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Suspected dealer tied to teen’s drug death Rio Rancho man held on charges of selling Ecstasy to S.F. girl, 14

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

New Mexico State Police have arrested a man who is suspected of selling Ecstasy to a 14-year-old Santa Fe girl who died at an electronic music concert this past summer at

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Spokesman Lt. Emmanuel Gutierrez said Tuesday that authorities arrested Eric Stone, 26, in Rio Rancho in connection with the death of Hannah Bruch, a Santa Fe High School student who died Aug. 11 at an all-night party from an overdose of Ecstasy, a synthetic mind-altering drug that is both a stimulant and a hallucinogen, according to the state Office of the Medical Investigator.

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Ex-campaign manager accuses mayor’s race candidate of violating finance code

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A former consultant for City Councilor Patti Bushee’s mayoral campaign has filed a lengthy ethics complaint that not only accuses Bushee of violating the city’s public finance code, but also revealed the campaign’s early strategies for

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raising funds and researching opponents.

The 68-page document, filed late Monday with the city’s Ethics and Campaign Review Board by Tarin Nix, offers a rare look into the inner workings of a mayoral campaign, including Bushee’s decision to

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Balderas: Why was Medicaid audit altered?

Human Services defends removal of statement saying no credible allegations of fraud were found

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and others at 9:22 a.m. Tuesday. She said the call came from the Santa Fe Vet Center on Brothers Road, although the identity of the caller is unclear. It’s also unclear if the man is a veteran. Police tracked him to the Apache Knoll home.

Authorities called in the SWAT team and crisis negotiators to help deal with the situation. At one point, officers set up a looping message on a loud speaker that warned the man his house was surrounded and that he should cooperate with police. The message

State Auditor Hector Balderas is questioning why a state agency provided his office with a behavioral health audit report that was altered to remove a conclusion that auditors found no “credible allegations of fraud” in a review of case files for more than a dozen providers under investigation for potential misconduct.

Balderas obtained a subpoena last week from a district judge in Santa Fe to try to shed more light on the revisions made by the Human Services Department.

Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration used the report in freezing Medicaid payments to the providers in June, and in having the Attorney General’s Office launch an investigation of 15 nonprofit providers of mental health and substance abuse services to needy New Mexicans.

Balderas’ office said in court filings that the department’s failure to provide it with a complete version of the report — as required by a court order earlier this year — is misleading and has hampered work that an independent auditor is doing for the office.

Department spokesman Matt Kennicott said Monday the agency removed a sentence from the report prepared by Public Consulting Group Inc. because under federal Medicaid provisions, it’s the responsibility of the department — not the auditing firm — to determine whether there are “credible allegations of

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An unidentified man, 48, is escorted from his south-side home Tuesday by Santa Fe Police Department SWAT team members after an incident that closed the man’s neighborhood for nearly four hours. Police say no shots were fired. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Man threatening harm surrenders

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he Santa Fe Police Department shut down a south-side subdivision Tuesday morning while trying to convince a man who had allegedly threatened to harm himself or others to surrender, according to a department’s spokeswoman.

The 48-year-old man remained in a home in the 4600 block of Apache Knoll for nearly four hours before giving himself up to officers, Celina Westervelt said. Parts of Jaguar

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At secret facility dubbed Penny Lane, prisoners trained to root out terrorists

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WASHINGTON — A few hundred yards from the administrative offices of the Guantánamo Bay prison, hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus, sits a closely held secret.

A dirt road winds its way to a clearing where eight small cottages sit in two rows of four.

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After coming out of the house, the man, wearing sunglasses and what appeared to be a bulletproof vest, was surrounded by officers in green tactical gear.

The man apparently was alone in the home, and Westervelt said no one was injured. Police had not identified the man by Tuesday afternoon, and Westervelt said there were no plans to do so.

Westervelt said officers first received a call about a man threatening violence to himself

They have long been abandoned. The special detachment of Marines that once provided security is gone.

But in the early years after 9/11, these cottages were part of a covert CIA program. Its secrecy has outlasted black prisons, waterboarding and rendition.

In these buildings, CIA officers turned terrorists into double agents and sent them home.

It was a risky gamble. If it worked, their agents might help the CIA find terrorist leaders to kill with drones. But officials knew there was a chance that some prisoners might quickly

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This satellite image shows a portion of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, including the secret facility known as Penny Lane. In the early years after Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA turned a handful of prisoners at the facility into double agents and released them to help kill terrorists.

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NATION&WORLD Oldest Buddhist shrine found KATMANDU, Nepal rchaeologists in Nepal say they have discovered traces of a wooden structure dating from the sixth century B.C. that they believe is the world’s oldest Buddhist shrine.

Kosh Prasad Acharya, who teamed with archaeologists from Britain’s Durham University, said Tuesday that the structure was unearthed inside the sacred Mayadevi Temple in Lumbini. Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, is generally thought to have been born in about the sixth century B.C. at the temple site.

The findings were published in the December issue of the journal Antiquity.

Acharya said the traces were tested using radiocarbon and

Archaeologist Robin Coningham, of Britain’s Durham University, emerges from the dig at the Lumbini Village Mound in Nepal, where a settlement contemporary with the earliest temple was discovered. Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, is generaly thought to have been born in about the sixth century B.C. at the temple site. AP PHOTO/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, IRA BLOCK

luminescence techniques, which found they dated from the sixth century B.C. The archaeological team dug underneath previously known brick structures inside the temple, and experts from Scotland’s University of Sterling examined and collected the samples, he said.

The team has been working on the site for the past three years.

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In brief U.S. bombers defy new Chinese air defense zone WASHINGTON — Days after China asserted greater military control over a swath of the East China Sea to bolster claims to a cluster of disputed islands, the U.S. defied the move Tuesday as it flew two B-52 bombers through the area.

The U.S. said what it described as a training mission was not flown to respond to China’s latest military maneuver.

The two unarmed U.S. B-52 bombers took off from their home base in Guam and flew through China’s newly designated air defense zone, then returned to base, U.S. officials said.

The bombers were in the zone for less than an hour, thundering across the Pacific skies during midday there, the officials said, adding that the aircraft encountered no problems.

While the U.S. insisted the training mission was long-planned, it came just days after China issued a map and a new set of rules governing the zone, which includes a cluster of islands that are controlled by Japan but claimed by Beijing.

Winds might ground ballons in Macy’s parade NEW YORK — Thanksgiving travelers scrambled to book earlier flights Tuesday to avoid a sprawling storm bearing down on the East Coast with a messy mix of snow, rain and wind that threatened to snarl one

inscriptions dating to the third century B.C. was considered to be the oldest Buddhist structure, Acharya said.

“This finding further strengthens the chronology of Buddha’s life and is major news for the millions of Buddhists around the world,” Acharya said in an interview.

“Very little is known about the life of the Buddha, except through textual sources and oral tradition,” Durham University archae-

of the busiest travel days of the year and ground giant balloon versions of Snoopy and SpongeBob SquarePants in the Macy’s parade.The iconic characters that soar through the Manhattan skyscrapers every year may not lift off Thursday if sustained winds excee 23 mph and gusts exceed 34 mph, according to city rules enacted after fierce winds in 1997 caused a Cat in the Hat balloon to topple a light pole and seriously injure a spectator.

Forecasts call for sustained winds of 20 mph and gusts of 36 mph.

Body count in Mexico mass graves rises to 48 MEXICO CITY — A Mexican federal official says that the number of bodies found in mass graves in western Mexico has risen to 48. Authorities earlier reported 42 bodies, but six more were found.

The graves are in La Barca, a town in a remote area by Lake Chapala, which is popular among tourists and American retirees.

The region is site of a turf war between the Knights Templar and New Generation cartels.

Agents were led to the mass graves by local police officers who confessed handing over two missing federal detectives and other people to New Generation gunmen.

Comet ISON is giving astronomers ‘wild ride’ WASHINGTON — Comet ISON is teasing the solar system as it dances with the sun, and it’s giving astronomers mixed signals.

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ologist Robin Coningham said in a statement. “Now, for the first time, we have an archaeological sequence at Lumbini that shows a building there as early as the sixth century B.C.” Each year, tens of thousands of Buddhists visit Lumbini, 175 miles southwest of Katmandu.

Followers believe Siddhartha, a prince, left his family and kingdom and meditated in the jungles of Nepal and India before achieving enlightenment.

Will it meet a fiery death — or survive — when it whips around the sun on Thursday?

The icy comet will be only about 1 million miles away from the sun’s super-hot surface during its close encounter on Thanksgiving.

On Monday, it looked like it was about to die even before it got there. On Tuesday, it appeared healthy again.

“We have never seen a comet like this,” Naval Research Laboratory astrophysicist Karl Battams said during a NASA news conference Tuesday. “It has been behaving strangely.”

Because it is so close to the sun, ISON will likely not be visible from Earth on Thursday — except via a fleet of NASA telescopes and spacecraft aimed at the comet, he said. And it will be a few hours before scientists know whether the comet survives.

Police chief’s fundraiser: He’ll be shot with Taser KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind. — The police chief of a small Indiana town is hoping to raise $9,000 for a new squad car by getting shot by a stun gun.

A detective will use a Taser on Knightstown Police Chief Danny Baker and another town official at an event Wednesday in the town’s middle school gym.

Baker concedes his fundraising gambit is a bit extreme but he says his department desperately needs to update its fleet of vehicles.

It won’t be the first time that Baker has attempted the stunt. He was also shot by a stun gun about five years ago to raise $500 for new equipment.

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CHICAGO — The cartoon pencil case and toy cellphone displayed at a news conference Tuesday might look like charming holiday gifts, but a consumer safety watchdog group warned that these and other playthings could pose risks to children.

With Christmas less than a month away and Hanukkah beginning at sunset on Wednesday, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group identified 20 toys it says could pose choking, chemical or noise hazards.

“These are not theoretical risks,” said Dr. Elizabeth Powell, attending physician for pediatric emergency medicine at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, who appeared with PIRG officials at the news conference.

“They are actual risks.”

PIRG has been issuing its report annually for 28 years. Dev Gowda of Illinois PIRG said that despite the organization’s findings, none of the toys identified as dangerous has been recalled by the companies that make them.

That’s because they are safe, said Joan Lawrence, vice president of safety standards and regulatory affairs for the Toy Industry Association.

“What they’re not telling you is that in order for it to be on that shelf, it already had to be tested and certified,” Lawrence said. “What consumers need to know is that when they go into a store, all toys sold in the U.S. already have had to demonstrate compliance with [federal] toy safety standards.”

Gowda said PIRG workers visited toy stores, malls and dollar stores this year looking for potentially dangerous toys.

The group tested its purchases for toxicity, noise levels and choking risk and relayed its findings to the industry’s federal regulator, the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

TOYS LISTED IN THE PIRG REPORT Choking risks u Princess Wand, Greenbrier International, sold at Dollar Tree u Bead kit, Greenbrier International, sold at Dollar Tree u Littlest Pet Shop — No. 2744 Horse, Hasbro, sold at Kmart u Littlest Pet Shop — Candyswirl Dreams Collection No. 3313, Hasbro, sold at Wal-Mart u Littlest Pet Shop — Sunil Nevla, Hasbro, sold at WalMart u Littlest Pet Shop — Candyswirl Dreams Collection No. 3317, Hasbro, sold at Wal-Mart u Littlest Pet Shop — Seal and Dolphins, Hasbro, sold Kmart u Gobble Gobble Guppies, SwimWays, sold at Kmart u Super Play Food Set, Geoffrey LLC, sold at Toys R Us u Fisher-Price Loving Family Outdoor Barbecue, Mattel, sold at Kmart u Punch balloons, Toy Investments Inc., sold at Toys R Us Toxic risks u Captain America Soft Shield, Disguise Inc., sold at Toys R Us u Rings, Greenbrier International, sold at Dollar Tree u Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pencil case, Innovative Designs LLC, sold at Toys R Us u Lamaze Take and Tidy Activity Mat, TOMY, sold at Babies R Us u Monster High Skelita Halloween Costume, Rubie’s Costume Co., sold at Toys R Us Risk of harm from magnets u Sonic Sound Sizzlers Noise Magnets, JA-RU Inc., sold at Family Dollar Noise risks u Chat & Count Smart Phone, LeapFrog, sold at Babies R Us u Lil’ Pal Phone, LeapFrog, sold at Babies R Us u Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Remote, Mattel, sold at Babies R Us. Source: Illinois PIRG

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Wednesday, Nov. 27 CURATOR’S TALK: Gallery discussion at Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 12:30 p.m.

217 Johnson St. FREE DREAM WORKSHOP: At 5:30 p.m. at the Santa Fe Public Library, Main Branch, “Understanding the Language of Dreams” is offered by Jungian scholar Fabio Macchioni. Call 982-3214.

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145 Washington Ave. PRESCHOOLER’S STORY HOUR: At 10:45 a.m. at Collected Works Boookstore, a story time for preschoolers.

202 Galisteo St. THANKSGIVING EVE SERVICE: At 7 p.m. at Zia UMC, 3368 Governor Miles Road, the 8th Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Eve Worship service will take place. a potluck follows. The public is invited. 7 p.m. 3368 Governor Miles Road.

WEDNESDAY SPOTLIGHT TOUR: At 12:15 p.m., docentled talk on 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. 107 W. Palace Ave.

NIGHTLIFE Wednesday, Nov. 27 CHISPA! AT EL MESÓN: Chuscales, classic and contemporary flamenco guitar,

Lotteries 7 p.m. 213 Washington Ave. COWGIRL BBQ: Kenny Skywolf Band, local bluesman, 8 p.m.-close, 8 p.m.

319 S. Guadalupe St. EL FAROL: Nacha Mendez with Santastico, 8 p.m.

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LA CASA SENA CANTINA: The Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m.

125 E. Palace Ave. LA POSADA DE SANTA FE RESORT AND SPA: Omar Villanueva, Latin fusion, 7 p.m.

330 E. Palace Ave. THE PANTRY RESTAURANT: Acoustic guitar and vocals with Gary Vigil, 6 p.m.

1820 Cerrillos Road.

TINY’S: 505 Electric Jam with Nick Wimett and M.C. Clymer, 8 p.m. 1005 St. Francis Drive.

VANESSIE: JeM, Americana, folk, and originals; Bob Finnie, Great American Songbook, ’60s and ’70s pop, 6-11 p.m.

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VOLUNTEER AARP TAX-AIDE: Volunteer tax preparers and greeters for the tax season are needed from Feb. 1 to April 15.

Volunteers work one or more 4-hour shifts a week. Training will be offered in January for those with tax preparation experience and more extensive training for those with no experience.

Volunteers can work at Santa Fe Community College or at the Pasatiempo Senior Center on Alta Vista Street. For more information, send an email to taxhelpsantafe@gmail.com or ddreschel@comcast.net or call 670-6835.

DOG WALKERS WANTED: The Santa Fe animal shelter needs volunteer dog walkers for all shifts, but especially the Coffee & Canines morning shift from 7 to 9 a.m. For more information, send email to krodriguez@sfhumanesociety. org or call Katherine at 983-4309, ext. 128.

THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: Volunteers are needed to support the Cancer Resource Center at the Christus St. Vincent Cancer Center.

Training is for the various shifts that are worked during business hours Monday through Friday. Call Geraldine Esquivel with the American Cancer Society at 463-0308.

SANTA FE WOMEN’S ENSEMBLE: Always in need of ushers for concerts; email info@sfwe.org or call 954-4922.

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Corrections An A-1 story published in the Sunday, Nov. 24 edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican about a lawsuit filed against Mora County over an oil and gas ordinance listed Mountain States Legal Foundation as one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. MSLF is the attorney for the plaintiffs in the case.

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Congress leery of Obama’s nuke deal with Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons.

“We all know that if the agreement falls apart, Iran is going to quickly face even tougher sanctions,” he said in the message.

By Bradley Klapper Although Kerry was reaching out The Associated Press personally to key senators, Democrats WASHINGTON — An agreement and Republicans appeared determined secured with its greatest global foe, to increase the pressure on Tehran. the Obama administration pleaded Many in Congress are skeptical, if not Tuesday with a more familiar if often outright hostile, to the deal reached in difficult negotiating partner not to Geneva. Two key senators already are scuttle last weekend’s Iran nuclear at work on legislation to reinstate the deal: Congress. full force of sanctions and impose new Just back from his diplomatic triones if Iran doesn’t make good on its umph in Europe, Secretary of State pledge to roll back its nuclear program.

John Kerry delivered a video message “The American people need an to legislators as he urged that they not insurance policy to prevent a rerun introduce new economic measures of North Korea,” said Sen. Mark Kirk, against Iran at a time the U.S. and felR-Ill., who is crafting a bill alongside low world powers are withdrawing Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. Critics of some sanctions in exchange for the Ira- the accord reached in Geneva believe it nians curtailing their nuclear program. could allow Iran to trick international Kerry asserted that now is the time monitors while it assembles an atomic to get to work on a final agreement weapons arsenal, similar to North that removes any suspicion that Iran Korea last decade.

Senate aims to increase sanctions as ‘insurance’

Iran sanctions evoke great passion in Washington. Although Obama sees the economic pressure as the key motivation for bringing Iran’s new moderate President Hassan Rouhani to the negotiating table, pulling them back is the administration’s only real carrot for securing nuclear concessions.

Congress, which passed the sanctions, is leery. Israel sees any letup on the economic pressure as a dangerous concession that allows Iran to move even closer to nuclear weapons capability. And the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee has joined the call, saying new sanctions are needed “so that Iran will face immediate consequences should it renege on its commitments or refuse to negotiate an acceptable final agreement.”

Menendez and Kirk hope to have their bill ready for other lawmakers to consider when the Senate returns Dec. 9 from its two-week recess, according to legislative aides. The measure would require the administration to certify

every 30 days that Iran is adhering to the terms of the six-month interim agreement and that it hasn’t been involved in any act of terrorism against the U.S. Without that certification, sanctions worth more than $1 billion a month would be re-imposed and new sanctions would be added. The new penalties would include bans on investing in Iran’s engineering, mining and construction industries and a global boycott of Iranian oil by 2015. Foreign companies and banks violating the sanctions would be barred from doing business in the United States.

The senators want to send the bill to the president before the end of the year, said the aides, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak by name on the matter. White House officials wouldn’t say if Obama might veto such legislation.

Kerry, whose message sought to push back against what he called “misinformation,” spoke privately by tele-

phone with Menendez in an effort to sway him, officials said. The secretary of state warned of dire consequences.

“Passing any new sanctions legislation during the course of the negotiations, in our view, would be unhelpful,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. “Other countries would think that the United States is not living up to our end of the bargain in terms of giving the negotiations a chance,” she said. “And it could have the opposite impact of what is intended by driving the Iranians to take a harder line in these negotiations in response.”

Psaki warned of new sanctions dividing the U.S. and its five negotiating partners — Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.

Having voted new sanctions against Iran four months ago, the House is waiting for the Senate to act. The House would probably overwhelmingly support any new legislation against Iran, given that it voted 400-20 in favor of new penalties in July.

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Audit: Balderas wants full report Continued from Page A-1 fraud” that would trigger an investigation.

“It’s not like we’re trying to subvert any process or anything like that,” Kennicott said.

“You don’t hire the auditor to make that determination. So for them to make that statement is not what they were hired for.”

Evan Blackstone, the state auditor’s chief of staff, said in a statement that the department never notified Balderas’ office about the revisions after giving it the report.

“For these reasons, the state auditor is now forced to pursue additional legal action to obtain the original, unaltered PCG report and to independently resolve inconsistent explanations,” Blackstone said.

The subpoena requires the department to provided Balderas’ office with any audit reports by the Boston-based consulting group that were modified by the department.

It also requires the agency to turn over a wide range of email and other communications between the consultant and department staff about report revisions.

Balderas’ office said it found the report discrepancy by chance in comparing what was provided by the department under terms of a July court order and a heavily redacted partial report publicly released last month by Attorney General Gary King’s office.

Missing from the report given to Balderas was a passage that said, “PCG’s case file audit did not uncover what it would consider to [be] credible allegations of fraud, nor any significant concerns related to consumer safety.”

Kennicott said he didn’t know why the state auditor and attorney general received slightly different reports.

“I don’t know if they just got the wrong version of it or what,” Kennicott said. “The only edits that were done that I know of were some typos here or there and that singular sentence.”

Most of the report remains confidential. The Attorney General’s Office contends public disclosure could undermine its investigation into allegations of overbilling and fraud.

Balderas’ office has an independent auditing firm reviewing the department’s annual finances and scrutinizing the department-commissioned audit to determine whether its statistical analysis is valid. The review also is to determine if the department has adequate safeguards against Medicaid fraud.

SWAT: No shots were fired Continued from Page X-1 echoed throughout the community for 10 to 15 minutes.

Westervelt said the man wasn’t arrested on criminal charges, but he was taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation. She did confirm that the had a gun, but she wouldn’t specify what type it was.

It’s unclear if the house belonged to the man. But Mario Urioste, who lives in the neighborhood, said he recognized the man being led away by police in a New Mexican photo as the man who lived in the home. However, Urioste said he didn’t know the man and had never really spoken with him.

Urioste said officers asked him to leave his home at about noon . Another homeowner, who declined to share her name, said officers also asked her to leave her home.

Police reopened the streets at about 2 p.m.

Agents: Some helped find, kill top al-Qaida operatives Continued from Page A-1 spurn their deal and kill Americans.

For the CIA, that was an acceptable risk in a dangerous business. For the American public, which was never told, it was one of the many secret trade-offs the government made on its behalf. At the same time the government used the threat of terrorism to justify imprisoning people indefinitely, it was releasing dangerous people from prison to work for the CIA. Nearly a dozen current and former U.S officials described aspects of the program to The Associated Press. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the secret program, even though it ended in about 2006.

The program and the handful of men who passed through these cottages had various official CIA codenames. But those who were aware of the cluster of cottages knew it best by its sobriquet: Penny Lane.

