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As states crack down on payday lending, more people turn to title loans By Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Michael Corkery The New York Times

The rusting 1994 Oldsmobile sitting in a driveway just outside St. Louis was an unlikely cash machine. That was until the car’s owner, a 30-year-old hospital lab technician, saw a television commercial describing how to get cash from just such a car, in the form of a short-term loan. The lab technician, Caroline O’Connor, who needed about $1,000 to cover her rent and electricity bills, believed she had found a financial lifeline. “It was a relief,” she said. “I did not have to beg everyone for the money.” Her loan carried an annual interest rate of 171 percent. More than two years and $992.78 in debt later, her car was repossessed. “These companies put people in a hole that they can’t get out of,” O’Connor said. The automobile is at the center of the biggest boom in subprime lending since the mortgage crisis. The market for loans to buy used cars is growing rapidly. And similar to how a red-hot mortgage market once coaxed millions of borrowers into recklessly tapping the equity in their homes, the new boom is also leading people to take out risky lines of credit known as title loans. They are, roughly speaking, the home equity loans of subprime auto. In these loans, which can last as long as two years or as little as a month, borrowers turn over the title of their cars in exchange for cash — typically a percentage of the cars’ estimated resale values. “Turn your car title into holiday cash,” TitleMax, a large title lender, declared in a recent television commercial, showing a Christmas stocking overflowing with money. More than 1.1 million households in the United States used auto title loans in 2013, according to a survey

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Outgoing staffers say late notice by Balderas officials spurs hardships By Steve Terrell

The worry weighing most on Abigail Walker’s mind before last week was the surgery she has scheduled for early January. But that changed when Walker was among dozens of staffers in the Attorney General’s Office who found out by email that they’d been fired by incoming Attor-

ney General Hector Balderas. Now, not only will Walker be unemployed, she will not have her state insurance plan to pay for the medical procedure. Walker has worked about four years for Attorney General Gary King as a consumer advocate in dispute resolution and mediation. She will be eligible for COBRA insurance — which requires group health plans to provide a temporary continuation of coverage to those who leave employment. But she found the cost of COBRA is extremely expensive for those without an income.

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Abigail Walker, who worked for four years as a consumer advocate in the Attorney General’s Office, was among dozens fired by incoming Attorney General Hector Balderas. She is scheduled to have surgery early next year but will not be covered under her state insurance plan.

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George R.R. Martin introduces the screening of ‘The Interview’ on Thursday at the Jean Cocteau Cinema.

Low-income students easily knocked off course from school and path to middle class Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series on America’s vanishing middle class. By Jim Tankersley The Washington Post

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oviegoers packed Santa Fe’s Jean Cocteau Cinema and other independent theaters across the nation Thursday to see The Interview, Sony Pictures’ comedy about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that may have been at the core of a farreaching and politically sensational hacking scandal. In advance of the Jean Cocteau’s sold-out 2 p.m. premiere of the film, which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco, the mood was jovial and upbeat despite long lines and vague threats of attacks. “This has become kind of an international incident,” said Santa Fe resident Sue Brown, who was waiting to

purchase tickets. “At the very least we had to come see what everyone’s talking about. I don’t think any of these people would be here except for that.” Other patrons voiced their support of the film on the grounds of freedom of expression, if not for its controversial content. “My wife and I came up from Las Cruces to visit family,” said C.J. McElhinney. “It’s important to come and see something people are trying to censor.” “We came to support free speech,” said Santa Fe resident Nina Glaser. “We weren’t going to see the movie, but we thought it would be an event, an opportunity to make a statement.” On Nov. 24, a massive hack at Sony Pictures by

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Sharon Oard Warner, above, an English professor at UNM and a longtime advocate for D.H. Lawrence Ranch, enters the memorial to Lawrence, left, at the ranch earlier this year. COURTESY PHOTOS

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“I really don’t know whether I should go ahead and pay rent for next month or pay for COBRA and have my surgery,” she said in an interview. Like the others who were terminated, Walker is an exempt employee. This means that she and the others, unlike classified workers, serve at the pleasure of the attorney general and can be dismissed without cause and without the protections of the state personnel system. The exact number of those terminated isn’t known. Some of those who have been laid off have put the

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In the summers of 1924 and 1925, English novelist D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, sought spiritual renewal at a picturesque ranch in the mountains north of Taos near San Cristobal. Mabel Dodge Lujan, a wealthy arts patron who had bought the land in 1920 for her son to use as a hunting range, traded it to Frieda Lawrence for the manuscript of Lawrence’s 1913 novel, Sons and Lovers, considered obscene by some and his finest work by many others.

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Over the years, the ranch drew many notable visitors, even after Lawrence’s death in 1930, including conductor Leonard Bernstein, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, author Willa Cather, artist Georgia O’Keeffe and actress Lillian Gish. Frieda Lawrence, who died in 1956, bequeathed the property to The University of New Mexico in her will. But in the last decade or so, and especially since the death of the property’s longtime caretaker in 2008, the 160-acre ranch, with its panoramic views of the Taos Valley, has fallen into disrepair. But that might be about to change. UNM recently announced formation of the D.H. Lawrence Ranch Initiatives, whose mission is to preserve the historic buildings, establish

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Chelsey Stone had already escaped so many of the traps that keep poor children in poverty for life. She recalls begging neighbors for dinner when her mother sold their food stamps for drug money. She slept on the trampoline outside when the heroin showed up and her mom locked the door and the binges began. When she rebelled as a teenager, it was with poster board: She plastered her house with bright signs warning, “Do Not Throw Needles Away Here.” Her teachers saw that spark. You can earn a college scholarship, they said. Land a good job, and don’t depend on the government or anyone else. She knew they were right. She was almost there. Then she got pregnant. Then she was 17, working two jobs to feed herself and her daughter, Kiara. She started college and tried to carry a full load of classes, and it was too much. She dropped out. And there went her chance at the middle class, racing away across the plains. “Where I was from, everyone was like, ‘She’s going to be like her mom.’ And I was like, ‘No, I’m not,’ ” Stone said. But when the baby came, “I couldn’t keep it up.” The American economy has stopped working the way it used to for millions of Americans. The path from poverty to the middle class has changed — now, it runs through higher education. In 1965, a typical man whose education stopped after four years of high school earned a salary 15 percent higher than the median male worker. By 2012, a high-school-only grad was earning 20 percent less than the median. The swing has been even more dramatic for women who stopped their education after high school: They earned almost 40

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NATION&WORLD Female veterans face new battle By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux The Washington Post

U.S. traveler released after being detained in East Timor Pope Francis focused his concern on those weeping in the world this Christmas, singling out refugees, hostages and others suffering in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine as he prayed for hope and peace Thursday in Vatican City. The pontiff delivered the traditional Christmas Day homily from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. Tens of thousands crowded into St. Peter’s Square to hear Francis deliver the Urbi et Orbi — to the city and to the world — message. ‘May Christmas bring them hope,’ he said. AP PHOTO/L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO

Cubans concerned about U.S. migration rights By Ben Fox and Anne-Marie Garcia The Associated Press

HAVANA — Like tens of thousands of Cubans, Gerardo Luis wants to get to the United States and he’s suddenly worried that time may be running out. Across an island where migrating north is an obsession, the widespread jubilation over last week’s historic United States-Cuba detente is soured by fear that warming relations will eventually end Cubans’ unique fast track to legal American residency. For nearly a half-century, the Cuban Adjustment Act has given Cubans who arrive in the U.S. a virtually guaranteed path to legal residency and eventual citizenship. The knowledge that they will be shielded from deportation has drawn hundreds of thousands of Cubans on perilous raft trips to Florida and land journeys through Central America and Mexico. “If they take away the adjustment law, it would mean Cubans would end up just like all the other Hispanics who want to enter the United States,” said Luis, a 36-year-old construction worker who said he may try to reach Mexico and walk across the border if he doesn’t get a visa soon. U.S. officials say there are no immediate plans to change immigration laws or policy. But with the U.S. and Cuba negotiating a return to full diplomatic relations, many Cubans are wondering how long their extraordinary privilege can survive under restored diplomacy. “I don’t know if they will take it away,” Angela Moreno, a 67-year-old retiree said of the preferential treatment, “but if they do, Cubans who go to the United States will have to do it like people from other countries.” Cubans arriving at a U.S. border or airport automatically receive permission to stay in the United States under policies stemming from the 1966 act, which allows them to apply for permanent residency after a year, almost always successfully. Seeking to discourage mass migrations

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PORTLAND, Ore. — A U.S. traveler detained for months in East Timor has been released from prison. Stacey Addison, 41, of Portland, Ore., was arrested in September after crossing the border into the Southeast Asia nation. The veterinarian was sharing a taxi with a stranger who asked the driver to stop the car so he could pick up a package. Police stopped the vehicle, determined the package contained methamphetamine and took everybody to the station. Addison was released from jail after a few days, but was ordered to remain in East Timor during the investigation. Then, in October, a prosecutor persuaded a court to rescind Addison’s conditional release and she was taken to a women’s prison despite not being charged with a crime. “I am overjoyed to learn of Dr. Stacey Addison’s release from prison,” said U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who has been working to secure Addison’s release. “This is wonderful Christmas news.”

Power returns to Mississippi town after deadly storm COLUMBIA, Miss. — Workers restored power Thursday to tornado-scarred Columbia, while volunteers helped clear rubble, cover roofs and do whatever else they could to help the Mississippi town recover. “We figured, what better time to show the love of Jesus than on his birthday?” Ed Brashier, minister of a church in Gardendale Alabama, told WDAM-TV on Christmas. Tornadoes killed four people in southwest Mississippi on Tuesday as a storm system kicked off twisters across the region.

Obama’s personal chef hangs up his White House apron WASHINGTON — Political advisers, chiefs of staff, press secretaries and national security advisers have come and gone in the nearly six years Barack Obama has been president. Now, the White House chef also is hanging it up. Sam Kass has been a fixture at the executive mansion, serving up nutrition policy as well as meals for Obama, his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha. He was not only their personal chef but also senior adviser for nutrition policy, giving him a seat at the table where administration officials hashed out everything from updated food labels to new requirements for healthier school lunches. Kass, a newlywed, is leaving the White House at the end of the month, but don’t ask him what the Obamas like or don’t like to eat. “Top secret,” he said. “I love this family and believe in everything the president and first lady are doing and this has been the greatest job of my life.” the 34-year-old said in an interview. “But I’m going to be with my wife. Once you’re married you kind of need to be together.” New Mexican wire services

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Protesters rally for 2nd night after Missouri police shooting BERKELEY, Mo. — Demonstrators took to the streets for a second night after a white police officer in Berkeley, Mo., killed a black 18-year-old who police said pointed a gun at him. Dozens of protesters held a vigil late Wednesday at the gas station in the St. Louis suburb where Antonio Martin was shot, and they briefly blocked traffic on Interstate 170 during a march before returning to the station. Berkeley Police Chief Frank McCall told KMOV-TV that six to eight people were arrested. Later, about 75 people staged a peaceful protest early Christmas morning outside of a nearby church, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Police in riot gear were present. Unlike in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, in nearby Ferguson, who was unarmed and whose shooting was not captured on video, Berkeley Mayor Theodore Hoskins said Wednesday that surveillance footage appeared to show Martin pulling a gun on the unidentified 34-year-old officer who questioned him and another man about a theft at a convenience store.

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WASHINGTON — Thousands of female veterans are struggling to get health-care treatment and compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs on the grounds they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual trauma in the military. The veterans and their advocates call it “the second battle” — with a bureaucracy they say is stuck in the past. Judy Atwood-Bell was just a 19-year-old Army private when she says she was locked inside a barracks room at Fort Devens in Massachusetts, forced to the cold floor and raped by a fellow solider. For more than two decades, Atwood-Bell fought for an apology and financial compensation from VA for PTSD. She filled out stacks of forms in triplicate and then filled them out again, pressing over and over for recognition of the harm that was done. A recent VA survey found that 1 in 4 women said they experienced sexual harassment or assault. And the problem is growing more pressing because female veterans represent the military’s fastest-growing population, with an estimated 2.2 million, or 10 percent, of the country’s veterans. More than 280,000 female veterans have returned home from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. About two weeks ago, when Atwood-Bell checked the VA website, as she does every day, she was stunned to discover that the agency had accepted her claim for compensation. “It’s taken over 20 years, and that should’ve never happened,” said Atwood-Bell, who retired as a sergeant first class and lives in New Hampshire, her voice cracking with emotion. The Pentagon has been conducting a high-profile campaign to prevent sexual attacks and punish offenders amid concerns that defense officials neglected these assaults for years. But advocacy groups say the VA has been slow to adjust to the rising number of women in the military. Veteran Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald says the department is taking steps to improve health services to address sexual trauma.

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Friday, Dec. 26, 2014 MUSIC ON BARCELONA: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe, 107 W. Barcelona St.Santa Fe Pro Musica’s apprentice chamber music program students, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., donations welcome. TGIF CHRISTMAS MUSIC OF FRANCE: First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave. Music of Rousseau and Tournier, performers include cellist Quinn Boyack, harpist Bethany Boyack, and organist James Rasmussen, 5:30 to 6 p.m., donations accepted. GLOW: Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, Winter lights event running 5 to 8 p.m. nightly except New Year’s Eve through Jan. 3, featuring illuminated geodesic domes, $8 online and on-site, discounts available, santafebotanicalgarden.org, 471-9103.

NIGHTLIFE Friday, Dec. 26, 2014 CAFÉ CAFÉ: Trio Los Primos, 6 p.m., no cover. 500 Sandoval St., 466-1391. ¡CHISPA! AT EL MESÓN: Three Faces of Jazz, with guest clarinetist Jerry Weimer, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m., no cover. 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756.

Lotteries COWGIRL BBQ: Brent Berry, Afro/Latin/reggae/ska, 5 p.m.; D.K. & The Affordables, roots/ rock ‘n’ roll, 8:30 p.m.; no cover. 319 S. Guadalupe St., 982-2565. THE DEN: Ladies Night with DJ Luna spinning dance beats, 9 p.m.-close, call for cover. Coyote Café, 132 Water St., 983-1615. EL FAROL: Flamenco dinner show, 6:30 p.m.; soul band The Gruve, 9 p.m. to close; call for cover. 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912. EL PASEO BAR & GRILL: Weekly rotating DJs, 9:30 p.m. to close, no cover. 208 Galisteo St., 992-2848. EVANGELO’S: Led Zeppelin homage band Moby Dick, 9 p.m., call for cover. 200 W. San Francisco St., 982-9014. HOTEL SANTA FE: Guitarist/ flutist Ronald Roybal, 7 to 9 p.m., no cover. 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200. LA FIESTA LOUNGE AT LA FONDA: Savor, Cuban street music, 8 p.m., no cover. 100 E. San Francisco St., 982-5511. LA POSADA DE SANTA FE RESORT AND SPA: Nacha Mendez & Friends, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., no cover. 330 E. Palace Ave., 954-9668. MINE SHAFT TAVERN: Danny the Harp, 5 p.m.; Connie Long & Fast Patsy, 7 p.m. to close, no cover. 2846 N.M. 14, Madrid, 473-0743.

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Peacekeepers leaving Darfur despite increased violence U.N. mission is criticized for failing to protect civilians By Somini Sengupta and Jeffrey Gettleman The New York Times

UNITED NATIONS — Under intense pressure from the government of Sudan, the United Nations is planning to shrink its floundering peacekeeping force in Darfur, even though renewed fighting there has chased more people from their homes this year than during any other in the past decade. The withdrawal plans come right after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, announced that she had decided to suspend the genocide case against Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, because world powers have done nothing to secure his arrest. The twin retrenchments are emblematic of the limits of international attention at a time when Darfur has been overshadowed by newer crises and conflicts around the world, from the civil wars in Syria and South Sudan to the Ebola epidemic. Once the world’s largest peacekeeping operation, with 20,000 blue-helmeted soldiers

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on the ground, the U.N. force in Sudan’s Darfur region has already been trimmed by 4,000 troops, and plans are underway to cut more in the coming months despite the surge in violence. The mission has been criticized for failing to protect civilians in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Since 2003, when an armed rebellion in Darfur was met with a brutal government crackdown, the conflict has claimed tens of thousands of lives, if not hundreds of thousands, and

displaced more than 2 million people. Now, as rebel groups splinter and the notorious progovernment janjaweed militias

re-emerge, renewed fighting has chased 457,000 people from their homes this year alone. But U.N. officials say that their forces are routinely attacked by Sudanese forces and their proxies; that it is virtually impossible for their peacekeepers to remain in the country without Sudan’s blessing; and that some of their units have performed poorly and could be eliminated. “The heart of matter for us remains the protection of civilians affected by the conflict and ensuring that any drawdown does not have a negative impact on this critical task,” said the U.N. undersecretary general for peacekeeping, Hervé Ladsous. U.N. officials say Sudanese obstructionism is mostly to blame for the setbacks, while critics accuse the United Nations of ineptitude and cover-

ups. The mission remains one of the world’s most expensive, with an annual budget of $1.4 billion. The growing sense of international resignation toward Darfur stands in jarring contrast to the passionate activism, when “Save Darfur” was a household term, with Hollywood celebrities like George Clooney using their fame to draw attention to Darfur’s misery.

Critics point out that the peacekeeping mission has capitulated too often to government pressure. After Sudanese soldiers were accused of raping more than 200 women and girls in a village in North Darfur in October, U.N. peacekeepers botched the investigation, human rights groups say. A whistle-blower with the peacekeeping mission called it part of a pattern of cover-ups.

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ISIS silent on fate of Jordanian airman By Omar Akour and Diaa Hadid The Associated Press

AMMAN, Jordan — The father of a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State group in Syria pleaded for his son’s release on Thursday, asking him to treat him well in captivity as a fellow Muslim. So far, there has been silence from the extremists about the fate of their captive, 1st Lt. Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh, since gunmen from the group dragged him away following his crash Wednesday morning. Al-Kaseasbeh was carrying out air strikes against the militants when his warplane crashed near the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the Islamic State group’s de facto capital. The group has executed captured Iraqi and Syrian Muslim soldiers in the past — it follows an extremist version of Islam that considers rivals, even some Sunni Muslims, as apostates. Still, the group may want to negotiate a prisoner swap or other concessions from Jordan. The pilot’s father, Safi Yousef al-Kaseasbeh, made his plea while speaking to journalists in the Jordanian capital, Amman. “I direct a message to our generous brothers of the Islamic State in Syria: to host my son, the pilot Mu’ath, with generous hospitality,” he said. “I ask God that their hearts are gathered together with love, and that he is returned to his family, wife and mother.” “We are all Muslims,” he added. The pilot is the first known military member to be captured from the international coalition that has been waging a bombing campaign against the Islamic State group for months. After the crash, al-Kaseasbeh was pulled by gunmen from a body of water and hustled away, according to photos published by the Raqqa Media Center, which operates in areas under Islamic State group’s control. The capture — and the potential hostage situation — presents a nightmare scenario for Jordan, which vowed to continue its fight against the group that has overrun large parts of Syria and Iraq and beheaded foreign captives and local rivals. The U.S. military said Wednesday that the militants did not shoot down al-Kaseasbeh’s F-16. But the pilot’s uncle told journalists that the family had been told by the Jordanian government that his warplane was downed by a missile.

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AG: Laid-off staffers’ final day is Dec. 31 posted a plea for donations on her Facebook page. number at about 40. “When I heard Abby Walker’s story, my As of Dec. 4, according to the state Sun- heart broke for her and I knew I had to do shine Portal, there were 181 employees of something to help,” Lewis told a reporter the Attorney General’s Office, as well as in an email. “Her story is just one of the 25 vacancies. many terrible ones I have heard since Walker said she has to have “golf balldozens of us, myself included, were notisize cysts” in her thigh removed as well fied via email that ‘[e]ffective December as other procedures. She also has a blood 31, 2014 [our] services will no longer be condition that will require her to receive required.’ Letting us go two weeks before transfusions during surgery. the end of the year makes it difficult, if After Balderas announced several not impossible, to get a new job before weeks ago that current employees would the expiration of our time at the Attorney have to reapply for their jobs, Walker sent General’s Office. a cover letter and her résumé to the tran“In addition, a window as small as two sition team. She told The New Mexican weeks makes it impossible for us, timeshe didn’t mention her medical condition wise, to obtain another state job before in those documents, saying she planned the end of our current state job,” Lewis to talk about her needs in an interview said. ‘This means a loss of our sick time, with transition. as well as, our health insurance. This has However, that interview never happened. hit many of us very hard. For example, I “I’m just laid up on my couch in pain,” must now find a way to pay over $200 a Walker said. The stress of her financial month for a necessary prescription that, predicament only makes it worse, she said. with my state health insurance, cost me Abby Lewis, a lawyer for King’s office $5 per month. While COBRA may be who also was terminated last week, an option on paper, in reality the cost to helped establish a fund for Walker and my family of over $1,000 per month for

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COBRA is not feasible nor affordable.” In a statement to The New Mexican this week, Sonya Carrasco-Trujillo, spokeswoman for Balderas’ Transition and Assessment Team, said that immediately after the November election, “the transition team began conducting a deliberative, ongoing assessment of all at-will [exempt] employees and a thorough review of operational issues in order to ensure the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office serves the best interests of all New Mexicans. We understand that transitions can be very difficult and we thank all employees for their service to the State of New Mexico.” Like King, who leaves office at the end of the year, Balderas is a Democrat. He has been serving the past eight years as state auditor. Those wishing to donate to the fund to help Walker get insurance should email donationsforabbywalker@gmail.com for information. Contact Steve Terrell at sterrell@ sfnewmexican.com. Read his political blog at www.santafenewmexican.com/news/ blogs/politics.

Event: Martin thanks audience before film Continued from Page A-1 a group of individuals calling themselves The Guardians of Peace released personal emails, employee salaries and unreleased films from the company, and the hackers warned of attacks against theaters showing The Interview. U.S. officials have blamed North Korea for the cyber-attacks at Sony, but the totalitarian regime has denied responsibility even as it warned of serious repercussions and retribution directed against America’s “citadels” should the film get released. After theater chains across the nation refused to show the film, Sony withdrew plans for its release, spurring protests from free speech advocates and the entertainment industry, who said the company was caving to what amounted to extortionist demands. Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, owner of the Jean Cocteau, was

among the first to offer his theater for screenings, and on Thursday he introduced the film. “I figured if we get blown up by North Korea, I should be here personally with all of you brave people,” Martin said, to cheers and laughter. The Jean Cocteau is among more than 300 theaters nationwide screening The Interview after Sony reversed course this week. Sony even released the film online Wednesday via Google Play, Microsoft Xbox Video, YouTube and a special website, www.seeTheInterview.com. “All the shows today are sold out,” said the Jean Cocteau’s manager, Jon Bowman. “I think we’ll do brisk business over the weekend just because of the controversy surrounding it. We have taken some precautions. We’re not allowing backpacks and we’re not allowing purses. We did have a run-through with the police where they made some recommendations for

security measures, which we’ve taken. The security of patrons is important.” Martin on Thursday lauded independent theaters for taking a chance on the film when the major theater operators all refused to show it. He wrung more laughs from moviegoers when he added, “I really hope it’s a good movie. I haven’t seen it.” After thanking the audience for being there, he closed by saying, “Come back and see us some other time when we’re not under bomb threat.” But, for the duration of the film, the only violence was on screen, and the only bombs were jokes that didn’t hit the mark, although most of them did in what turned out to be a funny — if not suited to all tastes — raunch fest. The Jean Cocteau plans a regular theatrical run over the next two weeks. Moviegoers can call the theater or check its website www.jeancocteaucinema.com for show times.

Loans: Interest rates can top 500 percent loan based on an assessment of a used car’s resale value, not on a borrower’s abilby the Federal Deposit Insurance Cority to repay that money, many people find poration — the first time the agency has that they are struggling to keep up almost included the loans in its annual survey. as soon as they drive off with the cash. Title loans are an increasingly prevalent As a result, roughly 1 in every 6 titleform of high-cost, short-term credit in loan borrowers will have the car repossubprime finance, as regulators in a num- sessed, according to an analysis of 561 title ber of states crack down on payday loans. loans by the Center for Responsible LendFor many borrowers, title loans, also ing, a nonprofit in Durham, N.C. sometimes known as motor-vehicle The lenders argue that they are proequity lines of credit or title pawns, are viding a source of credit for people who having ruinous financial consequences, cannot obtain less-expensive loans from causing owners to lose their vehicles and banks. The high interest rates, the lenders plunging them further into debt. say, are necessary to offset the risk that A review by The New York Times of borrowers will stop paying their bills. more than three dozen loan agreements Title loans are part of a broader lending found that after factoring in various fees, boom tied to used cars. Auto loans allowthe effective interest rates ranged from ing subprime borrowers — those with nearly 80 percent to over 500 percent. credit scores at 640 or below — to buy While some loans come with terms of cars have surged in the last five years. 30 days, many borrowers, unable to pay The high interest rates on the loans the full loan and interest payments, say have enticed an influx of Wall Street that they are forced to renew the loans at money. Private equity firms are investing the end of each month, incurring a new in lenders, and some big banks are rampround of fees. ing up their auto lending to people with Customers of TitleMax, for example, blemished credit. typically renewed their loans eight times, Propelling this lending spree are the a former president of the company discars themselves and their centrality in people’s lives. closed in a 2009 deposition. In most parts of the country, a car is And because many lenders make the

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vital to participating in the workforce, and lenders are betting that people will do virtually anything to keep their cars, choosing to make auto loan payments before paying for just about any other expense. “The threat of repossession turns the borrower into an annuity for the lenders,” said Diane Standaert, the director of state policy at the Center for Responsible Lending. Unable to raise the thousands of dollars he needed to repair his car, Ken Chicosky, a 39-year-old Army veteran, felt desperate. He received a $4,000 loan from Cash America, a lender with a storefront in his Austin, Texas, neighborhood. The loan, which came with an annual interest rate of 98.3 percent, helped him fix up the 2008 Audi that he relied on for work, but it has sunk his credit score. Chicosky, who is also attending college, uses some of his financial aid money to pay his title loan bill. Chicosky said he knew the loan was a bad decision when he received the first bill. It detailed how he would have to pay a total of $9,346 — a sum made up of principal, interest and other fees. “When you are in a situation like that, you don’t ask very many questions,” he said.

