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State pushes to revive work rule for food benefits

City panel puts brakes on free shuttle plan

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Blazes that destroyed two structures might be acts of arson, officials say. PAGE A-6

Proposal would require recipients to work 20 hours a week, perform community service or job training By Patrick Malone The New Mexican

Low-income food benefit recipients would be required to work, perform community service or receive job training in order to be eligible for assistance under a change proposed by Republican Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration. Food benefits have been a source of controversy for the administration. In May, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Gonzales ordered the New Mexico Human Services Department to immediately begin reducing a backlog that had thousands of applicants waiting for food and health care benefits, according to the most recent court documents in the case. The work requirements proposed by New Mexico Human Services Department Secretary Sidonie Squier would restore steps that had been required in the state until 2009, when they were suspended by a federal waiver during the recession. Announcement of the proposed rule change came less than two weeks after Squier advocated for work

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Reclaiming market’s mojo Tesuque Flea Market aims to attract more vendors and customers after a difficult stretch. PAGE C-1

Search for hiker ends in tragedy

RESCUE CREWS LOCATE BODY OF MISSING WOMAN NEAR SKI BASIN

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S.F. woman lands behind bars after disrupting flight 55-year-old being held in Tenn. on assault, disorderly conduct charges By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

A Santa Fe woman is being held in a Tennessee jail after she allegedly disrupted an American Airlines flight en route from Dallas to Boston on Saturday. Flight 2214 was diverted to Nashville after Mary L. Lentz, 55, verbally assaulted a flight attendant and ran toward the cockpit of the Boeing 737 aircraft, police said. According to a Nashville police report, Lentz attacked three officers who arrested the woman when the plane landed in Tennessee at about 9 p.m. Mary L. Lentz Online jail records show Lentz is being held in lieu of $30,000 bond on charges including three counts of assault on an officer, one count of assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

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Search and rescue official Judy Allison escorts Norman Kaplan, husband of Audrey Richman Kaplan, into the command post at the Santa Fe ski basin on Monday as search volunteer Larry Zentner speaks on the phone. Audrey Richman Kaplan’s body was found at about 2 p.m. Monday. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

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earch and rescue crews found the remains Monday of a 75-year-old hiker who had been missing in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains since Wednesday. State police confirmed Monday night that the body, found about 2 miles north of the Santa Fe ski basin, is that of Audrey Richman Kaplan. The cause of death will be determined by the Office of the Medical Investigator. The discovery came at about 2 p.m. Mon-

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Historic casitas could stand in way of new state building State moves forward with plans for structure near Roundhouse By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

The state of New Mexico is going ahead with a long-discussed plan to build a multistory $25 million government office building near the state Capitol building — a plan that would require the demolition of four 80-year-old buildings. The state Facilities Management Division on Monday gave a presentation on the planned 56,000-square-foot building to the state Capitol Buildings Planning Commission. It would be built on South Capitol Street adjacent to the

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state parking garage near the intersection at Don Gaspar Avenue. But objections by the city government over the proposed destruction of the four “casitas” are a sticking point, officials said. The state owns the small houses located in the 400 block of Don Gaspar Avenue across the street from the Roundhouse. “We would need to go to the city [Historic Districts Review Board], hold public hearings and get public comment,” Pam Nicosin told the commission. General Services Secretary Ed Burckle, who chairs the commission, said he plans to call a meeting of the commission and city officials to discuss the project. This will happen sometime after the commission reviews the report of

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day, less than half an hour after rescue crews found the first clues in the five-day search: a Trader Joe’s shopping bag and a second bag that may have held a poncho, both of which belonged to Kaplan. They also came across the remains of a small fire that Kaplan may have made. Search and rescue crews had been looking for Kaplan since she went missing off the Winsor Trail on Wednesday. Her body was found about 1.2 miles northwest of Wilderness Gate. Torrential rains, fog and cold nighttime

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temperatures — constant factors during the monsoon season in Santa Fe — hampered search efforts Friday night and Saturday. More than 50 people were out Monday looking for Kaplan. Just as her body was discovered by one of seven search teams, search and rescue leaders called in all of their teams due to incoming rain, fog and thunderstorms enveloping the mountains. Judy Allison, a longtime hiking friend, said Monday night that there was no way to know if Kaplan had been injured or how

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U.S. airfares on the rise, outpacing inflation Round-trip tickets up 2.7 percent from 2013 By Scott Mayerowitz The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Travelers, prepare to pay more for your flight. The average round-trip ticket within the U.S., including taxes, reached $509.15 in the first six months of this year, up nearly $14 from the same period last year. Domestic airfare continues to outpace inflation, rising 2.7 percent compared to the 2.1 percent gain in the Consumer Price Index. Airfare has gone up 10.7 percent in the past five years — after adjusting for inflation — according to an

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Associated Press analysis of data from the Airlines Reporting Corp., which processes ticket transactions for airlines and more than 9,400 travel agencies, including websites such as Expedia and Orbitz. The formula for rising fares seems simple, but it eluded the airlines for years: Match the supply of seats to passenger demand. “Airlines have reduced the number of seats while more people want to fly because of the economic recovery. All this leads to higher airfares,” says Chuck Thackston, managing director of data and analytics at Airlines Reporting Corp. “This trend in airfares is likely to continue for the near future, as the economy continues to grow.”

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FORMER ENEMIES UNITE FOR WWI COMMEMORATION Heads of state and other guests walk up to the top of a hill Monday to lay flowers during a commemoration ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I at the St. Symphorien Cemetery in St. Symphorien, Belgium. The cemetery was established by the German army as a final resting place for British and German soldiers killed at the Battle of Mons. On Aug. 4, 1914, Germany invaded neutral Belgium as part of a planned attack on France, forcing Britain to declare war by nightfall and unleash the biggest conflagration the world had known up to that point. World War I is now often depicted as senseless slaughter without a big moral cause that claimed an estimated 14 million lives, including 5 million civilians, sailors and airmen from 28 countries. VIRGINIA MAYO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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WASHINGTON major trait that endeared Jim Brady to the Washington press corps was his sense of humor, especially when he made fun of his own boss. When Ronald Reagan was campaigning for president in 1980, Reagan drew scorn from environmentalists for saying that trees were a greater source of pollution than cars. Aboard the campaign plane, Brady pointed at a forest fire in the distance and yelled, “Killer trees! Killer trees!” to the great amusement of reporters. After the election, Reagan’s advisers appeared hesitant to appoint Brady press secretary. Nancy Reagan was said to feel the job required someone younger and better-looking than the 40-year-old, moon-faced, balding Brady. “I come before you today not as just another pretty face but out of sheer talent,” Brady told reporters. A week later, he got the job. Brady, who died Monday at 73, would need humor and much more after March 30, 1981. On that day John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel just two months into the new president’s term. Reagan nearly died from a chest wound. Three others, including Brady, were struck by bullets from Hinckley’s handgun. Shot in the head, Brady lived

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through hours of delicate surgery and then many more operations over the years. But he never recovered the normal use of his limbs and was often in a wheelchair. Besides partial paralysis from brain damage, he suffered shortterm memory impairment, slurred speech and constant pain. Still, along with his wife, Sarah, he went on to become the face and as much as possible the voice of the gun-control movement in the United States. A federal law requiring background checks for handgun buyers bears his name, as does the White House press briefing room. Brady was a strong Republican from an early age. As a boy of 12 in Centralia, Ill., where he was born on Aug. 29, 1940, he distrib-

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uted election literature for Dwight D. Eisenhower. In a long string of political jobs, Brady worked for Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, Sen. William V. Roth Jr. of Delaware and John Connally, the former Texas governor who ran for president in 1979. When Connally dropped out, Brady joined Reagan’s campaign as director of public affairs and research. Sarah Brady became involved in gun-control efforts in 1985, and later chaired Handgun Control Inc., but Brady took a few more years to join her, and Reagan did not endorse their efforts until 10 years after he was shot. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in a statement that because of Brady’s work on gun control “there are few Americans in history who are as directly responsible for saving as many lives as Jim.” Brady received the the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996. In 2000, the press briefing room at the White House was renamed in his honor. “Jim Brady defined the role of the modern White House press secretary,” said current White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. Brady also served as vice chair of the National Organization on Disability and co-chair of the National Head Injury Foundation. Brady died at a retirement community in Alexandria, Va., Survivors include his wife, Sarah, a son, Scott, and a daughter, Melissa.

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NEW YORK — The stock market staged a late-day rally Monday, helping push the Dow Jones industrial average higher for the first time in a week. Investors had a couple pieces of positive news to get behind: a decent earnings report from Berkshire Hathaway and the announcement of a rescue package for a struggling Portuguese bank. Berkshire Hathaway, the company run by Warren Buffett, reported late Friday a profit of $6.4 billion last quarter, helped by its insurance division Geico, which performed well above Wall Street’s expectations. Berkshire’s investment portfolio was also a big driver of profits. The company’s Class B stock rose $3.89, or 3 percent, to $129.70, one of the biggest gain in the S&P 500. Portugal’s central bank said late Sunday it would shore up Banco Espirito Santo, one of the country’s biggest financial institutions. Portugal’s PSI 20 index rose 1 percent on the news. Consolidated Edison, PG&E and Duke Energy fell roughly 1 percent. The Dow Jones utility index, which includes 15 utility stocks, fell 1 percent. Gold fell $5.90 to $1,287.70 an ounce and silver fell 14 cents to $20.23 an ounce. Copper rose three cents to $3.24 a pound. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note was flat at 2.49 percent.

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Tuesday, August 5 ARTIST TALK: 2014 Ronald and Susan Dubin Fellow Anthony Belvado discusses his work at the School for Advanced Research. While at SAR, Anthony has been working to construct at least one tsíí’ edo’a’tl (Apache fiddle). His talk will be followed by a visit to the Dubin Studio to view his work, 5:30 p.m., School for Advanced Research, 660 Garcia St. CHENREZIG COMPASSION PRACTICE: This powerful meditation practice on Thousand-Arm Chenrezig is led by Charmaine Hughes, 7 p.m., 1807 Second St., No. 35 SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. Music of Mozart, Chopin, and Poulenc, noon, with pianists Pei-Yao Wang and Victor Santiago Asuncion and flutist Tara Helen O’Connor; $10-$25, 982-1890, santafechambermusic.com. SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE: Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail.Spanish Mystics, featuring guitarist and lutenist Richard Savino and percussionist Angela Gabriel, 8 p.m., $20-$60, 988-2282, desertchorale.org; season schedule available online. Free preconcert lecture 6:30 p.m. DROP IN AND DRAW: Noon at the New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. VIPASSANA CLASS: 5:30 p.m. at the Mountain Cloud Zen Center, 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail. SANTA FE BANDSTAND: The free concert series on the Plaza continues with Country Blues Revue, 6-7 p.m.; Billy D. & The Hoodoos, 7:15-8:45 p.m.; no charge.

LOUHAJONG, Bangladesh — A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized Monday in central Bangladesh, killing at least two people and probably many more as horrified villagers watched from the shore, authorities said. It was unclear exactly how many people were on board the M.V. Pinak because ferry operators in Bangladesh rarely maintain passenger lists. Local media said there were about 250 passengers, but the figure could not be immediately confirmed. The ferry capsized in the Padma River in Munshiganj district, about 28 miles south of the capital, Dhaka.

Executions done using one drug ST. LOUIS — Despite a shortage of lethal-injection drugs, two of the nation’s most active death penalty states have quietly carried on with executions by turning to pentobarbital, a powerful sedative that generally puts inmates to death swiftly and without complications. Missouri and Texas have avoided the prolonged executions seen in other states where authorities are struggling to find a reliable chemical combination. The drug’s apparent effectiveness raises questions about why it has not been more widely adopted. Lethal injection is in the spotlight after executions went awry in Ohio, Oklahoma and Arizona, which all use midazolam, more commonly given to help patients relax before surgery. In executions, it is part of a two- or three-drug lethal injection. Texas and Missouri instead administer a single large dose of pentobarbital.

Iraq military told to support the Kurds BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called upon his country’s armed forces to help the Kurdish military battle a Sunni militant offensive in northern Iraq that has caused tens of thousands of people from the minority Yazidi community to flee their homes. It was the first sign of cooperation between Baghdad and Irbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, since Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, was taken over by the Islamic State group in June, signaling a degree of rapprochement in the face of the country’s deteriorating security crisis. Iraq’s military spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said Monday that al-Maliki has commanded the air force to provide aerial support to the Kurds. Iraq is facing its worst crisis since the 2006 civil war when the Islamic State group captured large swaths of land straddling the SyriaIraq border with the goal of establishing a self-styled caliphate. The Associated Press

Lotteries DANIEL ABRAHAM: Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528. The New Mexico author (aka James S.A. Corey) reads from and signs copies of The Widow’s House, 7 p.m., $10 general admission, $5 with purchase of paperback, no charge with purchase of hardback. GARY PAUL NABHAN: Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226. The author discusses Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey, 6 p.m. ARTS ALIVE: Make animal masks in conjunction with the exhibit Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico in the Outdoor Classroom on Museum Hill’s Milner Plaza. All workshops are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

NIGHTLIFE Tuesday, August 5 LA FIESTA LOUNGE: Bill Hearne Trio, 7:30-11 p.m., La Fonda on the Plaza, 100 E. San Francisco St., no cover. RAY LAMONTAGNE: Singer/songwriter, 6:30 p.m., with Belle Brigade, $40 and $62, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. The Downs at Santa Fe, 27475 W. Frontage Road. ¡CHISPA! AT EL MESÓN: Argentine Tango Milonga, 7:30 p.m., 213 Washington Ave. ZIA DINER: Weekly Santa Fe bluegrass jam, 6 p.m., 326 S. Guadalupe St. COWGIRL BBQ: Byrd & Street, Americana tunes, 8 p.m., no cover. 19 S Guadalupe St. EL FAROL: Canyon Road Blues Jam, 8:30 p.m., call for cover. 808 Canyon Road. SECOND STREET BREWERY AT THE RAILYARD: Open-song night, with Ben Wright, 7 p.m., no cover. 1607 Paseo de Peralta. TINY’S: Singer/songwriters open-mic,

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Corrections Due to a production error, a story published on Page A-1 of the Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican gave the incorrect formula for calculating the area of a circle. The correct formula is ∏r2.

uuu The New Mexican will correct factual errors in its news stories. Errors should be brought to the attention of the city editor at 986-3035. 7-11 p.m., no cover. 1005 S St Francis Drive. VANESSIE: Pianists Doug Montgomery (6-8 p.m.) and Bob Finnie (8-11 p.m.), call for cover. 434 W. San Francisco St., 982-9966. For more events, see Pasatiempo in Friday’s edition, or view the community calendar on our website, www. santafenewmexican.com. To submit an events listing, send an email to service@ sfnewmexican.com.

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Israel, Hamas accept cease-fire Egypt set to host indirect talks on long-term truce By Josef Federman The Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas on Monday accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal meant to halt a bruising monthlong war that has claimed nearly 2,000 lives, raising hopes that the bloodiest round of fighting between the bitter enemies could finally be coming to an end. Still, both sides signaled a rough road ahead, with an Israeli official expressing skepticism given previous failures, and a Palestinian negotiator saying “it’s going to be tough.” A last-minute burst of violence, including a deadly Palestinian attack in Jerusalem, continued bloodshed in Gaza and the reported execution of a number of suspected collaborators with Israel, served as reminders of the lingering risk of renewed violence. After weeks of behind-the-scenes diplomacy, Israel and Hamas both announced late Monday that they had accepted the proposal for a preliminary 72-hour truce, beginning at 8 a.m. local time Tuesday. Egypt was then set to host indirect talks to work out a long-term truce over the next three days. “At 8 a.m. local time tomorrow a ceasefire starts and Israel will cease all military operations against terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip,” said Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev. “Israel will honor the cease-fire and will be watching to see if Hamas does, too.” The war broke out on July 8 when Israel launched an air offensive in response to weeks of heavy rocket fire out of Hamascontrolled Gaza. It expanded the operation on July 17 by sending in ground forces in what it described as a mission to destroy a network of tunnels used to stage attacks. Israel says the last of the tunnels has nearly been destroyed.

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The war has taken nearly 1,900 Palestinian lives, most of them civilians caught in fighting inside Gaza’s crowded urban landscape, according to Hamas medical officials. Sixty-four Israeli soldiers have also died, as well as two Israeli civilians and a Thai laborer who worked in Israel. The heavy death toll has eclipsed that of previous rounds of fighting in 2009 and 2012. A delegation of Palestinian officials from various factions, including Hamas, has been negotiating with Egypt in recent days. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the group had accepted the plan. “It’s clear now that the interest of all parties is to have a cease-fire,” said Bassam Salhi, a member of the Palestinian delegation. “It’s going to be tough negotiations because Israel has demands too.” Hamas is seeking a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, an end to an Israeli and Egyptian blockade of the territory, the release of Hamas prisoners held by Israel and international assistance in the reconstruction of Gaza.

Israel says the blockade is needed to prevent Hamas, an Islamic militant group sworn to its destruction, from arming. But the Palestinians and members of the international community have criticized the blockade as collective punishment. The blockade, known to the Palestinians as “the siege,” has ground Gaza’s economy to a standstill. Israel has demanded that Gaza become “demilitarized,” requiring the unlikely cooperation of Hamas in giving up its significant arsenal. Israel had been signaling in recent days that it was winding down its military campaign. Israel’s chief military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz, disputed Palestinian claims that the vast majority of the dead were civilians. “We estimate that between 700 and 900 terrorists were killed,” he said. As the fighting appeared to be tapering off, a Palestinian website close to the Hamas internal security service in Gaza said an unspecified number of Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel were executed.

Lebanese army battles Syrian rebels 170 soldiers. The clashes in It remains unclear exactly what allegiances the Syrian reb- Arsal, a predominantly Sunni els who seized Arsal have. Their town of 40,000 whose populaattack comes after the Lebanese tion has almost tripled because of the presence of Syrian refuarmy said Saturday its troops By Bassem Mroue gees and rebels. But it isn’t likely The Associated Press had detained Imad Ahmad that the militants in Arsal raided Jomaa, who identified himself LABWEH, Lebanon— Lebathe town to gain territory inside as a member of the al-Qaidanese troops battled rebels from linked Nusra Front — one of of Lebanon, said Aram NerguizSyria for control of a border the most powerful rebel groups ian, a senior fellow at the Center town Monday, the deadliest for Strategic and International fighting against Assad. challenge in years for the armed Former Lebanese Prime Min- Studies. He said Arsal was surforces of this tiny country ister Saad Hariri, a Sunni leader rounded by Christian, Shiite whose own sectarian tensions and even Sunni Muslim areas with a large following in the could boil over from the incurhostile to Islamic militants. country, has accused al-Qaida sion. In Syria, the Islamic State linked groups in Syria, including Dozens of armored personnel the Nusra Front and the Islamic group shot and stabbed to death carriers, tanks and elite troops a family of seven for belonging State group, of taking Arsal arrived to surround the town to a Shiite Muslim sect in a rural hostage. of Arsal, some 55 miles from village near the central Syrian The fight for Arsal is the the capital, Beirut. Meanwhile, town of Salamiyah, the Britainbloodiest involving the army thousands of Lebanese civilians based Syrian Observatory for since the military fought a and Syrian refugees fled the Human Rights reported. three-month battle in 2007 clashes in vehicles packed with against the al-Qaida-inspired all they could carry. Fatah Islam group inside the The fighting in Arsal, which Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Palestinian refugee camp of began Saturday, marks the first Nahr el-Bared in northern time that militants battling SyrCONCERT AT NOON! ian President Bashar Assad have Lebanon. The Lebanese army crushed the group, but the carried out a large-scale incur505.982.1890 SantaFeChamberMusic.com clashes killed more than sion into Lebanon. The clashes have killed 17 soldiers over three days, while 22 others remain missing after attacks on army positions in the town, authorities said. The civilian exodus came early Monday morning during a lull in the fighting. A few hours later, an army bombardment around Arsal saw three shells land every minute. “We call on the Lebanese 39 Bisbee Court #7 | Santa Fe, NM 87508 army to strike with an iron fist,” 505-982-6256 • www.mcpartlonroofing.com said Mohammed Hojeiri, who fled Arsal with his family Monday. “Those gunmen are terrorizing civilians.” A resident on the outskirts of John R. Adams Arsal said militants there comExplore links to Financial Advisor mitted “atrocities” and shot at Raymond James 218 East Marcy Street people fleeing. They also looted planning resources: Santa Fe, NM 87501 homes, he said on condition of www.johnradams.net 505-982-1904 • 800-233-4108 anonymity for security considjohn.adams@raymondjames.com erations. Dozens of rebels have been killed in the fighting, he and RAYMOND JAMES & ASSOCIATES, INC. Call today ©2014 Raymond James & Associates, Inc. member New York Stock Exchange/SIPC Member New York Stock Exchange/SIPC other residents and security free portfolio review. officials said.

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WASHINGTON — As the health of two Ebola-stricken American missionaries deteriorated late last month, an international relief organization backing them hunted for a medical miracle. The clock was ticking, and a sobering fact remained: Most people battling the disease do not survive. Leaders at Samaritan’s Purse, a North Carolina-based Christian humanitarian group, asked officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention whether any treatment existed — tested or untested — that might help save the lives of Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, both of whom had contracted Ebola while helping patients in Liberia.

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Benefits: Hearing on proposed rule planned for Aug. 29 Continued from Page A-1 requirements for food benefits in testimony before a congressional panel on behalf of the Secretary’s Innovation Group, a conservative organization for human services and workforce appointees. The Secretary’s Innovation Group has promoted model legislation that, among other things, has pushed for a federal work requirement for food benefits. The group also championed provisions for a work requirement in the 2014 Farm Bill. U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., grilled Squier about whether a work requirement makes sense for New Mexico, considering that it is just one of a handful of states experiencing negative job growth and the state’s high rate of childhood hunger, surpassing 30 percent, according to the nonprofit Feeding America. The department defended the proposed rule as a return to past policies that were temporarily suspended during a national economic downturn. “These are the same broadbased job search requirements that have existed for years in most public assistance programs throughout New Mexico,” said Matt Kennicott, spokesman for the Human Services Department. “This rule simply removes the 2009 waiver and restores requirements that were previously in place. The waiver was only temporary and was never intended to stay indefinitely. [Human Services] provides help and resources to people searching for work.” Kennicott said the Martinez administration is committed to feeding the hungry in New Mexico, and he pointed to $150,000 in additional support that the Governor’s Office provided for the food benefits program in 2011 as proof. But Sovereign Hager, a lawyer with the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, said the administration’s policies have had a chilling effect on eligible residents seeking benefits. She said restoring the work requirement for food benefits creates another layer of bureaucracy that makes benefits harder to access and ultimately drives down participation in programs by the people who need them most. “They just go away,” Hager said. “We’re very concerned given [Squier’s] history of dismantling these types of important income and food support programs.” The proposed rule change aims to make sure food benefit recipients “have the skills, training or work experience to obtain and/or keep employment,” according to a draft copy. About 26,500 adults without children who receive food benefits would be required to work 20 hours per week beginning in October under the proposal. Community service and job training also would count toward the quota. The job-search requirements would expand under the proposed rule to include people ages 16 to 59. Last year, the requirement was reinstated for benefit recipients between 18 and 50 years old. Parents and caregivers of children age 6 and older would be subject to the work or com-

munity service requirements under the proposed rule. Currently, parents and others caring for children, regardless of their age, have been exempt from the job-search mandate. Under the proposed rule, pregnant women and people with health conditions that prevent them from working would remain exempt from the work requirement. A hearing on the proposed rule change is scheduled from 9 to 10 a.m. Aug. 29 at 2009 S. Pacheco St., Room 120. Comments on the topic can be submitted via email to debrad. hendricks@state.nm.us. Meanwhile, the Human Services Department has made progress by processing 100 percent of backlogged applications for expedited food benefits, one element of the federal lawsuit that resulted in a judge’s order to speed the processing of overdue applications. “We are very pleased with the attention to expedited food benefits, which are critical. We’ve seen that they are directing resources there,” Hager said. The overall backlog in applications was cut by about 1,300 between mid-June and midJuly. The department and the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, which represents applicants for benefits in the lawsuit, remain at odds about how data on timely processing of applications is collected and reported to the court. Lawyers for the Human Services Department reported that compliance with the order to reduce the backlog is advancing rapidly, and the judge acknowledged substantial progress in a July 21 order. “Our [Income Support Division] offices continue to work diligently and have cleared the backlog and have processed every application that was part of this process, and we await word from the court to certify our progress,” Kennicott said. “Many applications that are received are processed within 10 days of receipt. We will continue this work and keep on additional staff, additional phone lines and additional online resources to ensure that New Mexicans most in need receive the assistance they are seeking.” The New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty remains frustrated that some of its clients continue to report long waits to hear whether their benefit applications have been approved, and others have said their benefits were abruptly terminated without notice. Hager said that when the department and the plaintiffs reconcile their difference over backlog data, the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty will have a clearer sense of the department’s progress. “We’re working with them to get data that really will demonstrate to us that they are in compliance,” Hager said. “They haven’t showed us that. They’ve told us that is true, but they haven’t demonstrated it.” Contact Patrick Malone at 986-3017 or pmalone@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter @pmalonenm.

Hiker: Several have disappeared in forests Continued from Page A-1 long she had been dead because nobody had touched the body yet. “But there was a monster storm Thursday night,” Allison said. “More than an inch of rain. Thunder and lightning. She was just illequipped.” Allison speculates that Kaplan turned left along the fence line at Wilderness Gate and headed toward the north side of Aspen Peak looking for mushrooms. When she realized it was time to go back, she was too far north and at an elevation lower than Wilderness Gate. She kept walking east and ended up in drainages. If she had realized that she was in the Nambé drainage, she would have known she could follow it east and get back on the Winsor Trail, Allison said, but, “I think the weather got in her way.” Peter Dickson, the Public Safety Department’s incident commander for two days of the six-day search, said Kaplan and her husband, Norman, were at Wilderness Gate on the Winsor Trail at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning when she wanted to take a short hike toward Aspen Peak. Her husband decided to wait. When she didn’t return by about 12:15 p.m., he and some other hikers began looking for her. After an hour and a half, Norman Kaplan decided “something was up” and returned to his car in the ski area parking lot, Dickson said. Kaplan drove down the ski area road until he could get cellphone service and called in a missing person report. Dickson said that 75 or 80 people helped with the search each day, including wildland firefighters, the sheriff’s posse, the National Guard, Atalaya Search and Rescue, and even some searchers from out of state. Tracking dogs and helicopters also assisted. The teams combed the Winsor, Elevator and Raven Ridge trails, among other sites, but Dickson said that because Kaplan was hunting mushrooms, “We knew she would not stick to the trails.” The area north of Wilderness Gate is big and rugged, he said, and, “It’s a difficult search.”

