown, an NAIA school in North Dakota, shot a paltry 34 percent in the opening 20 minutes, the Jimmies stayed within striking distance thanks to a 7-for-23 performance from the perimeter.

The Jimmies were within 28-26 after guard Brequan Tucker’s steal and layup with 6:30 to go before halftime. The Lobos then scored eight straight points, capped by a Cleveland “Pancake” Thomas jumper to make it 26-26 with 3:33 to go.

Thomas’ seven points off the bench helped lead a solid effort from the reserves, who combined for 31 points and 17 rebounds.

“Pancake played well,” said Craig Neal, UNM’s first-year head coach. “I thought all those guys played well. Those guys are going to play minutes this year. They don’t know where they’re going to come or what they’re going to do, but that’s why they’re here, and I think all of them are going to have great careers here.”

Getting his first start of his career was a face familar to Neal — his son, Cullen Neal. The freshman had 14 points, including three 3-pointers in the second half. He opened the scoring after the break with a trey, starting a 15-5 run that gave UNM a 58-36 lead at the 16:34 mark.

Leading the way for the Lobos was 6-foot-9 forward Cameron Bairstow, who had 16 points and nine rebounds. All five starters finished in double figures, including Los Alamos graduate Alex Kirk, who had 12 points and 10 rebounds.

New NCAA rules made to boost scoring

By John Marshall

The Associated Press

PHOENIX — College basketball is going hands-free in an effort to increase scoring and bring flow back to a game that’s turned into a wrestling match in recent years.

Instead, the NCAA’s new rules put may actually bog things down, particularly early in the season as teams adjust to the way the game is being called.

“I don’t think fans, at least in the arenas I’ve ever been in as a fan, a player, a coach, want one team to shoot 50 free throws and the other team shoot 46 free throws,” Xavier coach Chris Mack said. “Usually, at some point, the boo birds start ringing in and you hear the fans yelling out: Let them play. And I think that’s going to be a real problem.”

The rules changes were put in this season after scoring in Division I dropped to 67.5 points per game in 2012-13, the lowest since 1951-52 — long before the shot clock and 3-point shot were added — and the fourth straight season it had decreased.

Shooting percentages and assists were down, and 3-point shooting was the lowest since the arc was added in 1986. The number of fouls called were down as well, an indication that defenders may be getting away with more physical play.

To combat the roughness in the game, the NCAA instituted a new set of rules for the 2013-14

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one in Eugene a year ago.

Last season, the Cardinal outlasted the top-ranked Ducks 17-14 in overtime en route to a conference title and the school’s first Rose Bowl victory in 41 years. In the first 10 games before that contest, Oregon looked unstoppable, leading the nation with 54.8 points per game and never scoring fewer than 42 points.

That remains Oregon quarterback and Heisman Trophy hopeful Marcus Mariota’s only loss in 21 starts. He

has not thrown an interception since that game, keeping the Quack Attack moving at a breakneck pace under first-year coach Mark Helfrich.

The Ducks are averaging 632.1 yards and 55.6 points per game.

Both rank second in the nation behind Baylor.

“When you experience [a loss], it helps you not fear it,” Mariota said.

“There’s a lot of times when you go out there and you fear failure and that’s not how you should play football.”

Oregon coach Mark Helfrich leads the No. 2 Ducks into Thursday’s matchup at No. 6 Stanford. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

CLASS A-AAA/AAAA STATE SOCCER TOURNAMENT

Unfinished business

St. Michael’s Cristiana Gabaldon slide tackles Taos freshman Lucia Costanza during last year’s Class A-AAA quarterfinal. This year, the Lady Horsemen will play Santa Fe Preparatory in the quarterfinals, and Gabaldon is prepared to show off how the team has ‘improved in how we’re scoring and how we’re defending.’ NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Lady Horsemen take on Prep in quarterfinals, hope for rematch against Sandia Prep

By Edmundo Carrillo The New Mexican

T

he St. Michael’s Lady Horsemen were setting up for penalty kicks on a cold Tuesday afternoon to end their last practice before traveling to Albuquerque to begin their march to a blue trophy.

A third matchup with Santa Fe Preparatory was looming in the Class A-AAA girls soccer quarterfinals on Thursday, but as the Lady Horsemen were lining up, some of them were talking and giggling with one another.

“This is business right now,” St. Michael’s head coach Robyn Serge yelled at her players. “No messing around.”

Serge no doubt has the Lady Horsemen taking care of business this season. They are the No. 2 seed in the A-AAA tournament after finishing the season 16-4 while going undefeated in District 2A-AAA for the second year in a row.

The Lady Horsemen went on a 12-match winning streak before losing to Los Alamos in the regular-season finale. Before that, St. Michael’s had not lost since a 5-1 defeat against Albuquerque St. Pius X, the top seed in AAAA, on Sept. 17.

That loss was a turning point for the Lady Horsemen, who finally grew into Serge’s new system.

“I think we’re better than people expect us to be,” said senior Catie Ish. “Our losses came at the beginning of our season and, since then, we’ve grown a lot. Our No. 2 seed is accurate of how good we are.”

Surprisingly, the Lady Horsemen did the same exact thing last year — win 12 matches in a row before going down to Los Alamos in the final match — but many players think that this year is much better.

“We really improved in how we’re scoring and how we’re defending,” said junior Cristiana Gabaldon.

The improvements that the Lady Horsemen

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have made under Serge, who replaced Ed Velie this year after he decided to retire after 19 years at the helm, have them in a good position, even with a third match against Prep at the Albuquerque Public Schools Soccer Complex.

The Blue Griffins were the only 2A-AAA opponent to get within three goals of the Lady Horsemen (they lost to St. Michael’s 3-0 twice this year), as St. Michael’s outscored its district opponents 77-1 this season.

Please see BUsiness, Page B-3

NFL

Cowboys ready for reunion with Ryan Defensive coordinator, now with Saints, faces team that let him go

By Schuyler Dixon The Associated Press

Saints defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, pictured on the field before Sunday’s game against the Jets in East Rutherford, N.J., will face his former team Sunday, less than a year after he was fired and ended up in New Orleans. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

IRVING, Texas — Dallas defensive end Jason Hatcher has a pretty good idea what Rob Ryan is telling his players in New Orleans while getting ready to face the Cowboys less than a year after they fired him.

Hatcher heard some of those

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choice words last season, when Ryan was preparing Dallas to face Cleveland, the previous team that dumped the defensive coordinator after just two seasons.

“I don’t remember all the details,” Hatcher said Wednesday, smiling and squirming just a bit, trying to keep the content suitable for a general audience. “But yeah, he’s going to be jacked up for this one.”

Ryan offered some version of “heck yes” when asked a year ago if playing the Browns was personal.

It’s hard to imagine the feeling

will be any different Sunday night after he declared that he would be “out of work for like 5 minutes” when Dallas let him go last January.

It’s personal for the Cowboys, too — in a positive way.

Hatcher credits Ryan for a sudden upward swing in his career that has him tied for second in the NFC with seven sacks.

Dallas coach Jason Garrett says the relationship “didn’t end” after he had to fire Ryan by phone because Ryan was out of the country.

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NATIONAL SCOREBOARD

THE NEW MEXICAN Thursday, November 7, 2013

FOOTBALL FOOTBALL

BASKETBALL BASKETBALL

East New England N.Y. Jets Miami Buffalo South Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville North Cincinnati Cleveland Baltimore Pittsburgh West Kansas City Denver San Diego Oakland

W 7 5 4 3 W 6 4 2 0 W 6 4 3 2 W 9 7 4 3

L 2 4 4 6 L 2 4 6 8 L 3 5 5 6 L 0 1 4 5

T Pct PF PA 0 .778 234 175 0 .556 169 231 0 .500 174 187 0 .333 189 236 T Pct PF PA 0 .750 214 155 0 .500 173 167 0 .250 146 221 0 .000 86 264 T Pct PF PA 0 .667 217 166 0 .444 172 197 0 .375 168 172 0 .250 156 208 T Pct PF PA 0 1.000 215 111 0 .875 343 218 0 .500 192 174 0 .375 146 199

Atlantic Philadelphia Brooklyn Toronto New York Boston Southeast Miami Charlotte Orlando Atlanta Washington Central Indiana Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland Chicago

East Dallas Philadelphia Washington N.Y. Giants South New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay North Detroit Chicago Green Bay Minnesota West Seattle San Francisco Arizona St. Louis

W 5 4 3 2 W 6 5 2 0 W 5 5 5 1 W 8 6 4 3

L 4 5 5 6 L 2 3 6 8 L 3 3 3 7 L 1 2 4 6

T 0 0 0 0 T 0 0 0 0 T 0 0 0 0 T 0 0 0 0

NFL American Conference

National Conference

Week 10

Pct .556 .444 .375 .250 Pct .750 .625 .250 .000 Pct .625 .625 .625 .125 Pct .889 .750 .500 .333

PF PA 257 209 225 231 203 253 141 223 PF PA 216 146 204 106 176 218 124 190 PF PA 217 197 240 226 232 185 186 252 PF PA 232 149 218 145 160 174 186 226

Thursday’s Game Washington at Minnesota, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Detroit at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Seattle at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Oakland at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Carolina at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Denver at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

Houston at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 11 Miami at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.

Open: Cleveland, Kansas City, N.Y. Jets, New England

NFL Injury Report

The updated National Football League injury report, as provided by the league: WASHINGTON REDSKINS at MINNESOTA VIKINGS REDSKINS: QUESTIONABLE: RB Chris Thompson (shoulder). PROBABLE: DE Stephen Bowen (shoulder), LB London Fletcher (knee), S Jose Gumbs (ankle), WR Leonard Hankerson (hamstring), TE Logan Paulsen (knee). VIKINGS: OUT: RB Matt Asiata (shoulder), CB Chris Cook (hip), DT Fred Evans (knee), DT Letroy Guion (chest, knee), T Phil Loadholt (concussion), TE Kyle Rudolph (foot), S Jamarca Sanford (groin). DOUBTFUL: G Charlie Johnson (elbow). QUESTIONABLE: TE Rhett Ellison (ankle).

PROBABLE: LB Chad Greenway (wrist), CB Xavier Rhodes (shoulder), CB Josh Robinson (chest).

NFL AP Pro32 Power Rankings

1. Kansas City (6) 2. Seattle (3) 3. Denver (3) 4. Indianapolis 4. San Francisco 6. New England 7. New Orleans 8. Cincinnati 9. Detroit 10. Carolina 11. Green Bay 12. Chicago 13. Dallas 14. N.Y. Jets 15. San Diego 16. Arizona 17. Tennessee 18. Miami 19. Philadelphia 20. Cleveland 21. Baltimore 21. Washington 23. N.Y. Giants 24. Buffalo 25. Oakland 26. St. Louis 27. Houston 28. Pittsburgh 29. Atlanta 30. Minnesota 31. Tampa Bay 32. Jacksonville

W 9 8 7 6 6 7 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 0 0

L 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 5 6 6 6 6 7 8 8

T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

NCAA The AP Top 25

Pts 371 366 364 347 347 326 309 290 282 274 273 255 240 223 206 192 188 183 161 160 150 150 112 107 106 86 69 65 62 35 24 13

Pr 1 1 3 5 5 9 4 8 10 12 7 14 13 17 11 16 21 19 25 26 15 23 22 20 18 24 29 27 27 30 31 32

Thursday’s Games No. 2 Oregon at No. 6 Stanford, 7 p.m.

No. 5 Baylor vs. No. 12 Oklahoma, 5:30 p.m.

Friday’s Game No. 20 Louisville at UConn, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 10 LSU, 6 p.m.

No. 3 Florida State at Wake Forest, 10 a.m.

No. 7 Auburn at Tennessee, 10 a.m.

No. 9 Missouri at Kentucky, 10 a.m.

No. 11 Texas A&M vs. Mississippi State, 1:30 p.m.

No. 14 Miami vs. Virginia Tech, 5 p.m.

No. 15 Oklahoma State vs. Kansas, 2 p.m.

No. 16 UCLA at Arizona, 8 p.m.

No. 17 Fresno St. at Wyoming, 8:15 p.m.

No. 19 UCF vs. Houston, 6 p.m.

No. 21 Wisconsin vs. BYU, 1:30 p.m.

No. 23 Arizona State at Utah, 2 p.m.

No. 24 Notre Dame at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

No. 25 Texas Tech vs. Kansas State, 10 a.m.

NCAA The AP Top 25 Poll

Rec 1. Alabama (52) 8-0 2. Oregon (2) 8-0 3. Florida St. (6) 8-0 4. Ohio St. 9-0 5. Baylor 7-0 6. Stanford 7-1 7. Auburn 8-1 8. Clemson 8-1 9. Missouri 8-1 10. LSU 7-2 11. Texas A&M 7-2 12. Oklahoma 7-1 13. South Carolina 7-2 14. Miami 7-1 15. Oklahoma St. 7-1 16. UCLA 6-2 17. Fresno St. 8-0 18. Michigan St. 8-1 19. UCF 6-1 20. Louisville 7-1 21. Wisconsin 6-2 22. N. Illinois 9-0 23. Arizona St. 6-2 24. Notre Dame 7-2 25. Texas Tech 7-2

Pts 1,491 1,418 1,409 1,315 1,234 1,214 1,082 1,059 956 863 861 816 769 737 662 515 493 478 472 385 342 322 197 164 102

Pv 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 7 18 17 16 24 19 20 22 21 25 NR 15

NBA Eastern Conference W 3 2 2 1 1 W 3 3 3 2 1 W 5 2 2 2 1

L Pct 2 .600 2 .500 3 .400 3 .250 4 .200 L Pct 2 .600 2 .600 2 .600 2 .500 3 .250 L Pct 0 1.000 2 .500 2 .500 3 .400 3 .250

Western Conference

GB — 1/2 1 11/2 2 GB — — — 1/2 11/2 GB — 21/2 21/2 3 31/2

Southwest W L Pct GB San Antonio 4 1 .800 — Houston 4 1 .800 — Dallas 3 2 .600 1 New Orleans 2 3 .400 2 Memphis 2 3 .400 2 Northwest W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 3 1 .750 — Minnesota 3 2 .600 1/2 Portland 2 2 .500 1 Denver 0 3 .000 21/2 Utah 0 5 .000 31/2 Pacific W L Pct GB Golden State 4 1 .800 — L.A. Clippers 3 2 .600 1 Phoenix 3 2 .600 1 L.A. Lakers 2 3 .400 2 Sacramento 1 3 .250 21/2 Wednesday’s Games Orlando 98, L.A. Clippers 90 Washington 116, Philadelphia 102 Indiana 97, Chicago 80 Charlotte 92, Toronto 90 Boston 97, Utah 87 Golden State 106, Minnesota 93 Milwaukee 109, Cleveland 104 New Orleans 99, Memphis 84 San Antonio 99, Phoenix 96 Oklahoma City 107, Dallas 93 Tuesday’s Games Miami 104, Toronto 95 Brooklyn 104, Utah 88 Indiana 99, Detroit 91 Charlotte 102, New York 97 Phoenix 104, New Orleans 98 Dallas 123, L.A. Lakers 104 San Antonio 102, Denver 94 Houston 116, Portland 101 Atlanta 105, Sacramento 100 Thursday’s Games L.A. Clippers at Miami, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Denver, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Boston at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Washington, 5 p.m.