Rebirth: Artists, writers colony possible draws some 300 people annually. A lifesized cardboard cutout of the author is on a firm financial basis for the ranch and display at the event, and this year there develop the site so that it can be used for also was a large cake to mark the 100th educational, cultural and research activianniversary of the Lawrences’ wedding. ties for students, faculty and the comAttendees visit the ranch, and Lawrence munity. himself is a “guiding spirit” of the conferSharon Oard Warner, an English profes- ence, Warner said. sor at UNM, will co-chair the initiatives When Warner decided this year to with R. Gary Smith, associate director of start a program of online creative writing the Physical Plant Department at UNM. courses, she named it Rananim, the name They will form an advisory board that Lawrence gave to the Utopian community will include key members of the D.H. of artists and intellectuals he imagined. Lawrence Ranch Alliance, Friends of D.H. Her vision for the D.H. Lawrence Lawrence and others from the community. Ranch includes establishment of a resiThe ranch includes a homesteader’s dential colony there for artists and writcabin where the Lawrences lived and ers, inspired by places like the Bread Loaf worked, a small building where Lady Dor- School of English located on a property othy Brett, a painter from an aristocratic willed to Middlebury College, where British family, stayed, and a memorial to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Frost Lawrence. Outside the homesteader’s visited for more than four decades. cabin is the pine tree that was the subject Warner said that D.H. Lawrence Ranch of a famous 1929 oil painting called The Initiatives is preparing a grant applicaLawrence Tree by O’Keeffe. The tree was tion to the state Historic Preservation photographed by National Geographic Division and will be talking to potential magazine staff in September, Warner said. funders who might be interested in helpThe property has other values as well, ing to improve the property. Atkin Olshin Warner stressed. The Kiowa Trail, used Schade Architects, a Santa Fe firm, has by Kiowa Indians to spy on Taos Pueblo, prepared a preservation plan. runs through the property and is still used There is a lot to be done. Upgrades are by pueblo people. needed for both water and electrical systems and restrooms, and a new well will Warner, a longtime advocate for the ranch, founded the Taos Summer Writers’ need to be drilled. Conference in 1998, and the event now Some cabins moved to the ranch from

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Los Alamos, where they served as temporary housing for Manhattan Project employees, will be demolished and possibly new ones built to house people participating in residency programs. The ranch is closed to the public, but when it is open, it is a popular attraction. Warner said that 900 people visited last summer and early fall, and the visitor center in Taos reports it is the most often requested site after Taos Pueblo. Frieda Lawrence’s great-great granddaughter is coming to visit in February, Warner said, and that “speaks to the enduring appeal it has for people.” The property will open again in the spring, again with the help of the Taos Community Foundation. Warner said William Faulkner’s house, which is owned by the University of Mississippi, and the childhood home of Katherine Anne Porter now leased by Texas State University for a literary center, are models of properties with “really full cultural lives.” The value of the D.H. Lawrence Ranch, she said, is that it is a “way of keeping history alive. … It was the place he hoped to bring young people to learn writing, art, music, and I, for one, feel quite compelled to try to help that vision stay alive.” Contact Anne Constable at 986-3022 or aconstable@sfnewmexican.com.

Chelsey Stone, center, attends a March open house at her daughter’s school in Granbury, Texas. She has mapped out a plan: Finish community college, then transfer to a four-year school. BONNIE JO MOUNT WASHINGTON POST

College: Financial ‘shocks’ hurt students Continued from Page A-1 percent more than the median female salary in 1965 and 24 percent less in 2012. College graduates, meanwhile, have widened their income advantage over high school grads, as several recent studies demonstrate — including one from MIT economist David Autor, who found that the annual income gap between a college-educated family and a high-school-educated one grew by $28,000 over the past 35 years, after adjusting for inflation. Nine out of 10 children who grow up at the bottom of the income ladder, but then graduate from college, move up to a higher economic bracket as adults, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. Less than half of kids without a degree make the same leap. That creates a paradox: Being poor is a big impediment to getting the education that lifts you out of poverty. Study after study shows students from wealthier families are increasingly more likely to graduate from college than students from low-income families. Statistics from the Education Department show that highincome students who score poorly on standardized tests are more likely to earn degrees than low-income students who notch high test scores. Low-income students struggle to earn even two-year degrees or professional certifications, which can lead to good-paying jobs. Thousands of low-paid, low-skilled Texans enroll in community college full time every year. Fewer than 1 in 9 of them earns an associate degree within three years. Nationally, it’s about 1 in 8. Why is it so hard today for the children of poverty to finish the schooling they need to climb into the middle class? Researchers blame changes in society and the economy, which have made it easier for students to drop out or be discouraged from enrolling in the first place. When you live on the margins, economists are discovering, even the smallest disruption can knock you off course and out of school. Things like your car breaking down, or your neighbor saying she can’t watch your child anymore, or your boss threatening to fire you if you don’t work more hours in your low-wage job. Emerging research suggests there’s a broader social pull at work, too, linked to the nation’s faltering middle class and the widening gap between the very rich and everyone else. Dwindling economic opportunity, University of Maryland economist Melissa Kearney has found, compounds across generations to keep children poor. If you are poor, growing up in a place where the income gap between you and the middle class is wide and seemingly insurmountable, Kearney discovered — if you don’t see a lot of people like you moving up in life — you’re much more likely to make choices that will keep you out of the middle class yourself. Choices like dropping out of high school or having a baby while young and unmarried. You don’t properly evaluate the risks of those choices, because what future do you have to risk, really? Over the past 40 years, the nation has seen a surge in children born to low-income single mothers. About 25 percent of American families are now headed by a single mom, according to Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution, double the rate from 1970. Nearly half the children of single mothers live in poverty. Kearney’s research suggests that as they grow up, those children will make choices that will reduce their odds of reaching the middle class. In South Texas, Stone saw that firsthand. “I see my cousins, and they’re trapped in the same cycle, and they don’t care,” she said — don’t care about being poor or being on food stamps or

working part time for minimum wage. “They don’t care they don’t have nice things.” Stone wanted nice things, so six years after her daughter was born she went back to school, clawing her way into community college. She moved out of her small town and in with an elderly friend in a suburban subdivision on a man-made lake south of Fort Worth. She found a job as a preschool aide, at minimum wage, then worked her way up to become a teacher, at $10 an hour. She signed up for classes. She made a work schedule that allowed her to pick up Kiara from school. But to keep from dropping out again this time, she needed help. That’s what so many lowincome Americans need on their road to a better life: help with little things. Someone to watch the baby. Someone to help with the rent. Someone to ease the burden of being a mom and being a student and working to afford food and shelter and transportation. And this time, for Stone, that someone was waiting. Catholic Charities Fort Worth is a nonprofit, faithbased social service agency that occupies a sprawling campus on the outskirts of town. It runs on the scale of a small city. The group helped 120,000 low-income people in 2012. Its annual budget is $27.5 million, about half of which comes from government sources. It employs 350 people, and all of them, from the janitors on up, earn at least $13 an hour, which the group has determined is a living wage for the area. The charity doesn’t want its employees to be its customers. “Customers” are what the group’s leaders call the people who fill their waiting room every day. The group’s new mission is to stop seeing as many of those folks as possible — by helping them go to school, gain skills and get hired in a livingwage job. In a pilot program that began in 2012, Catholic Charities Fort Worth selected 19 applicants and paired them with social workers. All of the participants enrolled in community college programs that put them on a path to a high-demand job in the Fort Worth area that pays well, such as accounting or aviation mechanics. The social workers coach the students through class sign-up, help them get government assistance when necessary, and are allowed to dispense up to $500 a year to the students to survive financial “shocks,” such as being forced to find a new apartment to rent or hire a new baby-sitter. (One man needed cash to get his car out of impoundment so that he could live in it.) The program was so successful that the charity expanded it, in partnership with a team of economists — including Kearney, from the University of Maryland — who want to learn the most cost-effective ways to help poor people stay in school. They set up shop at Tarrant County College nearby. Some students in the expanded program, called Stay the Course, got no social-work help but could apply for up to $500 per semester (capped at $1,500 total) to survive a financial shock. That money alone didn’t seem to help very many students stay in school. Hardly anyone, the researchers are finding, has just one shock. Other students were paired with Catholic Charities social workers. One of those students was Stone. Her social workers have paid a portion of her utility bills, gave her a refurbished laptop when hers contracted a virus — and provided a constant stream of logistical and emotional support. Stone and her helpers have mapped out a plan for her schooling: First finish at Tarrant, then transfer to a fouryear school, where she’ll study to be an elementary or middle school teacher. “It’ll double my salary,” Stone said, “so I can afford to live on my own.”

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The weather

For current, detailed weather conditions in downtown Santa Fe, visit our online weather stations at www.santafenewmexican.com/weather/

7-day forecast for Santa Fe Today

Snow and rain, up to 1”

Tonight

Saturday

Partly cloudy

Cold with times of clouds and sun

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Mostly sunny and cold

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Tuesday

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A chance for snow or Cold with periods of flurries snow

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Cold with periods of snow

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wind: NNE 4-8 mph

wind: NW 6-12 mph

wind: SSW 7-14 mph

wind: SE 15-25 mph

wind: SE 7-14 mph

wind: SE 2-4 mph

Almanac

New Mexico weather

Santa Fe Airport through 6 p.m. Thursday Santa Fe Airport Temperatures High/low ......................................... 45 /24 Normal high/low ............................ 43 /18 Recor g ............................... 59 n 1946 Recor ow ................................. -5 n 1924 Santa Fe Airport Precipitation 24 ours t roug 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Mont /year to ate .................. 0.86”/9.84” Norma mont /year to ate ... 0.66”/13.39” Santa Fe Farmers Market 24 ours t roug 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Mont /year to ate ................ 0.79”/11.04”

Air quality index

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 285

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

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Area rainfall

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Albuquerque 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Mont /year to ate .................. 1.11”/8.78” Las Vegas 24 ours t roug 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Mont /year to ate ................ 0.44”/12.55” Los Alamos 24 ours t roug 6 p.m. yest. ............ Trace Mont /year to ate .................. 0.63”/9.62” Chama 24 ours t roug 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.01” Mont /year to ate ................ 1.16”/16.45” Taos 24 ours t roug 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Mont /year to ate .................. 0.67”/7.27”

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

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Water statistics

285

The following water statistics of December 19 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons). Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 0.000 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 5.817 City Wells: 0.000 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 5.817 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.083 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 12.3 percent of capacity; daily inﬂow 1.03 million gallons. A partial list of the City of Santa Fe’s Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: • Irrigation water leaving the intended area is not permitted. Wasting water is not allowed. • Using water to clean hard surfaces with a hose or power washer is prohibited. • Hoses used in manual car washing MUST be equipped with a positive shut-off nozzle. • Swimming pools and spas must be covered when not in use. For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/waterconservation

Sun and moon

tate extremes Thu. High 69 ................................. Carlsbad Thu. Low 9 ....................................... Chama

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National extremes

(For the 48 contiguous states) Thu. High: 79 ............ West Palm Beach, FL Thu. Low: 0 .......................... Gunnison, CO

Weather history

Weather trivia™

Miami, Fla., was in a cold snap on Dec. 26, 1983. The 33-degree low temperature was a record for December. Two years later, Miami’s low was 38 degrees on the same date.

ice crystals falling from the Q: Hexagonal sky are better known as what?

A: Snowflakes

Newsmakers Williams pleads not guilty in robbery case

Katt Williams

LOS ANGELES — Katt Williams has pleaded not guilty to a robbery charge filed after a photographer accused the comedian of stealing her camera. District attorney’s spokeswoman Shiara Davila-Morales said Williams entered the plea Wednesday. Williams was charged along with Death Row Records founder Suge Knight with taking the camera as the photographer tried to take a picture on Sept. 5. Knight has also pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Eastwood and his wife finalize their divorce Clint Eastwood

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Nevada goats to help recycle holiday trees The Associated Press

RENO, Nev. oats are known to eat just about anything, but it didn’t dawn on Vince Thomas until recently that the menu might include Christmas trees. “They’ll eat the pine needles and leave the skeleton of the tree,” said Thomas, a longtime volunteer firefighter who has come up with a new use for his family-owned goat herding business, “Goat Grazers.” “It basically looks like Charlie Brown’s Christmas with a scrawny tree that has nothing but the branches,” he told the Reno Gazette-Journal. Thomas is launching a new program with the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District on Friday to use his 40 goats to help recycle Christmas trees. He says he got tired of watching people discard the trees in landfills or dump them on public property, where they became a fire danger. “It was amazing to me to see how many Christmas trees people would just toss out there,” he said.

Thomas said his goats have been used in the past to help graze in areas with fire-prone weeds along the Sierra’s eastern front. “We thought, ‘What a great way to get rid of the weeds,’ ” he said. “We had the idea of doing just that with the recycling program and we thought about the trees. “And the goats are great employees, they love their job and they don’t complain.” Thomas said he noticed not long ago that no weeds were growing at his daughter’s home in Spanish Springs northeast of Reno where she raises rabbits, pigs and goats. “It was my daughter’s goats. They ate every single weed in our yard,” he said. He became curious and tossed a piece of pine tree to the goats, and they devoured it — pine needles and all. “I did a lot of research on that, and it’s OK for the goats,” Thomas said. “With cattle and some of the other animals, it can cause miscarriages. But for goats, it’s a natural dewormer, and pine is very high in vitamin C, so it’s healthy for them.”

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MONTEREY, Calif. — Clint Eastwood, 83, and his wife of 18 years have finalized their divorce. A Monterey County Superior Court judge approved a judgment Tuesday. Clint and Dina Marie Eastwood have one daughter together. She turned 18 this month. The Oscar-winning director’s wife filed for divorce in October 2013, citing irreconcilable differences. They married in 1996 after meeting when she was assigned to interview the actor for a TV news station. The Associated Press

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6 p.m. on TCM Movie: Billy Rose’s Jumbo Not especially successful on its 1962 theatrical release, this delightful family film stars Doris Day in her last movie musical as the daughter of a circus owner (Jimmy Durante) whose heavy gambling debts threaten to ruin them. She falls for a handsome tightrope walker (Steven Boyd) who joins their troupe, not knowing he’s the son of a rival big-top owner. 7 p.m. on CBS Now That’s Funny! On Set With TV’s Hottest Comedies: A Paley Center for Media Special Aisha Tyler, pictured, (Archer, Whose Line Is It Anyway?) narrates this new behind-the-scenes look at TV’s hottest comedies, including The Big Bang Theory, Mom, The Mindy Project, Modern Family, Parks and Recreation, New Girl, Episodes and Key and Peele. 7 p.m. on TNT Wake Up Call In the new episode “Tedesco Family: Pizzeria Problems,” host Dwayne Johnson calls on celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito to lend professional perspective as

“The Rock” examines a family pizza business that has been plagued by the economic downturn. 8 p.m. on FOX Glee The 2013 holidaythemed episode called “Previously Unaired Christmas” is built around the joking notion that it’s actually an earlier episode that was shot but then withheld by the Fox network because so much of its content was tasteless. 8 p.m. on CW Penn & Teller: Fool Us “Water Tanks for the Memories” is the title of this episode, strongly suggesting that someone is going to get very wet before the hour is over. Penn & Teller likely will stay dry, though, as they assess another crop of talents hoping to perform with the duo in Las Vegas. Lee Hathaway, Jack Tapperel and Laura London are the contenders here. Jonathan Ross is the host.

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London is divorce capital for wealthy Eye-popping settlements burnish city’s reputation By Griff Witte and Karla Adam The Washington Post

LONDON — He’s a fabulously wealthy fashion tycoon. She’s a former Miss Malaysia with an Imelda Marcos-scale shoe fetish. They have homes in five countries, and after 43 years of marriage, share one big problem: They can’t agree on where to get divorced. So for the past two years, Tan Sri Khoo Kay Peng and Pauline Chai have been slugging it out in the courts, spending millions of dollars in legal fees to decide where they’ll ultimately divide the hundreds of millions left in the bank: Malaysia or England. “A nightmare,” says the judge. “A mess,” says her lawyer. “A mess,” says his lawyer — citing the one point on which the two sides can actually agree. But it’s not an unusual tangle for London. If Paris is the city of love, London has become the world capital of divorce — a global magnet for those who possess both astronomical sums of money and a burning contempt for their spouse. Depending on your perspective, the laws here are either notoriously or gloriously favorable to the nonbreadwinner — traditionally, though not always, the wife. Regardless of who made the money, courts here generally stick to 50/50 settlements and lifetime alimony payments while showing zero tolerance for hide-the-asset shell games and only limited appreciation for prenups. The laws have been that way for years — since a 2000 case involving two dairy farmers set a precedent for equal treatment of breadwinners and homemakers. But the difference now is the phenomenal sums involved as London

has emerged as a playground for Russian oligarchs, Chinese moguls and gulf sheiks. The wealthiest Brits are part of the phenomenon, as well: Late last month, a British hedge fund manager was ordered to pay his Americanborn wife $530 million — reportedly the largest settlement in English history. “People are a lot more international than they used to be, and there’s just a lot more money sloshing around,” said Timothy Scott, a prominent divorce attorney who represents Peng and counts Mick Jagger among his former clients. “There are more and more wealthy people who find it’s worth arguing over.” Not only arguing. There’s also cunning strategizing among unhappy couples who can afford to live across multiple time zones. “I’ve advised wives who are contemplating divorce that it’s probably a good idea to get a home in England,” Scott said. “A year’s residence is all they need.” England’s unusually friendly treatment of the spouse who isn’t clearing big paychecks is, naturally, not terribly popular for the one who is. Multi-million-dollar divorce settlements have brought reluctant members of the British comedy troupe Monty Python out of retirement and back on the road for tours and reunions. One member, Terry Jones, recently told the press that despite big proceeds from the shows, he may have to sell his north London mansion to keep up with the payments to his ex-wife. Prenuptial agreements, too, have become more popular here — and more widely accepted by the courts. “Historically, prenups were not worth the paper they were written on,” said Deborah Jeff, who handles complex divorce cases for the London-based firm Seddons. That, she noted, is starting to change, with judges giving them much greater credence than they used to.

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COMMENTARY: JIM TANKERSLEY

Help poor to strengthen middle class WASHINGTON trengthening America’s middle class requires grappling with poverty. Too many low-income Americans are finding their path to the middle class blocked, as I have found out writing about this issue. I reported on a story in Fort Worth, Texas, in part through the lens of a massive charity organization — Catholic Charities Fort Worth — which boasts the budget of a small city and serves 100,000 low-income people a year. Heather Reynolds is the CEO of that group, and in recent years, she has steered it in an important direction. “Our end goal,” she said, “is changing from helping people to getting them out of poverty, and for good.” Getting people out of poverty is much easier said than done. Reynolds and I exchanged emails this week on the question of how to do it — and what keeps people from doing it now. Jim Tankersley: You see 100,000 low-income people a year at Catholic Charities Fort Worth. You’ve made it your mission to find ways to help them not come back — to get skills and jobs that pay well enough for them to get by without assistance. What do you find are the big things people need? Heather Reynolds: What we see as the pressing need a family comes to us with is almost always financial — their utilities have been shut off, they received an eviction notice, or they cannot pay for a needed medication. However, when we assess them in a broader way, we quickly discover a depth of issues they face — whether it is low skills to get a living wage job, transportation issues, childcare issues, poor financial health including debt, damaged credit or pay day loans. How we aim to serve is compassionately and holistically. First, we stop the bleeding by giving them the assistance they need, with their commitment to work with us. Then,

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T we plug them into the services they need most that will impact the deeper issues that are present. Tankersley: What keeps poor people poor? Are there traps in society, in the economy, in culture, in the way low-income people see and interact with the world? Reynolds: This five-word question does not have an easy answer. There are lots of reasons that people live in poverty. Many aid programs in our nation do not incentivize people to move out of poverty. The more a family begins to earn, they drop off many benefits, yet their increased earnings aren’t yet sufficient to move them out of poverty. Many live in poverty because they do not have the skills to earn wages at a level that will provide adequately for their family. And, for some, it can be an issue of hope. Many people we serve don’t see a way out — they have no hope that life can be better. This is

not a comprehensive list, just a few examples. Tankersley: You deal with a lot of refugees — and they have a huge success rate, for finding work and getting ahead, right? Why is that? Why do so many immigrants from lesser circumstances come to America and regularly find success? Reynolds: We do, and I am always so proud of the work our team does with our refugees. I would suggest two things — hope and services. When refugees arrive here, they come from horrific situations. But many have dreamed about coming to America and have a mindset that anything is possible here. This hope they have from the start makes a big difference. Second is the way refugees receive services when they arrive. Refugees are served in a comprehensive, holistic way — they are given housing, ESL [English as a Second Language], employment services,

financial assistance, school integration, cultural orientation, etc. There is not just one service they receive. They get comprehensive services that helps set them up for success. Tankersley: What would you ask policymakers to change, to help more lowincome people make that leap to a middle-class life? Reynolds: When a family is on government programs, reduce their support incrementally, not in totality, as they begin to earn or earn higher wages. Don’t set up the system that when people are trying to move out of poverty that they have to become poorer before they can make it. For many we serve, this is an impossible choice, which leads people to never be able to change their situation. Jim Tankersley is the editor of Storyline at The Washington Post, where he explains complex public policies and illuminates their human impact.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Cuba remains a rogue, oppressive nation

resident Barack Obama and others call the Cuba embargo and other Cuba sanctions “failed policy.” The embargo and other sanctions on Cuba are only tangentially related to “regime change.” The real purpose now and always was primarily to punish and isolate Cuba as a rogue nation, just like North Korea. Regime change is OK, but not the main purpose for states like Cuba that oppress their people, sponsor terrorism, send troops all over the world to fight and kill to stop democracy movements (Angola, for instance), and who allow their country to be used to base nuclear missiles aimed at us. In that regard the policy has been a complete success, Cuba is destitute, bankrupt and about to collapse economically. Cuba also is recognized as a role model for a failed communist system around the world. What else could we want and why would we want to change the policy? Mike Johnson

Santa Fe

Sony’s mistake Does anybody else think it was maybe a mistake for Sony Pictures to produce a comedy movie about the assassination of the living leader of another nation,

one that happens to be a nuclear power? Maybe someone in the press should ask President Barack Obama how he would have advised the company about this before Sony precipitated an international incident by announcing the film and provoking the hacker attack. All we seem to get from Obama and the press is that the U.S. must not allow itself to be manipulated by North Korea. I don’t think we should be defending the rights of Corporate America to offend the leaders and the people of another country by making light of assassinating its leader, however constitutional free speech may be. America, this is not funny! Denny Cicak

Santa Fe

Revering Guadalupe The same day (Dec. 12) that a gallery on Agua Fría Street opened a show featuring a scantily clad Virgin of Guadalupe, on the other side of town, on Museum Hill, another exhibit dedicated to Guadalupe opened at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art (750 Camino Lejo, first museum on the left coming from Old Santa Fe Trail). Not one of these reverent and historic images was deemed worthy of a front-

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Local shooting I continue to be troubled, after viewing the video of the state policeman killing Jeanette Anaya in November 2013, that no indictment followed. She fled in her car after the officer put on his siren, fearing arrest for failure to pay a fine. The video shows the policeman crouched on the driver side of her vehicle, obviously in no danger, shooting multiple times into the car where Anaya was sitting. The grand jurors were not blind; they saw the same video of the shooting. How could the jurors have ignored or excused the obvious, that the officer was in no danger standing on the driver side and shooting Anaya as she remained seated? The killing of Anaya is as egregious as the many other deaths, recent and not so recent, at the hands of police. Until and unless there is criminal accountability, such deaths will continue without justice for the survivors or the deceased. Andres S. Vargas

wo-term University of New Mexico regent Jamie Koch has received a somewhat unexpected reappointment to a third term on the university’s governing board. After all, the blunt Santa Fe insurance executive is a former state Democratic Party chair. However, in keeping Koch on board, Gov. Susana Martinez is showing that she values experience in steering the state’s largest university. In his statement thanking Martinez for his re-appointment (to an unexpired term), Koch pointed out that the governor wants to work with the university to keep tuition affordable and to support UNM’s mission as a world-class institution of higher learning. She recognizes its importance in building partnerships with the national resource laboratories and for supporting high-tech business development. There’s even a potential incentive the governor wants to see adopted: Graduate in four years and keep paying the same rate of tuition. That means costs are more predictable and students don’t have to struggle to meet unexpected tuition increases. Koch, perhaps because of his blunt nature, isn’t without critics. He even faced a vote of no confidence from faculty members at one point in his tenure on the board of regents but has since mended fences. However, his experience in steering the university’s finances and the depth of his knowledge of UNM — he’s a graduate and former twosport Lobo athlete — makes it important for him to remain. (Koch’s grandfather also taught at UNM; his mother is a graduate; and he met his wife, Nene, while both were students.) Whether Martinez was seeking to burnish her bipartisan credentials by keeping a partisan Democrat or simply going with an experienced pick, Jamie Koch is a good man to have on the Board of Regents. UNM, along with other New Mexico public institutions, faces a number of challenges. High school students are not always prepared for the rigors of university. That leads to too much money spent on remedial courses, and too many students who do not graduate in four years. Universities, as well as the state Department of Higher Education, have to work more closely with public schools to ensure that the classes in high school are what students need for college. As always, there is the thorny question of standards. UNM and New Mexico State University both are fairly democratic in their admissions policy. While we believe in access to higher education, it does no good for students to be admitted, only to fail because they can’t do the work. Too many young New Mexicans are saddled with the debt of higher education without the benefits of a degree. Making it harder to enter a four-year university in the first place could change that bad equation. Regents will have to set the course, at UNM and other state institutions. Whatever New Mexico’s economic struggles have been and continue to be, all are agreed that an educated workforce is the key to future growth and stability. A strong and thriving University of New Mexico is essential to the state’s future. Regents like Jamie Koch are working hard to ensure the university’s continued success. It’s good that he will remain on board.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 26, 1914: Washington — The Japanese embassy today received official advices from Tokyo that Russia has ceded to Japan its half of the Island of Sakhalin for some heavy guns. The island was officially Russian until September 1905. Dec. 26, 1989: Carlsbad — The opening of the nation’s $700 million experimental repository for nuclear waste could be delayed up to five more years, but 650 people are quietly working to keep the atomic graveyard ready for business. Several times a week a dozen or so workers practice the procedure for burying trash that will remain deadly for more than 100,000 years. Technical and safety concerns have delayed the opening, and the plant’s harshest critics say it may never open.