Search and rescue volunteer Larry Zentner works Monday at the command center at the Santa Fe ski basin. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Dave Gold, who leads a Meetup hiking group, was with a group in the mountains last Wednesday. He said he was even on Aspen Peak but, “We didn’t see her or hear her.” The hikers with him, he said, are noisy and anybody in that vicinity “would have heard us.” Moreover, “We would have seen people. That makes me think she never got there.” No matter how short the hike, Gold always carries extra food, clothing, a poncho and first-aid equipment because “getting lost can happen to anyone. People really need to realize that. And by yourself, you have to be ready for everything.” Although hiking in the mountains is pretty safe, he said, “You have to respect the wilderness. You don’t have to be scared, but you have to respect it. “ Recalling stories told to him by a friend who was lost for some time in the mountains, he said, “It’s brutal.” As for Kaplan’s story, “It’s truly sad,” he said. “Tragic.” Volunteer searcher Steve Crawford said Monday that “it is easy to get lost in the area. … Parts of it are very steep and

there is a lot of deadfall [fallen trees and brush] in the area.” Over the years, several people have disappeared into the mountainous forests of the Santa Fe and Pecos region. For instance, nine hikers got lost off the Winsor Trail while hiking in the summer of 1986. Two others died off that trail the previous winter. Santa Fean Mel Nadel disappeared in September 2009 near Elk Mountain in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. He was 61. In August 1998, Emma Tresp, 71, disappeared on her way to a spiritual retreat at Pecos Monastery after her car got stuck on the road. There has been no sign of either one since. Audrey Kaplan lived in Dallas with her husband, but the couple were staying at their Santa Fe home at the time of her disappearance. Norman Kaplan works as a clinical professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Reporter Anne Constable contributed to this story. Contact Robert Nott at 986-3021 or rnott@sfnewmexican.com.

Building: Houses built in the early 1930s Continued from Page A-1 the project’s architect, he said. Senate President Pro-tem Mary Kay Papen, D-Las Cruces, a member of of the commission, said Monday, “I wish there were a way to preserve [the houses]. I hope we can save our history … and hope we are very diligent at looking what we’re giving up and what we’re getting.” But Senate Republican Leader Stuart Ingle of Portales said, “It seems to me there was never a problem with the city until we decided we wanted to do something. We just don’t have any place to build around here.” In the early 1980s, the city listed the houses, built in the early 1930s, as “contributing” to the historical architecture of the neighborhood. But in June 2012 —

two months after the state first presented the building plans to the city’s review board — the City Council upgraded the historical designation of the houses to “significant.” House Speaker Kenny Martinez, D-Grants, said it’s possible the plans could be adjusted to move the building away from the houses so demolition wouldn’t be necessary. Martinez also asked about the possibility of building a structure larger than the planned three-story building, saying a larger building would allow for more expansion of government offices in the future. City ordinances allow a building up to 57 feet, which would allow four or five stories. Current plans call for the new state office building to house the Department of Finance and Administration, now

located in the Bataan Building, directly across South Capitol Street. Other state agencies, including the Secretary of State’s Office, the state Treasurer’s Office and the state Auditor’s Office, would moved into the Bataan Building, according to a plan first discussed in 2008. A 2009 state law requires the state government to cooperate with local governments’ historic-design regulations on new buildings. Previously, state projects weren’t subject to municipal laws. Members of the city’s historic board have been critical of the building plans. At an April 2012 meeting of the board, chairwoman Sharon Woods told the project manager, “You’ve already chosen a site without coming and talking with us. We’re not off to a good start, and we may be clashing.”

Flight: Woman described as ‘irritable’ Continued from Page A-1 According to the flight attendant’s statement, Lentz went to the front of the plane while it was in flight and told the attendant that she could not find her seat. The flight attendant tried to help the woman, but Lentz became “enraged” and cursed and punched the flight attendant in the stomach, the police report states. The flight attendant, with the help of a male passenger, wrestled Lentz to the ground and zip-tied her hands, according to the report. Some of the passengers who witnessed the incident told police the woman seemed “agitated,” “irritable”

and had a bandage on her forehead when she boarded the plane. The witnesses also said that Lentz she dropped some of her belongings on the ground when she sat in her seat and kept scrambling through her bag before she ran toward the front of the plane. One witness said that about 20 minutes after the plane took off Lentz “bolted out of her seat and ran towards the front of the plane.” Another passenger, who sat next to Lentz after she was restrained, said the woman had told him she “had broken up with a long-term boyfriend and was very upset.” When the plane landed in Nashville, Lentz again became agitated and asked

officers why she was being arrested, the police report said. As she was being placed into a patrol car, Lentz kicked one of the officers on his left thigh and kicked another officer on his left lower flank, the report said. Once Lentz was in the patrol car, she kicked open the center window and also kicked a third officer in the hand as he was trying to close the window, the report said. The report also noted that a background check revealed no criminal record for Lentz. Davidson County Jail records did not list an attorney for Lentz. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Airfares: Airlines paying less for gas, but travelers not seeing savings Continued from Page A-1 These days, fares only capture part of the cost of flying. Many passengers pay extra to check their luggage, typically $50 round-trip for the first bag and $70 for the second one. But bag fees haven’t changed much in the past few years. Now, the airlines are increasingly enticing passengers to pay for fast-track security lines, early boarding, additional legroom and other extras that can add from $9 to $299 to the cost of a flight. So, for example, a $300 ticket can balloon to $450 on some airlines if you check two bags and pay $30 for a little more room to stretch your legs. And travelers aren’t finding much

relief after landing. The average nightly price of a hotel room in the U.S. during the first half of this year was $113.80, according travel research company STR. That’s up $4.47, or 4 percent, from the same period in 2013. Most people are traveling for work. And when the economy is strong, they do more flying. Data released by the government last week shows that economic growth bounced back after a brutal winter, businesses are creating jobs at a steady pace and consumer spending is on the rise. The Global Business Travel Association predicts that worldwide business travel will grow 6.9 percent this year to a record $1.18 trillion. The United States is the business largest travel

market, with travelers spending $274 billion last year, a 4.5 percent increase over 2012. Baggage fees and some others were introduced in 2008 to offset losses from rising fuel prices. However, this year airlines are actually paying less for fuel — $2.96 a gallon so far, 7.2 percent less than last year, when adjusted for inflation. Passengers aren’t seeing any of those savings. One reason is that airlines no longer need to entice fliers with lower fares. There are simply fewer choices today. A wave of consolidation that started in 2008 has left four U.S. airlines — American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and United Air-

lines — controlling more than 80 percent of the domestic air-travel market. Discount airlines such as Allegiant Air and Spirit Airlines have grown at breakneck speed but still carry a tiny fraction of overall passengers. That control of the market has enabled the bigger airlines to charge more for tickets and not worry about being undercut by the competition. In addition, the airlines are taking in about $3.3 billion a year in fees. The result: record profits. In April, May and June, the four largest U.S. airlines earned a combined $2.9 billion. Airlines are earning so much money that they are starting to pay investors dividends — something unheard of in

an industry that just a decade ago was struggling with a wave of bankruptcies. Airlines for America, the industry’s U.S. trade and lobbying group, says passengers should blame the government, not the carriers, for higher fares. Last month, increased fees linked to the Transportation Security Administration took effect. Fliers will now pay a flat fee of $5.60 each way, up from $2.50 each way for nonstop flights and $5 for trips with connections. But taxes and government fees still remain a small portion of what passengers pay. On a $500 round-trip ticket between New York and Seattle, they make up 12 percent of the price.

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Supreme Court delivers blows to women’s groups Setbacks seen in rulings on pay, medical leave, abortion, birth control By Adam Liptak The New York Times

WASHINGTON — When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflects on the Supreme Court’s recent rulings, she sees an inconsistency. In its gay rights rulings, she told a law school audience last week, the court uses the soaring language of “equal dignity” and has endorsed the fundamental values of “liberty and equality.” Indeed, a court that just three decades ago allowed criminal prosecutions for gay sex now speaks with sympathy for gay families and seems on the cusp of embracing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. But in cases involving gender, she said, the court has never fully embraced “the ability of women to decide for themselves what their destiny will be.” She said the court’s fivejustice conservative majority, all men, did not understand the challenges women face in achieving authentic equality. Ginsburg is not the only one who has sensed that cases involving gay people and women are on different trajectories. Gay men and lesbians still have a long way to go before they achieve the formal legal equality that women have long enjoyed. But they have made stunning progress at the Supreme Court during the past decade, gaining legal protection for sexual intimacy and unconventional families with stirring language unimaginable a generation ago. At the same time, legal scholars say, the court has delivered blows to women’s groups in cases involving equal pay, medical leaves, abortion and contraception, culminating in a furious dissent last month from the court’s three female members. Many forces are contributing to this divide, but the most powerful is the role of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the court’s swing vote. Legal scholars say his jurisprudence is marked by both libertarian and paternalistic impulses, ones that have bolstered gay

rights and dealt setbacks to women’s groups. A Sacramento lawyer and lobbyist who still lived in the house he grew up in when President Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1987, Kennedy is the product of a placid middle-class existence in which most women stayed within traditional roles. Some of his judicial writing, Ginsburg once wrote in dissent, reflected “ancient notions about women’s place in the family.” But Kennedy, 78, has long had gay friends, and his legal philosophy is characterized by an expansive commitment to individual liberty. He wrote the majority opinions in all three of the court’s gay rights landmarks, which struck down a Colorado constitutional amendment that banned laws protecting gay men and lesbians, a Texas law that made gay sex a crime, and the heart of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Last year, he explained in vivid terms why the marriage law drew an unconstitutional distinction by barring benefits for married same-sex couples. “The differentiation demeans the couple, whose moral and sexual choices the Constitution protects and whose relationship the state has sought to dignify,” he wrote. “And it humiliates tens of thousands of children now being raised by same-sex couples.” Kennedy writes in a different register in cases about women’s sexual freedom and motherhood, said David S. Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University. In those cases, Kennedy tends to vote with the court’s four more conservative members — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — and to read statutes narrowly in favor of employers and religious freedom. In an article in The South Carolina Law Review surveying “Justice Kennedy’s gendered world,” Cohen concluded that “Justice Kennedy relies on traditional and paternalistic gender stereotypes about nontraditional fathers, idealized mothers and second-guessing women’s decisions.” Perhaps the most memorable — and to women’s groups, the most trou-

Demonstrators react to the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called an error, on June 30. Ginsburg says the court’s five-justice conservative majority, all men, do not understand the challenges women face in achieving authentic equality. DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

bling — passage of this sort came in Kennedy’s 2007 majority opinion in a 5-to-4 vote sustaining the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Act. “Respect for human life finds an ultimate expression in the bond of love the mother has for her child,” he wrote. “While we find no reliable data to measure the phenomenon, it seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained.” If Kennedy best embodies the court’s conflicting impulses toward gays and women, Ginsburg is in many ways his opposite. She voted with him in all of the major gay rights cases, but in women’s rights cases she has issued a series of sharp dissents. Ginsburg, 81, was a prominent women’s rights litigator before she became a judge, overcoming obstacles related to her gender along the way. After attending Harvard Law School as one of nine women in a class of more than 500 and graduating from Columbia Law School, she was turned down by law firms and was refused judicial clerkships because she was a woman. When she became a professor at Rutgers School of Law, she was told she would be paid less than her male colleagues because her husband,

Grand Canyon probing squirrel-kicking video By Felicia Fonseca The Associated Press

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Authorities are looking into a viral Internet video that shows a man kicking a squirrel off what appears to be the edge of the Grand Canyon. But park officials say the chances of finding the man are slim. “Right now they are working on it,” park spokeswoman Kirby-Lynn Shedlowski said Monday. “They realize that it’s been seen by a lot of people and that there’s some sensitivity to treatment of wildlife.” The short video posted on YouTube shows a shirtless, barefoot man in shorts and a straw cowboy hat leaving a trail of food at the edge of a canyon. He then puts on one of his shoes and kicks the squirrel into the air. Another similarly dressed man looks on. Shedlowski said the geographical features in the video appear to match part of the Grand Canyon. Authorities have reached out to YouTube seeking more information, she said. Messages sent Monday to the person who uploaded the video and to YouTube were not immediately returned. Grand Canyon Chief Ranger Bill Wright said no one reported a squirrel being kicked over the edge of the canyon. Rather, the video was

brought to the park’s attention on Saturday. Since then, the park has received messages from people who said they were appalled and disgusted by the behavior of the man and urged authorities to hold him accountable. Wright said he doesn’t believe the video is a hoax. “I think they took an opportunity to get something on video, which is really foolish,” he said. If found, the man could face a charge that falls into a category of disturbing or harassing wildlife — a federal petty offense that carries a maximum six months in jail and/or a $5,000 fine. Wright said rangers likely would not pursue animal cruelty under a state statute because that would require them to retrieve the squirrel and prove that it was injured or had died. The average depth of the Grand Canyon is 1 mile, but its rock outcroppings, trails, and other ledges don’t guarantee that something going over the edge would fall a mile below, Wright said. Squirrels are an everyday sight at the Grand Canyon and have become accustomed to visitors, climbing on their laps, begging for food and ransacking backpacks. Park officials discourage visitors from petting or feeding wildlife because the animals can bite or attack.

N.M. student proficiency drops The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — The percentage of students in New Mexico scoring at or above grade level in reading and math is lower now than it was in 2010. The Albuquerque Journal reports that recently released Standards Based Assessment test scores show that 49 percent of students read at grade level or better this past spring. That’s down 4 percentage points since 2010. The drop in math achievement has not been as sharp. In 2010, 42.2 percent of students scored at grade level in math compared to 40.7 percent this spring — a difference of 1.5 percentage points.

Education Secretary designate Hanna Skandera said it’s also necessary to look at academic growth and whether students are getting closer to the next grade level. Skandera was encouraged that more students moved up a “proficiency level” on the last Standards Based Assessment tests than those who fell backward. There are four proficiency levels on the tests — beginning steps, nearing proficiency, proficiency and advanced. Proficiency is considered at grade level. Data from the state Public Education Department shows 21.5 percent of students improved a proficiency level on their reading scores

this year, while 16.1 percent dropped back a level — and the rest stayed the same. In math, slightly fewer students moved up a level, 16.9 percent, than those who went down, 17.1 percent. However, those figures did not include the 25 percent of students who took the test on a computer for the first time this year. The Standards Based Assessment tests were first given to students in 2005 and were then considered one of the more challenging state standardized tests. This was the last year the Standards Based Assessment will be used to measure students’ proficiency in math and reading.

also a lawyer, had a good job. She later became the first tenured female professor at Columbia Law School. Speaking last week at a reception for students and alumni of Duke University School of Law, she said the Supreme Court had made a grave error in June in its Hobby Lobby decision, which allowed some employers to refuse to pay for insurance coverage for contraception based on religious objections. “There was no way to read that decision narrowly,” she said, adding that it opened the door to job discrimination against women. “What of the employer whose religious faith teaches that it’s sinful to employ a single woman without her father’s consent or a married woman without her husband’s consent?” she asked. The court, she said, “had ventured into a minefield.” She summarized her dissent in the Hobby Lobby case from the bench, a rare move signaling vehement disagreement, one that happens perhaps four times a term. When Ginsburg issues an oral dissent, it is very often in a case concerning women’s rights. In 2007, Ginsburg, the only woman on the court at the time, dissented from the bench in the abortion case, calling Kennedy’s worldview alarm-

ing. A month later, she issued a second oral dissent in another 5-to-4 decision, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., this one protesting what she called the majority’s cramped interpretation of time limits for filing sex discrimination suits. Prompted by the dissent, Congress later overturned the ruling. She dissented again from the bench in 2012 in Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland, a 5-to-4 decision limiting the availability of medical leaves. In his controlling opinion, Kennedy said he saw no “widespread evidence of sex discrimination or sex stereotyping in the administration of sick leave,” while Ginsburg said from the bench that the decision made it harder for women “to live balanced lives, at home and in gainful employment.” The recent cases concerning women are not directly comparable to those involving gay rights, which considered questions as fundamental as whether states can make gay sex a crime. And gay rights groups say there is much work to be done before gay men and lesbians achieve the legal protections women have long enjoyed. In much of the country, for instance, employers and landlords are free to discriminate based on sexual orientation. The Supreme Court has never recognized heightened constitutional scrutiny for discrimination based on sexual orientation, though it has long done so for ones based on gender. For now, said Suzanne B. Goldberg, a law professor at Columbia, “the court’s recent gay rights decisions seem to be catching up with women’s rights cases of earlier decades.” “At the same time,” she added, “we live in a society that now seems more receptive to gay rights than women’s rights generally, so it is disheartening but not surprising to see that reflected in decisions like Hobby Lobby, which failed to see the link between contraception access and women’s equality.” Ginsburg has suggested that her male colleagues sometimes do not hear a woman’s voice, including her own. In a 2009 interview with USA Today, she said the other justices, who were then all men, sometimes ignored the arguments she made at their private conferences.

Groups: U.S. political effort in Cuba hurts aid work By Desmond Butler, Jack Gillum, Peter Orsi and Andrea Rodriguez The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A U.S. program in Cuba that secretly used an HIV-prevention workshop for political activism was assailed Monday by international public health officials and members of Congress who declared that such clandestine efforts put health programs at risk around the world. Beginning in late 2009, the U.S. Agency for International Development deployed nearly a dozen young people from Latin America to Cuba to recruit political activists, an Associated Press investigation found. The operation put the foreigners in danger not long after a U.S. contractor was hauled away to a Cuban jail. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Monday it would be “worse than irresponsible” if USAID “concocted” an HIV-prevention workshop to promote a political agenda. And InterAction, an alliance of global nongovernmental aid groups, said, “The use of an HIV workshop for intelligence purposes is unacceptable. The U.S. government should never sacrifice delivering basic health services or civic programs to advance an intelligence goal.” The Obama administration defended its use of the HIV-prevention workshop for its Cuban democracy-promotion efforts but disputed that the project was a front for political purposes. The program “enabled support for Cuban civil society, while providing a secondary benefit of addressing the desires Cubans express for information and training about HIV prevention,” said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. Documents and interviews make clear that the program was aimed at recruiting a younger generation of opponents to Cuba’s Castro government. It is illegal in Cuba to work with foreign democracy-building programs. Documents prepared for the USAID-sponsored program called the HIV workshop the “perfect excuse” to conduct political activity. Leahy, who is chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that oversees USAID, said in response to the AP’s findings: “It may have been good business for USAID’s contractor, but it tarnishes USAID’s long track record as a leader in global health.” The White House is still facing questions about a once-secret “Cuban Twitter” project, known as ZunZuneo. That program, launched by USAID in 2009 and uncovered by the AP in April, established a primitive social media network under the noses of Cuban officials. USAID’s inspector general is investigating it. In April, Leahy called the ZunZuneo program “dumb, dumb, dumb.” But on Monday, not all lawmakers were critical. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., said USAID’s programs were important for human

rights in Cuba. “We must continue to pressure the Castro regime and support the Cuban people, who are oppressed on a daily basis,” said Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban native and vocal supporter of pro-democracy programs there. As for health projects, the latest criticisms come months after a pledge by the CIA to stop using vaccine programs — such as one in Pakistan that targeted Osama bin Laden — to gather intelligence. In the HIV workshop effort, the AP’s investigation found the Latin American travelers’ efforts were fraught with incompetence and risk. The young workers nearly blew their mission to “identify potential social-change actors.” One said he got a paltry, 30-minute seminar on how to evade Cuban intelligence, and there appeared to be no safety net for the inexperienced workers if they were caught. In all, nearly a dozen Latin Americans served in the program in Cuba, for pay as low as $5.41 an hour. The AP found USAID and its contractor, Creative Associates International, continued the program even as U.S. officials privately told their government contractors to consider suspending travel to Cuba after the arrest of contractor Alan Gross, who remains imprisoned after smuggling in sensitive technology. A lawyer for Gross said Monday that his client cannot take life in prison much longer and has said his goodbyes to his wife and a daughter. “We value your safety,” one senior USAID official said in an email concerning the Latin American travelers. “The guidance applies to ALL travelers to the island, not just American citizens,” another official said. Creative Associates declined to comment, referring questions to USAID. “All governments need to make trade-offs, for example, between civil liberties and public safety,” said Les Roberts, a professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. In the case of Cuba, he said, there is a trade-off between conducting neutral development efforts and “the political goal of regime change in Cuba.” “Without the appearance of neutrality,” he said, “few things USAID wants to do internationally can be achieved.” Drawing on documents and interviews worldwide, the AP found the travelers program went to extensive lengths to hide the workers’ activities. They were to communicate in code: “I have a headache” meant they suspected they were being monitored by Cuban authorities; “Your sister is ill” was an order to cut their trip short. To evade Cuban authorities, travelers installed innocent-looking content on their laptops to mask sensitive information. They used encrypted memory sticks to hide their files and sent obviously encrypted emails using a system that might have drawn suspicion.

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LOCAL NEWS Pecos Canyon structure fires under investigation Police say pair of blazes might have been arson By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

State investigators are looking into whether two fires over the weekend that destroyed a log cabin and a singlewide trailer in the Pecos Canyon east of Santa Fe were acts of arson. Anyone with information regarding the fires is urged to call New Mexico State Police at 827-9300. New Mexico State Police spokesman

Lt. Emmanuel Gutierrez confirmed both fires are being investigated as possible arson. The cabin fire was reported Saturday afternoon off Forest Road 555 near Cowles, according to Eric Roybal, chief of Pecos Canyon Fire and Rescue, which responded to the call. The large, single-story cabin was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived and burned completely. A carport and guest cabin were saved. Santa Fe National Forest officials confirmed the cabin was situated on property leased from the U.S. Forest Service. The fire was visible from

nearby cabins and at least three people called 911. The second fire was reported Sunday afternoon in the privately owned West Pecos Canyon Estates off Forest Road 223 near Grass Mountain. Roybal said the trailer had already burned by the time the call came. “There were only a couple of hot spots when we got there,” Roybal said. “It most likely burned sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.” He said the trailer was surrounded by trees and not visible from any other residences. Firefighters did not find

The cabin was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived and burned completely. any human remains or animals inside either structure. Roybal said it has been years since the volunteer Pecos Canyon firefighters have had to contend with a structure fire. For the last few years, they have fought several forest fires, including the Tres Lagunas Fire in 2013 that burned thousands of acres in the canyon. “We’re concerned, but we don’t even

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know the cause of these fires yet,” he said, adding that recent rain kept the structure fires from spreading this time. “Had these fires occurred in June of this year, this could have been a big problem for us,” Roybal said. Contact Staci Matlock at 986-3055 or smatlock@sfnewmexican.com. Follow her on Twitter @stacimatlock.

Student shuttles at a standstill Finance committee questions proposed plan to boost nightlife By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

Amber Rudder, Cynthia Martinez and Laura Clark, visiting Santa Fe from North Carolina, enjoy their lunch on a new table installed Monday by city workers. DANIEL J. CHACÓN/THE NEW MEXICAN

A City Council committee slammed the brakes Monday on a proposal by Mayor Javier Gonzales to provide free shuttle service between the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and the downtown area and the Railyard. Finance Committee members raised a busload of questions about the proposed pilot project before unanimously voting to postpone action in an effort to give the mayor and his co-sponsor, City Councilor Peter Ives, more time to make adjustments. The driving concern among councilors involved the hours of operation. Under the mayor’s proposal, the shuttles would begin to operate at 6 p.m. and service would end at 11 p.m.. Councilors, however, said 11 p.m. is the time college students start to party, not when they head home. “Most college students are just getting going,” City Councilor Joseph Maestas said. “Are we coordinating with any other dial-a-ride services where they can bring these folks back?

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City installs 8 outdoor tables on Lincoln Avenue for ‘People to the Plaza’ initiative By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

Workers from the Santa Fe Department of Parks & Recreation assemble tables on Lincoln Avenue on Monday. The picnic tables are being installed as part of Mayor Gonzales’s ‘People to the Plaza’ initiative.

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nyone who visits the historic Santa Fe Plaza can now pull up a chair, so to speak. City workers on Monday set up eight outdoor tables with attached seating and umbrellas on the section of Lincoln Avenue that has been blocked to vehicular traffic. The Plaza has long had benches, but the curbside tables are a first. “We always speculated that people would like the idea of tables and chairs. Today it was confirmed,” said Isaac “Ike” Pino, director of the Public Works Department, which oversees city parks. “We had only installed three — there are eight of them going in — and people were asking if they could sit on them before we were even through tightening the screws,” he said. The forest green tables and seats, ordered from a park furniture catalog at a total cost of $10,900, are part of Mayor Javier Gonzales’ “People to the Plaza” initiative, which is intended to make the downtown square more vibrant.

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N.M. secretary of state starts voter list purge The notices could lead to people being purged from voter registration rolls in March 2017, if their postcard is returned as undeliverable and they don’t vote in the next two years or update their address. The Associated Press “This mailer has no effect at all on anyone’s ability to vote in the 2014 election, and voters who receive About 186,000 New Mexicans are being asked by the postcard should not be lead to believe that they the Secretary of State’s Office to update their voter will be unable to vote,” Bureau of Election Director registration information or they could be dropped Bobbi Shearer said in a statement. from voter rolls in 2017. She also said the office is following federal law Ken Ortiz, a spokesman for Secretary of State in starting the process to update voter registration Dianna Duran, said Monday that postcards are being rolls. mailed to the voters this week seeking to confirm Those receiving the postcards include voters their addresses. who’ve filed a change of address form with the U.S.

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Postal Service or had election-related mail returned as undeliverable. Duran said in a statement that “one way to reduce the likelihood of fraud is to clean up the voter rolls.” “The voter rolls are now bloated, most likely with something close to 200,000 voters’ names who either no longer live in New Mexico or who are no longer eligible to vote for various reasons,” said Duran. Nearly 1.3 million New Mexicans are registered to vote, with Democrats accounting for about 47 percent of them. Thirty-one percent are Republicans. Independents and minor parties account for the remainder.