It was a nod to the classic Beatles song and a riff on the CIA’s other secret facility at Guantánamo Bay, a prison known as Strawberry Fields.

Some of the men who passed through Penny Lane helped the CIA find and kill many top al-Qaida operatives, current and former U.S. officials said. Others stopped providing useful information, and the CIA lost touch with them.

When prisoners began streaming into the prison on the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in January 2002, the CIA recognized it as an unprecedented opportunity to identify sources. That year, 632 detainees arrived at the island. The following year 117 more arrived.

“Of course that would be an objective,” said Emile Nakhleh, a former top CIA analyst who spent time in 2002 assessing detainees but who did not discuss Penny Lane. “It’s the job of intelligence to recruit sources.”

By early 2003, Penny Lane was open for business. Candidates were ushered from the confines of prison to Penny Lane’s relative hominess, officials said. The cottages had private kitchens, showers and televisions.

Each had a small patio.

Some prisoners asked for and received pornography. One official said the biggest luxury in each cottage was the bed, not a military-issued cot but a real bed with a mattress. The cottages were designed to feel more like hotel rooms than prison cells, and some CIA officials jokingly referred to them collectively as the Marriott.

Current and former officials said dozens of prisoners were evaluated but only a handful, from varying countries, were turned into spies who signed agreements to spy for the CIA. CIA spokesman Dean Boyd declined to comment.

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., who serves on the Armed Services and Homeland Security oversight committees, said Tuesday that she was still learning more about the program but was concerned about the numbers of prisoners who were released by the Bush and Obama administrations and returned to fight with terrorists against U.S. interests.

“So, when I juxtapose that to the CIA

actually thinking that they can convert these people, I think it was very ill-conceived program for them to think that,” Ayotte said on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports. “These are some very hard-core individuals, and many whom have been released by both administrations have gotten back in to fight us and our allies, unfortunately.”

Appearing on the program with Ayotte, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said it was difficult for him to evaluate the CIA program’s effectiveness. “But it has a degree of recklessness to it that I would be very concerned about,” Casey said.

The U.S. government says it has confirmed about 16 percent of former Guantánamo Bay detainees rejoin the fight against America. Officials suspect but have not confirmed that another 12 percent rejoined.

Though the number of double agents recruited through Penny Lane was small, the program was significant enough to draw keen attention from President George W. Bush, one former official said. Bush personally interviewed a junior CIA case officer who had just returned home from Afghanistan, where the agency typically met with the agents.

President Barack Obama took an interest the program for a different reason. Shortly after taking office, he ordered a review of the former detainees working as double agents because they were providing information used in Predator drone strikes, one of the officials said.

Infiltrating al-Qaida has been one of the CIA’s most sought-after but difficult goals, something that other foreign intelligence services have only occasionally accomplished. So candidates for Penny Lane needed legitimate terrorist connections. To be valuable to the CIA, the men had to be able to reconnect with al-Qaida.

From what the Bush administration was saying about Guantánamo Bay prisoners at the time, the CIA would have seemingly had a large pool to draw from.

Vice President Dick Cheney called the prisoners “the worst of a very bad lot.”

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said they were “among the most dangerous, best trained, vicious killers on the face of the Earth.”

In reality, many were held on flimsy evidence and were of little use to the CIA. While the agency looked for viable candidates, those with no terrorism ties sat in limbo. It would take years before the majority of detainees were set free, having never been charged. Of the 779 people who were taken to Guantánamo Bay, more than threefourths have been released, mostly during the Bush administration.

Many others remain at Guantánamo Bay, having been cleared for release by the military but with no hope for freedom in sight.

“I do see the irony on the surface of letting some really very bad guys go,” said David Remes, an American lawyer who has represented about a dozen Yemeni detainees at Guantánamo.

But Remes, who was not aware of Penny Lane, said he understands its attraction.

“The men we were sending back as agents were thought to be able to provide value to us,” he said.

Dealer: Could face 28 years Continued from Page A-1 Bruch is among several young people who have died at what are called electronic dance music festivals around the country.

Many others have ended up in hospital emergency rooms, prompting cancellation of such events. After Bruch’s death, Expo New Mexico announced it would halt allages events and electronic music shows.

Stone has been charged with three counts of distributing a controlled substance to a minor, a second-degree felony, Gutierrez said. He could face a maximum of 28 years on those charges.

One of those counts charges Stone with selling drugs to Bruch; the other two charges are related to the sale of drugs to Bruch’s friends. It is unclear whether those friends were the ones who were with Bruch the night she died.

Gutierrez said Stone was booked into the Sandoval County Detention Center early Tuesday morning. According to the arrest warrant, he is being held on a $100,000 cash or surety bond. Gutierrez said the case is still open and that there might be other people of interest in the case.

A police affidavit reveals more information about the drug deal in which Stone and Bruch allegedly were involved. The report states that two of Bruch’s friends “gave very descriptive details of the drug ‘Molly’ purchase as taking place on Pearl Drive in Rio Rancho” on June 28. Bruch and her friends, according to the report, bought $100 worth of the drug. Molly is a colloquial reference to MDMA, or Ecstasy, usually the crystalline or powder form, but the term also can refer to the pill form of the drug.

The police report states that a mutual friend confirmed he set up the drug sale and told the officer that the man who sold the drugs to Bruch and her friends was Stone.

The report goes on to state that officers interviewed Stone in early October, and he told them “he supplies numerous people.”

It also states that Stone remembered a drug deal June 28 with a girl named “Hannah,” and

that his recollection was “very consistent” with statements from Bruch’s friends. Officers corroborated their interviews with subpoenaed phone records, the report states.

An Eric Stone with the same birth date and middle initial as the one listed on the state police affidavit has a criminal record in Santa Fe, according to the county jail website. And the New Mexico Courts online record system shows that Stone has pleaded guilty to drunken driving and possession of drug paraphernalia or possession charges.

Bruch, a Santa Fe High School student, died from a combination of MDMA, or Ecstasy, and diphenhydramine, an over-thecounter drug present in allergy medication such as Benadryl, according to an autopsy.

“The amount of MDMA alone is sufficient to cause death, however, combining it with a high amount of diphenhydramine would be especially lethal,” the medical examiner wrote. “The manner of death is accident.”

Police documents said Bruch consumed a crystalline and “intense” form of the drug.

The New Mexican’s attempts to reach Hannah Bruch’s father, Larry Bruch, were unsuccessful Tuesday, but the father of the deceased teen has said that he believed “drugs and peer pressure” were responsible for his daughter’s death.

Gov. Susana Martinez said in a statement Tuesday that she told Hannah Bruch’s father authorities had arrested the man who had sold drugs to the girl.

“Drugs like Ecstasy and the so-called ‘Molly’ are so dangerous for New Mexico teens,” she wrote. “And it’s up to everybody in our community to work together to make sure kids understand the very real risks of using these types of drugs.”

State police documents indicate the agency did not find negligence on the part of Expo New Mexico or Securitas Security, the company providing security for the event.

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

Bushee: Expert says ‘sour grapes’ may be motive for exposé Continued from Page A-1 abandon a privately financed campaign when fundraising efforts stalled, despite concerns that the city’s public finance code was flawed.

Nix’s complaint was filed on her behalf by Santa Fe attorney David P. Garcia, a former member of the Ethics and Campaign Review Board.

The complaint includes private emails between Bushee and her campaign team and a confidential summer campaign plan and calendar with fundraising targets and strategies for winning the race, including compiling opposition research books on the other candidates.

Lonna Atkeson, a political science professor at The University of New Mexico, said the information disclosed by Nix in the complaint leaves Bushee “very exposed.”

“This seems like a lot of sour grapes to me. You’re talking about basically providing all of her campaign information into a public forum. If she’s just filing an ethics complaint about a particular contribution, then most of that doesn’t seem necessary,” Atkeson said.

Atkeson said she found it “odd” that Nix would release internal campaign documents, especially since there was no question that Bushee had hired Nix to do the work.

“It seems like one of the things going on in this contest here in Santa Fe is that there’s a lot of misunderstanding and lack of knowledge about how this new system works,” Atkeson said of the city’s public campaign finance code, which is being tested for the first time in a mayor’s race.

Atkeson, who lives in the Eldorado subdivision, said whether or not Bushee violated the code is a matter for the ethics board. But she said she did not know why Nix would want to release the information on her work, unless “you want to snare the candidate and you want to get even.”

Nix did not return a message seeking comment. She has previously referred all inquiries to her attorney, who could not be reached after business hours Tuesday.

Walt Borton, a member of Bushee’s campaign team, said all the internal documents Nix included in her complaint could be used to validate the amount of work she did for Bushee.

“That’s one way to look at it,” he said. “There’s another way to look at it, but I’m not going to go there. You can connect the dots.”

Bushee initially planned to forgo public financing and raise up to $160,000 for her mayoral campaign, but changed course after private fundraising efforts failed to meet expectations, the complaint states.

Nix alleges Bushee violated the public campaign finance law by failing to report a $1,750 payment made to Nix in June.

She also alleges Bushee violated the law by obtaining seed money contributions over the $100 limit when Bushee spent $1,750 from her personal account to pay Nix. “By her own admission, Ms. Bushee contributed $1,750 of her own money, which violates the $100 contribution limit,” Nix wrote. “She has also maintained that she has reported $6,000 of seed money contributions, but Ms. Bushee did not disclose the payment to me in June, which would put her over the $6,000 limit.”

Mayoral candidates seeking public financing were allowed to collect and spend up to $6,000 in seed money contributions of $100 each.

That money was to be used to defray the expenses of obtaining 600 individual $5 contributions to qualify for public financing.

In her application for certification as a publicly financed candidate, Bushee affirmed under oath that she had made no expenditures from any source other than seed money contributions.

“My complaints … are that there have been false and inaccurate statements made by Patti Bushee and the Bushee Mayoral Campaign regarding her request for public cam-

ON THE WEB u Read Tarin Nix’s full complaint on our website: www. santafenewmexican.com

paign finance funding,” Nix wrote.

Bushee, whose father died last week, did not return a message seeking comment. Her new campaign manager, Traci Cadigan, said she hadn’t spoken with Bushee, either.

“She’s dealing with the death of her father, and she will be back in town on Sunday. I don’t know what else to tell you right now,” Cadigan said.

In an interview last week, Bushee said she and Nix entered into a verbal agreement to work together when she planned to run as a privately financed candidate.

Nix, who served as campaign manager for state Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard, said in the complaint that she was living in Austin, Texas, when Bushee called and asked her to travel to Santa Fe to interview for a campaign manager position.

“She stated that she was interested in running a private, well-funded campaign,” Nix wrote.

After a two-hour conversation at Babaluu’s Cocina Cubana, Bushee hired Nix and agreed to pay her $3,500 a month, Nix wrote.

“I drove back to Texas the next day and began packing up my belongings, quit my full-time job and by June 1, had relocated myself back to Santa Fe, to officially start as campaign manager on the Bushee Mayoral Campaign,” Nix wrote.

The job was short-lived. Less than a month later, Bushee fired Nix, who insisted on being paid immediately, Bushee said.

Bushee said in last week’s interview that the payment to Nix was incurred when she was running as a privately financed candidate. Bushee said she preferred to run as a publicly financed candidate, but that members of her extended team were “very fearful” that she would face a candidate who would be financed by big money.

“I really like to remain as independent as I can from large, private donations,” she said.

The complaint filed by Nix also included talking points for Bushee to deal with questions about being a privately financed candidate.

Some of the talking points included the challenges of spending limits imposed on publicly financed candidates.

“Santa Feans deserve the opportunity to hear from each individual candidate and with a $60,000 budget and a restriction of not being able to use it until December, I believe it will be difficult for anyone who accepts public campaign funding on a Mayoral race,” a campaign email said.

When she decided to seek public funds to run her campaign, Bushee said, she tried to remedy the situation with Nix by issuing her another $1,750 check Nov. 15 from her seed money account.

Only the second check was reported in Bushee’s campaign filings with the City Clerk’s Office.

“We did the best we could with the advice we had and the interpretation of the code as it’s written now,” Bushee said.

Nix said Joe Lennihan, an attorney and member of Bushee’s campaign team, called her Nov. 15 asking if she would swap checks, so that the payment would be noted as coming from Bushee’s seed money account.

Nix said she refused to swap checks and return the money.

“I also advised Joe Lennihan that I wanted to make sure the June 19 cashier’s check was reported in Ms. Bushee’s filing, because that was when I actually received the initial payment,” Nix wrote.

“Mr. Lennihan acknowledged that he did not know what checks would be reported.”

Contact Daniel J. Chacón at 986-3089 or dchacon@ sfnewmexican.com.

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And even in the developwith conservatives that discourteachings such as those against Francis, who was elected to ing world, there are emerging ages taxation and regulation. abortion and gay equality. lead the church in March after concerns about inequality and “Some people continue to the resignation of Pope Benewhether workers will benefit defend trickle-down theories dict, hailed from Buenos Aires from their countries’ increaswhich assume that economic and became the first non-Euro- ing prosperity. In China, for growth, encouraged by a free pean to lead the church in more instance, officials have made market, will inevitably succeed than a millenium. in bringing about greater justice repeated promises to tackle the Since then, he has been the and inclusiveness in the world,” country’s widening income gap. subject of fascination and attenFrancis wrote in the papal stateIt’s the “boldness and explicittion among many Catholics, ment. “This opinion, which has ness” of the pope’s new writing political leaders and people all never been confirmed by the that makes it so newsworthy, facts, expresses a crude and naive over the world as he has taken said Michael Sean Winters, a a decidedly more populist trust in the goodness of those fellow at Catholic University’s approach to the papacy. He has wielding economic power and Institute for Policy Research in the sacralized workings of the adopted a softer tone toward and Catholic Studies. gays, eschewed lavish features prevailing economic system.”

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While Francis’ economic philosophy has yet to cause any major upheaval among conservatives, last year U.S. bishops and other prominent Catholics spoke out against a budget proposed by then-vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., that would have dramatically cut the safety net.

According to polling, U.S. Catholics are more supportive of government taking action to improve living standards and believe the wealth gap is historically high, but are divided over the size of government and whether the nation’s biggest problem is unfairness or over-regulation of business. In 2012, Catholics voters split on whether government should take action to reduce the gap

Pope Francis celebrates a Mass on Saturday in St. Peter’s Basilica. In a paper released Tuesday, he condemned economic inequality.

between wealthy and less welloff Americans.

Helping the poor and combating inequality have been long tenets of papal statements and classical Catholic teaching, which supports carefully regulated markets and even a government role in redistributing wealth. Yet while previous popes discussed the disenfranchised, they didn’t single out the issue the way Francis has. He has not only done so with his words, but in his actions, such as paying his own hotel bill in person or affectionately embracing a man disfigured by disease.

Experts see Francis as trying to reframe economic justice not just a matter of duty but as a way of connecting better to God.

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While the most recent TNS BMRB poll showed 1 in 4 Scottish voters favor spurning the U.K., First Minister Alex Salmond said regaining sovereignty would spur economic growth and narrow inequalities.

“This paper puts beyond doubt that Scotland would start from a position of strength,” Salmond told a briefing in Glasgow. “It reflects out vast potential as a country.”

Salmond had been under pressure from British Prime Minister David Cameron and his ministers to state more clearly how independence might work.

The risk now is that it leaves the Scottish nationalists exposed to challenges over the details, said Matt Qvortrup, a senior researcher at Cranfield University who has written a history of referendums.

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The policy document includes everything from currency and child care to naval defence and organ transplants as it spelled out the next steps in negotiations, should voters opt to leave the U.K. The nationalist party proposed the referendum after winning a majority in Scottish elections in 2011, though it has failed to translate that support into backing for its flagship policy.

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Poll: Anxiety among U.S. workers at all-time high

By Jim Tankersley and Scott Clement The Washington Post

CHESTER, Pa. — The alarm rang on John Stewart’s phone at 1:10 a.m. He was up at 1:30, caught one bus north into Philadelphia a little after 2 and another bus, south toward Philadelphia International Airport, a half-hour after that. He made it into work around 3:25 a.m. for a shift that started at 4, for a job that pays $5.25 an hour, which he cannot afford to lose.

Stewart is 55, tall and thin and animated. At work, he wears a clip-on tie, a white cotton shirt with a fraying collar and a pair of black sneakers he nabbed on sale for $12.99 a few days ago. He wheels elderly air passengers from the ticket counters through security and to their gates, and back again, and every once in a while they tip him. For lunch, he buys a candy bar. His skin flakes from psoriasis, which gets worse when he worries, which, these days, is all the time. He can’t pay for treatments to soothe the itching or for a car to shorten his predawn commute.

“I can’t save money,” he said recently, “to buy the things I need to live as a human being.”

American workers are living with unprecedented economic anxiety, four years into a recovery that has left so many of them stuck in place. That anxiety is concentrated heavily among low-income workers such as Stewart.

More than 6 in 10 workers in a recent Washington PostMiller Center poll worry that they will lose their jobs to the economy, surpassing concerns in more than a dozen surveys dating to the 1970s. Nearly 1 in 3, 32 percent, say they worry “a lot” about losing their jobs, also a record high, according to the joint survey, which explores Americans’ changing definition of success and their confidence in the country’s future. The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia specializing in public policy, presidential scholarship and political history.

Job insecurities have always been higher among low-income Americans, but they typically rose and fell across all levels of the income ladder. Today, workers at the bottom have drifted away, occupying their own island of insecurity.

Fifty-four percent of workers making $35,000 or less now worry “a lot” about losing their jobs, compared with 37 percent of lower-income workers in 1992 and an identical number in 1975, according to surveys

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This time, cakes at a five-and-dime in New attendant at Lower-paid workers also finding a job York City. He made $2.35 an Philadelphia worry far more about making took him five hour, which would be a little less International ends meet. Fully 85 percent of than $8 an hour today. He was 19 Airport; earns months. It’s them fear that their families’ years old, a high school graduate $5.25 per hour sadly typical income will not be enough to for this recovmeet expenses, up 25 points from who had grown up in Brooklyn ery: In October, and North Carolina.

He hadn’t a 1971 survey asking an identical more than 4 million Americans question. Thirty-two percent say gone to college. He was sending had been looking for work chunks of his paycheck south to they worry all the time about longer than six months.

That meeting expenses, a number that his parents, who were battling was down from nearly 7 million has almost tripled since the 1970s. health issues. It was an anxious people at the start of 2010, but Americans’ economic percep- time in the national economy, still 1 million more than at any tions often divide along political with inflation running high. point in U.S. history before the He worried hardly at all, about lines; supporters of the incumGreat Recession. bent president are usually more any of it. “In the years back then,” When Stewart finally got the optimistic about the job market Stewart explained recently, “if job at the airport, through a man you left a job, you were able to and the health of the economy. at his church, he thought he But that’s not the case with this find another job, within the next was signing on to $7.25 an hour. day or the same week.” new anxiety. Once you control On the first day they told him He did leave that cooking job, for economic and demographic no, it’s $5.25 plus whatever tips fairly quickly. He found work factors, there is no partisan come your way. That’s not usudivide. There’s no racial divide, right away as a messenger, run- ally very much. He brings home either, and no gender gap. It also ning documents all over the about $600 most months after doesn’t matter where you live. city. In later years, he would taxes and accounting for unpaid What matters in this new work in offices and at a trash sick days, he says. He pays a anxiety, what unites the people dump infested with rats. He family friend $400 a month to who worry more now than tried college for six months but live in her basement. ever, are income and education. left when his mother died. He It makes him grateful to be a Workers who earn less, and has never gone back, though bachelor: “I’m glad I don’t have a workers who didn’t graduate he would like to; he says he has family,” Stewart said. “Because if from college, fear losing their never had the time or money I had a family, man, we’d be hit.” already weaker livelihoods for school. Eventually he landed more than anyone else. in New Jersey at a Wal-Mart, Spend a day with John Stewart poised, he thought, for a man-

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Several economists say there’s a simple explanation for that gap: Poorer people can’t spare the time or money to go to school.

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The effort is an attempt to reduce the role of loosely regulated big-money political outfits like GOP political guru Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS and the pro-Obama Priorities USA. The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department said they want to prohibit such groups from using “candidaterelated political activity” like running ads, registering voters or distributing campaign literature as activities that qualify them to be tax-exempt “social welfare” organizations.

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There is a reason workers like Stewart are so nervous in today’s economy. That reason is the economy itself. There are still 11 million Americans looking for work who can’t find a job. The unemployment rate is 7.3 percent, higher than it has been since 1980, except during recessions and their immediate aftermaths.

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Members of Congress should be drug-tested

Inez Russell Gomez Editorial Page Editor

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ep. Trey Radel voted in favor of drug-testing the folks who get food stamps.

In that case, why don’t we drug-test all people who get federal money? Let’s start with members of Congress!

Radel, the Florida Republican whose campaign was heavy on balancing the budget, would be the first to save the government some money on that plan.

The 37-year-old congressman who describes himself on Twitter as a “Hip Hop Conservative” — whatever that is — lasted just 10 months in the nation’s capital before his Nose Snow Rewards Card balance tripped the radar of law enforcement.

He was busted last month after buying $250 worth of cocaine from a federal agent.

And it apparently wasn’t his first time on this particular sleigh ride.

Radel was described in charging documents as a routine buyer in Dupont Circle, purchasing for himself and for his pals. He pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court this week, was sentenced to a year of probation and announced a leave of absence.

Ho-hum. Nothing new, politics and drugs. Thanks to former Washington Mayor Marion Barry and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, we can mention more than just weed in this list. And the roll call of politicians who’ve admitted to smoking pot — whether they inhaled or not — is too huge to tackle in this space.

Radel, a former TV reporter and conservative radio gabber, isn’t an aberration when it comes to using coke. About 1.6 million Americans admitted to being regular cocaine users in a survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration last year.