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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) 2014 Ken Fisher

Today in history Today is Friday, Dec. 26, the 360th day of 2014. There are five days left in the year. The seven-day African-American holiday Kwanzaa begins today. This is Boxing Day. Today’s highlight in history: On Dec. 26, 2004, more than 230,000 people, mostly in southern Asia, were killed by a 100-foot-high tsunami triggered by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You have a way of handling a personal matter differently from how many others do. Tonight: Take off for the weekend if you can. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You might be more flexible than you have been in a while. You will be able to identify with someone else and go along with his or her desires. Tonight: Let others do the entertaining. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Remain sure of yourself, and know where you are heading. Be direct with others. Tonight: Say “yes” to a loved one. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Others make it clear that they want to be dominant and call the shots. Be direct in how you deal with others. Tonight: Go along with a friend’s plans.

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Sister’s outbursts may be hormonal Dear Annie: My 50-something sister, “Denise,” has turned into a hostile, critical person. I visit my family four times a year and have witnessed her angry outbursts firsthand. My other siblings have become very proficient at pacifying Denise by always agreeing with her and being solicitous toward her. Denise is not a bad person, so it is shocking to see her act this way. Most of the time, her anger is directed at sales people or drivers on the road. But I also seem to have become the target of her wrath, sometimes in the middle of a conversation. When I ask her what I said to upset her, she cannot tell me. She storms out of the room shouting and cursing. What’s worse is that Denise has managed to sour my relationship with my other siblings. They blame me for upsetting her. Denise has directed these rages at our mother, too. This has gone on for the past three years. Recently, Denise told me our other siblings do not like me because I upset her. My husband has noticed the change in my sister’s temperament and has caught her making fun of me or criticizing me. When he calls her on it, she claims she is only teasing. Without these outbursts, Denise and I have a great time together. But it rarely lasts. Even after we’ve had a good day, she’ll report to our siblings that I aggravate her and she can’t stand being around me. I do not know what to do. I try to limit my contact with her and word our conversations very carefully. I would like to maintain a relationship with my other siblings, but she is making it impossible. Any advice? — No Name, Please. Dear No Name: Has Denise had a thorough medical checkup recently? She may have a hormonal imbalance or other condition that is causing these outbursts. Please tell her you are concerned about her and suggest she speak to her doctor. She must be terribly unhappy to have so

little control over herself. Dear Annie: I lost both of my parents a couple of years ago, and I would like to impart a very important message to your readers: Please express your last wishes to your family and loved ones. My family was reluctant to have these discussions, so we were left guessing. As the executrix of my parents’ estate, I didn’t know what their final wishes were. My brothers and I inherited their estate, but I would have gladly given that back tenfold had my parents been able to enjoy one more year of their hard-earned retirement. Yet, two years later, I am still left forever hoping that I honored what I thought they wanted. If you feel that this is a subject you cannot broach, just leave a letter or legal document with instructions, and make sure it can be easily found. — C.B. in New Hampshire Dear C.B.: Thank you for the sage advice. It is often easier to speak to an attorney about one’s final wishes, but instructions for a funeral are likely not disclosed until after the fact. Write down what you want, make a couple of copies and leave them where they are most likely to be discovered by those who are looking. Dear Annie: I have an answer for “In a Fog in Kentucky.” I have held large parties over the years, and I put up a sign on my front door that reads: “Please come in and have fun. Turn off all cellphones. The only exception is if you are a physician on call, and then your phone has to be on vibrate.” I never had a problem after that, and parties are so much more fun. — Not Foggy in Texas Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You might want a change to take place in your domestic life. Consider focusing on what is practical. Tonight: Get some much needed sleep. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Focus on the quality of your communication, and you will be able to make a difference that counts. Tonight: Don’t shy away from others. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You could be unusually intense when dealing with a close family member. Tonight: Make it easy and stay close to home. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH You’ll ask questions and have a lot to deal with. Your sense of humor will emerge as others start sharing their holiday stories. Tonight: Make it easy and uncomplicated.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You might want to revamp your finances on account of the past few weeks. You could meet someone new on the way to an errand. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH You intuitively zero in on what you want. You might want to check out a situation a few times, then pinch yourself. Tonight: Just be yourself. Jacqueline Bigar

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LeBron returns to Miami and receives boos, some cheers

Homebuilder plans major project at Las Soleras New proposal would amend master plan in south S.F. development By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

A homebuilding company is expected to submit plans to the city for a massive residential project in the Las Soleras development in south Santa Fe. The proposed project by PulteGroup calls for amending the Las Soleras master plan and a rezoning since it would

combine a number of parcels that have different kinds of zoning. According to a Pulte development plan provided to neighbors during an early neighborhood notification meeting on Dec. 16, the company plans to build 149 units on 52 acres in the first phase and 85 units on 50 acres in the second phase. The Las Soleras development, located at Santa Fe’s southern gateway between the south end of Cerrillos Road and Interstate 25, is 545 acres. The proposed project, which borders the Nava Ade neighborhood, follows

the Planning Commission’s preliminary approval in August of another residential development at Las Soleras. That project, called Ross’ Peak, consists of 204 lots on 32 acres south of the intersection of Governor Miles and Rail Runner roads. The details of Pulte’s plans remain to be seen. “We’re going to be making an application on Monday and at that point it becomes public information,” planning consultant Jim Siebert, who is working with Pulte, said Wednesday.

PulteGroup plans to build 149 units on 52 acres in the first phase and 85 units on 50 acres in the second phase near Santa Fe’s southern gateway between the south end of Cerrillos Road and Interstate 25.

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State approves charters for 3 S.F. schools Monte del Sol, Tierra Encantada Turquoise Trail to leave SFPS authority for more autonomy By Robert Nott The New Mexican

The state Public Education Commission recently granted charters to three schools that previously held charters authorized by the Santa Fe district, a change school leaders say could mean more autonomy and access to more federal funding. The commission approved state charters for Monte del Sol Charter School, Tierra Encantada Charter School and Turquoise Trail Charter School, which collectively serve about 1,100 students. The state Public Education Department had recommended approval of the charters. Monte del Sol, which serves students in grades 7-12, and Turquoise Trail, which serves students from prekindergarten to grade six, each received a five-year charter. Tierra Encantada, a high school that focuses on experiential and bilingual learning, received a three-year charter with special conditions attached, including the requirement that school leaders create an improvement plan. All three schools had announced their plans to leave the authority of Santa Fe Public Schools and seek state charters earlier this year. The district’s fourth charter school, the Academy for Technology and the Classics, remains under district authority. Last week, the Santa Fe school board approved its charter for another five years. In 2013, the district asked the heads of its four charter schools to agree to certain performance compacts to ensure greater accountability and transparency, but none of the leaders of the three charters that left the district said that was a reason behind their move to state authority. In general, the charter switch will not impact parents or students. Any charter school that negotiates with the district for food or transportation services could still do so using federal funds that would flow more directly to the school sites. And since charter schools pay 2 percent of their operational budget to either the state or the district for oversight expenses, the financial benefits remain small. However, two of the charters — Tierra Encantada and Turquoise Trail — are located in district-owned facilities, and the future of at least one of those leases is uncertain. Ray Griffin, principal and head administrator of Turquoise Trail, said the school holds a five-year lease on the building off N.M. 14 south of Santa Fe, where it served as a district-run school before seeking a charter several years ago. School board President Steven Carrillo said Monday that the district is reviewing the lease deal to see if it’s possible to move Turquoise Trail to another facility so the district can use its current facility as a neighborhood school to better serve children living south of town. Right now, the only district school site that is vacant is the former Kaune Elementary School building, located in midtown off Cerrillos Road. Doug Wine, executive director of the New Mexico Coalition For Charter Schools, said state authorization allows some federal funding to flow directly to the charter schools, such as funds designated for rural schools, professional development grants and Title 1 grants, which are based on the poverty level of students at a school. Robert Jessen, head learner at Monte del Sol Charter School, said the added independence will bring about challenges, too. “It’s the kind of thing where

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Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan distributes communion during Christmas Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi on Thursday. LUKE E. MONTAVON/THE NEW MEXICAN

Archbishop’s Christmas message In what could be his last Christmas Day Mass, Sheehan touts traditional values By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

vergreen garlands wrapped in tiny white lights stretched between the towering columns at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe on Thursday as people filled the pews. Their voices soared within the morning-lit, domed cathedral, singing “Oh Come All Ye Faithful” as Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan entered with other priests to celebrate the Christmas Day Mass. It was Sheehan’s 21st Christmas Day Mass and likely the last he will celebrate as archbishop. He turned 75 in July and under canon law, is to retire. Sheehan, known for a lively sense of humor and fantastic storytelling, adopted more serious tone for this Mass. “Christmas reminds us that Jesus remains available to us on a person to person basis,” he told the gathered congregation. Jesus’ birth was the central reason for the

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into taking a selfie with him. Sheehan let him post it on the mobile app Instagram. After Mass, Sheehan planned to enjoy a pasta dinner with other priests in Albuquerque for his Christmas Day dinner. “I lived in Rome for seven years,” he told congregants. “I love pasta.” Born in Kansas and raised in Texas, Sheehan was ordained a priest in Rome on July 12, 1964. He became the first bishop of Lubbock in 1983 and was installed as the 11th archbishop of Santa Fe in 1993. He celebrated his half century of priesthood in July. In closing remarks Sheehan gave in August, he thanked God for parents who loved him and gave him “a great genetic package.” He also traced his journey from his time as assistant pastor in Tyler, Texas, working with high school youth and tuberculosis patients to his time as chair of Catholic Studies for The University of New Mexico and ordination of 65 priests. “To be a servant in the church meant everything to me 50 years ago,” Sheehan said in his August remarks. “It means everything to me today.” Sheehan said once Pope Francis appoints a new archbishop, he will become Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe and retire in Albuquerque.

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Turquoise Trail Charter School, a district charter since the mid-1990s shown here July 24, was granted a state charter by the Public Education Commission recently. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

season, but that was too easily forgotten when people focused on Santa Claus, Frosty and money spent on gifts, he said. “I get impatient when people say happy holidays,” he told the crowd. “I shout back at them, ‘Merry Christmas.’ ” While glitz and Santa have their place, Sheehan urged people to focus on their own internal spiritual preparation during the season. Among those listening to Sheehan was Diego Abeyta, 83, whose life is closely tied to the cathedral. Abeyta was baptized and attended Mass there during much of his life and used to sing in the choir. “I love the archbishop,” said Abeyta, who lives in Española. “He is funny and has a good sense of humor. He says he is going to retire, but I can’t see it.” A few years ago, Abeyta walked to the Sanctuario de Chimayó with the archbishop during the Easter pilgrimage. “We talked a lot,” he said. While Abeyta was enjoying the Mass, Jacob Martinez, 15, was helping with the celebration. His family waited for him afterward. “The archbishop is good with the youth, and that’s drawn them back to church,” said his father, Peter Martinez. After his confirmation in the summer, Jacob Martinez even coaxed the archbiship

Fresh off a victory getting Columbine/Hondo Wilderness legislation past Congress, wilderness advocates have set their sights on designating additional special protections in an area that includes 120,00 acres in several counties. Those behind the proposal say it will continue the momentum of protecting valuable landscapes from future development while

preserving longstanding traditions closely tied to the forest. But some groups, including the New Mexico Acequia Commission, have raised concerns the protections of a wilderness designation could inadvertently hurt acequia users in the area. The existing Pecos Wilderness Area covers 224,000 acres and spans the Carson National Forest and Santa Fe National Forest. Proponents, including the New Mexico Wildlife Federation and the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, would like to see an additional 120,000 of existing “roadless area” turned into wilderness or become a “special management area.” Those acres would cover land in Taos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and San

Miguel counties. The practical effect of the new designations would be to prohibit new roads, vehicle travel or resource extraction like mining. Such changes would need to be approved by Congress. Max Trujillo with the New Mexico Wildlife Federation told the Taos County Commission on Dec. 16 that protecting this and other areas is key to ensuring public access to treasured areas. “This is ours. This is our ranch. This is our place that we all share in common,” Trujillo said. A resolution presented to the commission for approval states the areas around the Pecos “are prime watersheds, and in their natural condition provide many benefits including clean and

abundant water supplies, clean air and superior wildlife habitat.” Wilderness advocates speaking before the commission also stressed the proposed designations would set in stone existing provisions that limit motorized access and prohibit woodcutting. Any grazing in the area would be allowed to continue, advocates say. They also contend maintaining watersheds improves water quality for acequia users downstream. But in a Nov. 18 letter to the County Commission, Ralph Vigil, chairman of the New Mexico Acequia Commission, expressed “serious concerns” about the expansion of the wilderness area. “The proposal may

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Santa delivers gifts to Yellowstone kids By Liz Kearney Livingston Enterprise

LIVINGSTON, Mont. — Rachel Cudmore loves her job in Yellowstone National Park, but every December, she loves it just a little bit more. On Christmas Eve, Cudmore dresses up in a festive elf costume and escorts Santa to all the remote interior park locations where, with the exception of Old Faithful, which bustles with overnight guest lodging and other amenities, small crews of National Park Service employees spend the winter months. “It’s one of the highlights of winter,” Cudmore said in a phone interview Tuesday from her office at park headquarters, Mammoth Hot Springs. Yellowstone’s interior is closed to wheeled vehicles in the winter, so any transportation has to happen on a snowmobile, in a snowcoach, or in Santa’s case, in a big white Suburban outfitted with “mattracks,” large rubber tracks in place of the tires. Or, at least on an experimental basis this year, oversized tires designed to work in the snow.

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After eight years of work, Elise recently lost her job. After being able to provide for her family all of these years, unemployment has come as a shock Empty to Elise, stocking who is fund unsure how she will pay her mortgage. With a 4-year-old soon to be in the house, she’s asking for help from wherever she can find it. Elise is asking for $600 to pay for her water disconnect and assist with her mortgage. Elise is among the many community members asking for help from The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund during the holiday season. The New Mexican is not publishing the applicants’ real names to protect their privacy. uuu

The Empty Stocking Fund is a project of The Santa Fe New Mexican. The Santa Fe Community Foundation, the First National Bank of Santa Fe, The Salvation Army and Presbyterian Medical Services donate services to jointly administer the Empty Stocking Fund. Watch for daily stories featuring requests for assistance from local residents in The Santa Fe New Mexican. The information from the initial application will be verified if the applicant is selected for assistance. To donate: Make your tax deductible donation online at www.santafenewmexican. com/empty_stocking or mail a check to The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund c/o The Santa Fe Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, N.M., 87504-1827. Donors can request to remain anonymous. If you can provide a service such as roofing or home repairs, contact Roberta at Presbyterian Medical Services at 983-8968. If you can contribute food, clothing, toys, housewares or furniture in good condition, or other items or services, please contact The Salvation Army at 988-8054. Donate online in honor of a friend or loved one, and you’ll have the option of sending them a custom e-card from the Empty Stocking Fund to let them know about your contribution, courtesy of the Santa Fe Community Foundation and InSight Photo.

Cudmore, a National Park Service employee, is the park’s Commercial Film Permits Coordinator, and in the winter, has additional duties as the winter courier. Once or twice a week it’s her job to deliver the mail to NPS employees who work at remote locations inside the park. The mail comes to Yellowstone’s main post office, located at Mammoth Hot Springs. Cudmore said the locations, with the exception of Old Faithful, have about 20 or so people, including employees and family members. On Christmas Eve, Cudmore decorates her vehicle — perhaps with a bright red bow on the front, or a string of lights — and she and Santa head out early for their roughly 150 mile round trip. She also delivers her homemade cookies. Santa stops at all the locations where employees live — Norris, Canyon, Lake, West Thumb, Old Faithful and Madison — and at locations where park employees have children. He greets each child by name and distributes special gifts. This year there are four children of employees in the interior, Yellowstone spokeswoman Amy Bartlett said Tuesday.

The park children get a couple of extra treats. “The parents send us photos ahead of time,” Cudmore said, so Santa can greet each child by name. And Santa brings each of them a special gift, thanks to a little conspiring with parents in advance. The parents buy a gift, wrap it up, and sneak it into Santa’s hands when the kids aren’t looking. They sometimes hand the gift off the week before, so when Santa shows up, it will appear that the gift came straight from the North Pole. One year a child at Canyon Village received a set of juggling bean bags. Santa, it turned out, just happened to be an expert juggler, and amazed the children with juggling feats, Cudmore laughed. Santa’s red suit and boots have been filled the past few years by Cudmore’s beau, Doug Kraus, who works in the summer season as in the Yellowstone Wildland Fire Helitack program. At 6 feet tall and a slim build, Cudmore jokes that Kraus doesn’t fit the profile of the typical Santa. “I had to make him a pillow shirt so his pillow wouldn’t fall out,” she laughed.

Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department took the following reports: u Someone broke into a vehicle parked in the 1600 block of Galisteo on Tuesday and took a gym bag and a pair of pink Nikes. u Police arrested Arlene Ory, 68, of Santa Fe on a charge of battery against a household member Wednesday morning after she allegedly argued with her husband and scratched his face. Ory was booked into the Santa Fe County jail. The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office took the following report: u Jon Lopez, 30, was arrested in the 3000 block of N.M. 14 Thursday on charges of battery against a household member and interfering with communications. Lopez was booked into the Santa Fe County jail. u Andy Kilgore, 40 of Camino Vista Aurora in Santa Fe County, was arrested Wednesday night on a charge of criminal damage to property after deputies found him inside the residence allegedly breaking water fixtures,

mirrors and other household items. Damage was estimated to be more than $1,250.

DWI arrest u Deputies arrested Christopher Sanchez, 42, on Camino Carlos Rael on Thursday on charges of DWI. He was booked into the Santa Fe County jail.

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Mary died unexpectedly due to an auto accident on December 20th. Mary’s brother Brian and mother Patricia were with her when she passed away. Mary’s family would like to express their deepest gratitude to the Santa Fe Fire Department, physicians and ER staff at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Santa Fe, NM for their professional and compassionate care. Born in Chicago, IL, Mary went to Kalamazoo College on a partial Art Scholarship where one of her sculptures graces the campus grounds. After completing her BA in Art History, she studied at DePaul and Roosevelt Universities and went on to work as a Montessori teacher and a Paralegal. Mary moved to Santa Fe, NM in the early 1990’s where she started a child care business, earned her NM teaching certificate and went on to teach little children in Espanola and Santa Fe. At the time of her death Mary worked at El Mirador where she loved working with the group home participants. Mary applied herself to all that she set out to accomplish. At the age of 4, Mary took to the water and became an accomplished swimmer and held state records in Butterfly Medley and other strokes. Mary played tennis and was one of the top seeds in her class. Mary was also an artist who would sculpt, paint, sew and applied these talents to all she taught or cared for. Mary never of spoke of her past accomplishments or time volunteered, as she was humble. Always on the go, each moment in her life was filled by her to the fullest. Purposeful, tireless and loving, Mary could see when someone was hurt or needed encouragement and acted immediately to help them. Mary’s calling in life was to help others. It was not a conscious decision, it was just who she was. If Mary saw an injustice she would intervene - even if it was to her own detriment. Mary brought joy to the vulnerable or at risk. In her early 20’s, Mary would be seen walking though the toughest Chicago neighborhoods to volunteer her time teaching inner city children to swim. As a lifelong devout Catholic, Mary attended Church daily at St. Anne’s Parish along with visits to the Carmelite Nuns. Mary’s faith and support from the Parish and Nuns provided the pillars of support in her life. Mary will be deeply missed by all whose lives she touched. Preceded in death by Isabelle and Robert Harrigan (Grandparents), Vincent DePaul Garrity Sr. (Father), Vincent DePaul Garrity Jr. (Brother) Mary is survived by Patricia Adams (Mother), Brian Adams (Brother), Sheila and David Dolkart (Sister and Brother-in-law), Betty Roche (Aunt), cousins Patricia Abate, Tom Johnson and Bob Johnson. Jean Garrity (sister-in-law), nephew Matt Dolkart and nieces Molly Dolkart and Sarah Garrity. Services will be held at 11 AM on December 29th at St Anne Parish 511 Alicia St Santa Fe, NM 87501. In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to Easter Seals of El Mirador, 10 A Van Nu Po, Santa Fe, NM 87508. Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 Fax: (505) 820-0435 santafefuneraloption.com

Donelia Roybal, Age 80, a resident of Chili, ended her journey in this world on December 15, 2014 of a sudden stroke. She passed away peacefully with her beloved children by her side. Born in El Rancho NM, Donelia was a hard working woman with strong self determination and filled with compassion to help others, often sacrificing her own needs. She maintained a healthy, modest lifestyle and found great joy working the land and raising animals on the ranch she owned. However, her greatest pride and joy came with the arrival of her grandchildren, for whom she cared for and loved deeply. Donelia is preceded in death by her children Pablita Maria and Fredrick Aaron Salazar, her parents Aaron and Veronica Roybal; Sister, Eufemia Roybal; brothers, Billy, Gilbert, Alfonso, and Eloy Roybal; Brothers-in-law, Clyde Herrera and David Manzanares. Donelia is survived by her children: Daughter, Pepita Wilkinson and husband Dean, son, Ted Salazar, her beautiful grandchildren, Michaelyne and Lincoln Wilkinson. Brothers: Luciano, David, Floyd, Manuel, Paul, and Abel Roybal; Sisters: Julia Manzanares, Jane Herrera, Esther Romero, Lillian Duran, Ruth, Gloria, and Nora Roybal and numerous nephews, nieces, cousins and special friends. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, c/o Amigos de Sevilleta, PO Box 1248, Socorro, NM 87801 or Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, PO Box 280, San Antonio, NM 87832. Memorial service is pending and will be announced after the New Year. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LARRY JR.

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MAGGIE FARALLA MAGGIE FARALLA, born in Washington, DC, on March 24, 1943, died at home in Santa Fe on December 21, 2014, with those who loved her at her side. An artist at heart, it took Maggie some time to find the right medium to best express her unique form of creativity. Growing up in Hollywood, she spent the first 15 years of her professional life as a rock and roll press agent, acting as publicist for such artists as the Eagles, Steely Dan, KISS and Tony-award winner Rupert Holmes. Fleeing the L.A. music business, she decided to turn her love of fine food into her next career and apprenticed with Michael Roberts, chef/owner of Trumps, an iconic West Hollywood restaurant at the forefront of the California culinary scene in the early 1980s. The chef started her in the pastry pantry-something she didn’t particularly enjoy. "My goal at that point," Maggie liked to say, "was to be a chef, not a baker." From Trumps she moved on to Spago, another nationally recognized Hollywood restaurant. When Maggie moved to Santa Fe in the mid ’80s, she first worked the line at the then-fledgling Santacafe, then founded the bakery at the Zia Diner. After a number of years as a high-production pastry chef for Walter Burke Catering, she decided it was finally time to pursue her own art---and Maggie’s Cakes, a design studio focusing primarily on one-of-a-kind wedding cakes, was born in 2000. Constructing cakes allowed her to practice another of her passions, architecture, and the fondant finish provided a canvas for her art. "Fondant," she said in an earlier interview, "is an actual gesso canvas. It’s a piece of sugar clay that you can roll out and shape and form and color any way you like." The artist had found her medium---and her life’s work. Maggie is survived by Zara Southard and Malia Kanté of Santa Fe; Zachariah, Zayden and Zaniel Southard of Albuquerque; her former partner Charley Southard; and her stepmother June Faralla of Seattle, Washington. She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Marguerite Faralla, her uncle, the artist Richard Faralla, and her beloved dog Willa. Maggie had a large and generous heart, and believed in giving back to her adopted hometown, donating birthday cakes for Kitchen Angels’ homebound clients, museum openings and other community events. She brought light and love and laughter to every room she entered; her wit, wisdom and indomitable spirit will be greatly missed by all who knew her. Because her final illness moved so quickly that she had no time to say goodbye to her many friends, a celebration of Maggie’s life will be held in early spring. If you would like to be notified of the date and place, send an email to celebratemaggiefaralla@gmail.com

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Groups contest use of helicopters to manage sheep helicopter landings and motorized travel in wilderness areas, but exceptions can be made. Conservation groups including the Sierra Club and Friends of Wild Animals say this should By Felicia Fonseca not be one of them. They argued The Associated Press in a formal objection to the forest’s draft decision that the use FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Heliof helicopters could cause injucopters could be landing more ries or death to the animals that frequently in central Arizona should be allowed to live withwilderness areas if a plan to out human interference. manage bighorn sheep survives “There’s no need to continue a challenge by conservationists. to manage this species so heavThe Tonto National Forest ily,” said Cyndi Tuell of Friends has proposed allowing wildlife of Wild Animals. “In wilderness officials up to 450 landings in a areas, natural processes are handful of wilderness areas over supposed to be allowed to take 10 years. The Arizona Departplace.” ment of Game and Fish says it’s The U.S. Forest Service’s an effective way to monitor and Southwestern regional office in capture sheep in remote, rugged Albuquerque is reviewing the terrain. objection. The agency allows The Wilderness Act prohibits helicopters to be used for sheep

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Jack Hanna, second from right, opens a hatch to release three of 14 bighorn sheep Nov. 20 into the Santa Catalina mountains near Pima Canyon in Tucson, Ariz. The Tonto National Forest has proposed allowing wildlife officials up to 450 helicopter landings in a handful of wilderness areas over 10 years. MIKE CHRISTY/ARIZONA DAILY STAR

In brief Police identify pedestrian killed Abel R. Martinez, 33, of Santa Fe was killed Christmas Eve by a vehicle as he crossed a major road in the city without using a crosswalk. Santa Fe Police were investigating the accident but had not released the driver’s name and no charges had been filed Thursday evening. Martinez was hit around 7 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Siler and Cerrillos road, police said. The accident shut down the northbound lanes of Cerrillos Road for several hours.