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Camera installation remains up in the air By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican

The City Council’s Finance Committee refused to take action Monday on proposed changes to a problem-riddled contract with a former city councilor. Last year, the city approved a contract with Chavez Security Inc. to install 38 surveillance cameras at seven parking lots and a dozen parks and trailheads. Problems surfaced immediately. Peso Chavez, a former city councilor who owns the security company, said he went to St. John’s College to scope out one of the locations when a security guard told him he was on private property and that the school didn’t want the camera. Chavez said further investigation revealed that another camera was to be located at a park that didn’t yet exist and another was going to be watching weeds. “Real good use of taxpayers’ dollars,” he told councilors. City Councilor Signe Lindell admitted to “a lot of confusion”

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Shuttle: Estimated cost $18,300 Camera: Not in places of need Continued from Page A-6 Because I’m concerned that this could be a one-way trip.” Maestas said the pilot project, which would operate Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from Aug. 28 to Dec. 20, could create unforeseen problems. “We might have some folks that need to get a ride [back home]. Or somebody might choose to drive [downtown] and take everybody back, and we don’t end up solving the problem. These folks [could be] imbibing and driving drunk,” he said. Plans call for the city to absorb the costs of the estimated $18,300 pilot project with the existing Santa Fe Pick-Up service. But City Councilor Patti Bushee, who is not a member of the Finance Committee but attended Monday’s meeting, said that funding plan could be

problematic. She said the PickUp service money comes from the North Central Regional Transit District and questioned whether that agency had been consulted. “They like to know how their money is being spent,” she said. Bushee said she supports the shuttle concept and isn’t trying to “kill the idea.” She questioned whether the pilot project could be funded through the city’s Santa Fe Trails transportation system. “I can’t see how this fits in the mission of the [North Central Regional Transit District] to take college kids downtown to party,” she said. “I think you’re off the mission of the [North Central Regional Transit District], and that is who funds the Pick-Up. I just have to emphasize that again because we could be stepping in it in a big way if we don’t pay for it ourselves some way or do something

different.” The shuttle service would be open to the general public but is aimed at college students in an effort to breathe new life into Santa Fe’s nightlife. Councilors questioned why that target population couldn’t just use existing public transportation. “We’ve got a bus system, and it works,” City Councilor Ron Trujillo said. However, Trujillo said is was willing to consider a reduced fare that includes university participation. “I’ll say it: If you can go to the college of art and design, you can afford to take the bus,” he said. “This resolution needs tweaking.” Contact Daniel J. Chacón at 986-3089 or dchacon@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter at @danieljchacon.

selected. “Is there crime data to supand asked, “How is it that we port these new locations?” got a bid to put cameras in asked City Councilor Joseph places that can’t support camMaestas. eras?” “I‘m not privy to any data City Councilor Patti Bushee, that was used to come up who isn’t a member of the with these sites,” Williams committee but attended Monresponded. He said the first day’s meeting, said, “In my esti- sites were chosen because of mation, this whole thing should vandalism, graffiti and vehicle start over.” burglaries. Thomas Williams, director of Bushee disagreed. “This list, the city’s Information Technol- even the additional list, they ogy and Telecommunications just seem to be locations of Division, placed the blame on convenience more than locaParks Division staff that he said tions of need,” she said. no longer work for the city. “It Maestas requested a legal was a bit rushed in the beginopinion on the proposed ning,” he said. “There was a changes, saying they might be huge push to get this done as significant enough to trigger quickly as possible,” which protests from other companies caused some “oversights.” that bid on the project — The city has since proposed something that City Attorney removing some sites, adding Kelley Brennan said was a new ones or delaying oth“possibility.” ers But Williams couldn’t “That’s one reason it’s imporexplain how the new sites were tant always to scope a contract

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as accurately as you possibly can to make sure everybody is bidding on the same thing,” Brennan said. “Shame on our staff, whoever initially scoped this,” Maestas said earlier in the meeting. Councilors said they wanted City Manager Brian Snyder to get involved and also wanted other council committees — safety and public works — to sign off on any proposed changes. “In my opinion, it has to be crime-related,” City Councilor Ron Trujillo said about the new locations proposed for the surveillance cameras. “Why else are we going to put them in there? Am I going to put a camera there just to watch the grass grow, the weeds grow? No.” Contact Daniel J. Chacón at 986-3089 or dchacon@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter at @danieljchacon.

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Tables: Can fit up to 6 people Continued from Page A-6 “I had about four or five different people approach me, tell me what a great idea they thought it was,” Pino said. “When you see the way it fits into the lane that we left for them, it just looks like it’s going to work out real nice.” During Monday’s lunch hour, tourists and locals alike took advantage of the new furniture. Rudy and Keri Horak, Seattlearea residents passing through Santa Fe on motorcycles, said they were headed to a bench to eat when she noticed the new tables. With food vendors nearby, Rudy Horak called the location of the tables “very convenient.” The tables, each of which can seat up to six people, include a space for someone to pull up in a wheelchair, Pino said. “Just now, I saw somebody put their baby carriage there,” he said. Under the mayor’s initiative, the city also blocked traffic on the Old Santa Fe Trail side of the Plaza. Only San Francisco Street remains open to cars along the Plaza. The section of Palace Avenue section in front of the Palace of the Governors has been closed to traffic for years. Pino said the city plans to remove the umbrellas at night but leave the tables and chairs. “They’re pretty heavy,” he said. “It’s going to take some effort if somebody wants [to take] our tables and chairs. But we’re probably going to pull them together and lock them with a cable anyway.” Contact Daniel J. Chacón at 9863089.

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Shohko Café offers Japanese cuisine, New Mexico-influenced dishes anta Fe is an international and regional hub of commerce, culture and art. More art changes hands in the City Different than in many European capitals. But after all that art changes hands, where does one go for good sake, great sushi or world-class ramen? Your first stop should be Santa Fe’s Shohko Café, near the Eldorado Hotel and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Shohko Café specializes in Japanese cuisine with an emphasis on sushi and New Mexico-influenced dishes.

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a consummate ramen soup. Hiro Fukuda enlisted the help of veteran Japanese chef Kenjiro Arciaga to help develop the perfect bowl of ramen soup, going so far as to arrange an apprenticeship with the renowned Monta Ramen restaurant in Las Vegas to get it right. “Who knew that making soup was so difficult,” said Arciaga. “(Chefs) must adjust the stock using experience and a spectrometer to measure the specific gravity.” Once the technique was perfected, both Arciaga and Fukuda traveled to Los Angeles to find the perfect noodle in their quest to bring a worldclass ramen experience to Santa Fe. “After trying every combination of pork, broth, noodle and cooking style – we even tried a pressure cooker – we found what we were looking for,” said Arciaga. Now, Hiro and Kenjiro are working on vegetable, miso and shoyu variations of their delectable ramen creation. Don’t overlook the traditional Japanese fare for the sushi and ramen – Shohko offers a range of traditional and contemporary dishes that reflect not only Japan but northern New Mexico as well. Teriyaki? Got it. Looking for a macrobiotic alternative? Shohko makes a savory soba or hijiki dish. Fancy a tour of premium sake after a day taking in the sights and sounds of Santa Fe? Shohko offers the most diverse sake menu in the state. In May of 2013, Pasatiempo reviewed Shohko Café and awarded it 3.5 chiles, saying: The food at Shohko Café is much like the ambience — stylish but free of pretense. You can’t go wrong with sashimi or nigiri, but the menu also includes tempura made

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New Mexico floods wreak havoc on emergency funds Albuquerque says storm could cost city as much as $400K By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press

Dark clouds swirled over much of Central and Western New Mexico on Monday as forecasters issued more warnings for heavy rain and flooding as communities tried to clean up following previous waves of damaging weather. The latest flood watch covered more than 36,000 square miles from Albuquerque west to Gallup and north to Los Alamos and Taos. The National Weather Service said more than 1 million people live in the area, which includes more than a dozen airports and hundreds of miles of interstates and railroad tracks. By Monday afternoon, travelers along Interstate 25 were greeted with huge columns of heavy rain as thunderstorms and lightning were reported across the region. Flood warnings were also issued for wildfire burn scars in the Santa Fe and Gila national forests.

State emergency management officials have been keeping a close eye on the weather and have been in contact with counties that have been hit the hardest in recent days, including Taos, Rio Arriba and Sandoval. Last week, heavy rains brought flooding to towns in eastern New Mexico and Albuquerque, where city workers have cleaned up most of the mess but were still adding up the costs and bracing for the next round of showers. Michael Riordan, director of Albuquerque’s Department of Municipal Development, estimated the damage at between $300,000 and $400,000. He said it could have been worse had the city not made improvements to ponds, storm drains and pumping equipment. “This last storm really stressed that system out, but it showed that it worked and we saved about 5.5 million gallons of stormwater that would have otherwise gone into the neighborhoods of Martineztown and Santa Barbara,” Riordan said. In Algodones, just north of Albuquerque, rain caused a ditch to overflow and flood neighborhoods. Sandoval County officials on Monday

In brief Federal agency cited for not inspecting WIPP The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration failed to conduct legally required quarterly safety inspections at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, according to a joint statement released Monday by U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, both New Mexico Democrats. The senators inquired about the scheduled inspections after an investigation into a February truck fire at the underground nuclear waste storage site revealed the agency had inspected the site only twice in the three-year period leading up to the accident. Within days of the truck fire, a radiation leak was detected at WIPP. Its cause and any potential relationship between the fire and a drum of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory that burst in a subterranean bunker remain under investigation. Since the leak, WIPP has not received any new shipments of waste. “It’s unacceptable that MSHA allowed critical safety inspections to fall by the wayside amid unresolved negotiations with [the U.S. Department of Energy], putting the health of the workers at WIPP and the surrounding community at risk,” Udall said. “Risking the safety and health of the community and WIPP is unacceptable under any circumstances,” Heinrich said.

Federal grant benefits new parents, children New Mexico received more than $1 million in federal funds for budding families to access care and guidance in the form of visits from nurses, social workers and early childhood educators during pregnancy and the early years of children’s lives. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the grant to the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department on Monday. The grant, one of several that totaled more than $100 million nationally, aim to provide states with resources to expand home visiting programs and early childhood well-being systems. The objective of the federal Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program is to help parents of children up to age 5 tap into “resources and develop the skills they need to raise children who are physically, socially and emotionally healthy and ready to learn,” according to the federal Health Resources and Services Administration.

Regional tax practitioner meeting set this month The New Mexico Society of Certified Public Accountants, the New Mexico Society of Enrolled Agents, the New Mexico Small Business Development Centers, the National Association of Tax Professionals and the Internal Revenue Service are offering seven hours of continuing professional education credit for a one-day seminar in Santa Fe later this month. The meeting is scheduled to take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 21 in Santa Fe Community College’s Jemez Rooms. Tax topics to be covered include: keeping up with Earned Income Tax Credit due diligence; child-related tax benefits; employment tax issues; credits, penalties

unanimously approved an emergency declaration, allowing the county to apply for federal disaster funding. Estevan Lujan, a spokesman with the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said if the damage reports start to add up with continued rain and flooding, there’s a possibility Gov. Susana Martinez could declare a statewide emergency. “It depends on how it goes. And from our experience last year, the first couple of weeks aren’t bad, but then the ground gets saturated and that’s when the flooding really starts to happen,” Lujan said. “That’s what we’re really concerned about at this point.” New Mexico has been dealing with severe drought for the past four years. With the latest dose of monsoon moisture, the worst category of drought — exceptional drought — has disappeared from the state. Forecasters say the picture is expected to improve even more once the effects of the recent storms are calculated by federal drought experts. The latest drought map shows less than one-fifth of the state in extreme drought. That’s down from more than 34 percent just one

and other taxes; representing your client before the IRS; and divorce-related tax issues. Tax preparers with valid Practitioner Tax Identification Numbers can earn seven hours of credit depending on the requirements of their organizations. The registration fee of $70 includes lunch and seminar materials. Online registration is available at www.nmsbdc.org/ santafe/showevent.html, or call 428-1343. Checkin begins at 7:30 a.m. Seating is limited. Similar seminars also are being offered Aug. 26 in Roswell and Aug. 27 in Las Cruces.

Speaker Martinez: Historic building not ‘surplus’ House Speaker Kenny Martinez told reporters Monday that he doesn’t believe a historic building sold earlier this year by the state Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department was “surplus property” as a state agency contended. “I don’t think it was surplus property. It’s highly valuable property,” the Grants Democrat said of the parcel on De Vargas Street near the state Capitol that the state sold to The Inn of the Five Graces. The broker of the sale was state Sen. Phil Griego, D-San Jose. The hotel had a 25-year lease on the building, which formerly housed the New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps, which is under the State Parks Division. Though Martinez this year voted in favor of legislation that allowed the sale, he expressed concerns about it and voted against it at a June meeting of the Capitol Building Planning Commission. Martinez said Monday that legislators didn’t have enough information about the sale. Martinez said he might sponsor legislation to tighten up on controls of property sales by the state. Griego last month insisted that he had no conflict of interest because he didn’t get the contract to sell the property until after the session.

Pedestrians are helped by firefighters Friday during a flash flood in downtown Albuquerque. ROBERTO E. ROSALES/ THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL

week ago. The National Weather Service said last month was the fourth wettest July on record for New Mexico, and the Albuquerque area in the first three days of August has recorded around 70 percent of the month’s total average rainfall.

reported he tried to steal about $158 worth of merchandise from the Wal-Mart Supercenter, 5701 Herrera Drive. The Santa Fe Police DepartThe Santa Fe County Sherment took the following iff’s Office took the following reports: reports: u A 2011 Dodge Charger was u A male victim reported that stolen from a house in the he had accepted a ride from the 2800 block of Calle Princesa Juana between 10 p.m. Saturday Allsup’s convenience store on Maes Road and was attacked by and 10 a.m. Sunday. u A burglar stole a 55-inch TV, the driver when they reached another part of town. The victim an Xbox 360 game console and said the driver pulled him out of a box full of movies between the vehicle and took his wallet, 6 and 9:30 a.m. Sunday from a which contained $300. residence in the 2000 block of u A burglar stole several Calle Lorca. u At about 6:55 p.m. Sunday, pieces of jewelry and several firearms from a home in the an unidentified man in the 700 block of Cerrillos Road tried 26400 block of U.S. 285 in the to attack a man with a cane and White Lakes Road area near the Torrance County line between a rock and told the victim he 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday. would kill him. u Items valued at $5,000 u About five to 10 men attacked and stole a wallet from were taken from a location on a victim at about 11:30 p.m. Sun- Casper Lane in the La Puebla day in the 600 block of Paseo de area over a five-month period. Missing were a black .38 semiPeralta. automatic Winchester Ruger, a u Timothy Peshlakai, 27, of silverware set, two gold chains Santa was arrested on charges and two turquoise bracelets. of shoplifting and possession u Various firearms and jewof drug paraphernalia at about elry were reported stolen Mon1 a.m. Sunday after someone

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Math professor Steven Strogatz will discuss “The Joy of x” during a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the James A. Little Theater, 1060 Cerrillos Road. The lecture is part of a series sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute.

New Mexico law enforcement officials invite the public to participate in the annual National Night Out: America’s Night Out Against Crime, which will take place on the Plaza from 6 to 10 p.m. Tuesday. Tony Lynn, a spokesman for New Mexico Department of Public Safety, said Gov. Susana Martinez is scheduled to attend. The annual event serves as a way for New Mexico law enforcement officials to meet and network with the public, according to a Santa Fe Police Department news release. “There will also be information and advice available for anyone interested in starting or reinvigorating a Neighborhood Watch program in their area,” the news release said. Officials with the city police department, New Mexico State Police and the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office are scheduled to participate in the event. The event began in 1984 and now involves more than 37 million people in over 16,000 communities across the country, according to the news release.

term, in 2011 and 2012, you can see that our deficits were pretty large.” Forecasters say the showers and thunderstorms are expected to ease up Tuesday, but New Mexico can expect the wet weather to return for the weekend. day in the North Fork area near Lone Butte. The report said the victim told deputies that a suspect had gained unlawful entry into the home about a month ago.

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

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Still, forecasters say the Albuquerque area is about 8 inches behind normal over the past few years. “Our short-term drought is really going away, so that part is good,” said meteorologist Jennifer Palucki. “But if you look at the longer

John Gerber unexpectedly passed away on July 27th, 2014. He was a loving, caring, funny father, son, brother, grandfather and uncle. He will be greatly missed by all that knew him. He was preceded in death by his parents George and Carmen Gerber, brother Joey Gerber and sister Martha Gerber. He is survived by his Daughter Desiree Gerber (James Perea) Grandchildren: Jason, Matthew, Joaquin, and Chantel; Brothers: George Gerber Jr. Garrett Gerber, and Manuel Duran (Karen), Nephew: Chris Garcia and Nieces: Lisa Martinez snd Sera Martinez and many friends and relatives. There will be a funeral mass at St. Anne’s Church Wednesday August 13th at 11:00 a.m. No burial as remains will stay with daughter.

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LORENZO PADILLA (1932-2014) Lorenzo (Larry) Padilla, age 82, was called by angels on July 28 2014 at home with his family. Larry was Born in Wagon Mound on March 29 1932 he attended school in Wagon Mound and graduated from Highlands University in Las Vegas where he earned two degrees. Larry also enlisted in the Air Force and served his term and eventually was discharged with honors. Larry was a leader of the community. His selflessness dedication to Santa fe organized sports and a mentor to many youth of this great state, Larry was a pioneer in his profession, one of many accomplishments was laying the foundation for the policies of Probation and Parole in this great State of New Mexico. He loved his wife Isabel and was married for 55 wonderful years to her; he also loved his sons Kenneth and wife Sandy, Larry Jr. and wife Kathi, Mario and wife Faye, Carl and Edward. Larry also loved his brother’s Bill and Orlando, all his uncles and aunts, nieces and nephews, grandchildren and great grandchildren, in-laws and out-laws, friends and neighbors. The Padilla family opens their hearts to you for a celebration mass to be held at St. Anne Church, 511 Alicia Street, Santa fe, NM at 12:00 pm on Wednesday August 6th, followed by a burial at the Santa Fe National Cemetery.

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e-Voices Our Web readers speak out: Divided council OKs up to $100K for ‘The Bachelor,’ July 30 Great idea! Museums, opera and art are great for “ the older demographic, but unless you want Santa Fe to be known as a great place to retire, we need to facilitate film business and invigorate travel by younger crowds.” J.E. I think it’s a ridiculous way to spend money! I like “ Mayor Javier Gonzales, but this is not a wise use of money. We should be focusing on local groups like the After Hours Alliance so we can keep younger people here and help them generate an industry that supports them in every way.” M.R. What a total waste of money for all the reasons “ already pointed out by the comments published. The show is dreck and the demographic watching is not likely to have the funds or the motivation to spend them in Santa Fe. There are so many other LOCAL issues that could be addressed with this money.” J.M. Three-night downtown festival launches with live shows at Skylight, July 31

“ What’s the deal with Skylight’s creepy policy “ of running/swiping your I.D. through a computer

It’s about time to have a reason to be out after dark in Santa Fe!” R.D.

even when you look 50? Most clubs just look at your date of birth to make sure you’re at least 21. I guess Skylight needs your name, birth date and physical address in their database for further Google searches or arrest-record inquiries? No thanks. Your club ain’t worth the snoopy invasion of privacy conducted by your ‘suit with a badge’ at the door.” P.S. Report: City needs trash rate hike, recycling changes, Aug. 2 If you require that glass be dropped off at a “ remote location rather than picked up at the curb, get ready for a huge increase of glass in the trash stream.” M.V. One clarification: Coors is the closest place that “ buys glass to make into more glass. Other businesses in New Mexico buy pelletized glass for other products. The Santa Fe Solid Waste Management Agency has to consider where the markets are for recyclables and factor in the economic and environmental cost of transport to those markets. Maybe the new facility in Albuquerque will help with this.” K.H. Yeah, hike the trash rate so we can pay for bring“ ing The Bachelor to town.” C.G. Young voters and marijuana: a mixed message? Aug. 2

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Yet, the Republicans will stand ramrod straight and use the issue to rally the only base they have left — old white men driven by fears of anything newer than Herbert Hoover.

Even President Dwight Eisenhower’s understand“ ing of logistics, [as well as] the late Sen. Everett Dirksen’s healthy embrace of civil rights for all Americans is beyond the ken of party supporters. So, Republicans will only look back with longing at all the ideology, economics of failure.” E.C. The information we did not have regarding the “ benefits of cannabis is just now becoming available. I, for one, have had chronic pain since a small child. I did what I was told and had to grin and bear it for more years than I should have. I missed so much of my wonderful children’s childhood due to severe pain. And of course, as a parent in Los Alamos, I joined the DARE program and told my children to ‘just say no.’ I will go to my death being angry that I could have had a break from the pain and enjoyed them with a little puff at the end of the day. I am now offered morphine and told this is the best for my condition. Lo and behold, I tried pot and found relief at a level only dreamed of. I cannot be the only one. This is not just about our youth but should be front and center as an issue for the elderly (me??). … I am blessed to live in this state that allows this medicine for those diagnosed with conditions such as mine.” K.G.

Most read stories on www.santafenewmexican.com 1. Ocean acidity levels threaten Pacific shellfish 2. No new leads as search continues for missing woman in wilderness 3. ‘Longmire’ ratings down from season 2, Albuquerque restaurateur gives President Obama hug 4. Second day of search for woman turns up false leads 5. Hispanic horse owners claim discrimination at Racing Commission 6. Three-night downtown festival launches with live shows at Skylight 7. Northern New Mexico communities immersed in floodwaters 8. Police: Hit-and-run suspect turns herself in 9. Explorers descend into the depths of Fort Stanton Cave to map Snowy River 10. Reader View: There’s something missing in our classrooms

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LOOKING IN: LAURA MARTIN

Behind the statistics, a child with a story

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iéntese por favor,” I say to a young man as I gesture to a low couch. He sits down while adjusting his flat-brimmed snap back that matches the exact shade of red on his shirt and high-top sneakers. This kid has what my peers would call a “fresh” sense of style. And yet for his outward confidence, I can tell he’s nervous. The lawyer I work for walks into the room and after an exchange of “mucho gusto,” she closes the door to the small office. For the next two hours, the lawyer and I interview this young man, who is one of the thousands of unaccompanied minors who have crossed into the U.S. I consider it a privilege to help conduct these interviews, as they put a face and personality to the sensationalist headlines that are splashing across our newspapers and social media feeds. The young man sitting before me is not a statistic but rather an individual whose suffering has caused him to leave his Central American home and seek refuge in the U.S. For the past eight weeks, I have been interning at a law firm that provides legal services for low-income residents of the Boston area. During this time, I have conducted more than 70 interviews in Spanish, both over the phone and in person. My job is to assess whether the children who contact our firm qualify for legal protection that would allow them to remain in the U.S. For these refugee children, the legal options for protection are extremely limited. Some minors may qualify for special protection if they have been abused, abandoned or neglected by their families. Others may be eligible for asy-

lum. To begin the assessment, these young people must share their experiences of hunger, alcoholism, beatings, molestation, rape, loneliness and other difficulties they have endured. I cannot imagine the strength it takes to tell these horror stories to a stranger such as myself, but it is a necessary first step for a child to obtain protection. Yet in spite of all a child has suffered, it is still difficult to prove that he or she qualifies. What is easy to forget when we are reading the data and statistics about the unaccompanied children crossing our borders is that each has a unique history that has forced him or her to flee to the United States. Yes, there are economic, political, and social circumstances that have contributed to this humanitarian crisis, but they are experienced on such

a personal level that it is hard to lump the terrors witnessed by these children into a general category. The real tragedy is that these kids have to experience such terrible circumstances to qualify for protection. Economic hardship and a generalized fear of returning to Central America are not convincing legal arguments. Many kids stop going to school around sixth grade to help provide for their families by working on farms. Others stop because they are targeted by gangs on their commutes to and from school. However, if a child cannot prove that he or she was personally attacked or targeted, the child may not have a substantive argument for legal protection. Even for children who do qualify for protection, the struggle is not over. All have

to deal with the challenge of going to school, learning a new language and adjusting to a new culture. Many have to work part- or full-time jobs in addition to going to school to help support themselves. But for many, these stresses are negligible compared to the terrors they experienced back home. After recounting his experience in Central America and his perilous journey to the U.S., I ask the young man in red who is sitting in front of me if he’s happy to be in the U.S. For the first time in two hours, he smiles and says, “Sí, estoy feliz.” Laura Martin is from Nambé and graduated from Santa Fe Preparatory School in 2006. She is currently pursuing a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass.

LOOKING IN: AMANDA SANCHEZ

Gov. Martinez is right to focus on reading

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addressing it head-on. earning to read is the first step in getting a good education. If you know And while our kids’ time in the classhow to read, you can learn just about room is important, we must also make anything. When I was a kid, I struggled sure that education doesn’t stop after the with reading, and it was difficult for me to bell rings. It should continue at the find the help I needed. That is why, kitchen table and end just before as a parent, I’m happy that Gov. bedtime with a good book. MarSusana Martinez is working so tinez understands this, which is hard to make sure every child can why she gives every first-grader read by the third grade. a reading book of his or her very own. By doing this, we’re instilling Martinez has done a number of a love of reading into our kids at an things to make this happen, includearly age. Best of all, it encourages ing putting more dollars into the parents to get involved and help classroom to pay for things like improve their kids’ reading skills. reading coaches, while also empha- Amanda Sanchez sizing parental involvement and Parental involvement is another making reading fun for our kids. important part of the governor’s reading reforms. It is so important that our When children struggle to read, we children get extra help after school from shouldn’t just accept it and move on withtheir parents. That’s why Martinez secured out them. Yet, that’s what we’ve done over funding for “Readers Raise the Roof,” a and over again. Martinez has begun to program that trains parents to teach their change that. Now our struggling children kids to read. Best of all, it’s free. With the get special interventions through readright training, parents can now continue ing coaches, allowing them to catch up to teaching their children while they are at their peers. These coaches are so critical home. because they provide classroom support and help teachers with reading instrucAnother hurdle in teaching kids to read tion. By hiring reading coaches, we are is making sure that it’s fun. Opening up a no longer ignoring the problem — we are good book can take you to another world,

rich with stories. But sometimes it can be difficult to get your kid to open the book in the first place. Again, the governor understands this, so she started a summer reading challenge that encourages kids to read by giving out prizes — like a trip to Disneyland or a hot air balloon ride. The summer reading program allows kids like my own to earn prizes as an incentive to read, making the most of their summer vacation. For parents, this election is important. If we make the wrong choice, the progress made in education will be reversed. Education dollars will go away from our classrooms and back into the hands of selfserving bureaucrats. The state’s focus will move away from what kids truly need to learn and excel, and our education system will go back to how it was under Bill Richardson. We cannot take the risk. There’s still much work to do. But I’m happy that we have a governor who wants to move our school system forward and is committed to making those improvements. Amanda Sanchez is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Belen with her husband, Walter. The couple have three children. Two are in elementary school.