The same survey said that about 1,800 try cocaine for their first time every day. It’s not just boxy boyfriend blazers that are coming back from the ’80s.

Plus, Radel was described as an energetic new lawmaker who was quickly making a

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F name for himself on Capitol Hill. And he’s got a 2-year-old at home. Who couldn’t use a little coke to stay wired?

Radel’s drug use isn’t even his worst transgression. It’s attaining a level of hypocrisy that usually takes politicians years — decades — to achieve.

This is a guy whose campaign ads lambasted “typical politicians.”

“Washington’s full of them,” he lamented.

He said he’d bring American values to Washington, “Values that come with integrity, especially when we talk about cuts.” Like, the kind you make with a razor blade, Hip Hop Man? Seriously — this is a guy who preaches about the dysfunction in Washington, and then look at what he does once he gets to Our Town.

The tea party darling is one of the Republicans who voted in favor of a devastating $39 billion cut to the nation’s food stamp program and later voted for another bill requiring mandatory drug testing for food stamp recipients.

Yup, in Radel’s version of Absurdistan, it’s totally okay for a guy in a suit to use coke and collect a government pay-

check, but a single mom who needs help buying milk for her kids has to be drug-tested before she gets one government dime.

Drug-testing food stamp and welfare recipients is a mean-spirited, political potshot at our nation’s most vulnerable families. And it doesn’t work.

In Utah, from August 2012 to July, the state spent more than $30,000 testing nearly 5,000 welfare applicants for drug use. The haul? Twelve people.

The same thing was tried in Florida, where drug tests cost the state more money than was saved. Those tests turned up more positives than in Utah. (Come on, it’s Florida!)

There, about 100 of 4,000 recipients tested dirty. Maybe Radel was a ringer, taking that test to increase the numbers and bolster his spending cuts.

Why, exactly, don’t we require a drug test for our lawmakers?

They get paid by the taxpayers. They make important decisions. I’m sure the electronic voting machines they use to cast their yeas and nays count as heavy machinery. Or the members-only elevator does.

In America, if you stack

apples, cut meat, pitch a baseball, carry a weapon, drive a forklift, answer phones, sweep streets or do any number of other jobs, you’ve got to pee in a cup to assure your employer that you are drug-free and worthy of the job.

The Partnership at Drugfree. org estimated that 84 percent of employers in America drugtest their employees. Why don’t we hold our members of Congress to the same standards?

I’m not alone in thinking this. Go to petitiononline.com, find the petition to drug-test members of Congress and read the comments of people angry about the consistent double standard that politicians live by.

If we tested everyone in Congress at an average cost of $40 a test, the bill would be about $21,400. And even if Radel was the only one (ha!) who tested positive for drugs, the taxpayers would come out ahead by withholding his $174,000 salary.

You were right, Congressman Radel. Drug testing is an excellent idea.

Just make sure you target the right people.

Petula Dvorak writes for The Washington Post.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Inform about rate disputes closer to home

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ow is it possible for The New Mexican to run a large front page story on the rate dispute between Arizona’s largest utility and its solar power customers (“Solar industry eyes Arizona fight over rooftop project,” Nov. 14) without so much as a mention of where a similar controversy stands in New Mexico?

Whatever happens in Arizona may or may not change the way New Mexico utilities relate to their solar power customers, but the situation in the two states is close enough that a nod toward how that issue is being treated in New Mexico probably falls under the guidelines of Journalism 101.

The last time I checked, The New Mexican exists to inform New Mexicans about events that shape their lives in this state, but how can we tell?

Hal Wingo

Santa Fe

Protecting property My husband and I recently bought a commercial building on Paseo de Peralta.

It’s a lovely older building that we’ve been making improvements to for the last several months: painting, improving lighting, replacing deteriorating stairs, etc. We also put in a variety of flowering bushes and vines, some ground covertype plants, and 12 10-foot aspens.

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First, all of the flowering bushes and vines were stolen out of the ground. Then, the ground cover went. Now, the thieves have taken four of the 12 aspens. We don’t have security cameras. Does anyone out there have any advice about how to save our remaining trees? This could have been a very nice-looking property that the employees and anyone walking by would have enjoyed. We feel just terrible. Of course, we have made a police report.

Barbara Hill and Jimmy Kloczko

Santa Fe

A great representation Many, many years ago my high school classmates and I studied and memorized the Gettysburg Address.

Years later, in 1985 at the Beijing, China, airport, as part of the formalities, I handed my passport to a young PRC army officer. When he handed it back, he asked, “Do you know the speech of the

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famous American, Abraham Lincoln?” I have no idea where my head was at (let’s call it travel fatigue) and started to say, “To be or not to be.”

With chagrin, I immediately stopped, whereupon the officer proceeded to recite the entire Gettysburg Address in perfectly understandable English. I congratulated him, and we both smiled. I entered China rather amazed and thrilled that he considered that address to be representative of America.

R.T. Hasbrouck

Truchas

Pulling strings Ted Cruz and his fellow Republican congressmen who shut down the government are just stringed puppets for the billionaire Koch brothers. First they shut down the government and then they went screaming and yelling to the World War II Memorial saying that it should not be shut down. Heaven help us, it was like the insane were running the insane asylum. Now our own Gov. Susana Martinez recently spoke at a conference sponsored by the Koch brothers as she is now being fitted for her strings.

Greg Gonzales

Santa Fe

orget safety concerns. Cellphones on planes should be banned not because they could interfere with the flight, but because the prospect of passengers chattering from Boise to Boston or Albuquerque to Austin is cringe-inducing.

Planes are close quarters, with people smushed together in narrow seats. Avoiding a conversation with a voluble neighbor is tough enough, but having to listen to that neighbor chat with a best friend about her vacation conquests will make flying even more horrific.

All that cabin crew needs, too, is more work negotiating disputes among passengers. Flight attendants are against the proposal, having successfully fighting off a similar suggestion in 2004 to allow cellphone calls on planes. (That effort drew some 8,000 complaints).

But now, the Federal Communications Commission is proposing rules that would allow passengers to use mobile phones while flying. This, on the heels of the Federal Aviation Administration approving the use of such devices for much of the flight (calls would still be restricted during takeoff and landing, with conversations possible once the plane soars to about 10,000 feet.) The FCC will issue the rules because phone calls fall under its jurisdiction. (Of course, initial backlash has been so great that already, the FCC is saying it will be up to airlines. Imagine the premium prices for “quiet” cabins).

Besides the annoyance factor, business travelers in particular should weigh in against the proposal. In this age of instant communication, the hours on a plane are some of the rare times that workers can be away from demands of the office. Not having to talk to the boss or a client is one of the few breaks modern workers get.

Keep cellphones off the plane, and let people fly in peace.

RIP, John Dendahl

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ohn Dendahl, a son of Santa Fe, will be remembered Friday at a memorial service in his hometown. He died earlier this month in Colorado of complications from chemotherapy treatment for leukemia.

Known for his political acumen, fierce intellect and love of the political game, the 75-year-old skied on the Olympic team, served as president of First National Bank, was a Republican candidate for governor and state party chairman. The growing competitiveness of the GOP in New Mexico is in large part because of Dendahl — should the House of Representatives change hands from Democratic to Republican control next year, much credit would go to his work building the party over most of a decade.

Politics was but one part of his life, though. Before competing in the Olympics, Dendahl helped the University of Colorado win two NCAA championships in skiing, winning three individual titles. He served as Economic Development and Tourism secretary and on boards of various nonprofits and charities, including the Sangre de Cristo Girl Scouts and The Santa Fe Opera. Additionally, he was the proud father of five daughters and had moved to Colorado to be closer to family there.

Despite his competitive nature, he charmed foes and friends alike — because to him, while competition was fierce, it was seldom personal. We will miss his quick wit and sharp commentary on social and political issues. On Friday, his friends and family — and we imagine, more than a few old foes — will gather to remember the outdoorsman, politician, businessman and community stalwart.

Memorial services are at 2 p.m. Friday at St. John’s College.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Nov. 27, 1963: Dallas — The district attorney hinted today that striptease nightclub owner Jack Ruby may have had a more sinister motive for killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald than vengeance for the Kennedy family. Law enforcement agencies are still checking to determine if links exist between Oswald and Ruby.

Washington — The long strike-threatened railroad dispute rolled toward the courts today and a new legal tangle over an arbitration ruling permitting the elimination of thousands of firemen’s jobs.

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In February, 2012 Joan Houston Hall, editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, holds the final volume of the dictionary in Madison, Wis. Researchers on Monday, launched a new online survey to update the regional dictionary that records the different ways people across America talk. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

American Regional English dictionary is going online Virtual survey will replace the ‘word wagons’ of the ’60s

By Scott Bauer The Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. niversity of Wisconsin students and researchers set out in “word wagons” nearly 50 years ago to record the ways Americans spoke in various parts of the country.

Now, they’re doing it again, only virtually.

This time they won’t be lugging reel-to-reel tape recorders or sleeping in vans specially equipped with beds, stoves and sinks. Instead, work to update the Dictionary of American Regional English is being done in front of computers, reading online survey results.

“Of course, language changes and a lot of people have the notion that American English is becoming homogenized,” said Joan Houston Hall, who has worked on the dictionary since 1975 and served as its editor since 2000.

The only way to determine if that is true, though, is to do more research, she said.

The dictionary, known as DARE, has more than 60,000 entries exposing variances in the words, phrases, pronunciations, and pieces of grammar and syntax used throughout the country.

Linguists consider it a national treasure, and it has been used by everyone from a criminal investigator in the 1990s tracking down the Unabomber to Hollywood dialect coaches trying to be as authentic as possible.

The dictionary can help explain why skeezicks (an affectionate term for rascally children used mainly in the northern Mid-Atlantic region) play hopscotch in most places, except Manhattan where it may be called potsy or in Chicago where it’s known as sky blue.

Usually, when people each bring a dish to share it’s a potluck dinner. Except in Indiana, where it may be called a pitchin. In northern Illinois it’s a scramble.

And then there’s the bubbler, the Wisconsin way (common in the southeast corner of the state) of referring to a drinking fountain.

The dictionary chronicles American English words and phrases like those, while also giving readers a broad history of how English is spoken in the U.S. It traces popular, and not-so-popular, words and phrases to their origins.

Then it breaks down how they’ve been used, with maps showing their geographic range.

“Think of every language as being a country,” said Erin McKean, founder and leader of the online dictionary Wordnik and a past editor of the New Oxford American

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7 p.m. on NBC The Making of The Sound of Music Live!

This new special goes behind the scenes of next week’s new production of the musical starring Carrie Underwood as Maria and Stephen Moyer as Captain von Trapp. Viewers get a glimpse of the rehearsals and the making of the CD. 7 p.m. on ABC The Middle The entire Heck family insists on accompanying Axl (Charlie McDermott) to college, to his dismay.

It isn’t a long trip, but it feels like one when Sue (Eden Sher) freaks out about a forgotten application for a school leadership program, and Brick (Atticus Shaffer) keeps losing his phone. Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn also star in “The Drop Off.” 7 p.m. on CW Movie: Planes, Trains and Automobiles Writer-director John Hughes cast John Candy and Steve Martin, pictured, in this 1987 comedy about a stuffy businessman (Martin) trying to get home for Thanksgiving.

He endures a series of mishaps with a good-natured but overly friendly stranger (Candy). Kevin Bacon and William Windom also star.

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8 p.m. on ABC Modern Family Mitch and Cam’s (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet) friend Sal (Elizabeth Banks) drops a triple bombshell on them in this episode. She’s getting married.

She wants them in the wedding.

Oh, and it’s tomorrow. Gloria (Sofia Vergara) has her doubts about the new nanny. Claire and Haley (Julie Bowen, Sarah Hyland) bond, and Phil (Ty Burrell) gives Luke (Nolan Gould) advice in “Best Men.” 9 p.m. on ABC Nashville With Rayna (Connie Britton) in a coma and Deacon (Charles Esten) awaiting word on his jail sentence, Teddy (Eric Close), still reeling from the news about Peggy’s (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) pregnancy, doesn’t know if he should be by Rayna’s side or with his daughters. Maddie (Lennon Stella) seeks support from Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) and inadvertently reveals the details of what happened before the crash in “I Fall to Pieces.”

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Dictionary.

“DARE is the only map of American English that shows where the words live and how they’re used by whom.”

She called DARE one of the 10 most important dictionary projects ever undertaken.

The first of five print volumes, which only covered A through C, came out in 1985.

The final one, covering Slab through Zydeco, was released in 2012.

Along with a sixth volume that contains maps and other data, the collection takes up 14 inches on a book shelf, spans 6,624 pages, and weighs about 33 pounds.

And soon, anyone who has been searching hell-for-leather (in great haste, mainly used in the West) for an electronic version of the dictionary will be able to get one.

Harvard University Press, which publishes the dictionary, plans to put out a Webbased version of it Monday that allows users to hear the original field recordings of words and phrases being spoken, to customize their use of the data and to view maps showing different uses of words throughout the country.

Subscribing to the online site will cost $150 a year. Buying all six volumes of the book version will set you back $740.

Even though no new research has been done for the dictionary since 1970, Hall said she hopes it can now be updated more frequently now that it is going online. The key will be gathering new data tracking how language has changed, or stayed the same, since the first round of field work ended 43 years ago.

But why not break out the 21st-century version of the “word wagon” and head out in the field again?

“Because it would be way too expensive and time-consuming,” Hall said, laughing.

So, instead, Hall is loading up the virtual “word wagon” also known as the online survey.

The survey, based largely on the original questionnaire but updated to remove outdated references like farming with wooden plows, will only gather information from the original 22 Wisconsin communities where the first field work was done. It will also be administered to people living in 30 other communities chosen to reflect the state’s current demographics.

That survey work, which began this week, is scheduled to be done by June 2015.

The results will be used to make adjustments to the survey’s methodology before attempting to use it nationwide to show changes in language from the original survey, Hall said.

Maybe when the next phase is done, it will be hog-killing time (a southern term for a loud, boisterous party).

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Board postpones decision on historic San Francisco Plaza LANL Members believe some new buildings would alter streetscape

By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican

Columbus Capitol’s proposal calls for retaining only the oldest and easternmost structure at 321-323 W. San Francisco St. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

The Historic Districts Review Board on Tuesday postponed a decision on whether to allow a developer to raze parts of the historic San Francisco Plaza, an

adobe compound at West San Francisco and North Guadalupe streets, and erect a new two-story building.

The board members said they don’t object to demolishing the newer parts of the compound but believe that some of the proposals for what would be built in place would change the streetscape of the neighborhood.

Developer Jeff Branch’s Columbus Capitol proposes to preserve

the oldest building at 321-323 W. San Francisco St. that was built in the late 1800s, is ranked as significant to the historic district and now leased to Il Vicino Restaurant.

But the plan calls for tearing down: u 325 W. San Francisco St., built about 1902, ranked as “noncontributing” to the significance of the historic district due to renova-

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Lending a helping hand High school students join together to provide Thanksgiving meals for local families in need

Students from Interact clubs at both Capital and Santa Fe high schools raised enough money and food to feed 110 families.

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worker a pioneer in radiation

By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

He was a world class astrophysicist, humble about his mind, who learned to live with depression and bipolar disorder.

Dimitri Mihalas, a Los Alamos National Laboratory astrophysicist, died the way he wanted to — in his sleep at his Santa Fe home on Nov. 21. He was 74. Mahalas was hired as a staff scientist in the applied physics department in 1998 and retired from the lab in 2012, according to LANL. Mihalas was born March 20, 1939, in Los Angeles. He Dimitri received degrees from the University Mihalas of California, Los Angeles, and California Institute of Technology in astronomy, mathematics and physics.

He worked for three decades as an astronomy professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He was a pioneer in astrophysics, specializing in radiation transport, radiation hydrodynamics and astrophysical quantitative spectroscopy.

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981 at an age more than a decade younger than the usual entrants.

He co-authored seven scientific books, including Foundations of Radiation Hydrodynamics, a highly technical manual considered a “Bible” on the subject among his peers.

LANL physicist Bob Weaver

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In brief Fiesta Council plans wintertime gala

Capital High School student Sergio Orozco, 16, carries groceries into the B.F. Young building on Tuesday morning. Orozco, along with fellow classmates who are part of the Rotary Club of Santa Fe’s Interact Club, raised money and food for families in need.

and their families. About a half-dozen of them worked with Rotarians to box the meals, packed in a room in the school district’s BF Young Adminisapital High School junior Adrian Sotelo was tration Building on Camino Sierra Blanca. packing a Thanksgiving meal — a turkey, Interact Clubs teach leadership skills and stress stuffing, canned goods, rolls, milk and other community service to students aged 12 to 18. Santa items — for a homeless family on Tuesday Fe High School just started one this year, but Capimorning. tal initiated their club last year. Club members are “This makes you grow as a person,” he said, addexpected to perform one local community service ing, “To some extent, you can make someone happy.” and one international community service project Sotelo is one of a group of students from Capital each year.

High School who worked with the Rotary Club of Capital’s kids spearheaded the Thanksgiving Santa Fe’s Interact Club to raise money for more dinner campaign, raising several thousand dollars than 100 Thanksgiving meals for homeless students in cash and food to have enough food to feed

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110 families. Santa Fe High’s newly chartered Interact Club donated $600, the Rotary Club of Santa Fe contributed $1,200, and Nutrishop Santa Fe wrote a check for $1,000.

In addition, the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Cerrillos Road contributed food and allowed the Capital High students to solicit donations in their parking lot over the past two weekends. (Nutrishop’s owners also let the kids do that.) The students also sought donations at high school athletic events.

Capital High senior Adriana Erives, president of the Interact Club at her school, recalled being

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Lawmakers discuss overhaul of criminal code Subcommittee agrees system’s focus should be on violent offenders

By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

Both Democratic and Republican legislators on a panel charged with overhauling the state’s criminal code agreed Tuesday that the focus of the criminal justice system should be on violent offenders and de-emphasizing

nonviolent offenders.

“We should be locking up the people we’re scared of, not people we’re mad at,” said Sen. Lisa Torraco, R-Albuquerque, who co-chairs the Criminal Justice Reform Subcommittee studying the criminal code.

“The public is ahead of the policymakers on this,” said Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas, D-Albuquerque, the other co-chairman of the panel. “Currently the system is unsustainable.”

Tuesday’s meeting was the first step in what is expected to be a twoyear process. It’s the first such effort

in this state since the early 1960s.

At the meeting, the subcommittee heard advice from a former Texas legislator and an aide to the governor of South Dakota. Both were at the forefront of reform efforts for the criminal justice systems in their states.

Former Texas House Corrections Chairman Jerry Madden, a conservative Republican insurance man from Plano, spearheaded his state Legislature’s prison reforms, beginning in 2005, that are credited for lowering recidivism rates and prison costs. He said he was able to get the support of

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appropriations committee chairmen in his legislature when he showed how the reforms would cost $300 million less than building a new prison.

Texas redirected funding that would have gone into building new prisons to expand its drug rehabilitation and mental health programs.

That state recently closed a 1,100-bed prison.

Crafting and passing a major reform bill is “the easy step,” Madden told the subcommittee. Implementing

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Less than three months after Zozobra burned, the Santa Fe Fiesta Council is gearing up for its wintertime gala to raise money for the 2014 Fiesta de Santa Fe. El Pasada Está Presente (The Past is Present) will include cocktails, a sit-down dinner, silent auction and dance on Dec. 28 in the Sweeney Ballroom of the Santa Fe Community Convention Center.

Cocktails begin at 5:30 p.m. Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. The auction will include works by New Mexican tinsmith Nicolas Madrid. Live entertainment at the dance, 8 p.m. to midnight, will be by Darren Cordova y Calor with appearances by Dynette Marie and Darren Lee. Tickets, $100 per person or $750 for a table for 10, can be purchased through the Lensic Box Office by calling 988-1234 or the Fiesta Council at 913-1517.

Judge tosses Plaza complaint The Santa Fe Downtown Merchants Association’s complaint against the city, accusing it of ignoring its own ordinance about events held on the Santa Fe Plaza, was dismissed after a bench trial Tuesday.

State District Judge Francis Mathews found city government was conforming to its code on the eight events authorized for the Plaza every year.

Elizabeth Pettus, owner of Things Finer in La Fonda and president of the association, said her group had contended that the city could make those events safer, with less impact on downtown businesses and that some of them could be held at locations other than the Plaza.

“The judge said he believes that the city is doing a good enough job,” she said. “We read the city code differently.”

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Dem. to run for lt. governor Pioneer: Mihalas wrote

By Steve Terrell

Debra Haaland,

The New Mexican

Debra Haaland, a longtime activist in the state Democratic Party who currently serves as chairwoman of the state party’s Native American Caucus, is running for lieutenant governor. And she’s already touting a bunch of endorsements.

An email to potential supporters as well as a campaign Facebook page quotes Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez saying he and his wife are supporting her: “Lynn and I are pleased to pledge our support for Democrat Debra Haaland for Lt. Governor of New Mexico. Debra has worked hard for the people of New Mexico, the

a member of the Laguna Pueblo, is the only Democrat in the race.

Incumbent Lt. Gov. John Sanchez has said he’ll seek re-election.

According to information sent to Democrats, Haaland, an enrolled member of Laguna Pueblo, is chairwoman of Laguna Development Corp. She’s also worked as tribal administrator for San Felipe Pueblo and as Native American vote director for the Barack Obama campaign last year.

Haaland said she will formally announce her candidacy on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at Laguna Pueblo. The campaign will host a press conference and reception at Route 66 Casino starting at 6 p.m.

Democratic Party, and will be an asset in the 2014 gubernatorial race.

As a Native American, she will bring a fresh, new perspective to the office of Lt. Governor.”

Her Facebook page also lists former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris as well as state senators Tim Keller and Jacob Candelaria, both D-Albuquerque, as Contact Steve Terrell at sterrell@ supporters. sfnewmexican.com. Read his political Haaland is the only Democratic candidate so far for the position. blog at roundhouseroundup.com.