New York at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

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

Utah at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Golden State at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Portland, 8 p.m.

NBA BOxSCORES Wednesday Wizards 116, 76ers 102

WASHINGTON (116) Ariza 5-10 2-2 15, Nene 4-10 2-2 10, Gortat 8-12 3-3 19, Wall 8-16 3-4 24, Beal 7-20 0-2 17, Harrington 4-9 0-1 10, Webster 4-10 2-2 14, Seraphin 1-4 0-0 2, Maynor 2-7 0-0 5. Totals 43-98 12-16 116.

PHILADELPHIA (102) Turner 9-13 5-6 24, Young 3-11 1-2 7, Hawes 9-16 3-4 23, Carter-Williams 8-21 2-4 19, Anderson 5-10 1-1 13, Allen 1-1 1-2 3, Wroten 1-6 0-0 2, Morris 2-3 0-1 4, Orton 1-2 3-3 5, Thompson 0-0 2-3 2. Totals 39-83 18-26 102.

Washington 39 21 29 27—116 Philadelphia 27 24 25 26—102 3-Point Goals—Washington 18-33 (Wall 5-8, Webster 4-7, Ariza 3-4, Beal 3-9, Harrington 2-4, Maynor 1-1), Philadelphia 6-18 (Anderson 2-4, Hawes 2-4, Turner 1-2, CarterWilliams 1-4, Young 0-1, Wroten 0-3).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Washington 49 (Gortat 12), Philadelphia 62 (Hawes 13). Assists—Washington 32 (Wall 9), Philadelphia 26 (Carter-Williams 7). Total Fouls—Washington 20, Philadelphia 15. Technicals—Young.

A—10,117.

Bucks 109, Cavaliers 104

CLEVELAND (104) Clark 1-2 0-0 3, Thompson 1-5 3-4 5, Varejao 6-9 0-0 12, Irving 10-20 5-5 29, Waiters 7-13 6-11 21, Miles 5-11 0-0 14, Gee 2-5 2-2 7, Jack 3-8 0-0 6, Bennett 1-5 0-0 3, Bynum 2-7 0-0 4, Zeller 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-85 16-22 104.

MILWAUKEE (109) Butler 4-12 0-0 10, Henson 7-9 0-2 14, Pachulia 2-4 10-10 14, Wolters 2-5 5-5 9, Mayo 9-19 4-4 28, Udoh 2-3 0-0 4, Neal 8-15 3-3 23, Middleton 2-5 2-2 7.

Totals 36-72 24-26 109.

Cleveland 23 30 26 25—104 Milwaukee 30 25 28 26—109 3-Point Goals—Cleveland 12-28 (Irving 4-6, Miles 4-10, Clark 1-1, Bennett 1-3, Gee 1-3, Waiters 1-4, Jack 0-1), Milwaukee 13-23 (Mayo 6-7, Neal 4-5, Butler 2-7, Middleton 1-3, Wolters 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Cleveland 47 (Varejao 8), Milwaukee 44 (Henson, Pachulia 9). Assists— Cleveland 20 (Irving 8), Milwaukee 25 (Pachulia 7). Total Fouls—Cleveland 21, Milwaukee 18. Technicals—Cleveland delay of game. A—14,340.

Bobcats 92, Raptors 90

TORONTO (90) Gay 8-21 4-5 20, Johnson 6-9 0-0 13, Valanciunas 5-8 2-2 12, Lowry 3-7 0-0 8, DeRozan 5-16 2-2 14, Fields 2-3 0-0 4, Hansbrough 4-6 1-1 9, Augustin 0-1 3-3 3, Daye 0-1 0-0 0, Ross 2-6 1-2 7, Stone 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 35-79 13-15 90.

CHARLOTTE (92) Kidd-Gilchrist 6-7 2-2 14, McRoberts 5-14 2-4 13, Biyombo 3-4 2-6 8, Walker 2-13 0-0 5, Henderson 10-17 3-4 23, Taylor 5-10 2-4 13, Zeller 3-3 0-2 6, Sessions 1-4 6-8 8, Adrien 1-1 0-0 2.

Totals 36-73 17-30 92.

Toronto 18 35 17 20—90 Charlotte 32 21 23 16—92 3-Point Goals—Toronto 7-16 (Lowry 2-3, Ross 2-3, DeRozan 2-5, Johnson 1-2, Daye 0-1, Gay 0-1, Stone 0-1), Charlotte 3-15 (McRoberts 1-4, Taylor 1-4, Walker 1-5, Henderson 0-2).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Toronto 47 (Valanciunas 10), Charlotte 49 (Biyombo 11). Assists—Toronto 18 (Lowry 6), Charlotte 24 (Walker 7).

Total Fouls—Toronto 27, Charlotte 19.

A—11,118.

Magic 98, Clippers 90

L.A. CLIPPERS (90) Dudley 3-8 0-0 7, Griffin 10-20 3-6 23, Jordan 3-10 3-6 9, Paul 8-19 2-2 18, Redick 7-15 1-1 17, Crawford 5-13 4-4 14, Green 0-2 0-0 0, Mullens 0-5 0-0 0, Collison 0-3 2-2 2. Totals 36-95 15-21 90.

ORLANDO (98) Harkless 2-3 2-4 6, Maxiell 3-5 0-0 6, Vucevic 11-19 8-8 30, Nelson 5-8 0-0 11, Afflalo 5-16 1-2 11, Oladipo 4-6 1-2 11, Moore 5-8 0-0 12, Nicholson 4-16 1-1 9, O’Quinn 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 40-82 13-17 98.

L.A. Clippers 20 22 32 16—90 Orlando 29 28 15 26—98 3-Point Goals—L.A. Clippers 3-19 (Redick 2-5, Dudley 1-3, Paul 0-2, Collison 0-2, Crawford 0-3, Mullens 0-4), Orlando 5-16 (Moore 2-3, Oladipo 2-3, Nelson 1-3, Harkless 0-1, Nicholson 0-3, Afflalo 0-3). Fouled Out—Paul. Rebounds—L.A. Clippers 57 (Jordan 19), Orlando 54 (Vucevic 21). Assists—L.A. Clippers 20 (Paul 10), Orlando 21 (Nelson 8). Total Fouls—L.A. Clippers 19, Orlando 17. Technicals—Mullens, Nicholson, O’Quinn, Orlando defensive three second . A—15,807.

Pacers 97, Bulls 80

CHICAGO (80) Deng 6-18 5-5 17, Boozer 3-10 0-0 6, Noah 0-2 4-4 4, Rose 6-15 4-5 17, J.Butler 2-6 2-2 7, Dunleavy 2-6 1-1 6, Gibson 3-8 3-4 9, Hinrich 3-5 4-6 12, Mohammed 1-2 0-0 2, Murphy 0-0 0-0 0, Snell 0-0 0-0 0, Teague 0-1 0-0 0, James 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26-73 23-27 80.

INDIANA (97) George 6-19 7-7 21, West 8-16 1-2 17, Hibbert 3-8 2-2 8, Watson 3-5 4-4 11, Stephenson 5-17 2-4 15, S.Hill 0-2 0-0 0, Sloan 4-6 0-0 9, Scola 6-8 0-0 12, Mahinmi 0-1 0-0 0, Johnson 1-3 2-2 4, R.Butler 0-0 0-0 0, Copeland 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 36-86 18-21 97.

Chicago 19 24 19 18—80 Indiana 25 12 26 34—97 3-Point Goals—Chicago 5-15 (Hinrich 2-2, Dunleavy 1-2, J.Butler 1-3, Rose 1-5, Deng 0-3), Indiana 7-18 (Stephenson 3-6, George 2-5, Sloan 1-1, Watson 1-2, Copeland 0-1, Johnson 0-1, S.Hill 0-2). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Chicago 47 (Boozer 9), Indiana 57 (West 13). Assists— Chicago 15 (Hinrich 5), Indiana 21 (Sloan, Stephenson, Watson 4).

Total Fouls—Chicago 20, Indiana 24.

Technicals—Indiana Coach Vogel.

Flagrant Fouls—Hinrich. A—18,165.

Celtics 97, Jazz 87

UTAH (87) Jefferson 5-12 3-4 13, Favors 4-10 2-5 10, Kanter 9-14 4-5 22, Tinsley 0-2 0-0 0, Hayward 12-20 3-4 28, Gobert 0-0 0-0 0, Lucas III 2-4 0-0 4, Burks 4-9 0-0 8, Harris 1-3 0-0 2, Clark 0-6 0-0 0.

Totals 37-80 12-18 87.

BOSTON (97) Green 6-13 3-3 18, Bass 9-15 2-3 20, Faverani 0-4 0-0 0, Bradley 3-8 2-2 8, Crawford 3-9 0-0 7, Sullinger 6-11 0-0 12, Wallace 3-5 1-4 9, Olynyk 6-14 2-2 14, Pressey 1-4 0-0 2, Lee 2-3 0-0 5, Humphries 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 40-89 10-14 97.

Utah 26 8 28 25—87 Boston 23 27 34 13—97 3-Point Goals—Utah 1-10 (Hayward 1-2, Tinsley 0-1, Lucas III 0-1, Jefferson 0-3, Clark 0-3), Boston 7-20 (Green 3-4, Wallace 2-2, Lee 1-1, Crawford 1-3, Faverani 0-1, Bradley 0-2, Pressey 0-2, Sullinger 0-2, Olynyk 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Utah 53 (Favors 14), Boston 49 (Wallace 9). Assists—Utah 14 (Hayward 5), Boston 22 (Crawford, Green 4). Total Fouls—Utah 22, Boston 18. A—17,130.

Pelicans 99, Grizzlies 84

NEW ORLEANS (99) Aminu 4-7 1-2 9, A.Davis 5-14 8-9 18, Smith 4-8 2-2 10, Holiday 5-11 0-0 11, Gordon 6-14 6-6 19, Stiemsma 2-2 0-0 4, Evans 7-12 2-2 16, Morrow 3-6 0-0 7, Roberts 2-4 0-0 5, Rivers 0-0 0-0 0, Thomas 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-78 19-21 99.

MEMPHIS (84) Prince 2-4 0-0 4, Randolph 1-1 0-0 2, Gasol 4-11 3-4 11, Conley 10-16 6-6 26, Allen 3-6 0-0 6, Pondexter 0-4 0-0 0, M.Miller 3-4 0-0 9, Leuer 2-5 0-0 4, Bayless 1-5 0-0 3, Koufos 2-4 2-2 6, E.Davis 3-4 1-2 7, Calathes 1-3 0-0 2, Franklin 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 34-71 12-14 84.

New Orleans 33 18 28 20—99 Memphis 18 23 16 27—84 3-Point Goals—New Orleans 4-13 (Morrow 1-2, Holiday 1-2, Roberts 1-3, Gordon 1-4, Aminu 0-1, Evans 0-1), Memphis 4-15 (M.Miller 3-4, Bayless 1-2, Allen 0-1, Franklin 0-1, Pondexter 0-3, Conley 0-4). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—New Orleans 46 (A.Davis 9), Memphis 35 (M.Miller 6). Assists— New Orleans 16 (Evans 4), Memphis 17 (Gasol 4). Total Fouls—New Orleans 17, Memphis 20. A—15,209.

Warriors 106, Timberwolves 93

GOLDEN STATE (106) Iguodala 8-13 3-6 20, Lee 10-16 2-2 22, Bogut 1-2 0-0 2, Curry 2-8 1-2 5, Thompson 11-21 2-2 30, O’Neal 1-4 3-4 5, Barnes 6-8 2-2 14, Douglas 0-2 0-0 0, Speights 3-7 1-2 8, Green 0-3 0-0 0, Bazemore 0-0 0-0 0, Kuzmic 0-0 0-0 0, Nedovic 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 42-84 14-20 106.

MINNESOTA (93) Brewer 7-14 3-3 18, Love 10-25 4-4 25, Pekovic 4-11 2-3 10, Rubio 2-8 3-5 7, Martin 7-15 7-8 23, Barea 2-6 1-2 5, Williams 0-6 0-0 0, Dieng 0-0 1-2 1, Cunningham 1-2 0-0 2, Shved 0-2 0-0 0, Hummel 0-0 0-0 0, Muhammad 1-1 0-0 2, Price 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-90 21-27 93.

Golden State 26 24 29 27 —106 Minnesota 28 19 24 22 —93 3-Point Goals—Golden State 8-20 (Thompson 6-9, Speights 1-2, Iguodala 1-3, Douglas 0-1, Green 0-2, Curry 0-3), Minnesota 4-16 (Martin 2-5, Brewer 1-2, Love 1-4, Rubio 0-1, Barea 0-1, Williams 0-3). Fouled Out—Bogut.

Rebounds—Golden State 58 (Lee 15), Minnesota 52 (Love 16). Assists— Golden State 23 (Curry 7), Minnesota 22 (Rubio 7). Total Fouls—Golden State 29, Minnesota 19. Technicals— Thompson. A—15,559.

Spurs 99, Suns 96

PHOENIx (96) G.Green 6-13 0-0 15, Plumlee 7-12 1-2 15, Frye 1-4 0-0 3, Bledsoe 6-12 1-3 14, Tucker 1-7 0-0 3, Marc.Morris 5-11 0-0 11, Mark.Morris 11-13 1-2 23, Smith 2-6 2-2 6, Christmas 1-2 0-0 2, Goodwin 2-5 0-0 4. Totals 42-85 5-9 96.

SAN ANTONIO (99) Leonard 4-9 0-0 8, Duncan 7-12 3-4 17, Diaw 5-14 1-2 11, Parker 9-15 1-1 20, D.Green 8-11 0-0 19, Mills 1-5 0-0 2, Ginobili 4-11 0-0 9, Belinelli 1-6 1-2 4, Splitter 2-2 5-6 9, Ayres 0-0 0-0 0, Joseph 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-85 11-15 99.

Phoenix 21 32 20 23—96 San Antonio 29 22 22 26—99 3-Point Goals—Phoenix 7-19 (G.Green 3-8, Marc.Morris 1-2, Tucker 1-2, Frye 1-2, Bledsoe 1-3, Mark.Morris 0-1, Smith 0-1), San Antonio 6-16 (D.Green 3-6, Belinelli 1-1, Parker 1-1, Ginobili 1-4, Leonard 0-2, Diaw 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Phoenix 50 (Mark.Morris 12), San Antonio 45 (Splitter 7). Assists—Phoenix 14 (Bledsoe 5), San Antonio 25 (Parker 6). Total Fouls—Phoenix 17, San Antonio 17. Technicals—Phoenix defensive three second, San Antonio delay of game. A—17,870.

Thunder 107, Mavericks 93

DALLAS (93) Marion 7-13 1-1 17, Nowitzki 5-12 4-4 16, Dalembert 3-10 0-0 6, Calderon 3-6 2-2 9, Ellis 8-17 3-4 20, Carter 0-4 0-0 0, Blair 4-8 0-0 8, Crowder 6-8 2-3 17, Mekel 0-4 0-0 0, Ellington 0-1 0-0 0, Ledo 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 36-85 12-14 93.