Don’t feed into misconceptions, cultural insults of the worst cultural insults you Dear Mexican: I’m a handsome exemplar of the bronce can throw at people is to say that race living in the motherland. their food gives you diarrhea, and I’m dating a beautiful and wonthat’s why the English language derful gringuita who is soon has so many euphemisms for the taking a trip over the border thing — Gandhi’s revenge, Gyppy from the U.S. to Mexico for the tummy, Delhi belly, the Rangoon first time to visit me and my big runs, Tokyo trots. But none has family. stuck better in the gabacho mind Gustavo than Montezuma’s revenge, There are a couple of things Arellano named after the Aztec emperor that worry me though. ¡Ask a Mexican! who lorded over Tenochtitlán First of all, she seems to have a when the Spaniards came. fairly pessimistic view of Mexico Spanish accounts maintain that (probably due to anti-Mexican propaganda and inherited biased family Ol’ Monty love to drink his chocolate laced ideas). She says that she’s very excited to with muchos chiles, and his digestive tract visit, but I can sense that there’s fear in cleared out almost daily. Whether it’s true her. What would you suggest I do so I can or not is a matter of historical intrigue, but erase all her wrong gabacho misconcepthe stereotype was quickly gobbled up by tions of la madre patria? Secondly, I fear gabachos eager to fulfill their critique of for her health once she gets to eat real Mexicans as a dirty, ugly race whose food Mexican food. What can I do to ameliorate can cause that disgusting stuff. That’s the the devastating effects our unique cuisine gabacho way — blame their weak digestive has on unsuspecting foreigners, and spare tract on the natives.” her from Montezuma’s revenge while still Dear Mexican: A news story some time allowing her to delight herself in some ago mentioned that a Centers for Disease great enchiladas or chiles rellenos? Control and Prevention study shows that El Guapo de México 96 percent of all U.S. adults have had sex. Dear Handsome One from Mexico: As However, breaking this down by ethnic for Montezuma’s revenge, I cite my answer group, the same study showed only 88 perfrom my libro, which you should buy a cent of all Mexican American adults in the fourth copy of just for the hell of it: “One U.S. have ever had sex, the least of any eth-

nic group polled, leaving 12 percent without knowing the pleasures of relaciones sexuales. This appears to buck the stereotype that Mexicans are somehow spicier in matters of the sack than the rest of us, and the uglier stereotype that they breed like rabbits. I’m curious; besides the possibility of the effects of growing up with pervasive, strict Catholic guilt, are there cultural, biological or genetic reasons why so many of your fellow mexicanos are not experiencing the joys of gettin’ it on with un amante of choice? Gabacho Mariposa de Tejas Dear Gay Gabacho from Texas: Not only that, but another CDC report showed that Latinos were the ethnic group with the lowest rate of people who at least had oral sex before losing their virginity — 39 percent compared to 56.6 percent of gabachos. Fact is, many Mexicans retain small-town puritanical values, which also explains why so many of our girls get pregnant. Wish there was a joke in all this, but the only chiste here is the lack of sex education in the Mexican community — that, and a Pepito line showing the absurdity of it all, of course.

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COMMENTARY: CHARLES M. BLOW

Congress sinks to lowest point ever

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ongress is a joke. But the joke isn’t funny — unless, of course, you’re into dark humor. The entire legislative body has been consumed by kvetching, at the expense of actual legislating. And the numbers that highlight this reality are simply atrocious. According to a Pew Research Center report issued Thursday: “As of Wednesday the current Congress had enacted 142 laws, the fewest of any Congress in the past two decades over an equivalent time span. And only 108 of those enactments were substantive pieces of legislation, under our deliberately broad criteria (no post-office renamings, anniversary commemorations or other purely ceremonial laws).” President Barack Obama has felt it necessary to veto only two bills since becoming president. That is fewer than any president since James Garfield in 1881, who vetoed none. But Garfield’s term lasted only 200 days before his death, and he was struck more than two months earlier by an assassin’s bullets. Part of the reason for the dearth of vetoes is the dearth of legislation making it to the president’s desk. And this is in part because of the evershrinking periods of time that Congress is in session. As a New York Times article declared in January, “The ‘do nothing’ Congress is preparing to do even less.” The House of Representatives is scheduled to be in session even fewer days than last year’s depressingly low 135 days. That’s right: The House is underperforming even last session’s underperformance. In December, The New York Times’ Jeremy W. Peters crunched the numbers and found: “Not counting brief, pro forma sessions, the House was in session for 942 hours, an average of about 28 hours each week that it conducted business in Washington.” Tell that to the average

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G American full-time worker busting his or her hump working more than 1,700 hours a year. And the average American is laboring for only a fraction of the $174,000 most members of Congress bring home. The Senate didn’t fare much better than the House in Peters’ analysis: “By a similar measure, the Senate was near its recorded lows for days on the floor. Senators have spent 99 days casting votes this year, close to the recent low point for a nonelection year in 1991, when there were 95 voting days.” And yet, as much as the president has been criticized for his recent fundraising efforts, members of Congress are making the time to do the same. As ABC News reported last week: “Republicans and Democrats in Congress are holding at least 100 fundraisers in Washington in the days leading up to the August recess, according to fundraising lists obtained by ABC News, with senators who aren’t even on the ballot in 2014 holding events.” Part of the problem with Washington is a manifestation

of polarization. A June Pew study found that “Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines — and partisan antipathy is deeper and more extensive — than at any point in the last two decades.” And that polarized public is represented by an increasingly polarized Congress. According to the political scientists Christopher Hare, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal, “Congress is now more polarized than at any time since the end of Reconstruction.” The polarization has bastardized the meaning of compromise. The June Pew poll found that the more liberal people were, the more they preferred politicians who compromise, and the more conservative Americans were, the more they preferred politicians who stick to their positions. And yet, a majority of those who were consistently liberal and those who were consistently conservative thought that an ideal compromise was tantamount to their getting more of what they wanted than the other side. There is no longer a real middle.

This is not to say that there is some equivalency between left and right when it comes to hostility and intransigence. As I see it, what middle remains has been dragged so far right that it doesn’t feel like a real middle anymore. America in general may be becoming more liberal on a variety of social issues, but there is a strident and forceful push to dial back the clock — or at least prevent it from moving forward — from a new strain of conservative politicians and the people who support them. There is still time for this Congress to get more things done. As Pew pointed out: “Among the past seven Congresses, between 39 percent and 59 percent of all the substantive laws they passed came in the last five months of their respective two-year terms; the average was 49 percent.” But I’m not holding my breath. Legislating is only a hobby for members of this Congress. Their full-time job is raising hell, raising money and lowering the bar of acceptable behavior. Charles M. Blow is The New York Times’ visual Op-Ed columnist.

lobal health activists continue to make strides against diseases that kill in the developing world. Few tools are more essential than vaccination drives, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates are saving the lives of 2 million to 3 million people a year around the globe. Yet, in the United States, more educated parents sometimes put their children and the community around them at risk by refusing to vaccinate against preventable diseases. Other families lack access to health care and their children miss essential vaccinations. The result is increases in deaths from such preventable diseases as measles and whooping cough, tragedies that do not have to occur. With the school year just around the corner, now is the perfect time to remind people that vaccinations work to save lives. Through Aug. 16, it’s possible to participate in the “Got Shots? Protect Tots!” program all across New Mexico, a project of the New Mexico Immunization Coalition Program. Participating providers open their doors to all children so they can be immunized before school starts. In Santa Fe County, La Familia Medical Center is participating in the event, with a clinic from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at both locations (1035 Alto St. and 2145 Caja del Oro Grant Road). No appointments are needed, and the immunizations are at no cost to the patient. Of course, the public health office is always available for those who need such essentials as immunizations (605 Letrado St.) and other providers are participating as well. You can find out more at the New Mexico Department of Health website. New Mexico’s rates of immunization have varied widely over the years. Immunization rates dropped from 1996 to 2001, sending the state plummeting from 30th among states in 1996 to last in 2001. But after 2001, New Mexico changed those numbers, increasing rates of immunization from 63 percent to 83.5 percent in 2004 — that move from bottom to 15th in the nation brought the state national recognition. New Mexico even won the National Immunization Program award from the CDC for showing the greatest improvement. Continuing that progress is no easy task. As families prepare to return to school, it’s a good time to check immunizations off so that children have their best chance at a healthy year ahead.

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Consider why nurse turnover is so high

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he barrage of public relations by Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in newspapers and television is tiresome. Many know that one hard measure of a well-run business is turnover. One of Christus St. Vincent’s executives recently said that the hospital’s high turnover is due to national demand. Further investigation might reveal that many who have left are native New Mexicans who would have preferred to have stayed at their jobs if conditions were better. In the interests of profit, Christus St. Vincent is willing to hold its position by paying millions for out-of-state traveling nurses, their hotels and related expenses. If Christus St. Vincent prevails, the question is: Who would want to be treated by staff who are part of this body of traveling nurses or treated by the current staff that is spread thin, overworked, stressed and demoralized? In addition to working toward being a hospital of choice, Christus St. Vincent must also strive to be an employer of choice for Northern New Mexicans. Teresa Trujillo

Santa Fe

Don’t blame Israel Bill Stewart (“Missiles, guns fired around the globe,” July 18) as usual, blames Israel for the lack of peace, stating, “most Palestinians are ready to make a deal with Israel” and excuses “Hamas embedding itself in civilian areas” by stating that “to defend Gaza is to put everybody at risk.” I would refer Stewart to the Hamas Charter: “Israel will exist … until Islam will obliterate it” (Preamble). Or, “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them” (Article 7). Or, “[Peace] Initiatives … are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement” (Article 13). Hamas’ guiding principles do not call for the defense of Gaza, they call for the complete destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews anywhere. David Pollak

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Tourism plan needed The proposal (“Council approves $100K to help lure ‘Bachelor,’ ”July 31) to spend between $50,000 and $100,000 to bring

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The Bachelor television show to Santa Fe is outrageous. It is also confirmation that TOURISM Santa Fe (formerly the convention and visitors bureau) is not capable of developing innovative programs for increasing tourism. Spending this much money without any guarantee that Santa Fe will be picked, and without information on how many additional tourism dollars would be generated by the show is a wasteful and counterproductive idea. The fact that the funding request was “last-minute” is also proof that TOURISM Santa Fe has not developed a long-range, carefully thought-out plan. How about using the $100,000, instead, for pre-kindergarten schools, health clinics in medically underserved neighborhoods, improving parks, upgrading services at senior centers or for other projects that would benefit Santa Fe residents? The council should revisit this proposal immediately and reject funding to bring The Bachelor to Santa Fe. Lois Snyderman

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: August 5, 1914: Washington, D.C. — A bill appropriating $2,500,000 for which President Woodrow Wilson asked in a special message was brought into the House for passage under suspension of rules and exclusion of all other business. It contained authority for use of Army and Navy facilities and chartering of ships to get Americans out of the war zone. August 5, 1964: St. Francis Drive through the city of Santa Fe could provide visitors to Santa Fe with a firsthand look at one of the city’s worst sections. The drive itself, says Mayor Pat Hollis, will be a beautiful thing — well-lighted, wide, and smooth — but the view to passing motorists will be dilapidated, crumbling buildings, shacks, cluttered yards and even unpaved streets and alleys. Plans for St. Francis at this time don’t include commercial structures, high walls, trees or shrubbery to hide the view. It is to be hoped the property owners will fix up their homes. August 5, 1989: Española’s effort to obtain $6.5 million in federal funds for the city’s planned downtown plaza has been rejected for a second time by the federal Economic Development Authority. Española Mayor Richard Lucero traveled to Washington last week to personally request the funds and met with EDA Director Peter Perry, said Joe Trujillo, legislative assistant to Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M.

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The weather

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Santa Fe Airport through 6 p.m. Monday Santa Fe Airport Temperatures High/low ......................................... 78°/60° Normal high/low ............................ 87°/58° Record high ............................... 99° in 2009 Record low ................................. 46° in 1950 Santa Fe Airport Precipitation 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 1.35” Month/year to date .................. 1.64”/7.36” Normal month/year to date ..... 0.40”/6.87” Santa Fe Farmers Market 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.17” Month/year to date .................. 0.36”/6.48”

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The following water statistics of August 1 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons). Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.842 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 2.190 City Wells: 0.498 Buckman Wells: 2.141 Total water produced by water system: 8.671 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.286 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 15.7 percent of capacity; daily inflow 4.01 million gallons. A partial list of the City of Santa Fe’s Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: • No watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. from May 1st to October 31st. • 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

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Intense thunderstorms caused flooding in southeastern Pennsylvania on Aug. 5, 1843. Up to 16 inches of rain fell in three hours.

did the word hurricane come Q: Where from?

A: From Hunraken, the Mayan storm god

Newsmakers Author guards fan favs in TV’s ‘Outlander’

Diana Gabaldon

Ronald D. Moore

NEW YORK — When she first saw raw scenes from the TV adaption of her Outlander book, Diana Gabaldon caught something. It was a line of dialogue she says her “fans consider iconic,” one they would miss. The line, from 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser to protagonist Claire Randall: “Ye need not be scairt of me. … Nor of anyone here, so long as I’m with ye.” Gabaldon says she told producers, “No, you have to say that.” And they did. The author of the 1991 best-selling romance novel about a time-travelling nurse says it was an example of the collaboration between her and Ronald D. Moore, executive producer of the series that premieres at 7 p.m. Saturday on Starz. She says Moore and producing partner Maril Davis slowly brought her into the process. The author says to her surprise, the producers have “very kindly” taken her opinions into account. She says Moore’s adaptation works, because he’s doing a 16-part TV series as opposed a film. “It is absolutely impossible to jam a book of that size and complexity into a two-hour movie,” Gabaldon said. “It can’t be done.” The Associated Press

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NEW YORK o Scrabble fanatics, big gifts sometimes come in small packages. The word te as a variant of ti, the seventh tone on the musical scale, is a hardworking little gem among 5,000 words added to The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, out Aug. 11 from MerriamWebster. The dictionary’s last freshening up was a decade ago. Entries in the forthcoming book that include texter, vlog, bromance, hashtag, dubstep and selfie were mere twinkles on the racks of recreational players. But it’s the addition of te and three other two-letter words — da, gi and po — that has Robin Pollock Daniel excited. Daniel, a clinical psychologist in Toronto, is a champion of the North American Scrabble Players Association, which has a committee that helps Merriam-Webster track down new, playable words of two to eight letters. “Being able to hook an ‘e’ underneath ‘t’ means that I can play far more words,” explained Daniel, who practices Scrabble two to four hours a day. “Sometimes you play parallel to a word and you’re making two-letter words along the way. I call those the amino acids of Scrabble. The more two-letter words we have, the more possibilities a word will fit.” One woman’s te is another man’s qajaq, one of Peter Sokolowski’s favorites among the new words. He’s a lexicographer and editor at large for the Springfield, Mass.,-based Merriam-Webster. Qajaq, he said in a recent interview with Daniel, reflects the Inuit roots of kayak and it would require a blank tile since Scrabble sets include

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York’s Radio City Music Hall, as well as millions watching at home. Only five of these acts will move forward to the semifinals, as selected by viewers, with the results to be announced during Wednesday’s show. Celebrity judges Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, pictured, Howard Stern and Mel B still are on hand to offer feedback, even though the performers no longer live or die based on that quartet’s opinions. 8 p.m. on USA Covert Affairs McQuaid (Nic Bishop) accompanies Annie (Piper Perabo) to Azerbaijan, hoping to find a shadowy former CIA officer who has gone off the grid. Auggie (Christopher Gorham) is shattered to receive sad news about an old friend, while Calder’s (Hill Harper) dubious actions lead to an inevitable confrontation with Joan (Kari Matchett). Amy Jo Johnson and Max Martini guest star in the new episode “Brink of the Clouds.”

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just one Q. But it’s a rare word starting with “q” that doesn’t require a “u.” A bonus, to a word nerd like Sokolowski: Qajaq is a palindrome, though that’s inconsequential in Scrabble. The new words add about 40 pages to the Scrabblesanctioned dictionary, which already lists more than 100,000 playable words. Definitions are kept to a minimum, but parts of speech and whether a plural is available are noted. To be included in the 36-year-old book — this is the fifth edition — a word must be found in a standard dictionary, can’t require capitalization, can’t have hyphens or apostrophes and can’t be an abbreviation, in addition to being two to eight letters, reflecting the seven tiles players draw plus an eighth already on the board they can attach a long word to for bonus points. Among the highest potential scorers among the new additions is quinzhee, a shelter made by hollowing out a pile of snow. Played on the board’s top row, ending at the top right through an existing u, and a player can score 401 points, including the 50-point “bingo” bonus for using all seven tiles. Merriam-Webster didn’t identify all 5,000 new words but released a list of about 30 that also include: Beatbox, buzzkill, chillax, coqui, frenemy, funplex, jockdom, joypad, mixtape, mojito, ponzu, qigong, schmutz, sudoku and yuzu. Geocache was also added, voted into the dictionary by the public during a Facebook contest in May. “It makes the game more accessible to younger people, which we’re always looking for,” Daniel said of the update. “All the technology words make it more attractive to them.”

Reagan book sets off debate The New York Times

top picks

7 p.m. on FAM Chasing Life In a new episode called “What to Expect When You’re Expecting Chemo,” April (Italia Ricci) resolves to live as normal a life as ever on the last few days before she must enter the hospital for a very aggressive round of chemotherapy. That proves easier said that done, however, thanks to Sara’s (Mary Page Keller) hawk-like monitoring, Beth’s (Aisha Dee) meltdown and more drama from Leo (Scott Michael Foster). Elsewhere, Brenna (Haley Ramm) tries to juggle her time with Greer and Kieran (Gracie Dzienny, Augusto Aguilera). 7 p.m. on TNT Rizzoli & Isles The team races against a killer’s personal schedule to find and protect a young witness to the contract killing of a woman outside a nightclub in the new episode “Lost & Found.” As the tension rises, Jane (Angie Harmon) has little choice but to put herself in the line of fire in order to save this key witness. 8 p.m. on NBC America’s Got Talent The new episode “Quarter Finals 2” finds another 12 acts trying to keep it together in front of the massive audience in New

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The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary: Fifth Edition, out Aug. 11 from Merriam-Webster, has 5,000 new words.

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Albuquerque 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.01” Month/year to date .................. 1.08”/5.69” Las Vegas 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.07” Month/year to date .................. 1.48”/8.76” Los Alamos 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.58” Month/year to date .................. 0.85”/6.80” Chama 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date .................. 0.12”/8.23” Taos 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date .................. 0.14”/4.02”

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Rick Perlstein always hoped his book on the rise of Ronald Reagan would set off serious debate among scholars and historians. Just not this debate. Perlstein’s new 856-page book, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, which comes out Tuesday, is proving to be almost as divisive as Reagan himself. It has drawn both strong reviews from prominent book critics, and sharp criticism from some scholars and commentators who accuse Perlstein of sloppy scholarship, improper attribution and plagiarism. The most serious accusations come from a fellow Reagan historian, Craig Shirley, who said that Perlstein plagiarized several passages from Shirley’s 2004 book, Reagan’s Revolution. In two letters to Perlstein’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, Shirley’s lawyer, Chris Ashby, cited 19 instances of duplicated language and inadequate attribution, and demanded $25 million in damages, a public apology, revised digital edi-

tions and the destruction of all physical copies of the book. Perlstein and his publisher said the charges are unfounded and noted that Perlstein cited Shirley’s book 125 times on his website, rickperlstein.net, where he posted his endnotes, which include thousands of citations and links to sources. “The claim of plagiarism doesn’t fly; these are paraphrases,” Perlstein said. Jonathan Karp, president and publisher of Simon & Schuster, called the plagiarism charges “ludicrous” and said the book was “a meticulously researched work of scholarship.” Perlstein, 44, suggested that the attack on his book is partly motivated by conservatives’ discomfort with his portrayal of Reagan. The book, the third volume in Perlstein’s expansive history of American politics in the 1960s and 1970s, was greeted with largely laudatory reviews. Simon & Schuster announced a robust first printing of 75,000 copies. A fourth volume is already under contract.

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MLB: Angels rout Dodgers in Freeway Series opener. Page B-3

LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL

OLYMPICS

All Stars a win away from World Series By Edmundo Carrillo The New Mexican

The Las Vegas Little League All Stars are just one win away from playing in the 2014 Junior Softball World Series. The team, which is representing New Mexico in this year’s Junior League Softball Southwestern Regional at Alto Park, beat Colorado 5-3 on Monday after beating Texas West 19-8 on Saturday and Louisiana 18-7 on Sunday. They advance to the finals Wednesday.

They will face the winner of the Colorado 3 loser’s bracket final between Colorado and Texas West on Tuesday. The first finals game will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and if New Mexico loses that game, Game 2 will be played later at 1 p.m. The winner of the tournament will play in the world series in Kirkland, Wash., starting Aug. 10. All New Mexico has to do is pull out another win to be there, but what really has head coach Michael QuinNew Mexico 5

tana licking his chops is the fact that their championship opponent will be a team they already beat. “It’s a big advantage for us since we’ve already beat them, and it’s going to be hard for them to beat us twice, but anything’s possible,” Quintana said. Regardless of the outcome on Wednesday, the team has improved over a third-place finish at last year’s tournament. It lost only two players from that team, and the focus since last summer’s shortcoming was to make it to Washington.

“We’ve been working hard, and if we keep working hard, we’re going to be there,” New Mexico pitcher Kendra Duran said. This hasn’t been just a year in the making, though. Quintana has been coaching this group of girls for five years, and he has seen them mature on and off the field. “It’s a big difference when you start with 9-year-olds, and some of them were 8-years-old at the time,” Quintana said. “Now we have boyfriends

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PREP FOOTBALL

Soggy start to season Horsemen, Demons begin preseason practice amid rain, lightning

Michael Phelps swims Thursday at Meadowbrook Aquatic and Fitness Center in Baltimore. PATRICK SEMANSKY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

For Phelps, there’s no place like home By Paul Newberry The Associated Press

BALTIMORE — Sitting on the deck at his beloved Meadowbrook, Michael Phelps glances toward the pool where he was once afraid to put his face in the water. “This is me,” he said, a slight smile curling off his lips. “This is home.” This is where Phelps put in most of the work to become the most decorated athlete in Olympic history. This is where he’s looking to add to that legacy after an aborted retirement, his eyes firmly on the Rio Games two years away. And as the world’s greatest swimmer takes his comeback to its biggest stop yet — this week’s U.S. national championships in Irvine, Calif., — it’s important for him to remember where he came from. Why? Because for all the hoopla over LeBron James returning to Cleveland, there’s no bigger homebody than Phelps. He still trains at the pool where he learned to swim, a nondescript building in Baltimore’s inner suburbs, right in the middle of the Jones Falls

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NBA

Stern set to enter Hall of Fame By Brian Mahoney The Associated Press

St. Michael’s assistant coach Kevin Hauck tosses a short pass to one of the 53 players on hand for Monday’s first official preseason practice at the Christian Brothers Athletic Complex. PHOTOS BY WILL WEBBER/THE NEW MEXICAN

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he first win of the prep football season went to Mother Nature. Monday’s slow and steady rain combined with a strong burst of lightning in and around Santa Fe to drive the local high school football teams indoors during the first permissible day of official preseason workouts. The season’s initial regular season games come on the final weekend of this month, giving most teams roughly four weeks to pre-

pare for the grind that lies ahead. This year offers a different start, since the annual intracity rivalry between Santa Fe High and St. Michael’s will fall on either Aug. 27 or Aug. 29. Exactly when and where depends on when the schools can agree to a date, time and venue. But more on that later. On Monday, it was all about rolling up the proverbial sleeves and getting back to work. Over at St. Michael’s, the Horsemen got their day started with an early

Santa Fe High’s afternoon practice was forced inside Toby Roybal Memorial Gymnasium due to Monday’s rain and lightning. The Demons’ quarterbacks spent time on the court running drills.

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NEW YORK — David Stern remembers the days when an NBA staff that numbered about two dozen was just trying to keep some teams in existence long enough to get them on national TV. Now the former commissioner looks at a league whose 1980 championship series was not David Stern broadcast live but now has games televised around the world, whose players average more than $5 million a year in salary as the highest-paid team athletes in sports, and sometimes can’t believe he and his colleagues pulled it off.

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

Cowboys, Mustangs tied for 7th place in preseason poll The New Mexican

There’s a sense of optimism within the New Mexico Highlands University football program right now. Too bad the rest of the coaches in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference do not agree. During Monday’s RMAC Kickoff in Colorado Springs, the league’s annual preseason gathering for coaches and media, the league announced its allconference teams and its coaches vote on a predicted order of finish for the 2014 slate.

Highlands received 29 points in the poll, putting it in a tie for seventh place with Western New Mexico in the 10-team league. Three-time defending champion Colorado State-Pueblo was the nearunanimous pick for first, claiming nine of the 10 first-place votes to easily outdistance No. 2 Chadron State and No. 3 Colorado School of Mines. “We are excited for the upcoming season,” said NMHU head coach Eric Young in a statement. “We have an entirely new offensive staff, including New Mexico State star quarterback

Chase Holbrook as our offensive coordinator.” NMHU also had just one player picked first-team preseason all-conference. Senior linebacker Jared Koster was added to the defensive team. The UCLA transfer finished 37th in the country last year with 14 tackles for a loss. “This was great recognition for Koster,” Young said. “He is looking forward to putting on the pads and making a difference on the field for the defense this season.” The Cowboys open their season

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at home Sept. 6 against Eastern New Mexico, then head to Northern Arizona the following week. The other nine games are against RMAC rivals. Senior punter Patrick Carney, the leading returning punter in the nation with a 45.2-yard average, was not recognized as the league’s top specialist despite being named a preseason AllAmerica by The Sporting News and Lindy’s Sports. CSU-Pueblo quarterback Chris Bonner got the nod as the preseason offensive player of the year. The

6-foot-7 senior is one of the top passers in NCAA Division II and is considered a Harlon Hill Trophy candidate. Teammate Darius Allen was named the preseason’s top defensive player. The senior defensive end led the country in sacks last year with 15½ to go along with 26½ tackles for a loss. Colorado School of Mines kicker Avery Llewellyn is the top special teams player. He averaged 44.2 yards per punt and led the RMAC in scoring last year with 14 field goals last year.

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BASEBALL BASEBALL

Baltimore

American League East W L Pct GB Baltimore 63 48 .568 — Toronto 60 53 .531 4 New York 58 53 .523 5 Tampa Bay 54 57 .486 9 Boston 49 62 .441 14 Central W L Pct GB Detroit 61 48 .560 — Kansas City 57 53 .518 4½ Cleveland 57 55 .509 5½ Chicago 55 58 .487 8 Minnesota 50 60 .455 11½ West W L Pct GB Oakland 67 43 .609 — Los Angeles 67 44 .604 ½ Seattle 57 54 .514 10½ Houston 47 65 .420 21 Texas 43 69 .384 25 Monday’s Games Cleveland 7, Cincinnati 1 N.Y. Yankees 2, Detroit 1 Chicago White Sox 5, Texas 3, 7 innings Tampa Bay at Oakland Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati (Cueto 12-6) at Cleveland (Tomlin 5-7), 5:05 p.m. Detroit (Price 11-8) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 7-7), 5:05 p.m. Baltimore (B.Norris 8-7) at Toronto (Buehrle 11-7), 5:07 p.m. San Diego (Hahn 7-2) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 10-8), 6:10 p.m. Texas (Lewis 7-8) at Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 9-6), 6:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Smyly 6-9) at Oakland (Hammel 0-4), 8:05 p.m. Atlanta (A.Wood 7-8) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 11-3), 8:10 p.m.

National League East W L Pct GB Washington 60 50 .545 — Atlanta 58 54 .518 3 Miami 54 57 .486 6½ New York 53 59 .473 8 Philadelphia 49 63 .438 12 Central W L Pct GB Milwaukee 61 51 .545 — St. Louis 59 51 .536 1 Pittsburgh 59 52 .532 1½ Cincinnati 56 56 .500 5 Chicago 47 63 .427 13 West W L Pct GB Los Angeles 63 50 .558 — San Francisco 61 51 .545 1½ San Diego 51 60 .459 11 Arizona 49 63 .438 13½ Colorado 44 67 .396 18 Monday’s Games San Francisco 4, N.Y. Mets 3 Baltimore 7, Washington 3 L.A. Angels 5, L.A. Dodgers 0 Tuesday’s Games Houston (Keuchel 10-7) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 5-11), 5:05 p.m. Miami (Hand 2-3) at Pittsburgh (Morton 5-10), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Za.Wheeler 6-8) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 6-7), 5:05 p.m. San Francisco (Lincecum 9-7) at Milwaukee (J.Nelson 1-2), 6:10 p.m. Boston (R.De La Rosa 3-4) at St. Louis (Lynn 11-8), 6:15 p.m. Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 7-9) at Colorado (B.Anderson 1-3), 6:40 p.m. Kansas City (D.Duffy 5-10) at Arizona (Miley 7-7), 7:40 p.m. L.A. Angels (H.Santiago 3-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 13-2), 8:10 p.m.