Los Lunas horse auction owner pleads guilty to some charges The owner of a Los Lunas livestock auction has pleaded guilty to some misdemeanor counts under an agreement that led to the dismissal of the most serious charges in a horse-abuse case.

Dennis Chavez had faced 12 misdemeanors, including animal cruelty. He pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of lack of a bill of

sale, and the other charges were dropped under the agreement with the District Attorney’s Office in Valencia County.

The charges involved several horses at Southwest Livestock Auction in June 2012 that appeared to be dehydrated and exhausted. An animal welfare group recorded video of horses that were unable to stand.

One horse died at the auction grounds. Three others were euthanized. Chavez’s attorney, Gary Mitchell, said the horses had been left on the property without the knowledge of his client, and that Chavez would have tended to the horses if he had known they were there.

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Jim Seward, the general counsel for South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, told the committee his state, inspired by what had happened in Texas and other states, passed a massive South Dakota Public Safety Improvement Act earlier this year. Seward chairs an oversight committee responsible for implementing the various reforms.

South Dakota’s reform of its probation and parole system caught the eye of several New Mexico legislators. Seward said studies have show the optimal probation period is 2.4 years.

If someone can make it that long without a violation, he probably won’t be a threat to public safety.

“You don’t want parole officers supervising people who are compliant,” Seward said. Parole officers should focus their efforts on higher-risk offenders, he said.

South Dakota has instituted a policy called “earned discharge,” in which eligible probationers can earn 30 days off their probation.

Both men stressed that it’s imperative to seriously analyze all available data to see where the problems are and which programs are working and which are not.

Both Seward and Madden said it’s important to get the executive and judicial branches of the government on board to ensure the success

of such efforts. Torraco said she’s gotten positive responses from the courts and the governor’s office on the subcommittee’s endeavor.

A spokesperson for the Gov. Susana Martinez didn’t respond to a request for comment about the subcommittee.

One person who has expressed interest in the criminal justice reforms is former state Appeals Court Judge Thomas Donnelly of Santa Fe. Donnelly, in a letter to Torraco and Maestas, said that he was the final draftsman of the 1963 Revised New Mexico Criminal Code, which he said was “the first comprehensive codification of the criminal laws of New Mexico undertaken since Territorial days and our admission to statehood.”

In his letter, Donnelly said the process, which began in 1957, took years longer than originally expected.

In 1961, the former judge said, the Legislature rejected one version of the new criminal code. This, he said, was because of issues, some of which remain controversial today. These include criminal liability for abortion; possession and control of guns; proposed changes to the sodomy statute; judicial discretion in sentencing; and the liability of corporations for criminal acts.

Torraco and Maestas encouraged citizens to share ideas for criminal justice reform. The email for the subcommittee is cjrs@nmlegis. gov.

Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: u A suspect broke into a home in the 2900 block of Lois Lane on Monday between 5 and 9 p.m. and stole a backpack and a photo disc. u Carlos O. Loya, no age given, 10 Camino Cruz Court, was arrested Monday on charges of possession of a controlled substance (heroin) and possession of drug paraphernalia. Loya had been stopped for reckless driving, and officers found he had an active arrest warrant for drug trafficking. He was booked into the county jail, and bond was set at $25,000. u A Santa Fe physician reported one of her ex-employees had forged her name on prescriptions and wrote fraudulent checks using the doctor’s name. u Residents in the 2900 block of Bernardinelli Street reported someone broke into their home by kicking in the garage door Monday between 3:30 and 4 p.m. The unknown suspect took electronics and jewelry. u Francine Chavez, 29, 34 Cochiti West, was arrested Monday on a Municipal Court warrant for failing to appear for a traffic violation. u Someone stole a knife, garage door opener and keys

from an unlocked vehicle parked in the 3000 block of Governor Lindsay Road between Saturday and Sunday. u A resident reported criminal damage to property in the 500 block of Agua Fría Street after a couple of faucets and a motion detector were damaged by unknown suspects Monday.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the following report: u A woman reported that as she was driving southbound on Interstate 25 between Eldorado and Old Pecos Trail on Tuesday morning when an unknown female in a gold SUV pulled out a handgun, pointed it and shot at the victim’s car.

The gun is believed to be a BB gun because the victim heard a “pop” noise, and there was no damage found on her vehicle.

The suspect vehicle continued southbound on I-25. u A resident in Pojoaque off of Ponces Road said his friend borrowed his 1996 white Toyota Tacoma and failed to return the vehicle. The friend, who was not named in the police report, was arrested by Sandia Pueblo Police on an unrelated charge. The victim contacted the friend, suspected of embezzling his truck, and she said she would tell him where the vehicle was if he paid her bond. u A business off of Rumble

Road in Santa Fe reported check fraud on Monday. The business owner said a man wrote checks totaling $1,451 for services, and both checks bounced.

DWI arrest u Sarah Montaño, 32, of Pecos was arrested on a charge of aggravated DWI early Tuesday morning on Agua Fría Street at South Meadows Road after deputies stopped her for failing to yield, and she showed signs of impairment.

She refused to take a breath test and was booked into the county jail.

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, 800-7217273 or TTY 471-1624 Police and fire emergency: 911 Graffiti hotline: 955-CALL (2255)

about his depression, bipolar disorder in essays wrote about his experiences in essays such as “Surviving Depression and Bipolar helped him with the book. They became Disorder” and “A Primer on Depression friends 40 years ago when Mihalas was his and Bipolar Disorder” in 2002. Mihalas, a professor at the University of Colorado.

Quaker, also wrote about how his spiritualHe said Mihalas was a mild-mannered guy ity was strengthened during his struggles who was world renowned in the field of in his 1996 book Depression and Spiritual radiation transfer.

Growth.

In a 2008 interview with the Los Alamos Mihalas was among millions of AmeriMonitor, Mihalas called himself intelligent, cans and people around the world who but not a genius. But Weaver said, “by have been diagnosed with depression and a long shot, he was one of the smartest bipolar disorder, which is marked by propeople I know. From my perspective, he nounced changes in mood, among other was a genius.” symptoms.

Weaver said Mihalas was a patient menMihalas also published several other tor to students and younger scientists. “It non-science poetry books including Comwas a passion of his to convey his knowling Back From the Dead, Dream Shadows edge to younger people,” Weaver said. and A Distant Summons.

“He was also very tolerant of people Mihalas had been suffering memory who were not near as smart as he was,” loss recently, something he feared, said his Weaver said. “That’s a rare trait among wife. Recently he had been reading brain highly intelligent people.” books and playing video games on his iPad Mihalas and a colleague had finished in an attempt to rebuild some of his brain’s updating the third edition of his book circuitry, she said. He was doing well, so Stellar Atmospheres. It was in the process his death “was totally unexpected,” she of being published when he passed away, said. “But this is how he wanted to die. He said his wife, Anke Mihalas. wanted to go to sleep and not wake up.

Mihalas was diagnosed with depres“He was such a good guy.” sion and bipolar disorder when he was A gathering of friends and families will in his 40s, though he thought signs of the be held at his home. Mihalas did not want a memorial service. conditions dated to his childhood. He

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Funeral services and memorials NORMA JEAN C DE BACA

53, of Santa Fe, passed away November 22, 2013 surrounded by her family. She was born in Artesia, NM to Eloida Madrid and Armando Valenzuela who have preceded her in death. Also preceding her is her brother, Armando Valenzuela, Jr. Norma is survived by her husband, Ron C de Baca; daughters: Jessica C de Baca, Jennifer (Andrew) Montoya and Veronica C de Baca and fiancé, Jon Carrillo; grandchildren: Hailey and Xavier; siblings: Edmundo Valenzuela; Rebecca Bott, Veronica Valenzuela, and Danny Valenzuela; mother-in-law, Frances C de Baca; father-in-law, Richard (Juanita) C de Baca; brother-in-law, Rick C de Baca; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Norma was retired from New Mexico State Police. She was a loving wife, daughter, mother, nana, sister, niece and friend. After retiring from NM State Police, she was an important asset to the family business, Big Jo True Value Hardware. During that time, she took care of her father and mother until their passing. She also raised her three beautiful daughters and grandkids.

In lieu of flowers or gifts, please donate to the American Cancer Society.

Serving as Pallbearers will be: Armando, Sara, Daniel and Matthew Valenzuela, and Michael and Matthew C de Baca. Honorary Pallbearers will be: Monica and Adrian Valenzuela, Danielle Silva, Anthony, Michael and Andrea Bott, Amanda and Marissa and Marcos Valenzuela.

A Rosary will be recited at Santa Maria de la Paz Catholic Church on Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at 10 a.m. followed by a Mass at 11 a.m. Interment will be held at Rosario Cemetery.

RICHARD R. SISNEROS, SR. Richard R. Sisneros Sr., age 84 passed away peacefully on 11-23-13. He was born in Santa Fe on 6-26-29 to Jose Amadeo Sisneros and Felice Casados who preceded him in death. He was also preceded by his wife of 51 years Nora Noedel Sisneros and grandson Andrew Sisneros.

A Visitation will be held on Sunday, December 1, 2013 from 2 to 7 pm at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service where a rosary will be recited at 7pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Anne’s Catholic Church on Monday, December 2, 2013 at 11:00 am.

The Burial will be held at Santa Fe National Cemetery at 1:30 pm.

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

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There will be a memorial service on Tuesday, December 3rd at 3 p.m. at Grace Community Church, 2247 Camino Carlos Rey, Santa Fe NM. A reception will follow. At a later date, Dannette will be buried in Billings, MT. Memorial contributions may be made to the following: Grace Community Church in Santa Fe, The Nature Conservancy (Arlington, VA), or Presbyterian Medical Services Foundation in Santa Fe Designate: Santa Fe Hospice Program.

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Gone, but not forgotten.

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Ski resorts may be allowed to charge ‘uphill’ fee isn’t a “de facto entrance fee.”

The proposed language would ASPEN, Colo. — The growing popu- authorize a fee “for facilities and serlarity of strapping skins on skis and vices the holders provide, such as lifts, climbing uphill could soon come at a parking lots, and slopes and trails that price at some ski areas. have been cleared, graded, groomed or The U.S. Forest Service is workcovered with manmade snow.” ing on new rules that clarify that ski The Forest Service is accepting comareas that lease public lands for their ments until Dec. 2 on its proposal. operations can charge people for uphill Rich Burkley, Aspen Skiing Co. vice travel, The Aspen Times reported Tues- president of mountain operations, said day. ski areas in the eastern U.S. requested The directive could affect fitness the authorization for fees. They fanatics that use skis with climbing had low snow two seasons ago and skins, snowshoes and stabilizers. encountered scenarios where uphill The directive “encourages” ski area adventurers were vying for the same operators to provide access to some narrow ribbons of man-made snow where resorts’ paying customers were slopes without a charge so that there The Associated Press

descending.

Burkley said Skico at this point isn’t interested in charging a fee for uphill travel at its four ski areas. “We have hopefully been accommodating,” he said.

Skico has had policies in place for roughly 20 years because “uphilling” has been so popular at Aspen and Snowmass. Burkley said the growth in the number of people skinning or walking up has grown “exponentially” in recent years.

On the morning of Nov. 16, before the lifts were fired up for the first time this season on Aspen Mountain, he saw 46 people heading uphill before he quit counting.

Some Colorado ski resorts require uphillers to get a pass. Others are restricting times and routes. Arapahoe Basin and Copper Mountain require uphillers to acquire a hiking pass and sign a waiver, but there is no charge, according to a recent article in the Summit Daily News. Breckenridge will no longer allow uphill traffic while the lifts are running, the article said.

The prospect of ski areas gaining the ability to charge a fee for uphill travelers has some adventurers nervous.

Kitty Benzar, president of the Durango-based Western Slope No Fee Coalition, said her organization is less focused on ski area fees than fees the Forest Service charges for access to

public facilities and lands. However, she said the direction with ski areas appears to be part of a growing trend on public lands since a “fee demonstration” was approved in 1996.

The threat, she said, is “packaging access to nature as a product that can be marketed for a fee.”

“At the risk of being accused of saying ‘I told you so,’ it’s really not any different from charging people for a parking space while they are off hiking or horseback riding in the Maroon Bells Wilderness,” Benzar said. “Once people accept that as reasonable, as many in Aspen apparently do, the possibilities for monetizing the backcountry are endless.”

Plaza: Developer’s plan calls for demolishing three buildings fanie Beninato and Louise Spencer spoke against the proposal, vations and leased to Ellie’s saying it would detract from Yoberry Park Frozen Yogurt & the historical significance of the Gallery and The Good Stuff. west end of downtown. Letters u 329 W. San Francisco St, were read from board members also built about 1902, ranked as of the Old Santa Fe Association “noncontributing” and leased to opposing the move. the Thai Cafe.

John Costick, who runs the u 109 N. Guadalupe St., built Thai Cafe, and resident Steve between 1930 and 1948, ranked Arias said the old buildings as “noncontributing” and leased have structural problems and to The Spanish Table. that new ones would contribute The H-board voted to postto the economic well-being of pone consideration of the prodowntown Santa Fe. posal last month, pending the Board members had no probhiring of an independent hislems voting to keep 329 W. San toric consultant to review the Francisco and 109 N. Guadalupe history of the three buildings. ranked as noncontributing, and Gayla Bechtol’s report found no they did not move to alter the reason to change the noncondesignation of 325 W. San Frantributing designations. cisco that was downgraded to Architect Wayne Lloyd said noncontributing last year. But his intention was to create a they balked when it came to portal over the sidewalk of West approving demolition because San Francisco Street similar to they said they were wary of the one that now exists along plans to build a two-story buildEast Palace Avenue for Sena ing where those one-story Plaza. buildings are now, to create a During public comment, Ste- new portal and to construct a

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new building that would stick out into the west side of the historic courtyard.

“What they’re proposing does not re-establish the streetscape,” said Frank Katz, a board member and former city attorney, adding that he has no problem with the two-story building.

Member Karen Walker said she was against allowing anything to “encroach into the historic plaza.”

“I can’t vote for [demolition] right now because I don’t know what it’s going to be replaced with,” said member Ed Boniface.

Member Christine Mather said that unless the new construction enhances the streetscape, she can’t approve it.

Lloyd said after the meeting that he will try to rework his plans and return to the board in January.

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

Colo. flood’s toll incurred by few, borne by many

By Ryan Maye Handy The Coloradoan

DRAKE, Colo. — Lifelong canyon resident Mary Myers hangs a painted sheet from her front porch overlooking the Big Thompson River.

On it is a list of who Myers thinks has helped her and who she thinks hasn’t. There are big boxes with checks next to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Small Business Administration, and the word “Power.” But the box next to the words “Larimer County” remains empty. Myers wants the county to tell her how it will replace the washed-out bridge that once led visitors to her riverside home.

Myers and many of her neighbors were stranded this fall when September’s flood washed away U.S. Highway 34, 65 bridges and 1,500 homes in Larimer County. Now, as many work to rebuild without the benefit of flood insurance, canyon residents like Myers are waiting for their government to help with things they say they can’t do alone.

Things like moving the Big Thompson River, restoring lost land and rebuilding bridges.

On Nov. 21, a sign of help and hope returned to Big Thompson Canyon. The Colorado Department of Transportation reopened U.S. 34, an arterial route that connects Estes Park and residents of the canyon back to the Front Range.

But after two catastrophic floods in less than 40 years, Big Thompson Canyon residents, like mountain-dwellers across the state, have become increasingly dependent on the government to protect and restore a landscape many see as a hazard. So one question continues to be posed as Colorado’s mountain residents recover from two years of devastating wildfires and floods: Who should bear the burden of protecting their way of life?

This fall, a governor’s task force suggested that residents of Colorado’s wildfire zones should pay extra taxes to help cover the growing cost of disaster response. It’s still too early to know if the state will work to prevent residents from building in areas prone to flood or fire,

This Oct. 25 photo shows flood debris that smashed into and heavily damaged the town hall and general store in Glen Haven, Colo., in September. KEVIN DUGGAN/THE COLORADOAN

but the dangers of mountain living have come into clear focus for Colorado’s leadership.

“On the Front Range of Colorado, if you are in the foothills of Colorado that’s a very dangerous place to be,” Colorado Department of Transportation Executive Director Don Hunt told a bipartisan panel of lawmakers appointed to look at flood recovery. “I don’t know that we can ever have enough technology and warning systems to keep people safe in these canyons.”

When Myers, 52, lost her job at Poudre Valley Hospital last fall, she and her husband, Mike, decided to leave Fort Collins and move into an old family cabin in Big Thompson Canyon.

Myers had grown up at the summer cabin, which her father had repaired after World War II. As a 15-year-old, Myers watched as a late-July rainstorm scoured the canyon, killing 144 people.

A Chinook helicopter airlifted Myers and her grandmother out of the canyon after the Big Thompson flood of 1976; it was months before they were able to return. This September, it was a Black Hawk that evacuated the Myers, their two dogs, and two of their cats.

“It took a lot longer to be able to come back in 1976,” Myers recalled. “We were anticipating that we wouldn’t be able to get back in here until spring.”

Myers was wrong, thanks to an aggressive agenda set by Gov. John Hickenlooper’s mandate that all state roads destroyed by

the flood be repaired by Dec. 1.

U.S. 34 beat the deadline by two weeks — much to the surprise of Hunt, who predicted that road would not be “a perfectly paved road by Dec. 1.”

Myers moved back home two weeks ago, and when she drove the highway the morning of Nov. 20 it was perfectly paved, smelling of fresh asphalt. The Big Thompson River was calm, flowing in a monstrous new riverbed it carved in September; its banks are littered with trash, splinters of houses and the occasional piece of clothing.

But two large floods in her life haven’t persuaded Myers or some of her neighbors to give up on “our canyon,” she said. In fact, research shows that disasters rarely chase their victims permanently away from their homes, said Sarah McCaffrey, a forest researcher with the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station in Illinois.

“People do move back, because by and large the values are still there that they lived there for,” she said. “There is some evidence of disaster subcultures where you just sort of learn to live with it.”

That holds particularly true in areas prone to flooding, McCaffrey added. For Myers, there used to be the belief that something like the 1976 flood wouldn’t happen again for centuries, so why not move back?

“Hey, we all survived the flood of 1976. They just don’t come any bigger,” she thought before September.

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Both Sotelo and Capital senior Jorge Lira said their efforts should provide food for more than just the traditional day of thanks. “It’s like feeding 100 families enough food

for a couple of days,” Lira said.

He visited Indonesia and Bali this past summer as part of the Bali Art Project, which allows teens with limited resources to experience other cultures and countries. “I saw a lot of people there who are poor, who don’t have a lot of money compared to us,” he said. He is accustomed to volunteering as a member of the San Isidro Catholic Church, but with this project, he said, he can impact members of the wider community.

The Capital Interact Club supported a similar Thanksgiving day project last year, Erives

said. For their international project, the members raised $4,000 to help Bilingual Education for Central America, which provides dual-language education in Honduras. That group’s director of program development, Santa Fean Michael Buttram, was on hand to help the students Tuesday morning.

“They are a force of nature,” he said as he watched them work. “They’re incredibly productive. They care.”

Contact Robert Nott at 986-3021 or rnott@sfnewmexican.com.

2013 Writing W iti C Contest t t ffor All S Seasons Tell Us a Story in Poetry or Prose Storytelling is an honored New Mexico pastime.

Here is your chance to be part of that tradition.

Write about a memory, a special place, or a person who has had an impact on your life. Fiction, nonfiction, parody, or fantasy; in the style of Thurber or Ferber, Sedaris or Seuss, Hillerman or Cather — it’s up to you.

Prose: 1,000 word limit for adults (ages 19 and over) and for teens (13-18) 500 word limit for children (5-12) Poetry: Up to two pages Prizes to the winners provided by: PumpTrolley Atelier | Garcia Street Books

: RULES: Entries must be received by 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2. No exceptions.We reserve the right to edit work for publication.

Submissions must include name, address, telephone number, email address, and age; entries from schools should also include grade and teacher’s name. No previously published material. One submission only per entrant. Submissions cannot be returned.

Winning entries will be published in Pasatiempo on Friday, Dec. 27

Email entries to: writingcontest@sfnewmexican.com Email submissions are highly recommended.

Mail entries to: 2013 Writing Contest c/o The Santa Fe New Mexican, 202 E. Marcy St., Santa Fe, N.M. 87501

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THE NEW MEXICAN Wednesday, November 27, 2013

In brief Lucky looking for one more term State Rep. Luciano “Lucky” Varela, D-Santa Fe, said Tuesday that if he’s re-elected to his House seat next year, that would be his final term.

“I’ve been there 28 years,” he told a reporter. “Serving 30 years would be good.” If he wins, it would be his 15th term in the House representing District 48.

This could be an important term for Varela. He’s currently the deputy chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the current current, Rep. Henry “Kiki” Saavedra, D-Albuquerque isn’t seeking re-election. The speaker of the House makes all committee appointments in that chamber.

So far no opponent in either the primary or the general election have emerged.

programs.

Byrd has helped with numerous wildlife trapping and relocation projects for turkeys, deer and pronghorn antelope during his 11 yearswith the department.

He has worked in Clayton, Alamogordo and is now stationed in Santa Fe. Shikar-Safari Club International was founded in 1952 by an international group of hunters.

Today the organization sponsors conservation efforts worldwide for wildlife and enforcement of hunting laws.

Audit: Treasurer violated law

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico State Auditor Hector Balderas says an annual audit has found that the Bernalillo County Treasurer’s Office broke state law and violated the county’s investment policy.

Balderas announced the findings Tuesday. He says significant violations and deficiencies were revealed in the office’s handling of millions of dollars in security purchases and the management of investment liquidity.