OKLAHOMA CITY (107) Durant 7-16 8-9 23, Ibaka 8-10 0-0 17, Perkins 2-4 0-0 4, Westbrook 10-20 2-5 22, Sefolosha 2-5 1-2 5, Collison 2-3 0-2 4, Jackson 1-4 0-0 2, Lamb 4-7 2-2 13, Jones 2-2 0-0 4, Adams 2-3 2-2 6, Fisher 2-4 1-1 5, Roberson 1-1 0-0 2.

Totals 43-79 16-23 107.

Dallas 31 20 24 18—93 Oklahoma City 33 24 28 22—107 3-Point Goals—Dallas 9-23 (Crowder 3-5, Nowitzki 2-4, Marion 2-4, Calderon 1-2, Ellis 1-3, Ledo 0-1, Ellington 0-1, Mekel 0-1, Carter 0-2), Oklahoma City 5-13 (Lamb 3-5, Ibaka 1-1, Durant 1-2, Westbrook 0-1, Fisher 0-1, Sefolosha 0-3). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Dallas 42 (Dalembert 9), Oklahoma City 52 (Ibaka 13).

Assists—Dallas 17 (Ellis, Calderon, Marion, Nowitzki 3), Oklahoma City 28 (Durant 10). Total Fouls—Dallas 16, Oklahoma City 17. Technicals— Crowder, Adams, Westbrook. Flagrant Fouls—Carter. A—18,203 (18,203).

NCAA TOP 25 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

Friday’s Games No. 1 Kentucky vs. UNC Asheville, 5 p.m.

No. 2 Michigan State vs. McNeese State, 5 p.m.

No. 4 Duke vs. Davidson, 5 p.m.

No. 5 Kansas vs. Louisiana-Monroe, 6 p.m.

No. 6 Arizona vs. Cal Poly, 8 p.m.

No. 7 Michigan vs. UMass-Lowell, 5 p.m.

No. 8 Oklahoma State vs. MVSU, 6 p.m.

No. 8 Syracuse vs. Cornell, 5 p.m.

No. 10 Florida vs. North Florida, 1 p.m.

No. 12 North Carolina vs. Oakland, 7 p.m.

No. 14 VCU vs. Illinois State, 5 p.m.

No. 17 Marquette vs. Southern U., 6 p.m.

No. 18 UConn vs. Maryland at the Barclays Center, 4:30 p.m.

No. 19 Oregon vs. Georgetown at Camp Humphreys, Seoul, South Korea, 6 p.m.

No. 20 Wisconsin vs. St. John’s at Sanford Pentagon, Sioux Falls, S.D., 5 p.m.

No. 21 Notre Dame vs. Miami (Ohio), 5 p.m.

No. 24 Virginia vs. James Madison, 5 p.m.

No. 25 Baylor vs. Colorado at American Airlines Center, Dallas, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games No. 3 Louisville vs. College of Charleston, 11 a.m.

No. 11 Ohio State vs. Morgan State, 10 a.m.

No. 15 Gonzaga vs. Bryant, 5 p.m.

No. 16 Wichita State vs. Emporia State, 12 p.m.

No. 22 UCLA vs. Drexel, Mid No. 23 New Mexico vs. Alabama A&M, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games No. 1 Kentucky vs. Northern Kentucky, 2 p.m.

No. 21 Notre Dame vs. Stetson, 11 a.m.

TENNIS TENNIS

BARCLAYS ATP WORLD TOUR Finals

Wednesday At O2 Arena London Purse: $6 million (Tour Final) Surface: Hard-Indoor Round Robin Singles Group A Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Stanislas Wawrinka (7), Switzerland, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6).

Tomas Berdych (5), Czech Republic def. David Ferrer (3), Spain, 6-4, 6-4.

Standings Nadal 2-0 (4-0); Berdych, 1-1 (3-2); Wawrinka, 1-1 (2-3); Ferrer, 0-2 (0-4).

Group B No matches.

Standings Djokovic, 1-0 (2-1); del Potro, 1-0 (2-1); Gasquet, 0-1 (1-2); Federer, 0-1 (1-2).

Doubles Group A No matches.

Standings Fyrstenberg-Matkowski, 1-0 (2-0); Dodig-Melo, 1-0 (2-1); Bryan-Bryan, 0-1 (1-2); Qureshi-Rojer, 0-1 (0-2).

Group B Alexander Peya, Austria, and Bruno Soares (2), Brazil, def. Marcel Granollers, Spain, and Marc Lopez (3), Spain, 3-6, 6-4, 10-5.

David Marrero, Spain, and Fernando Verdasco (6), Spain, def. Leander Paes, India, and Radek Stepanek (7), Czech Republic, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

Standings Marrero-Verdasco, 2-0 (4-0); PeyaSoares, 1-1 (3-3); Paes-Stepanek, 1-1 (2-3); Granollers-Lopez, 0-2 (1-4).

SOCCER SOCCER

NORTH AMERICA MLS Playoffs KNOCKOUT ROUND Times EST Eastern Conference

Thursday, Oct. 31 Houston 3, Montreal 0

Western Conference

Wednesday, Oct. 30 Seattle 2, Colorado 0

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS Eastern Conference

New York vs. Houston Leg 1 — New York 2, Houston 2 Leg 2 — Wednesday’s Game Houston 2, New York 1, OT, Houston advances on aggregate 4-3 Sporting KC vs. New England Leg 1 — New England 2, Sporting KC 1 Leg 2 — Wednesday’s Game Sporting KC 3, New England 1, OT Sporting KC advances on aggregate 4-3

Western Conference

Portland vs. Seattle Leg 1 — Portland 2, Seattle 1 Leg 2 — Thursday’s Game Seattle at Portland, 11 p.m.

Real Salt Lake vs. LA Galaxy Leg 1 — LA Galaxy 1, Real Salt Lake 0 Leg 2 — Thursday’s Game LA Galaxy at Real Salt Lake, 9 p.m.

HOCKEY HOCKEY

NHL Eastern Conference

Atlantic GP Tampa Bay 14 Toronto 15 Detroit 16 Boston 14 Montreal 16 Ottawa 15 Florida 15 Buffalo 17 Metro GP Pittsburgh 16 Washington 15 N.Y. Islanders 15 N.Y. Rangers15 Carolina 15 Columbus 14 New Jersey 14 Philadelphia14

W L OL Pts GFGA 10 4 0 20 47 35 10 5 0 20 48 36 9 5 2 20 40 41 8 5 1 17 38 28 8 7 1 17 43 34 5 6 4 14 46 48 3 8 4 10 31 53 3 13 1 7 31 53 W L OL Pts GFGA 11 5 0 22 49 38 8 7 0 16 50 42 6 6 3 15 47 50 7 8 0 14 31 41 5 7 3 13 29 45 5 9 0 10 34 40 3 7 4 10 26 42 4 9 1 9 22 39

Western Conference

Central GP W L OL Pts GFGA Colorado 14 12 2 0 24 46 25 Chicago 16 10 2 4 24 56 43 Minnesota 16 9 4 3 21 43 35 St. Louis 13 9 2 2 20 47 31 Nashville 15 8 5 2 18 37 44 Dallas 15 7 6 2 16 40 44 Winnipeg 17 6 9 2 14 40 51 Pacific GP W L OL Pts GFGA Anaheim 17 13 3 1 27 57 42 San Jose 15 10 1 4 24 57 32 Phoenix 17 11 4 2 24 56 53 Vancouver 17 10 5 2 22 48 44 Los Angeles 15 9 6 0 18 43 40 Calgary 15 6 7 2 14 43 54 Edmonton 16 4 10 2 10 40 62 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 5, Pittsburgh 1 Chicago 4, Winnipeg 1 Nashville 6, Colorado 4 Anaheim 5, Phoenix 2 Tuesday’s Games Dallas 3, Boston 2, SO St. Louis 3, Montreal 2, SO Phoenix 3, Vancouver 2, SO Buffalo 5, San Jose 4, SO Washington 6, N.Y. Islanders 2 Ottawa 4, Columbus 1 Edmonton 4, Florida 3, OT Carolina 2, Philadelphia 1, OT Minnesota 5, Calgary 1 Thursday’s Games Florida at Boston, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 5 p.m.

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

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

Dallas at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

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

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

Friday’s Games New Jersey at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

NHL SUMMARIES Wednesday Blackhawks 4, Jets 1

Winnipeg 0 0 1—1 Chicago 2 1 1—4 First Period—1, Chicago, Toews 8 (Sharp, Keith), 17:29. 2, Chicago, P.Kane 9 (Seabrook, Keith), 19:54.

Second Period—3, Chicago, Pirri 3 (Smith), 18:02.

Third Period—4, Chicago, Sharp 4, 4:00. 5, Winnipeg, Setoguchi 3 (Jokinen, Byfuglien), 8:40.

Shots on Goal—Winnipeg 11-7-7—25.

Chicago 12-11-5—28.

Power-play opportunities—Winnipeg 0 of 2; Chicago 0 of 2.

Goalies—Winnipeg, Montoya 2-2-0 (28 shots-24 saves). Chicago, Crawford 9-2-3 (25-24).

Referees—Frederick L’Ecuyer, Dennis LaRue. Linesmen—Shane Heyer, Brad Kovachik.

A—21,122. T—2:19.

Rangers 5, Penguins 1

Pittsburgh 0 1 0—1 N.Y. Rangers 2 2 1—5 First Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, McDonagh 3 (Boyle), 18:08. 2, N.Y. Rangers, Stepan 4 (Zuccarello, Kreider), 19:13.

Second Period—3, N.Y. Rangers, Boyle 1 (Richards, Stralman), 13:10. 4, Pittsburgh, Letang 3 (Kunitz, Malkin), 14:34 (pp). 5, N.Y. Rangers, Callahan 4 (Richards, Hagelin), 15:38.

Third Period—6, N.Y. Rangers, Brassard 3 (Dorsett), 9:57.

Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 12-8-9—29.

N.Y. Rangers 9-11-5—25.

Power-play opportunities—Pittsburgh 1 of 6; N.Y. Rangers 0 of 4.

Goalies—Pittsburgh, Fleury 10-3-0 (25 shots-20 saves). N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist 5-6-0 (29-28).

Referees—Marc Joannette, Dan O’Rourke. Linesmen—Jonny Murray, Vaughan Rody.

A—18,006. T—2:30.

Predators 6, Avalanche 4

Nashville 2 2 2—6 Colorado 1 2 1—4 First Period—1, Nashville, Stalberg 1 (C.Wilson, Ekholm), 13:12. 2, Colorado, Parenteau 5 (Duchene), 15:23. 3, Nashville, Cr.Smith 3 (C.Wilson, Ellis), 19:04 (pp).

Second Period—4, Colorado, O’Reilly 5 (Parenteau, Duchene), 2:15. 5, Nashville, Gaustad 3 (Forsberg), 3:14.

6, Nashville, C.Wilson 2 (Ellis, Josi), 6:47 (pp). 7, Colorado, Stastny 5 (McGinn), 13:37.

Penalties—Parenteau, Col (tripping), 5:51; Josi, Nas (interference), 10:48; Nashville bench, served by Forsberg (too many men), 16:11; Johnson, Col, misconduct, 20:00.

Third Period—8, Colorado, Duchene 10 (McLeod, Sarich), 4:23. 9, Nashville, C.Wilson 3 (Stalberg, Legwand), 7:34. 10, Nashville, Bourque 1 (Legwand), 19:42 (en).

Shots on Goal—Nashville 10-9-9—28.

Colorado 9-10-12—31.

Power-play opportunities—Nashville 2 of 2; Colorado 0 of 2.

Goalies—Nashville, Hutton 4-1-1 (31 shots-27 saves). Colorado, Varlamov 8-2-0 (27-22).

A—14,043. T—2:26.

Ducks 5, Coyotes 2

Phoenix 1 1 0—2 Anaheim 1 2 2—5 First Period—1, Phoenix, Doan 6 (Ribeiro, Ekman-Larsson), 4:25. 2, Anaheim, Lindholm 1 (Perreault, Smith-Pelly), 15:00.

Second Period—3, Phoenix, Stone 3 (Moss, Hanzal), 12:40 (pp). 4, Anaheim, Getzlaf 7 (Fowler, Bonino), 15:36 (pp). 5, Anaheim, Perry 10 (Lindholm, Getzlaf), 19:58.

Third Period—6, Anaheim, Fowler 1 (Bonino), 10:08 (pp). 7, Anaheim, Cogliano 3 (Penner), 18:58 (en).

Shots on Goal—Phoenix 9-9-8—26.

Anaheim 10-11-8—29.

Power-play opportunities—Phoenix 1 of 4; Anaheim 2 of 4.

Goalies—Phoenix, Smith 9-3-2 (28 shots-24 saves). Anaheim, Hiller 7-2-1 (26-24).

A—14,045. T—2:23.

BASEBALL BASEBALL

2013 SILVER SLUGGER TEAM Presented by Hillerich & Bradsby Co. Selected by major league coaches and managers American League

1B - Chris Davis, Baltimore Orioles 2B - Robinson Cano, New York Yankees 3B - Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers SS - J.J. Hardy, Baltimore Orioles OF - Mike Trout, L.A. Angels OF - Torii Hunter, Detroit Tigers OF - Adam Jones, Baltimore Orioles C - Joe Mauer, Minnesota Twins DH - David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox

National League

1B - Paul Goldschmidt, Arizona Diamondbacks 2B - Matt Carpenter, St. Louis Cardinals 3B - Pedro Alvarez, Pittsburgh Pirates SS - Ian Desmond, Washington Nationals OF - Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh Pirates OF - Michael Cuddyer, Colorado Rockies OF - Jay Bruce, Cincinnati Reds C - Yadier Molina, St. Louis Cardinals P - Zack Greinke, Los Angeles Dodgers

TRANSACTIONS TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL American League

DETROIT TIGERS — Named Jeff Jones pitching coach and Dave Clark third base coach and outfield instructor.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Agreed to terms with OF David DeJesus on a two-year contract.

Eastern League

READING FIGHTIN PHILS — Promoted Tim McGee to director of ticket operations and Jon Muldowney to director of group sales.

American Association

KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Named John Massarelli field manager.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released INF Stephen King.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Traded RHP Matt Rusch to Trois-Rivieres (Can-Am) for the rights to INF Cam Kneeland.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association

NBA — Fined Milwaukee F Caron Butler $15,000 for making an obscene gesture during a Nov. 1 game at Boston.

NBA Development League

RIO GRANDE VALLEY VIPERS Named Paul Mokeski associate head coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League

DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed DT Everett Dawkins. Signed G Phillipkeith Manley and DE Hall Davis to the practice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed QB Scott Tolzien from the practice squad.

Signed WR Alex Gillett to the practice squad.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Named Wade Phillips interim coach.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Placed LB Jonathan Vilma on the injured reserve list.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Placed LB Sean Spence on the injured reserve list.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released WR Josh Lenz from the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Claimed S Bradley McDougald off waivers from Kansas City. Placed RB Jeff Demps on the injured reserve list.