Carson National Forest to close roads Dec. 31 The Carson National Forest will be closing and locking gates on forest roads Dec. 31. The roads that are closed are located in areas that are designated as Wildlife Wintering Areas. Forest officials request that those people who do plan on traveling on the remaining open forest roads use extreme caution as recent snows and rain in the area have

made travel dangerous. Many forest roads are narrow and travelers should use the appropriate speed for conditions. Travelers should carry a map of the area, a flashlight, tools and matches to start a fire if stranded. The vehicle should be in good working order and have appropriate tires or chains for snow.

Dolly Parton’s reading program heads to S.F. Santa Fe County and the local United Way chapter have teamed up to bring Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to children throughout the northern New Mexico county. The program aims to increase reading among children. Books selected by a national panel of experts will be sent to children each month from the day a child is born until he or she reaches the age of 5. The head of Santa Fe County’s Community Services Department, Rachel O’Conner, says less than half of the 13,000 students in the Santa Fe school district read at grade level. She says the county hopes to boost that number through its partnership with United Way and Imagination Library. The United Way will assist the county in enrolling children. Officials expect more than 500 children to participate.

Country music group to headline governor’s ball ALBUQUERQUE — The country music group Lonestar will be headlining Gov. Susana Martinez’s inaugural ball on Jan. 1. The governor’s inaugural committee made the announcement this week. The “New Mexico True Inaugural Ball” will be held at the Albuquerque Convention Center. The theme this time will celebrate the state’s culture and heritage. The ball will follow a public swearing-in ceremony earlier in the day at the State Capitol in Santa Fe.

Passenger forces plane to land in Albuquerque ALBUQUERQUE — Authorities say a disruptive passenger forced a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles to land at the Albuquerque International Sunport between 6 and 7 p.m. Thursday. Airport spokesman Daniel Jiron told the Albuquerque Journal that Sunport police arrested the passenger, who was traveling on Delta Flight 81, once the plane landed. Jiron tells the Journal that he doesn’t know the nature of the incident that made the pilot feel he had to land the plane.

Cherokee copy of Lord’s Prayer given to Smithsonian Denton, Texas, said in a news release. “We just wanted to TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — A share a special piece of our copy of the Lord’s Prayer writfamily history with others from ten in Cherokee that was cararound the world. ried by a Cherokee World War “I know there will be many II veteran has been donated to veterans and families that can the Smithsonian Institution’s relate to my grandfather carryNational Museum of the Ameriing this prayer with him during can Indian. the war. Many soldiers needed The late Woodrow Roach of that one thing that gave them Tahlequah fought for the U.S. Army from 1944-45 and believed comfort and security during very trying times,” Boyer said. the prayer was his good luck Roach was 32 when he went charm while serving in Italy and to war — even though the Army the Philippines. said he could opt out since he Roach’s family donated the had three young children. He prayer as a way to honor their completed his basic training at patriarch’s sacrifice. Fort Chaffee near Fort Smith, “Our family has so much respect for veterans and the sac- Ark., and then joined the fight in Italy. rifices they all make,” Roach’s While serving there, an Army granddaughter Della Boyer, of

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road grader came under fire and blocked the path of Roach and the other men. Roach crawled to the grader on his stomach and moved the machine so the men could proceed down the path and fight back. Roach was then sent to the Philippines and transferred to an engineering company that built bridges since he was able to operate heavy machinery. After completing his service, Roach worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and taught at Sequoyah High School. The National Museum of the American Indian is located in Washington, D.C., and possesses an expansive collection of Native American artifacts, photographs and other objects.

management in northern New Mexico’s Wheeler Peak Wilderness in the Carson National Forest and is considering another request for the Pusch Ridge Wilderness in southern Arizona’s Coronado National Forest. The biggest deciding factors are the welfare of the animals and whether they can be managed with non-motorized methods, said Brian Dykstra, wildlife program leader for the regional Forest Service office. An environmental analysis is done before each capture of sheep, Dykstra said. The proposal by the Tonto National Forest includes provisions for avoiding bald and gold eagles and their nesting sites, as well as areas protected for the Mexican spotted owl. It limits helicopter landings in general to the weekdays, with most occur-

ring in November. The landings could occur on about 190,000 acres stretching from the east Verde River on the forest’s northern boundary to the Superstition Mountains to the south. Jim Paxon, a spokesman for the Arizona Game and Fish Department, said wilderness areas have robust herds of sheep that could be transported to new locations or moved to existing populations for diversity. Crews shoot a net from a helicopter that wraps up the sheep, which are blindfolded in transport to keep them calm. The capture takes hours using a helicopter versus days on foot, he said. “It’s the most efficient and most humane way to capture a sheep,” he said. “It’s much less risky to dry to dart them with a sedative and then try to transport them.”

Soleras: Dollar Tree planned near site on preliminary plans they saw during the early neighborhood Neighbors and others say Pulte notification meeting. plans to build, at least on part They include eliminating of the land, a Del Webb project nearly six acres that had been that would be gated and geared designated for open space to toward empty nesters or people build homes. Preliminary plans looking to own a second home. also showed the company “The original master plan for connecting Dancing Ground Las Soleras kind of represented Road directly to Beckner Road the thinking of a decade ago instead of connecting it to Rail where walking communities Runner Road, which neighbors and new urbanist principles say will make Dancing Ground were trying to be incorporated a major thoroughfare and into master plans,” said Kim increase traffic congestion. Shanahan, executive director of A map of the Las Soleras the Santa Fe Area Home Buildproject also indicates that longers Association. “The … Del planned fast food franchises Webb community in the midst near McDonald’s off Cerrillos of that negates the notion of Road, Taco Bell and Chick-Filthat interconnectivity.” A, are under permit review by Some neighbors say they sup- the city. Another parcel next to port the lower density of homes the Murphy Express gas station proposed by Pulte. But they’re is labeled as the site for a future raising other concerns based Dollar Tree store.

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Pecos: Advocates build support EARLY NEW YEAR’S DAY 2015 DEADLINES it’s critical that we protect what little roadless land we have left,” Blankenhorn said. have the unintended effect of placing additional Because of the tie vote, the resolution didn’t stress on traditional users of water,” the letter pass. Outgoing commissioner Joe Mike Durán reads. was not present. The letter asks the county commission to wait Those asking the commission to adopt the until all stakeholders — including nearby aceresolution said they are organizing meetings quias — are able to have their voices heard and concerns addressed. with acequia users with the hope of allaying their At the Dec. 16 meeting, at least two commisconcerns and getting their support. They stressed sioners heeded that advice. Outgoing commisthat there is no acequia infrastructure in the lands sioner Larry Sánchez and commission chairman proposed for new designations, and they insisted Gabe Romero both voted against the resolution their intent is not to take anything from anyone. supporting the wilderness. Sánchez said he Advocates also said they hoped to continue couldn’t vote in favor of the resolution until the building grassroots support for the new designacoalition got all stakeholders — including acequia tions and have legislation drafted to be introusers — on board. Romero voiced similar conduced in Congress next year. cerns. The Taos News is a sister publication of The Commissioners Tom Blankenhorn and Dan New Mexican. Barrone voted in favor of the resolution. “I think

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Charter: 99 charter schools in N.M. Continued from Page B-1 you accomplish it and then say, ‘What’s up next?’ We have other goals to work on. Now that we have autonomy, we have to decide what to use that autonomy for. What is the best way to teach our students?” he said.

Jessen said the state assigns each charter a liaison to ensure communication, support and oversight — another plus. There are 99 charter schools in New Mexico — 63 authorized by the state and 36 authorized by districts.

The Public Education Commission also renewed the state-chartered MASTERS Program, located at Santa Fe Community College, for another five years. Contact Robert Nott at 986-3021 or rnott@sfnewmexican.com.

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In brief

Water table drops as drought forces more pumping

Albuquerque gets synthetic ice rink

Groundwater levels fell 200 feet in 10 years in Upper Rio Grande Basin, experts say

ALBUQUERQUE — Albuquerque isn’t giving up on its plans to erect an ice rink at Civic Plaza. Crews began assembling a synthetic ice rink at the downtown spot on Wednesday. If a final shipment of materials arrives in time, they said residents could be skating on the new rink as soon as Friday afternoon. Mayoral spokeswoman Rhiannon Schroeder tells the Albuquerque Journal that the rink is on loan from the New Mexico BioPark Society. It’s designed for children, but adults will be welcome. There will be no charge to skate on the new rink, just to rent skates.

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Officers give hand to shoplifter ROSWELL — Instead of arresting a father who was caught stealing baby formula, four New Mexico police officers ended up offering him a helping hand. KRQE-TV reports that police were called to a grocery store in Roswell earlier this month when employees spotted a man hiding formula in a baby carrier. Roswell Officer Joe Mason says he and the other officers confronted the man and found the formula. The man told them he recently lost his job and the formula was for his 11-monthold son. After having a long talk with the man, the officers pitched in about $80 and bought him the baby formula. The store also contributed and decided not to press charges.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES — The Upper Rio Grande Basin has been struggling with drought for most of the past decade, forcing cities and farmers from southern Colorado to Texas’ Hudspeth County to pump water from the ground to make up for the lack of snow and rain. Experts say that has resulted in the groundwater levels dropping in the border region as much as 200 feet in the past 10 years. The precipitous drop is especially disturbing because it’s taking place in an area where it recharges too slowly to make up the loss. Worse, many experts predict a future in which even less water in the river will mean even more pumping. Even if the region gets through the present drought, the basin’s groundwater will be overexploited, said Brian Hurd, an agricultural economics professor at New Mexico State University who also is president of the Universities Council on Water Resources, a

national organization. “The real big deal is going to be the change in the intensity of pumping,” Hurd told the El Paso Times. He expects river flows to diminish and populations to rise in the Rio Grande Basin, increasing demand for groundwater. The pumping is already having an effect on the bank accounts of El Paso residents. In early December, the board that governs the city’s water utility increased rates 8 percent to develop alternatives to groundwater, which the utility’s CEO called “unsustainable.” Experts say one of the problems is that the big cities of the Upper Rio Grande Basin grew fast between 1980 and 2000, which was an unusually wet period. Together with Juárez, Mexico, the counties that are home to El Paso, Las Cruces and Albuquerque grew by 60 percent to 2.6 million, according to government data. “People got used to the idea that there was plenty of water

and growth was good until things got dry again,” said Connie Woodhouse, at climate scientist at the University of Arizona. Between 2000 and 2010, which were dominated by dry years, population in the region continued to grow by another 17 percent, to just over 3 million. As they look into the future, scientists predict that the best alternative to groundwater — surface water flowing in the Rio Grande — will become increasingly precious, creating even more of an imperative to pump groundwater. Snowpack in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains is significant because when it melts in the spring, it supplies about 70 percent of the upper basin’s water, according to data from the Texas A&M AgriLife Center in El Paso. University of New Mexico climatologist David Gutzler said that even without global warming, the climate in the Southwest seems headed back

to drier norms. “Just looking back in time, we know the Southwest was significantly drier in the past,” Gutzler said. “We know without any doubt that our groundwater reserves are significantly depleted. Climate change just adds to that.” The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which manages Elephant Butte Reservoir, issued a report last year that said climate change seems worse in the Upper Rio Grande Basin than it does worldwide. By the end of the century, the report predicted, flows in the river are projected to drop by a third, which would create more pressure for irrigators and cities to tax the region’s groundwater even more heavily. Also, a warmer climate is

expected to produce more violent storms, which means that the water that flows into the system will be more difficult to predict and be harder to manage, the report said. “Yes, we need to be concerned,” Gutzler said. “But we need to be concerned in a constructive way.” Water managers south of Elephant Butte Dam have already taken steps to conserve. The El Paso Water Utility will begin recycling in 2018, and irrigation districts on both sides of the border are upgrading infrastructure. But Hurd said even bigger changes need to happen to address the problem. “Unfortunately, we don’t have the governmental institutions to do that,” he said.

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DENVER BRONCOS

Von Miller bounces back from tough 2013 season By Arnie Stapleton The Associated Press

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.— The extra pounds are gone and so is the weight off Von Miller’s shoulders. Denver’s slimmed-down strongside linebacker has bounced back from the worst year of his career to make 13 sacks and regain his status as one of the NFL’s premier pass rushers. He’s one of a league-high nine Broncos who were named to the Pro Bowl this week. “It means a lot. Going through all

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the stuff I went through last year, it really helped me put my priorities in order,” Miller said. “Last year I didn’t make the Pro Bowl. It’s just such an extreme honor to get voted by your peers, coaches and fans. So I’m definitely more appreciative of it this year than I ever have been before.”

Miller’s 2013 season began with a six-game drug suspension and ended with him watching the Super Bowl from the sideline after blowing out his right knee in December. In between, he tallied just five sacks in nine games. Miller had bulked up by 25 pounds last season. That extra weight made him top heavy and might even have contributed to his torn right ACL in December. He’s back down to 245 and is every bit the star he was in 2011, when he was the NFL’s Defensive Rookie of

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the Year, and in 2012, when he was runner-up to J.J. Watt for Defensive Player of the Year honors. GM John Elway, who made Miller his first ever draft pick in 2011, last spring signed free agent DeMarcus Ware, who was Miller’s idol growing up in Dallas, giving Miller a pass-rushing partner like he had early in his career with Elvis Dumervil. Together, they have 23 sacks, 29 tackles for loss, 43 quarterback

Cincinnati Bengals’ Jeremy Hill is tackled by Denver Broncos’ Von Miller on Monday in Cincinnati. DARRON CUMMINGS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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NBA MIAMI 101, CLEVELAND 91

Cavaliers succumb to Heat LeBron returns to arena, receives a heavy dose of boos, some cheers

Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder sends the old-school notes through the mail to opponents when they have a great game. SUE OGROCKI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

K-State’s Snyder penning old-school letters Coach sends praising notes to rival players By Dave Skretta The Associated Press

MANHATTAN, Kan. — The letters come on Kansas State stationery, always written in purple, felt-tip pen. The scrawling handwriting is unmistakable, the looping letters clear and distinct. Each is unique, though, tailored to a player who was injured. Perhaps had a great game. In an era of Twitter and text messages and attention spans of 140 characters or less, the notes that Bill Snyder writes still stand out. They arrive shortly after games, usually offering his encouragement or expressing his admiration, regardless of the outcome. He does not leave the job to an assistant. He does not have a secretary type them up. No, the longtime Kansas State coach spends a few minutes each week writing them himself. “Well, I’ve got to do something,” Snyder said with a wry grin. “You’re in an office 24 hours a day, so you find something to do. But I do write a great deal of notes. “It’s to players that I believe performed well,” he said, “to young people that I believe have the right approach, the right attitude about their lives, about college football.” Snyder has a hard time recalling the first letter. He doesn’t even hazard a guess as to how many he’s written over the years. In fact, the 74-year-old coach had probably sent dozens if not hundreds before anybody besides the recipient ever became aware of them.

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TODAY ON TV 11 a.m. on ESPN — Heart of Dallas Bowl, Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech 2:30 p.m. on ESPN — Quick Lane Bowl, Rutgers vs. North Carolina, at Detroit 6 p.m. on ESPN — St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl, NC State vs. UCF

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Cavaliers forward LeBron James, right, hugs Heat guard Dwyane Wade before the game Thursday in Miami. PHOTOS BY LYNNE SLADKY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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MIAMI eBron James was running the gamut of emotions Thursday when he arrived at the arena that he called home for the past four seasons. So did the Miami Heat fans who were seeing him again. They booed the four-time NBA MVP when he and the Cleveland Cavaliers took the court for warmups, booed the first few times he touched the ball, gave him plenty of cheers but still a mixed welcome when he was introduced as a starter, then cheered when he turned the ball over on one of his first touches. But perhaps the truest measure of how James is remembered came during the first timeout of the game, when the Heat unveiled a tribute

Wade shoots in front of James on Thursday in Miami.

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video for their former star — a minute-long series of clips commemorating his four NBA Finals runs and two titles in Miami, after which he waved to the crowd and got a lengthy standing ovation. “I’ll look forward to seeing it one day,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “It was an incredible run. He was a major part of it. None of us have forgotten his contribution. I’ll look back on it with incredible pride and perspective that I coached one of the all-time greats.” No, Miami isn’t happy he left. Also, no, Miami hasn’t forgotten what he meant to the Heat. “I gave everything and more to

this city when I was here,” James said before the game, his first time back at the arena since leaving Miami for Cleveland this past summer. “Never disrespected this city or the franchise, or any of my teammates. Everything is professional. I gave it all. That’s all I can do.” James took a seat on the scorers’ table near midcourt for the last 30 seconds or so of that video, watching it on the giant overhead screen. “I’ve got a lot of memories here, man,” James said. It was predictably an emotional return for James, who acknowledged feeling butterflies when he walked in and headed toward the visitors’ locker room for the first time in nearly five years. He scored 30 points, but his Cavaliers lost to the Heat 101-91. Many from the nearest seats took

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QUIRKY MOMENTS

In year of many odd bounces, reality bites at World Cup By Fred Lief The Associated Press

Gothic folklore met modern dentistry, with the whole world watching. This was the World Cup and the Bite of Brazil — a mouthwatering, open-jawed, succulent chomp on an unsuspecting victim that would have done proud any vampire worth his cape. Perhaps odder things happened in sports in 2014, but for sheer audacity, and on a

global stage no less, the bite by Uruguay’s Luis Suarez takes the (temporary porcelain) crown. Uruguay was playing Italy in June, each looking to reach the round of 16. Suarez, one of soccer’s top scorers, nuzzled up to Giorgio Chiellini late in the game and suddenly, inexplicably sunk his teeth into the shoulder of the Italian defender as if he were a dish of veal piccata. The two fell to the turf. A baffled Chiel-

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Uruguay’s Luis Suarez holds his teeth June 24 after biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini’s shoulder during a World Cup match in Natal, Brazil. RICARDO MAZALAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

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NFL LEADERS NFC

FOOTBALL NFL American Conference East W y-N. England 12 Miami 8 Buffalo 8 N.Y. Jets 3 South W y-Indianapolis 10 Houston 8 Jacksonville 3 Tennessee 2 North W x-Cincinnati 10 x-Pittsburgh 10 Baltimore 9 Cleveland 7 West W y-Denver 11 San Diego 9 Kansas City 8 Oakland 3

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National Conference East W L T Pct PF PA y-Dallas 11 4 0 .733 423 335 Philadelphia 9 6 0 .600 440 374 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 354 366 Washington 4 11 0 .267 284 394 South W L T Pct PF PA Carolina 6 8 1 .433 305 371 Atlanta 6 9 0 .400 378 383 New Orleans 6 9 0 .400 378 404 Tampa Bay 2 13 0 .133 257 387 North W L T Pct PF PA x-Detroit 11 4 0 .733 301 252 x-Green Bay 11 4 0 .733 456 328 Minnesota 6 9 0 .400 312 334 Chicago 5 10 0 .333 310 429 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Seattle 11 4 0 .733 374 248 x-Arizona 11 4 0 .733 293 279 San Francisco 7 8 0 .467 286 323 St. Louis 6 9 0 .400 318 334 x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division Sunday, Dec. 28 Indianapolis at Tennessee, 11 a.m. Jacksonville at Houston, 11 a.m. San Diego at Kansas City, 11 a.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 11 a.m. Cleveland at Baltimore, 11 a.m. Dallas at Washington, 11 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Miami, 11 a.m. Buffalo at New England, 11 a.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 11 1.m. New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m. Arizona at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m. St. Louis at Seattle, 2:25 p.m. Oakland at Denver, 2:25 p.m. Detroit at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m. Carolina at Atlanta, 2:25 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.

NFL Playoff Scenarios WEEK 17 AFC CLINCHED: New England - AFC East and home-field advantage throughout AFC playoffs; Denver - AFC West; Indianapolis - AFC South; Cincinnati and Pittsburgh - playoff berth. NEW ENGLAND (vs. Buffalo) — Clinches home-field advantage throughout AFC playoffs DENVER (vs. Oakland) Clinches first-round bye with: — Win or tie, OR — Cincinnati Loss, OR — Cincinnati tie and Indianapolis win CINCINNATI (at Pittsburgh) — Clinched playoff spot Clinches AFC North with: — Win or tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win and Denver loss or tie, OR — Tie and Denver loss and Indianapolis loss or tie PITTSBURGH (vs. Cincinnati) Pittsburgh clinches AFC North with: — Win SAN DIEGO (at Kansas City) Clinches playoff spot with: — Win, OR — Tie and Baltimore loss or tie BALTIMORE (vs. Cleveland) Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and San Diego loss or tie, OR — Tie and San Diego loss KCSAS CITY (vs. San Diego) Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and Baltimore loss and Houston loss or tie HOUSTON (vs. Jacksonville) Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and Baltimore loss and San Diego loss NFC CLINCHED: Arizona - playoff berth; Seattle - playoff berth; Detroit - playoff berth; Green Bay - playoff berth; Dallas - NFC East. DALLAS (at Washington) Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win and Arizona loss or tie and Detroit/Green Bay tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie and Arizona loss or tie, OR — Win and Detroit/Green Bay tie, OR — Seattle loss and Arizona loss, OR — Tie and Seattle tie and Arizona loss or tie and Detroit/Green Bay does not end in a tie DETROIT (at Green Bay) Clinches NFC North with: — Win or tie Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie and Arizona loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss and Arizona loss and Dallas loss or tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win, OR — Tie and Dallas loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss and Arizona loss GREEN BAY (vs. Detroit) Clinches NFC North and first-round bye with: — Win Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie SEATTLE (vs. St. Louis) Clinches NFC West with: — Win, OR — Tie and Arizona loss or tie, OR — Arizona loss Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win and Detroit/Green Bay game does not end in a tie, OR — Win and Dallas loss or tie, OR — Tie and Arizona loss or tie and Dallas loss or tie and Green Bay/ Detroit tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win, OR — Tie and Arizona loss or tie and Dallas loss, OR — Tie and Arizona loss or tie and Green Bay/Detroit tie ARIZONA (at San Francisco) Clinches NFC West with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie and Green Bay loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss and Dallas loss or tie and Green Bay/Detroit tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win and Seattle loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss and Dallas loss or tie, OR — Tie and Seattle loss and Green Bay/Detroit tie CAROLINA (at Atlanta) Clinches NFC South with: — Win or tie ATLANTA (vs. Carolina) Clinches NFC South with: — Win

Quarterbacks Att Com Yds TD Int Romo, DAL 401 282 3406 32 8 A. Rodgrs, GBY 498 324 4155 36 5 Brees, NOR 621 432 4671 32 14 M. Ryan, ATL 581 386 4434 28 12 R. Wilson, SEA 427 268 3236 20 6 C. Palmer, ARI 224 141 1626 11 3 E. Maning, NYG 548 351 3981 29 13 Cutler, CHI 525 347 3640 28 18 Sanchez, PHL 273 175 2126 12 10 M. Staffrd, DET 561 343 4040 19 12 Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TD D. Murray, DAL 373 17454.68 51 12 M. Lynch, SEA 266 12464.68 79t 12 L. McCoy, PHL 296 12204.12 53 5 Lacy, GBY 220 10394.72 44t 9 A. Morris, WAS 253 10314.08 30 8 Forte, CHI 249 987 3.96 32 6 Gore, SNF 230 962 4.18 52t 4 M. Ingrm, NOR 212 907 4.28 31 8 R. Wilson, SEA 112 842 7.52 55 6 J. Bell, DET 210 800 3.81 57 7 Receivers No Yds Avg LG TD Ju. Jones, ATL 100 153515.4 79 6 G. Tate, DET 96 128613.4 73t 4 Forte, CHI 94 785 8.4 56 4 J. Nelson, GBY 92 143315.6 80t 13 Cobb, GBY 87 120713.9 70t 10 D. Bryant, DAL 84 122114.5 68t 14 Jeffery, CHI 83 109913.2 74 10 Maclin, PHL 82 126915.5 72 10 G. Olsen, CAR 82 981 12.0 38 6 Ma. Benntt, CHI 82 857 10.5 37 6 Punters No Yds LG Avg Way, WAS 73 3483 77 47.7 A. Lee, SNF 68 3173 71 46.7 Sa. Martin, DET 64 2986 71 46.7 Hekker, STL 75 3474 61 46.3 Morstead, NOR 55 2534 63 46.1 Weathrfrd, NYG 74 3389 71 45.8 C. Jones, DAL 53 2414 64 45.5 Bosher, ATL 62 2817 66 45.4 Nortman, CAR 69 3091 67 44.8 Locke, MIN 72 3212 62 44.6 Punt Returners No Yds Avg LG TD Sproles, PHL 37 491 13.3 82t 2 T. Austin, STL 35 391 11.2 78t 1 Ginn Jr., ARI 24 255 10.6 71t 1 Sherels, MIN 26 266 10.2 35 0 Dw. Harris, DAL 28 263 9.4 38 0 J. Ross, DET 31 270 8.7 28 0 B. Ellingtn, SNF 23 188 8.2 23 0 Beckhm Jr., NYG 21 171 8.1 25 0 B. Walters, SEA 25 200 8.0 21 0 Roberts, WAS 26 193 7.4 37 0 Kickoff ReturnersNoYds Avg LG TD Cunngham, STL 32 883 27.6 75 0 C. Pttrson, MIN 34 871 25.6 51 0 B. Ellingtn, SNF 24 614 25.6 38 0 Dw. Harris, DAL 28 687 24.5 42 0 Hester, ATL 42 102124.3 48 0 C. Willams, CHI 24 579 24.1 101t 1 Roberts, WAS 28 649 23.2 45 0 Du. Harris, GBY 22 456 20.7 41 0 Ginn Jr., ARI 19 368 19.4 43 0 Scoring Touchdowns TD RushRec Ret Pts M. Lynch, SEA 16 12 4 0 96 D. Bryant, DAL 14 0 14 0 84 Lacy, GBY 13 9 4 0 78 J. Nelson, GBY 13 0 13 0 78 D. Murray, DAL 12 12 0 0 72 Beckhm Jr., NYG 11 0 11 0 66 M. Evans, TAM 11 0 11 0 66 Asiata, MIN 10 9 1 0 64 Forte, CHI 10 6 4 0 64 Cobb, GBY 10 0 10 0 62 Kicking PAT FG LG Pts Parkey, PHL 50-50 30-34 54 140 Crosby, GBY 49-51 27-32 55 130 Hauschka, SEA 39-39 29-35 58 126 M Bryant, ATL 40-40 28-31 54 124 Bailey, DAL 51-51 22-26 56 117 Gano, CAR 30-30 27-33 53 111 Catanzaro, ARI 25-25 28-32 51 109 J. Brown, NYG 42-42 20-22 52 102 Dawson, SNF 31-31 23-29 55 100 Graham, NOR 43-44 19-22 50 100