Ben Byrd of the New Mexico The treasurer’s office is also Department of Game and Fish accused of failing to comply has been named New Mexico with state laws and the county Wildlife Officer of the Year by the hunting organization Shikar- investment policy when holding and documenting meetings.

Safari Club International.

The treasurer’s office disByrd recently was promoted putes many of the findings. recently to field operations Balderas says the county captain, overseeing the department’s investigative team, Oper- should take immediate steps to ation Game Thief and training restore public confidence.

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La Posada Hotel originally opened in 1940. Since 2008, the hotel has undergone more than $7.6 million in renovations.

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Man gets prison in fatal assault ALBUQUERQUE — A Shiprock man has been sentenced to more than 14 years in federal prison after his conviction on involuntary manslaughter, assault and firearms charges.

Prosecutors say 29-year-old Clay O’Brien Mann also was ordered Tuesday to pay more

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Mann was arrested for allegedly killing a Navajo man and shooting and wounding a couple on the Navajo Nation on July 24, 2010.

Authorities say Mann launched an artillery shell into his neighbor’s property and then shot Ames Joseph Jim, who later died.

Mann also was accused of shooting another man in the face and a woman in the neck.

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Pecos, other schools will fight district changes SFHS already said it plans to appeal realignment

By Will Webber The New Mexican

Schools had until the end of the business day Monday to file an appeal to the New Mexico Activities Association over its pending classification and alignment plan. Last week the NMAA’s board of directors approved a radical realignment measure that will drastically change the landscape of high school athletics beginning next school year.

The board gave schools wishing to file an appeal 72 business hours to file

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a grievance.

Pecos didn’t need that long.

Less than a day after the Nov. 20 meeting, the independent school district just outside of Santa Fe notified the NMAA of its intent to appeal.

“We didn’t need 72 hours,” said Pecos athletic director Leonard Velasquez. “We were appealing it the morning after.”

Schools must submit their talking points to the NMAA by Dec. 2. When the board reconvenes on Dec. 5, it will allow each school to make a 10-minute presentation, followed by a vote in executive session.

Several schools have already appealed, said NMAA spokesperson

Dusty Young. Exactly how many — and who the schools are — is something the NMAA will not disclose.

Young said it was “going to be a long meeting.”

Santa Fe High was expected to be a part of that process, as was St. Michael’s. Santa Fe High was hoping to avoid its placement in the revamped District 1AAAAAA along with Albuquerque schools Cibola and Volcano Vista, as well as Rio Rancho Cleveland and Rio Rancho High.

St. Michael’s officially opted out of the appeals process. Athletic director Tom Manning indicated Tuesday that the school never did give serious consideration to its scheduled move into

the new Class AAAA. Its teams will play in several different alignments ranging from a football district that features Roswell’s New Mexico Military Institute as well as Portales, Ruidoso and Albuquerque Hope Christian, and a basketball district with Santa Fe Indian School, Hope, Albuquerque Sandia Preparatory and Albuquerque Bosque.

While some schools have accepted their fate, Velasquez said Pecos intends to put up a serious fight since its main Class AAA alignment has it in a district that includes Laguna-Acoma, Estancia, Raton and Tucumcari while another AAA district has Santa Fe schools like Desert Academy, Monte del Sol and

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Santa Fe Preparatory.

“I’m not sure they used common sense because I sat on the [alignment and classification] committee for a two-year stretch starting back in 2003, and I know how this works,” Velasquez said. “They never gave us warning about this. They’ve been working on the alignment for two years now and I never heard a thing until they made their decision.

“Somewhere I think we deserve an explanation and somewhere I think we need to get this fixed.”

NFL

Too many distractions Greg Maddux

Tom Glavine

Frank Thomas

Another Seahawks player suspended as CB Thurmond out 4 games

Maddux, Glavine, Thomas on Hall of Fame ballot

By Ronald Blum The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Four-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux, two-time winner Tom Glavine and two-time AL MVP Frank Thomas are among 19 newcomers on this year’s Hall of Fame ballot, joining steroidtainted holdovers Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

Mike Mussina, Hideo Nomo, Kenny Rogers, Jeff Kent, Moises Alou and Luis Gonzalez also are among the players eligible to be voted on for the first time by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

The 36-player ballot will include Armando Benitez, Sean Casey, Ray Durham, Eric Gagne, Jacque Jones, Todd Jones, Paul Lo Duca, Richie Sexson, J.T. Snow and Mike Timlin, the Hall said Tuesday.

Voters are the approximately 600 writers who have been members of the BBWAA for

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Defense may hold key to season for No. 2 Kansas

By Dave Skretta The Associated Press

LAWRENCE, Kan. — There are few things that Kansas coach Bill Self loves more than playing defense.

But he also loves a roster full of NBA-caliber talent on his team, and sometimes it’s hard for those two loves to coexist.

The knock on the professional game for years — fairly or not — has been that defense is optional.

Coaches routinely bemoan the rather lackadaisical way that one-and-done phenoms often apply themselves on that end of the floor.

So attention was paid when Kansas star Andrew Wiggins, the No. 1 overall recruit and the potential top pick in next year’s NBA draft, sidled up

Please see KANSAS, Page B-7

The Seahawks’ Byron Maxwell, top, leaps on the back of Walter Thurmond after Thurmond intercepted and scored against the Minnesota Vikings in the second half of a Nov. 17 game in Seattle. TED S. WARREN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

faced since Carroll took over in 2010.

“We’re still trying RENTON, Wash. to work through it. ack from their bye week, with I’ll say it again, I’ve the best record in the NFL always found myself and heading into a Monday looking for guys that night showdown with the maybe other people Saints, Pete Carroll and the Seattle don’t see something Walter Seahawks spent Tuesday dealing with Thurmond special in and we the kinds of distractions they believed take a chance on a were over. guy here or there that needs some Instead, the Seahawks are adding to extra consideration and care,” Carthe list of player suspensions they’ve roll said. “And sometimes guys they

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have issues and things pop up but I’ve always been kind of hopeful and make guys find the best in them and bring it out. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t. We’ll certainly hang with our guys and take care of them.”

Starting cornerback Walter Thurmond was officially suspended Tuesday by the NFL for the team’s next four games for violating the league’s substance abuse policy, leaving the Seahawks short-handed going into Monday’s matchup against

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New Orleans.

Thurmond will be eligible to return to the active roster on Dec. 23 before the final game of the regular season, but his absence leaves a hole in a secondary that was previously missing starting cornerback Brandon Browner

Please see THURMOND, Page B-8

Lobos edged out of Top 25, but hope isn’t lost

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University of Alabama-Birmingham did not give e all know The University of New Mexico mens basketball team is the Lobos the right to put a number next constantly on thin ice, but did to their name. anyone expect it to fall as hard as it did?

But before Lobo Nation starts howlThe Lobos went from No. 19 in the ing about disrespect, just know that the AP Top 25 and No. 20 in the USA Today voters make a fair point, as the one-loss Coaches Poll to the top of the list in the teams that remain in the rankings have limbo known as the “others receiving lost to ranked opponents and Michigan votes” category in both polls, after loswill likely be dropped from the rankings ing to Massachusetts 81-65 in the second too after losing to Charlotte 63-61 on round of the Charleston Classic.

Monday.

Edmundo Massachusetts’ win, coupled with a With UNM’s departure, that leaves no Carrillo Mountain West teams left in the either 62-56 victory over Clemson in the tourCommentary poll, leaving some to question what has nament finale, helped the Minutemen become of a conference that has seen catapult to No. 24 in the AP poll while still multiple teams in the rankings in the last being left out of the coaches’ rankings.

Voters seemed to think that a loss to the Minute- few years.

So why are Mountain West teams a no-show men after going into double overtime against the

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at the rankings this year? UNLV, one of the teams that is usually getting voters’ attention, lost its best player — Anthony Bennett — to the NBA. That, along with a loss to Arizona State and a 21-point drubbing to the University of California-Santa Barbara, is keeping them out of the national picture.

San Diego State, a team that has been no stranger to the top-10 in recent years, has only one loss to No. 6 Arizona, but their two wins are over UC-Riverside and San Diego City College, two teams that are not exactly elite competition — no disrespect to the Knights of SDCC. The two undefeated teams in the conference, Boise State and Utah State, don’t have any quality wins either. Utah State won their season opener with the University of Southern California, but the Tro-

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Stymied Demons fall to Del Norte The New Mexican

Santa Fe High got a taste of all holds barred on Tuesday night.

With the emphasis of less contact on defense in college SFHS 77 and prep basketball, the Demons learned Del Norte 68 what it can’t do on the defensive end. Unfortunately for them, the Knights of Albuquerque del Norte knew what to do when the whistle blew for a foul.

Del Norte hit 29 of 32 free throws, which led to a 77-68 win in Santa Fe High’s season opener in Albuquerque. It was a learning experience for all teams, as both teams combined for 69 free throws on the night.

However, the plentiful trips to the line did not deter from the action on the court.

“It was up-and-down,” said David Rodriguez, Santa Fe High head coach, of the tempo. “We were able to press and get back into it.”

The Demons trailed 45-32 at the half and 60-45 entering the fourth quarter, but twice got within six points in the final 8 minutes.

Christopher Wright had a game-high 26 points for the Knights, while Kevin Golden had 17, Francisco Baca 12 and Chris Thomas 11. Santa Fe High had Hayden Hargrove score 19 points and haul in 12 rebounds. Keanyn Evans chipped in with 18 points, while Julio Rivera added 11.

SANTA FE PREPARATORY 68, LAS VEGAS ROBERTSON 59 Forget about Ian Andersson’s stat line of 15 points, seven rebounds and six blocks. It was the two-handed dunk he threw down in the first quarter that really got everyone’s attention at Prep Gymnasium.

“The whole gym went crazy,” said Darren

Casados, Prep assistant coach.

Andersson was just one of four Blue Griffins to score in double figures. Francis Castillo y Mulert led with 17 points with William Lenfestey adding 15 and D.J. Casados adding 11.

Prep (3-0) never trailed and had a 23-point lead to start the fourth quarter before the Cardinals (0-1) tried to stage a late-game comeback.

GIRLS BASKETBALL SANTA FE HIGH 38, ALBUQUERQUE DEL NORTE 27 The Demonettes opened their season with a win and 12 points apiece from juniors Kayla Herrera and Sabrina LozadaCabbage.

Despite double-digit scoring from the duo, Santa Fe High was only 12-for-24 from the free throw line.

“We played OK,” Santa Fe High head coach Elmer Chavez said. “We didn’t shoot very well.”

What the Demonettes (1-0) lacked in shooting they made up for with defense, as they kept the Lady Knights scoreless in the fourth quarter.

The Demonettes host Albuquerque Volcano Vista on Dec. 3.

ST. MICHAEL’S’ 33, LOS ALAMOS 26 Curse? What curse?

The Lady Horsemen paid no heed to the fact they have not posted a winning record the previous three times they beat the Lady Hilltoppers to open the season.

They capped this win with an 8-for-11 performance at the charity stripe, which accounted for all of their points in the fourth quarter.

“That might be the first time we’ve ever done that,” said Martin Romero, the Lady Horsemen head coach.

It was tied at 16 at the half before St. Michael’s outscored Los Alamos 9-3 in the third quarter.

Cristiana Gabaldon had a team-high 10 points, while Briona Vigil added nine. Kiana Zerr led the Lady Hilltoppers with 10 points.

QUESTA 48, SANTA FE PREPARATORY 42 Timing was everything for the Blue Griffins, and it was off in a nondistrict game in the Mini-Pit. Prep (1-1) closed an eight-point deficit to 35-33 to end the third quarter, but heavy legs led to missed opportunities — be it turnovers or missed shots. The Lady Wildcats outscored the Blue Griffins 11-7 the rest of the way.

“It wasn’t the number of turnovers we had,” Prep head coach Anika Amon said.

“It was when they occurred. It wasn’t the number of missed shots, it was when they occurred. It’s those little things that can change the outcome.”

Delena Trujillo led Questa with 15 points, while Rose Archuleta added 14. Joy Maran paced the Blue Griffins with 15 points, while Alexis Mundt chipped in with 10.

ABQ. VOLCANO VISTA 91, ABQ. RIO GRANDE 24 Speaking of the Lady Hawks, they warmed up for next week’s encounter with the Demonettes by breaking out to a 32-5 lead on the strength of their full-court press. They didn’t use it the rest of the way, but continued to extend the margin.

“They played very well, considering it was our first game,” said Volcano Vista head coach Lisa Villareal, an Española Valley graduate.

Hannah Fenske led the way for the Lady Hawks with 20 points, while Kavionna Brown added 17. Bianca Perez and Raven Herrera scored 15 points, while Deezha Battle capped the double-digit scoring ladder with 14.

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MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 3 p.m. on ESPN2 — Maui Invitational, fifth place game, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii 5:30 p.m. on ESPN2 — Maui Invitational, third place game, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii 7:30 p.m. on ESPN2 — NIT Season Tip-Off, semifinal, Alabama vs. Duke, at New York 8 p.m. on ESPN — Maui Invitational, championship, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii NBA BASKETBALL 5:30 p.m. on ESPN — Miami at Cleveland NHL HOCKEY 5:30 p.m. on NBCSN — Boston at Detroit SOCCER 12:30 p.m. on FSN — UEFA Champions League, Copenhagen at Juventus FS1 — UEFA Champions League, Manchester United at Bayer Leverkusen

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Manzano 79, Moriarty 55 Shiprock 79, San Juan Blanding, Utah 69 Valley 82, Rio Rancho 71 West Mesa 68, Eldorado 53

Las Cruces 37, EP Eastwood, Texas 27 Sandia 42, Albuquerque High 38 Santa Fe 38, Del Norte 27

HIGH SCHOOL SCHEDULE This week’s varsity schedule for Northern New Mexico high schools. For additions or changes, call 986-3060 or email sports@sfnewmexican.com.

Today Girls basketball — Capital at West Las Vegas, 7 p.m.

Thursday No games scheduled

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Afflalo, Magic end road skid, beat Hawks The Associated Press

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ATLANTA — Arron Afflalo scored 26 points, Victor Oladipo and Andrew Nicholson added 18 apiece and the Orlando Magic snapped Magic 109 a 17-game road losing streak with a 109-92 Hawks 92 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night.

Al Horford and Jeff Teague each finished with 15 points for the Hawks, who lost consecutive games for the first time this season.

The Magic began the night having lost four straight overall and five in a row on the road. They won away from Orlando for the first time since last March 4 at New Orleans.

WIZARDS 116, LAKERS 111 In Washington, John Wall stayed hot with 31 points and nine assists and Nene had a career high 30 to carry the Wizards to a victory over Los Angeles that broke the Lakers’ three-game winning streak.

Wall scored more than 30 points for the third straight game for the first time in his career, with his 13 fourth-quarter points coming in the final 4:41 to help Washington hold off Los Angeles. Wall was 10 for 18 from the field and made 11 of 12 free throws.

Nene surpassed his previous career best by two points on 13-for-22 shooting from the field. Martell Webster added 20 points with four 3-pointers.

NETS 102, RAPTORS 100 In Toronto, Andray Blatche scored 24 points, Joe Johnson had 21 and Brooklyn snapped a five-game losing streak.

Paul Pierce scored 16 points and Kevin

Football — Class AAA state semifinals, Las Vegas Robertson at Taos, 1 p.m.

Boys basketball — Coach Henry Sanchez Tournament in Bernalillo (Robertson, Taos): pairings TBA Los Alamos at Piedra Vista, 5 p.m.

Girls basketball — Los Alamos at Pojoaque Valley, 7 p.m.

Mora at Taos, 7 p.m.

Mesa Vista at Coronado, 7 p.m.

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Hawks point guard Jeff Teague, center, goes to the basket between the defense of Orlando Magic point guard E’Twaun Moore, left, and forward Andrew Nicholson during the first half of Tuesday’s game in Atlanta. JOHN AMIS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Garnett had 12 as the Nets won for the first time since beating Phoenix on Nov. 15.

Brooklyn won for just the third time in their past nine games in Canada, getting the victory despite playing without guard Deron Williams and center Brook Lopez, both of whom are sidelined with left ankle injuries.

WARRIORS 102, PELICANS 101 In New Orleans, Klay Thompson scored 22 points and tied a career high with eight assists, and the Golden State Warriors snapped a three-game skid with a 102-101

victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night.

Eric Gordon had a chance to win it for New Orleans with an open 3-pointer from the left corner in the final seconds, but the shot rimmed out and Anthony Davis couldn’t quite reach the rebound.

Jermaine O’Neal returned from right knee and groin injuries that had sidelined him for four games and did not look at all rusty, sinking his first seven shots en route to 18 points — including a clutch baseline hook shot with 2:06 left. David Lee added 19 points.

Baker leads No. 12 Wichita St. past BYU KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ron Baker scored 23 points, making six straight free throws down the stretch, and No. 12 Wichita State held off 12 Wichita St. 75 BYU for a 75-62 victory Tuesday night BYU 62 in the title game of the CBE Classic.

Fred VanVleet and Cleanthony Early added 12 points each for the Shockers (7-0), who trailed by two at halftime but used hustle and physical play inside to wear down the Cougars.

Wichita State was clinging to a 68-62 lead when Baker was popped by BYU’s Nate Austin, who was given a flagrent-2 foul and ejected from the game. Baker made both free throws with 45.3 seconds left, and then two more when he was fouled with just more than 30 seconds remaining.

WISCONSIN 63, SAINT LOUIS 57 In Cancun, Mexico, Traevon Jackson scored 16 points and Frank Kaminsky added 12 Tuesday and No. 10 Wisconsin blunted a Saint Louis surge to win 63-57 and advance to face West Virginia in Wednesday’s finals of the Cancun Challenge.

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The Associated Press

Boys basketball — Coach Henry Sanchez Tournament in Bernalillo: Las Vegas Robertson vs. Moriarty, 4 p.m.; Taos at Bernalillo, 7 p.m.

West Las Vegas at Mora, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Mora at Tucumcari, 5 p.m.

West Las Vegas at St. Michael’s, 7 p.m.

Santa Rosa at Penasco, 7 p.m.

Kaminsky had four blocks that helped the unbeaten Badgers (7-0) to a 20-15 halftime lead. Jackson stepped up to help squash a second-half run by Saint Louis (5-1) that made it a 5-point game with 1:10 to play.

Robe Loe led the Billikens with 15 points, Austin McBroom had 14 and Dwayne Evans added 12.

NO. 13 CONNECTICUT 76, LOYOLA (MD.) 66 In Hartford, Conn., DeAndre Daniels had 21 points and eight rebounds to help keep No. 13 Connecticut remained undefeated with a 76-66 win over Loyola, Md., on Tuesday night.

Ryan Boatright added 13 points and eight boards for the Huskies (7-0) and Lasan Kromah, a transfer from George Washington, chipped in with a season-high 12 points.

Dylon Cormier had 23 points for Loyola (4-1). The senior guard had been averaging just under 30 points per game.

NO. 18 BAYLOR 67, DAYTON 66 In Lahaina, Hawaii, Cory Jefferson had a go-ahead putback with 16 seconds left and No. 18 Baylor rallied to beat Dayton 67-66 on Tuesday night in the semifinals of the Maui Invitational.

The Bears will play No. 8 Syracuse for the tournament championship Wednesday night.

After trailing nearly the entire game, Baylor (6-0) whittled away a 10-point deficit over the final 7 minutes. The Bears were down by one when Kenny Cherry missed a jumper off the front of the rim, but Jefferson was all alone for the rebound and his layup gave Baylor a 67-66 lead.

NO. 8 SYRACUSE 92, CALIFORNIA 81 In Lahaina, Hawaii, Tyler Ennis scored 28 points and led two key second-half runs that carried No. 8 Syracuse past California in the Maui Invitational.

The win put the Orange in the tournament title game Wednesday night against Dayton or No. 18 Baylor.

Syracuse scored 51 points in the second half, shooting 55 percent and making five of seven 3-point attempts. Ennis had 17 points and Trevor Cooney scored 20 of his 23 after the break.

NO. 11 GONZAGA 113, CHAMINADE 81 In Lahaina, Hawaii, Sam Dower Jr. and Gerard Coleman scored 19 points each as No. 11 Gonzaga cruised to an easy win over Division II Chaminade in the Maui Invitational.

Przemek Karnowski had a double-double with 10 points and 13 rebounds. Kevin Pangos and Kyle Dranginis had 18 points each.

Gary Bell Jr. had 16.

Kansas: Fouls can impede a defense Selden and sophomore forward Perry Ellis have exhibnext to Self on the sideline in ited enough in four games to the second half of a blowout send their stock soaring. win over Towson and asked But the ability for Self to to guard the Tigers’ best get the young, offensiveplayer. minded Jayhawks to buy into “He was scoring,” Wiggins what he wants on defense said of Towson’s Jerrelle Ben- may just be what decides imon, “and I just wanted to whether this becomes a seasee how I’d do against him.” son to remember.

With a big smile, Wiggins “It’s an entire team of added: “I think my defense is young’uns,” Self said, “and underrated.” it’s going to be frustrating It’s the kind of comment from time to time, but hopecertain to make Self smile, fully it’ll be very rewarding at too. the end.”

Wiggins isn’t the only It’s worked in the past. highly touted recruit on the The Jayhawks have won an second-ranked Jayhawks’ astonishing nine consecutive roster this season or the only regular-season Big 12 titles player potentially headed in part because, in 10 seasons to the pros next season. under Self, they’ve led the Seven-footer Joel Embiid league in defensive field has already shown enough goal percentage eight times. to make scouts salivate, and Twice they’ve been the best in the nation. freshman guard Wayne

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Lobos: UNM could regain AP ranking Continued from Page B-5 jans are in a rebuilding year under a new head coach.

While it may seem like the conference is slumping, it may be too early in the season to tell.

After all, no Mountain West teams were in the preseason rankings last year before five schools — UNM, SDSU, UNLV Colorado State and Wyoming eventually saw some time in the rankings.