MLB CALENDAR Aug. 12-14 — Owners’ meetings, Baltimore. Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40 players. Sept. 30 — Postseason begins. Oct. 22 — World Series begins, city of American League champion.

Monday Giants 4, Mets 3 San Francisco ab r Pence rf 5 2 GBlanc cf 4 1 Posey c 1 1 Sandovl 3b 5 0 Belt 1b 5 0 BCrwfr ss 3 0 Panik 2b 4 0 Romo p 0 0 Casilla p 0 0 J.Perez lf 3 0 THudsn p 2 0 Ishikaw ph 1 0 JGutrrz p 0 0 J.Lopez p 0 0 MDuffy 2b 1 0

Totals

New York hbi 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

ab r Grndrs rf 4 1 DnMrp 2b 5 2 DWrght 3b 4 0 Duda 1b 3 0 dArnad c 4 0 CYoung lf 4 0 Mejia p 0 0 Lagars cf 4 0 Tejada ss 4 0 Gee p 2 0 Black p 0 0 BAreu ph 0 0 Flores ph 0 0 Famili p 0 0 Edgin p 0 0 Carlyle p 0 0 EYong lf 1 0

34 4 9 3 Totals

hbi 0 0 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

35 3 9 3

San Francisco 002 000 101—4 New York 200 010 000—3 E—Posey (6). DP—New York 1. LOB— San Francisco 10, New York 8. 2B— Pence (25), Sandoval 2 (20), Panik (3), Lagares (17). 3B—Pence (8). HR—Dan. Murphy (9). SB—G.Blanco (11), Dan. Murphy (12). IP H R ER BB SO San Francisco T.Hudson 5 7 3 2 2 2 J.Gutierrez 2-3 1 0 0 0 0 J.Lopez 1 1-3 0 0 0 1 1 Romo W,5-3 1 1 0 0 0 1 Casilla S,9-12 1 0 0 0 0 1 New York Gee 5 2-3 5 2 2 3 6 Black H,9 1-3 0 0 0 1 1 Familia BS,4-5 1-3 2 1 1 2 0 Edgin 1 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 Carlyle 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 Mejia L,5-4 1 2 1 1 1 1 WP—Familia. PB—d’Arnaud. Umpires—Home, Ben May; First, Jeff Kellogg; Second, Brian O’Nora; Third, D.J. Reyburn. T—3:40. A—27,187 (41,922).

Indians 7, Reds 1 Cincinnati ab r BHmltn cf 5 0 Bruce rf 5 1 Frazier 3b 5 0 Mesorc c 4 0 B.Pena 1b 4 0 Schmkr lf 3 0 Ludwck lf 1 0 Hannhn dh 3 0 RSantg 2b 3 0 Lutz ph 1 0 Cozart ss 2 0 Totals

hbi 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

Cleveland ab r Kipnis 2b 3 1 Aviles lf 3 0 Brantly cf 4 1 CSantn 1b 3 1 Chsnhll 3b 4 1 DvMrp rf 2 1 YGoms c 4 1 ChDckr dh 4 0 JRmrz ss 3 1

36 1 8 1 Totals

hbi 2 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 3 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 0

30 7 10 7

Cincinnati 000 000 010—1 Cleveland 100 310 02x—7 E—J.Ramirez (1). DP—Cincinnati 3. LOB—Cincinnati 11, Cleveland 4. 2B—B.Pena (15), Lutz (4), Kipnis (17), Dav.Murphy (21). HR—Chisenhall (11), Y.Gomes (15). SB—Brantley (13), J.Ramirez (1). S—Aviles. IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati Simon L,12-7 5 6 5 5 3 1 Contreras 3 4 2 2 0 3 Cleveland Kluber W,12-6 7 1-3 6 1 1 2 7 Hagadone 0 1 0 0 0 0 Axford S,10-13 1 2-3 1 0 0 1 1 Hagadone pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. HBP—by Simon (Dav.Murphy). WP— Contreras. Umpires—Home, Gerry Davis; First, Greg Gibson; Second, Phil Cuzzi; Third, Will Little. T—2:52. A—18,696 (42,487).

ab r Markks rf 5 1 Machd 3b 5 0 A.Jones cf 5 0 N.Cruz lf 4 0 Brach p 1 0 O’Day p 0 0 C.Davis 1b 4 1 JHardy ss 4 2 Flahrty 2b 4 1 CJosph c 3 1 Gasmn p 2 0 DYong ph 1 1 Lough lf 1 0 Totals

hbi 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 1 1 1 0

Washington ab r Span cf 4 1 Rendon 3b 4 0 Werth rf 3 0 LaRoch 1b 4 0 Dsmnd ss 4 0 Harper lf 3 1 ACarer 2b 3 0 WRams c 4 1 Roark p 3 0 Detwilr p 0 0 Stmmn p 0 0 Blevins p 0 0 Espinos ph1 0

39 7 14 7 Totals

hbi 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

33 3 8 2

Baltimore 001 010 320—7 Washington 011 100 000—3 E—Desmond (17). DP—Baltimore 1, Washington 2. LOB—Baltimore 7, Washington 6. 2B—J.Hardy (23), Flaherty (8), Span (30). HR—Markakis (10), C.Joseph (5), W.Ramos (4). S—C. Joseph. SF—Werth. IP H R ER BB SO Baltimore Gausman W,6-3 6 8 3 3 2 3 Brach H,2 2 0 0 0 0 2 O’Day 1 0 0 0 0 1 Washington Roark L,11-7 6 1-3 7 5 5 1 3 Detwiler 0 1 0 0 0 0 Stammen 1 6 2 2 0 0 Blevins 1 2-3 0 0 0 0 2 Detwiler pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. PB—W.Ramos. Umpires—Home, Gabe Morales; First, Paul Nauert; Second, Larry Vanover; Third, Vic Carapazza. T—3:10. A—42,181 (41,408).

Yankees 2, Tigers 1 Detroit

New York

ab r Kinsler 2b 4 0 Carrer cf 4 0 MiCarr 1b 3 0 VMrtnz dh 4 0 TrHntr rf 4 0 JMrtnz lf 4 0 D.Kelly 3b 3 0 Avila c 4 0 Suarez ss 2 0 Rmn pr-ss 1 1 RDavis ph 1 0 Totals

hbi 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

ab r Gardnr lf 4 1 Jeter ss 4 0 Ellsury cf 3 0 Beltran dh 2 0 McCnn c 4 0 Headly 1b 3 0 Drew 2b 3 0 Prado 3b 3 0 ISuzuki rf 3 1

34 1 6 1 Totals

hbi 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0

29 2 9 2

Detroit 000 010 000—1 New York 002 000 00x—2 E—Prado (1). DP—Detroit 2. LOB— Detroit 8, New York 7. 2B—Carrera (1), V.Martinez (22), Ellsbury (22). SB— Suarez (2), Prado (1). SF—Ellsbury. IP H R ER BB SO Detroit Scherzer L,13-4 7 9 2 2 3 4 Coke 1 0 0 0 0 1 New York McCarthy W,4-0 5 2-3 5 1 0 2 8 Thornton H,12 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 Warren H,17 1 1 0 0 0 0 Kelley H,7 1 0 0 0 0 1 Dav.Robertson 1 0 0 0 0 2 WP—Scherzer. Umpires—Home, Mike Winters; First, Mike Muchlinski; Second, Tom Woodring; Third, Mark Wegner. T—3:19. A—41,603 (49,642).

White Sox 5, Rangers 3, 61/2 innings, Texas

Chicago

ab r Choo rf 3 0 Andrus ss 4 1 Rios dh 3 0 ABeltre 3b 3 0 Carp 1b 2 0 Adduci lf 2 0 LMartn cf 3 0 Chirins c 2 1 Odor 2b 3 1 Totals

hbi 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2

ab r Eaton cf 2 1 AlRmrz ss 3 0 JAreu 1b 3 0 A.Dunn dh 3 0 Viciedo lf 3 1 Gillaspi 3b 3 1 GBckh 2b 3 0 De Aza lf 3 0 Sierra rf 0 0 Flowrs c 3 2

25 3 4 3 Totals

hbi 2 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3

26 5 10 5

Texas 120 000 0—3 Chicago 002 012 0—5 E—Noesi (1). DP—Texas 2. LOB—Texas 5, Chicago 6. 2B—Gillaspie (27). 3B— Flowers (1). HR—Odor (4), Flowers (8). SB—Eaton (12). CS—Adduci (1), Eaton (8). IP H R ER BB SO Texas N.Martinez L,1-8 5 8 5 5 3 4 Adcock 1 2 0 0 0 2 Sh.Tolleson 0 0 0 0 0 0 Chicago Noesi W,6-8 7 4 3 1 3 6 N.Martinez pitched to 2 batters in the 6th. HBP—by Noesi (Chirinos). Umpires—Home, Paul Emmel; First, Chris Conroy; Second, Jordan Baker; Third, Jerry Meals. T—2:28 (Rain delay: 0:57). A—17,040 (40,615).

Angels 5, Dodgers 0 Los Angeles (A) ab r hbi Calhon rf 4 1 1 0 Trout cf 4 1 1 1 Pujols 1b 4 0 2 1 JHmltn lf 4 1 1 1 Aybar ss 4 1 1 0 HKndrc 2b 4 1 0 0 Freese 3b 4 0 1 1 JMcDnl 3b 0 0 0 0 Conger c 4 0 0 0 Richrds p 4 0 0 0

Totals

Los Angeles (N) ab r hbi DGordn 2b 4 0 1 0 Puig cf 4 0 0 0 AdGnzl 1b 4 0 0 0 HRmrz ss 4 0 1 0 Kemp rf 3 0 0 0 Crwfrd lf 4 0 2 0 Uribe 3b 3 0 1 0 Frias p 0 0 0 0 Ethier ph 1 0 0 0 A.Ellis c 2 0 0 0 Greink p 2 0 0 0 JuTrnr 3b 1 0 0 0

36 5 7 4 Totals

32 0 5 0

Los Angeles (A) 400 001 000—5 Los Angeles (N) 000 000 000—0 E—H.Ramirez 2 (12). LOB—Los Angeles (A) 4, Los Angeles (N) 7. 2B—Trout (32), Pujols (26). HR—J.Hamilton (8). IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles (A) Richards W,12-4 9 5 0 0 2 9 Los Angeles (N) Greinke L,12-7 7 6 5 3 0 5 Frias 2 1 0 0 0 2 WP—Richards 2, Greinke 2. T—2:49. A—53,166 (56,000).

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL Aug. 5 1921 — Pittsburgh radio station KDKA and announcer Harold Arlin provided listeners with the first broadcast of a major league game. The Pirates beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5. 1940 — John Whitehead of the St. Louis Browns pitched a rain-shortened, six-inning no-hitter for a 4-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers in the second game of a doubleheader. 2001 — The Cleveland Indians tied a major league record and became the first team in 76 years to overcome a 12-run deficit to win, defeating the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in 11 innings. Jolbert Cabrera’s broken-bat, one-out single in the 11th, the 40th hit of the game, scored Kenny Lofton from second with the winning run to end the 4-hour, 11-minute game. The Indians, who fell behind 12-0 after three innings, trailed 14-2 when they batted in the seventh. 2005 — Albert Pujols became the first player in major league history to hit 30 home runs in each of his first five seasons, helping the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Atlanta Braves 11-3. Pujols hit a two-run shot in the first for his 190th homer since breaking in with the Cardinals in 2001.

TENNIS TENNIS

FOOTBALL FOOTBALL

ATP WORLD TOUR Rogers Cup A U.S. Open Series event Monday At Rexall Centre Toronto Purse: $3.147 million (Masters 1000) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles First Round Marin Cilic (15), Croatia, def. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5. Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Federico Delbonis, Argentina, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Benoit Paire, France, def. Alejandro Falla, Colombia, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2. Julien Benneteau, France, def. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, 6-1, 6-2. Kevin Anderson, South Africa, def. Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australia, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. Tim Smyczek, United States, def. Tobias Kamke, Germany, 6-3, 6-2. Michael Russell, United States, def. Nicolas Mahut, France, 6-3, 6-3. Jo-Wilfred Tsonga (13), France, def. Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, 7-6 (3), 6-1. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, def. John Isner (10), United States, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3. Feliciano Lopez, Spain, def. Roberto Bautista Agut (14), Spain, 7-6 (7), 6-3. Peter Polansky, Canada, def. Jerzy Janowicz, Poland, 7-6 (5), 6-4. Doubles First Round Fabio Fognini, Italy, and Mariusz Fyrstenberg, Poland, def. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, and Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, 6-3, 6-1.

WTA TOUR Coupe Rogers A U.S. Open Series event Monday At Uniprix Stadium Montreal Purse: $2.44 million (Premier) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles First Round Sabine Lisicki, Germany, def. Sara Errani (13), Italy, 6-1, 7-5. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Roberta Vinci, Italy, 7-5, 7-5. Klara Koukalova, Czech Republic, def. Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, 7-5, 7-6 (5). Alize Cornet, France, def. Lauren Davis, United States, 6-3, 7-5. Shelby Rogers, United States, def. Ajla Tomljanovic, Croatia, 6-4, 7-6 (5). Heather Watson, Britain, def. Tereza Smitkova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. Lucie Safarova (15), Czech Republic, def. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 6-4, 6-2. Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, def. Alison Riske, United States, 6-1, 6-3. Dominika Cibulkova (10), Slovakia, def. Francoise Abanda, Canada, 6-1, 3-6, 6-0. Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, def. Flavia Pennetta (12), Italy, 7-6 (5), 6-3. Sloane Stephens, United States, def. Aleksandra Wozniak, Canada, 6-3, 6-0. Doubles First Round Carolina Garcia, France, and Alicja Rosolska, Poland, def. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, and Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-4. Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan, Taiwan, def. Julia Goerges and AnnaLena Groenefeld, Germany, 6-1, 6-4. Karolina and Kristyna Pliskova, Czech Republic, def. Marina Erakovic, New Zealand, and Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, 6-4, 7-5.

WTA TOUR Money Leaders Through Aug. 3 1. Maria Sharapova 2. Li Na 3. Petra Kvitova 4. Simona Halep 5. Eugenie Bouchard 6. Serena Williams 7. Agnieszka Radwanska 8. Dominika Cibulkova 9. Sara Errani 10. Flavia Pennetta 11. Lucie Safarova 12. Angelique Kerber 13. Roberta Vinci 14. Ana Ivanovic 15. Andrea Petkovic 16. Ekaterina Makarova 17. Carla Suarez Navarro 18. Jelena Jankovic 19. Peng Shuai 20. Garbine Muguruza

$3,873,460 $3,409,885 $3,397,804 $3,253,277 $2,611,807 $2,139,508 $1,823,807 $1,823,199 $1,802,757 $1,585,499 $1,267,791 $1,261,636 $1,174,752 $1,157,607 $1,096,196 $1,030,800 $982,479 $950,321 $937,506 $843,308

Schedule H-hard, RC-red clay, GC-green clay, G-grass Aug. 11-17 Western & Southern Open, Mason, Ohio, HO Aug. 17-23 Connecticut Open, New Haven, Conn., HO

No. 1 Ranked Players Through Aug. 3 Player, Weeks, First No. 1 Steffi Graf 377 Aug. 17, 1987 Martina Navratilova 332 July 10, 1978 Chris Evert 260 Nov. 3, 1975 Martina Hingis 209March 31, 1997 Serena Williams 200 July 8, 2002 Monica Seles 178 March 11, 1991 Justine Henin 117 Oct. 20, 2003 Lindsay Davenport 98 Oct. 12, 1998 Caroline Wozniacki 67 Oct. 11, 2010 Victoria Azarenka 51 Jan. 30, 2012 Amelie Mauresmo 39 Sep. 13, 2004 Dinara Safina 26 April 20, 2009 Tracy Austin 21 April 7, 1980 Maria Sharapova 21 Aug. 22, 2005 Kim Clijsters 20 Aug. 11, 2003 Jelena Jankovic 18 Aug. 11, 2008 Jennifer Capriati 17 Oct. 15, 2001 Ana Ivanovic 12 June 9, 2008 Arantxa Snchz-Vicario 12 Feb. 6, 1995 Venus Williams 11 Feb. 25, 2002 Evonne Goolagong 2 April 26, 1976

ATP WORLD TOUR Money Leaders Through Aug. 3 1. Novak Djokovic 2. Rafael Nadal 3. Stan Wawrinka 4. Roger Federer 5. Tomas Berdych 6. Milos Raonic 7. Grigor Dimitrov 8. Kei Nishikori 9. Andy Murray 10. David Ferrer 11. Ernests Gulbis 12. Marin Cilic 13. Kevin Anderson 14. Roberto Bautista Agut 15. Feliciano Lopez 16. John Isner 17. Alexandr Dolgopolov 18. Fabio Fognini 19. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 20. Leonardo Mayer

$7,198,210 $6,071,366 $3,896,458 $3,884,288 $2,138,781 $2,033,693 $1,989,397 $1,853,999 $1,656,604 $1,616,504 $1,531,845 $1,253,653 $1,057,948 $1,035,117 $986,581 $978,479 $943,652 $922,412 $911,440 $869,611

Schedule H-hard, C-clay, G-grass Aug. 11-17 Western & Southern Open, Mason, Ohio, HO Aug. 17-23 Winston-Salem Open, Winston-Salem, N.C., HO Aug. 25-Sept. 8 U.S. Open, New York, HO

GOLF GOLF

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

W 0 0 0 0 W 0 0 0 0 W 0 0 0 0 W 0 0 0 0

L 0 0 0 1 L 0 0 0 0 L 0 0 0 0 L 0 0 0 0

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

Pct .000 .000 .000 .000 Pct .000 .000 .000 .000 Pct .000 .000 .000 .000 Pct .000 .000 .000 .000

PF 0 0 0 13 PF 0 0 0 0 PF 0 0 0 0 PF 0 0 0 0

PGA TOUR FedExCup Standings PA 0 0 0 17 PA 0 0 0 0 PA 0 0 0 0 PA 0 0 0 0

National Conference East W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants 1 0 0 1.000 17 13 Dallas 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Philadelphia 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Washington 0 0 0 .000 0 0 South W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Carolina 0 0 0 .000 0 0 New Orleans 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 .000 0 0 North W L T Pct PF PA Chicago 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Detroit 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Green Bay 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Minnesota 0 0 0 .000 0 0 West W L T Pct PF PA Arizona 0 0 0 .000 0 0 San Francisco 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Seattle 0 0 0 .000 0 0 St. Louis 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Sunday’s Game N.Y. Giants 17, Buffalo 13 Week One Thursday, Aug. 7 Indianapolis at N.Y. Jets, 5 p.m. New England at Washington, 5:30 p.m. San Francisco at Baltimore, 5:30 p.m. Cincinnati at Kansas City, 6 p.m. Seattle at Denver, 7 p.m. Dallas at San Diego, 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8 Miami at Atlanta, 5 p.m. Buffalo at Carolina, 5:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Jacksonville, 5:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Chicago, 6 p.m. Oakland at Minnesota, 6 p.m. New Orleans at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 Cleveland at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at N.Y. Giants, 5:30 p.m. Green Bay at Tennessee, 6 p.m. Houston at Arizona, 6:30 p.m.

ARENA FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS Conference Championships Sunday, Aug. 10 National Conference San Jose at Arizona, 6 p.m. American Conference Orlando at Cleveland, 1 p.m. First Round Sunday, Aug. 3 National Conference Arizona 52, Portland 48 American Conference Orlando 56, Pittsburgh 48 Saturday, Aug. 2 National Conference San Jose 55, Spokane 28 American Conference Cleveland 39, Philadelphia 37 ArenaBowl At Orlando, Fla. Saturday, Aug. 23 American champion vs. National champion, 6 p.m.

SOCCER SOCCER NORTH AMERICA Major League Soccer East W L T Pts GF GA Kansas City 11 5 6 39 32 20 D.C. United 11 6 4 37 32 21 Toronto 8 7 5 29 29 28 New York 6 6 10 28 35 33 Columbus 6 7 9 27 26 28 New England 8 12 2 26 29 35 Philadelphia 5 8 9 24 34 36 Houston 6 11 4 22 23 40 Chicago 3 5 13 22 28 34 Montreal 3 13 5 14 21 39 West W L T Pts GF GA Seattle 12 6 2 38 35 28 Salt Lake 9 4 9 36 33 27 Los Angeles 9 4 6 33 32 17 Dallas 9 7 6 33 35 31 Colorado 8 8 6 30 31 28 Vancouver 6 4 11 29 31 29 Portland 6 7 9 27 36 38 San Jose 6 8 5 23 23 20 Chivas USA 6 10 5 23 21 34 Wednesday, Aug. 6 Bayern Munchen at MLS All-Stars, 9:30 p.m. Sunday’s Games Houston 1, D.C. United 0 Dallas 1, Chivas USA 0 Friday, Aug. 8 San Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 Montreal at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Toronto at Columbus, 5:30 p.m. Colorado at Dallas, 7 p.m. D.C. United at Salt Lake, 8 p.m. Chivas USA at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

BASKETBALL BASKETBALL WNBA Eastern Conference Atlanta Indiana Washington New York Chicago Connecticut

W 17 13 13 12 12 11

L 10 15 15 15 16 18

Pct .630 .464 .464 .444 .429 .379

AUTO RACING AUTO RACING

GB — 4½ 4½ 5 5½ 7

Western Conference W L Pct GB x-Phoenix 23 4 .852 — x-Minnesota 22 6 .786 1½ Los Angeles 13 15 .464 10½ San Antonio 13 16 .448 11 Tulsa 10 19 .345 14 Seattle 10 20 .333 14½ x-clinched playoff spot Monday: No games scheduled. Tuesday’s Games Chicago at Connecticut, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Indiana, 5 p.m. New York at Washington, 5 p.m. Atlanta at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Tulsa at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

THIS DATE ONON THIS DATE August 5 1999 — Mark McGwire becomes the 16th member of the 500-home run club, hitting two homers — Nos. 500 and 501 — in the St. Louis Cardinals’ loss to San Diego. 2012 — Jamaica’s Usain Bolt wins the 100 meters at the London Games. Only about fifth in the field of eight halfway through, Bolt surges to finish in 9.63 seconds, an Olympic record that lets him join Carl Lewis as the only men to win the event twice.

Through Aug. 3 Pts 1. Jimmy Walker 2,407 2. Bubba Watson 2,167 3. Rory McIlroy 1,982 4. Matt Kuchar 1,921 5. Dustin Johnson 1,769 6. Jim Furyk 1,736 7. Jordan Spieth 1,692 8. Sergio Garcia 1,666 9. Patrick Reed 1,612 10. Chris Kirk 1,571 11. Zach Johnson 1,551 12. Brendon Todd 1,541 13. Martin Kaymer 1,525 14. Harris English 1,469 15. Webb Simpson 1,436 16. Adam Scott 1,426 17. Kevin Na 1,413 18. Ryan Moore 1,400 19. Justin Rose 1,400 20. Brian Harman 1,320 21. Rickie Fowler 1,291 22. Keegan Bradley 1,278 23. H. Matsuyama 1,253 24. Matt Every 1,250 25. John Senden 1,157 26. Marc Leishman 1,118 27. Tim Clark 1,068 28. Kevin Stadler 1,062 29. Gary Woodland 1,059 30. Graham DeLaet 1,059 31. C. Howell III 1,042 32. C. Hoffman 1,026 33. J.B. Holmes 1,001 34. Bill Haas 980 35. Jason Day 974 36. Kevin Streelman 972 37. George McNeill 962 38. Ryan Palmer 953 39. Matt Jones 950 40. Seung-Yul Noh 950 41. G. McDowell 929 42. Will MacKenzie 920 43. Justin Hicks 912 44. Russell Knox 885 45. Russell Henley 864 46. Brian Stuard 854 47. D. Summerhays 832 48. Chris Stroud 829 49. Steven Bowditch 817 50. K.J. Choi 814

NASCAR SPRINT CUP Points Leaders

Money $5,074,340 $5,166,661 $5,165,896 $4,129,969 $4,249,180 $4,268,095 $3,854,682 $4,326,180 $3,562,590 $3,016,867 $2,970,955 $3,153,495 $4,007,537 $2,898,822 $2,999,661 $3,262,804 $2,762,427 $3,029,563 $3,409,734 $2,318,354 $3,362,317 $2,697,889 $2,481,924 $2,506,290 $2,275,285 $2,498,295 $1,989,278 $2,128,054 $2,222,419 $2,269,612 $1,853,837 $1,912,449 $2,147,304 $1,687,978 $2,463,018 $2,007,480 $1,914,991 $1,835,452 $1,869,712 $1,842,371 $1,983,955 $1,812,878 $1,532,401 $1,350,830 $1,748,520 $1,659,799 $1,360,448 $1,652,025 $1,612,369 $1,608,178

PGA TOUR Statistics Through Aug. 3 Scoring Average 1, Sergio Garcia, 68.739. 2, Rory McIlroy, 69.057. 3, Adam Scott, 69.323. 4, Matt Kuchar, 69.343. 5, Graeme McDowell, 69.434. 6, Jim Furyk, 69.460. 7, Dustin Johnson, 69.546. 8, Bubba Watson, 69.671. 9, Charl Schwartzel, 69.700. 10, Justin Rose, 69.718. Driving Distance 1, Bubba Watson, 314.8. 2, Dustin Johnson, 311.0. 3, Rory McIlroy, 310.3. 4, J.B. Holmes, 308.2. 5, Andrew Loupe, 306.8. 6, Brooks Koepka, 306.2. 7, Robert Garrigus, 305.5. 8, Jason Kokrak, 304.7. 9, Jhonattan Vegas, 304.6. 10, Charles Howell III, 304.2. Driving Accuracy Percentage 1, Joe Durant, 75.92%. 2, David Toms, 74.97%. 3, Tim Clark, 74.58%. 4, Justin Hicks, 73.56%. 5, Heath Slocum, 72.25%. 6, Jim Furyk, 71.26%. 7, Paul Goydos, 71.01%. 8, Zach Johnson, 70.45%. 9, Ken Duke, 70.43%. 10, Billy Hurley III, 70.34%. Greens in Regulation Percentage 1, Chad Campbell, 72.44%. 2, Justin Hicks, 71.25%. 3, Graham DeLaet, 70.94%. 4, Sergio Garcia, 70.11%. 5, J.J. Henry, 69.41%. 6, Billy Horschel, 69.28%. 7, Joe Durant, 69.09%. 8, Harris English, 68.97%. 9, Ryan Moore, 68.89%. 10, Rory McIlroy, 68.81%. Total Driving 1, Shawn Stefani, 66. 2 (tie), Henrik Stenson and Adam Scott, 81. 4 (tie), Hunter Mahan and Graham DeLaet, 82. 6, Lucas Glover, 83. 7, Derek Ernst, 85. 8, Hudson Swafford, 87. 9, Nick Watney, 90. 10, Kevin Chappell, 95. Strokes Gained - Putting 1, Matt Every, .911. 2, Aaron Baddeley, .905. 3, Brendon Todd, .879. 4, Greg Chalmers, .873. 5, Graeme McDowell, .872. 6, Freddie Jacobson, .833. 7, Jimmy Walker, .700. 8, Webb Simpson, .678. 9, Luke Donald, .620. 10, Matt Kuchar, .569. Birdie Average 1, Rory McIlroy, 4.59. 2, Jimmy Walker, 4.24. 3, Adam Scott, 4.19. 4, Hideki Matsuyama, 4.12. 5, Sergio Garcia, 4.10. 6, Dustin Johnson, 4.05. 7 (tie), Charley Hoffman and Bubba Watson, 4.04. 9, Charl Schwartzel, 3.98. 10, Chris Stroud, 3.97. Eagles (Holes per) 1, Justin Rose, 85.1. 2, Will MacKenzie, 87.4. 3 (tie), Miguel Angel Carballo and Billy Horschel, 102.0. 5, Bubba Watson, 106.0. 6, Patrick Reed, 109.6. 7, Stewart Cink, 112.2. 8, Steven Bowditch, 112.5. 9, Dustin Johnson, 114.0. 10, Matt Jones, 114.5. Sand Save Percentage 1, Vijay Singh, 64.04%. 2, Tim Clark, 63.55%. 3, Mike Weir, 62.16%. 4, Charlie Wi, 61.54%. 5, Justin Leonard, 60.58%. 6, Bill Haas, 60.42%.