AFC Quarterbacks Att Com Yds TD Int Rothlisbrgr, PIT 570 384 4635 30 8 P. Maning, DEN 560 374 4454 39 15 Brady, NWE 566 365 4029 33 9 P. Rivers, SND 536 359 3995 31 16 Luck, IND 600 370 4601 38 16 Fitzptrick, HOU 312 197 2483 17 8 A. Smith, KC 464 303 3265 18 6 Tannehill, MIA 551 369 3786 26 12 Flacco, BAL 519 322 3674 25 12 K. Orton, BUF 424 271 2842 17 10 Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TD L. Bell, PIT 282 13414.76 81 8 A. Foster, HOU 255 12234.80 51 8 Forsett, BAL 218 11475.26 52 8 Je. Hill, CIN 199 10245.15 85t 9 J. Charles, KC 193 979 5.07 63t 9 L. Miller, MIA 197 921 4.68 33 7 Ivory, NYJ 185 792 4.28 71t 6 C. Andrsn, DEN 166 762 4.59 27 5 Bernard, CIN 165 672 4.07 89t 5 C. Johnsn, NYJ 145 643 4.43 47 1 Receivers No Yds Avg LG TD An. Brown, PIT 122 157012.9 54t 12 D. Thoms, DEN 103 150414.6 86t 11 E. Sandrs, DEN 95 133114.0 48 9 Edelman, NWE 92 972 10.6 69t 4 Hilton, IND 82 134516.4 73t 7 Grnkwski, NWE 82 112413.7 46t 12 J. Landry, MIA 79 703 8.9 25 5 K. Allen, SND 77 783 10.2 35 4 L. Bell, PIT 77 774 10.1 48 3 A. Johnsn, HOU 75 802 10.7 35 2 Punters No Yds LG Avg Anger, JAX 88 4168 69 47.4 Koch, BAL 54 2562 73 47.4 McAfee, IND 64 3018 61 47.2 Huber, CIN 70 3271 69 46.7 Ry. Allen, NWE 62 2886 67 46.5 Lechler, HOU 77 3567 71 46.3 Kern, TEN 81 3735 69 46.1 Fields, MIA 53 2438 60 46.0 Quigley, NYJ 76 3492 69 45.9 Scifres, SND 55 2516 72 45.7 Punt Returners No Yds Avg LG TD Edelman, NWE 24 294 12.3 84t 1 Ad. Jones, CIN 22 262 11.9 47 0 De’. Thms, KC 30 336 11.2 81t 1 Jac. Jones, BAL 29 275 9.5 45 0 McKelvin, BUF 21 183 8.7 24 0 An. Brown, PIT 28 235 8.4 36 0 J. Landry, MIA 25 204 8.2 32 0 Kerley, NYJ 21 158 7.5 41 0 Carrie, OAK 26 195 7.5 27 0 Burse, DEN 29 211 7.3 22 0 Kickoff ReturnersNoYds Avg LG TD Ad. Jones, CIN 22 730 33.2 97 0 Jac. Jones, BAL 31 957 30.9 108t 1 Kn. Davis, KC 27 774 28.7 99t 1 J. Landry, MIA 30 847 28.2 74 0 Todman, JAX 37 939 25.4 40 0 Harvin, NYJ 20 495 24.8 65 0 Amndla, NWE 20 482 24.1 81 0 L. Washgtn, TEN 26 598 23.0 50 0 L. Murray, OAK 19 429 22.6 38 0 Scoring Touchdowns TD RushRec Ret Pts J. Charles, KC 14 9 5 0 84 An. Brown, PIT 12 0 12 0 74 A. Foster, HOU 12 8 4 0 72 Gates, SND 12 0 12 0 72 Grnkwski, NWE 12 0 12 0 72 Ju. Thms, DEN 12 0 12 0 72 De. Thms, DEN 11 0 11 0 68 L. Bell, PIT 11 8 3 0 66 To. Smith, BAL 10 0 10 0 60 M. Wallce, MIA 10 0 10 0 60 Kicking PAT FG LG Pts Gstkwski, NWE 51-51 32-34 53 147 Vintiri, IND 47-47 28-28 53 131 D. Crpentr, BUF 29-30 33-37 58 128 Bullock, HOU 37-37 30-35 55 127 Suisham, PIT 42-42 27-30 53 123 Sturgis, MIA 38-38 28-35 53 122 Tucker, BAL 40-40 27-32 55 121 Nugent, CIN 37-37 25-31 49 112 Folk, NYJ 19-19 29-35 55 106 Novak, SND 39-39 22-25 52 105

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

W 22 12 10 5 4 W 21 20 14 11 10 W 20 17 14 10 5

L 7 15 16 26 23 L 7 8 16 20 19 L 9 11 15 19 23

Pct .759 .444 .385 .161 .148 Pct .750 .714 .467 .355 .345 Pct .690 .607 .483 .345 .179

GB — 9 10½ 18 17 GB — 1 8 11½ 11½ GB — 2½ 6 10 14½

Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB Memphis 21 7 .750 — Houston 20 7 .741 ½ Dallas 20 10 .667 2 San Antonio 18 12 .600 4 New Orleans 14 14 .500 7 Northwest W L Pct GB Portland 23 7 .767 — Oklahoma City 14 16 .467 9 Denver 12 17 .414 10½ Utah 9 20 .310 13½ Minnesota 5 22 .185 16½ Paciﬁc W L Pct GB Golden State 23 4 .852 — L.A. Clippers 19 10 .655 5 Phoenix 16 14 .533 8½ Sacramento 12 16 .429 11½ L.A. Lakers 9 20 .310 15 Thursday’s Games Washington 102, New York 91 Oklahoma City 114, San Antonio 106 Miami 101, Cleveland 91 Chicago 113, L.A. Lakers 93 Golden State at L.A. Clippers Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled. Friday’s Games Brooklyn at Boston, 11 a.m. Cleveland at Orlando, 5 p.m. Milwaukee at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. Indiana at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. San Antonio at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Charlotte at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Houston at Memphis, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Minnesota at Denver, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Portland, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Saturday’s Games Toronto at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m. Boston at Washington, 5 p.m. Orlando at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Memphis at Miami, 5:30 p.m. New Orleans at Chicago, 6 p.m. Indiana at Brooklyn, 6 p.m. Atlanta at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Utah, 7 p.m. New York at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

NBA Calendar Jan. 5 — 10-day contracts can be signed. Jan. 10 — Contracts guaranteed for rest of season. Feb. 13-15 — All-Star weekend, New York. Feb. 19 — Trade deadline (3 p.m. EST). April 15 — Last day of regular season. April 18 — Playoffs begin.

NBA Leaders Through Dec. 24 Scoring G FG FT PTS Harden, HOU 27 216 235 729 James, CLE 26 232 147 655 Bryant, LAL 27 225 175 665 Davis, NOR 27 258 146 662 Anthony, NYK 26 232 112 615 Curry, GOL 27 226 100 632 Grifﬁn, LAC 29 258 146 669 Aldridge, POR 28 253 119 640 Wade, MIA 21 188 91 479 Lillard, POR 30 222 132 658 Butler, CHI 26 181 175 563 Thompson, GOL26 199 88 561 Bosh, MIA 23 180 102 496 Ellis, DAL 30 248 97 628 Gay, SAC 26 189 137 544 Lowry, TOR 29 197 137 581 Irving, CLE 27 192 111 540 Gasol, MEM 28 203 149 556 Jefferson, CHA 29 243 67 553 FG Percentage FG FGA Wright, BOS 106 144 Jordan, LAC 117 166 Chandler, DAL 124 182 Zeller, BOS 98 151 Howard, HOU 110 190 Davis, NOR 258 450 A. Johnson, TOR 109 191 Stoudemire, NYK 146 259 Favors, UTA 168 302 Rebounds G OFF DEF TOT Jordan, LAC 29 122 267 389 Drummond, DET28 135 217 352 Chandler, DAL 30 127 231 358 Vucevic, ORL 25 83 211 294 Gasol, CHI 25 61 225 286 Randolph, MEM26 97 200 297 Duncan, SAN 24 72 193 265 Aldridge, POR 28 78 219 297 Asik, NOR 24 92 160 252 Assists G AST Rondo, DAL 25 265 Wall, WAS 27 282 Lawson, DEN 28 291 Paul, LAC 29 282 Curry, GOL 27 208 Lowry, TOR 29 222 Carter-Williams, PHL20 152 James, CLE 26 197 Holiday, NOR 28 203

AVG 27.0 25.2 24.6 24.5 23.7 23.4 23.1 22.9 22.8 21.9 21.7 21.6 21.6 20.9 20.9 20.0 20.0 19.9 19.1 PCT .736 .705 .681 .649 .579 .573 .571 .564 .556 AVG 13.4 12.6 11.9 11.8 11.4 11.4 11.0 10.6 10.5 AVG 10.6 10.4 10.4 9.7 7.7 7.7 7.6 7.6 7.3

NBA Boxscores Wizards 102, Knicks 91 WASHINGTON (102) Pierce 1-5 0-0 3, Nene 6-8 0-1 12, Gortat 4-10 2-2 10, Wall 10-17 3-4 24, Beal 7-16 1-1 17, Humphries 7-9 0-0 14, Butler 4-7 0-0 11, Porter 1-5 0-0 2, Seraphin 4-8 0-0 8, Miller 0-0 1-2 1, Gooden 0-0 0-0 0, Temple 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 44-86 7-10 102. NEW YORK (91) Anthony 13-28 8-10 34, Stoudemire 2-6 2-4 6, Dalembert 1-3 0-0 2, Calderon 5-14 4-4 16, Hardaway Jr. 3-10 1-1 8, Prigioni 1-3 0-0 2, Ja.Smith 2-5 0-0 4, Aldrich 5-6 0-0 10, Larkin 2-2 0-0 5, Acy 2-3 0-0 4, Wear 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-80 15-19 91. Washington 34 26 24 18—102 New York 23 21 26 21—91 3-Point Goals—Washington 7-16 (Butler 3-6, Beal 2-5, Wall 1-2, Pierce 1-3), New York 4-22 (Calderon 2-7, Larkin 1-1, Hardaway Jr. 1-6, Prigioni 0-2, Anthony 0-6). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Washington 49 (Gortat 9), New York 44 (Stoudemire 7). Assists— Washington 25 (Wall 11), New York 17 (Calderon 4). Total Fouls—Washington 20, New York 15. Technicals—Wall, New York defensive three second. Flagrant Fouls—Acy. Ejected— Acy. A—19,812 (19,763).

Thunder 114, Spurs 106 OKLAHOMA CITY (114) Jones 5-7 2-5 14, Ibaka 8-15 2-3 21, Adams 5-8 6-12 16, Westbrook 14-28 6-8 34, Roberson 2-3 2-6 7, Jackson 3-9 0-0 6, Perkins 0-1 1-2 1, Smith 0-1 0-0 0, Morrow 5-9 2-2 15. Totals 42-81 21-38 114. SAN ANTONIO (106) Belinelli 3-5 0-0 7, Duncan 6-13 3-5 15,

Splitter 7-10 0-0 14, Parker 5-10 0-0 10, Green 4-13 2-5 12, Ginobili 3-5 4-4 11, Bonner 6-12 2-3 17, Joseph 5-7 4-4 14, Baynes 3-5 0-0 6, Anderson 0-1 0-0 0, Daye 0-0 0-0 0, Ayres 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 42-81 15-21 106. Oklahoma City 29 21 26 38—114 San Antonio 27 20 30 29—106 3-Point Goals—Oklahoma City 9-15 (Ibaka 3-4, Morrow 3-5, Jones 2-2, Roberson 1-1, Westbrook 0-1, Jackson 0-2), San Antonio 7-23 (Bonner 3-8, Green 2-8, Belinelli 1-2, Ginobili 1-3, Parker 0-1, Anderson 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Oklahoma City 59 (Adams 15), San Antonio 42 (Ginobili, Splitter 7). Assists— Oklahoma City 25 (Westbrook 11), San Antonio 33 (Ginobili 13). Total Fouls—Oklahoma City 20, San Antonio 26. Technicals—Westbrook, Joseph. A—18,581 (18,797).

Heat 101, Cavaliers 91 CLEVELAND (91) Marion 1-5 0-0 2, James 9-16 10-18 30, Love 5-13 4-4 14, Irving 10-19 4-5 25, Miller 2-4 0-0 6, Waiters 3-8 1-2 8, Thompson 2-5 2-4 6, Dellavedova 0-2 0-0 0, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-72 21-33 91. MIAMI (101) Deng 11-16 2-2 25, Williams 2-6 0-0 5, Andersen 4-5 4-6 12, Chalmers 2-12 0-0 5, Wade 12-28 5-5 31, Cole 2-7 3-4 8, Haslem 3-4 0-0 6, Whiteside 0-1 0-0 0, Granger 4-5 0-0 9. Totals 40-84 14-17 101. Cleveland 27 22 25 17—91 Miami 30 32 15 24—101 3-Point Goals—Cleveland 6-26 (Miller 2-4, James 2-8, Irving 1-3, Waiters 1-4, Dellavedova 0-1, Marion 0-2, Love 0-4), Miami 7-21 (Wade 2-5, Granger 1-2, Cole 1-2, Deng 1-3, Chalmers 1-4, Williams 1-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Cleveland 45 (Thompson 9), Miami 54 (Deng, Andersen 8). Assists—Cleveland 16 (James 8), Miami 27 (Deng 8). Total Fouls— Cleveland 15, Miami 26. Technicals— James. A—19,817 (19,600).

Bulls 113, Lakers 93 L.A. LAKERS (93) Johnson 6-18 5-6 19, Davis 5-10 3-6 13, Hill 6-16 4-4 16, Price 3-7 0-0 7, Ellington 5-12 1-1 12, Young 1-6 0-0 3, Boozer 7-11 0-0 14, Lin 2-8 2-2 6, Sacre 1-2 0-0 2, Clarkson 0-2 1-2 1. Totals 36-92 16-21 93. CHICAGO (113) Dunleavy 2-5 0-0 6, Gasol 9-14 4-6 23, Noah 2-8 0-0 4, Rose 7-14 4-4 20, Butler 7-12 6-6 21, Gibson 3-5 3-7 9, Brooks 6-13 0-0 13, Moore 2-4 0-0 4, Mirotic 4-9 2-2 13, Snell 0-2 0-0 0, Bairstow 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 42-86 19-25 113. L.A. Lakers 24 23 30 16—93 Chicago 27 31 25 30—113 3-Point Goals—L.A. Lakers 5-16 (Johnson 2-6, Young 1-3, Ellington 1-3, Price 1-3, Lin 0-1), Chicago 10-24 (Mirotic 3-7, Dunleavy 2-4, Rose 2-6, Gasol 1-1, Brooks 1-2, Butler 1-3, Snell 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— L.A. Lakers 47 (Davis 14), Chicago 64 (Gasol 13). Assists—L.A. Lakers 18 (Price 8), Chicago 27 (Rose, Brooks 6). Total Fouls—L.A. Lakers 21, Chicago 12. Technicals—Noah. A—22,865 (20,917).

COLLEGE NCAA BASKETBALL Men’s Top 25 Thursday’s Game George Washington 60, No. 11 Wichita State 54 Friday - No games scheduled. Saturday’s Games No. 1 Kentucky at No. 4 Louisville, 12 p.m. No. 8 Gonzaga at BYU, 7:30 p.m. No. 15 Maryland vs. Oakland, 3 p.m. No. 20 North Carolina vs. UAB, 2 p.m. No. 21 Ohio State vs. Wright State, 5 p.m. No. 24 Colorado State at New Mexico State, 7 p.m. Sunday’s Games No. 6 Wisconsin vs. Buffalo, 6 p.m. No. 13 Washington vs. Stony Brook, 6 p.m. No. 17 St. John’s vs. Tulane at the Barclays Center, 10 a.m. No. 23 Northern Iowa vs. South Dakota State, 1 p.m.

Men’s Division I TOURNAMENT Thursday’s Games

Diamond Head Classic Seventh Place Loyola Marymount 72, DePaul 69 Fifth Place Nebraska 72, Ohio 58 Third Place Hawaii 69, Colorado 66 Championship George Washington 60, Wichita St. 54

Women’s Top 25 Thursday - No games scheduled. Friday - No games scheduled. Saturday’s Game No. 2 UConn vs. SMU, 11 a.m. Sunday’s Games No. 4 Notre Dame at UCLA, 2 p.m. No. 8 Tennessee vs. No. 10 Oregon St., 11 a.m. No. 12 Kentucky vs. Tennessee State, 12 p.m. No. 14 Georgia at Seton Hall, 12 p.m. No. 16 Stanford vs. UC Santa Barbara, 3 p.m. No. 17 Rutgers at Indiana, 12 p.m. No. 20 Michigan St. vs. Northwestern, 12 p.m. No. 22 Syracuse vs. Cornell, 4 p.m. No. 23 Iowa vs. Penn State, 1 p.m. No. 24 Green Bay at Dayton, 12 p.m. No. 25 Arizona State vs. Yale, 2:30 p.m.

NCAA FOOTBALL FBS Bowls

Friday, Dec. 26 Heart of Dallas Bowl Illinois (6-6) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl At Detroit Rutgers (7-5) vs. North Carolina (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl UCF (9-3) vs. N.C. State (7-5), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Annapolis, Md. Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Duke (9-3) vs. Arizona State (9-3), 12 p.m. (CBS) Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Miami (6-6) vs. South Carolina (6-6), 2 p.m. (ESPN2) Pinstripe Bowl At Bronx, N.Y. Boston College (7-5) vs. Penn State (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Nebraska (9-3) vs. Southern Cal (8-4), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 29

Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn. West Virginia (7-5) vs. Texas A&M (7-5), 12 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Clemson (9-3) vs. Oklahoma (8-4), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl At Houston Texas (6-6) vs. Arkansas (6-6), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 30 Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn. Notre Dame (7-5) vs. LSU (8-4), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Louisville (9-3) vs. Georgia (9-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Fosters Farm Bowl At Santa Clara, Calif. Stanford (7-5) vs. Maryland (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 31 Peach Bowl At Atlanta Mississippi (9-3) vs. TCU (11-1), 10:30 a.m. (ESPN) Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz. Boise State (11-2) vs. Arizona (10-3), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl At Miami Gardens, Fla. Mississippi State (10-2) vs. Georgia Tech (10-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Wisconsin (10-3) vs. Auburn (8-4), 10 a.m. (ESPN2) Cotton Bowl Classic At Arlington, Texas Michigan State (10-2) vs. Baylor (11-1), 10:30 a.m. (ESPN) Citrus Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Minnesota (8-4) vs. Missouri (10-3), 11 a.m. (ABC) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif. Playoff semiﬁnal: Oregon (12-1) vs. Florida State (13-0), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Playoff semiﬁnal: Alabama (12-1) vs. Ohio State (12-1), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 2 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Houston (7-5), 10 a.m. (ESPN) TaxSlayer Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Iowa (7-5) vs. Tennessee (6-6), 1:20 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio UCLA (9-3) vs. Kansas State (9-3), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN) Cactus Bowl At Tempe, Ariz. Oklahoma State (6-6) vs. Washington (8-5), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 3 Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Florida (6-5) vs. East Carolina (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN2) GoDaddy Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Toledo (8-4) vs. Arkansas State (7-5), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 10 Medal of Honor Bowl At Charleston, S.C. American vs. National, 12:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12 College Football Championship At Arlington, Texas Sugar Bowl winner vs. Rose Bowl winner, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 17 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 2 p.m. (NFLN) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl At Carson, Calif. National vs. American, 2 p.m. (ESPN2) Saturday, Jan. 24 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 2 p.m. (NFLN)

HOCKEY NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic GP W Montreal 35 22 Tampa Bay 36 21 Detroit 35 18 Toronto 35 20 102 Boston 35 18 Florida 32 15 Ottawa 34 14 Buffalo 35 13 Metro GP W Pittsburgh 34 22 N.Y. Islanders34 23 N.Y. Rangers32 18 Washington 34 17 Philadelphia34 14 Columbus 33 14 New Jersey 36 12 Carolina 34 10

L OL Pts GFGA 11 2 46 95 84 11 4 46 117 96 8 9 45 100 87 12 3 43 118 14 3 39 91 91 9 8 38 73 82 14 6 34 90 94 19 3 29 69115 L OL Pts GFGA 7 5 49 108 80 11 0 46 105 94 10 4 40 97 83 11 6 40 99 90 14 6 34 97101 16 3 31 80107 17 7 31 78104 20 4 24 70 93

Western Conference Central GP W L OL Pts GFGA Chicago 35 23 10 2 48 107 72 Nashville 33 22 9 2 46 95 70 St. Louis 34 21 10 3 45 100 86 Winnipeg 35 18 10 7 43 88 81 Minnesota 32 16 13 3 35 93 89 Colorado 34 13 13 8 34 90101 Dallas 33 14 14 5 33 95113 Paciﬁc GP W L OL Pts GFGA Anaheim 36 23 8 5 51 104 98 San Jose 35 19 11 5 43 99 90 Vancouver 33 20 11 2 42 99 91 Los Angeles 35 17 11 7 41 97 88 Calgary 36 18 15 3 39 104 98 Arizona 34 12 18 4 28 80112 Edmonton 35 7 21 7 21 75121 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Thursday’s Games No games scheduled. Friday’s Games No games scheduled. Saturday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Buffalo, 5 p.m. Detroit at Ottawa, 5 p.m. Carolina at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. Boston at Columbus, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Washington at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m. Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at Nashville, 6 p.m. Anaheim at Arizona, 6 p.m. Chicago at Colorado, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary, 8 p.m. San Jose at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

NHL Leaders Through Dec. 24 Scoring J. Voracek, Phi T. Seguin, Dal E. Malkin, Pit C. Giroux, Phi R. Getzlaf, Anh P. Kessel, Tor V. Tarasenko, StL T. Johnson, TB S. Crosby, Pit

GP 34 33 34 34 35 35 34 35 31

G 14 25 16 11 12 17 20 13 10

A PTS 32 46 17 42 25 41 30 41 27 39 21 38 17 37 24 37 27 37

R. Nash, NYR 32 S. Stamkos, TB 36 Patrick Kane, Chi 35 N. Backstrom, Was34 M. Giordano, Cgy 36

23 19 16 11 10

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GOLF PGA TOUR Qualifiers for the 2015 Masters Augusta, Ga. — The 90 players who have qualified and are expected to compete in the 79th Masters, to be played April 9-12 at Augusta National Golf Club. Players listed in only first category for which they are eligible: MASTERS CHAMPIONS: Bubba Watson, Adam Scott, Charl Schwartzel, Phil Mickelson, Angel Cabrera, Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson, Tiger Woods, Mike Weir, Vijay Singh, Jose Maria Olazabal, Mark O’Meara, Ben Crenshaw, Bernhard Langer, Fred Couples, Ian Woosnam, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Tom Watson. U.S. OPEN CHAMPIONS (five years): Martin Kaymer, Justin Rose, Webb Simpson, Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell. BRITISH OPEN CHAMPIONS (five years): Ernie Els, Darren Clarke, Louis Oosthuizen. PGA CHAMPIONS (five years): Jason Dufner, Keegan Bradley. PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIPS CHAMPIONS (three years): Matt Kuchar. U.S. AMATEUR CHAMPION AND RUNNER-UP: a-Yang Gunn, a-Corey Conners. BRITISH AMATEUR CHAMPION: aBradley Neil. U.S. AMATEUR PUBLIC LINKS CHAMPION: a-Byron Meth. U.S. MID-AMATEUR CHAMPION: aScott Harvey. ASIAN AMATEUR CHAMPION: aAntonio Murdaca. LATIN AMERICA AMATEUR CHAMPION: TBD. TOP 12 AND TIES-2014 MASTERS: Jonas Blixt, Jordan Spieth, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Rickie Fowler, Lee Westwood, Thomas Bjorn, John Senden, Kevin Stadler, Jimmy Walker. TOP FOUR AND TIES-2014 U.S. OPEN: Erik Compton, Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Henrik Stenson. TOP FOUR AND TIES-2014 BRITISH OPEN: Sergio Garcia, Jim Furyk. PGA TOUR EVENT WINNERS SINCE 2014 MASTERS (FULL FEDEX CUP POINTS AWARDED): Noh Suengyul, Brendon Todd, J.B. Holmes, Hideki Matsuyama, Ben Crane, Kevin Streelman, Brian Harman, Tim Clark, Camilo Villegas, Hunter Mahan, Chris Kirk, Billy Horschel, Bae Sang-moon, Ben Martin, Robert Streb, Ryan Moore, Charley Hoffman. FIELD FROM THE 2014 TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP: Bill Haas, Patrick Reed, Ryan Palmer, Cameron Tringale, Russell Henley, Morgan Hoffmann, Kevin Na, Geoff Ogilvy, Gary Woodland. TOP 50 FROM FINAL WORLD RANKING IN 2014: Victor Dubuisson, Jamie Donaldson, Ian Poulter, Joost Luiten, Luke Donald, Stephen Gallacher, Thongchai Jaidee, Steve Stricker, Shane Lowry, Marc Leishman, Mikko Ilonen, Danny Willett. TOP 50 FROM WORLD RANKING ON MARCH 30: TBD. a - amateur

HISTORY This Date in Sports December 26 1908 — Jack Johnson becomes the first black man to win the world heavyweight boxing title, with a 14thround knockout of Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia. 1917 — Toronto’s Harry Cameron becomes the first defenseman to score four goals in a game as the Maple Leafs beat the Montreal Canadiens 7-5. 1943 — Sid Luckman throws five touchdown passes to lead the Chicago Bears to a 41-21 victory over the Washington Redskins for the NFL championship. 1946 — The United States wins the Davis Cup with a 5-0 sweep of Australia, the worst defeat for a defending champion. 1954 — Otto Graham scores three touchdowns and passes for three more to lead the Cleveland Browns to a 56-10 rout of the Detroit Lions for the NFL title. 1955 — The Cleveland Browns intercept six passes, one of which is returned 65 yards for a touchdown by Don Paul, in a 38-14 victory over the Los Angeles Rams for the NFL championship. Otto Graham of the Browns passes for two touchdowns and scores two more. 1960 — The Philadelphia Eagles come from behind twice on a 35-yard pass to Tommy McDonald from Norm Van Brocklin and a 5-yard run by Ted Dean to beat the Green Bay Packers 17-13 for the NFL title. 1964 — Wray Carlton and Jack Kemp each score touchdowns and Pete Gogolak kicks two field goals to give the Buffalo Bills a 20-7 victory over the San Diego Chargers in the AFL championship. 1965 — The Buffalo Bills win their second straight AFL championship with a 27-0 victory over the San Diego Chargers. The Chargers are able to get inside Buffalo’s 25-yard line only once. 1986 — Center Doug Jarvis of the Hartford Whalers plays his 915th consecutive game, setting an NHL record. 1999 — Mike Vanderjagt’s 21-yard field goal with four seconds left gives the Indianapolis Colts a 29-28 win over the Cleveland Browns. Indianapolis, which went 3-13 in 1998, makes NFL history by winning 10 more games than they did the previous season. 2001 — Steve Nash scores 27 points and makes a 3-pointer with 0.6 seconds remaining in overtime as the Dallas Mavericks overcame a 53-point effort by Tim Duncan and beat the San Antonio Spurs 126-123. 2001 — Colorado’s Patrick Roy becomes the first NHL goalie to win 500 games as he records his seventh shutout of the season, a 2-0 win over Dallas. 2004 — Peyton Manning breaks Dan Marino’s single-season touchdown pass record when he throws his 48th and 49th of the season, rallying Indianapolis from a 31-16 fourth-quarter deficit to win 34-31 in overtime over San Diego. 2004 — Steve Nash has 18 points and 13 assists to become the first NBA player to register 10 or more assists in 11 consecutive victories as Phoenix beat Toronto 106-94. Magic Johnson did it twice during the 1986-87 season. 2005 — DeAngelo Williams sets an NCAA record with his 34th 100-yard rushing game and scores three touchdowns, leading Memphis to a 38-31 victory over Akron in the Motor City Bowl. 2007 — Chris Summers kicks a 40yard field goal as time expired in the Motor City Bowl, lifting Purdue to a 51-48 win over Central Michigan. The 99 points ties the second-highest total in a bowl game that ended in regulation.