HOCKEY National Hockey League

DETROIT RED WINGS — Placed F Jordin Tootoo on waivers.

MINNESOTA WILD — Reassigned F Carson McMillan to Iowa (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS Assigned Fs Louis Leblanc and Martin St. Pierre to Hamilton (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled RW Cam Janssen from Albany (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer

COLORADO RAPIDS — Re-signed MF Nathan Sturgis.

COLUMBUS CREW — Named Gregg Berhalter coach.

COLLEGE NCAA

NCAA — Placed Chadron State on three years of probation and ordered the school to vacate the results of all games in the 2011 and 2012 football seasons. The school had not exercised control over its athletic program when coach Bill O’Boyle held three private bank accounts for the football program, provided extra benefits to athletes and provided false or misleading information to the school.

A football player also competed while ineligible. Issued a show-cause order for retired athletic director Brad Smith and Bill O’Boyle.

BIG EAST CONFERENCE — Named Rick Gentile senior associate commissioner for broadcasting.

GRU AUGUSTA — Suspended junior F Devon Wright-Nelson for the first three games of the 2013-14 regular season for Nelson’s failure to adhere to the standards of the men’s basketball program.

PROVIDENCE Suspended freshman basketball G Brandon Austin and freshman basketball F Rodney Bullock from game action indefinitely for not upholding their responsibilities as student-athletes.

WENTWORTH — Announced the resignation of women’s basketball coach Amanda Rodgerson Devitt. Named Matt Phippard women’s basketball coach.

AUTO RACING AUTO RACING

NASCAR SPRINT CUP Leaders

Through Nov. 3 Points 1, Jimmie Johnson, 2,342. 2, Matt Kenseth, 2,335. 3, Kevin Harvick, 2,302. 4, Kyle Busch, 2,290. 5, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2,280. 6, Jeff Gordon, 2,273. 7, Clint Bowyer, 2,273. 8, Greg Biffle, 2,269. 9, Joey Logano, 2,251. 10, Kurt Busch, 2,246.

Money 1, Jimmie Johnson, $8,670,203. 2, Kyle Busch, $6,639,324. 3, Matt Kenseth, $6,613,344. 4, Kevin Harvick, $6,213,286. 5, Brad Keselowski, $6,156,893. 6, Jeff Gordon, $5,637,897.

7, Carl Edwards, $5,626,250. 8, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $5,568,438. 9, Joey Logano, $5,429,831. 10, Ryan Newman, $5,362,305.

SPORTS SOCCER NOTEBOOK

Tourney survivors set to play district foes

By Edmundo Carrillo The New Mexican

Of the 12 Northern New Mexico boys and girls soccer teams that made it to their respective state tournament, 10 have moved on to the quarterfinals. Only the Los Alamos and Las Vegas Robertson girls made an early exit, leading the way for some potential district clashes in the remainder of the tournament.

In Class A-AAA, the St. Michael’s girls clash with Santa Fe Preparatory in a District 2A-AAA battle Thursday morning, while Prep and Monte del Sol will try to break the tie in their series when the 2A-AAA foes face off for the third time this season. This also means the district is guaranteed a spot in the semifinals.

The only way Prep or Monte del Sol can get a shot at St. Michael’s is in the finals. The

Horsemen play Albuquerque Hope Christian today, to whom they fell 2-0 at home earlier in the season.

It’s a similar story for the Los Alamos boys in the AAAA bracket, with the Hilltoppers’ only chance at a rematch with District 2AAAA champion Capital coming in the final.

The Santa Fe High girls have no shot of seeing a district opponent because they are the only 2AAAA team left since the Lady Hilltoppers fell through the trap door. uuu One of Monte del Sol’s biggest weapons in its quest for a state championship is senior Luis Lozoya, whose 26 goals have him tied with Bloomfield’s Raul Fonseca for the most in A-AAA. Lozoya, who has been a part of the Dragons’ varsity squad since eighth grade, wants nothing more than to continue playing soc-

cer. According to Monte del Sol head coach Mazatl Galindo, Lozoya will attempt to join The University of New Mexico’s team next fall.

“I think he has the quality and the skill, but he needs to put on a few pounds,” Galindo said.

At 5-foot-7, Lozoya would be the shortest player on the Lobos’ roster. But being short has never stopped Lozoya from being good at soccer, as Galindo remembers him as a small but effective eighth-grader.

“Even though he was so tiny, he would always make things happen on the field,” Galindo said. uuu The biggest margin of victory in the first round of the boys A-AAA tournament was No. 8 Taos’ 5-0 win over No. 9 Silver. The Tigers play No. 1 Albuquerque Sandia Preparatory in the quarterfinals today.

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AUTO RACING 5 p.m. on ESPN2 — Global Rallycross Championship, in Las Vegas, Nev. COLLEGE FOOTBALL 5:30 p.m. on FS1 — Oklahoma at Baylor 7 p.m. on ESPN — Oregon at Stanford GOLF 11 a.m. on TGC — PGA Tour: The McGladrey Classic first round, in St. Simons Island, Ga. 2 a.m. on TGC — European PGA Tour: Turkish Airlines Open second round, in Antalya, Turkey NBA BASKETBALL 5 p.m. on TNT — L.A. Clippers at Miami 7:30 p.m. on TNT — L.A. Lakers at Houston NFL FOOTBALL 6 p.m. on NFL — Washington at Minnesota SOCCER 10 a.m. on FS1 — UEFA Europa League: Swansea City at Kuban 1 p.m. on FS1 — UEFA Europa League: Sheriff at Tottenham 7 p.m. on ESPN2 — MLS: Conference semifinals, leg 2, Los Angeles at Real Salt Lake 9 p.m. on NBCSN — MLS: Conference semifinals, leg 2, Seattle at Portland TENNIS 1 p.m. on ESPN2 — ATP World Tour Finals round robin, in London

EIGHTH-GRADE BASKETBALL SCORES Girls Ortiz 27, Aspen 10.

Top scorers — Ortiz: Ashley Zapata 12; Aspen: Mariah Gonzales 6. Records — Ortiz 2-0, Aspen 0-1.

HIGH SCHOOL SCHEDULE This week’s varsity schedule for Northern New Mexico high schools. For additions or changes, call 986-3045.

Today Volleyball — District 2AAAA Tournament: semifinal, Tuesday’s winner at Los Alamos, 7 p.m.

District 5AAA Tournament: semifinal, Tuesday’s winner at Albuquerque Sandia Preparatory, 7 p.m.

District 2A Tournament: semifinal, Alamo Navajo/Desert Academy winner vs.

Albuquerque Menaul/Mountainair winner at higher seed, 6 p.m.

Friday ‘I think we’re better than people expect us to be,’ says St. Michael’s Catie Ish, right, pictured in 2011. ‘Our losses came at the beginning of our season and, since then, we’ve grown a lot. Our No. 2 seed is accurate of how good we are.’ NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Business: Coach says team’s very dedicated Continued from Page B-1 The Lady Horsemen have won 25 straight district matches and have not lost in district since falling to Prep in penalty kicks on Oct. 1, 2011.

With all that dominance, the Lady Horsemen feel that 2A-AAA has nothing more to offer them.

“Our district doesn’t give us a lot of competition, but those are matches where we get to work on stuff, and that makes us look forward to playing those Albuquerque teams a lot more,” Ish said. “I wish we had better competition in our district, but every match is something to work on.”

One solution for better competition would be for St. Michael’s to move to a district with bigger schools. They are the only school in 2A-AAA that competes in Class AAA in all other sports, so all of their district competition comes from much smaller schools.

“I think it’s kind of weird that

we get the smallest district with the success that we have had,” Gabaldon said. “It would be more helpful for our season. It may not make our record look as good, but our playing will be much better.”

To offset that, St. Michael’s packed it nondistrict schedule with powerhouses Albuquerque Hope Christian, Los Alamos and St. Pius X, and Serge would like to schedule more teams like those in the future.

“Next year, I want to do a realignment of our schedule and play some tough teams,” she said. “We have to start to play at a higher level so we can compete at a higher level.”

Tougher competition means the Lady Horsemen might be able to finally get past one of their archenemies.

If they beat Prep for the third time, it could set them up with a semifinal match against No. 3 Albuquerque Sandia Preparatory, which forced the Lady

TOdAy’S SChEdULE The Class A-AAA/AAAA state soccer tournament quarterfinals, at the Albuquerque Public Schools Soccer Complex.

Boys Class AAAA No. 6 Los Alamos vs. No. 3 Farmington (No. 4), 10:45 a.m.

No. 5 Capital vs. No. 4 Los Lunas (No. 2), 11:15 a.m.

Class A-AAA No. 9 Taos vs. No. 1 Albuquerque Sandia Preparatory (No. 1), 3:15 p.m.

No. 6 Albuquerque Hope Christian vs. No. 3 St. Michael’s (No. 2), 3:45 p.m.

No. 5 Santa Fe Preparatory vs. No. 4 Monte del Sol (No. 4), 3:15 p.m.

Girls Class AAAA No. 12 Santa Fe High vs. No. 5 Albuquerque Academy (No. 2), 6 p.m.

Class A-AAA No. 7 Santa Fe Preparatory vs. No. 2 St. Michael’s (No. 2), 9 a.m.

No. 5 Albuquerque Bosque School vs. No. 4 Taos (No. 3), 9 a.m.

Horsemen out of the state tournament the last two years.

“Sandia Prep has always been that roadblock for us,” Ish said.

“We’re really coming for them this year. “It’s another opportunity to prove that we are the

2-seed and that we deserve the 2-seed. I think we need to imagine ourselves winning state and not be intimidated by them, and know that we have the skill and the talent and the heart to pull out that win and go to the finals.”

The Lady Horsemen have been imagining themselves winning a state title all season. Even Serge, who began her coaching career at Division III Beloit College in Wisconsin in 2000, said that this is one of the best teams she has coached. It’s not just that they are good at soccer, but they are very dedicated.

“Every girl on this team takes ownership in what we’re trying to do,” Serge said. “It’s more than just soccer and winning matches.

We’re a family and we take care of each other. I’ve never coached a group of girls that have wanted it so bad. This is a group that I would love to see win state.”

That’s the unfinished business the Lady Horsemen have in front of them.

Football — Capital at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Santa Fe Indian School at Thoreau, 7 p.m.

Bernalillo at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Raton at Taos, 7 p.m.

Boys soccer — Class A-AAA/AAAA State Tournament at APS Socer Complex (Field number in parenthesis): Semifinals Class AAAA No. 6 Los Alamos/No. 3 Farmington winner vs. No. 10 Artesia/No. 2 Roswell winner (No. 3), 10:30 a.m.

No. 5 Capital/No. 4 Los Lunas winner vs. No. 8 Chaparral/No. 1 Albuquerque Academy winner (No. 2), 10:30 a.m.

Class A-AAA No. 8 Taos/No. 1 Albuquerque Sandia Preparatory winner vs. No. 5 Santa Fe Preparatory/No. 4 Monte del Sol winner (No. 3), 3:30 p.m.

No. 6 Albuquerque Hope Christian/No. 3 St. Michael’s winner vs. No. 7 Bloomfield/No. 2 Albuquerque Bosque School winner (No. 2), 3:30 p.m.

Girls soccer — Class A-AAA/AAAA State Tournament at APS Socer Complex (Field number in parenthesis): Semifinals Class AAAA No. 12 Santa Fe High/No. 4 Albuquerque Academy winner vs. No. 9 Santa Teresa/No. 1 Albuquerque St. Pius X winner (No. 1), 2 p.m.

Class A-AAA No. 5 Albuquerque Bosque School/No. 4 Taos winner vs. No. 8 Socorro/No. 1 Albuquerque Hope Christian winner (No. 4), 11:30 a.m.

No. 11 East Mountain/No. 3 Albuquerque Sandia Preparatory winner vs. No. 7 Santa Fe Preparatory/No. 2 St. Michael’ winner (No. 1), 11:30 a.m.

Volleyball — District 2AAA Tournament: semifinal, Wednesday’s winner at West Las Vegas, 7 p.m.

District 2AA Tournament: championship, Wednesday’s winner at Santa Fe Preparatory, 6:30 p.m.

District 1A Tournament: championship, Cimarron/Springer winner at Questa, 7 p.m.

Saturday Cross-country — Class A/AA/AAA/AAAA State Champioships at Rio Rancho High School: Boys Class AA, 12:05 p.m.

Class AAA, 12:35 p.m.

Class AAAA, 1:05 p.m.

Class A, 2:05 p.m.

Girls Class AA, 9:30 a.m.

Class AAA, 10 a.m.

Class AAAA, 10:30 a.m.

Class A, 11:30 a.m.

Football — Albuquerque Hope Christian at St. Michael’s, 1:30 p.m.

West Las Vegas at Las Vegas Robertson, noon

Rules: It’ll take time to get used to changes Continued from Page B-1 season, the emphasis on preventing defenders from impeding offensive players’ progress.

No more hand-checking. No two hands on an opponent.

No arm bars or jabbing. A big change in the block/charge call.

The changes could be the biggest in college basketball since the advent of the shot clock and 3-point shot — and could take some time getting used to.

“I think everyone’s got the message that the game needs to be more open than it’s been,” Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said. “And I’m hopeful we can get that change.”

Not everyone in the game is convinced the changes will have the desired effect.

Coaches and players have been told about the changes and seen plenty of video, but the new rules are such a drastic change from the way the game had been called that it’s going to take a while to get used to them

— as teams found out during the exhibition season.

“If you’re telling me the way the games are going to be called and exhibition games are the way they’re going to call them in the Big Ten, we’re going to have a lot of good players watching basketball,” Purdue coach Matt Painter said. “I don’t think that will sit with people in this room, with players and coaches across the country. It’s definitely not going to sit with the fans.”

Many coaches believe the changes will add to scoring, just not the way the NCAA intended.

Instead of points coming from athletic moves and free-moving offenses, the majority could come from free throws, which would stall the game out even more instead of loosening it up.

Up to 100 free throws in one game might not be out of the question early in the season.

“I’ve always thought the way to improve our game was to try to create a situation where you

get more shots,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “I don’t know if this is going to create more shots. I think it’s going to create more free throws.”

Along with the no-hands approach, the NCAA is also hoping to eliminate flopping with the new rule on block/ charge fouls.

Under the old interpretation of the rule, a player had to be in defensive position before the offensive player was lifting off the floor. The new incarnation of block/charge requires the defender to be in place before the offensive player has started his upward motion to attempt a shot or pass.

“I’ve been saying for years we need to clean up those collisions at the rim,” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. “So I think that is brilliant what they’re doing there, to protect the driver. Too many guys were talented enough to go by their man and there were three guys falling down before the guy even got to the rim.”

The changes could bring back a type of defense that’s become increasingly rare in college basketball: The zone.

More teams have gone to aggressive man defenses over zones in recent years, but the new rules could change that.

Good coaches figure out ways to get around impediments and a zone could be a way to limit hand-checking fouls on the perimeter and blocking calls around the basket.

“What I worry about is everybody going to start playing zone and now we’re into this, we’ll score less points, there’ll be less action, there’ll be less penetration, there’ll be less athletes,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. “Have you thought about the repercussions of it? Because coaches are going to adjust. But they might not adjust in the way you guys would like.”

