The Santa Fe New Mexican, Dec. 26, 2014 by The New Mexican

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THE NEW MEXICAN Friday, December 26, 2014

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

Sunday

Monday

Mostly sunny and cold

29/9

Humidity (Noon) Humidity (Midnight) Humidity (Noon)

Tuesday

Plenty of sunshine

Wednesday

A chance for snow or Cold with periods of flurries snow

Thursday

Cold with periods of snow

33/13

36/12

26/10

31/16

30/10

Humidity (Noon)

57%

70%

55%

40%

35%

58%

59%

63%

wind: SW 7-14 mph

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

64 87

64 56

666

412

AccuWeather Flu Index

Toda .........................................4 Low Saturda ...................................2, Low Sunda ......................................3, Low Monda .....................................2, Low Tuesda .....................................3, Low Wednesday...............................4, Low The AccuWeather Flu Index™ combines the effects of weather with a number of other known factors to provide a scale showing the overall probability of flu transmission and severity of symptoms. The AccuWeather Flu Index™ is based on a scale of 0-10.

Area rainfall

40 285

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”

54 60 60

Today’s UV index

54 285 380

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380

285

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.

180

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

State cities Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Alamogordo Albuquerque Angel Fire Artesia Carlsbad Chama Cimarron Clayton Cloudcroft Clovis Crownpoint Deming Española Farmington Fort Sumner Gallup Grants Hobbs Las Cruces

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Weather (w): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sfsnow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Sunrise today ............................... 7:12 a.m. Sunset tonight .............................. 4:58 p.m. Moonrise today .......................... 10:35 a.m. Moonset toda ........................... 10:33 .m. Sunrise Saturda .......................... 7:13 a.m. Sunset Saturday ........................... 4:58 p.m. Moonrise Saturday ..................... 11:14 a.m. Moonset Saturda ...................... 11:38 .m. Sunrise Sunda ............................. 7:13 a.m. Sunset Sunday .............................. 4:59 p.m. Moonrise Sunday ........................ 11:51 a.m. Moonset Sunday .................................. none First

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The planets Rise 8:05 a.m. 8:20 a.m. 9:50 a.m. 8:37 p.m. 4:31 a.m. 12:18 p.m.

Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus

Set 5:38 p.m. 6:04 p.m. 8:16 p.m. 10:11 a.m. 2:47 p.m. 12:49 a.m.

Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Anchorage Atlanta Baltimore Billings Bismarck Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Fairbanks Flagstaff Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles

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Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis New Orleans New York City Oklahoma City Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, OR Richmond St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle Sioux Falls Trenton Washington, DC

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World cities Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.

-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Stationary front

Cold front Ice

Warm front

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

Dina Marie Eastwood

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.”

National cities

Weather for December 26

Showers Rain T-storms Snow Flurries

Vince Thomas, founder of Goat Grazers, pets his goat Daisy after feeding her a pine tree Tuesday in Reno, Nev. Thomas is using the 40 goats he owns to help recycle Christmas trees. MARCELLA CORONA/RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL

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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top picks

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.