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Youngest coach faces challenges SCOREBOARD I have on my team.” Ford, now 30, already had a challenge taking over a By Teresa M. Walker program that The Associated Press went 5-25 last season. Dana Ford NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Dana Tennessee Ford and his Tennessee State State was the first historically Tigers are learning on the job black college to win a national together. title, winning three NAIA Ford is the youngest coach in championships between 1957 Division I men’s basketball after and 1959. being hired in April at the age The school has sent the likes of 29, and he has one of the least of Robert Covington, Truck experienced teams with only Robinson, Anthony Mason and one senior from last season and Carlos Rogers to the NBA. 12 newcomers. But the Tigers have had more “It’s a huge mystery,” Ford coaches than winning seasons said. “Being the youngest coach, the past two decades. I’m learning on the job and Athletic director Teresa Philhaving the [least] experienced lips took a chance in bringing team, they’re learning on the job back Ford as head coach after so we’re all kind of just learning he was an assistant with the together. Tigers under John Cooper “Our attitudes have been between 2009 and 2011. great, the guys have really gotFord, who played at Illinois ten better … I’ve probably gotState, got his start in coachten a little bit better as a coach ing as a graduate assistant for too coming up with different Gregg Marshall at Winthrop motivation methods and having and then Wichita State. He was an assistant coach at Chipola a better understanding of who

Tennessee State team inexperienced, has 12 newcomers

Junior College in Florida before joining Cooper at Tennessee State. Ford rejoined Marshall at Wichita State for 2011-12 before going to Illinois State for the past two seasons. “Obviously having some built-in relationships helped me,” Ford said. “When I was here the first time, we had a tremendous amount of success.” Knowing his way around certainly helped as Ford went from being introduced April 21 to putting together essentially a brand new team in his first eight weeks. “You can’t just be on there saying, ‘I’m a new coach at a new school.’ You’ve got to be a little more impressive than that,” Ford said. “I was able to sell what we had done recently. It was still a couple years removed, but it was close enough people could relate. I used that to my advantage and having been here was an added bonus.” Ford made a quick enough impression to be voted one of Nashville’s most beautiful people by a local magazine this summer.

Only senior Jay Harris has any real Division I experience. Ford also signed six freshmen, four junior college players and two Division I transfers. Of the newcomers, only Christian Crockett had any Division I experience after playing about a minute in two games at Mount Saint Mary’s. That has left all of the Tigers figuring out how to play with each other and for their new coach. The Tigers are 2-10 and have lost nine straight heading into Saturday’s game at Tennessee, though five of the losses are by single digits. Injuries and fouls forced Ford to finish the last 1:37 of an 84-67 loss at Southern Illinois in November with only four players. “I tried to warn the official, ‘Hey, I have no more eligible players if a guy fouls out,’ and he thought I was being a smart aleck,” Ford said. “I was just basically telling him I have no more players. So he gave me a warning, and the next possession they called a foul. I said, ‘That’s it. I don’t have any.’ The look on his face said it all.”

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HONOLULU — Kethan Savage sparked a late rally and scored 12 points to lead George Washington to a 60-54 upset over No. 11 Wichita State in the final of the Diamond Head Classic on Thursday night. The Colonials (9-3) won their first in-season tournament since they knocked off Michigan State and Maryland in 2004 in the BB&T Classic in Washington. This took another big effort. They trailed 50-43 with just under 7 minutes remaining when Savage led them on a 16-2 run. Savage twice swatted away a pass down the court and recovered it for a layup. Yuta Watanabe put the Colonials ahead for good with a 3-pointer with 3:32 remaining, and they stretched the lead to 59-52 when they worked the shot clock down and Joe McDonald drove the lane for a tough score. Wichita State (10-2), which had to rally in the final minute of overtime to beat Hawaii in the semifinal, was too cold outside and couldn’t crack the Colonials’ zone. The Shockers shot 34 percent from the field for the game. Fred VanVleet led the Shockers with 11 points, six of them in the first 4 minutes. He was 4 of 15 from the field. Ron Baker, their leading scorer, was held to nine points on 4-of-12 shooting. He made only one 3-pointer in six attempts.

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CHICAGO — Pau Gasol had 23 points and 13 rebounds against his former team and Chicago beat Los Angeles with Lakers star Kobe Bryant resting his sore body Thursday. Jimmy Butler added 21 points, and Derrick Rose had 20 points and six assists to help the Bulls win their seasonhigh fifth straight, 113-93. Bulls 113 With Bryant missing his Lakers 93 second straight game, the Lakers were unable to pull off another upset. They stunned Golden State on Tuesday night but came up short against the Central division leaders. Gasol, a two-time champion in six-plus seasons with the Lakers, was 9 of 14 from the field in his first game against Los Angeles since joining the Bulls in the summer. Wesley Johnson led Los Angeles with 19 points. THUNDER 114, SPURS 106 In San Antonio, Russell Westbrook scored 34 points, and Oklahoma City beat the Spurs in a rematch of last season’s Western Conference Finals. The Thunder earned their sixth straight regular-season victory over the defending NBA champions in the first meeting between the teams since San Antonio topped Oklahoma City in six games on the way to a fifth title. The Thunder were without reigning MVP Kevin Durant, and the Spurs were missing Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard, but there was still plenty of firepower. Serge Ibaka had 21 points, including going 3 for 4 on 3-pointers for Oklahoma City (1416). Steven Adams added 16 points and 15 rebounds to offset San Antonio center Tiago Splitter matching his season-high with 14 points. Matt Bonner had 17 points to lead seven players in double figures for San Antonio (1812), which has lost five of six. Tim Duncan had 15 points, six rebounds and five assists. WIZARDS 102, KNICKS 91 In New York, John Wall had 24 points and 11 assists, eluding the Knicks all day until getting

knocked to the floor by a flagrant foul that sparked an altercation, and Washington beat New York. Wall toyed with the Knicks for 3½ quarters, highlighted by a spinning, 360-degree layup, before Quincy Acy knocked him down with a forearm shove with 5:31 to play. Wall got up and pushed Acy, who responded with a punch that appeared to hit Wall behind the neck. Acy was ejected in the Christmas dust-up, and Wall received a technical foul. Bradley Beal added 17 points for the Wizards, who had their top five of Wall, Beal, Paul Pierce, Nene and Marcin Gortat in the starting lineup for the first time this season. Carmelo Anthony scored 34 points for the Knicks, who fell to 5-26 and have the most losses in the NBA. They have dropped six straight and 16 of 17. CLIPPERS 100, WARRIORS 86 In Los Angeles, Jamal Crawford scored 12 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, Chris Paul added 22 points, and the Clippers handed the NBA-leading Golden State Warriors their second loss at Staples Center in three days Thursday. The Warriors held the Clippers to 4-for-24 shooting in the first quarter and 39.1 percent for the game, two nights after the Lakers shot 51.7 percent without Kobe Bryant to beat them 115-105. That loss ended a streak of 27 straight games by the Warriors in which they held opponents under 50 percent. The Clippers, beginning a nine-game homestand after back-to-back losses to San Antonio and Atlanta, haven’t dropped three in a row since March 29-April 1, 2013. Blake Griffin missed his first eight shots and was 5 for 16 overall with 18 points and 15 rebounds. DeAndre Jordan had 14 points and 12 boards. Klay Thompson scored 15 points, and Stephen Curry 14 for Golden State, which has lost three of five following a 23-3 start that included a franchise-record 16-game winning streak. The Warriors, who finished second behind the Clippers in the Pacific Division the last two seasons, still lead them by four games in the standings. Center Andrew Bogut missed his eighth straight game because of an injured right knee.

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Today on TV Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local. COLLEGE FOOTBALL 11 a.m. on ESPN — Heart of Dallas Bowl, Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech 2:30 p.m. on ESPN — Quick Lane Bowl, Rutgers vs. North Carolina, at Detroit 6 p.m. on ESPN — St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl, NC State vs. UCF SOCCER 5:40 a.m. on NBCSN — Premier League, West Ham at Chelsea 7:55 a.m. on NBCSN — Premier League, Newcastle at Manchester United 10:25 a.m. on NBCSN — Premier League, Queens Park at Arsenal

PREP SCHEDULE This week’s high school varsity sports schedule. For additions or changes, contact us at sports@sfnewmexican.com:

Today Boys basketball — Stu Clark Tournament (at NMHU) — quarterfinals Abq. St. Pius vs. Capital, 1 p.m. Santa Fe High vs. Bernalillo, 3 p.m. Las Vegas Robertson vs. Raton, 6 p.m. West Las Vegas vs. Aztec, 8 p.m. Tri-Cities Tournament (at Santa Rosa) — quarterfinals McCurdy vs. East Mountain, 2 p.m. Mora vs. Monte del Sol, 3:30 p.m. Escalante vs. Pecos, 5 p.m. Cimarron at Santa Rosa, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday Boys basketball — Penasco at Clayton, 1 p.m. Pojoaque Valey at Wingate, 6 p.m. Stu Clark Tournament (at NMHU) (semifinals) St. Pius-Capital winner vs. Robertson-Raton winner, 6 p.m. Santa Fe-Bernalillo winner vs. West Las Vegas-Aztec winner, 8 p.m. (consolation round) Santa Fe-Bernalillo loser vs. West Las Vegas-Aztec loser, 1 p.m. St. Pius-Capital loser vs. Robertson-Raton loser, 3 p.m. Tri-Cities Tournament (at Santa Rosa) (semifinals) Escalante-Pecos winner vs. Mora-Monte del Sol winner, 5 p.m. East Mountain-McCurdy winner vs. Cimarron-Santa Rosa winner, 6:30 p.m. (consolation round) Escalante-Pecos loser vs. Mora-Monte del Sol loser, 2 p.m. East Mountain-McCurdy loser vs. Cimarron-Santa Rosa loser, 3:30 p.m. Girls basketball — Penasco at Clayton, 2:30 p.m. McCurdy at West Las Vegas, 4 p.m.

Sunday Boys basketball — Stu Clark Tournament (at NMHU) 7th place, 1 p.m. 5th place, 3 p.m. 3rd place, 6 p.m. Championship, 8 p.m.

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NBA: James heaps praise on Miami Continued from Page B-5 pictures when James did his traditional powder toss before taking the court, and he exchanged huge hugs with several Heat players moments later. He also pointed toward the Heat bench and tapped his heart. “What me and my teammates created here while we were here, it’s going to last forever,” James said. “You can never take that out of the books. You can never take that from anything. Whatever else that comes with it, we’ll deal with it then.” Whatever negativity James heard on Thursday, it was nothing like his last such “homecoming” game — the one when he returned to Cleveland in 2010 for the

first time since joining the Heat. He said he didn’t “circle” Thursday’s game on his calendar, saying he’s long past things like that. “LeBron was an enormous figure here,” Cavaliers coach David Blatt said. “He was part of a great run. Obviously, there’s going to be emotion and a lot of feeling and a lot of excitement. You just can’t look past that because you want to. That’s going to happen. You just have to try to roll with it. I thought he handled it well.” James has remained friends with several Heat players, and interacted with some members of the team’s front office at Dwyane Wade’s wedding this offseason.

Quirky: Rattlesnake invaded locker room, bees chased off golfer Continued from Page B-5 lini — unable to ward off the vampiric attack for lack of a mirror or garlic clove — displayed for an entire stadium evidence of fang marks. He lowered his shirt sleeve and, like a Hollywood starlet from a bygone era, bared his shoulder. Suarez, meanwhile, held his upper teeth while on the ground as if he were a patient in a chair and assisting a dental technician taking X-rays. Suarez, it turns out, has a long oral history. This was the third time in four years he bit an opponent. At first, he denied biting Chiellini, saying he lost his balance and tumbled. He also said Chiellini hit him in the eye earlier in the match. He also said Chiellini pushed his shoulder into the Uruguayan’s mouth. He said many things. Uruguay won the game 1-0 but Suarez was suspended for four months. FIFA said “such behavior cannot be tolerated.”

A U.S. soccer fan pretends that Uruguay’s soccer striker Luis Suarez is biting him June 26 as he takes a selfie next to an advertisement featuring Suarez near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. MATT DUNHAM/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

His teammates were soon gone, as well, after a loss to Colombia in the next game. Suarezy came clean and apologized. No less a person than Chiellini asked FIFA to reduce the suspension. He said things happen on the field. As for

Suarez, he promised to never bite anyone again. Other wayward spots visited by sports this year: Animal house: The Portland Trail Blazers discovered a rattlesnake in their locker room in San Antonio. “I don’t know if that’s ever happened before,” Portland

coach Terry Stotts said. “That sounds like an ABA story.” Golfer Luke Donald was less concerned by a charge from the rest of the field than he was with a large baboon charging him during a tournament in the South African wilderness. “They are big and strong and you wouldn’t want to mess with them,” he said. Golf also proved a hazard in Malaysia for Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal, who threw down his scorecard, tossed off his shoes and jumped in a lake to escape a swarm of monstrous hornets. “I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “My caddie told me to run, so I start running like a crazy guy.” Love and death: The Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League became wedding planners. The team offered couples the chance to say “I do” on its field, completing perhaps the ultimate Hail Marry. The family of a Puerto Rican boxer wanted to honor his passion. So there he was, or there the body of Christopher Rivera Amaro was, standing upright with boxing gloves in the corner of a simulated ring at

his wake in a San Juan funeral home. Chip shot: Webb Simpson is a champion golfer, and an obliging sort. So when he saw a bunch of kids hanging around the clubhouse at Pinehurst — site of the men’s and women’s U.S. Open — he made it a point to sign autographs. He noticed one girl with braces off to the side. He asked her if there was anything he could do. “No,” said 11-year-old Lucy Li. “I’m playing in the tournament next week.” Trash stalkers: They were the sanitary kings of the World Cup. And it mattered little that their team lost. After games, Japan’s fans scooped up the mess left in the stadium. Other fans get drunk and fight. The Japanese put their blue trash bags to work, drawing on a tradition of respect and decorum. So now, as FIFA tries to clean the muck from its befouled stables, the course of action is clear: Assign the job to Japan. Fiddler on the goof: Forgive Olympic leaders if they don’t swoon to the strains of VanessaMae’s violin. The celebrity

musician who lives in Britain and skied for Thailand at the Sochi Games is not what she’s cracked up to be. She competed as Vanessa Vanakorn, taking the last name of her Thai father. No problem there. But her qualifying races for Sochi were rigged, and the IOC months later banned her for four years, not that she was headed to the World Cup circuit. At Sochi, she finished 67th and last in the giant slalom, more than 50 seconds behind. How slow was the violinist? Adagio, for sure. Fielder’s choice: Hailed like a Pharaoh, Derek Jeter was bestowed with countless gifts as he left baseball. Even the Earth itself paid tribute. A cornfield in central New Jersey was cut in such a way to present an image of the Yankee captain’s face, along with a baseball and his No. 2. “This was just something totally different,” said Cindy VonThun, whose in-laws own the farm. “To walk out in the field and to be on the path and to say ‘I’m in Derek Jeter’s chin,’ it’s pretty cool.”

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Heart of Dallas Bowl Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech

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DALLAS — Illinois needed to win its last two games to become bowl eligible, then had to wait another week before finding out if there would be more football. Louisiana Tech knew after winning six of seven at the end of the regular season that it was going to a bowl. And the Bulldogs have already played an extra week, a tight 26-23 loss to Marshall in the Conference USA championship game. Now the Illini (6-6) of the Big Ten and the Bulldogs (8-5), both coached by the sons of coaches, meet Friday in the Heart of Dallas Bowl that is played at historic Cotton Bowl Stadium. It’s the first of 10 bowl games involving a Big Ten team, and the last of five for Conference USA. “You want to go into your winter workouts with success and you want your seniors to leave with success,” third-year Illinois coach Tim Beckman said. “They have done a great job with this program. I’m proud of them. We have made strides from Day 1, and we are doing it on and off the football field.” This is the third time in five seasons the Illini go into a bowl 6-6. They won the previous two for a winning record, but that was before they went 6-18 in Beckman’s first two seasons. Skip Holtz is wrapping up his second year at Louisiana Tech, which last played in a bowl game in 2011. The Bulldogs overcame a 2-3 start this season that included games against Oklahoma and Auburn, then both top-five teams. “We knew it was going to be a challenging start,” Holtz said. “We talked about we’re a work in progress as a young team, and we had to grow and develop as the year went on, and I felt like they really did that.” The Bulldogs got a big boost from two graduate transfers: quarterback Cody Sokol and defensive end Houston Bates, who was a starter at Illinois before returning to his home state to finish his career.

DETROIT — With the NFL’s Lions taking over Detroit’s bowl game, the city was able to upgrade its conference matchup, going from a top Mid-American Conference team and an at-large berth to a Big Ten vs. ACC pairing. Newcomer Rutgers is representing the Big Ten in the inaugural Quick Lane Bowl on Friday against one of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s anchor schools, North Carolina. It’s a series that spans three centuries: The schools met for the first time in 1894, several years before the Tar Heels had an official football program. The Scarlet Knights won that first game 5-0. They played again in 1919, then took an 87-year hiatus before facing off four times in the last nine regular seasons. This is their first matchup in a bowl. The Tar Heels have won the last three to even the series 3-3. Rutgers must try to find a way to stop North Carolina quarterback Marquise Williams, who threw for 2,870 yards and 20 touchdowns this season, while running for 737 yards and 12 more scores. “He’s a unique player to defend, because he has the entire skill set of a tailback, but he can also do a fine job throwing the ball,” said Rutgers coach Kyle Flood. “He is definitely the focal point of that offense, so stopping him is how you stop them.” For the Scarlet Knights, Gary Nova is more of a traditional drop-back passer, throwing for 2,667 yards and 20 touchdowns. “We have to get pressure on him,” North Carolina coach Larry Fedora said. “If we give that young man time, he will pick us apart. He’s very accurate.” Ford Field has hosted a post-Christmas bowl for most of its 14-year existence, but the Motor City Bowl (later the Little Caesar’s Bowl) was run by an outside group that rented the stadium for the game.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Central Florida can finish with at least 10 wins for the fourth time in five years, while North Carolina State hopes to take another step forward under second-year coach Dave Doeren. So for the Knights and Wolfpack, the Bitcoin Bowl on Friday night is much more than just another game. They want to make a strong statement about their programs. “This is just another opportunity to go out there and prove to everyone that UCF is on the map,” senior offensive lineman Torrian Wilson said. “We are a great team that works hard and fights hard. We always want to leave an impression on people, and this is just another opportunity to do that.” UCF is just a year removed from playing in a BCS bowl for the first time with a highscoring victory over Baylor to cap the first 12-win season in school history. The Knights (9-3) have won nine of 10 following an 0-2 start, including a thrilling 32-30 victory over East Carolina in the regular-season finale that gave them a share of the American Athletic Conference title. UCF also won the championship in the league’s inaugural season, led by quarterback Blake Bortles, the third overall pick in last spring’s NFL draft. Justin Holman has proven to be much than a capable of successor to Bortles. His dramatic Hail Mary pass to Breshad Perriman as time expired lifted the Knights over East Carolina to provide the team a shot at finishing with another 10-plus win season. The teams have enjoyed a few days of holiday fun in the sun while visiting St. Petersburg. But they haven’t lost sight of why they’re in town for matchup at Tropicana Field. “It’s important to stay focused amongst one another. … You want to enjoy the experience as well, but know in the back of your head it’s a business trip,” UCF receiver Rannell Hall said. “We just want to come out Friday and get the W.”

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Fresno State manhandled by Rice, 30-6 It wasn’t for a lack of trying against Rice. The Bulldogs (6-8) found an early spark HONOLULU — Despite starting its seafrom running back Josh Quezada, and they son with three straight losses, Fresno State were able to keep a few drives going thanks made it to a bowl game for the 14th time in to penalties on Rice, two that wiped out the last 16 seasons. sacks and another that kept a drive going Winning is another matter. on a fourth-and-7 play. The Bulldogs lost their sixth consecutive What they couldn’t find was the end postseason game Wednesday night when zone. they didn’t have an answer for Rice quarterFresno State broke its own Hawaii Bowl back Driphus Jackson and couldn’t budge record for fewest points — it had 10 in a against the Owls’ defense in a 30-6 loss at lopsided loss to SMU two years ago. It was the Hawaii Bowl. the first time the Bulldogs did not score a “It’s frustrating,” Fresno State coach Tim touchdown in any game since a 51-0 loss DeRuyter said. “We’ve got to figure out a to Boise State four years ago, and the six way to get over the hump.” points were the fewest for them in any bowl

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game in school history. “Give credit to Rice,” said linebacker Karl Mickelsen, voted the MVP for Fresno State in the Hawaii Bowl. “They’re physical. We’ve just got to be more physical. When it comes down to it, everybody has just got to get to the ball.” All it took was 19 seconds late in the first quarter for Rice (8-5) to seize control, and the Owls were never seriously challenged after that. Even though Rice dominated early, it was tied at 3 when Jackson was perfect on a fly route to Dennis Parks down the left sideline for a 53-yard gain that led to his 14-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Taylor.

Miller: Coach Fox says player has matured Continued from Page B-5 hurries, three pass breakups, two forced fumbles, a fumble recovery and an interception heading into the season finale against Oakland (3-12) with a first-round bye on the line for Denver (11-4). Coach John Fox said he’s noticed a more mature Miller this season, one who has learned his lessons from last year and rededicated himself both on both a physical and mental level. “Without a doubt. Like most things, the more you do it the better you get. And obviously you’re going to have mistakes or setbacks throughout any career, but he’s done a tremendous job

and going through that I think has helped him,” Fox said. Like Miller, cornerback Chris Harris Jr. needed ACL surgery in the offseason and he went to Dr. James Andrews in Pensacola, Florida, for his operation in February, a month after Andrews fixed Miller’s knee. Harris and Miller then spent six months together rehabbing and plotting their comebacks in 2014. Harris was out to prove his 2013 breakout season was no fluke and Miller was determined to show his 2013 season was an aberration. They’ve succeeded on both accounts, just as they correctly predicted Pro Bowl seasons for each other back in the summer

when both were working their way back onto the football field. “We already knew 58 was going to be in” the Pro Bowl again, Harris said. “If he comes back to halfway normal, he’s going to be in there. This is a great honor just to be there with him. We worked so hard to come back here and to be better players and it was so tough. “I’ll never forget just watching the AFC Championship on the sideline with him being like, ‘This is the worst thing ever.’ And then coming back and making it to the Pro Bowl with him this year, it’s like night and day.” Notes: Fox was thrilled to hear QB Peyton Manning’s proclamation that he’ll return to Den-

Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt, left, is defended by Dallas Cowboys guard Zack Martin on Oct. 5 in Arlington, Texas. TIM SHARP/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Rookie Martin makes impression with Martin in a noncontact drill when his left knee gave way, tearing the anterior cruciIRVING, Texas — Zack Mar- ate ligament. tin’s best test so far of durabilThere was video for all to ity as a pro came with a right see, and it was easy to forget ankle injury serious enough to that Lee’s knee buckled before keep him out of practice for a Martin rolled over the top of week with the Cowboys. him. The rookie right guard’s Martin stood tall when he response: I’m playing. was questioned about the play “It certainly fits with everyby reporters. thing I know about him,” Dal“It sucks to be kind of las coach Jason Garrett said. grouped into that play and him “He’s a little bit of a throwback. getting hurt,” Martin said at the He reminds you of linemen time. “I think he would say it who played 25 years ago. He first over anyone. You’ve got to just has this way about him.” move forward.” Martin is possibly the last And that was the message first-round piece of a rebuilt from many of the veterans who offensive line for the Cowboys, pulled Martin aside, including a versatile blocker with more Lee and tight end Jason Witstarts at Notre Dame than any- ten. one in school history. And now Harry Hiestand, Martin’s he’s the first rookie lineman line coach at Notre Dame, named to the Pro Bowl in Dal- knew from the outset that las franchise history. his old pupil wouldn’t have “It’s kind of an exclamation trouble getting over the Lee point on the season that he’s incident, promising that “he’s had,” said center Travis Frednot reliving it.” erick, a first-round pick last Martin has spent the last year and another first-time Pro five months proving it as a key Bowl player. “We talked about component of soon-to-be NFL it several times throughout the rushing champion DeMarco season, how he’s never really Murray’s pursuit of all-time come in and played like a league leader Emmitt Smith’s rookie. He’s always played like franchise record from 19 years a veteran.” ago. He has 1,745 yards, needTyron Smith, a two-time Pro ing 29 yards to beat Smith’s Bowl pick at left tackle, was total of 1,773. Dallas’ top choice from 2011. The 24-year-old Martin Martin’s resolve was tested sprained his right ankle in a just weeks after the Cowboys win at Philadelphia that gave picked him at No. 16. the Cowboys the NFC East He was already the guy lead, and played without pracDallas took instead of Johnny ticing in a division-clinching Manziel, who was unexpectwin over Indianapolis last edly still on the board. And week. then he got caught up in a play He came out only after the that ended standout linebacker 42-7 victory was in hand, and Sean Lee’s season in the first now he’s practicing again with full squad workout of the offDallas (11-4) visiting Washingseason. ton (4-11) in the regular-season finale Sunday. Lee was about to engage

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ver next season “if the Broncos will have me.” Of course, they will, Fox said Thursday: “I would say when you’re kind of a top three quarterback in the league, maybe the top of all time, I’d say it’s a pretty good likelihood,” Fox cracked. “He’s had a tremendous year, there’s no doubt. We’ve still got things to get done and we’re looking forward to that opportunity.” … LB Brandon Marshall (foot) worked with a strength and conditioning coach on the side during practice. “He’s making progress for sure,” Fox said. The Broncos plan to have Marshall, their leading tackler, back for the playoffs. A win Sunday would give Denver a first-round bye and Marshall another week to get better.