There’s going to be plenty of adjusting all around — by the officials, the coaches, the players and the fans.

Boys soccer — Class A-AAA/AAAA State Tournament at APS Soccer Complex (Field number in parenthesis): Championships Class AAAA (No. 1), 10:30 a.m.

Class A-AAA (No. 1), 1:30 p.m.

Girls soccer — Class A-AAA/AAAA State Tournament at APS Soccer Complex (Field number in parenthesis): Championships Class AAAA (No. 2), 3:30 p.m.

Class A-AAA (No. 2), 9:30 a.m.

Volleyball District 2AAAA Tournament: Thursday’s winner at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

District 2AAA Tournament: Friday’s winner at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m.

District 5AAA Tournament: Thursday’s winner at Albuquerque Hope Christian, 7 p.m.

District 2A Tournament: championship, Thursday’s winners at higher seed, 6 p.m.

District 4A Tournament: Coronado/Escalate winner at McCurdy, 6:30 p.m.

District 5B Tournament: Thursday’s winner at Santa Fe Waldorf (Christian Life), 5 p.m.

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SPORTS NFL

Imagine pairing RG3 with Peterson

By Dave Campbell The Associated Press

Baylor quarterback Bryce Petty prepares to pass against Iowa State during a game Oct. 19 in Waco, Texas.

No. 5 Baylor takes on No. 12 Oklahoma in Waco on Thursday. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Tough closing stretch

No. 5 Baylor’s schedule takes challenging turn, starting with matchup against No. 12 Oklahoma

By Stephen Hawkins The Associated Press

WACO, Texas — Baylor quarterback Bryce Petty knows people will remember November. And he can’t wait.

The 7-0 start for the fifth-ranked Bears before that and their highest ranking in 60 years won’t mean nearly as much without finishing strong in a challenging stretch. They play No. 12 Oklahoma (7-1, 4-1 Big 12) on Thursday night, their first ranked opponent this season — and first of three in a row.

“Actually, looking at the schedule before the season, I wouldn’t have it any other way,” Petty said. “It’s going

to be a very fun stretch, and I say fun just because it’s challenging.”

These Bears (7-0, 4-0), who know they have to prove themselves, are no longer the pushovers in the Big 12.

Oklahoma certainly knows that, even though the Sooners have dominated the series winning 21 of 22 games.

“Obviously, when you look at that they’re doing, and the way they’re scoring, and the quality of defense they’re playing, it’s a challenge,” Sooners coach Bob Stoops said.

When Oklahoma last visited Waco two years ago, in a nationally televised Saturday night game, Robert Griffin III clinched the Heisman Trophy with a last-minute touchdown pass to give Baylor a 45-38 victory and end the Sooners’ national championship chances.

“For me, personally, it was the moment that the program changed,” said Petty, the Big 12’s leading passer with 350 yards per game, 18 TDs and only one interception. “I think that’s

when we knew that we could play with anybody. It didn’t matter who it was. … It was one of our first games that there was a hype environment and we came through. It’s going to be a very exciting atmosphere kind of like 2011, so hopefully for the same result.”

The Bears have won a schoolrecord 11 games in a row since losing 42-34 at Oklahoma last November.

They lead the nation this season with 718 total yards and 64 points a game, reminding some of the up-tempo, high-scoring offense Oklahoma has had in the past.

“Sure it does. Not only with their up-pace tempo, but just the skill,” Stoops said. “They space you out so far and they’ve got excellent speed all over the perimeter, but then they’ve got such a big offensive line with a great running back to run the football. So they do a great job in how they space you out, run the ball and then get the big plays.”

Chiefs, Broncos fight for AFC West

By Arnie Stapleton

The Associated Press

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver cornerback Chris Harris couldn’t get away from football during the Broncos’ bye, eagerly tuning in to watch the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs face the Buffalo Bills last weekend.

Zzzz.

“It was kind of boring, man. So, I was like all right, I’m just going to watch the RedZone,” Harris said. “It wasn’t an offensive game. I’m looking for the points.”

You’d think a defensive player would appreciate a good defense, and nobody’s been better at stemming this league-wide proliferation of points than the Chiefs (9-0).

Kansas City is the first club to allow 17 or fewer points in each of the first nine games of a season since the 1977 Atlanta Falcons.

“Naw, come on,” Harris said, laughing. “Who wants to watch that? Who wants to watch just a defensive game all the time? On a bye week, I want to see some points.”

Maybe Harris is just spoiled.

His Broncos (7-1) scored 343 points in the first half of the season for an average of 42.9, which would obliterate the NFL record of 36.8 set by the 2007 New England Patriots.

The Chiefs and Broncos meet twice in the next four weeks, beginning with a Sunday night showdown in Denver

on Nov. 17.

Here are some things that make the AFC West so intriguing this season: Worst to First I: The division was once derided as the “AFC Worst” for sending mediocre teams to the playoffs, like the Broncos, who won the West in 2011 with Tim Tebow and an 8-8 record.

Now, the Chiefs, Broncos, Chargers (4-4) and Raiders (3-5) have a combined 23-10 record for a .697 winning percentage. That’s the highest by a division through nine weeks of the season since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger.

No division has been this good this late since 1984, when the AFC West had a cumulative 31-14 mark for a .689 winning percentage.

“The nice thing for us is there’s a team in the division getting a lot of attention as well, so there’s no room to relax at all,” Chiefs QB Alex Smith said. “We’re neck and neck, and we have two big games left with them.

You kind of keep your nose down, keep to your task.”

Worst to First II: There’s an old saying that it’s better to be lucky than good, and the Chiefs have been both.

They’ve faced backup quarterbacks in four of their last five games, and the only one who wasn’t a backup, Oakland’s Terrelle Pryor, won the starting job in training camp.

So what? The Chiefs are the first team in NFL history to start 9-0 after

posting the worst record in the league the previous season (2-14).

The Chiefs have put themselves in prime position to return to the playoffs for the first time since 2010. In the Super Bowl era, all 18 teams that won their first nine games qualified for the postseason party. Eleven of those advanced to the Super Bowl and seven of them won it.

Dominant Denver: With Wes Welker, Demaryius Thomas, Eric Decker and Julius Thomas, it’s easy to see why John Elway says he’s jealous of the targets Peyton Manning has.

The Broncos’ 343 points are the most by a team through the first eight games of a season, and Manning’s 29 TD throws and 2,919 yards passing are also the most through the first eight games in NFL history.

The Broncos have kept on rolling despite many roadblocks on the Super Bowl expressway. Elvis Dumervil left via a fax foul-up. Von Miller tried to game the NFL drug-testing system.

Two team executives were suspended following drunken driving arrests.

Ryan Clady went on IR. And now coach John Fox is recovering from heart surgery and will miss several weeks.

“We all wish him a speedy recovery,” interim head coach Jack Del Rio said. “The best way that we could honor him is to go out and play great football.”

PREDICTED WINNER: BRONCOS

MINNEAPOLIS — Imagine young Robert Griffin III running a form of the tricky read-option offense, with a still-in-his-prime Adrian Peterson behind him for handoffs.

Even with a reconstructed knee on each of their blazing-fast bodies, that’d be a dangerous combination for opposing defenses to handle for years to come. Well, if a few plays went the other way on that fateful Christmas Eve day, these stars could have been teammates.

The story is well-known by now but worth retelling with Griffin’s Washington Redskins visiting Peterson’s Minnesota Vikings on Thursday night.

Two years ago, in the second-tolast game of the season, Peterson tore ligaments in his left knee. Toby Gerhart and backup quarterback Joe Webb rallied the Vikings to victory that ensured their record was better than Indianapolis or St. Louis.

The Colts took Andrew Luck, the Rams traded the second slot for three first-rounders and a second-round selection, and the Redskins jumped up to nab Griffin. The Vikings stuck with Christian Ponder, the quarterback they drafted in 2011 with the 12th overall pick.

Griffin said this week he and Peterson spoke prior to his draft about the tantalizing possibility of them playing together.

“But I wasn’t a basketball player, and this wasn’t free agency. It’s not like I had a choice. We didn’t have any control over that,” Griffin said. “It would have been awesome, but I feel blessed to be in the situation that I am.”

The Vikings wound up trading down from third to fourth to select left tackle Matt Kalil and collect additional picks from the Cleveland Browns. The unknown is whether the Vikings, had they lost one more game that year, would have done the same as the Rams to accumulate more picks. Or stayed put to get Griffin and relegate Ponder to backup status after starting only 10 games as a rookie.

“I was told by a few people from the outside that if I had fallen to No. 3 they weren’t going to leave me on the board,” Griffin said. “But nothing as far as them wanting to move up or just dying to have me. Just kind of if I was there, they were going to take me.”

Vikings coach Leslie Frazier laughed off a query this week whether he thinks back to that fateful game of his first full season in charge.

“I’m not looking at what’s happening at the draft. I just want us to win,” Frazier said.

PRO PICKS

RG3 and Washington a healthy pick vs. Vikings

By Barry Wilner

The Associated Press

Injuries can be damaging to teams — and to Pro Picks, which is hurting after an awful week in which even our Best Bet flopped, for the first time.

So do we ride the Redskins or the Vikings in Thursday night’s game, in which Washington is a 2-point favorite?

Let’s see.

Washington (No. 21 tie, AP Pro32) seems on the rise as Robert Griffin III gets closer to his true form, the running game has been revived, and the defense regularly is getting sacks.

Minnesota (No. 30, AP Pro32) is rapidly sinking, even though it came close to a win last week in Dallas. The QB situation is in flux, the line isn’t opening holes for 2012 MVP Adrian Peterson, and opponents gain more than 300 yards a game through the air.

Injuries keep striking the Vikes, who won’t have tight end Kyle Rudolph, one of their few offensive threats outside of Peterson, or right tackle Phil Loadholt. The Redskins are getting healthier.

In a short week, RG3’s crew seems to have a lot of edges on AD (Peterson, known as “All Day”) and the hosts.

“It’s a huge mental week and we had this experience last year going into our Thanksgiving game,” Griffin said.

“There’s not much contact. You don’t get to go out there and run every single play, get multiple reps at it. You kind of have to be on top of your studying, be on top of your film work …

“But the other team has the same situation and no one’s going to feel sorry for you. You’ve got to go out there and step up on Thursday and go win the game.”

Exactly. REDSKINS, 27-16 No. 25 Oakland (plus 7½) at No. 23 New York Giants After six straight losses, Giants thinking six straight wins. Next one …

BEST BET: GIANTS, 30-17 No. 24 Buffalo (plus 3½) at No. 28 Pittsburgh Hard to believe how low Steelers have fallen this year.

UPSET SPECIAL: BILLS, 20-17 No. 13 Dallas (plus 7) at No. 7 New Orleans Angry Saints return home and take it

out on Cowboys.

SAINTS, 37-28 No. 19 Philadelphia (plus 2½) at No. 11 Green Bay Line opened at 9½, then Aaron Rodgers’ collarbone got in the way.

EAGLES, 23-20 No. 26 St. Louis (plus 10) at No. 4 (tie) Indianapolis Colts are rolling, Rams are reeling.

COLTS, 31-13 No. 2 Seattle (minus 6½) at No. 29 Atlanta Both teams burned us last week.

SEAHAWKS, 20-14 No. 8 Cincinnati (minus 1½) at No. 21 (tie) Baltimore Loss here and it’s time to write off defending champions.

RAVENS, 17-16 No. 9 Detroit (minus 2½) at No. 12 Chicago Bears should hope Lions lose their starting QB like Packers did.

LIONS, 24-23 No. 10 Carolina (plus 6) at No. 4 (tie) San Francisco Like the way both teams are playing.

Niners are more than a TD better, though.

49ERS, 24-13 No. 3 Denver (minus 7) at No. 15 San Diego Well-rested Broncos want this one for ailing coach John Fox. BRONCOS, 30-24 No. 27 Houston (plus 2½) at No. 16 Arizona Texans want this one for ailing coach Gary Kubiak.

CARDINALS, 20-16 No. 18 Miami (minus 2½) at No. 13 Tampa Bay, Monday night Dare we take Bucs for first win?

NAH …

DOLPHINS, 23-21 No. 32 Jacksonville (plus 13) at No. 17 Tennessee Dare we take Jaguars for first win?

Double NAH …

TITANS, 27-10 2013 RECORD Against spread: 4-8 (57-67-4).

Straight up: 6-7 (80-54).

Best Bet: 4-5 against spread, 8-1 straight up.

Upset special: 3-6 against spread, 1-8 straight up.

Ryan: Garrett says it wasn’t personal Continued from Page B-1 Ryan, who enjoyed a 23-20 overtime win against Cleveland a year ago, became something of a scapegoat for a defense that broke under the weight of serious injuries in the final two games, keeping the Cowboys out of the playoffs for the third straight year.

First, Dallas was helpless to stop Drew Brees — the quarterback on Ryan’s side now. Then the Cowboys let rookie Alfred Morris run wild in a winner-take-all finale against NFC East rival Washington.

Ryan was gone a little more than a week later, and just three days after that, Garrett declared the Cowboys were switching back to a more traditional four-man front under new defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin.

Ever since, Garrett has tried to make one thing clear: It wasn’t personal.

“I love Rob Ryan,” said Garrett, who hired him in 2011 as the fiery counterpart to Garrett’s button-downed public persona and has kept in touch with Ryan. “He is a fantastic person. He is a fantastic coach. And has been for a long time.”

The statistics say so in New Orleans.

The Saints have risen from 31st to fifth in scoring defense, and they’re just one takeaway shy of the 16 the Cowboys had last season. Dallas tied a franchise low with seven interceptions, and New Orleans already has nine.

“I would imagine he probably wouldn’t trade it [being in New Orleans], and how much we appreciate him being here,” Brees said. “Certainly he’s done a great job for our team — a big part of our team, big part of our success.”

Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III celebrates a touchdown by fullback Darrel Young during the second half of Sunday’s game against the Chargers in Landover, Md. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

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Thursday, November 7, 2013 THE NEW MEXICAN

Florida Gulf Coast out to prove it’s a contender

NHL ROUNDUP

Predators outscore Avalanche

The Associated Press

DENVER — Colin Wilson had two goals and two assists and Viktor Stalberg added a goal and an assist in Predators 6 the Nashville Predators’ Avalanche 4 6-4 victory over Colorado on Wednesday.

Craig Smith and Paul Gaustad also scored for the Predators, who stopped Colorado’s sixgame winning streak. Carter Hutton made 11 third-period saves, and Gabriel Bourque scored into an empty net.

Matt Duchene had a goal and two assists for Colorado (12-2-0), which fell one win short of NHL history. The Avalanche were attempting to set a franchise record and match the 2007-08 Ottawa Senators for the best 14-game start in league history.

Paul Stastny, Ryan O’Reilly and P.A. Parenteau also scored for Colorado. Semyon Varlamov had 22 saves while allowing a season high in goals.

RangeRS 5, PenguinS 1 In New York, Brian Boyle scored his first goal of the season and Ryan Callahan added his first since returning from a broken thumb as the Rangers matched a season high in goals with a victory over Pittsburgh.