INTERNATIONAL World Golf Ranking Through Aug. 3 1. Rory McIlroy NIR 2. Adam Scott AUS 3. Sergio Garcia ESP 4. Henrik Stenson SWE 5. Justin Rose ENG 6. Matt Kuchar USA 7. Bubba Watson USA 8. Jim Furyk USA 9. Jason Day AUS 10. Tiger Woods USA 11. Jordan Spieth USA 12. Martin Kaymer GER 13. Phil Mickelson USA 14. Zach Johnson USA 15. Graeme McDowell NIR 16. Hideki Matsuyama JPN 17. Dustin Johnson USA 18. Rickie Fowler USA 19. Charl Schwartzel RSA 20. Jimmy Walker USA 21. Keegan Bradley USA 22. Victor Dubuisson FRA 23. Steve Stricker USA 24. Thomas Bjorn DEN 25. Patrick Reed USA 26. Luke Donald ENG 27. Jason Dufner USA 28. Miguel Angel Jimenez ESP 29. Ian Poulter ENG 30. Webb Simpson USA 31. Stephen Gallacher SCO 32. Jamie Donaldson WAL 33. Thongchai Jaidee THA 34. Lee Westwood ENG 35. Brandt Snedeker USA 36. Kevin Na USA 37. Ryan Moore USA 38. Bill Haas USA 39. Marc Leishman AUS 40. Graham DeLaet CAN 41. Brendon Todd USA 42. Kevin Streelman USA 43. Francesco Molinari ITA 44. Chris Kirk USA 45. Hunter Mahan USA 46. Jonas Blixt SWE 47. Joost Luiten NED 48. Gary Woodland USA 49. Harris English USA 50. Matt Every USA

9.41 9.24 7.78 7.67 7.46 6.77 6.68 6.48 6.19 5.91 5.69 5.38 5.15 5.02 4.90 4.88 4.83 4.79 4.17 4.15 4.15 3.88 3.88 3.84 3.76 3.74 3.73 3.48 3.46 3.40 3.35 3.33 3.24 3.20 3.18 3.15 3.09 3.09 3.06 3.04 2.99 2.92 2.85 2.75 2.73 2.62 2.59 2.57 2.57 2.56

Through Aug. 3 1. Jeff Gordon, 757. 2. Dale Earnhardt Jr., 740. 3. Brad Keselowski, 687. 4. Matt Kenseth, 668. 5. Ryan Newman, 642. 6. Jimmie Johnson, 633. 7. Joey Logano, 633. 8. Carl Edwards, 618. 9. Clint Bowyer, 617. 10. Kyle Busch, 611. 11. Kevin Harvick, 608. 12. Kyle Larson, 595. 13. Greg Biffle, 590. 14. Kasey Kahne, 589. 15. Austin Dillon, 588. 16. Paul Menard, 562. 17. Marcos Ambrose, 541. 18. Brian Vickers, 539. 19. Tony Stewart, 537. 20. Jamie McMurray, 536.

Money Leaders Through Aug. 3 1. Brad Keselowski, $4,774,247 2. Jeff Gordon, $4,537,170 3. Dale Earnhardt Jr., $4,463,649 4. Jimmie Johnson, $4,384,000 5. Jamie McMurray, $4,172,813 6. Kevin Harvick, $4,088,052 7. Matt Kenseth, $4,062,004 8. Kyle Busch, $4,040,797 9. Joey Logano, $4,013,780 10. Denny Hamlin, $3,885,911 11. Greg Biffle, $3,453,774 12. Austin Dillon, $3,377,221 13. Clint Bowyer, $3,317,192 14. Paul Menard, $3,255,934 15. Aric Almirola, $3,251,201 16. Brian Vickers, $3,250,083 17. Carl Edwards, $3,242,597 18. Tony Stewart, $3,178,572 19. Kyle Larson, $3,132,810 20. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., $3,075,815

Schedule Aug. 10 — Cheez-It 355 at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. Aug. 17 — Pure Michigan 400, Brooklyn, Mich. Aug. 23 — Irwin Tools Night Race, Bristol, Tenn. Aug. 31 — Atlanta 500, Hampton, Ga. Sept. 6 — Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond, Va. Sept. 14 — MyAFibStory.com 400, Joliet, Ill. Sept. 21 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H. Sept. 28 — AAA 400, Dover, Del. Oct. 5 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 11 — Bank of America 500, Concord, N.C. Oct. 19 — GEICO 500, Talladega, Ala. Oct. 26 — Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500, Ridgeway, Va. Nov. 2 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 9 — Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500, Avondale, Ariz. Nov. 16 — Ford EcoBoost 400, Homestead, Fla.

NASCAR NATIONWIDE Points Leaders Through Aug. 2 1. Chase Elliott, 714. 2. Regan Smith, 712. 3. Elliott Sadler, 702. 4. Ty Dillon, 702. 5. Trevor Bayne, 673. 6. Brian Scott, 673. 7. Chris Buescher, 586. 8. Brendan Gaughan, 584. 9. Ryan Reed, 538. 10. James Buescher, 533. 11. Landon Cassill, 524. 12. Dylan Kwasniewski, 510. 13. Dakoda Armstrong, 472. 14. Mike Bliss, 447. 15. Jeremy Clements, 440.

Money Leaders Through Aug. 2 1. Chase Elliott, $703,023 2. Regan Smith, $675,393 3. Kyle Busch, $657,925 4. Trevor Bayne, $644,068 5. Elliott Sadler, $593,149 6. Kyle Larson, $591,539 7. Ty Dillon, $584,153 8. Brian Scott, $543,233 9. Brendan Gaughan, $523,648 10. Ryan Sieg, $497,623 11. Ryan Reed, $490,543 12. Dylan Kwasniewski, $488,893 13. James Buescher, $477,003 14. Landon Cassill, $475,296 15. Chris Buescher, $471,518

Schedule Aug. 9 — Zippo 200, Watkins Glen, N.Y. Aug. 16 — Nationwide Children’s Hospital 200, Lexington, Ohio Aug. 22 — Food City 250, Bristol, Tenn. Aug. 30 — Great Clips 300, Hampton, Ga. Sept. 5 — Virginia 529 College Savings 250, Richmond, Va. Sept. 13 — Jimmy John’s Freaky Fast 300, Joliet, Ill. Sept. 20 — VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300, Sparta, Ky. Sept. 27 — Dover 200, Dover, Del. Oct. 4 — Kansas Lottery 300, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 10 — Charlotte 300, Concord, N.C. Nov. 1 — O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 8 — Phoenix 200, Avondale, Ariz. Nov. 15 — Ford EcoBoost 300, Homestead, Fla.

FORMULA ONE Points Leaders Through July 27 1. Nico Rosberg, 202. 2. Lewis Hamilton, 191. 3. Daniel Ricciardo, 131. 4. Fernando Alonso, 115. 5. Valtteri Bottas, 95. 6. Sebastian Vettel, 88. 7. Nico Hulkenberg, 69. 8. Jenson Button, 60. 9. Felipe Massa, 40. 10. Kevin Magnussen, 37. 11. Sergio Perez, 29. 12. Kimi Raikkonen, 27. 13. Jean-Eric Vergne, 11. 14. Romain Grosjean, 8. 15. Daniil Kvyat, 6.

Schedule Aug. 24 — Belgian Grand Prix, SpaFrancorchamps Sept. 7 — Italian Grand Prix, Monza

INDYCAR Points Leaders Through Aug. 3 1. Will Power, 548. 2. Helio Castroneves, 544. 3. Ryan Hunter-Reay, 485. 4. Simon Pagenaud, 484. 5. Juan Pablo Montoya, 447. 6. Scott Dixon, 440. 7. Carlos Munoz, 416. 8. Sebastien Bourdais, 400. 9. Tony Kanaan, 389. 10. Marco Andretti, 383. 11. Ryan Briscoe, 368. 12. James Hinchcliffe, 366. 13. Charlie Kimball, 343. 14. Justin Wilson, 326. 15. Mikhail Aleshin, 314.

Schedule Aug. 17 — ABC Supply Wisconsin 250, West Allis, Wis. Aug. 24 — GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, Sonoma, Calif.

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Angels rout Dodgers in series opener The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Garrett Richards pitched a five-hitter for his first career shutout, Mike Trout Angels 5 and Albert Pujols had Dodgers 0 RBI doubles in a four-run first inning, and the Los Angeles Angels opened the Freeway Series with a 5-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night. Josh Hamilton homered in the sixth for the Angels, who improved the majors’ secondbest record to 67-44 with their seventh win in 10 games. Richards (12-4) was dominant in his first nine-inning complete game, striking out nine and retiring 15 of 16 in the middle innings with a fastball regularly hitting 98 mph. He finished his first victory in four starts by getting pinch-hitter Andre Ethier on a groundout. Richards outpitched Zack Greinke (12-7), who has just one victory in his last five starts. Greinke yielded six hits and three earned runs in seven innings despite giving up just two hits after that messy first inning. The NL-leading Dodgers opened the home half of this four-game interleague matchup with just their third loss in 10 games. Los Angeles’ two teams both appear headed for the playoffs in the same season for the first time since 2009, with the Dodgers sitting atop the NL standings and the Angels chasing down the Oakland Athletics for the majors’ best record. INDIANS 7, REDS 1 In Cleveland, Corey Kluber allowed one run in 7⅓ innings to win his fifth straight decision and lead the Indians over Cincinnati. Kluber (12-6), who hasn’t lost since June 30, held the Reds to six hits, struck out seven and walked two. Kluber’s 17-inning scoreless streak ended in the eighth on Brayan Pena’s RBI double off reliever Nick Hagadone. Lonnie Chisenhall hit a three-run homer in the fourth off Alfredo Simon (12-7). Yan Gomes hit a two-run homer in

morning workout that beat the elements. By time the team re-convened in the middle of the afternoon, a slow drizzle turned into something more before too long. It forced the players off the field after 45 minutes, then pushed them indoors for the rest of the day. “It was actually kind of nice not to be out in the heat,” said St. Michael’s head coach Joey Fernandez. “It’s always so hot when we start practice every year, so it was a nice change.” A mile down Siringo Road, Santa Fe High never actually got outside. The Demons stayed indoors for their first practice. At center court of Toby Roybal Memorial Gymnasium, the quarterbacks practiced drop-back passes and throwing on the run while around the concourse, the linemen went through agility drills. Over in the corner, the specialists caught balls and wove through pads laid out on the hardwood floor. Head coach Ray Holladay

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Los Angeles Angels’ Mike Trout, front, and Los Angeles Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig embrace before Monday’s game in Los Angeles. DANNY MOLOSHOK/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

u Fort Marcy Complex is holding a summer camp for boys and girls ages 8-12 from Monday to Friday. The camp will focus on various sports (tennis, basketball, volleyball, track and field, swimming, etc.) and runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday. Cost is $75 per participant and registration can be done at the Fort Marcy Sports Section Office. For more information, call Greg Fernandez at 955-2509 or Phil Montano at 955-2508.

Soccer the eighth as Cleveland won its fourth straight. AMERICAN LEAGUE WHITE SOX 5, RANGERS (7 INNINGS, RAIN) In Chicago, Tyler Flowers homered and drove in three runs, and Jose Abreu had two hits and two RBIs to lead the White Sox to a rain-shortened victory over Texas. The game was called in the bottom of the seventh inning following a 57-minute delay. Flowers went 3 for 3 and was a double shy of a cycle. He scored two runs as the White Sox snapped a two-game losing streak. Abreu, who has 86 RBIs, went 2 for 3 on a day when he named the American League’s player and rookie of the month for July. The Cuban slugger also won both awards in April and is the only rookie to win the player of the month award twice. Rougned Odor had a two-run homer for Texas, which has lost four straight. Hector Noesi (6-8) bounced back from a rough outing at Detroit in his last start — six runs in six innings — to allow one earned run and four hits in seven innings. YANKEES 2, TIGERS 1 In New York, Brandon McCar-

thy won his fourth start in a row with a gritty effort, and the Yankees took the first of three straight matchups against Detroit’s Cy Young Award winners, beating Max Scherzer and the Tigers. Brian McCann hit an RBI single and Jacoby Ellsbury had a sacrifice fly in the third inning. Center fielder Ezequiel Carrera made a sensational catch on Ellsbury’s deep drive with the bases loaded. McCarthy (4-0) allowed five hits and an unearned run in 5⅔ innings. The Yankees have won each of his five starts since being acquired from Arizona. David Robertson was perfect in the ninth for his 30th save. Scherzer (13-4) gave up nine hits over seven innings in losing for the first time since June 17, a span of eight starts. Newly acquired David Price starts Tuesday night for Detroit and Justin Verlander pitches Wednesday night. NATIONAL LEAGUE ORIOLES 7, NATIONALS 3 In Washington, Caleb Joseph homered and drove in three runs, J.J. Hardy had four hits and Baltimore beat the Nationals in a duel between neighboring first-place teams. Nick Markakis homered for the Orioles, who trailed 3-1 before rallying for their eighth

win in 11 games. Hardy and Ryan Flaherty opened the seventh with successive doubles off Tanner Roark (11-7) to tie it at 3. Delmon Young followed with an RBI single — making him 9 for 17 as a pinch-hitter this season — and Adam Jones capped the uprising with a run-scoring single. Kevin Gausman (6-3) pitched six innings. The game was a makeup of a rainout on July 8. A sellout crowd of 42,181 — many of them wearing Oriole orange — showed up to watch teams located just 38 miles apart on I-295. GIANTS 4, METS 3 In New York, Pablo Sandoval drove in three runs and got three hits, including an RBI double with two outs in the ninth inning that sent San Francisco over the Mets. The Giants took three of four at Citi Field. The Mets lost a home series for the first time since June 10-12 against Milwaukee. Sandoval hit a two-run double in the third, then delivered again in the ninth off Jenrry Mejia (5-4). Sergio Romo (5-3) got the win with one scoreless inning and Santiago Casilla pitched a perfect ninth for his ninth save.

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said he kept his players inside when lightning strikes began falling within the 8-mile radius that mandates practice be halted for 20 minutes after each occurrence. “We’d start the clock and then another one would hit three miles away, then another five miles away,” he said. “We can wait all day or just come inside and get some work done.” The Demons will certainly need the work since they will jump into the new Class AAAAAA this fall, putting them in the same district as four of the most consistent programs in the big-school classification. Per the guidelines laid forth by the New Mexico Activities Association, high school teams must conduct eight workouts before being allowed to go fullcontact. That means, no team can get into full pads before Friday, a change from the usual six practices employed before this year. Other limitations prohibit teams from more than 90 minutes of full-contact

practices per player each week. Players are also prohibited from no more than 30 minutes of full contact each day. The new protocols are designed to limit injuries, heat stroke and reduce concussions.” It’s actually not that big of a change, because most teams were holding back like that anyway,” Fernandez said. Players will remain in helmets, T-shirts and shorts through at least Tuesday, then be allowed to conduct a pair of workouts in helmets and shoulder pads no later than Thursday. By Friday, it’s essentially go time. For Fernandez and the Horsemen, just being back on the field after what had been an excruciating offseason made Monday’s miserable weather a lot easier to deal with. St. Michael’s has gone 10-0 each of the last three regular seasons but only won the Class AAA state title once. Last year’s quarterfinal exit at home, a shocking upset loss to Las Vegas Robertson in the snow at

home, provided the incentive to get back out there again. “It’s been a long offseason,” Fernandez said. “We were all anxious to get back on the field. That anxiety was pretty high considering the way it all ended last year.” WHAT GIVES? The annual Demons-Horsemen game was originally scheduled for 7 p.m. Aug. 28 at Ivan Head Stadium. That’s a Friday, the same night as the burning of Zozobra. The schools decided to move the game, but now they can’t agree when it should be played. Santa Fe High wants it to be on Thursday, Aug. 27, at Ivan Head. Holladay said he doesn’t want a short week to prepare for the team’s second game the following Friday at home against Grants. St. Michael’s wants the game to be on Saturday, Aug. 29, either at the Christian Brothers Athletic Complex in the afternoon or at Ivan Head that night. The Horsemen are technically the home team, so ultimately it may come down to what St. Michael’s decides.

All Stars: Players confident about chances Continued from Page B-1 showing up to practice to pick up girls. The girls have become young ladies.” Years of building chemistry certainly helps, but this group also has softball on it’s mind year-round, and practice isn’t limited to team gatherings. “Some of us hit the tee at home, and some of us go to pitching practice early,” New Mexico’s Samantha Montaño said. “We pretty much work all day, and we pretty much don’t do anything else all summer.” Summers are filled with softball tourna-

ments all over New Mexico, Colorado and Texas, and the team occasionally plays up to 10 games in one weekend. The summers are so busy that there is hardly any time for relaxation. “Our vacation is typically in Lubbock or Amarillo,” Montaño said. The grind has now set New Mexico up with a golden opportunity to play on the world stage. Being that its opponent has to win two games on Wednesday, the players are confident about their chances, but more than that, they are confident in teammates they have grown up with.

“When we play as a team, nobody can beat us,” Montaño said. “Teams fight, but we don’t really fight, we pick each other up. It gives us confidence to know that if we mess up, someone else has got your back.” As the players grow, so do the expectations. They already know what its like to compete with the region’s best, but now they want to see what the next level has to offer. “Last year, we were glad to make it to regionals, but this year we want to go further because we’ve already been here,” Montaño said.

u Registration for the Northern Soccer Club is open. The season begins on Sept. 13 for boys and girls ages 3-13, with matches at The Downs at Santa Fe every Saturday through Nov. 1. Cost is $75, and includes uniforms, matches and coaching. For more information, go to www.northensc.org, or call Kristi at 982-0878, ext 1. The Northern Soccer Club is introducing its Academy program for motivated and talented youth players from ages 8-13. Player assessments will be held at The Downs at Santa Fe on Aug. 25 for boys and Aug. 26 for girls. For more information, go to www. northernsc.org, or call Marina at 982-0878, ext. 4.

Running u Santa Fe Waldorf will hold its inaugural Wolf Pack Trail Run on Sept. 13 at the school. The event features runs of 10, 5 and 3 kilometers. Entry fee is $25 for adults and $10 per child. All proceeds go toward the athletic department. To register, go to nmsports online.com or santafewaldorf.org/trailrun. For more information, call Greg Smith at 690-2761 or email trailrun@santafewaldorf.org. u The third annual Gonzales Community School Lobos River Run will be Sept. 28 at the school. The event includes a 5-kilometer run and a 1-mile community fun run/walk. Proceeds benefit related PTA-sponsored enrichment activities. To register, email gonzalespta@gmail.com visit to www.gcspta.org. u The Pecos middle school and high school cross country programs and Glorieta Camps will hold its first 5-kilometer race and 1K fun run at 8 a.m. Aug. 16 at the Glorieta Camps. Cost is $20 for the 5K event, and $5 for the 1K fun run. Pre-registration will be conducted until Aug. 13, and race-day registration will end at 7:45 a.m. Registration forms can be found at www.pecos.k12. nm.us. For more information, call Victor Ortiz at 913-0188, or Patrick Ortiz at 913-1580.

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Isotopes rout Tacoma Rainiers, snap five-game losing streak Mike Baxter’s RBI double in the bottom of the second inning sparked a five-run frame as the Albuquerque Isotopes snapped their losing streak with a 12-5 rout of visiting Tacoma on Monday night at Isotopes Park. Albuquerque (54-63) had lost five straight coming in, including the first two games of the four-game series against the Rainiers (59-58). Carlos Triunfel followed Baxter’s double with a grand slam, his third home run of the season. It erased an early 1-0 Tacoma lead. The Topes added three more runs in the third inning to open a commanding 8-1 lead. Baxter went 3-for-4 with three RBI while Jamie Romak added three hits and scored three times. Ale Guerrero had a pair of hits, as did Clint Robinson and Darwin Barney. Albuquerque had 15 hits for the game; all three of Baxter’s were doubles. Guerrero also homered, as did Johnny Monell and Romak. Romak’s blast was his 19th of the season. It was a solo shot that closed out the scoring. Drew Carpenter (3-1) got the win on the mound for the Isotopes. He pitched into the sixth, striking out four and giving up five runs, all earned. Taijuan Walker (4-3) was tagged with the loss for Tacoma. He couldn’t escape the third inning as he was charged with eight earned runs on eight hits and a walk. The teams wrap up their series Tuesday night at Isotopes Park. First pitch is scheduled for 6:05 p.m.

Source: U.S. cuts Wall, Beal, Millsap, down to 16 on team NEW YORK — The U.S. men’s national basketball team cut John Wall, Bradley Beal and Paul Millsap on Monday, a person with knowledge of the details said, leaving the roster at 16 players. With Paul George lost to a broken right leg, the Americans will have to drop four more players before the World Cup of Basketball starts later this month in Spain. The Americans made the cuts that had been planned for Saturday but delayed after George’s injury, the person told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the roster moves were to be announced Tuesday. They were first reported by Yahoo Sports. Remaining in the roster pool are: Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant, Chicago’s Derrick Rose, Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving, New Orleans’ Anthony Davis, Golden State’s Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, Houston’s James Harden, Atlanta’s Kyle Korver, Sacramento’s DeMarcus Cousins, Dallas’ Chandler Parsons, Utah’s Gordon Hayward, Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan, Portland’s Damian Lillard, Denver’s Kenneth Faried, Detroit’s Andre Drummond and Brooklyn’s Mason Plumlee. Wall and Beal, teammates in Washington, were part of a crowded backcourt that’s particularly deep at point guard, Wall’s position. Millsap, Atlanta’s All-Star forward, was the last player added to the roster of players who were invited to Las Vegas, Nev., for training camp. Staff and wire reports

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Tiger watch is on for final major By Doug Ferguson

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Joe LaCava walked nearly every blade of grass on the 18th green at Valhalla Golf Club, jotting notes in his yardage book after stepping off the distances from every edge of the green to every possible pin position. It was just like any other Monday at a major. The caddie just didn’t know whether any of this information would be useful in the PGA Championship. LaCava was awaiting word on whether his boss — Tiger Woods — would be healthy enough to play the final major of the year. “I’m optimistic,” LaCava said after he finished charting the entire golf course. “I’m hoping he plays. So I’m just doing whatever work I would normally do.” The caddie was at Valhalla. So was his car, a silver SUV parked in the spot assigned to the four-time major champion. As for Woods? Stay tuned. His agent, Mark Steinberg at Excel Sports Management, said in an email that Monday would be too early for doctors to decide whether Woods could or even should try to play this week after another back injury. The PGA of America said that Woods would not have his previously scheduled news conference Tuesday morning. It did not provide additional details. Woods took another turn toward an uncertain future when he withdrew after eight holes and one final shot Sunday at the Bridgestone Invitational. Before leaving Firestone, he said he jarred his back when he hopped into a deep bunker after playing a shot on the par-5 second hole from an awkward lie off the slope above the sand. “It’s just the whole lower back,” Woods said. “I don’t know what happened.” Making the picture look even bleaker was the timing. Woods had back surgery March 31 to alleviate the pain from a pinched nerve. The Bridgestone Invitational was only his third tournament since returning from a threemonth absence. And there he went again, riding off the golf course in a cart, struggling to even remove his shoes before LaCava drove him to the airport for a flight back to Florida

Phelps: Focusing on different events

A man walks past a photo of golfer Tiger Woods on Monday at the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. Whether Woods will play in the tournament, which is set to begin Thursday, is unclear after he suffered a setback Sunday when he was stricken with back pain and withdrew after eight holes from the Bridgestone Invitational. JEFF ROBERSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

for evaluation. “Obviously, I feel bad for him,” Rory McIlroy told the BBC on Monday. “The game of golf really needs Tiger. He’s had a few withdrawals the past couple of years. I think the first thing is just to get fit and 100 percent healthy, even if that means taking the year off and coming back next year ready to play golf.” If he doesn’t play the PGA Championship, his season indeed would be over. Woods has to win the final major of the year to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs. He would have to win to clinch a spot on the Ryder Cup team. And by the sound of U.S. captain Tom Watson, he would have to play at Valhalla to even merit consideration as a wildcard selection. “Tiger would be a great addition to our team,” Watson told SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio on Monday. “I’ve said all along, I would pick Tiger Woods if he’s healthy and playing well. This doesn’t bode well right now. I just hope that maybe it’s just an isolated

problem that he can turn around and possibly play this week at the PGA.” Watson said he watched the entire front nine and knew something was wrong with Woods after his tee shot on the par-3 fifth hole came up 65 yards short. “You don’t hit that terrible a shot ever — ever,” Watson said. “And I said, ‘Something is wrong.’ ” LaCava noticed it much earlier, when Woods hit a shot so heavy that it came up 30 yards short of the flag and into the water on the third hole. “I knew he was hurting when he fatted the one on 3, which he never does,” LaCava said. “He never fats them like that.” Woods kept playing, though, until grimacing on a tee shot at the ninth, slowly bending to remove his tee and calling for a cart to take him in. Why not stop sooner? “He’s tough,” LaCava said. “Tough and stubborn would be two good words.” Woods has not been back to Valhalla in 14 years, not

since that high-charged playoff victory over Bob May that gave Woods his third straight major on his way to an unprecedented sweep of the majors at the height of his game. Woods was recovering from seasonending knee surgery in 2008 and did not play in the Ryder Cup. The course has changed since, with Jack Nicklaus making various tweaks, especially around the green. The par is now 71 with the second hole changed to a par 4. Otherwise, it looked to be in immaculate conditions on the first day of practice. Phil Mickelson, coming off a 62 in the final round at Firestone, played nine holes. The practice range and chipping area were crowded with players. McIlroy already was back at work, having established himself as the overwhelming favorite coming off his wire-towire win at the British Open and rallying from three shots behind to win at Firestone. Still to be determined is whether Woods would be able to join them.