Snyder: Rejects sending an email message “He just respects the guys he goes against,” Amaro said. It wasn’t until a few players posted their Even if they deal Snyder’s own team a letters on Twitter that they became known. staggering loss. “You’ve had a great year, Jace,” read a letThe Wildcats began the 2013 season as ter that Snyder wrote a couple years ago reigning Big 12 champions. But in their to Texas Tech tight end Jace Amaro, who opener, lower-division North Dakota State dislocated a rib during his game against rolled into town and beat them 24-21 in a Kansas State. major upset. “Admire how hard you play and the Their season in tatters, Snyder sat down innate toughness you display to help your and wrote to Bison quarterback Brock Jenteam. Hope you weren’t hurt badly on Satsen. urday,” Snyder wrote. “Wishing you and “I was truly impressed with you,” the letyour teammates continued success, good ter read. “You played so very well, virtually fortune and health.” Amaro, now with the New York Jets, still error free and with such poise. I wish you a great year and hope you achieve all you has the letter at home. “It definitely meant a lot to me to get that desire.” North Dakota State went on to win its letter,” Amaro said. “It was one of those deals where I got injured and I knew it was third straight FCS national championship. “That was our first game, arguably ruined my last home game and I was never going to play there again, so I guess he took notice their season right off the bat,” Jensen said, “and yeah, for him, I’m sure it was hard of how I was playing with a dislocated rib.

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writing that letter. But that’s the kind of person he is. He isn’t going to change whether it’s a tough loss or maybe a loss that wasn’t supposed to happen.” Jensen, who spent time with the Miami Dolphins earlier this season, also kept his letter. The fact that it came in the mail — old-fashioned mail — made it more special. “It’s almost nowadays considered to be old school to write a letter,” Jensen said, “but I’m sure if you were to ask coach Snyder, he would love to hear he’s old school. It’s cool to see that he still writes them. There’s something about taking the time to express yourself.” Earlier this season, West Virginia quarterback Clint Trickett suffered a concussion in his game against Kansas State. Five days later, Trickett posted on Twitter the letter he had received, calling Snyder “the epitome of college coaches” in an accompanying tweet.

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— Christian Nevarez What is your earliest childhood memory? “One time when I was like 2, I was laying in my crib and I didn’t have any dolls so I pretended my hands were puppets. One was a prince, and one was a princess, so I saved myself.” — Alyah Wiggins What was the most fun you had this year? “The most fun I had this year was in April, me and my family went to Disneyland. It was the first time the little ones had been there.” — Jennifer Aguirre If you could change your name, what would it be and why? “It would be Jeremiah. It sounds like a nice flowing name and it’s really smooth.” — Nathaniel Gonzalez

What did you want to be in elementary school? How about now? “Well for me, I wanted to be a doctor because I liked helping people back then. And now I don’t really care. I want to be a novelist, so I can just write for myself. Helping people is really overrated.”

I am most proud of my 3.3 GPA and I am most proud of winning my second first-team all district running back award. I am also proud of being a successful, three-sport student athlete.” — Kevin Brown What is the best/worst pick up line you ever heard?

— Selma Gutierrez If you could break one law what would it be and why? “If I could break one law, I would go wild. Break every law. Cause I like to party.” — Augustine Larranaga

“Luna, because I love wolfs and they are in love with the moon.” — Brianna Perea What is the best/ worst pickup line you have ever heard?

If you could break one law what would it be and why? “I would like to have a 27-year-old boyfriend because older men are more mature.”

“If you were a booger I’d pick you first.” — Noah Montoya

— Sage Graham

— Jorge Hernandez

The best pick up line I ever heard was, ‘Girl, you’re a nine but I’m the one you need.’ The worst pick up line I heard was, ‘Is your dad a baker cause those buns though.’ ”

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“My New Year’s Resolution is to keep up with my homework.”

What is the most fun you have had this year? “The most fun I have had this year was probably meeting all the friends I have met this year. And keeping it drama free.” — Dianna Melero

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What is your New Year’s resolution?

What is your earliest childhood memory?

“To be the best me I can be.” — Wendi Garcia

“Once I fell off my tricycle and my two front teeth fell out.” — Fatima Torres

DESERT ACADEMY What is your New Year’s resolution? “I’d say this year went pretty well, so I’m just going to try to keep it consistent.”

What did you want to be in elementary school? How about now?

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“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a wizard. Now I want to be a physicist or something to do with science.”

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What is your new year’s resolution? “I don’t have one.” — Santana Garcia What is your earliest childhood memory? “Seeing my little brother in the hospital incubator and not knowing what was happening but knew it was serious.” — Gillian McMahon

What was the most fun you had this year? “I went to Texas with my best friends last summer.” — Hannah Warren If you could change your name, what would it be and why? “Snow Silverstein because me and my friend made it up.”

“I taught myself how to play piano.”

If you could break one law what would it be and why? “Stealing: I would go to a grocery store and steal all the food I want — lots of waffles because they are expensive.” — Devin Ritschel What did you want to be in elementary school? How about now? “Either wanted to be a veterinarian or something in the military or a doctor. Now I want to be something in the engineering industry.” — Dormon Johnson

What are you most proud of so far in your life? “Learning things, staying humble and working hard. That is about as successful as I can be.” — Tomas Rodriguez What is the best/worst pick up line you ever heard? “Oh I got one! ‘You got something on your shirt. … My eyes!’ That is the best and the worst.”

SANTA FE PREPARATORY What is your New Year’s resolution? “I have never had a New Year’s resolution, so I don’t have one this year, either.”

— Noé Garcia

What is your earliest childhood memory? “Probably just playing outside with my cousins.” — Mattie Duran

What was the most fun you had this year? “Running from bulls in Spain.” — Griffin Sides

— Courtney Timlen

“Being extremely focused and working really hard toward success.” — Michael Ewers

What is the best/ worst pick up line you ever heard?

If you could break one law what would it be and why?

Leland because I want to go to Stanford and the actual name of Stanford is Leland Stanford Jr. University.”

“Best: If you were a vegetable, you’d be a cute cumber. Worst: Are you sore? Because you look like you just fell from heaven.” — Desiray Anderson

If you could break one law what would it be and why? “I would dress up like a ninja and set fire to an old abandoned building.”

“The law that prevents people from driving erratically so I could drive like I do in Grand Theft Auto 5.”

What is your New Year’s resolution? “I feel like if I need to make any changes in my life, I should just do it now and not wait until next year.” — Carly Trujillo

What was the most fun you had this year? “Probably my birthday. … A bunch of my friends came over and we just goofed off.” — Vincent Versace

What did you want to be in elementary school? How about now?

“I wanted to be an artist and a writer and now, I don’t know.”

“I wanted to be an actress but now I want to be in the medical field helping people.”

— Loren Vladem

— Lileigh Thomas

SANTA FE WALDORF SCHOOL If you could change your name, what would it be and why?

“Well, I would change my last name to Story, because that’s my middle name and I’ve always disliked the last name McDonald.” — Keenan McDonald

What is your earliest childhood memory? “I was 2 and it was time for my bedtime, but it was raining outside and I really enjoy the rain, so I started to cry next to the window because I wanted to go play in the rain and I couldn’t.” — Kauri Wilson

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What are you most proud of so far in your life?

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What is your earliest childhood memory? “It was my second or third birthday and I got a super awesome trash truck and I was like, ‘I’m totally going to go pick up some trash.’ But then I poured a dollars worth of pennies into it and it broke.” — Daniel Onstott

What are you most proud of so far in your life? “Being the first in my family to graduate from high school.” — Isabella Aldana What did you want to be in elementary school? How about now? “When I was younger, I wanted to be a doctor, and now, I am still interested in having an occupation in the medical field.” — Santana Garcia-Alarid

What is your New Year’s resolution? “My New Year’s resolution would be to find more time to have to myself and to be with friends because I’m always very busy with school and everything else I do.”

If you could change your name, what would it be and why? “Cameron Wait for it Vanderlaan because that’s awesome.” — Cameron Vanderlaan

— Aydin Gates What is your earliest childhood memory? “My earliest childhood memory is looking for sand crabs on the beach.” — Sienna Reiche What was the most fun you had this year? “The most fun I had this year was when I went to Los Angeles with my friend. We went to the beach and went surfing.” — Devta Khalsa

What are you most proud of so far in your life? “The amount of time I have enjoyed.” — Evan Hammans

What is the best/ worst pick up line you ever heard? “The best pick up line is, ‘Feel this shirt. It’s girlfriend material.’ The worst is, ‘I’m not actually this tall. I’m just sitting on my wallet.’ ” — Elle Knowlton

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REWARD! B L A C K SHEPHARD MIX , female, Xena, red collar with tags. Lost Sunday, December 21, about 11 a.m., at south end of Frank Ortiz Park. Might be in Solana neighborhood. SKITTISH. PLEASE CALL IF SEEN! 505-490-0388

GORGEOUS 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH, 2700 SQ.FT. ESTATE- plus art studio that is attached. Light & bright. Saltillo tile, vigas, 3 fireplaces, office, chef kitchen. $3000 monthly. Pond, kiva fireplace, hot tub in private backyard. 5 minute walk to Plaza. Owners NM real estate brokers. Skye’s the Limit Realty LLC. 505-629-9998.

SILVER BRACELET with INLAID DISC, Sadly lost, Friday afternoon, probably on Lincoln Avenue. Great sentimentlal value. REWARD OFFERED. Call 505-982-3133.

Northern Pueblos Housing Authority seeks an Economic Development Director. This is a one-year grant-funded position with a primary responsibility to finalize business plans for two identified proprietary Pueblo-owned businesses, arrange financing, and initiate implementation of the business plans. For further information and application instructions, please e-mail receptionist@nphousing.com.

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(Part-time, 20 hours weekly) Site Manager is responsible for the day to day operations and services provided to our Senior Center. The Manager will ensure that all policies and procedures are followed. All food and supplies will be purchased and stored by the manager in accordance with policy. Responsible for monthly reports, activities, menus, etc. Will provide transportation using the programs vehicle as needed. There are two positions available, one located in Nambe Pueblo and one in Pueblo of San Ildefonso. Both positions are 20 hours a week. Prefer individual who has experience with Senior Programs. Must have a good driving record and pass a criminal background check. Must possess a food handler’s certificate or be able to obtain one. IMMEDIATE OPENINGS

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIANS NEW MOON LODGE

(male adult facility -Espanola) BUTTERFLY HEALING CENTER (Youth Residential facility - Taos) The BHT is a member of the our residential direct care staff . The primary function of the BHT is to ensure the safety, therapeutic and physical needs of our residents are properly met as directed by the individual’s treatment plan, therapeutic goals and interventions determined by the clinical team. HS Diploma or equivalent, CPR and First Aid, certification are required, prefer experience in behavioral health field. *Working with our youth requires a completed CYFD fingerprinting and back ground check.*

LICENSED MASTER LEVEL THERAPISTS

ALBUQUERQUE and ESPANOLA OPENINGS Immediate openings. Serving Northern New Mexico, several locations available, Albuquerque and Espanola. Experience in individual, group, adult, family and couples therapy Experience working with addictions a plus. Master level, licensed in the State of New Mexico. Must have current and in good standing an LMSW, LISW, LPCC, LMHC or Ph.D.

CHILD CARE PROGRAM ESPANOLA Provides support to the Program Director of ENIPC’s Child Care Program. Must have computer experience, data entry, Excel helpful. Will maintain program’s record system and provide reporting as required. General clerical experience preferred, HS Diploma or equivalent.

BOOKKEEPER FOR a small CPA Firm. Must be knowledgeable in A/P, A/R, P/R, and QuickBooks. Please send resume to: Human Resources; PO Box 5373; Santa Fe, NM 87502-5373.

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PEACE & QUIET: 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Plaster, stucco. Highway 14 area. $850 monthly. Lease, deposit. References required . 505-473-7155, 505699-0120.

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Part-time position working 28 hours per week, year round at Pojoaque Valley Early Head Start Center located at the Pojoaque Middle School. Position requirements listed on website. Benefits eligible. Apply on-line at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491 EOE/ AA/ M/ F/ SO/ Vet/ Disability Follow us on Facebook.

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1441 St. Francis Drive. Take all or part of the building, available up to 3750 square feet. Kitchenettes, private and public baths, and outdoor balcony with views.

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Open Machine Attendant Position for The Santa Fe New Mexican No Prior Machine Experience Required. Job duties include loading materials into machines. Must be able to communicate well with coworkers, stand for prolonged periods and able to lift 20 pounds, up to 70 pounds. This is an entry level position with opportunities for advancement. Shift times will vary based on company need. Submit application or email resume to: Brenda Shaffer Bshaffer@sfnewmexican.com 1 New Mexican Plaza (off I-25 frontage road) Or access an online job application at http://sfnm.co/1eUKCcD. No Phone Calls please. Successful completion of a drug test will be required prior to employment offer. EOE

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Employment with ENIPC requires a valid NM State Driver License and must be insurable under ENIPC’s auto insurance. All required certificates and licensures must be valid and current prior to employment. Positions close when filled, unless otherwise noted. Send resume to: RCata@enipc.org or 505-747-1599 (fax) 505-747-1593 (office) ENIPC ensures Native American Preference ENIPC, Inc. is a Drug Free Workplace. *Drug testing and criminal background check completed prior to employment*

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Mental Health Therapist (MST) Full-time position with Santa Fe Community Guidance Center working with delinquent and at-risk youth and their families in home-based and community settings in Santa Fe area. Has on-call responsibilities. Excellent benefits. Apply online at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491. EOE/ AA/ M/ F/ SO/ Vet/ Disability. Follow us on Facebook.

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No prior machine experience required. Job duties include loading materials into machines. Must be able to communicate well with workers, stand for prolonged periods and able to lift 20 pounds and up to 70 pounds. This is an entry level position with opportunities for advancement. Shift times will vary based on company needs. Submit application or email resume to: Brenda Shaffer bshaffer@sfnewmexican.com 1 New Mexican Plaza (off I-25 frontage road) Or access an online job application at http://sfnm.co/1eUKCcD . No phone calls please. Successful completion of a drug test will be required prior to employment offer. EOE

WANTED: Any type farm freight wagon or buggy made by Joseph Murphy of St. Louis. Call Tom, 800959-5782.

BUILDING MATERIALS COMMERCIAL STEEL Ladder, narrow aisle, stair-step with safety rails and wheels. 6-8 feet. $350. 505-474-9141. PRO-PANELS: 3’X18’ 26 gauge ProPanel for roofs. Barn red. $45 per sheet. Have 30 panels. (List $59). 505795-0007

BUSINESS EQUIPMENT 4 OFFICE desks for sale in excellent condition. $100 each. Three HON desks #HON-10791-NAT 72" x 36". Third is 66" Executive Desk in Light Cherry. Also have lectern, desk carts, monitors available. Make offer. 505216-2287.

CLOTHING 2 PAIR of Full Quill Ostrich Cowboy Boots, $250 each (size 10.5). Worn about ten times. 505-553-0143. 3 PAIRS of Rio Mercedes Full Quill Ostrich Cowboy Boots (size 10.5), (1)Black, (1)Tobacco, (1)Tan colored. Brand New. $350 each. 505-553-0143. MEN’S ALL WEATHER TAN COAT with lining. Size 46 long. $20. 505-577-8768. MEN’S BLACK DRESS COAT, LARGE. $20. 505-577-8768.

COLLECTIBLES 1950s SONG HITS & Hip Parade Magazines. Group of 8, $60 total. Nostalgia! Nostalgia! 505-474-9020 ARTIST SELLING her collection of beautiful Rainbow Gate dishes, $500. See ad and photos on craigslist.com.

Seeking Motivated Commissions Sales Reps Competitive Pay with No Door to Door or Cold Calling. Must have Reliable Transportation & a Smart Phone.

Call Justin at 517-574-1415.

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ORIGINAL COWNIE TANNING HORSE HIDE WINTER COAT, FULL LENGTH. Early 20th century, Des Moines, IL. Size 40 - 42, collectible, great condition. Asking $375. 520-906-9399 (Santa Fe). WE DO TAKE CREDIT CARDS!

COMPUTERS 2011 (EARLY) MACBOOK PRO 13-INCH LAPTOP in excellent condition with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, OSX 10.10.1, brand new 1TB hard drive and 16GB Ram $800. Call 505470-4371 after 6 pm. DELL LAPTOP, XP Professional, 3.24 GB of RAM, works great, $100. 505231-9133

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Heritage Home Healthcare & Hospice, a premier home health care provider in New Mexico, is looking for RN’s for Home Healthcare and Hospice (Full time and PRN), and Physical Therapists (Full time and PRN) with a passion for providing exceptional care!

ART SELLING FINE ART AT BELOW WHOLESALE PRICING including many well-known New Mexico artists. 136 Grant Avenue. 505-6810597, Jack.

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Excellent benefits. Apply online at pmsnm.org. Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline1-866-661-5491. EOE/ AA/ M/ F/ SO/ Vet/ Disability. Follow us on Facebook.

3 BEDROOM, 2.5 BATH. 1840 sqft. Fenced backyard, borders Golf Course. AC, Washer Dryer, 2 Car Garage. 6434 Paseo Del Sol. $1400 plus utilities. Marty 505-469-2573

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20TH CENTURY DESIGN , MID-CENTURY. BUY AND SELL. 131 West San Francisco Street. Jewelry, decorative and fine art, furniture. *** GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS! *** Friday & Saturday, 12 to 5, or call for appointment. 505-9882013 or 847-567-3991.

APPLIANCES WASHER, WHITE, good condition, 30day warranty. $140. 505-662-6396. WASHER, WHITE, good condition, 30day warranty. $140. 505-662-6396.

FIREWOOD FOR sale. 1 full cord $200. 1/2 cord $125. Delivery Included! 505470-2789, 505-470-3869, 505-753-0303.

FIREWOOD Get yours now! Cedar, Pinon, Russian Olive…Quantity discounts. Full cords available. Call for prices & delivery options. 505-231-3034.

FIREWOOD PINON and cedar 16" long $220 cord. 10" 20" stovecut, $240 cord. Well seasoned. Free delivery with minimum 2 cords. 505259-3368, 505-832-4604 WOODSTOVE BY Vogelzang. Box woodstove with pipes. $275, OBO. 505-507-4350.

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FURNITURE

PIANO STEINWAY, Medium Grand, Model M Ebony. Excellent condition. Moving Sale, price reduced to $16,000. 505-881-2711

Custom made 40" Round Southwest Pine Table, bullet carvings by local craftsman, $250. Matching chairs, $125. Choose finish, upholstery, 505982-3214.

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CHICKENS FOR SALE. 5 year old for $10 each. 10 months, $15 each. All layers. 505-507-4350

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DELTA DJ-15 6" Jointer. Mobile base. Like new. $800. 505-471-1758, OR 505470-5701. GIVE THE gift of love. Beautiful Bassett hound poppies. 7 weeks old, 3 female pups left, Peach, Wrinkles and Sally. Purebred, AKC registered. Euro parent, home raised and loved. $700 each OBO. Satisfaction guaranteed. Call Johnny 505-670-2195.

DELTA MODEL 28-80 14" Band Saw, with mobile base, light, fence, guide, and user’s manual. Like new $500. 505-471-1758, or 505-470-5701.

Santa Fe Animal Shelter PET ADOPTION EVENTS Meet Adoptable Animals

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GARAGE SALE NORTH GREAT INDOOR ESTATE SALE, La Tierra, Saturday, 12/27, 9-2. Hot drinks and treats for all. PostChristmas-Craziness. Everything Goes! High-end furniture, slate inlay Dining Room Table, Iron & Leather chairs. Painted Mexican Bed, Antique Round Oak Table, Patio Set, End Tables, Bookcases, Wool Rugs. Bosch Stackable W/D, Kitchenaid mixer, Office Fridge, Electric Lawn Mower, Exercise bike. Dolls from the 50’s, Candy molds, Tools. Women’s Clothing 610, shoes, boots. Buttons and more Buttons! Plenty of Parking. Movers Available. 14 Blue Jay Drive. Off 599. Camino La Tierra Exit, West to first stop sign, left on W. WIldflower, right on Blue Jay. 505-954-1044.

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DELTA MODEL 31-280 Sanding Center, 6" x 24" belt, 12" diameter disc. Mobile base and user’s manual. $900. 505-471-1758, OR 505-470-5701.

Saturday, Dec. 27. PetSmart 3561 Zafarano Drive Noon-3 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 28 PetSmart

TABLE SANDER. Rigid brand. $85. SCROLL SAW, Rigid brand. 16" arm. Solid metal. No plastic. $125. Fabio, 505-982-3214.

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Sr. Administrative Assistant The New Mexico Finance Authority (Santa Fe, NM) is seeking applications for an experienced Sr. Administrative Assistant. This position provides logistical support in the preparation of various administrative documents, materials, reports including scheduling of meetings and ﬁle management; attends board meetings; prepares annotated and regular agenda and book for board meetings; prepares board meeting packets and electronic disks for other committee meetings. Assists in the production of educational materials, formal reports, policies and procedures related to administrative operations and ﬁnancial/lending programs and services. Preferred Skills/Experience: The successful candidate shall have excellent writing, proof and research skills, attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to work independently as well as in a team

environment. Must be able to multitask. Associates degree; plus one (1) year of specialized training provided through seminars, workshops, conferences, vocational college or university studies related to general ofﬁce methods, practices and operations; Four (4) years of experience performing above or related duties. The Finance Authority is a dynamic public service agency that provides a superior workplace environment for high-performing professionals who have an interest in improving the lives of New Mexicans. Interested persons should submit resumes via mail to Chief Administrative Ofﬁcer, 207 Shelby St., Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 or via e-mail to dcdebaca@nmfa.net. Closing date: December 26, 2014. No calls, please.

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JUST ARRIVED….BEAUTIFUL Large Plants in Planters! All Donations and Purchases Support Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity. ReStore Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

NEARLY NEW pool table. Includes ping pong table and hockey table inserts. Can also be used for a dining table. Includes all accessories for all games. $1200 is a great deal for this item. Please call 660-8311 with any questions.

Airport Road and 599 505-660-3039 www.collectorcarssantafe.com

SIDE TOOLBOX FOR PICKUP. Aluminum clear-coat. New $345, sell for $100. 505-629-6999

FOR SALE ALFALFA, San Acacia. 2strand heavy bales. $12 per bale. Available in Santa Fe, Mondays only, corner of Cerrillos and Airport. 505220-4441. Leave message.

DC-380 15" Planer, 2HP Motor, Mobile Base, Table Extensions and User’s Manual. Like new. $1000. 505-471-1758, OR 505-470-5701.

FAIRCHILD & CO written APPRAISAL AT $8,750. Over 2.5 carats total weight, size 7. Would make excellent engagement, wedding or cocktail ring. $5,000. Willing to meet at jeweler to confirm authentic. 505-379-3750

1985 Oldsmobile, Royale Brougham, fully loaded. Nice interior, paint & tires. Runs well, however smokes. $2,500, OBO. 505-660-4079.

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ASHLEY WOOD STOVE. Approved for mobile home. with pipes. $500. Call Frank, 505-471-7746.

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SMALL DOG Rescue of Santa Fe. 505438-3749 for information on Grover and our other small dogs.

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TREK BICYCLE, 26". Antelope 820 Mountain Bike. 20" frame, blue. Recently tuned, in perfect working condition. $100. 505-424-1771.

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NEW OR used plexiglass, used or broken dressers, coffeetables, end table, wood dining tables, insulated glass windows, stained glass, used, broken. 505-795-0007.