The Penguins had won four straight and defeated New York eight times in nine meetings, but Ryan McDonagh and Derek Stepan scored 1:05 apart late in the first period to put the Rangers ahead. Boyle and Callahan connected within a 2:28 span of the second to send New York to its fourth win in five games.

Derick Brassard made it 5-1 at 9:57 of the third, and Brad Richards had two assists for New York, which completed a 3-1 homestand. Henrik Lundqvist made 28 saves.

Kris Letang’s power-play goal pulled the Penguins to 3-1 with 5:26 left in the second, but Callahan’s fourth of the season — in his second game back in the lineup — restored the Rangers’ three-goal lead 1:04 later.

DuckS 5, cOyOTeS 2 In Anaheim, Calif., Hampus Lindholm scored his first NHL goal, Corey Perry got the tiebreaking goal right before the second-period buzzer, and Anaheim stayed atop the league standings with a victory over Phoenix.

Ryan Getzlaf, Lindholm and Cam Fowler each had a goal and an assist in Anaheim’s triumphant return from a 5-2-1 road trip. With their sixth win in seven games, the Ducks (13-3-1) lead the NHL with 27 points.

Perry tipped home Lindholm’s shot during a delayed penalty with 1.1 seconds left in the period, and Fowler provided a cushion with the second powerplay goal of the night for the Ducks, whose NHL-worst power play had scored just four times all season.

Shane Doan scored and Michael Stone added a powerplay goal for the Coyotes, who had won five straight.

BlackhawkS 4, JeTS 1 In Chicago, Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane scored in the first period to lead Chicago over Winnipeg.

The Blackhawks also got goals from Brandon Pirri and Patrick Sharp. Corey Crawford made 24 saves and defenseman Duncan Keith had two assists.

Devin Setoguchi scored his third goal for the Jets in the third period of his 400th career game. Al Montoya had 24 stops in his second career game in his native Chicago.

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By Tim Reynolds

The Associated Press

Mavericks guard Monta Ellis, center, tries to recover a loose ball during Wednesday’s game against the Thunder in Oklahoma City. BRETT DEERING/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NBA ROUNDUP

Thunder top Mavericks The Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY, Kevin Durant had 23 points and 10 assists, Russell Westbrook scored 22 points and Oklahoma Thunder 107 City pulled away in the second Mavericks 93 half to beat Dallas 107-93 on Wednesday night.

Serge Ibaka added 17 points and 13 rebounds for the Thunder (3-1), who won their second straight game following Westbrook’s return from two offseason knee surgeries.

Jeremy Lamb added 13 points for Oklahoma City, which has won 11 straight games against the Mavericks, including the playoffs. The last loss for the Thunder against Dallas was on Jan. 2, 2012.

Monta Ellis led the Mavericks (3-2), who were playing their second game in two nights, with 20 points. Jae Crowder and Shawn Marion added 17 each, while Dirk Nowitzki finished with 16.

SPuRS 99, SunS 96 In San Antonio, Texas, Tony Parker scored 15 of the Spurs’ final 16 points, and the Spurs withstood a hectic finish to beat Phoenix.

Parker scored 20 overall, Danny Green had 19 points, Tim Duncan added 17 points and Boris Diaw 11 points for San Antonio (4-1).

Markieff Morris tied a career high with 23 points and also had 11 rebounds for Phoenix (3-2).

Morris’ twin brother, Marcus, added 11 points and Gerald Green and Miles Plumlee each had 15.

Plumlee’s reverse layup gave Phoenix a 96-95 lead with 1 minute remaining. The Suns had an opportunity to extend the lead following a miss by Duncan, but Manu Ginobili drew a charge on Danny Green.

Parker followed with a short jumper to give San Antonio the lead for good.

Gerald Green missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer that would have tied the game. celTicS 97, Jazz 87 In Boston, Brandon Bass scored 20 points and Jeff Green added 18 to send Boston past Utah for its first win of the season.

The game reunited new Celtics coach Brad Stevens with Gordon Hayward, the Butler star who took the Bulldogs to the NCAA championship game against Duke.

Hayward had 28 points and nine rebounds for Utah (0-5), one of the last two winless teams in the NBA this season.

The attendance of 17,130 was about 1,500 fans short of a sellout, ending a streak of 289 games dating to the end of the 2006-07 season.

Derrick Favors scored 10 points

with 14 rebounds and Enes Kanter scored 22 with eight boards for the Jazz, who open a season with five straight losses for the first time since 1974, when they were still in New Orleans.

Gerald Wallace had nine points and nine rebounds for Boston (1-4), which led by as many as 25 points in the third quarter before Utah scored 17 of the first 20 in the fourth to cut a 22-point deficit to single digits.

PaceRS 97, BullS 80 In Indianapolis, Luis Scola, Donald Sloan and Lance Stephenson accounted for all the points in a decisive 12-2 run, thwarting a late charge by the Chicago Bulls and sending the Indiana Pacers, the NBA’s last unbeaten team, to victory.

The Pacers are 5-0 for the first time since 1971-72. Paul George had 21 points and six rebounds to lead Indiana, while David West had a season-high 17 points and 13 rebounds.

Luol Deng and Derrick Rose scored 17 points each to lead Chicago (1-3). Rose scored only three points in the second half. waRRiORS 106, TimBeRwOlveS 93 In Minneapolis, Klay Thompson scored 19 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter and Harrison Barnes scored 14 points in his season debut to help Golden State defeat Minnesota.

David Lee had 22 points and 15 rebounds and Andre Iguodala scored 20 points for the Warriors (4-1).

Kevin Love had 25 points, 16 rebounds and six assists for the Timberwolves, who have lost two straight after a 3-0 start. Kevin Martin added 23 points, but the Wolves’ bench was outscored 27-10.

Stephen Curry had just five points on 2-for-8 shooting with seven assists in 24 minutes and sat out the fourth quarter with a bone bruise on his left foot. magic 98, cliPPeRS 90 In Orlando, Fla., Nik Vucevic had 30 points — including six free throws in the final 23 seconds — and 21 rebounds to help Orlando hold on to beat Los Angeles and earn its first three-game winning streak since December of last season.

Orlando led by as many as 19 points in the third quarter, before Los Angeles took its first lead with a 25-5 run.

Blake Griffin led the Clippers with 23 points and 13 rebounds, and Chris Paul added 18 points and 10 assists.

Former Magic guard J.J. Redick also chipped in 17 points.

BOBcaTS 92, RaPTORS 90 In Charlotte, N.C., Gerald Henderson broke out of his shooting slump with a season-high 23 points to help Charlotte defeat Toronto.

After signing an $18 million,

three-year contract in the offseason, Henderson came in shooting just 31 percent through the first four games. But he got off to a fast start this time and finished 10 of 17 from the field.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored 14 points to help Charlotte win again after beating the Knicks in New York on Tuesday night. Secondyear guard Jeffery Taylor continued to give the Bobcats (3-2) quality minutes off the bench, scoring 13 points. Josh McRoberts added 13 points and five assists.

BuckS 109, cavalieRS 104 In Milwaukee, O.J. Mayo scored 28 points, including six 3-pointers, and Gary Neal had 12 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter as short-handed Milwaukee held off Cleveland.

The Bucks, already without their top two point guards — Brandon Knight and Luke Ridnour — also played without forward Ersan Ilyasova and center Larry Sanders.

Ilyasova was out with a sore right ankle while Sanders was out with a sprained right thumb, injured in a weekend off-court incident that is being investigated, the Bucks said in a statement.

The Bucks opened the fourth quarter with an 11-2 run to take a 94-81 lead, but Kyrie Irving scored 10 consecutive points to fuel a 13-point run that put the Cavaliers up 104-103.

Caron Butler tipped in a miss by Mayo with 24.8 seconds left to put the Bucks up 105-104 and Mayo added four free throws in the closing seconds. wizaRDS 116, 76eRS 102 In Philadelphia, John Wall scored 24 points, Marcin Gortat had 19 points and 12 rebounds, and Washington beat Philadelphia to earn its first win after starting 0-3.

Bradley Beal had 17 points, Trevor Ariza scored 15 as seven Wizards reached double digits.

Evan Turner led Philadelphia with 24 points and Spencer Hawes had 13. Rookie Michael Carter-Williams finished with 19 points, seven assists and five rebounds.

PelicanS 99, gRizzlieS 84 In Memphis, Tenn., Eric Gordon scored 19 points, Anthony Davis added 18 points and nine rebounds, and New Orleans led by as many as 29 points in the fourth quarter.

Tyreke Evans had 16 points, Jrue Holiday scored 11 and Jason Smith finished with 10 points for the Pelicans.

Mike Conley led the Grizzlies with 26 points before leaving in the fourth quarter with a facial injury.

Marc Gasol had 11 points for Memphis, but connected on only 4 of 11 shots and grabbed one rebound.

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The reminder of last season still adorns the front windows of Alico Arena, the gymnasium that Florida Gulf Coast basketball calls home.

“Dunk City.”

Remember those guys? They’re back.

Florida Gulf Coast — the darling of college basketball this past March after knocking off Georgetown and San Diego State in the NCAA tournament, plus capturing the nation’s attention and earning a nickname that still sticks — is looking to do something even more impressive this season. The Eagles are heading into 201314 hoping to show that they were more than a two-game wonder.

“I say it’s a continuation of last year,” Eagles guard Brett Comer said. “We want to come out with the same style of play, build off of what we did last year in that aspect. But it is a new year. We’ve got a new coach, we’ve put in some new stuff, we all love playing for him and we’ve got to get focused on playing this year and not living in the past.”

That new coach is former Kansas assistant Joe Dooley, who was working on a plan to shut down the Dunk City phenomenon a few months ago.

If FGCU and Kansas had both pulled off one more win last March, the schools would have met in the South Regional championship game with a spot in the Final Four on the line. Alas, the Eagles lost to Florida 62-50, and the Jayhawks fell to national runner-up Michigan in overtime, 87-85.

Not long afterward, Andy Enfield left Florida Gulf Coast for Southern California and the Eagles pulled off what many considered to be a coup in landing Dooley. If he remained at Kansas, Dooley would almost certainly have had a chance at helping Bill Self and the Jayhawks win another national title this season, plus get a chance to coach Andrew Wiggins — widely expected to be the top pick in the 2014 NBA draft.

Instead, he packed his bags for Dunk City.

“When you look from the outside, we’ve got some things that allow you to be in the top half of your league on a pretty consistent basis,” Dooley said, standing in the lobby of FGCU’s arena, one that’s very nice for the Atlantic Sun Conference but isn’t exactly a match for the storied Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan. “And I wanted to be a head coach.

Leaving Kansas was very hard for our family, but this was a chance to go somewhere and win.”

Dooley still has the scouting report Kansas would have used if it played Florida Gulf Coast on his desk.

Only now, it’s a blueprint of things to fix, not things to exploit.

“These guys want to get better,” Dooley said. “It’s always neat to see those stories.

Now, behind that story, it’s about how can we continue to have success and make sure that we keep progressing.”

It’s not like the Eagles were just some Cinderella last spring. In their home opener a year ago, they beat Miami, a team that went on to win 29 games and sweep the Atlantic Coast Conference’s regular-season and tournament titles.

They hung with Duke for about 15 minutes — before a 30-0 run doomed them — and had won 15 of 19 games heading into the NCAAs. Then came Georgetown, a 2-seed against a 15-seed. Comer lobbed the ball to Chase Fieler with just under 2 minutes left, and Fieler’s right arm seemed to extend about 2 feet over the rim before slamming down the pass for a nine-point FGCU lead that served as an exclamation point of sorts.

Then came San Diego State, when the dunks kept coming. Dunk City was born.

“A lot of people didn’t realize before those two games that we dunked the ball all year,” Comer said. “Our first game here against Miami, we had more dunks than any other game. If they want to call us Dunk City, they can. We’ll go with it.”

TENNIS ATP FINALS

Nadal clinches year-end No. 1

By Samuel Petrequin

The Associated Press

LONDON — Exactly one year ago, as the world’s best tennis players faced each other in London at the season-ending finale, Rafael Nadal couldn’t even practice.

Trying not to look too far ahead, the Spaniard was at home in Spain, just thinking about his badly injured knee. Nadal didn’t know if he would play competitive tennis again.

“The thoughts about the future? Just focus on recovery, focus on try to find a solution for my knee, and that’s it. Working every day, trying to do different things to try to be back,” the 13-time Grand Slam winner said Wednesday of his feelings at the time.

Things have changed dramatically.

Twelve months later in London, Nadal capped his remarkable comeback on Wednesday by clinching the

year-end No. 1 spot for the third time in his career.

Just nine months after returning from his career-threatening injury, Nadal became the first player to hold, lose and regain the year-end No. 1 spot twice by beating Stanislas Wawrinka 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6) at the ATP finals.

Roger Federer and Ivan Lendl did it once in their careers.

Nadal, who beat Wawrinka for the 12th time in as many matches, can’t be overtaken by No. 2 Novak Djokovic.

It’s the first time since 2010 that the Spaniard, who returned from a seven-month injury layoff in February, ends the year as the top-ranked player.

“It is one of the best things that I did in my career: come back to No. 1 after three seasons. That’s very difficult in our sport, and after a very important injury,” Nadal said after celebrating with fist pumps and leaps as if he had won the tournament — the only major event missing from his victory collection.

Rafael Nadal celebrates Wednesday after winning the ATP World Tour Finals singles match against Stanislas Wawrinka in London. SANG TAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

B-6 THE NEW MEXICAN

Thursday, November 7, 2013

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

TIME OUT Horoscope

Crossword

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013: This year you need to move quickly when you make a decision involving travel, education, the law or journalism.

Capricorn generally plays it safe.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You’ll decide on a change involving your domestic life. You could react in an unexpected manner, surprising even yourself!

Tonight: A must appearance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You place limits on yourself and what you feel is possible. If you broke through restricted thinking, what would you go for? Tonight: Reach for what you want.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Supportiveness takes you into a new realm of possibilities. You’ll recognize what a difference it makes having a peanut gallery behind you. Tonight: Weigh the pros and cons.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Jupiter, the planet of good luck, has been piggybacking on your sign since late June. You also will get a second chance at an offer. Tonight: Take someone’s suggestion.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Plan on putting in more than your share of effort with a project. You will see results that make you happy. Others appreciate your creativity and sense of direction. Tonight: Run some errands.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Listen to news, and brainstorm with others. You will realize how much good news could be behind someone’s message. Your imagination could go haywire as you start sharing. Tonight: Ever playful.

Super Quiz 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: GEOGRAPHY: SOUTH AMERICA (e.g., What is the largest country in South America by area? Answer: Brazil.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. Name the longest (a) river (b) mountain range.

Answer________ 2. What are the two dominant languages spoken in South America?

Answer________ 3. Name the continent’s highest waterfall.

Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 4. Identify the famous islands owned by Ecuador.

Answer________

5. What is the claim to fame of Bolivia’s capital city, La Paz? Answer________ 6. What is the official language of Suriname?

Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. Name a country in South America with a population that speaks mainly English.

Answer________ 8. What major river runs through Colombia and Venezuela?

