Santa Fe New Mexican, Sept. 2, 2013

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Familyb est bets Monday The National Parks: America’s Best Idea 8p .m. on KNME KenB urns’1 2-hour, six-part documentary series, whichc hronicles the once-radical idea of preserving the nation’s mostb eautifulp laces, opens with “The Scriptureo fN ature( 18511890),”a ne pisode relating how, in 1864, Congressp asses an that protects Califor-act nia’sY osemite Valley.

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Funny Girl 3p .m. on TCM Afterm aking marks on records andi nT on Broadway, Vs pecials, Barbra Streisand conquered Hollywood with her in director William screen debut Wyler’s1 968 version of the stage singer and comic hit about FannyB vaudeville superstar’sp rice.T he rofessional successesw ereo ffset by her heartache overg ambler Arnstein (Omar Sharif). Nick Streisand tied as Oscar’sb est Katharine Hepburn( actress with TheL ion in Winter).

Flipper 10 a.m. on TCM Thed iving boardf or the beloved series, this 1963 movie stars the little dolphin that could. Afterr escuing Flipper from danger,y oung Sandy( LukeH alpin)i pointed when Dad sd isapsays the mammal must be free.B ut when Sandy findsh imself in trouble,i to the rescue. ChuckC t’sF lipper nie Scott and George onnors, ConApplewhite co-star.

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Syria plan faces obstacles Administration names gas in attack, builds case for action as lawmakers react with skepticism By Michael A. Memoli, Kathleen Hennessey and Richard A. Serrano Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress from across the political spectrum reacted with deep skepticism Sunday to President Barack Obama’s bid for approval of strikes

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against Syria, with lawmakers raising doubts about whether a vote would succeed. Few of the approximately 100 members of Congress who returned to Washington for a classified intelligence briefing Sunday said they would support the administration’s request to authorize

the use of force, even though they showed little doubt that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government was behind the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack. The administration now appears to face a two-front battle to win the support of Congress, needing to convince skeptical representatives of a war-weary public on the one hand and more hawkish lawmakers seeking an even tougher response on the other. And it has just more

than a week to do so. “The administration better make a whale of a case or I think they’re very much in danger, certainly in the House, of losing this,” said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla. The president stayed out of the public eye, leaving it to Secretary of State John F. Kerry to argue in a round of network interviews that the administration’s case was

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Pushing for higher wages Group seeks increase in minimum hourly pay rate in Santa Fe County

By Hollis Walker

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“According to my own theory of judging quality, the best art is that in which the deepest, most intense, sublime, and occasionally alien feelings are communicated,’’ wrote Stephen Parks, co-owner with his wife of Parks Gallery in Taos, in a 2011 blog on his website. “When I stand in front of Van Gogh’s Wheat Field with Crows (and it has to be the real thing, photos just won’t do it), I believe that I feel what the artist felt as he painted it, and it’s an ecstatic feeling so powerful that I’m left simultaneously breathless and teary.’’ Parks, an art advocate, actor and writer, died Saturday in Albuquerque after a brief illness. He was 69.

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Cook Hector Calles prepares an order at Cafe Fina on Friday. Owner Murphy O’Brien says he pays employees at least $11 an hour because it’s the ‘right thing to do.’ LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

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e live in a software jungle. Software helps run our cars, manage our money, plan our schedules, provide our entertainment and do our jobs. Software controls the data that is literally streaming through the air around us from countless digital cellphones and wireless networks. These interacting systems have reached a level of complexity far beyond what computer programmers intend when they create a single program to Stephanie accomplish a particular Forrest task. Software systems Science in a today are so complex Complex World and changing so rapidly, they remind me of living things, which has exciting implications. I don’t mean, of course, that computers are actually alive and are about to take over,

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or the past few months, members of the New Mexico chapter of the national labor advocacy group Working America have been going door to door in Santa Fe County. They have been gathering signatures from people who support extending the city of Santa Fe’s minimum wage into the rest of the county. So far, the group has gathered about 4,000 signatures, including nearly 500 gathered via an online petition. Working America’s New Mexico director, Chelsey Evans, said the group wants to gather 6,000 signatures before approaching the Santa Fe County Commission about the possibility of increasing the lowest wage people in unincorporated parts of the the county can be paid from

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The Santa Fe Institute is a private, nonprofit, independent research and education center founded in 1984, where top researchers from around the world gather to study and understand the theoretical foundations and patterns underlying economies, ecosystems, conflict, disease, human social institutions and the global condition. This column is part of a series written by researchers at the Santa Fe Institute and published in The New Mexican.

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sive [to live],” O’Brien said. “I feel like if I tried to live on $11 per hour, there is no way. I just feel like that is the least we can do.” Andrew Wright is co-founder of Bicycle Technologies International, a bicycle parts distribution company that employees about 45 workers and moved to the county from the city last spring. Wright said he didn’t pay anyone less than $11 per hour when his business was located inside city limits and that he still doesn’t, even though he could. “We’ve always paid above the minimum wage, and moving out to the county didn’t change that,” Wright said. “It’s a pretty important part of the value of our company to make sure we are paying a living or sustainable wage to our staff, along with benefits.

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$7.50 per hour to $10.50 per hour. “When we door-knock and talk to folks about this issue, they really support this,” Evans said. “The living wage [as Santa Fe’s $10.51 per hour minimum wage is called] has been very successful for the city of Santa Fe. [The city] has one of the lowest unemployment rates [of any city in the state].” It also is one of the only areas that has seen job growth during the economic downturn. Murphy O’Brien, owner of Cafe Fina on Old Las Vegas Highway near Eldorado, employs 15 people. He said he supports the idea of increasing the minimum wage in the county and already pays his lowest-paid employees $11 per hour. “It’s doable for us, and it’s the right thing to do, especially here in Santa Fe, where it is so expen-

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Partly sunny during the day; storms in early evening. High 84, low 59.

One-of-a-kind vehicles roll through town for the second annual Lowrider and Custom Car Show at Tomasita’s restaurant.

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