It seems to be a habit of

the conference to gradually sneak its way into the rankings as the season goes on, and there is no indication that this season will be any different. Utah State and Boise State along with the Lobos are currently in the “others receiving votes” category and it is possible that all three of them can be ranked at the same time in the weeks to come.

They need to stick to their winning ways though, as the ice they stand on is awfully thin.

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Thurmond: Seattle Turnovers becoming TDs at record rate will lean on backups NFL

By Howard Fendrich

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NFL teams are turning turnovers directly into points at a record rate.

So far this season, 13.1 percent of interceptions and fumbles — more than one out of every eight — have been returned for touchdowns, the highest clip since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, according to STATS. That represents another spike in what has been a steadily upward trend over the last five seasons: 8.4 percent in 2009, 8.8 in 2010, 9.5 in 2011, 11.5 in 2012.

In addition to more than two dozen fumbles brought back for TDs, there have been 48 pick 6s through Week 12, the secondmost behind only the 50 to this point in 2012.

“Any time you can score on defense, you just feel like you’re giving your team an extra score.

That’s a score you’re not counting on. The odds of winning go up that way,” said Herm Edwards, a former NFL head coach and author of one of the most famous fumble return-TDs in league history while a player for the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1970s.

Edwards offered a simple theory for the rise in points that arrive off turnovers.

“Offenses take more chances with the ball in today’s world, with the fact that you’re constantly trying to score by throwing the ball around the yard.

With the formation designs now — people spread out all over the field, five guys in pass routes — if you throw an interception, who’s going to tackle the guy, an offensive lineman?”

Edwards said with a chuckle. “If the receiver doesn’t tackle him, you’re out of luck. There’s no one in the backfield except the quarterback, and you want him to make the tackle?”

According to data compiled

by STATS, NFL games are averaging roughly the same number of turnovers as in recent seasons (about three per game) and quite a bit less than some

Broncos linebacker Von Miller, right, picks up a fumble by Patriots running back Stevan Ridley and heads to the goal line for a touchdown in the first quarter of Sunday’s game in Foxborough, Mass. ELISE AMENDOLA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

seasons in the 1970s (about five per game) or the 1950s (about seven per game).

But those turnovers are carrying extra weight this season, points-wise.

Turnover-return TDs are helping fuel a jump in total scoring off turnovers — which also includes drives following an interception or fumble — to more than 10½ points per game.

That’s a 4.4 percent increase from last season and the most since 1995.

As it is, one basic truth of the NFL is that turnover differential is a barometer for success: If a team can generate more turnovers than it commits in a particular game, a victory is more likely. That is a far better indicator of a game’s likely outcome than, say, which team gains more yards or is penalized less.

Take a look at this Sunday.

Discarding the tie between Green Bay and Minnesota, teams with a positive turnover differential were 9-0, teams gaining more yards were 6-5, and teams with fewer penalty yards were 5-6. That’s in line

with what the winning percentages are for this season, according to STATS: .818 for a positive turnover differential, .613 for a positive net yardarge differential, .515 for fewer penalty yards.

The Kansas City Chiefs are 9-2 thanks in part to having 13 more takeaways than giveaways. The Seattle Seahawks are tied for second with a plus-11 differential, and they lead the NFL with a 10-1 record. The Dallas Cowboys are flawed in many ways, but they are tied atop the NFC East at least in part thanks to their plus-11 differential.

All of five minutes into the much-anticipated matchup Sunday night between the Patriots and Broncos, Denver linebacker Wesley Woodyard forced a fumble by New England running back Stevan Ridley. Linebacker Von Miller grabbed the ball and ran 60 yards for a touchdown.

It was the start of a rash of turnovers. Three fumbles by the Patriots in the opening 7½ minutes translated into a 17-0 deficit, which the Broncos extended to 24-0 by halftime.

Leave it to Patriots coach Bill

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Belichick to get to the heart of the matter afterward: “You can’t move the ball when you’re losing it.”

Eventually, the roles reversed.

The Broncos started handing the ball over — Montee Ball fumbled, Peyton Manning got picked off, and on and on, right up until a punt bounced off a Denver player late in overtime.

New England recovered and soon was kicking a field goal to win 34-31.

OK, so the Broncos are still 9-2; no AFC team owns a better record. That doesn’t mean Denver is not aware that a propensity for turnovers — only the two sub-.500 teams from New York have committed more than the Broncos’ 23 — could be a problem down the road.

“Kryptonite. It’s been Kryptonite so far. I watched Man of Steel last night on the ride home,” interim head coach Jack Del Rio said Monday, without a trace of a smile. “That’s an issue, and we’ve got to correct it. …

Regardless of how good you are, that’s the kind of thing that can really cripple you.”

because of a groin injury.

Thurmond’s suspension was first reported by NFL.com over the weekend. Thurmond took to Twitter and apologized on Sunday, writing, “Yes I made a mistake and I have to live with the consequences. I’m disappointed in myself for letting my teammates and family down.”

Thurmond’s is the sixth Seattle player officially suspended for substance abuse or performance-enhancing drugs violations by the league since 2011. That doesn’t include Richard Sherman, whose suspension was overturned on appeal late last season.

“I don’t know that we can expect to be perfect. We would like to be, but that isn’t the case,” Carroll said. “It’s a big challenge for these guys to do right and we want them to do it and carry through and be there when we need them and count on them. It doesn’t always work that way. It presents opportunities for other guys.

We’ve always championed that and our guys have always come through and they’ll do that again in this instance.”

Thurmond has started three games this season for Seattle, including the team’s last game against Minnesota when he had his first interception of the season and returned it 29 yards for a touchdown. Even when he wasn’t starting, Thurmond was a critical member of one of the NFL’s best secondary units as the fifth defensive back in passing situations.

Thurmond beat out veteran Antoine Winfield, whom Seattle signed in the offseason, for the nickel cornerback spot during training camp. He had struggled with injuries throughout his career but was finally healthy and playing well ahead of an offseason where he will be a free agent.

Seattle moved quickly to fill Thurmond’s roster spot, signing veteran Perrish Cox,

who worked out for the team recently after being released

by San Francisco on Nov. 12.

Cox played in 25 games over two seasons with the 49ers in a reserve role after starting nine games for Denver in 2010. Seattle had also worked out former cornerback Marcus Trufant, who has not played this season, before deciding on signing Cox. The Seahawks are likely to lean on young backups Byron Maxwell and Jeremy Lane.

Maxwell had been seeing more playing time, especially on passing downs when Thurmond would move inside to cover slot receivers. Lane started three games late last season when Browner was serving a four-game suspension for using performance enhancing drugs and Thurmond was injured.

Carroll also indicated that DeShawn Shead will be promoted from the practice squad to the active roster, but that move was not made official on Tuesday. Presumably, Shead’s promotion will coincide with a roster move involving Browner, who is also reportedly facing a suspension for a substance-abuse violation.

Shead can play both cornerback and safety. It’s his second season with the Seahawks, most of that spent on the practice squad. He was added to the 53-man roster late last season but was inactive for each game. He’s been getting paid this season at the same rate as a second-year player on the 53-man roster according to the NFLPA database.

Carroll said despite the continued problems he doesn’t believe his message or approach needs to change.

“We’ll always look to do it better. We’re on it. I think this team is very strong about where we’re going and what we’re doing. Because somebody slips, that doesn’t mean we’re not on track,” Carroll said. “I believe we’re on a tremendous track right now.”

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No. 18 N. Illinois stays unbeaten Rodriguez amends suit against MLB

By Ronald Blum The Associated Press

DE KALB, Ill. — P.J. Fleck helped recruit quarterback Jordan Lynch to Northern Illinois so the 18 N. Illinois 33 first-year Western W. Michigan 14 Michigan coach had a good idea what the Broncos could expect Tuesday.

No amount of preparation, however, could counter what the Huskies senior delivered on a wintery night.

Lynch broke his single-game FBS rushing record for quarterbacks with 321 yards and No. 18 Northern Illinois completed its first unbeaten regular season in 50 years with a 33-14 victory over Western Michigan.

“Jordan Lynch is the best player in college football and that’s no disrespect to anyone else” said Fleck, a former Northern Illinois star receiver and assistant coach. “The reason is he makes every single guy around him better. He is what Northern Illinois is about. … And with all the pressure, he continues to perform.”

Lynch carried the ball 27 times in topping his previous record of 316 yards, set on Oct. 19 against Central Michigan. He established the mark with a 6-yard run with 13:49 to play. He scored on runs of 29, 36 and 37 yards and threw a 10-yard TD. “It was fun,” said Lynch. “It was hard to throw the ball in those conditions and good thing we have a good running game.”

The Huskies (12-0, 8-0 MidAmerican) shook off 17-degree temperature, brisk winds and occasional light snowfall to extend the nation’s longest active home winning streak to 26 games.

“The elements played a huge factor in the game, it was tough to throw and to kick,” Northern Illinois coach Rod Carey said.

“But I’m real happy with the win — and how we ran the ball like we did in those conditions and scored the points. And our defense did a great job holding

Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan Lynch carries the ball past two Western Michigan defenders during Tuesday’s game in DeKalb, Ill. CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

them to 14 points.”

The Broncos (1-11, 1-7) dropped their third straight.

Running back Dareyon Chance scored one touchdown and Antoin Scriven scored another.

The Huskies, No. 14 in the Bowl Championship Series rankings, also officially locked down their fourth straight West Division title on Tuesday with their 25th straight conference victory. They will meet Bowling Green or Buffalo in the Dec. 6 MAC title game at Detroit’s Ford Field.

Northern Illinois’ only previous unbeaten season was the 1963 team that went 10-0 and won an NCAA College Division championship. The Huskies moved into the major college ranks in 1969.

Running back Cameron Stingily ran 14 times for 49 yards and topped the 1,000 yard mark. It’s the first time Northern Illinois has had two 1,000yard runners in a season. Lynch has 1,755 yards.

“He’s been important to us all year,” Carey said. “Just because he got 1,000 doesn’t validate him because he was already validated.”

The Huskies stalled deep in Bronco territory on their opening drive and kicker Matt Sims missed on a 34-yard field goal attempt.

But on the next possession

Lynch guided Northern Illinois on an 80-yard, 8-play scoring drive with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Jawan Brescacin for a 7-0 lead with 1:10 left in the first quarter.

Western Michigan moved to the Northern Illinois 1 and survived a goal-line fumble early in the second quarter when Chance completed the 12-play, 63-yard drive with a run up the middle to tie it 7-all.

Lynch, a dark horse Heisman Trophy candidate, topped the 100-yard rushing mark early in the second quarter and later bolted 29 yards for his 18th rushing touchdown of the year and a 14-7 lead with 9:43 showing.

Lynch struck again with 7:31 left in the half with a 36-yard sprint as he passed 200 yards. Sims’ extra point kick failed, leaving Northern Illinois with a 20-7 lead.

Western Michigan was thwarted with 5 seconds showing as Andrew Haldeman’s 37-yard field goal try was blocked. On a previous drive Haldeman missed a 42-yard try.

Northern Illinois opened a 23-7 lead on Sims’s 23-yard field goal into the wind with 5:38 left in the half.

Lynch scored his third touchdown on a 37-yard run, surpassing 300 yards as the Huskies extended the led to 30-7.

NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez’s lawyers updated his lawsuit against Major League Baseball and Bud Selig, adding new criticism of the commissioner for not testifying in the union’s grievance to overturn the 211-game suspension given to the New York Yankees star last summer.

The lawyers filed a 33-page amended complaint Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, expanding on the suit originally filed Oct. 3 in New York Supreme Court.

Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz last week refused to compel Selig to testify in the grievance, and Rodriguez then walked out of the hearing without testifying.

The sides rested last Thursday after 12 days of sessions, and a decision on whether to uphold or alter the discipline is expected in January.

“Mr. Selig chose to hide in

his office in Milwaukee rather than come testify at the grievance hearing in New York. In Mr. Selig’s world, apparently the Alex ‘buck’ does Rodriguez not stop with Bud,” the new complaint said.

“Mr. Selig lacked the courage of his convictions to explain under oath the reasons for the suspension and the conduct of his investigators. His silence on these issues speaks volumes and leads to only one logical conclusion — his actions, and those of the MLB personnel he controls, were aimed at destroying the reputation, career and business prospects of Alex Rodriguez.”

Rodriguez was suspended Aug. 5 for alleged violations of the sport’s drug agreement and labor contract, and he played pending a determination of the grievance.

As he did in the original complaint, Rodriguez accused Selig of conducting a “witch hunt” against him.

The three-time AL MVP criticized the methods MLB employed in its investigation of the Biogenesis of America anti-aging clinic, accused of distributing banned performanceenhancing drugs.

A-Rod’s lawyers included a photograph of Selig posing with a fan wearing a red shirt that had “A-ROID” written across the front. While the lawsuit attributes the photo to NESN. com, the NESN’s website says the photo was from the 2009 All-Star FanFest and was taken from NBCSportsRadio’s Twitter feed.

MLB had the suit removed to federal court, and Rodriguez’s lawyers are trying to persuade U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield to remand the case back to New York state court.

A hearing is scheduled for Jan. 23.

Fame: No inductees last year Continued from Page B-5 10 consecutive years at any point. Ballots are due by Dec. 31, and results will be announced Jan. 8.

Players elected along with choices announced Dec. 9 by the expansion era committee (1973 and later) will be inducted July 27 at Cooperstown. Among those on the committee ballot are retired managers Bobby Cox, Tony La Russa and Joe Torre; late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner; and late players’ union head Marvin Miller.

Last year, the BBWAA failed for the first time since 1996 to produce any inductees. Craig Biggio came closest to receiving the necessary 75 percent, falling 39 shy with 388 (68.2 percent).

Jack Morris, who will be on the ballot for the final time this year, was second with 67.7 percent, followed by Jeff Bagwell (59.6), Mike Piazza (57.8), Tim

Raines (52.2), Lee Smith (47.8) and Curt Schilling (38.8).

Making their first appearances on the ballot, Clemens was at 37.6 percent, Bonds at 36.2 and Sosa at 12.5. McGwire received 16.9 percent on his seventh try.

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Players remain on the ballot if they receive at least 5 percent support and can stay in the voting for up to 15 years.

Other returnees include Don Mattingly, Edgar Martinez, Fred McGriff, Rafael Palmeiro, Alan Trammell and Larry Walker.

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for the gluten-free GLUTEN-FREE DOUBLE-CHOCOLATE COOKIES Courtesy Iconik Coffee 1½ cups quality cocoa powder 6 cups powdered sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup chocolate chips 2 cups pecans or walnuts 8 egg whites, beaten just until combined well Preparation: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use a sifter to combine the cocoa powder and sugar. Then mix all the dry ingredients, including chips

and nuts, in a large bowl. Add the egg whites and mix by hand until mixture is wet and shiny. By this point, your arm is getting weak and your forearm is burning. … But what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?

Dose them out to your desired size, place them on parchment-lined baking sheets, and bake until they’re crackled on top and are slightly resistant to the touch. About 10 to 12 minutes or so.

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By Carlos Andres López Photos by Clyde Mueller The New Mexican

KIDS COOKIES 1-2-3 Courtesy chef Charles Dale of Bouche 1 pound granulated sugar 2 pounds sweet butter 3 pounds all-purpose flour Preparation: Chop the cold butter into half-inch cubes.

Place in the food processor with the sugar and the flour, and pulse until just incorporated. Remove from the food processor, and continue to knead by hand until a smooth, soft dough is formed.

Dust a cutting board or countertop with flour, and roll out half the dough to ¼-inch thickness. Stamp or cut out whimsical shapes, and place the cookies on a baking sheet in the oven for 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove the cookies from the sheet and cool on a plate. Repeat until you have enough cookies. You may freeze any remaining dough.

Decorate with colorful icing, M&M’s, powdered sugar, etc.

PUMPKIN ROCKS Courtesy Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen Makes about 37 cookies 5 cups flour 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1½ teaspoons baking powder 1½ teaspoons salt 1½ teaspoons ginger ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon nutmeg ½ teaspoon cloves ½ teaspoon allspice ½ pound (2 sticks) butter, softened 2 cups sugar 1 cup brown sugar 4 eggs 2 cups pumpkin purée 2 cups raisins soften in white wine 4 cups chopped walnuts Glaze, recipe below Preparation: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix dry

ingredients in a large bowl.

Cream softened butter and both sugars. Add eggs one at a time, beat well, and then mix in the pumpkin.

Lower speed and add the dry ingredients gradually.

Fold in raisins and walnuts.

Scoop ¼-cup sized rounds and place them 1½ inches apart on baking sheets.

Bake oven for about 25 minutes, or until golden brown.

Cool cookies on wire racks, and then dip each into the prepared glaze

GLAZE FOR PUMPKIN ROCKS 2 cups powdered sugar ¼ cup water 3 tablespoons heavy cream 2 tablespoons melted butter Preparation: Mix all the ingredients until well combined and smooth.

for pumpkin lovers

ike most of the signature sweets at Iconik Coffee, the top-selling double-chocolate cookies come from a closely guarded family recipe, passed down from one generation to the next.

“It started with my mom,” co-owner Natalie Slade said of the popular glutenfree cookies. “A lot of the recipes here have been handed from her to me, and I’ve tweaked them a bit over the years.

But my mom really deserves credit for this recipe.”

And like her mother, Slade, who bakes between eight to 10 dozen cookies a day at the Lena Street coffeehouse, believes in continuing the tradition of passing down recipes. So in the spirit of the holiday season, she and several other Santa Fe chefs have shared their favorite cookie recipes with The New Mexican.

Guilty pleasures To heighten the chocolate flavor in her cookies, Slade uses a combination of high-fat cocoa powder and chocolate chips, which she says gives the cookies a chewy, decadent texture. She also adds nuts — walnuts or pecans — for added crunch and richness.

“It’s a good holiday cookie because it’s super chocolatey,” she said. “And it’s sweet and gluten free, which is what people here [in Santa Fe] want. It’s also simple to make, and there aren’t that many ingredients, so you can pump them out quickly.”

For his cookie — a chewy bar made of sweet pastry dough topped with honey, dried fruits, nuts and chocolate — chef Greg Menke of The Beestro found inspiration on YouTube.

“Originally, it was inspired by wanting to make a cookie out of honey,” he said. “But then I saw this viral video of a honey badger robbing honey and getting stung by all these bees.”

After rocketing into fame, the honey badger was then featured in a national ad campaign for pistachios, he said. Menke, who’s fond of both pistachios and honey (but not badgers), thought the marketing strategy was clever, and he eventually created a cookie — aptly called the Honey

Badger Bar — to highlight those two ingredients.

“Sometimes with guilty pleasures, you have to say, ‘I don’t care,’ ” Menke said.

“The honey badger doesn’t care, and you should indulge in treats during the holidays.”

Taming a sweet tooth At Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen, baker Santos Leon makes his pumpkin cookies by cutting down on the sugar and doubling up on seasonal flavors.

“We don’t like to make our desserts too sweet,” owner Fiona Wong said. “Even if you have a sweet tooth, these cookies will satisfy you.”

Leon said his pumpkin cookies are based off a traditional recipe, but he added a few modern touches. The raisins, for instance, are soaked in white wine before being mixed into the batter, which softens them and tones down their sweetness. He also said he makes his own pumpkin purée with roasted heirloom pumpkins from the Santa Fe Farmers Market.

“It’s not necessary, but it’s always better that you roast your own pumpkins,” he said. “We’ve used Hubbard, Kabocha and regular sugar pumpkins, and they’re all great.”

Chef Charles Dale, owner of Bouche, a French bistro in downtown Santa Fe, agrees that holiday cookies shouldn’t be too sweet.

His 1-2-3 cookie recipe, which was passed down to him from his maternal grandmother, is made with a modest amount of sugar, which gives the cookies a tender texture.

“The cookie, when baked to a golden brown color, comes out crunchy [not] crumbling, [and] delicate and sweet without being cloying,” Dale said.

As an added bonus, he said the dough is easy to prepare and holds its shape well when cut, making it ideal to decorate.

Dale said he’ll make the cookies daily at Bouche during the holidays, and they will be offered to guests after dinner.

Contact Carlos Andres López at clopez@sfnewmexican.com.

HONEY BADGER BARS (AKA BEE STING BARS) Courtesy chef Greg Menke of The Beestro 1¼ cups firm butter, divided (1 cup and ¼ cup) 1 cup sugar, divided (½ cup and ½ cup) ¼ cup honey ¼ cup milk ½ cup slivered, crushed or finely chopped almonds (blanched if possible) ¼ cup rolled oats ¼ cup dried cherries or cranberries ¼ cup shredded coconut 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 cup minus 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon baking powder ⅛ teaspoon salt 1 egg yolk Melted chocolate for dipping ½ cup chopped pistachios Preparation: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a small saucepan, combine 1 cup butter, ½ cup sugar, honey, milk, almonds, rolled oats, dried cherries or cranberries and coconut.

for Grammy GRAMMY’S OATMEALRAISIN COOKIES Courtesy Missy Auge of Tanti Luce 221 7½ cups 3-Minute Brand Old Fashioned Oats 3½ tablespoons baking soda 2 cups raisinets 1 18-ounce jar chunky peanut butter ¾ cup butter, softened 1 cup light brown sugar 2 cups dark brown sugar 5 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla Preparation: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a food processor, blend oats, baking soda and raisinets until coarsely ground. Set aside.

In a large bowl, mix peanut butter, butter and sugars until smooth. Mix in eggs and vanilla. Add oat mixture and, using hands, blend well.

Use an ice cream scoop to scoop out dough and drop several inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

Don’t overcook!

Cool cookies on pan for 5 minutes, then move to a wire racks to cool completely.

Enjoy with a big, tall glass of bourbon — just like Grammy would have wanted.

Bring to a rapid boil, stirring constantly. Set aside, then add almond extract.