Answer________ 9. Term for the extensive grassy fertile plains located mostly in Argentina.

Answer________

ANSWERS:

1. (a) Amazon (b) Andes. 2. Spanish and Portuguese. 3. Angel Falls. 4. Galapagos Islands. 5. World’s highest capital city. 6. Dutch. 7. Guyana. 8. Orinoco River. 9. Pampas.

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) 2013 Ken Fisher

Cryptoquip

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. © 2013 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You could be facing a lot of changes professionally that could cause other changes elsewhere. Tonight: Happy to be home!

Son thinks mom is controlling him Dear Annie: My husband and I are in our 80s. We have three wonderful kids, all married, who live nearby. We have always been close.

The problem is, one son thinks I am trying to control him. He never tells us when he is planning to go out of town. If we can’t reach him for days, we worry. He rarely answers his cellphone on vacation, and when he does pick up, he gets angry.

We believe, out of respect for us, he should give us a quick call letting us know where they are headed and when they arrive so we won’t worry.

It’s not like we would call them on their vacation. I am certain that his wife, whom we also love, texts or uses Facebook to let her family know where they are.

Are we unreasonable? He rarely calls us even when he is in town. We see him once every two weeks when he stops by for a few minutes. We don’t require any assistance from him, financial or otherwise. I know he reads your column faithfully, so we would greatly value your opinion.

— Concerned Mother Dear Mother: Some children understand a parent’s fears and will call regularly, not only so Mom and Dad don’t worry, but also to check and make sure the parents are OK. But not all kids think this way. Your son interprets this as “controlling,” although that is not the intent. He otherwise seems to be a good son, so please try to compromise.

Some people avoid phone calls because they require an actual conversation. Perhaps he or his wife would be willing to send a group text or email to both sides of the family, including you or one of your other children, who could then let you know he’s out of town. Ask whether this would work better for him.

(Facebook is not a good way to do this — strangers can learn that your house is unoccupied.)

Sheinwold’s bridge

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Use your imagination to create the scenario that you have in mind. It might not happen immediately, but it will happen.

Tonight: Have a long-overdue talk.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22- Dec. 21) HHHH Hopefully you moved quickly on an offer and it is off the back burner; otherwise, you could find that a situation closes down on you in the next few weeks.

Tonight: Make weekend plans.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You could feel overwhelmed by a situation that surrounds you. Think through a problem carefully that involves a partner or dear friend. Tonight: Do whatever makes you happy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Make a point to figure out what is going on with you. Right now, you could feel out of sorts with the people you are dealing with. Be clearer about your expectations.

Tonight: Make tonight a mini-vacation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Events or news could trip you up and force your hand. A child or new friend could surprise you with his or her actions.

Tonight: Act as if it is Friday night!

Jacqueline Bigar

Chess quiz

BLACK FORCES MATE Hint: Make way for the queen.

Solution: 1. … Rg4ch!

2. Kxg4 Qf5 mate!

Today in history Today is Thursday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2013. There are 54 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Nov. 7, 1972, President Richard Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.

Hocus Focus

Dear Annie: I have worked in an emergency department for 30 years.

Please tell your readers not to call their local emergency room for medical advice. They cannot see your ankle injury, evaluate your potential heart attack, or determine whether you are having a stroke or whether your laceration needs stitches. Please do not curse at the ER employee on the phone when they explain this to you. They are doing this for your own good.

Do not call your local emergency rooms and ask whether they are busy. If you have time to get on the phone and “hospital shop,” your emergency must not be all that urgent. Do not call your local emergency room and ask how long their wait is. They are an emergency room, not your local restaurant.

Thank you. — No Name, Please Dear No Name: We appreciate your comments. Please, folks, they are called “emergency rooms” for a reason.

Dear Annie: I can relate to “Lonely for Friends.” I am 42 years old and happily married. I, too, have had trouble making friends for as long as I can remember. I have had only two close friends in my entire life.

I consider myself an introvert. I get along well with many people, but it never becomes more than an acquaintanceship. I was in a needlework group for 15 years and never truly fit in. I am involved in my church, but have not made any friends. I suspect it may have to do with reading body language. I can’t interpret the signals I’m getting and don’t realize when I need to make the next move.

Counseling didn’t supply any revelations. Over time, I have come to enjoy being alone. I love my husband’s company, but I sometimes wish I had someone to go shopping with. — Not Quite Lonely in Virginia

Jumble

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ROOFING PRO Panel, shingles, torch down. Also restucco parapets, repair plaster and sheet rock damage.All phases of construction. 505-310-7552.

A.C.E. PLASTERING INC. Stucco, Interior, Exterior.

Will fix it the way you want. Quality service, fair price, estimate.

Alejandro, 505-795-1102

ROOF LEAK Repairs. All types, including: torchdown, remodeling.

Yard cleaning. Tree cutting. Plaster and stucco. Experienced. Estimates. 505-603-3182, 505-204-1959.

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DESIRABLE NAVA ADE COMMUNITY 3 bedroom, plus library, 2.5 bath, 2 car garage, washer, dryer, enclosed backyard, 2 wood burning fireplaces, $1700 plus utilities DARLING 1 BEDROOM 1 bath, walk in closet, close to park, kiva fireplace, washer, dryer, $725 plus utilities LOCATED AT THE LOFTS ON CERRILLOS This live & work studio offers high ceilings, kitchenette, bathroom with shower, 2 separate entrances, ground, corner unit with lots of natural lighting. $1000 plus utilities NEWLY RENOVATED CASITA 1 bedroom, 1 bath, quiet and secluded location, $495 plus utilities CHARMING AND CENTRALLY LOCATED 3 bedroom, 1 bath, wood & tile floors, enclosed backyard, additional storage on property $1100 plus utilities ARROYO HONDO (SF) award winning contemporary gated 4 acres.

Bright, spacious 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, plus guest quarters - studio. $5000 monthly + utilities. 505-9860046

OFFICES SENA PLAZA Office Space Available Call Southwest Asset Management, 505-988-5792.

ROOMMATE WANTED GREAT HOME and Garden - Clean, off St. Michael’s, NON-SMOKER - NO pets. Lease, $582 monthly. 505-9885836 Tony.

PRIME DOWNTOWN LOCATION 2 bedroom, 2 bath, wood floors, vigas, small enclosed yard, washer, dryer, 2 car garage, $1800 plus utilities COZY CONDO WITH MANY UPGRADES 2 bedroom, 1 bath, kiva fireplace, washer, dryer, granite counters $895 plus utilities

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RANCHO MANANA stunning views off Tano Road; 3 bedroom 4 bath executive home; open plan; dramatic gourmet kitchen; available now $3200 per month.

St. Clair Properties 505-955-1999, www.stclair-properties.com

REDUCED PRICE FOR RENT OR SALE:

4 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage; approximately 3200 sq.ft. enclosed yard, private cul-de-sac, mountain views. Beautiful house in Rancho Viejo. $2,000 + deposit + utilities.

Call Quinn, 505-690-7861.

REFURBISHED. 3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATH $1000 monthly plus utilities. Nonsmoking, no pets. Behind DeVargas Mall, 10 minute walk to Plaza or Railyard. 505-690-3116, 505-438-8983.

LIVE IN STUDIOS

2nd Street LIVE, WORK, OFFICE 1200 & 600 SQUARE FEET

800 square feet downstairs, 400 - 500 square foot living area upstairs.

Skylights, high ceilings.

Wayne Nichols, 505-699-7280.

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Airport Cerrillos Storage U-Haul Cargo Van 505-474-4330 A-Poco Self Storage 2235 Henry Lynch Rd Santa Fe, NM 87507 505-471-1122

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CHARMING NEIGHBORHOOD. 3 bedroom, 3 bath. 2 car garage.

Wood stove, laminate & tile. $1300 first 6 months. www.enchantedcity.com 505-204-3309

LIVE-IN STUDIOS

COUNTRY LIVING. LARGE, 2 BEDROOM TOWNHOUSE. 20 minutes to Santa Fe or Los Alamos. Safe, quiet, affordable, luxury. 505-470-4269, 505455-2948.

EASTSIDE 2 bedroom, 2 bath.

Fireplaces, garage, & storage, plus 1 bedroom, 1 bath guest house. $2700 plus utilities. By appointment only.

505-660-3805 EASTSIDE ADOBE. 2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH, fireplace, hardwood floors, washer, dryer. Off-street parking $1600 monthly, some utilities included. 303-908-5250 ELDORADO NEW, LARGE 3 bedroom, 3 bath, hilltop home. 12-1/2 acres. Energy efficient. All paved access from US 285.

505-660-5603 LAS CAMPANAS 3 BEDROOM, 2.5 BATH Furnished. AC. No pets, nonsmoking. 6 month lease minimum. $6500 monthly plus utilities. $14500 deposit. 203-481-5271 LEASE & OWN. ZERO DOWN! PAY EXACTLY WHAT OWNER PAYS: $1200 includes mortgage, taxes, insurance, maintenance (HOA). ZIA VISTA’S LARGEST 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH CONDO. Save thousands.

Incredible "Sangre" views. 505-204-2210

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Single & Double Wide Spaces

MANUFACTURED HOMES $600. 2 small bedrooms. Very clean, quiet, safe. Off Agua Fria. Has gas heating. Pay only electric. No pets.

505-473-0278

OFFICES 1000 SQUARE FOOT COMMERCIAL OFFICE SPACE, GALISTEO STREET .

4 offices, file room, reception. $1200 plus electric & gas. By appontment only. 505-660-3805, 505-690-5162.

$975 + UTILITIES, OFFICE S U IT E , GALISTEO CENTER. Two bright, private offices plus reception area, kitchenette, bathroom. Hospital proximity. Available November 15th. 518-672-7370

NEW SHARED OFFICE

BEAUTIFULLY FURNISHED 1 BEDR O O M GUESTHOUSE. Views, walking trails, private courtyards. Close to town. Pets on approval. $ 1 , 3 5 0 month. 505-699-6161.

2000 SQUARE foot space with high ceilings & 2 overhead doors. Office, bath. Great for auto repair. $1600 monthly. 505-660-9523

Opportunity Knocks!

1,500 sq.ft. industrial unit with nice office, half bath, overhead door, high ceilings, sky lights, parking, absolutly no automotive. $900 monthly plus utilities. No better deal in town! Call 505-438-8166.

RETAIL ON THE PLAZA Discounted rental rates.

Brokers Welcome. Call Southwest Asset Management, 505-988-5792.

I AM looking for my sister Rita (Martinez) this is Trudy, email racerwife@hotmail.com, her birthday is in April & grew up in Santa Fe.

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Arroyo Hondo Studio 4 acre compound.

1,000 ft, with loft. Overhead door, views, quiet, W/D. $600, monthly, plus utilties. 505-670-7958.

FURNISHED, CHARMING Studio Apartment. No Pets. Use of nice patio.

Walking distance to Plaza. $650 monthly. All utilities paid. 505-9836184.

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NEW MEXICO ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RISK MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR

Non-profit local governmental association seeking a risk management director to oversee three public entity self-insurance pools.

Successful candidate should have experience in management, insurance administration, finance and claims, as well as familiarity with local government issues.

Law degree, M.B.A., or advanced insurance certification a plus.

Excellent benefits package and working environment.

Email resume and references by November 22 to cstephenson@nmcounties.org

NEW MEXICO ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RISK MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR

Non-profit local governmental association seeking a risk management director to oversee three public entity self-insurance pools.

Successful candidate should have experience in management, insurance administration, finance and claims, as well as familiarity with local government issues.

Law degree, M.B.A., or advanced insurance certification a plus.

Excellent benefits package and working environment.

Email resume and references by November 22 to cstephenson@nmcounties.org

TRADES ASSISTANT MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR

HVAC, Pool Certified, electrical, plumbing, painting experience required. Competitive pay & benefits.

Drug test required. santaferesume@gmail.com

STAFF WRITER, PAGE DESIGNER

An award-winning weekly newspaper based in the Rocky Mountains ski town of Angel Fire, N.M., the Sangre de Cristo Chronicle has an immediate opening for a staff writer/page designer who will work 30 hours per week. The person in this position will write stories and take photos for the newspaper and its special sections and help with page layout once a week. The ideal candidate will have a degree or experience in journalism, a strong grasp of AP style and a fervor for both hard and soft news.

Experience in page layout is preferred. The pay for this position is $12.82 per hour without medical benefits. Send your résumé, three clips and samples of page design to Managing Editor Jesse Chaney at news@sangrechronicle.com or PO Drawer 209, Angel Fire, NM 87710. Deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, November 15, 2013. EOE.

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PCA, Caregiver $11 hourly, LPN $25 hourly, RN $32 hourly.

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PART TIME PRODUCTION - WAREHOUSE HELP NEEDED. Approximately 24 hours per week. Apply at Aroma Coffee: 4 Bisbee Court, Santa Fe. 505-424-7777

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SALES MARKETING

DOG LOVER TO CLEAN HOUSE AND LIVE ON PROPERTY Call, 505-660-6440.

DRIVERS Lincare, leading national respiratory company seeks caring service representative. Service patients in their home for oxygen and equipment needs. Warm personalities.

Age 21 plus who can lift up to 120 pounds should apply. CDL with DOT a plus or obtainable. Growth opportunities are excellent, drug free workplace. EOE. Apply at 712 West San Mateo, Santa Fe, NM 87505.

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P C M is hiring PCAs, Caregivers (FT & PT Hours), LPNs, RNs, for in-home care in the Santa FE, NM area.

HIRING RECEPTIONIST, FULL-TIME ENTRY LEVEL. 10.51 HR, WITH FULL BENEFITS. FAX RESUME: 505-982-0788 OR CALL VICTORIA 505-982-8581

WORK STUDIOS

ANTIQUES REMINGTON QUIET RITER TYPEWRITER. $250, 505-983-0511

APPLIANCES Ashley Furniture HomeStore Opening Soon! S A L E S P E O P L E needed for our new Santa Fe location!

Email jobs@abqhomestores.com or call 505-798-9400 for more information.

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TRADES HIRING ELECTRICAL JOURNEYMAN OR APPRENTICE. 2 years experience, Valid Driver’s license, Background check required. Pay DOE. Contact Allied Electric, 505-438-8899.

ELECTRIC STOVE, almond in color.

Good condition and clean. $100. 505662-6396.

BUILDING MATERIALS A-1 LANDSCAPING MATERIALS #1, 9 foot Railroad Ties, $13.50. #2, 8 foot Railroad Ties, $8 . #3, 8 foot Railroad Ties $6.75.

Delivery Available, 505-242-8181 All CC accepted.

PLYWOOD. G1S. 4’x8’ sheets. Different thicknesses. 505-983-8448

HOSPITALITY DOMINO’S PIZZA HIRING ALL POSITIONS. Part-time, evenings, w e e k e n d s . Must be 18 for all positions & have own car with insurance to drive. Apply at 3530 Zafarano.

The Santa Claran Casino Hotel is hiring Food & Beverage managers and line cooks. Pay DOE.

