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The city of Santa Fe is trying to get a date with The Bachelor. But it won’t be a cheap one. The City Council will consider a request Wednesday to spend between $50,000 and $100,000 from the convention and visitors bureau’s reserve fund to attract the popular
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dating show to Santa Fe. The state Department of Tourism already has committed $50,000 to try to get the show to film one of next season’s episodes in Santa Fe this fall. The national and international exposure that Santa Fe would receive from The Bachelor would make it a worthwhile investment, said Randy Randall, executive director of the city’s convention and visitors bureau. “It basically is an endorsement of Santa Fe being this incredibly special place that we know it is that you just can’t get through paid
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Al-Qaida profits off European ransoms Terror group collected $125 million since 2008 By Rukmini Callimachi
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BAMAKO, Mali — The cash filled three suitcases: 5 million euros. The German official charged with delivering this cargo arrived here aboard a nearly empty military plane and was whisked away to a secret meeting with the president of Mali, who had offered Europe a face-saving solution to a vexing problem. Officially, Germany had budgeted the money as humanitarian aid for the poor, landlocked nation of Mali. In truth, all sides understood that the cash was bound for an obscure group of Islamic extremists who were holding 32 European hostages, according to six senior diplomats directly involved in the exchange. The suitcases were loaded onto pickups and driven hundreds of miles north into the Sahara, where the bearded fighters, who would soon become an official arm of alQaida, counted the money on a blanket thrown on the sand. The 2003 episode was a learning experience for both sides. Eleven years later, the handoff in Bamako has become a well-rehearsed ritual, one of dozens of such transactions repeated all over the world. Kidnapping Europeans for ransom has become a global business for al-Qaida, bankrolling its operations around the world. While European governments deny paying ransoms, an investigation by The New York Times found that al-Qaida and its direct affiliates have earned at least $125 million in revenue from kidnappings since 2008, of which $66 million was paid just in the past year. In various news releases and
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SAN FRANCISCO — Dustin Moskovitz is plotting an escape from email. The 30-year-old entrepreneur has learned a lot about communication since he teamed up with his college roommate Mark Zuckerberg to create Facebook a decade ago, and that knowledge is fueling an audacious
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AG seeks to defend primaries for party members By Steve Terrell
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Angel Baldonado, 24, testifies in District Court on Tuesday about the slaying of a Chimayó man. Baldonado, one of two women who have pleaded guilty in the slaying, is now a witness against the man’s niece, Rhiannon Montoya, who is accused of masterminding the murder of her uncle Rudy Montoya in October 2012. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Woman testifies Montoya wanted ‘her uncle gone’ By Uriel J. Garcia
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heanne Martinez was drunk, high on prescription pills and craving heroin when she stabbed a 64-year-old man twice with a butterfly knife in October 2012 at his home near Chimayó, she admitted Tuesday while testifying in what prosecutors call a murder-for-hire case. The 20-year-old, along with her girlfriend and admitted accomplice, Angel Baldonado, 24, testified against Rhiannon Montoya, 36, who is accused of masterminding the murder of her uncle, a longtime educator in Northern New Mexico. Montoya is charged with first-degree murder, aggravated battery and tampering with evidence. Martinez, a woman no taller than 5 feet, was wearing an orange jail jumpsuit Tuesday as she told jurors she only meant to burglarize the man’s house and steal items that she could sell to get her next fix of heroin. But things got out of hand, she said, when Baldonado grabbed the knife from her and “went to town on him
Montoya listens to testimony by Baldonado on Tuesday. Montoya is accused of masterminding the murder of her uncle.
[the uncle],” stabbing Rudy Montoya more than 40 times. Rudy Montoya had lived with his 94-year-old father,
attempt to change the way people connect at work, where the incessant drumbeat of email has become an excruciating annoyance. Moskovitz is trying to turn that chronic headache into an afterthought with Asana, a San Francisco startup he runs with former Facebook and Google product manager, Justin Rosenstein. Asana peddles software that combines the elements of a communal notebook, social network, instant messaging application and online calendar to enable teams of employees to share information and do most of their jobs without relying on email. “We are trying to make all the soulsucking work that comes with email
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go away,” Rosenstein says as Moskovitz nods sitting across from him in a former brewery that serves as Asana’s headquarters. “This came out of a deep, heartfelt pain that Dustin and I were experiencing, along with just about everyone around us.” The misery keeps mounting in the corporate world, which remains an email haven. This year, each worker using a business email account will send and receive a daily average of 121 mail messages, a 15 percent increase from 105 per day in 2011, according to The Radicati Group, which tracks email usage. In contrast, consumers have been
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State Attorney General Gary King is asking to intervene in a lawsuit claiming a state law is unconstitutional because it prevents more than 236,000 independent New Mexico voters from participating in primary elections. In a motion filed in state District Court in Albuquerque on July 17 in defense of the state law, King writes, “This intervention is necessary due to the Secretary of State’s refusal to do so.” On the same day, Secretary of State Dianna Duran, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, filed a response to the suit in which she offered no affirmative defense of the law that closes the state’s primaries to anyone but Democrats and Republicans. Duran’s lawyer who submitted the response was King. The attorney general normally represents state officials in civil suits. “I believe that it’s significant that the state’s chief election officer is not defending the constitutionality of this law,” said Albuquerque lawyer Edward Hollington, who is represent-
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Startup’s goal is to slow flood of ‘soul-sucking’ messages, boost employee productivity
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Santa Fe Clay Slide Lecture The series continues with ceramist Jeff Oestreich, 7 p.m., 545 Camino de la Familia, 505-984-1122, no charge. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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Obituaries Theodore C. Williams, 90, Santa Fe, July 24 Ernest J. Peinado, 58, Santa Fe, July 29 Richard Ortiz, July 26 Vae Peck, Santa Fe, July 25 Ernest Zamora, 28, Santa Fe, July 26
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