In large bowl, mix flour, remaining ½ cup sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in ¼ cup butter until crumbly and powdery.

Add egg yolk and stir with fork until combined. Spread mixture in bottom of ungreased 9- by 13-inch baking pan, press evenly to all edges.

Spread almond mixture over crust mixture evenly.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until topping is deep golden and bubbly. Allow to cool, and cut into 2-inch squares.

For smaller cookies, even cut the 2-inch squares in half diagonally to create two cookies.

Dip points into melted chocolate, then chopped pistachios and lay on parchment-lined cookie sheet to set.

Store in airtight containers.

for your honey Section editor: Carlos A. López, 986-3099, clopez@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Brian Barker, bbarker@sfnewmexican.com

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Travel industry to offer deals on CyberMonday Effect of recreational pot on Colorado ski biz remains hazy

A skier enjoys opening day at Colorado’s Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in October. Although recreational marijuana use will become legal in Colorado on Jan. 1, ski industry officials note that it’s still illegal to smoke marijuana in public and on federal land, where 90 percent of the state’s ski resorts are located. AP/COLORADO SKI COUNTRY USA, JACK DEMPSEY

Come to ski, not for pot

By Kristen Wyatt and Thomas Peipert The Associated Press

DENVER olorado’s ski resorts are taking the offensive in ensuring the multibilliondollar-a-year industry isn’t hurt by recreational marijuana stores that are set to open at about the same time many families begin planning their winter vacations.

For some skiers and snowboarders, hitting the slopes with a joint or pipe tucked into a winter coat has long been commonplace. But with the stores set to open Jan. 1 near resorts across the state — and a handful of companies offering cannabis-themed ski trips — the future is a bit hazy. Will a pot tourism industry flourish or will families decide to go to resorts in states where marijuana is outlawed?

For an industry already worrying about global warming, avalanches or simply a bad snow season, the stakes are high.

Jennifer Rudolph of Colorado Ski Country USA, a trade association that represents 21 resorts in the state, says the ski industry generates about $3 billion in tourism revenue annually and Colorado had more than 11 million skier visits last year, more than any other state.

“We are being proactive in educating the public in what to expect when they come to Colorado to ski,” she said.

She added: “We’re getting the word out that we have a lot of things to offer guests,

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We have so much to offer our guests that outweigh the legality of possession of marijuana.”

Rudolph says her organization is informing visitors through social media and its blog about the new pot laws, which were passed last year and legalize marijuana possession in small amounts for adults over 21, including out-of-state visitors. Some resorts also are addressing the issue with their respective towns and chambers of commerce.

Rudolph said she hasn’t heard of anyone deciding not to come to Colorado because of the new pot laws, and it’s too early to tell what resorts can expect to see after Jan. 1.

“That’s why we’re doing some education now to let people know what they can and can’t do,” she said. “The bottom line is guests should not expect to smoke marijuana in public at a ski resort.”

But that expectation may not be realized in the Colorado counties that are home to some of the state’s most popular resorts. In those counties, the measure to legalize pot passed by overwhelming margins.

Aspen’s home county approved the measure by margin of more than 3-to-1, and more than two-thirds of voters also approved marijuana in the home county of Colorado’s largest ski resort, Vail. A whopping eight in 10 voters in the home county of Telluride ski resort favored marijuana legalization.

It’s also relatively easy to smoke marijuana at

resorts without getting caught. Wooded areas off some of Colorado’s slopes already are dotted with “smoke shacks,” old mining cabins that have been illicitly repurposed as places to use the drug out of the cold and wind.

Still, industry officials hope visitors will respect that it is still illegal to smoke marijuana in public and on federal land, where 90 percent of the state’s ski resorts are located. Anyone who is caught risks having their pass taken away.

Peter Johnson with Colorado Green Tours, a Denver-based travel agency that plans custom cannabis-themed tours to ski areas and other destinations, insists his company and contracted guides will respect those laws.

“It would certainly be done in private. We obey the law,” the 39-year-old entrepreneur said. “We don’t give people the opportunity to flout it.”

Johnson, who founded the company in March, said he is dealing with “a large backlog” of mostly out-of-staters who are interested in booking a cannabis-themed ski trip this winter. But he doesn’t think the new laws will change much of anything at resorts.

“I think most people are pretty considerate. I think most cannabis users are pretty considerate,” he said.

One other issue that put Colorado in the news this year aside from the new marijuana laws was flooding, but skiers don’t need to give that a second thought: No major resorts were affected.

LASTING IMAGES WATERFOWL PARADISE Dawn at New Mexico’s Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, just before takeoff. COURTESY ELAINE COLEMAN

By Beth J. Harpaz The Associated Press

NEW YORK — The travel industry is offering promotions large and small for CyberMonday. Some companies are participating for the first time, while others are embracing the online holiday sale in a bigger way than in the past.

American Express Travel is launching its first-ever CyberMonday promotion, with substantial hotel discounts and deals throughout the U.S. and Canada for Jan. 13-31. The promotions will be bookable at www.amextravel.com beginning Monday at 12:01 a.m. and will last 72 hours.

Liberty Travel has participated in CyberMonday before, but the volume of deals and their promotion is bigger this year and offers deeper savings. Liberty has assembled 99 deals with up to 65 percent off, bookable Black Friday through CyberMonday, featuring resorts in the Caribbean and Mexico along with cruises and escorted tours.

Liberty is also giving a credit of up to $100 on all new bookings made in Liberty Travel stores FridayMonday. Get a Black Friday code at www.LibertyTravel.com, available as of 12 a.m. Friday (Nov. 29), then present it to an agent to take $50, $75 or $100 off (depending on how much you spend) on trips worth $2,500 or more.

Priceline.com is doing a one-day sale beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday promising “50 percent off flights for travel before Dec. 18” on select flights from unsold inventory. Spokeswoman Leslie Cafferty says “there are a lot of options for those who are there first,” advising deal-seekers to “start searching early.”

George Hobica of AirfareWatchdog.com says “the hipper newer” airlines like Virgin America and JetBlue have participated in CyberMonday airfare sales in the past. But he says they often simply bring out their “usual Tuesday or Wednesday promo code sales wrapped up in a CyberMonday package.”

For cruise-lovers, Royal Caribbean will offer onboard credits of $50, $100 and $200 per stateroom (depending on length of cruise) as well as reduced deposits for departures Jan. 1 or later. The offer applies to bookings with paid deposits made Dec. 2-4 at www.royalcaribbean.com or via 800-Royal-Caribbean, and it excludes sailings on Quantum of the Seas.

The hotel industry is offering a wide variety of online post-Thanksgiving sales. Anthony Melchiorri, host of the Travel Channel show Hotel Impossible, says the holiday sales can be “a win-win for hotels and consumers.” Hotels push deals for periods when they have capacity, “and consumers can save up to 65 percent.” He added that “more and more hotels seems to be joining in” the promotion as the years go by.

But check websites for details as every offer is different. Some deals go live on Thanksgiving or Black Friday; some are available all weekend; some begin at 12:01 a.m. CyberMonday (Dec. 2). Some are for 24 hours, some last several days. Many have blackout dates for popular travel periods. Some hotel deals are straightforward rate offers, others are 10 percent off, some give triple credit-card points or dollar-amount credits during a stay toward amenities or services.

Among the lodging companies offering some type of online deal are Hotels.com, Starwood hotels, BedandBreakfast.com, Pacifica Hotels, Loews Hotels, Preferred Hotel Group, Omni Hotels and Red Roof Inns. Destinations range from big cities and beaches to spas and ski resorts, including Manhattan’s Waldorf Astoria, the Conrad Chicago, Eden Roc and the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, Vermont’s Woodstock Inn, California’s Westin Monache Resort at Mammoth Mountain, Vail Resorts in various locations, Divi Vacations and Resorts, Wyndham Vacation Rentals, Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, Canyon Ranch in three locations, Miraval Resort & Spa in Tucson, Ariz., Wild Dunes Resort near Charleston, S.C., and Omni La Mansion del Rio in San Antonio, Texas.

Myrtle Beach, S.C., has created a destination-wide effort at VisitMyrtleBeach.com/TravelSaturday. The website is housing deals that can be booked on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, from free rounds of golf with some lodging purchases, to half-off tickets at Ripley’s Aquarium.

In brief Southwest Airlines boosting fee for pets that fly DALLAS — It’ll soon cost more to bring your pet with you when you fly on Southwest Airlines.

The airline is citing higher costs in raising its pet fee to $95 per flight from $75 beginning with flights on Jan. 15.

Southwest Airlines Co. lets passengers bring a vaccinated dog or cat that fits in a carrier that goes under an airline seat. Pets are taken on a first-come basis, up to six per flight.

Southwest, which began carrying pets in 2009, charges less for the service than many other U.S. carriers. United, Delta, American and US Airways all charge $125 each way, while JetBlue and Alaska charge $100.

Sexy Vegas pirate show to be replaced by shops

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. — An open-air Las Vegas Strip pirate show that featured sirens in skimpy costumes dancing with shirtless sailors has been canceled, with casino officials saying Monday they plan to build shops on the site.

Sirens of TI had been on a hiatus, but officials at the Treasure Island casino confirmed that the 10-year run of the seductive spectacle was over for good.

The free 10-minute show had played four times nightly and featured elaborate pyrotechnics and dancers using the rigging of a giant ship as stripper poles.

The show entered what was supposed to be a twomonth closure on Oct. 20. The opening of the shops is planned for the fall of 2014.

The Associated Press

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ONE BEDROOM EFFICIEN CY apartment for rent with Washer & Dryer, 10 minutes from plaza, available immediately. $700 monthly, including utilities. $350 cleaning deposit. No Pets, Non-smoking. Contact phone number: 505-204-4777 (please leave voice message).

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Excellent Employment Opportunity Trust Department Manager - Santa Fe Office

Responsible for managing all staff and functions of the trust department, developing new trust business and all phases of trust account management by performing the following duties: Establish overall direction of the Trust Department by setting objectives and defining the means for their attainment.

Maintain business and social contacts in the Bank’s marketing area for the purpose of developing and retaining new trust business.

Oversee the administrative, investment and operations functions of the department. In the absence of a Portfolio Manager buy and sell securities for individual trust accounts, investment advisory agencies, pensions and profit sharing funds in accordance with policies established by the Trust Committees.

Qualifications and Education: Degree in law, business, accounting or finance at a minimum. Certified Trust and Financial Advisor (CTFA) certificate given preference.

Seven to ten years of experience in personal trust administration with increasingly responsible management positions and progressive record of promotion.

Solid knowledge of trust, tax and estate law. Ability to interact and collaborate with attorneys, CPAs, financial planners and other wealth management professionals regarding client accounts. Identify sales and referral opportunities from clients, centers of influence and bank staff in order to exceed team sales goals.

Good knowledge of trust and securities operational functions, systems, procedures, products and services. Good knowledge and understanding of legal, regulatory and accounting principles which directly affect Wealth Management, Investment Management & and Trust Compliance.

Century Bank offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. Please online at www.centurynetbank.com. We are an EEO/AA employer.

MANAGEMENT MANAGER FOR day-to-day operations of non-profit homeowner’s associations.

HOA management experience or related background desired (real estate, property management, escrow, title experience).

Background, drug screens apply. Submit cover letter, resume, salary requirements to hr@hoamco.com with subject "Manager-SF".

Property Management Company is searching for Office Manager, Accounts Payable Clerk.

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MEDICAL DENTAL P C M is hiring PCAs, Caregivers (FT & PT Hours), LPNs, RNs, for inhome care in the Santa FE, NM area.

PCA, Caregiver $11 hourly, LPN $25 hourly, RN $32 hourly.

Call 866-902-7187 Ext. 350 or apply at: procasemanagement.com EOE PECOS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IS IN NEED OF: School Nurse (District-wide)

EL MESON Hiring Part-time night Bartender. Please apply in person 213 Washington Avenue between 2 and 5 p.m., call 505-983-6756.

Is looking to hire a motivated and enthusiastic individual with a passion for sales to fill an opening in the

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KITCHEN-AID 600, KP26MIX, 575w, Blue, bowl lift stand mixer. Lightly used. Shield, whip, hook, beater, book. $200. 505-660-0642.

ARTS CRAFTS SUPPLIES SINGER INDUSTRIAL Sewing Machine.

Mounted on table with metal stand. $100, firm. 505-474-5450.

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Transportation Broker Seeking Owner Operators for Immediate Seasonal Work!

Seeking Owner Operators with cargo vans or sprinter vans in the Santa Fe Area! Seasonal work immediately available. Additional scheduled routes available. Excellent rates!

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Uniform & equipment store serving police, fire, medical, and industrial needs full-time employee for sales counter, shipping, ordering, invoicing. Experienced have first priority. Please apply at store. Neves Uniforms, 2538 Suite 200, Camino Entrada, 505-474-3828.

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Needed for a fast paced real estate sales office. This position supports a team of licensed Realtors by overseeing the sales offices, and following up with inquiries and answering questions about the company’s services to help homeowners. The successful applicant must be socially focused, with a "how can I help you?" attitude. Lots of attention spent on building and maintaining relationships, especially where helping, not pressuring, others fosters the relationship. This employee must possess excellent communication skills and attention to detail. College preferred. Bilingual preferred.

Must be able to work flexible hours which includes weekends.

Competitive compensation package. EOE. Send resume and cover letter to blange@homewise.org.

CREDENZA: Burl in doors, natural wood. A collector. $500.

BEAUTIFUL COUCH WITH LOVELY ACCENTS. FROM A SMOKE AND PET FREE HOME. $350. PLEASE CALL, 505-238-5711 TO SCHEDULE A VIEWING. BEAUTIFUL SOLID LIGHT OAK DINING TABLE CHAIR, very sturdy. $35. 505438-7733.

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ADVERTISING SALES POSITION Do you enjoy helping people make good decisions? Are you outgoing? Do you like learning new things? Have you a background in sales? The New Mexican is looking for energetic outgoing people to offer print/online advertising solutions to local businesses. It’s fun and interesting work, and it is rewarding to help a small business succeed. Local business owners have many options.

Advertising can be confusing and lots of it doesn’t produce a return on investment. But ads in The New Mexican, both in print and on our website, get astounding results. Join the winning team, and represent The New Mexican daily paper, Pasatiempo, our magazines and our award-winning website, and help local advertisers make the right choice!

The New Mexican recognizes effort, rewards achievement and encourages team contributions.

It’s a fun and friendly workplace, in a great downtown location, with free parking and fabulous benefits. If you have ambition and the desire to succeed with the local media-leader in print and online, we have exciting opportunities for you.

Required Skills – Motivated self-starter. Flexible and creative with an ability to grow sales, find new revenue opportunities, create productive, long-term customer relationships. Professional appearance and strong interpersonal skills will serve you in this position. Ability to organize, prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Education Requirements – College Degree or a HS Diploma and two years of consultative sales experience. Proof of valid driver’s license, auto insurance and have reliable transportation.

Main Objective : Meet and exceed sales goals, visiting every client within assigned territory. Plan each day, week and month by preparing sales presentations and providing information to your clients about all newspaper publications and online opportunities. Be in the office by 8am, and out in your sales territory daily by 9:30 am. Maximize time in the field and visit with your clients all day until 4pm.

EEOC Apply with cover letter and resume to: Tamara M. Hand, Advertising Director The Santa Fe New Mexican 202 East Marcy St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 or e-mail thand@sfnewmexican.com.

NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE. Application deadline: Friday, December 6, 2013.

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This position is located at our southside location off the frontage road by I25. Pay rate is dependent upon experience. Selected candidate will be eligible to participate in our insurance and 401k plans after waiting period.

Apply in person or send application/resume to: Geri Budenholzer Human Resources Manager The Santa Fe New Mexican 202 East Marcy St. Santa Fe, NM 87501 Or e-mail gbudenholzer@sfnewmexican. com Application deadline: Friday, December 6, 2013.

BEAUTIFUL WOOL PERSIAN 3’6’x9’7". $475. 808-346-3635

LGI Homes is actively hiring Sales Managers and Sales Representatives in the Albuquerque area. No Real Estate license or experience required!

In addition to an aggressive compensation plan and bonus structure, LGI Homes offers full benefits as well as a 401k contribution.

Candidate must have a high school diploma or equivalent; (Associates degree preferred); be computer proficient on MAC OS9/OSX; have experience with Adobe InDesign, QuarkExpress, Photoshop and Acrobat and CMYK seps; be knowledgeable in graphic files (EPS, PDF, TIF, ETC.); have complete understanding of 2-up, 4-up and 8-up page imposition; and previous film & CTP output.

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LGI HOMES would like to invite you to the LGI Homes Albuquerque Recruiting Event on November 25th at 7:00 PM at Hotel Parq Central.

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Selected candidate will operate, troubleshoot and maintain platemaking equipment, Newsway and PageImposer production systems; RIPs, imagesetters, processors and printers as needed in the daily production of the newspaper; layout classified and obituary pages using QuarkXpress; and download files from SFNM FTP site and enter them into Newsway/PageImposer.

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Since 2003, LGI Homes has become one of the fastest growing homebuilders in the Unites States, was recognized by Builder Magazine as the only builder to increase closings in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and became a publicly-traded company in November 2013.

The Santa Fe New Mexican is seeking a motivated candidate to join the Pre-Press team working behind the scenes in the daily production of the newspaper.

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Requirements: Be able to obtain NMPED Nursing Licensure. Terms: Full-time position. Salary: As per District Salary Schedule. Start Date: Position begins January 6, 2014 Contact: Fred Trujillo, Superintendent at (505)757-4700 or ftrujillo@pecos.k12.nm.us

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Help Grow a Thriving Print and Digital Sales Territory at the National Award-Winning Taos News. Work and play in New Mexico’s original arts colony.

Nestled against the Southern Rockies, enjoy year-round sunshine and world-class skiing, rafting and hiking. All while selling ads for the Best Weekly in the Nation as awarded by the National Newspaper Association (07, 08, 10, 11, 12) and Local Media Association (12, 13).

Requirem ents: *Sales experience, *Commitment to helping local business thrive o Positive, goal-oriented demeanor o Ability to multi-task; The Pay Out: *Commission based income growth *Takeover of an existing, healthy group of accounts and projects o Rewarding relationships with local businesses o Full-time position with full benefits, 401K, medicaldental, vacation, holiday pay and spa membership Chris Wood Advertising Director The Taos News. 226 Albright St, Taos, NM 87571. P: 575-758-2241; F: 575-758-9647.

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2008 Land Rover LR2 HSE SUV. Bluetooth and Sirius Radio, tires are in excellent condition. 52,704 miles. Very clean interior. No accidents! Well maintained. $17,995.

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AUTO PARTS ACCESSORIES 4 STUDDED snow tires. Only 5,000 miles! P165-60-15. $200 OBO. Please call, 505-699-6960.

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2012 Honda Odyssey EX-L. Another 1-owner trade! Loaded with leather and navigation, like new condition, clean CarFax. $29,911. Call 505-216-3800.

2010 Toyota RAV 4 Sport

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2012 Subaru Outback 2.5i Premium.

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Sammi, a rat terrier mix, is an older gentleman waiting for his new family. Fall in love with him and other animals at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter, 100 Caja del Rio Road. Bring in a pet-related donation and we’ll waive the adoption fee on adult dogs and cats. Our Mobile Adoption team is out in the community making matches. Our schedule: 2-6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22, PetSmart Santa Fe Noon-5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 23, PetSmart Santa Fe

2007 MERCEDES C280 4matic. Only 65k miles!, All wheel drive, loaded, recent trade, clean CarFax, must see $15,471. Call 505-2163800.

2006 Honda Element EX-P 4WD. Another low-mileage Lexus trade! Only 55k, 4WD, sunroof, super nice. $14,471. Call 505-216-3800.

Airport Road and 599 505-660-3039 2012 PRIUS H/B

DOMESTIC 1995 CROWN VICTORIA. 119,000 miles. White. Second owner. Like new condition, mechanically sound.

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2010 LAND Rover LR2 HSE SUV. CLIMATE COMFORT Pkg, Bluetooth and Sirius Radio, and Rubber Floor Mats. One owner.

Actual miles. No accidents! Showroom condition! 505-474-0888.

One owner, accident free, non smoker Prius One. Only 34k miles, still under warranty. Drive a bargain and save at the pump.

Clean title, clear CarFax Grand Opening Sale Price $16 995. 505954-1054.

2012 Subaru Outback 2.5i Premium.

25,321 miles, AM/FM stereo with CD player, Bluetooth hands-free. $23,771. Call 505-216-3800.

2009 TOYOTA Corolla LE. Only 53k miles! Another 1 owner clean CarFax trade-in! Super nice, fully serviced $12,961. Call 505-216-3800.

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GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPIES. $300.

Only serious calls. 8 weeks old. 505753-6987, call after 5 p.m.

2010 Subaru Impreza 2.5i Premium.

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ITALIAN WATER DOGS. 4 MONTH OLD PUPPIES, CRATE TRAINED. 25-35 lbs, non-shedding. Free training and daycare. $2,000. Excellent family or active retiree pet. Call Robin, 505-6606666.

1962 MERCEDES Unimog 404 .

23,000 original miles. Completely rebuilt. Gas engine. $16,000 OBO. 505-982-2511 or 505-670-7862

2008 Land Rover Range Rover Sport Supercharged SUV. 86,695 miles, Rear Seat Entertainment, Bluetooth and Sirius Radio, Roof Rail System, and much more. $29,995. Call 505-474-0888.

2008 TOYOTA Sienna LE. Just 59k miles, another 1-owner Lexus trade-in! clean CarFax, immaculate condition $15,941. Call 505-2163800.

2005 VOLVO XC90. SUV, V-8. Black.

AWD. Low mileage, 34,490. Loaded: GPS, Sunroof, Leather Seats, 7passenger. Like new. $15,000. 505881-2711

PEMBROKE WELSH CORGI, AKC, 5 females, 1 male. ROMX, background, 7 weeks, great confirmation and marks, socialized. $400, $600. 505304-8865.