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE

LIVE AMONG Pines near Plaza. 2 bedroom, 2 bath townhouse. Wood floors, kiva fireplace, front, back yards, washer, dryer. NO smoking, 2 car garage. $1,700 monthly. 505670-6554

A special, one-night, home-based business galeria-sharing their wares! Includes drawings every 15 minutes, refreshments, and caroling fun!,entry fee: a donation to operation christmas child shoe box: small non-war related toy, grooming item, or school supply for a child in a wartorn or disaster struck country. Businesses represented: accessories, women’s clothing, cosmetics, supplements and fitness nutrition, culinary items, childrens books, photography, purses, home decor, jewelry, and chocolate!

WAREHOUSES

Professional Office in Railyard, beautiful shared suite, with conference space, kitchen, bath, parking, cleaning, internet utilities included. $450 monthly. 505-690-5092

Great location and parking! $500 monthly includes utilities, cleaning, taxes and amenities. Move in incentives!

Please call (505)983-9646.

PUBLIC NOTICES

PROFESSIONAL HOME HEALTH CARE

$300 - 2ND STREET STUDIOS

Private desk, and now offering separate private offices sharing all facilities. Conference room, kitchen, parking, lounge, meeting space, internet, copier, scanner, printer.

Month-To-Month.

Wayne Nichols, 505-699-7280.

**REWARD** LOST tan & white Pitbull in Santa Fe. Last seen by Kearny elementary. Please if found call 505-819-9922 or 505-231-9752.

ADMINISTRATIVE

505-989-9133

VACANCY

LOST LAPTOP between Trades West Rd, Siler, Cerrillos Rd. Dell with windows 8 and has fingerprint encryption. REWARD! 505-603-2099 or 505424-0115.

EXPERIENCED BILINGUAL tax preparer wanted. Must have prior experience and be willing to work Saturdays. Directax 505-473-4700.

S kylights, overhead doors, 2500 square feet, $975. 4100 square feet, 3 phase electric, $1175. La Mesilla. No dogs. 505-753-5906

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4x5 $45.00 5x7 $50.00 4x12 $55.00 6x12 $65.00 8x10 $65.00 10x10 $75.00 9x12 $80.00 12x12 $95.00 12x24 $195.00

LOT FOR RENT CHARMING 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom.

Quiet neighborhood. $1100 monthly plus utilities and deposit. Available November 1st. Please call 505-4735396 or 505-660-4289.

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MANAGEMENT FOUND WOMEN’S WHITE Gold or Silver Ring with 3 stones. Found in La Casa Sena Parking Lot on October 30, 2013. 505660-7913.

HISTORIC SANTA Fe Foundation seeks dynamic ED to lead conservation, education, fundraising, etc. Apply at www.historicsantafe.org/edsearch.

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FIREWOOD-FUEL A-1 FIREWOOD INC. Seasoned Cedar, Pinon, Juniper; 1 cord, $260 2 cords, $250 3 cords $245 4 or more $240 Cedar, Pinon, Oak; $375 Oak and Hickory; $450 Each Delivered 505-242-8181 All CC accepted.

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MULTI-VENDOR ARTS & CRAFTS FLEA MARKET . Supplies, handmade books, journals, papers, gifts. Saturday 11/9, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Meem Room, Palace of Governors.

6324 AVENIDA CHAMISA. Designer Garage Sale: Off of Paseo Del Sol between Jaguar and Airport: Decor, Furniture, Books. SATURDAY, 8:30.

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CHRISTMAS ITEMS, furniture, jewelry, China, Mexican Pottery, books, collectables, art, Americana. 2 Family Sale. 106 East Coronado Road.

Saturday 8-12.

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TWO NEW Kia Sedona bucket seats, $95. 505-995-0341.

GARAGE SALE SOUTH

Airport Road and 599 505-660-3039

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427 KATHRYN Place MOVING SALE Saturday 11/9 8 am. to Noon Many household and gardening items. Books, CDs, DVDs, weber grill, hoses, tools, supplies, leaf blower, rakes, shovels, dishes, utensils, planters, terra cotta pots and more.

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TV 27" SONY, remote, great condition, $95. OAK ROCKER, sturdy "grandpa" size, $75. GRACEFUL WOODEN ARMCHAIR, upholstered seat and back $65. 505-466-9669.

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SOUTHWEST OAK SOFA-BED. Queensize. Great condition. Couch & loveseat, $250. Table with 6 mint green chairs, $200. 505-470-3677

Two Black LEATHER CLUB CHAIRS, 8 months old. $100 each. Burgandy ELECTRIC RECLINER. Easy-in, easyout, $50. 505-428-0579

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FURNITURE 1950’S MAHAGONY drop-leaf table.

Rectangular, 28"x36", extends to 60"x36". 4 ladder-back chairs. Very good condition. $490, OBO. 505-9882761

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*Dayton compressor. 30 gallon tank.

Twin valve. $350. *Roll-air compressor. Portable pancake. $200. *Delta 8 1/2 inch radial arm saw with blades. $200. Call Paul 505-470-3464.

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1990 FORD F-150 Lariat extended cab.

Low mileage, ready to make you money, 4x2. Great shape! Nice truck. $4,295. Ask for Lee 505-316-2230.

1963 FORD Thunderbird Hardtop 78K miles, 390 engine, restored, runs great! $14,000, 505-699-8339 WE GET RESULTS! CALL 986-3000

1991 CAMERO RS, Runs Good, Ttop, $2,000. 575-483-5987 TOYOTA CAMRY LE 2002 with 108k miles, clean title. $2900. Please call or text me anytime at 762-359-0324.

95 MITSUBISHI Montero, mechanically sound, second owner, service receipts. $3,400. 505-231-4481.

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"FREEMONT" STARTED under saddle.

3 year gelding Mustang. Very gentle.

Would make good kid horse. USFF Adoption, $475. John, 505-419-9754.

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PETS SUPPLIES

986-3000

Moving Through Presents, 761 Calle Picacho,

(take Cruz Blanca one block past St. John’s) Friday, November 8th: Noon to three p.m., Saturday, November 9th: Ten a.m. to Two p.m.

Antiques:

1921 MASON and Hamlin, Model A, 5.8" Concert Baby Grand, wonderful condition. $24,500. Please call for an appointment. 505-984-9849 1972 HOWARD - by Baldwin, Upright Piano, great condition. Stool included. $400. 505-983-4618

MENDINI MV400 Full-size VIOLIN, with two bows, extra strings, beautiful case. Perfect condition & sound (was tested). $100. 505-474-9020

BENGALS SILVER KITTENS from Supreme Grand Champion, $950 to $1,600. New Litter will be ready in December. 720-434-6344, chateauxchampagne@gmail.com DOG HOUSE, Precision-Wood, Medium Size, Good Condition $60. 505982-2791.

Art:

Russian Impressionist, Italian and Chinese silk paintings, Aizpiri, Boncompain, botanicals, birds, Venetian scenes.

Furniture:

Sofas, ceramic side tables, granite dining table, console table, chairs, coffee tables, king-size beds, mirrors, Indian screen, outdoor tables, chairs.

RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT NEVER BEEN USED 48" sandwich prep table, with under counter refrigeration. 3 year compressor warranty. $1,600 OBO. 505-852-0017

Cottage-Style settee, rustic demilune table, Spanish chest, fruitwood sideboard, country beidemeier bureau, marble-top French Directoire bureau, birds-eye maple dresser, Vacquero traveling desk, armoires, Sheraton-style settee, Victorian wing chair, English arm chairs, side tables.

China Crystal and Pottery:

Baccarat, Waterford, Tiffany, Chinese export, Pueblo.

Lamps:

SPORTS EQUIPMENT

ITALIAN WATER DOGS. 4 MONTH OLD PUPPIES, CRATE TRAINED. 25-35 lbs, non-shedding. Free training and daycare. $2,000. Excellent family or active retiree pet. Call Robin, 505-6606666.

LIFESTYLE RF545 Recumbent Bike.

With health monitor. Perfect condition. Easy riding! $100. 505-474-9020

WHITE AKC Labrador Retriever Puppies! Excellent Bloodlines! Visit www.hufflabs.com or call 719-5880934.

Jugenstahl, Chinese, Japanese, Delft, Kinkaid, Simon Pearce.

Jewelry and Silver:

Blue Gem Lotus Blossom necklace, 1920’s, serving spoon and forks.

Miehle vacuum, lots of kitchen.

Persian and decorator rugs, bed and table linens.

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2013 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara. 2k miles, why buy new!

Clean CarFax $35,822. Call 505-2163800.

2010 BMW 328Xi. Only 30k miles, AWD, auto, exceptional! $25,817.

Call 505-216-3800.

2008 Land Rover LR2 HSE SUV. Bluetooth and Sirius Radio, tires are in excellent condition. 52,704 miles. Very clean interior. No accidents! Well maintained. $18,995.

Call 505-474-0888.

2006 LEXUS GS 300 AWD. Just in time for winter, AWD sports sedan, recent trade, absolutely pristine, Lexus for less $17,891. Call 505216-3800.

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1999 MERCEDES-BENZ E320 Excellent condition . 93k miles, no accidents, everything works, Barolo red metallic with tan leather.

Was $6,995. REDUCED TO $5,995.

505-954-1054. www.sweetmotorsales.com

2012 Subaru Outback 2.5i Premium.

25,321 miles, AM/FM stereo with CD player, Bluetooth hands-free. $23,771. Call 505-216-3800.

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2011 HONDA CIVIC COUPE One owner, no accidents, 28k miles, automatic, factory warranty. Silver with grey interior, nonsmoker. Below Blue Book $13,995.

505-954-1054. www.sweetmotorsales.com 1962 MERCEDES Unimog 404 .

23,000 original miles. Completely rebuilt. Gas engine. $16,000 OBO. 505-982-2511 or 505-670-7862

2008 Land Rover Range Rover Sport Supercharged SUV. 86,695 miles, Rear Seat Entertainment, Bluetooth and Sirius Radio, Roof Rail System, and much more. $29,995. Call 505-474-0888.

2002 LEXUS LS 430 LUXURY SEDAN Local Owner, Carfax, Every Service Record, Garaged, Non-Smoker, Manuals, X-keys, New Tires, Loaded, Afford-ably Luxurious, $13,750, Must See! WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICE!

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2010 Subaru Impreza 2.5i Premium.

Only 24k miles! AWD, heated seats, moonroof, 1 owner clean CarFax $16,951. Call 505-216-3800.

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2010 MINI Cooper Clubman S. Just 19k miles, turbocharged, super well-equipped, Navigation, leather, panoramic roof, 1 owner clean CarFax $22,731. Call 505-216-3800.

2011 Toyota 4Runner SR5 4WD. Low miles, well-equipped, 1 owner clean CarFax, $31,771. Call 505216-3800.

2001 JAGUAR-XK8 CONVERTIBLE Local Owner, Carfax, Garaged, Non-Smoker, 77,768 Original Miles, Every service Record, Custom Wheels, Books, X-Keys, Navigation, Soooo Beautiful! $14,250.

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2013 VW GTI with only 4,000 miles.

Carbon Steel, 4-door, 6-speed manual with Laguna wheels. Factory warranty. Perfect. $23,000. 505-4669248.

2012 TOYOTA PRIUS-C HYBRID FWD Another One Owner, Carfax, Records, Garaged, Non-Smoker, XKeys, 14,710 Miles, City 53, Highway 46, Navigation, Factory Warranty. $19,850.

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2007 Land Rover Range Rover Supercharged SUV. Sirius Radio, Tow Hitch, and much more.

One owner. 79,895 miles. $28,995.

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2007 MERCEDES C280 4matic. Only 65k miles!, All wheel drive, loaded, recent trade, clean CarFax, must see $15,471. Call 505-2163800.

2010 Nissan Titan Crew PRO-4X. Awesome rig, new A/T tires, fiberglass shell, recent trade-in $24,331.

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2005 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA. $4400.

BEST COLOR COMBO, BLACK MAGIC OVER BLACK. FACTORY RECARO SEATS, ALL WEATHER FLOOR MATS, BLACK MAGIC EXTERIOR, BLACK & GRAY CLOTH INTERIOR. CALL, 224999-0674

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TOYOTA MATRIX XR 2008, 2-wheel, drive, automatic, $11,000. Well maintained, all records, one owner. New tires, A/C. 38,000 miles.

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THE REASONING BEHIND SHIFTER PLACEMENT

BY TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI

Dear Tom and Ray:

General Motors recently unveiled the 2015 Chevy Tahoe, Suburban and GMC Yukon. The three SUVs continue to have the gear shifter positioned on the steering column instead of the floor-mounted center console, like

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the Traverse, Equinox and Acadia. Is this solely a cosmetic design decision, or is there an automotive engineering reason for this choice? Thanks.

-- Bob TOM: It’s partially cosmetic, partially historic and partially practical.

RAY: The practical reason is that putting the shifter on the steering column leaves more room for a large center console between the seats.

People like to use center consoles to store all their stuff.

TOM: Not just cups of coffee and quarters for parking, but, increasingly, purses, bags of Cheetos, laptop computers and the occasional mediumsize household pet.

RAY: And some of these center consoles

-- like the Suburban’s -- have gotten so big that you can rest your lunch tray on top of it and stash a backup Chevy Spark inside for when you’re tired of getting 16 miles to the gallon.

TOM: P utting the shifter on the steering column also gives Chevy the option of offering a bench seat up front instead of two bucket seats. A bench seat -- with the proper seat belts and all -allows three people to sit across, instead of two. So instead of carrying only eight people, and having to ask the other team to pitch to themselves, you can carry a full baseball team in your Suburban.

RAY: In terms of engineering, it really doesn’t matter where you put the shifter.

It can go almost anywhere, within reason. You just need to have some way to transmit the position of the shifter to the transmission itself.

TOM: That can be done with a cable, with rods or, these days, with an electronic signal.

RAY: The f inal issue is historic precedent.

The column shifter was a staple for many decades. And apparently there is a group of buyers that still like it that way.

TOM: Well, I don’t want to speak for them. But everybody knows you can’t snuggle in the front seat with a gear shift in the way.

RAY: Well, you can.

You just can’t snuggle pain-free .

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LEGALS p 8-1 through Sec. 40-83 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Adonis Jerrell Rozales will apply to the honorable Raymond Z. Ortiz, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 8:30 a.m. on the 22 day of November, 2013 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Adonis Jerrell Rozales to Adonis Jerrell Robinson.

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TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 408-1 through Sec. 40-83 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Alma Herrera Robinson, B.D. will apply to the honorable Raymond Z. Ortiz, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial STEPHEN T. PACHECO, Complex in Santa Fe, District Court Clerk New Mexico, at 8:30 a.m. on the 22 day of Deputy Court Clerk November, 2013 for an ORDER FOR Submitted by: CHANGE OF NAME Adonis Rozales from Shadae Breon Petitioner, Pro Se Rozales to Shadae Breon Robinson.

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IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF ADONIS JERRELL ROSTATE OF NEW MEXIZALES CO Case No.: D101CV COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DIS2013-02787 TRICT COURT NOTICE OF CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF A OF NAME PETITION FOR TAKE NOTICE that in CHANGE OF NAME OF Shadae Breon Roaccordance with the provisions of Sec. 40- zales

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