FIREWOOD PINON and cedar 16" long $220 cord. 10" 20" stovecut, $240 cord. Well seasoned. Free delivery with minimum 2 cords. 505259-3368, 505-832-4604

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PAINTINGS AT REDUCED PRICES, 121 West San Francisco. Originals by Macaione, Gorman, T.C. Cannon, Guardipee, Anderson Kee, H. Begay, Ned Jacob. Ledger drawings, contemporary New Mexico landscapes. Living Pueblo painters (buffalo, deer, elk dancers.) 10 - 7 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

ACROSS 1 45-Down component 5 Sunday service component 10 RWR successor 14 Humdinger 15 Hamlin of NASCAR 16 “Firecracker” singer Lisa 17 Certain pickup, to an astrologer? 19 Eurasian border river 20 Peer 21 Some are smooth 23 CBS franchise since 2000 24 Canadian loc. of the fictional Green Gables 26 Chicago suburb 27 Gorton’s product, to an astrologer? 31 Where to find MSFT 34 Delinquency result, perhaps 35 Galeón cargo 36 Not kosher 37 Dawn goddess 38 Tea serving? 39 Word with paint or blanket 40 Risks 42 People with a maize god 44 Stubborn, to an astrologer? 47 Entrance to la maison 48 San Francisco’s __ Hill 49 Guitar wood 52 Richard Crenna played him in the TV miniseries “On Wings of Eagles” 55 Unstable 57 Dept. of Labor arm 58 Courageous, to an astrologer? 60 Othello, for one 61 Vegged out 62 Transvaal settler 63 Make out 64 O’s, for one 65 Mex. title

2011 CADILLAC SRX AWD 44K, Luxury Collection pkg, auto and loaded, just..$26,981 Call 505-216-3800.

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is waiting for a new family for Christmas. She is a female medium haired gal who will love getting groomed and dressing up. She is 12 wks old and does well with other felines. She is still young enough to learn and make friends with the family dog.

is a fun loving gal who’s ready for anything!! She loves people and loves to be outdoors so she’s hoping for a family who likes to do awesome things like hiking and camping. She can be choosey about her dog friends. so if you have another dog, please come for a meet and greet so we can be sure everyone gets along well.

For more information, contact the Española Valley Humane Society at 108 Hamm Pkwy, Española, or call 505-753-8662. More animals are available on the website at

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DOWN 1 Vin choice 2 Greek capital 3 Cover for a crime 4 Two-person contest 5 Summer hours in Chi. 6 Intrepid 7 “Movin’ __”: “The Jeffersons” theme 8 Tees off 9 Cracker brand since 1904 10 Squat targets 11 Daily reading for many 12 Grow tiresome 13 Energy-related units: Abbr. 18 Antique tone 22 __ flute 25 Legal title: Abbr. 27 Email attachment 28 Jagged, as a leaf’s edge 29 “Grinding It Out” autobiographer 30 Barflies 31 Food package amt. 32 Flooring calculation

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33 Hang out one’s shingle, say 37 Heavenly 38 Benchmark: Abbr. 40 Do a new parent’s job 41 Pip’s romantic interest in “Great Expectations” 42 Stir 43 Donkey relative

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45 You can count on it 46 Pollen bearer 49 Woods or Irons 50 Shooting sport 51 Monster slain by Hercules 52 Spanish Steps site 53 Spanish bears 54 Exude 56 Mars and Saturn 59 Money mgrs.?

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2014 JEEP Cherokee Latitude 4WD 17K, loaded, auto, 1 owner...$25,641 Call 505-216-3800.

2010 Acura MDX AWD, pwer HEATED seats, XM, moon roof, loaded with 3rd row seating. In time for changing weather $30,729 Call 505-216-3800.

2014 BMW X3 low miles and even lower price, auto, moonroof, heated seats, why buy new... Call 505-2163800.

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2013 Kia Soul ! recent trade-in, local vehicle, back-up camera, super nice, single owner clean CarFax $13,951 505913-2900

2013 Lexus RX350 AWD recent trade-in! LOADED, saddle leather, navigation, single owner clean CarFax GORGEOUS! $39,991 505-913-2900

2014 TOYOTA Tacoma Access Cab V6 4x4 auto Orig owner 9k mi TRD off road pack, warranty, $27,500 obo, 505-490-3868

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2010 Audi A6 Prestige quattro Local 1 owner, every option, AWD, Nav, supercharged, clean CarFax, a real gem! $24,932 505-913-2900

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2008 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 53K MILES NICE RIDE, $10488. CALL 505-473-1234.

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2005 CHEVROLET S I L V E R A D O 1500, KING OF THE ROAD, $11888. CALL 505-473-1234.

2013 Lexus GX460 Premium 4wd ANOTHER Mercedes-Benz Tradein! local 1 owner, EVERY option, rare dark brown leather, adjustable suspension, over $64k new, clean CarFax $50,962. 505-913-2900

2013 SUBARU FORRESTER, AWD, ONLY 15K MILES, T1817, $24,988 CALL 505-473-1234.

2010 Lexus RX350 AWD ANOTHER Mercedes-Benz Trade-in! local & well-maintained, heated/cooled leather, new tires, NICE Just $24,931 505-913-2900

2014 Ford Edge Limited AWD 19K, super nice, new body and loaded...$27,871 Call 505-216-3800.

2011 LEXUS IS350 CLEANEST IN NO AMERICA, BEST PRICE , T1853, $27,488CALL 505-473-1234.

IMPORTS 2000 SUBARU LEGACY OUTBACK, AWD. 130,000 miles. Excellent condition, inside and outside. Good tires. Power windows, locks, sunroof. $3900. 505-463-8486

PORSCHE 944 1988 RUNS FINE, EVERYTHING WORKS, GRAY WITH TAN. NEEDS INTERIOR CLEAN UP, MINOR EXTERIOR WORK. 200K MILES. $2,000 OBO. 505-977-4699.

2002 BLUE SIENNA TOYOTA XLE, 156,000 miles. Winter tires, leather interior, rubber mats. In great condition. $4,500. 575-758-7333

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2010 LEXUS RX350 AWD Lexus Certified, loaded up, full svc and ready to go...$29,871 Call 505-216-3800.

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2007 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER LS, SUV 4WD, VERY CLEAN!

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sfnm«classiﬁeds LEGALS LEGAL # 97639 The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is accepting proposals for Professional Legal Services The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (Department) requests proposals (RFP# 15 516 2101 00004) from qualified lawyers and law firms to provide professional legal services for but not limited to; Water law; Environmental law; Construction Law; Real Estate Law; Real Property Acquisitions, Disposals (specialize in public real property interests both state, federal), Mineral Estate, Easements, Leases; Land use law, eminent domain and inverse condemnation; Inspection of Public Records Act; and Appellate work, including administrative and civil law for the Department. This request for proposals will result in a multiple source award through which contracts may be awarded to one or more lawyers and or law firms in all of the practice areas listed in the Scope of Work. Each lawyer or law firm’s proposal shall include evidence of its experience and expertise in the relevant/proposed practice areas. Submission of the proposal must be sent to the Department of Game and Fish no later than 3:00 PM December 22, 2014. To obtain a copy of this Request for Proposal please visit http://wildlife.state.n m.us/ or contact Joseph Miano at (505) 476-8086 or joseph.miano@state. nm.us. Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on October 27-31 and November 3-7, 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, December 1-5, 8-12, 15-19, 22-26, 2014 LEGAL # 97822 Notice is hereby given that the New Mexico State Armory Board will hold its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting/ in Conjunction with the bi-annual Local Armory Board Council Meeting on: Date: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 Time: 10:00 a.m. Place: Albuquerque Armory 600 Wyoming Blvd NE Albuquerque, NM 87801 An agenda will be available before the meeting. Please contact Elizabeth A. Alvarado, State Armory Board Administrator at (505) 4741877 for further information. Thank you. Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 23-26, 2931, 2014 and January 1-2, 5, 2015

LEGALS y numbered cause, which is a petition by Joanne Portillo seeking a permanent appointment to be the kinship guardian of your son, Estevan. The petition alleges that your home is not a saeor healthy environment for Estevan to live in and that is in his best interest to reside with Petitioner. You have until January 22, 2014 to file with the First Judicial District Court at PO Box 2268, Santa Fe, NM 87504 (505) 455- 8250, your answer to this Petition. If you fail to do so you will be in default. The next hearing on the petition is scheduled for January 23, 2015 at 1:15 pm before Honorable Mathew Wilson, 225 Montezuma Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501. Witness my hand and seal of the First Judicial District Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, on the 10 day of Dec, 2014. Issued this 10 day of Dec, 2014, by: STEPHEN T. PACHECO Court Administrator By Deputy clerk Date: Dec 10, 2014 Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 12 and 19, 2014 and January 2, 2015 LEGAL # 97855 NOTICE OF INVITATION FOR BIDS (UPDATED) NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION BIDS CALLED FOR - January 16, 2015 SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO Notice is hereby given that SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED UNTIL 11:00 A.M., LOCAL PREVAILING TIME (Na-tional Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), atomic clock) on January 16, 2015, AT THE NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION’S GENEAL OFFICE TRAINING ROOMS, 1120 CERRILLOS ROAD, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, 87505 at which time bids will be publicly opened and read. An Invitation For Bids together with the plans and contract documents may be requested and/or examined through the P. S. & E. Bureau of the New Mexico Department of Transportation, 1120 Cerrillos Road, Room 223, PO Box 1149, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504 1149, 505.827.6800. The plans and contract documents may also be examined at the District Offices: District 1, 2912 East Pine Deming, NM Trent Doolittle 575.544.6620 District 2, 4505 West 2nd Street Roswell, NM Ralph Meeks 575.637.7200

District 3, 7500 East Frontage Road Albuquerque, NM FIRST JUDICIAL DIS- Timothy Parker TRICT COURT STATE 505.841.2739 OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE District 4, South Highway 85 IN THE MATTER OF Las Vegas, NM THE KINSHIP GUARDI- David Trujillo ANSHIP OF ESTEVAN 505.454.3695 LEGAL # 97837

No. D-101-DM-2014- District 5, 7315 00623 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM NOTICE OF PENDENCY Miguel Gabaldon OF SUIT 505.476.4201 TO: NEYSHA RODGERS

District 6, 1919 Piñon Street GREETINGS: You are Milan, NM hereby served with Larry G. Maynard notice that a lawsuit 505.285.3200 has been filed in the above styled and

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The following may be obtained from the P. S. & E. Bureau, New Mexico Department of Transportation, Room 223, 1120 Cerrillos Road, PO Box 1149, Santa Fe, NM 87504-1149, telephone 505.827.5500, FAX 505.827.5290:

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to place legals call toll free: 800.873.3362 LEGALS y tion CONTRACT TIME: 6 0 working days DBE GOAL: A t this time NMDOT will meet the State DBE on Federally assisted projects through a combination of raceneutral and raceconscious measures. This project is subject to race-conscious measures. The established DBE goal for this project is 4.00%.

Contract books, that include bidding documents, technical specifications and bid forms, with a de- ICENSES: (GA-1 or GAposit of $15.00 per 98) Contract Book. (2) 2100026 CN Complete sets of re2100026 duced plans with a deposit of $0.30 per TERMINI: US 70, MP sheet. 335.990 to US 285, MP Contractors having 115.576 for 2.025 miles established an ac- COUNTY: Chaves (Discount with the P. S. & trict 2) E. Bureau prior to the TYPE OF WORK: publishing of the Invi- Roadway Rehabilitatation For Bids may tion, Ramp Rehabilicharge the deposits tation to their accounts. CONTRACT TIME: 2 1 0 Other contractors calendar days A t may obtain the bid- DBE GOAL: ding documents by this time NMDOT will paying in advance meet the State DBE the required deposit on Federally assisted to the P. S. & E. Bu- projects through a reau. Such deposits combination of raceand raceshall only be made by neutral check or money order conscious measures. payable to the New This project is subject race-conscious Mexico Department to of Transportation. measures. The estabDeposits may be lished DBE goal for credited to the con- this project is 3.00%. tractor’s account or refunded by the De- ICENSES: (GA-1 or GApartment, as appro- 98) priate, provided the (3) contract bidding M500796 CN documents are reM500796 turned prior to bid opening in usable condition by the con- TERMINI: US 64, MP tractor who obtained 38.756 to MP 39.227 them. Usable condi- for 0.521 miles Juan tion shall mean that COUNTY: San the contract book (District 5) and plans have been TYPE OF WORK: Improvereturned to the P. S. & Drainage (Detention E. Bureau in complete ments sets, have not been Pond and Bio-Filter marked, defaced, or Sediment System) disassembled, and no CONTRACT TIME: 4 5 pages have been re- w o r k i n g moved. ICENSES: (GF-4 or GFAs an option, the De- 98) and (GA-1 or GApartment has imple- 98) (4) mented the Bid Ex3100300 CN press website 3100300 (www.bidx.com) as an official depository for electronic bid TERMINI: NM 47, MP submittal. Electronic 31.000 to MP 32.800 bids submitted for 1.800 miles through Bid Express COUNTY: V a l e n c i a do not have to be ac- (District 3) OF companied by paper TYPE Rebids. In the case of WORK:Roadway Lightdisruption of national construction, communications or ing, Signalization loss of services by CONTRACT TIME: 2 4 0 www.bidx.com the calendar days A t morning of the bid DBE GOAL: opening, the Depart- this time NMDOT will ment will delay the meet the State DBE deadline for bid sub- on Federally assisted missions to ensure projects through a the ability of poten- combination of raceand racetial bidders to submit neutral bids. Instructions conscious measures. will be communicat- This project is subject race-conscious ed to potential bid- to measures. The estabders. lished DBE goal for For information on this project is 5.00%. Digital ID, and electronic withdrawal of ICENSES: (GA-1 or GAbids, see Bid Express 98) and (EE-98) w e b s i t e (5) (www.bidx.com). SP-2-15(365) CN Electronic bid bonds M200496 integrated by Surety 2000 and Insure Vision will be the only TERMINI: Various Loelectronic bid bonds cations in District 2 accepted for NMDOT C O U N T I E S : C h a v e s highway construction and Eddy (District 2) OF projects. Plans and TYPE Contract Books in WORK:Stockpiling electronic format are CONTRACT TIME: t o also available in Bid be completed by April 30, 2015 Express. LICENSES: No A Mandatory Pre-Bid Licensing Required Conference for CN Advertisement dates: 3100300 will be held December 26, 2014 on January 5, 2015 at and January 2 and 9, 3:30 PM, Local Pre- 2015. vailing Time at the NMDOT District 3 Tom Church, Cabinet Conference Room, Secretary 7500 Pan American New Mexico DepartBlvd., Albuquerque, ment of TransportaNM; (505) 798-6600. tion See Notice to Con- Santa Fe, New Mexico tractors for Mandatory Pre-Bid Confer- Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on ence. December 22, 26 and January 2, 9, 2014 (1) 6100421 CN LEGAL # 97858 6100421 ELDORADO AREA TERMINI: I-40, MP WATER & 0.000 to MP 4.900 for SANITATION 4.908 miles DISTRICT COUNTY: M c K i n l e y 1 CALIENTE ROAD, (District 6) SUITE F TYPEOF WORK: SANTA FE, NEW Roadway RehabilitaMEXICO

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g ty to vote will be de- Akkerman PROCLAMATION OF termined as of the Phillip J. Speicher ELECTION FOR MEM- date of the election. Posición 2 (periodo BERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Absentee Voting: In de 4 años): Election Date: Tues- addition to Election John Calzada day, January 13, 2015 Day voting, the District Secretary shall Posición 4 (periodo On Tuesday, January provide for absentee de 4 años): 13, 2015, a regular voting. Applications Carolyn M. Horne election of the for absentee ballots Eldorado Area Water may be made only on Un lugar de votación para & Sanitation District a form available from consolidada ("District") will be the District. Applica- Condado de Santa Fe held. Election hours tions may be request- precintos numerada will be from 7:00 a.m. ed by mail from the 63, 65, 69 y 71 y para electores to 7:00 p.m. District’s administra- los del tive office located at calificados The purpose of the 1 Caliente Road, Suite Distrito quienes viven election is to elect F, Santa Fe, NM 87508 en otras partes de México se three (3) of the five or by telephone (505) Nuevo en el (5) Board members to 466-2411. Applica- ubicará de las fill Board positions tions for absentee vestíbulo that will expire in ballots may also be o f i c i n a s del 2015. Board members obtained in person administrativas for position numbers during regular busi- Distrito situada en 1 1, 2 and 4 will be ness hours at the Dis- Caliente Road, Santa elected. The District trict’s administrative Fe, NM 87508 en Board candidates are office located at 1 Eldorado. as follows: Caliente Road, Suite Solamente electores de F, Santa Fe, NM 87508 calificados Zona de Position 1 (4-year until 5:00 p.m. on Eldorado term): Rhonda Tuesday, January 6, Agua y Saneamiento Distrito serán Akkerman 2015. Absentee bal- del Phillip J. Speicher lots will be mailed elegibles para votar commencing Decem- en esta elección. Un Position 2 (4-year ber 16, 2014. Complet- elector calificado es term): John Calzada ed absentee ballots una persona quien: Está registrada may be delivered by (A) votar en Position 4 (4-year mail or courier or para term): Carolyn M. may be delivered in CUALQUIER precinto Horne person to the Dis- electoral en Nuevo trict’s administrative México, Y Se ajusta al A consolidated poll- office located at 1 (B) ing place for Santa Fe Caliente Road, Suite menos a UNA de las categorías County precincts 63, F, Santa Fe, NM 87508 tres 65, 69 and 71 and for and must be received siguientes: Vive en el qualified electors of no later than 7:00 1. the District residing p.m. on Tuesday, Jan- Distrito; O 2. Paga o es elsewhere in New uary 13, 2015. responsable del Mexico will be located in the lobby of the A person desiring to pago de cualquier EAWSD Administra- be a write-in candi- tasa, cuota o cobro tive Offices located at date shall file a writ- establecidos por el 1 Caliente Road, San- ten declaration of in- Distrito; O H a n ta Fe, NM 87508 in tent with the Secreta- 3. Eldorado. ry of the District at pagado o incurrido deuda least fifteen (15) cal- una de Only qualified elec- endar days prior to tributaria dentro tors of the Eldorado the election (i.e., no propiedad Area Water & Sanita- later than 5 p.m. on del Distrito durante últimos 12 tion District shall be December 29, 2014). los eligible to vote in this At the time of filing meses. election. A qualified the declaration of inelector is a person tent to be a write-in Todos los votantes para who: candidate, the write- registrados in candidate shall be votar en el Condado (A) Is registered to considered a candi- de Santa Fe precintos vote in ANY pre- date except that numerada 63, 65, 69 y cinct in New Mexi- he/she shall not be 71 y ubicada dentro co, AND Distrito se entitled to have del his/her name printed permitirán votar en la (B) Fits into at least on the ballot. elección del Distrito ONE of the follow13 de enero de 2015. ing three catego- This Proclamation is Para los que no están ries: en el made and published registrados 1. Resides in the by order of the Board Condado de Santa Fe District; OR of Directors of the precintos numerados 2. Pays or is liable Eldorado Area Water 63, 65, 69 y 71, se to pay any rates, & Sanitation District requerirá el tolls, or charges set pursuant to its RESO- comprobante de by the District; OR de LUTION NO. 15-10-01 inscripción 3. Has paid or incur- adopted October 02, votante en Nuevo red a tax liability on 2014. México además de property within the uno de los siguientes: District during the /s/ prueba de Thomas L. (1) past 12 months. residencia dentro del Willmott SECRETARY OF THE Distrito, que incluye All voters registered BOARD un servicio de agua to vote in Santa Fe del Distrito proyecto County precincts Published in The San- de ley en el nombre numbered 63, 65, 69, ta Fe New Mexican on del votante and 71 and located December 19, 22, 2014 propuesto, un talón within the District will and January 2, 2015 de cheque de pago en be permitted to vote el nombre del votante in the District’s Janu- LEGAL # 97859 propuesto; una ary 13, 2015 election. factura de servicios For those not regis- ELDORADO ZONA DE públicos en nombre tered to vote in Santa del votante AGUA Y Fe County precincts SANEAMIENTO DEL propuesto, u otra numbered 63, 65, 69, prueba de residencia DISTRITO and 71, proof of New en el Distrito; o (2) 1 CALIENTE ROAD, Mexico voter regiscomprobante de un SUITE F tration, in addition to pago de impuestos SANTA FE, NUEVO one of the following de propiedad real MÉXICO will be required: (1) hecho en los últimos proof of residence doce meses, por el PROCLAMACIÓN DE within the District invotante propuesto, ELECCIÓN DE LOS cluding a District wapara bienes raíces MIEMBROS DEL ter service bill in the ubicados dentro del CONSEJO DE name of the proDistrito o (3) ADMINISTRACIÓN posed voter, a pay comprobante que el Fecha de elección: check stub in the martes, 13 de enero votante propuesto name of the proestá comprando 2015 posed voter, a utility propiedad real dentro bill in the name of the El martes, 13 de enero del Distrito con un proposed voter, or 2015 una elección contrato de bienes other proof of resi- regular de Eldorado raíces donde un dence in the District; Zona de Agua y impuesto sobre la or (2) proof of pay- Saneamiento propiedad ha sido del ment of real property Distrito ("Distrito") se pagado o incurrido tax within the District llevará a cabo. El en los últimos doce by the proposed vot- horario para votación 12 meses; o, (4) otro er within the preced- será de 7:00 a.m. c o m p r o b a n t e ing twelve (12) hasta 7:00 p.m. aceptable de months; or (3) proof elegibilidad para that the proposed El propósito de la votar según lo detervoter is purchasing elección es para mine el Secretario del real property within elegir a tres (3) de los consejo de the District under a cinco (5) miembros administración. real estate contract del Secretario del consejo de El where a property tax administración. Esta Condado de Santa Fe has been paid or in- elección elegirá no va a cerrar el curred on the real miembros para llenar registro para esta property in the pre- posición números 1, 2 elección. Elegibilidad ceding twelve (12) y 4 que expirarán en para votar se months; or (4) other 2015 con el consejo determinará a partir acceptable proof of de administración. de la fecha de la eligibility to vote as Los candidatos para elección. determined by the posición con el District Secretary. consejo de Voto en ausencia: administración son Además de votación The Santa Fe County los siguientes: el día electoral, el Clerk is not going to Secretario del close registration for Posición 1 (periodo consejo de this election. Eligibili- de 4 años): Rhonda administración debe

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habilitar el voto de a u s e n t e s . Aplicaciones para boletas de votación en ausencia solamente pueden ser hechas en un formulario disponible del Distrito. Las aplicaciones pueden ser solicitadas por correo de la oficina Distrito de administración, ubicada en 1 Caliente Road, Suite F, Santa Fe, NM 87508 o por teléfono (505) 4662411. Solicitudes para boletas de elección en ausencia también se puede obtener en persona durante las horas hábiles en la oficina Distrito de administración, ubicada en 1 Caliente Road, Suite F, Santa Fe, NM 87508 hasta las 5:00 p.m. el martes, 06 de enero 2015. Solicitudes para boletas de elección de ausente serán aceptadas hasta las 5:00 p.m. el martes, 06 de enero 2015. Boletas de votación para ausentes serán enviadas por correo a partir en 16 de diciembre 2014. Boletas de votación de ausentes, cuando completados, se pueden ser entregadas por correo o por mensajería o pueden ser entregados en persona a la oficina Distrito de administración ubicada en 1 Caliente Road, Suite F, Santa Fe, NM 87508 y debe ser recibida antes de 7:00 p.m. el martes, 13 de enero, 2015. Personas pidiendo incluirse como candidato escrito debe de presentar una declaración de intensión por escrito con el Secretario del consejo de administración por lo menos (15) días c a l e n d a r i o s anticipando la elección (es decir, no más tarde de las 5 p.m. el 29 de diciembre de 2014). En el momento de presentar la declaración de la intención de ser un candidato escrito, el candidato escrito se considera un candidato, sin embargo esta persona no tendrá derecho a tener su nombre impreso en la boleta electoral. Esta proclamación se hace y publica por orden de Consejo de Directores del Eldorado Zona de Agua y Saneamiento del Distrito en conformidad con su RESOLUCIÓN NO. 1510-01 incorporada el 02 de octubre 2014.

len P. Lowenburg Trust LUKAS WADE HENNIGH NICOLE AMANDA VALENZUELA WILLIAM L. BOYER MATTHEW A. STELZER M’LISS STELZER

/s/ Thomas Willmott Secretario consejo administración

II. ALL UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS OF INTEREST IN THE PREMISES ADVERSE TO THE PLAINTIFF=S ESTATE, TITLE AND INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY. Defendants. NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF SUIT STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO: the abovenamed defendants; and all Unknown Claimants of Interest in the Premises, who claim a Lien, Interest or Title Adverse to the Plaintiff, GREETINGS: YOU AND EACH OF YOU are hereby notified that there is pending in the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of New Mexico, sitting within and for the County of Santa Fe, the above captioned action in which Busan Vocale, Inc. is the Plaintiff and each of you are defendants, numbered D-101-CV-2014 00452 on the docket of said Court; that the general object of said action is to quiet title and establish the fee simple estate of the Plaintiff in and to that certain real estate in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, identified in the Complaint, which Property is described in Exhibit A hereto, against the adverse claims of you, and each and every one of you, and to bar and forever estop you, and each of you, from having or claiming any lien upon, or right, title or interest in and to said land and real estate, or any part or portion thereof, adverse to the estate of the Plaintiff, and to forever quiet and set at rest the fee simple title of the Plaintiff in and to said land and real estate. Plaintiff’s attorney is Karl H. Sommer of Sommer Karnes & Associates, P.O. Box 2476, Santa Fe, NM 87504; (505) 989-3800. You are further notified that unless you enter your appearance in said cause on or before the 28th day of January, 2014, judgment will be entered against you in said cause by default, in accordance with the prayer of the Plaintiff’s complaint on file in said cause.

L. Witness my hand and del seal this 9th day of de December, 2014.

Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 19 and 26, 2014 and January 2, 2015 LEGAL #

STEPHEN T. PACHECO Clerk of the District Court (Seal) By: Jill Nohl Deputy

EXHIBIT A IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL PROPERTY DISTRICT COURT DESCRIPTION COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXIParcel 1, as shown on CO plat entitled "BounNO D-101-CV-2014- dary Survey prepared for Busan 00452 Vocale, Inc. and BUSAN VOCALE, INC., Levnat, Inc., Tracts 1 a New Mexico corpo- and 2 of the Bybee Replat, The ration "El Gancho Tract," and Parcel 1 within Plaintiff, the Sebastian de v. Vargas Grant...", I.THE FOLLOWING filed for record in the NAMED DEFENDANTS: Office of the County Clerk, Santa Fe CounDESERT ACADEMY AT ty, New Mexico on March 15, SANTA FE, a New Mexico non- 1999 in Plat Book 408, Page 026, as Docuprofit corporation ment LEVNAT, INC. No. 1065,429. RALPH L. BOLTON, II ROBERT FROST ELLEN P. LOWENBURG, Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on individually and as Trustee of the El- December 12, 19, and 26, 2014

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