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Packers adding Favre to HOF in 2015 Ex-quarterback to have his jersey number retired The Associated Press

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Brett Favre is returning to Titletown. The quarterback, estranged from the franchise he helped resurrect during his 16-year career, will be inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame and have his number retired next July 18. Favre’s No. 4 will be unveiled on the Lambeau Field north end zone facade at halftime of a yet-to-be-determined game during the 2015 season. “I’m truly honored,” Favre said Monday via conference call from his home in Hattiesburg, Miss. “It is time to come back.” Favre, who holds virtually every meaningful NFL career quarterback record, famously retired at a tearful press conference in March 2008, only to change his mind and decide later that year that he still wanted to play, setting up an awkward showdown between him and the team he’d come to embody while winning three NFL MVP awards and leading the Packers to a Super Bowl title. He was traded to the New York Jets for what would end up being a third-round draft pick, an acrimonious parting of the ways that divided the Packers’ loyal fan base. After one year with the Jets, Favre retired a second time, only to join the rival Minnesota Vikings, for whom he played two seasons. Favre led the Vikings to two victories over the Packers during the 2009 season, when Minnesota advanced to the NFC championship game but lost to the eventual Super Bowl-champion New Orleans Saints. In 2010, the Packers beat Favre and the Vikings twice on their way to the Super Bowl title, led by Favre’s successor, Aaron

Packers quarterback Brett Favre reacts after throwing a touchdown pass during a September 2007 game against the San Diego Chargers in Green Bay, Wis. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Rodgers. Favre retired for good following the 2010 season, while Rodgers went on to win the NFL MVP award in 2011. Former Packers president/CEO Bob Harlan served as the intermediary and brought the two sides back together. General manager Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy, who made the decision to part ways with Favre in 2008, attended Monday’s news conference but did not speak with reporters. “It’s great to have old friends home again,” Harlan said. Harlan said the team, the Packers Hall of Fame and the Favre family had agreed in principle to the idea last November.

“In all honesty, I was probably more ready sooner than everyone else was,” Favre said. “I knew this moment would come … and I’m just glad we’re here, it’s in stone, and it will be done.” Favre said he hoped to return to Lambeau Field this season, perhaps for a ceremonial coin flip with former Packers quarterback and Pro Football Hall of Famer Bart Starr. “I just think that would be an electric moment,” said Favre, who also said he’d love to pose for what would surely be an iconic photo: Starr, Favre and Rodgers. Favre also said he would like former general manager Ron Wolf, who gave up a first-round pick to acquire Favre from the Atlanta Falcons in February 1992, and former coach Mike Holmgren, who helped harness his immense talent, to also be part of the celebration of his return. “Without Ron [Wolf], I would not be on this phone right now and we would not be having this discussion,” Favre said. Favre disputed that he was concerned about a negative fan reaction upon his return to Lambeau Field, having been booed mercilessly during his returns with the Vikings. “Will 100 percent of the people be for you? That’s never the case,” Favre said. “But I know Packers fans as well as anyone, and there’s no one like them.” The Packers have retired just five numbers in their 94-year history: Tony Canadeo’s No. 3, Don Hutson’s No. 14, Starr’s No. 15, Ray Nitschke’s No. 66 and Reggie White’s No. 92. Favre is eligible for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of the 2016 class. Once he is enshrined there, his name will be placed in the team’s ring of honor at Lambeau Field. “My goodness, 16 years in Green Bay — wonderful years,” Favre said. “That’s what I am, that’s how I look at myself and how I will be remembered: As a Packer.”

flood plain. Drive past the shuttered ice rink with weeds growing up at the edges and there it is, a rectangular cube of gray concrete blocks. Inside, kids do cannonballs off the side of the pool, teenagers sun on the faux beach with umbrellas stuck in the sand, geriatrics glide slowly through the water looking to ward off the advancing years. In the middle of this scene out of Anywhere USA, there’s Phelps and his star-studded training group, an impressive collection of gold medalists, world champions and national record holders. “It’s funny,” said his longtime coach, Bob Bowman. “When I come out here and see kids playing around, that’s just what Michael did every day when he was a little kid. When I first met him, he was just playing around in the pool, playing games with his friends.” As they wrapped up preparations for the national championships, Phelps and Bowman shared an exclusive look at what goes on behind the scenes with The Associated Press.

Training for gold Before the Athens and Beijing Olympics, Phelps would push himself to the brink of exhaustion in practice, swimming up to 16,000 meters a day. Now, he’s putting in about half as many laps in the pool but doing longer sessions in the weight room, resulting in a more muscular physique. Even though Phelps is only 29, an age that many consider the prime for a male athlete, there’s a lot of mileage on those dangling arms and

shorter-than-expected legs (an unusually long torso is one of the anatomical keys to Phelps’ success). His body doesn’t recover as quickly as it once did, so he’s focused on becoming bigger and stronger, in hopes of going faster over shorter distances. No longer will he compete in the 400-meter individual medley, a brutal event that is essentially four races within one. He dropped the 200 butterfly, as well, giving up one of his signature events. At nationals, Phelps’ longest event will be the 200 IM. He’ll also compete in three 100s — freestyle, backstroke and fly. Still a daunting program, but nothing like rival Ryan Lochte, who’s entered six events, or 17-year-old Katie Ledecky, who put her name in eight. But perhaps the biggest change for Phelps is those he trains with on the Meadowbrook-based North Baltimore Aquatic Club. There’s Yannick Agnel, the towering Frenchman who won two golds at the London Games; Allison Schmitt, who captured five medals at the last Olympics; Lotte Friis, a bronze medalist from Denmark; plus Conor Dwyer and Matt McLean, both with a relay gold to their names. “If I want to be the best in the world, I needed to have the best coach and the best group in the world,” Agnel says. “Where else can I find that but here?” From Bowman’s perspective, this is just what Phelps needed, too — stiff competition, on a daily basis. “It used to be if Michael was on fire, nobody could beat him,” the coach said. “Now, if Michael’s on fire, there are maybe a couple of people who can still beat him. They’re that good.”

Stern: Ceremony takes place Friday Continued from Page B-1 “You can’t even do justice to everything that everybody has done,” Stern said in a phone interview. “All you can do is focus on small chunks of it, but it’s great fun to contemplate how the NBA family has pulled together to be at a place where our players are now at the top of the celebrity period. “Pretty, pretty amazing and great.” It helped to have marketable stars like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan. But now comes an honor for the person most responsible for it. Stern will be enshrined Friday in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, part of a 2014 class that includes former players Alonzo Mourning and Mitch Richmond, along with NCAA championship-winning coaches Nolan Richardson and Gary Williams. Stern ended his run as commissioner after exactly 30 years on Feb. 1 — he won’t say retired, because he’s still working — and once thought he would wait five years for induction, same as players. Officials from the NBA and Hall of Fame persuaded him otherwise, and nobody is arguing that he belongs immediately. “It would be hard to overstate the impact I think David has had on the game of basketball. Admitting that I’m prejudiced toward basketball, David Stern could go down in our era as the greatest commissioner of all-time in all sports,” said former NBA coach and ESPN analyst P.J. Carlesimo. For Stern, it will be the first official basketball function he’s attended since leaving the commissioner’s office in the hands of Adam Silver. He’s remained busy advising some communications companies and technology startups, giving speeches and traveling on behalf of

the league, and is anxious to catch up with the growing list of supporters he has learned will be in Springfield, Massachusetts. “It’s very nice and very enjoyable,” Stern said, “and the Hall of Fame is always a kind of reunion in any event. And so this will be just one more, which is great.” Inducted in the contributor category, Stern is mostly being recognized for his accomplishments as commissioner. But things like free agency and the merger with the ABA came much earlier, when he was working with the league as a lawyer, before he joined the NBA as its general counsel in 1978. Some of those advances are the ones that occasionally come to mind when he’s talking with old co-workers. “It was a great run,” he said. “We had a lot of fun together and the success was as a result of the efforts of an extraordinary number of people.” Stern talks often with Silver and is impressed with the way his successor has handled a number of challenges in his first six months, most notably the Donald Sterling controversy. Yet it would be hard for Silver — or anyone else — to ever match the career of Stern, who oversaw the addition of seven teams, the creation of the WNBA and NBA Development League, and the growth of revenues to about $5 billion annually. “You just look at where the game is today, and his fingerprints are all over that. My dad tells me stories all the time of how the league used to be — it was great — but nothing compared to what it is now,” said Golden State AllStar Stephen Curry, whose father, Dell, started his 16-year career in 1986. “When it comes to how much presence we have across the globe, playing conditions, how the league has expanded, he’s had every part in leading the charge.”

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Horoscope ACROSS 1 Dead as a doornail 6 Listings in a daily planner: Abbr. 11 Marble ___ (London landmark) 15 Justice Kagan 16 Book leaf 17 Oscar winner Sorvino 18 Appeal from Elvis, 1956 20 Burden of proof 21 Prom attendee, typically 22 Mine vehicle 24 Clock-setting std. 25 Reassurance from the Beach Boys, 1964 29 “If you haven’t seen ___, you haven’t seen New York” (old ad slogan) 32 Tennis star Mandlikova 33 Rapper ___ Wayne 34 Financial adviser’s recommendation, in brief 35 ___ Paul (classic guitar) 36 Start liking 39 Encouragement from Journey, 1981 44 Impoverished

45 “Modern Family” network 46 Business monthly 47 Bob Marley’s “___ Love” 48 Movie that introduced the line “Bond, James Bond” 50 Went up 52 Plea from the Human League, 1982 56 Decline 57 ___ mater 58 Young travelers’ crash site 62 Ray of light 64 Reproach from the Buckinghams, 1967 67 Capri or Wight 68 Art house film, often 69 Ward attendant 70 Relate 71 Divisions politiques 72 Quizzes DOWN 1 Sneaker brand 2 Sunburn relief 3 School founded by Ben Franklin 4 Not neat 5 Iconoclasts break them 6 Jaguars’ grp.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014: This year no one can say you are not creative and dynamic. Some people see you as a solution person. ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHHH Others might be taken aback by your energy. You seem to be nearly unstoppable. Good timing adds to your creative energies. Tonight: Use your imagination. 7 ___ favor 8 Mass of crystallized magma 9 ___ del Fuego 10 Certain renewable 11 “I love,” in Latin 12 Game similar to hide-and-seek 13 Part of a path left by Hansel and Gretel 14 Done in a rush 19 Seaside eagle 23 Vietnam War locale 26 Kojak’s first name 27 Insect with a stinger 28 Ten-speed, e.g. 29 Skirt hemmed at the calf

30 Elvis’s middle name 31 Dive done with the arms around the knees 35 Classic Ford 36 Doting affection, briefly 37 Quaint food containers 38 Formerly 40 Collapsible shelter 41 “It’s been real!” 42 Eric who played Nero in 2009’s “Star Trek” 43 Black, to poets 48 Groucho foil Margaret ___

49 African country known as the Land of a Thousand Hills 50 Bill line 51 Save from danger 52 ___ card 53 Very heavy 54 Almost any doo-wop song 55 However, for short 59 Sailors 60 Formerly, in the past 61 Some jeans 63 Brooks who has won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony 65 Small bird 66 “I’m game”

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Chess quiz WHITE TO PLAY Hint: Get a new queen. Solution: 1. Rf8ch! Kxf8 2. g7ch Ke7 3. g8=Q!

Hocus Focus

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

Subject: BELTS (e.g., Buckle them in cars and planes. Answer: Seat (safety) belt.) FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. A person who attains the rank of expert in judo or karate. Answer________ 2. A belt with loops for holding ammunition. Answer________ 3. Belt in a car that is part of a cooling system. Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 4. Southern United States, where Protestant fundamentalism is dominant. Answer________ 5. Once worn by women and hockey players to hold up stockings. Answer________ 6. A moving belt that transports objects in a factory. Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. Part of the agricultural area of the Midwestern United States. Answer________ 8. The region of interplanetary space between Mars and Jupiter. Answer________ 9. A belt of charged particles trapped by Earth’s magnetic field. Answer________ ANSWERS:

ANSWERS: 1. Black belt. 2. Cartridge belt. 3. Fan belt. 4. Bible Belt. 5. Garter belt. 6. Conveyor belt. 7. Corn Belt. 8. Asteroid belt. 9. Van Allen belt.

Jumble

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 Tuesday, August 5, the 217th day of 2014. There are 148 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On August 5, 1914, what’s believed to be the first electric traffic light system was installed in Cleveland, Ohio, at the intersection of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue. Montenegro declared war on Austria-Hungary at the start of World War I.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Work with a loved one to get the results you desire. Listen to news with more of an open mind. Tonight: Visit over dinner for two. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH You won’t be dragging for long. By the afternoon, you could be crossing off one finished project after another from your to-do list. Tonight: Be a little more docile. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Don’t put off creative interactions for later in the day. You’ll want to use the morning for that, when your charm levels are much higher. Tonight: Get some exercise. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You’ll move past a hassle with ease because of what someone reveals. Your creativity could point you in the wrong direction. Tonight: Let your imagination lead the way. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Be more direct, and follow through on what is needed. You could get tired of the constant feedback. Tonight: Spend time with good company.

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Mom refuses to forgive her sister Dear Annie: My mother has always had a rocky relationship with her sister, “Josie,” for many reasons. The final straw came after Josie stole money from my mother seven years ago. They haven’t spoken to each other since. I understand that my aunt hurt my mother badly and what she did was unforgivable. I know Josie doesn’t deserve another chance, but I wish my mother would give her one anyway. Josie has changed her ways over the past seven years and now lives a very stable life. I don’t think she’s the same person. No one in my family (including me) will ever trust Josie because of the things she’s done. But I wish my mother would call her sister and say that she loves and forgives her. My siblings and I have talked to Mom about this, but she always brushes us off. I know this is between the two of them, but they aren’t getting any younger, and they don’t have an eternity to reconcile. I don’t want my mother or Josie to have any regrets. Is there anything we can do? — Worried Daughter and Niece Dear Daughter: You are kind, forgiving and understanding to want your mother to reconcile with her sister before it’s too late. Unfortunately, until your mother reaches the same conclusion, there is little you can do. You say Josie has changed, but at the same time, you will never trust her. It’s difficult to forgive someone who has repeatedly broken your trust and hurt you, and not all reconciliations are beneficial if the behavior continues. But you can ask your mother what Josie would need to do to get back in her good graces and then see whether Josie is up to the task. Beyond that, please let your mother decide how much pain she is willing to risk to have her sister back in her life. Dear Annie: I read your columns about babies crying in church. I have a different issue.

What about parents who completely ignore what their children do in church? Last Sunday, there were two children, a boy and a girl, about 7 or 8, who spent the entire service crawling under the pews, lifting up the kneeler, playing catch, kicking and shoving each other and completely destroying my ability to concentrate on the mass. The parents did absolutely nothing. The father fell asleep, and the mother never looked at her kids, not even when they bumped against her. Right before communion, they started pinching each other and whimpering in pain. By then I couldn’t take it anymore. I told them to knock it off. They stopped and put their heads on their parents’ shoulders. The parents glanced at me with astonishment. Meanwhile, in the row behind me was a single mom with four kids who left twice with the baby for 10 minutes and left the rest of her little kids alone. Parents seem to think that their children have the right to do anything they want whenever they want. Then they wonder why the kids get into trouble. — Fed-up Grandma in Chicago Dear Grandma: Parents often don’t realize that discipline makes children feel secure and loved. When kids are allowed to run wild, they don’t know what the boundaries are, and they keep pushing until they do. But we also understand that parents of young children can be exhausted. We admire those who are kind enough to engage the children in some quiet activity and give the parents a break. Dear Annie: I never had a weight problem until I was older. When I read about “Concerned Old Man in West Hills” calling his niece “fat,” it reminded me of a T-shirt I once saw. It said, “I may be fat, but you are ugly, and I can diet.” — Toledo, Ohio

Sheinwold’s bridge

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Your ability to express yourself emerges. You finally will get through to others. The response and support you get could be most gratifying. Tonight: Your treat. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You might be more forthright than you realize. Your imagination is likely to pique others’ interest. Tonight: Clear out some errands. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH In the afternoon, you might realize that what you want could fall into place with ease. You might want to chat with a friend. Tonight: Why not plan a weekend escape? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH An idea that might appear to be frivolous could end up being worthwhile if you try to work with it. Tonight: Only with someone you enjoy.

Cryptoquip

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Refuse to gossip about someone who might be disruptive to your plans. Let this person be, and try to understand his or her agenda. Tonight: Accept someone’s invitation. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You’ll want to try a different approach for following through on a key issue. You always are imaginative, and you tend to mobilize your ideas well. Tonight: Out and about till the wee hours. Jacqueline Bigar

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. © 2014 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

LOCAL BUSINESS

C Clean house: Clear up your financial clutter T

he theme of clutter has been many piles of paper or just random popping up in my life recently. stuff accumulating around the house. Papers were piling up in my For the record: I’m not obsessivehome office, and I was avoidcompulsive about cleaning, ing going in there. It was nor am I one of those “Type weighing on me. A” housekeepers. There’s Then the other night, I usually a low level of clutter happened to listen to a podthat I tolerate on a day-tocast called “Strategic Living” day basis. Several New Mexican readers are personal by Brian Holmes. Holmes friends and have been to my was talking about the very house, and can attest to that! topic that was bothering me: too much clutter, blocking But Brian’s podcast resoKate Stalter up my creativity and my nated with me. Your Finances thought processes. And of course, it got me I don’t know about you, thinking about financial but too much chaos in my clutter. Many times, I’ve surroundings distracts me. It winds seen people become paralyzed in up being psychological clutter. I’m not the face of financial clutter. This is even kidding when I say that I even why mass-media personal-finance have trouble sleeping if there are too gurus such as Suze Orman and Dave

Ramsey have such appeal; they can give some generic advice that helps spur people into activity. As a financial adviser and fiduciary, I see on a more granular level the effects of disorganization. There is a quantifiable opportunity cost to financial clutter. For example, I met some people who let a retirement account sit neglected for 20 years. That means they sat through the 2008 market correction without rebalancing or reallocating. It also means they were not allocated strategically to take advantage of the rally in U.S. stocks after 2009. They lost out on tens of thousands of dollars just by being inattentive. I realize that there’s often a level of fear that prevents people from taking actions. What if I really don’t want to

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know how much debt I have? What if I don’t want to see how my investments have fared while I neglected them for years? What if I don’t want to really see how much I’m spending every month, or face up to the fact that I might actually need life insurance or a will? I’ve seen plenty of people in denial about their real situation. I understand that it can be difficult to clean out the financial garage, but the long-term pain can be worse than simply tackling the problem of financial clutter. As with anything, take it in bitesized chunks. Here are some easy steps to help you on the path toward financial clarity, rather than burdensome, energy-draining clutter: u Gather all your account statements. These may come from bro-

After a difficult stretch, Tesuque Flea Market aims to attract more vendors and customers

Reclaiming market’s mojo

Customers browse through stalls Saturday morning at the Tesuque Flea Market. PHOTOS BY LUKE E. MONTAVON/THE NEW MEXICAN

By Dennis J. Carroll

IF YOU GO

For The New Mexican

Want to buy? Tesuque Village Market is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday from March through December at 15 Flea Market Road off U.S. 85/284 next to The Santa Fe Opera. Vendors take cash, checks or credit cards. Haggling over prices occurs but is not generally recommended. Want to sell? Anyone interested in becoming a vendor is asked to call the market at 6702599.

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ost everyone — from vendors to customers to managers — will tell you: The Tesuque Flea Market isn’t what it used to be. But they will also tell you it seems to be slowly making its way back to its stature as the free-wheeling, internationally acclaimed outdoor market where one could find anything form enamelled spoons to truck tires Somewhere along the line after the days of founder Jack Daniels (Trader Jack) in the ’80s and early ’90s, the market “lost it’s charisma,” said LeRoy Wiseman of Peoria, Ill., who has been buying jewelry, pottery and health ointments at the market for 20 years. “It’s nothing like it used to be. The shopping, the variety, the personality and the charisma — it’s just not there anymore.” “I don’t know where the [vendors] went, they must have just given up,” Wiseman said And by all accounts that’s exactly what they did, some of them relocating to the Santa Fe Flea market at the old racetrack south of town. Where now there are maybe 60 to 70 vendors on a weekend day, there once was well more than 100, said Don Proudstar, the market’s manager since 2010. Many former vendor sites remain vacant on

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Blue Cross Blue Shield hiring customer advocates Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico will be opening a new retail operations unit to help serve its growing individual and retail customer business. The unit will expand customer service hours to help meet the needs of our new members. The company plans to hire 100 new customer advocates, as well as customer advocate support staff and supervisors.

Chef Abdul Wasabi, who’s originally from Egypt, proudly displays his array of spices for sale Saturday morning at the Tesuque Flea Market.

“Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico has seen a lot of growth and changes over the last 18 months, and we want to ensure we have the appropriate staff levels to best serve our members,” said Kurt Shipley, president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico. “The unit will be instrumental for providing the excellent customer service that our members deserve.” Blue Cross Blue Shield added more than 500 local jobs in the past year to support Medicaid Centennial Care, Medicare, individual and retail markets.

Hiring for the retail operations unit will take place through August. Blue Cross Blue Shield offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Veterans are encouraged to apply. Bilingual speaking positions are available. Blue Cross Blue Shield is partnering with ChaseSource to help fill these positions. Job information and applications are available at chasesource.com under listings for Albuquerque. Applicants can also call 713-874-5844 for assistance in applying.

Section editor: Bruce Krasnow, 986-3034, bkrasnow@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Brian Barker, bbarker@sfnewmexican.com

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kerages, banks, old 401(k) accounts, pensions, mortgages and insurance companies. Think hard: Do you have long-forgotten accounts from jobs you held years ago? Even if it’s a small amount, put it on your list. The point is to have get a full picture of your financial situation. u If you have 401(k)s or other retirement accounts from previous employers, speak with your adviser or call a broker about consolidating. The goal is to minimize fees and maximize expected returns. Plenty of people come to my office with old 401(k)s invested haphazardly, with no strategy and in expensive funds, to boot. You don’t want your money to evaporate into broker or management fees, so it’s worth evaluating your accounts from

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fter seeing a big boost in occupancy last summer, hotel bookings in New Mexico have leveled off in 2014, but the rooms are bringing in more revenue, according to the Rocky Mountain Lodging report. Through the first six months of 2014, the total occupancy in the state stood at 59.8 percent, up a tick from the same period last year when it showed 58.6 percent Bruce through June. The rate in Santa Krasnow Fe was 61 percent, Business Matters down from the 61.2 percent last year, but the average daily room rate was $111 in the region, up from $108 last year. The average rate in downtown Santa Fe now stands at $145, according to the association. The biggest increases in occupancy were recorded in Las Cruces, which is one place seeing an oil and gas boom, where occupancy this year is 64 percent, up from 57 percent last year. Taos is also seeing a renewed interest in tourism, and occupancy there went from 45 percent a year ago to 50 percent so far in 2014. uuu

It is not a surprise that the topranking subsectors for jobs in New Mexico are educational services with more than 66,000 employees, food services and drinking with 64,400 jobs, and professional scientific and technical services with 53,800 jobs. But unless one digs into the subcategories of each employment sector — and there are hundreds of them — it is harder to find the specific job tasks that have seen the most growth in New Mexico. That is what Department of Workforce Solutions economist Mark Flaherty does in the report titled “Change in Industry Sub-sector Composition (2012-2013).” The subsector with the largest percentage of growth during the time is the motion picture and sound recording industry, which had 1,233 employees in 2002 and saw that swell to 4,074 workers by 2013. “In 2002, this sub sector ranked 74th in terms of number employees but moved up to 59th in 2007. Interestingly, over one year, between 2007 and 2008, the sub sector moved up a further 15 places to 44th,” Flaherty writes in his analysis. Keep in mind it is still a very small sector of the overall economy — the state workforce is more than 800,000. The second biggest growth subsector was mining-support jobs, which employed 7,101 in 2002 and now has 15,462 jobs —more than three times the size of the sound and recording subsector and where positions are year-round and much higher paying. Other fast-growers include chemical manufacturing, oil and gas extrac-

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SANTA FE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE A special paid supplement to the Santa Fe New Mexican Business Section August 2014

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BUSINESS Business Office: 505.988.3279 Resource Office: 505.983.7317 Fax: 505.984.2205 E-mail: info@santafechamber.com

BUSINESS MATTERS

Santa Fe, A Better Place to Live and Work Giving back to the community by volunteering an hour or two a month with an organization or a committee is just as beneficial for the volunteer as it is for the community. Volunteers are able to grow their business network through collaborating with peers on community building while staying informed on important issues. Volunteering also allows participants to become leaders and develop new skills that can be used in a variety of workplace and living situations. The primary mission of the Chamber is to strengthen the local economy and serve as the Voice of Business in community affairs, and the Chamber believes that a strong presence in the community is essential to making Santa Fe a better place to live and work. The Chamber supports and creates a variety of community programs: •

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The Leadership Santa Fe program is operated by the Chamber Opportunities Fund, our 501c6 that is committed to support education and graduates 30 Santa Feans each year. Our Workforce Development/Education Committee works with educators, Santa Fe Public Schools, higher education institutions, early childhood advocates and other non-profits to help businesses and local students get the skills they need to support a prosperous community. MIX Santa Fe is an organization that “is a structure for interaction and collaboration

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Public Education Nonprofit Organizations Lynn Bickley MD (806) 773-2268 43 C Lodge, Santa Fe, NM 87506

B & G Automotive Automotive Services Jacob Ortega (505) 474-8561 2923 Rufina, Santa Fe, NM 87507

Mindshare Studios, Inc. Website Design - Internet Services Damian Taggart 505-501-7666 916 Baca St., Santa Fe, NM 87505 Pro Fix Jewelers Jewelry Dave Giron (505) 438-6696 4250 Cerrillos Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87507

Reside Home Communities In Schools of Furniture New Mexico Kendra Henning Nonprofit Organizations (505) 780-5658 Julia Bergen 340 Read Street, (505) 954-1880 Santa Fe, NM 87501 300 Catron Street, Suite A, Retail Data Systems Santa Fe, NM 87501 Credit Card Processing Don Schleisman Friedman Wilson Frames (505) 341-9091 Gabriel Friedman 8804 Washington St. NE, Picture Frames/Framing Albuquerque, NM 87113 (505) 930-5929 3022 Cielo Ct., Ste C, Salon Santa Fe, Inc. Santa Fe, NM 87507 Beauty Services Dwight Miller Inner Faith Coalition for (505) 820-2532

“Do you plan to expand your business and/or add additional staff between now and July 2015?” Mindshare Studios is currently hiring new web developers and have already conducted some very solid interviews. We have been on a path a slow and steady growth for the past 8 years and are optimistic about continuing that success in 2014. We were honored to receive the Small Business of the Year Award from the Chamber of Commerce this June. Mindshare provides web design, development and consulting services for a wide range of clients both in NM and on a national level.