95 MITSUBISHI Montero, mechanically and everyway great. Second owner, service records, 264,000 miles, excellent work vehicle. $2,800. 505-2314481.

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POMERANIAN PUPPIES: Tiny, quality double coat. $600 to $800. Registered, first shots. POODLES: White male $350, white female $450. Tiny cream male, $450. Docked tails and dew claws removed. First shots. 505-9012094.

STANDARD POODLE Puppies, AKC, POTTY TRAINED, houseraised, gorgeous intelligent babies!

Champion lines, 9 weeks old. $800 Delivery available. (432)477-2210, www.hyattstandardpoodles.com.

WHITE AKC Labrador Retriever Puppies! Excellent Bloodlines! Visit www.hufflabs.com or call 719-5880934.

YOUNG MALE short hair grey, black, tiger cat, very sweet. 505-992-0412

2006 Acura TL. Another lowmileage Lexus trade! 63k miles, navigation, 2 DVDs, leather, moonroof, clean CarFax. $15,871.

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2010 BMW X5d TURBO DIESEL. White with grey & black leather interior.

59,000 miles. Great stereo, GPS, bluetooth, satellite, heated seats, moon roof, running boards. Perfect condition. Service and extended warranty valid to 100k miles. BMW Dealership maintained. 505-690-1984.

2001 BMW X5.Only 79,000 miles! 4.4i Big engine, Fully loaded, Sports package, Wide Tires, 5-cd changer, great sound, clean inside out. Call 505-469-5396.

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CDRC CASE # APP 135320 NOTICE OF HEARING

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Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held to consider a request by Janet Eigner, Appellant, for an appeal of the Land Use Administrator’s decision to approve a request for a home occupation business registration allowing a gunsmith business which conducts background checks, sells, services and repairs firearms. The property is located at 74 Verano Loop, within the Eldorado Subdivision, within Section 7, Township 15 North, Range 10 East, (Commission District 5).

A public hearing will be held in the County Commission Chambers of the Santa Fe County Courthouse, corner of Grant and Palace Avenues, Santa Fe, New Mexico on the 19th day of December, 2013, at 4 p.m. on a petition to the County Development Review Committee.

Please forward all comments and questions to the County Land Use Administration Office at 9866225.

All interested parties will be heard at the Public Hearing prior to the Commission taking action.

All comments, questions and objections to the proposal may be submitted to the County Land Use Administrator in writing to P.O. Box 276, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0276; or presented in person at the hearing.

LEGALS g estates are required to present their claims within two months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be present either to the Personal Representative at c/o P.O. Box 25051, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87125, or filed with the Probate Court of Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

Dated: 10/31/2013 Candice Rosenberg 9231 West Hoover Place Littleton, CO 80123 Submitted by: WESTERFIELD LAW OFFICES, LTD. By:/s/ Patrick L. Westerfield PATRICK L. WESTERFIELD Attorney for Personal Representative 733 San Mateo Blvd., NE P.O. Box 25051 Albuquerque, NM 87125 505-265-5665 Legal# 95960 Published in the Santa Fe New Mexican November 15, 22, 2013 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO VALLEY NATIONAL BANK, a national banking corporation, Plaintiff, vs.

NO. D-101-CV-201301852 COTTONWOOD RV PARK, LLC, ART V. MARTINEZ, JR. AND RAMONA E. MARTINEZ Defendants.

Legal#96064 Published in the San- AMENDED NOTICE OF ta Fe New Mexican SALE on: November 27, 2013 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant FIRST JUDICIAL DIS- to the Order Granting TRICT COURT Default Judgment enCOUNTY OF SANTA tered September 25, FE 2013, the undersigned STATE OF NEW MEX- Special Master will ICO sell at public auction, for cash or certified IN THE MATTER OF funds, at the hour of THE ESTATE OF JEF- 11:05 a.m on DecemFERSON JOHN ber 5, 2013, on the STRATTON, JR., DE- steps of the Santa Fe CEASED District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma AveN O . D - 1 0 1 - P B - 2 0 1 3 - nue, Santa Fe, New 00193 Mexico, 87501, the real property situated NOTICE TO CRED- in Santa Fe County, ITORS New Mexico described as follows: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that CANDICE ROSENBERGER has The street address of been appointed Per- the Real Property is sonal Representative commonly known as: of the Estate of JEFFERSON JOHN STRAT- 1318A, 1318B, & 1318C TON, JR., Deceased. SOUTH RIVERSIDE All persons having DRIVE, ESPANOLA, NM claims against these 87532.

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The legal description of the real property subject to the Mortgage (hereinafter referred to as the "Subject Real Property") is: Parcel A and Parcel B and Tract B, as shown on plat entitled "Boundary Survey Plat for Cottonwood RV Park, LLC, Parcel A and Parcel B within Comp. 196, P.C. 543 and Tract B within Comp. 197, P.C. 544 of the Santa Clara Pueblo Grant, in Section 12, T.20N., R.8E., N.M.P.M .... ", filed in the office of the County Clerk, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, on January 6, 2009, in Plat Book 696, Page 023, as #1548381.

Together with the water wells identified as New Mexico State Engineer files numbered RG 16108 and RG 29658.

The Property is sold subject to rights of redemption; easements, reservations and restrictions of record; domestic well and water rights; taxes and governmental assessments; any liens or encumbrances not foreclosed in this proceeding; the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property; affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land; deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property; environmental contamination, if any; and zoning violations concerning the property, if any. No representation is made as to the validity of the rights of ingress and egress. Transfer of title to the highest bidder shall be without warranty or representation of any kind.

ALL PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT THE SALE ARE ADVISED TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF TITLE AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. This action is a suit to foreclose the mortgage secured by the real property described above. The total amount awarded by the Judgment to Valley National Bank with interest to the date of sale, is $2,106,377.38, plus its costs and attorney fees through the date of sale of the property and any amounts advanced by Valley National Bank to protect its interest in the property before sale, including insurance, maintenance, taxes, assessments or other expenses relating to the property.

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The proceeds from the judicial sale will be applied first to the payment of the costs and expenses of the sale; then to the payment of the Judgment in favor of Valley National Bank, including additional fees, costs and expenses as stated in the foregoing paragraph. Any excess funds shall be deposited with the Clerk of Court. Valley National Bank may apply all or a portion of its judgment towards the purchase price.

Otherwise, terms of sale shall be cash or certified funds.

Plaintiff’s attorney is A. Blair Dunn, 6605 Uptown Blvd., Ste. 280, Albuquerque, NM 87110; telephone 505881-5155.

WITNESS this Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico, and the Seal of the District Court of Santa Fe/Rio Arriba/Los Alamos County, this 13th day of November, 2013.

STEPHEN T. PACHECO CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: Deputy Clerk Legal #96072 Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on November 20, 27 and December 4, 2013.

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE No: D-101-CV-2013-02198 JERRY

DALTON

and

E L E C T R O N I C A L L Y MARSHA DALTON, FILED Plaintiffs,

Melissa Threet, Special Master The Real Estate Center, LLC 6747 Academy Rd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87109 (505) 463-8814 (505) 856-3334

vs.

JOHN DALTON, JR.;

THE FOLLOWING NAMED PERSONS BY NAME IF LIVING, IF DECEASED, THEIR UNKNOWN HEIRS: HELEN DALTON; HELENA DALTON ROLDAN; RAMONELA DALTON Legal #96071 Published in The San- AGUIRRE; STELLA D. DALta Fe New Mexican on TON; JOANNA DALTON; November 13, 20, 27 ANTHONY M. DALTON; and December 4, 2013 CHRISTOPHER E. LOPEZ; DARLENE M. LOPEZ; STELLA DALTON; DEFIRST JUDICIAL LORES DALTON;

DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE Kelly Cunningham Petitioner/Plaintiff,

GROUP THREE: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE FOLLOWING DECEASED PERSONS: RAMON DALTON; JAMES M. DALTON aka Jimmie Dalton aka Henry McGurk; ROBvs. ERTO A. DALTON, SR.; EMMA M. DALTON aka Jonathan Cunning- Maria Emma Dalton aka ham Emma Marie Sandoval; Respondent/Defenda FLORA MAES; EUGENIO nt.

DALTON aka Gene Dalton; GENOVEVO ORTIZ; Case No.: D-101-DM- JAMES S. DALTON aka Jimmie Dalton aka San201100877 tiago Dalton; AND

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF SUIT

ALL UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS OF INTEREST IN STATE OF NEW MEXI- THE PREMISES ADVERSE CO TO Jonathan Cun- TO THE PLAINTIFFS,

ningham. GREETINGS: You are hereby notified that Kelly Cunningham the abovenamed Petitioner has filed a civil action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, The general object thereof being: to dissolve the marriage between the Petitioner and yourself, Unless you enter your appearance in this cause within thirty (30) days of the date of the last publication of this Notice, judgment by default may be entered against you.

Defendants.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF SUIT TO QUIET TITLE THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS AGAINST WHOM CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE IS HEREBY SOUGHT TO BE OBTAINED:

GREETINGS: You are notified that suit has been filed against you in the District Court of the First Judicial District Court of the State of New Mexico.

The general object of this suit is to quiet Plaintiffs’ fee simple title in the real estate described in the Complaint.

Plaintiffs are the owners in Kelly Cunningham fee simple, and in posPetitioner/Plaintiff 1312 Rufina Lane Apt. session of that certain real estate located at 13 A Dalton Road, in the comAddress munity of La Cueva, sitSanta Fe, NM 87507 uate within Exception City/State/Zip 306, Private Claim 342, of 505-204-0099 the Pecos Pueblo Grant,

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, and within Section 25, T 16 N, R 11 E, N.M.P.M., Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and being more particularly described as follows (the "Property"): Tract A, comprising 3.461 acres, more or less, as shown on the plat of survey entitled "Plat of Boundary Survey Prepared for Jerry Dalton and Marsha Dalton", prepared by Paul A. Armijo, N.M.P.S. no.

13604, and filed for record with the Santa Fe County Clerk on July 19, 2013, in Book 761, at pages 011-012, as Document no. 1712533.

You and each of you are hereby notified that unless you enter your appearance in this cause on or before the day of January 10, 2014, judgment will be rendered against you in this cause by default.

Plaintiffs’ attorney is Kenneth J. Cassutt, Cassutt, Hays & Friedman, P.A., 530-B Harkle Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505, telephone no. (505) 989-1434.

WITNESS my hand and the seal of said District Court of the First Judicial District, Santa Fe, New Mexico this 19th day of November, 2013.

STEPHEN T. PACHECO Clerk of the First Judicial District Court By:_Jill Nohl Deputy Legal#96058 Published in the Santa Fe New Mexican on: November 27, December 4, 11, 2013

NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Work Session of the Board of Education for the Pecos Independent School District will take Place on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 4:00 pm in the Pecos Schools Board Room. An Executive Session may take place during the agenda to discuss limited personnel matters and/or pending litigation as per NM Statutes Article 15 Open Meetings 1015-1 Subparagraph H (2 & 8).

(If action is necessary, agendas will be available prior to the work session.)

FRED TRUJILLO, PERINTENDENT

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Notice is hereby given that a sale will be held at La Guardia Self Storage 1439 Avenida de las Americas Santa Fe 87507 10AM on Dec 11, 2013 to satisfy an owner’s lien as provided under the SelfStorage Act Sect. 4811-1 to 48-11-9 NMSA 1987 This is a cash only sale due the day of sale 4 Units consisting of household goods, furniture, tools, boxes and other personal items stored by: Alan Lasiloo PO Box 605 Zuni, NM Randy Rezendes 4359 Hamilton St # 7 San Diego, CA Fire Safety Soulutions 4157 N Raindance Dr Santa Fe, NM Great North Special PO Box 693 Barrow, AK Legal#96099 Published in the Santa Fe New Mexican on: November 27 and December 4, 2013 Notice to Creditors

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Adoption has been filed by Petitioners in the above-entitled Court and cause on October 16, 2013.

The Petitioners are required to give Edwardo Marquez a/k/a Edwardo Marquez-Diaz, the birth father, notice that the abovereferenced Petition for Adoption was filed which requests a decree allowing petitioners to adopt Baby Boy Gonzales a/k/a Baby Boy Marquez, born September 21, 2013, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that pursuant to NMSA §35A-5-8 (1978), the identity of the Petitioners shall not be made known to the biological birth father, unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties.

Since there has not been any agreement between yourself and the Petitioners, all information pertaining to the Petitioners has been modified to prevent disclosure.

PLEASE BE FURTHER NOTIFIED that pursuant to NMSA §35A-5-27 (A) (1978), you have twenty (20) days from the date of service in which to respond to the Petition if you intend to contest the adoption with the Second Judicial District Court, Children’s Court Division, 5100 2nd Street, N.W., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107. Your failure to so respond shall be treated as a default and your consent to the adoption shall not be required.

WITNESS the Honorable Reed Sheppard, District Court Judge of the Second Judicial District Court, State of New Mexico, and the Seal of the District Court of Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

Notice is hereby given that Sam’s Grill & Rotisserie, LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company has been dissolved pursuant to the provisions of NMSA 1978, Section 53-19-41. Pursuant to Section 53-19-46 request is hereby made that any claims against the Company be presented to Sam Kahn & Associates, Inc. (Sam Kahn, President), 15 Bosque Loop, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508. Claims must be presented in writing, shall state the amount of and the basis for the claim, and shall provide copies of any documents which support the claim.

Clams against the Company shall be barred unless a proceedings to enforce the claim is commenced within three years after publication of this notice.

RICHMOND L. NEELY Attorney for Legal#96098 Published in the San- Petitioners ta Fe New Mexican P. O. Box 1787 NM on: November 27, Albuquerque, 87103 2013 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT STATE OF By: Stacy A. Archuleta NEW MEXICO Deputy COUNTY OF Dated: October 21, BERNALILLO 2013 SECOND JUDICIAL Legal #95912 DISTRICT COURT Published in The SanCHILDREN’S COURT ta Fe New Mexican on DIVISION November 13, 20, 27 2013 No. SA 2013 85

THE PECOS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, NATIONAL ORIGIN, RELIGION, AGE, SEX, MARITAL STATUS, HOMELESSNESS OR DISABILITY IN IN THE MATTER OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE ADOPTION FEDERAL AND STATE PETITION OF R and T LAWS. NOTICE OF ADOPLegal#96096 TION PETITION Published in the Santa Fe New Mexican TO: EDWARDO on: November 27, 28, MARQUEZ a/k/a 2013 EDWARDO MARQUEZDIAZ To place a Legal ad Call 986-3000

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LEGALS STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTAFE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT No. D-101-CV-201301563 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, v.

DAVID WILKINSON, JACQUELYN W. WILKINSON AKA JAKI WILKINSON, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY AND THROUGH THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF DAVID WILKINSON, IF ANY AND THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF JACQUELYN W. WILKINSON, IF ANY, Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SUIT STATE OF New Mexico to the above-named Defendants David Wilkinson, Jacquelyn W. Wilkinson aka Jaki Wilkinson, The Unknown Spouse of David Wilkinson, if any and The Unknown Spouse of Jacquelyn W. Wilkinson aka Jaki Wilkinson, if any.

GREETINGS: You are hereby notified that the abovenamed Plaintiff has filed a civil action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof being to foreclose a mortgage on property located at 2400 Camino Capitan, Santa Fe, NM 87505, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, said property being more particularly described as: Lot 12, Block 17, La Paz Unit 2 East, as shown on plat filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, on July 15, 1976, in Plat Book 47, page 27, as Document No. 390,327.

Unless you serve a pleading or motion in response to the complaint in said cause on or before 30 days after the last publication date, judgment by default will be entered against you.

Respectfully Submitted, THE CASTLE LAW GROUP, LLC By: /s/ __Steven J. Lucero__ Electronically Filed Steven J. Lucero 20 First Plaza NW, Suite 602 Albuquerque, NM 87102 Telephone: (505) 8489500 Fax: (505) 848-9516 Attorney for Plaintiff NM13-00963_FC01 Legal #95932 Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on November 20, 27, December 4, 2013

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013: This year you will express strong social needs, yet you still will maintain your responsibilities. Libra knows how to make you smile.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You are ready for turkey. You inadvertently make others smile, which helps them get into the Thanksgiving mood.

Tonight: Visit with an old pal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You efficiently will clear out a lot of work and/or errands. It appears as if you are assuming a strong role in the holiday celebrations. Tonight: Get into the holiday spirit.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Getting started this morning seems close to impossible. Indulge yourself by getting in an extra hour of sleep or by taking a nap later. Tonight: Get ready to greet a friend.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You’ll smile a lot today, even if you’re very busy. In your book, being together with family and friends is a perfect recipe for living well. Tonight: Happy at home.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Last-minute errands could occupy part of the day. Later in the day, you’ll let go of other responsibilities in order to start enjoying your Thanksgiving activities.

Tonight: Catch up on others’ news.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You’ll wake up ready to go. Complete matters that have little to do with Thanksgiving but need to be done. Tonight: Honor the holiday by kicking up your heels.

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: INSECTS (e.g., How many legs do insects have? Answer: Six.) FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. Master Po’s nickname for Caine.

Answer________ 2. What insect has been selected by the most states as their official state insect?

Answer________ 3. Which people considered a species of dung beetle to be sacred?

Answer________

5. Complete the title of the Aesop fable: The ___ and the ___.

Answer________ 6. A coastal region in Central America bordering on the Carib-

PH.D. LEVEL 7. What was the eighth plague of Egypt?

Answer________ 8. For what monument is Enterprise, Ala., noted?

GRADUATE LEVEL 4. Which insect formerly represented the New Orleans professional basketball team?

Answer________

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You might be dragging your feet today.

When it dawns on you that tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and friends start calling, your mood will perk up. Tonight: More friends swirl around you.

Critical supervisor spreads the gossip Dear Annie: My supervisor rarely states his desires clearly. But if I take the initiative or ask him to clarify, he makes me feel like an idiot. He is condescending and highly critical of most people. He also is a nonstop gossip. He has portrayed me to others as racist, womanizing and incompetent.

He has control over my payable time and my vacation requests. He has the ear of management and lives in the same neighborhood as many of my co-workers. I fear that bringing any of this up for discussion will create a level of retaliation far worse than the existing reality. Any suggestions? — Kansas Dear Kansas: First, examine your own behavior to see whether there is cause for such rumors to take hold, and if so, correct it. Still, it is no excuse for your supervisor to spread gossip. He also seems ineffectual as a leader, because he does not make his wishes clear and stifles attempts by employees to clarify. Normally, these would be issues to document and then discuss with human resources or the supervisor’s boss. However, if you worry that doing so will create more problems, you have two choices: Either conduct yourself in a way that is beyond reproach and do your best to put up with it, or start looking for another job.

Dear Annie: I love your column and hope you can clear something up for me. What is the correct thing to do when sending a sympathy card?

It seems that most death notices these days suggest donating to a favorite charity “in lieu of flowers.”

But is it OK just to send a card?

Should money always be enclosed?

My friend says yes, but I had never heard of this. Is this a religious custom or popular in certain parts of our country? I get a different answer every time I ask someone. — Casper, Wyo. Dear Casper: A sympathy card

Answer________ 9. What is Dolbear’s law used to calculate?

Answer________

ANSWERS:

1. Grasshopper. 2. Honeybee. 3. Egyptians (scarab). 4. Hornets. 5. Ant, Grasshopper. 6.

Mosquito Coast. 7. Locusts. 8. Boll Weevil Monument. 9. Temperature (using cricket chirps).

SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2013 Ken Fisher

Cryptoquip

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Prioritize and move forward. You have a lot of ground to cover. You also will want some special time with a visiting friend.

Tonight: Let go and just do what you want.

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. © 2013 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Requests continue to flood your desk, and you might feel as if you do not want to decline. Tonight: You might have an impromptu party.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Many of you might be taking off for Thanksgiving. If you are not, you could opt for a new adventure that allows more openness about the holiday and between you and others. Tonight: Stay in the present.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You naturally will gravitate to one person at a time to socialize, which is not your normal style. Tonight: Make sure that the music meets the moment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You could have your plans set, but you are OK with someone else’s wishes. Defer to this person. Relax with the moment and enjoy others’ tastes and desires. Tonight: Visit all you want.

Jacqueline Bigar

Chess quiz

BLACK’S BEST MOVE? Hint: Better than ... Bxa6.

Solution: 1. ... Bg2! (followed by ... Bh3 mate).

Today in history Today is Wednesday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2013. There are 34 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.

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is always appropriate, and no, you do not have to enclose money. If the bereaved is struggling financially, it is a kindness to send something to help defray funeral costs, but it is absolutely not mandatory. A donation to a charitable organization is a suggestion and also not required. The point is to express your condolences. Anything beyond that is up to you.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Doing It Myself,” who is perplexed about how best to care for her aging mother who has mild dementia. It is not always beneficial to keep the parent in his or her own home.

My 86-year-old mother quickly became unstable once she was widowed. She totaled the car in a bad accident, started berating neighborhood children for being loud and lied to a police officer about a friend who came to visit. She also gave lots of money to every charity that asked.

All of those people who offered help at Dad’s funeral faded away.

Mom was alone and unable to voice her fear. She thought she was supposed to stay in the house she built with my father. I nearly lost my mind, my business and my health trying to keep her at home. Over the objections of my out-of-state siblings, I moved her into a continuing care facility that provides for rehab, skilled care and assisted living.

She went kicking and screaming, but eventually apologized for making it so hard on me. She has tons of new friends and is happy and active.

Everyone who works there loves her, and she knows it. Two weeks after she moved in, she said, “I wish I’d moved here three years ago.” I do, too. — W. Dear W.: A lot of folks have found that the company and care at a retirement or assisted-living facility is quite enjoyable once they have made the adjustment.

To all our Jewish readers: Happy Hanukkah!

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