DAMIAN TAGGART MINDSHARE STUDIO

JIM VICTOR AIR CONDITIONING AND HEATING SERVICE COMPANY

CHANTAL M GALLOWAY A NURSE IN THE FAMILY

Thank you for your support, Simon Brackley President and CEO

Thanks to all our new members who joined last month!

Alphagraphics Printers/Printing/Copiers Julie Robinson (505) 473-1300 2002-C Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505

Chase Alexander Designs and Joel Adam Style Beauty Services Chase Chomer (505) 501-2516 1807 2nd Street, Suite 90, Santa Fe, NM 87505

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among inspired individuals, entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses and organizations.” The Chamber serves as fiscal agent for MIX and its role in helping young professionals mix, thrive and connect. The Chamber provides opportunities, networks and support for numerous other non-profits and their missions. Recently we have helped Pancakes on the Plaza, Rodeo de Santa Fe, SWAIA, La Familia, United Way and Rotary and others with their great programs. Over 60 nonprofits are members of the Chamber and take advantage of our benefits and programs The Chamber has hosted over 1000 travelers on 14 trade missions abroad to learn about foreign cultures and economies including: China, Cuba, Spain and Dubai. The Chamber is involved in local issues as diverse as solid waste, sustainability, reducing energy use, customer service and downtown walkability to help make Santa Fe a better place to live. The Chamber helps over 50,000 local residents and visitors each year with community information. The Chamber’s Bienvenidos volunteers help over 40,000 with information from the Plaza booth.

MEMBER PERSPECTIVES

707 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505 Sotheby’s Homes DeAnne Ottoway Real Estate DeAnne Ottoway (505) 982-6207 417 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Southwest Office Solutions Inc. - Santa Fe Location Printers/Printing/Copiers Tracy Madox 505-661-2554 1789 Central Ave Suite 4, Los Alamos, NM 87544 Spartan Websites LLC Marketing - Research Communications Michelle Deleva (210) 332-3328 HC 74 Box 833, Pecos, NM 87552 Stag Tobacconist of NM Cigar Store Gene Jordan (505) 982-3242 1845 Cerrillos Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87505 Superior Mortgage Services, LLC Mortgage Services Steve Sheldon

(505) 280-6444 8300 Carmel Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122 Teca Tu - A Pawsworthy Pet Emporium Pet Products - Services Ms. Laurie Wilson (505) 982-9374 500 Montezuma Avenue, Sanbusco Market Center, Santa Fe, NM 87501 The Santa Fe Sleep Center - A Department of Los Alamos Medical Center Medical Services - Clinics Hospitals Pamela Garcia (505) 891-3344 531 Harkle Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505 Wade Wilson Art Art Galleries and Artists Wade Wilson (505) 660-4393 217 W. Water St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 Zia Diner Restaurants Elizabeth Coch (505) 988-7008 326 S. Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501

AMANDA ALEXANDER PEYOTE BIRD DESIGNS

My biggest obstacle is finding more qualified people to employ. I have a lot of competition using inexperienced, trainee type technicians at cheap prices to get in the door. They take a big risk with the safety of their customers. Our people have over 200 combined years of experience. In 42 years, our company is as small as it’s ever been but we are proud to hold integrity, professionalism and quality work as the forefront of its business ethics. As a 100% employee owned business, our future depends on it.

A Nurse in the Family is in our third year of providing trustworthy, professional homecare to those needing a little extra help. If 2015 is anything like the year we’ve just experienced, there will be great things in store for ANITF and those we serve: our net profit increased by 68.5%, we added staff weekly, and we expanded into Albuquerque and the surrounding communities. We expect that 2015 will usher in continued growth, additional job opportunities for New Mexicans, and the expansion of our services into Southern New Mexico. Peyote Bird Designs has made positive and exciting structural changes recently that reflect local business trends leading to job availability in the Santa Fe community. We’ve revamped summer sales, hiring nearly a dozen part-timers to gear up for Folk Art, Spanish and Indian Market. We’re also working on some long-term ventures, such as our well-received Bead BottleTM line, a departure from our long standing focus on semiprecious sterling jewelry. I foresee many new job sas we expand into new markets, online sales, and brand development as we celebrate our 40th year in business.

AUGUST 2014 CHAMBER CALENDAR

Tuesday, August 12th - 4:30 pm Ribbon Cutting – Ojo Optique, 125 Lincoln Ave. Suite 114

Tuesday, August 12th - 4:30 pm Spain Travel Orientation – Chamber Office, 1644 St. Michael’s Dr. Thursday, August 14th – 11:45 am Membership Orientation – Chamber Office, 1644 St. Michael’s Dr. Thursday, August 14th – 4:30 pm Ribbon Cutting – Chase Alexander Design and Joel Adams Styles, 1807 Second St. Suite 90 Friday, August 18th - 8:30 am Annual “Banking on Birdies” Golf Tournament - Santa Fe Country Club, 4360 Country Club Road Thursday, August 28th – 5:30 pm Business After Hours – Turquoise Butterfly, 149 E. Alameda St. Friday, September 5th - 8:30 am Business Over Breakfast - Berardinelli Family Funeral Service, 1399 Luisa St. The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce presents

PERU & MACHU PICCHU AUGUST 23-31, 2014

MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS Thank you to our members who renewed in June We appreciate your support! ABC Driver Ed Alpine Sports Blake Business Botwin Eye Group, P.A. (Eyes and Optics of Santa Fe) Candyman Strings and Things Casa Villita Apartments Center for Contemporary Arts Claiborne Gallery Classic Party Rentals Clemens & Associates, Inc. Coca-Cola Bottling Company

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Elevate Media Financial Concepts & Northwestern Mutual Follingstad & Grassham, CPA’s LLC Hinkle, Hensley, Shanor & Martin, LLP HUB International Insurance Services Inn at Santa Fe Inn of the Governors, a Santa Fe Hotel Inn on the Alameda Inn on the Paseo Kingston Residence of Santa Fe

Mesa Photonics NM Health Insurance Alliance Noyes, Stanley Old Santa Fe Inn Otra Vez En Santa Fe Pippin Contemporary PNM Pompeo Investment Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi Santa Fe Association of Realtors Santa Fe Community Foundation Santa Fe Japan Connection,

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Join the Santa Fe Watershed Association and Adopt the River! A yearly donation from you or your organization can provide vital support to the restoration of the Santa Fe River. Your contribution is acknowledged with a sign by your Reach of the River, on Alameda Street.

Please call Gabrielle Beans at the Santa Fe Watershed Association for more information on how you can be a Sponsor too: (505) 820-1696

Santa Fe Place Santa Fe Preparatory School Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation Southwestern College State Farm Insurance Wayne Steen The Santa Fe Opera United Way of Santa Fe County VeneKlasen Property Management Westgate Properties LLC Wilson Transfer & Storage Woods Design Builders, Inc

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NOVEMBER 1-9, 2014 Orientation will be held August 12th, 4:30pm at the Chamber Office These two separate trips include airfare from Albuquerque, hotels, day trips, and some meals.

PLEASE CALL AHEAD AND RSVP 505.988.3279 For more information contact valerie@santafechamber.com

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CALLING TEEN LEADERS!

other 9th/10th/11th graders, can earn up to 3 college credits (and one dual high-school credit at participating high schools) through Youth Leadership Santa Fe, in conjunction with the Santa Fe Community College and the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, while developing your own, unique leadership abilities. The cost is only $325 for the year and some financial aid is available. Email info@leadershipsantafe.org for an application form before August 31. Sign up today!

GROW YOUR BUSINESS BY NETWORKING AND JOINING A COMMITTEE Maximize your Chamber investment by supporting Chamber programs and initiatives and joining a committee. Chamber committees promote networking with other businesspeople who share your interests of finding new clients and resources that can help grow your business as well as helping us in our mission to Grow the Local Economy. Committee involvement is entirely voluntary. The Chamber encourages members to sit in at any of the monthly meetings to determine if there is a good match of interests. The committees include: Tourism Day Committee - focuses on growing and representing the local hospitality industry by hosting the Celebrate Santa Fe Tourism Expo held in May each year Public Policy Committee - concerned with advocacy, legislative issues and growing the

Voice of Business Membership Recruitment and Retention Committee - involved with hosting the Annual Membership Campaign in October each year Workforce Development and Education Committee - works to improve the local workforce at all levels (pre-k through higher education) Economic Development Committee - centers itself around jobs and creating a prosperous community for entrepreneurs Ambassadors - celebrate new and expanding businesses! Thank you for your time and consideration in helping grow our local economy. 505.988.3279 www.santafechamber.com

CHOICES KEEPS TEENS “INTO” SCHOOL! We need YOU to help us achieve our goal of reaching every 8th grade student in Santa Fe and give them the opportunity to reach her or his highest potential! CHOICE is an easy-to-learn, organized interactive program that you present to 8th graders using your knowledge and real-world experience. Your time commitment would consist of only 2-4 hours throughout the entire school year.

For additional information contact:

“I learned about the importance of choices I would make in high school and college and important times in my life,” said a former student.

David Sidebottom Century Bank Phone 505-995-1251 David.Sidebottom@centurybnk.com

The mission of the CHOICES Education Group is to empower students with vital tools that will increase their career and life opportunities.

Kathy L. Jahner Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce Phone 505-919-9698 Kathy@santafechamber.com

#HOWTOSANTAFE Join social media celebrities from around the world this summer in discovering the unique flavors, outdoor trails, artisans and excursions that our historic capital city has to offer, through hundreds of new images created and shared by your business! #HowToSantaFe seeks Santa Fe businesses to participate in this inaugural social media program to support and promote our local economy. This is your chance to get creative, promote your business, and learn how to best leverage social

media as organic marketing and PR through contributions ranging from behind-the scenes access to your business, meals, beverages, accommodations, outdoor adventures and authentic Santa Fe experiences. Join the City of Santa Fe Economic Development Division, Mayor Javier Gonzales and our distinguished group of businesses in this innovative new project: #HowToSantaFe

Some of the diverse business professionals that make up the Chamber Board of Directors

RIBBON CUTTING

Photo by Daniel Quat

What do Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Rosa Parks, and Mahatma Ghandi -- have in common? NOTHING! They are who they are, and don’t imitate others. Leadership isn’t only for a chosen few who are the captain of the sports team or the president of the student council. EVERYONE has leadership potential, strengths and gifts. In Youth Leadership Santa Fe, you will learn to maximize your potential and use your strengths and gifts to create change and make a difference in your life and in Santa Fe. Over nine Saturdays, you, alongside 29

STUDENTS GET IT. COMMUNITIES WANT IT.

Top left to right: Lillian Montoya, Annette V. Hayden, Victoria Bruneni, Fred Cisneros, Carl Luff, Colin Keegan, Simon Brackley, Nicholas Ballas, Scott Hutton Bottom left to right: Julia Furry, Carolyn Moore (award winner), Chip Chippeaux, Charles A. Goodman, Holly Bradshaw-Eakes, Ginny Sohn

Banking on Birdies Ecosphere Environmental Services cuts the ribbon at their new location located at 1660 Old Pecos Trail, Suite H.

Join business and community leaders from all over northern New Mexico in the Annual “Banking on Birdies” Golf Tournament, sponsored by LANB. The tournament takes place on August 18th, 8:30am, at the Santa Fe Country Club. This is a great opportunity to expose your business to this prestigious group while helping support your Chamber of Commerce. Corporate, Luncheon, and Hole Sponsorships are still available; we also need the donation of prizes for the tournament. In exchange for your donation we will proudly announce your support in the Business Advocate and at the golf event luncheon. For more information on sponsorship please call Bridget Dixon at 505.988.3279. To reserve your space for one of the Chamber’s most popular events of the year visit www.santafechamber.com, limited space available.

Malouf on the Plaza celebrates their new store with a ribbon cutting located at 61 Old Santa Fe Trail.

Event sponsors: Los Alamos National Bank, Santa Fe New Mexican; Corporate Sponsors: Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino, Century Bank, CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, First National Santa Fe, Hutton Broadcasting/Santa Fe.com, La Fonda on the Plaza, New Mexico Bank and Trust, Payday Inc. for Business, PNM, Santa Fe Valet & Limousine, US Bank; Breakfast Sponsor: The Pantry; Hole Sponsors: Santa Fe Spirits, Furry’s Buick GM, The Hire Firm, Koenig Enterprise New Mexico Educators FCU, Jemez Consulting Group, A & B Insurance Services, Inc, Barraclough & Associates, Sam’s Club, White & Luff Financial, Inc, Rivera Family Funerals, Cassidy’s Landscaping, Spencer Theater for the Performing Arst, Berardinelli Family Funeral Service, McGee Memorial Chapel, Consolidated Solar Technologies, Positive Energy Solar, Marshall Rose & Associates, Thornburg Investment Management, Kokopelli Property Management, HK Advertising, Inc., Advance Tax Services, Inc.

Paint the Plaza Green!

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Buddy Roybal of Coronado Paint and Decorating is leading a Chamber volunteer campaign to help clean up the Plaza by painting the benches, lamp poles and other street accessories.

MIX Santa Fe has been awarded $50,000 by PNM to create three parklets that will provide shade, meeting places, greenery and beautify a one mile stretch of St. Michaels Drive.

If you can spare two or three hours on the morning of Saturday, August 9th at 7:30am please join our effort to recruit 20-30 volunteers and help make the Plaza more pleasant for locals and visitors. Better still, put together a team!

YOUR CHAMBER MEANS BUSINESS! Benefit of the Month:

BUSINESS SUPPORT

Isa Healthy Lifestyles cuts the ribbon for their new business.

The Santa Fe Chamber offers plenty of opportunities to stay up-to-date on the latest community news as well as providing various ways to get involved with committees and other volunteering positions that also help you network your business. For more information visit www.santafechamber. com or call 505.988.3279

Business Tool of the Month:

SCORE SANTA FE IS ONE OF 364 NATIONWIDE OFFICES OF AMERICA’S LARGEST VOLUNTEER COUNSELING SERVICE.

Russel J. McMillian, Owner, Eldorado Self Storage and F&M Self Storage

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Russell McMillian, owner of Eldorado Self Storage and F & M Self Storage, came to New Mexico Educators FCU for financing and found the Business Services team exceeded his expectations. “In less than two weeks, I was approved for a large commercial loan and I opened two checking & savings accounts,” said Russell. “In my opinion, New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union is where you need to be!” For more information about Business Services at New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union and to join “The Power of WE” visit nmefcu.org/ business or call 505-467-6018.

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Come see us today for a quote to see if we can save you money on yyour Home or Auto Insurance!

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SCORE is a nonprofit resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration providing Free Products and Services to America’s Small Businesses and Not For Profit Organizations. • Starting, selling, or buying a business? • Need help with a business problem or challenge? • Doing all you can to improve your business? SCORE helps existing organizations and prospective ventures by providing training, tools, and structured advice from counselors experienced in all aspects of your business. SCORE Santa Fe Counselors are available by appointment to provide confidential advice and assistance using their experience and the resources you need. For more information visit: http://www.gonm.biz/Job_Training_Incentive_Program

JAMES H. RUSSELL AGENCY, INC. Insurance Services Florence C. Anaya, President

1570 Pacheco Street, Suite C-3 P.O. Box 2226 Santa Fe, NM 87504-2226 jamesrussellagency.com PHONE: (505) 983 7357 FAX: (505) 982 9453 Monday-Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm EMAIL: f.anaya@jamesrussellagency.com

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In brief Candyman named top dealer The Candyman Strings & Things is the 2014 “Dealer of the Year,” awarded by the National Association of Music Merchants at the fourth annual Top 100 Dealer Awards. The July 18 awards event was held at the trade show in Nashville, Tenn. The industry recognized The Candyman Strings & Things for innovative, effective practices and for setting an outstanding example for its peers. The award was presented to owners Rand and Cindy Cook at a ceremony attended by music product industry leaders. The Candyman Strings & Things also earned the Music Makes a Difference award for promoting music in its community. “We’re just so very lucky to be in the business we are in,” said Rand Cook. “Every six months, we head to a NAMM Show and get lifted up by our peers. There’s just nothing like our industry, and we have a great time doing it.” Top 100 retailers are judged using a numeric rating by a panel of impartial expert judges selected by but not otherwise affiliated with NAMM. In addition to dealer of the year, honors were given for best special event, online presentation, exterior presentation, merchandising display, sales and marketing campaigns, and music-education advocacy. “We look to the Dealer of the Year and Top 100 Award winners as a source of inspiration for our industry,” said Joe Lamond, president and CEO of NAMM. “These are the NAMM members devoted to enriching their communities with music. Their communities benefit, their customers benefit, and we as an industry benefit because they help elevate our standards. We offer these winner retailers our respect and gratitude.

Presbyterian Medical Services has appointed David Finzimer as the Children’s Services Manager for PMS — Santa Fe Children’s Services. Finzimer has more than 15 years of experience working in education, including early childhood education, outof-school time, elementary school, and providing technical assistance and David Finzimer professional development to adult learners. He is a K-8 certified teacher in both New Mexico and Pennsylvania with seven years of teaching experience in kindergarten, third-

and fifth-grade classrooms. Finzimer holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Pennsylvania State University and a master’s in elementary education from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. In his prior position, Finzimer was the professional development and technical assistance manager with Southeast Regional Key, a Keystone STARS quality improvement program with early childhood and school-age child care programs in Pennsylvania. uuu

Alexandra Pratt has joined JLH Media Public Relations as an account manager. Pratt’s most recently worked in communications and marketing for Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, a subsidiary of

Reynolds American Inc. She previously helped establish actress Marsha Mason’s medicinal herb farm and Resting in the River products brand as well as assisted with the final publication and book tour for Mason’s autobiography. She was director of operations for Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Film Center and had a role in launching the First Look Screening series, a precursor to the Tribeca Film Festival. Pratt attended New York University’s graduate program in film and television and has written many screenplays as well as produced and directed a feature film about a young female counselor in a wilderness program for troubled teens. The New Mexican

PNM offers outage alerts As the monsoon season reaches its peak, Public Service Co. of New Mexico is encouraging customers to sign up to receive outage alerts by email, text or phone, a new option PNM added with the launch of its enhanced website earlier this year. The alerts will activate whenever there is a known outage at the customer’s home or business. The message will include an initial estimate for power restoration and additional messages if the restore time changes by more than 30 minutes. Customers will also receive a final message when power is restored. Sign up for outage alerts at PNM.com/outage or by calling PNM at 888-DIAL PNM (888-342-5766). Visit PNM’s outage map at PNM.com/outage for outage information 24/7. Like PNM on Facebook.com/pnmelectric or follow @PNMtalk on Twitter for information about outages, safety, energy-saving programs and more.

Auditors conference coming to S.F. The National Association of Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers will have its annual conference Aug. 9-13 in Santa Fe. The New Mexico co-hosts are State Treasurer James B. Lewis, State Auditor Hector Balderas and State Comptroller Ricky Bejarano. The NASACT Annual Conference is the premiere annual event bringing together state financial managers from around the country to examine issues specific to each and common to all of its membership constituency groups — the state auditors, state comptrollers and state treasurers. There will be approximately 400 attendees. Lewis, the current president of NASACT said, “I am excited to bring the 99th annual conference to New Mexico to give our members an opportunity to experience the beauty, the culture and the New Mexican hospitality.” Mark Lautman of Lautman Economic Architecture LLC of Albuquerque will present a topic titled “Does Economic Development Need a New Business Model?” Scott D. Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers; Stanley Czerwinski, chief administrative officer and chief financial officer of the National Governors Association; and John Sugden, analytical manager of Standard & Poor’s U.S. State Ratings Group, will give an economic report for the states. In addition to the general sessions, there will be 18 concurrent sessions. There will also be activities such as a golf tournament, fun run/walk and evening events. To register for the event, go to www.nasact.org.

Average N.M. gas price down The statewide average price for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel in New Mexico was $3.49 at the end of last week, according to the AAA New Mexico Weekend Gas Watch. That price was 7 cents less than this time last year. Of the major metropolitan areas surveyed in the Land of Enchantment, drivers in Las Cruces are paying the most at $3.49 per gallon while drivers in Albuquerque were paying the least at $3.43 per gallon. The average price in Santa Fe was $3.45. The statewide average in New Mexico is also 3 cents less than the national average of $3.52 per gallon. Amid continuing geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, American drivers are paying the lowest average retail prices at the pump since mid-March. This is due to U.S. refineries running near their highest rates since 2005, according to the Energy Information Administration, and domestic demand that has reportedly dropped. The global oil market continues to closely monitor the situation abroad, including tensions between Ukraine and Russia, Hamas and Israel, and production issues in Libya due to civil unrest. Analysts say these events have not impacted global supply but could be factors that may limit how far U.S. pump prices can fall. The New Mexican

Calendar IRS Small Business Workshop When: 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Aug. 20. Where: Santa Fe Community College Small Business Development Center, 6401 S. Richards Ave. Cost: Free What: This workshop is for those thinking about starting a business or have just started a new business. The IRS partners present record-keeping, selecting the right type of business entity, expenses, office in the home, depreciation and basic forms. The workshop also includes a brief “Issues for New Businesses” section to introduce you to other federal regulations and information resources. Contact: Julianne Gutierrez-Ortiz at 428-1343 or email julianne.gutierrezor@sfcc.edu.

Lunch and Learn, Santa Fe When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27. Where: La Fonda on the Plaza, 100 E. San Francisco St. Cost: Free What: Maximizing return on IT — how to use technology to drive your business forward, how to increase productivity, the advantages of budget-friendly IT and much more with John Freienmuth, named a Titan of IT by Albuquerque Business First. Contact: Drew Wayner at drew@jandjtech.com

Merchant Monnodo Saho, originally from Gambia, preps his African Imports stall for business Saturday morning at the Tesuque Flea Market. Saho has been operating his business at the market since 1997. LUKE E. MONTAVON/THE NEW MEXICAN

Mojo: Vendor rates reduced to about $200 Continued from Page C-1 the nearly 10-acre site owned by the Tesuque Pueblo, the posts and ground anchors standing as mute ruins of a much more prosperous time. “There were times you could not get a space here,” said Dave Dodson of Silver Moon jewelry. “There were times when the customers couldn’t find a parking space.” He told of patrons standing six deep to see what a particular vendor had for sale. “Traffic in the dirt walkways prevented the vendor on one side [from] seeing his fellow vendor.” On a recent Saturday, only a couple dozen or so cars were parked in the lot, and in the market, a scant few shoppers mingled with vendors, happy for any attention. (It was the same weekend as Spanish Market, so there were likely even fewer shoppers than usual.) Ashley Mall, whose family has been selling rugs at the market since 1986, said recent changes — perhaps prompted by the loss of vendors and the recession — offer hope that the market will find its way back to its glory days. “They [management] are much nicer now,” Mall said. “They have loosened up on the rules, and the rates have fallen a lot.” He noted that at one point monthly vendor rates, set by the pueblo authorities, for spaces were nearing $400. That has since dropped to about $200. Calls to tribal officials for comment were

not returned. Mall also noted that when customer traffic dips, it’s the smaller vendors who are squeezed the tightest. “The small dealers are selling items for $3, $5 or $10. They need a lot of customers to survive.” For some customers, especially the market’s many repeat patrons from across the United States, the slower times have not discouraged yearly visits to the market. Patti McEwen and several friends from Florida and San Francisco were admiring the Native jewelry selections at the booth of Daniel Dodson, Dave’s brother. They have been making a yearly trek to Santa Fe and the market for 18 years. “When we first started coming here, it was much more crowded, many more stalls, many more vendors,” said McEwen of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “But it still draws us here, and every year we find unique treasures. We won’t stop coming, but we have noticed there is a difference.” For his part, Proudstar, manager since 2010, said he can’t speak to what occurred before his time and would rather focus on the future. He noted that in recent years, the market has stepped up its advertising and promotional efforts with other companies, and said that vendors have taken the initiative to help revive interest in the market. “We see more commitment among the vendors, more permanence this year,” he said. Proudstar said he plans to begin publish-

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ing promotional materials in Korean and Vietnamese as well as Spanish, and expanding the market’s presence on social media. Celebrities also are not uncommon visitors, including in recent years Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Steven Seagal, Samuel Jackson and Lou Diamond Phillips. “It’s not like every week you see them, but they do pop up,” Proudstar said. He said the market still insists on certain regulations but, “We want the vendors’ focus to be on selling. We always like to tell vendors that each of them adds to the whole experience.” Proudstar said there also is a renewed emphasis on encouraging tailgaters, new artists, farmers and more food vendors. “We want it to be a variety of stuff. We always tell our new vendors to not only bring their art but also stuff from their garage.” He noted that recently a woman drove down from Colorado just to sell her peaches for a weekend. As for competition with the Santa Fe Flea, “There’s enough for everybody,” he said. Jewelry vendor Daniel Dodson summed up what seems to be the current general attitude toward the market: “There was a period when it became difficult,” said Dodson, who has weathered the good, the bad and the ugly since 1991. “But those days have passed. We are in a new era.”

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that aspect alone. u Assess your insurance needs. This can be tricky but worth it. These days, with traditional long-term care policies going the way of the VHS recorder or the rotary phone, baby boomers should investigate other options. More life-insurance policies now carry long-term-care riders. These can also be structured with a death benefit, which allows you to leave something to your heirs if you don’t use the long-termcare policy. Also, see if you are still paying premiums on life insurance you no longer need. A surprising number of people continue making premium payments long after they have retired and their children have left the nest. In many cases, this is money down the drain. These are just a couple of examples of where an insurance audit could help you save money now or in the future. I will wager a cup of coffee (my treat) that you’ll feel better after starting the financial decluttering process. I’ve seen firsthand the sense of calm that sets in when people get clarity about their financial futures.

tion, electrical equipment and appliance manufacturing, hospital, housing assistance and ambulatory health care. When one looks at sheer numeric growth in jobs — not the percentage increase — the top subsector is ambulatory health care, which added 15,000 jobs during the period, followed by hospital work, up 10,230; professional and scientific services, up 9,469; and social assistance positions, up 9,366. The sectors that are waning in New Mexico are the ones with increasing competition from the Internet: electronics and appliance sales; manufacturing; publishing; and non-store retail.

Kate Stalter is a financial planner with New Mexico-based Portfolio Wealth Advisors. She is also a columnist for TheStreet.com, Forbes and Morningstar. You can reach her at 490-6474 or at stalterkate@gmail.com.

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There may not be a lot of high-paying jobs in Santa Fe, but the ones that do open up are often very interesting. One posted recently is for the director of the Santa Fe Small Business Development Center at Santa Fe Community College. Go to jobs.sfcc. edu. for more information. The other is a new position at the Thornburg Foundation to tackle the issues around money and politics. Seeking an individual “to lead a comprehensive strategy designed to advance government transparency, support good government and reduce the influence of money in policy decision making.” I would add that the successful candidate should also be able to walk on water. Applications are due Aug. 8. Contact Bruce Krasnow at brucek@sfnewmexican.com.