Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 18, 2013

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Blackwater shootings The Justice Department issues new charges against four ex-Blackwater security contractors, resurrecting a case over the deadly 2007 shootings in Baghdad. PAge A-3

A glimpse of evolution The discovery of a 1.8 million-year-old skull of a human ancestor buried under a medieval Georgian village is providing scientists with a vivid picture of early evolution. nATIOn & wOrLd, A-2

Capital High welcomes back Kevin Brown — one of the most feared players in 2AAAA — for Friday’s game against Española Valley. sPOrTs, B-1

Reeling in crowds

ANALYSIS

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival celebrates five years of indie spirit with sold-out screening of Johnny Tapia documentary, more than 100 events

Shutdown fight gives Obama a rare reboot By Dan Balz

The Washington Post

Johnny Tapia’s father, Jerry Padilla, greets family, friends and fans Thursday outside the Lensic Performing Arts Center before the screening of the documentary Tapia. Tapia’s 1957 Chevy was parked outside the Lensic during the screening. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

By Robert Nott

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The New Mexican

hen Jacques Paisner and David Moore co-founded the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival five years ago, it was partially because Paisner’s film Rejection was rejected by the organizers of the original Santa Fe Film Festival. Paisner said the initial indie fest in 2009 was financed “mostly on handshakes and a

budget of about $2,500.” This year’s independent extravaganza, which started Wednesday and runs through Sunday, features more than 100 events, including screenings, workshops, panel talks

and parties held at several venues around Santa Fe. On Thursday evening, for instance, patrons attended a sold-out screening of director Eddie Alcazar’s documentary Tapia, about the late Albuquerque boxer Johnny Tapia, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. The festival is now running on a budget of about a quarter of a million dollars, Paisner said, which come from private donors, local

By Jill Lawless

By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

Beauty in tragedy Photo installation spotlights witnesses of Colombian war’s atrocities. LOCAL news, C-1

The Associated Press

LONDON — A British scientist says he may have solved the mystery of the Abominable Snowman — the elusive ape-like creature of the Himalayas. He thinks it’s a bear. DNA analysis conducted by Oxford University genetics professor Bryan Sykes suggests the creature, also known as the Yeti, is the descendant of an ancient polar bear. Sykes compared DNA from hair samples taken from two Himalayan animals — identified by local people as Yetis — to a database of animal genomes. He found they shared a genetic fingerprint with a polar bear jawbone found in the Norwegian Arctic that is at least 40,000 years old.

Please see YeTI, Page A-4

Index

Calendar A-1

Classifieds d-1

Comics B-6

Please see reBOOT, Page A-4

InsIde u Government agencies and national parks reopen with a backlog of work. PAge A-4

NOAA forecasts another dry, warm winter for New Mexico

Scientist links elusive Yeti to polar bear DNA testing suggests ape-like creature is descendent of ancient bear known to roam Himalayas

Please see IndIe, Page A-4

WASHINGTON — It’s rare when a president is given an opportunity to reboot in the middle of a term, but that’s what the end of the government shutdown has provided President Barack Obama. The question now is: What will he do with it? The first clues came Thursday morning and produced an ambiguous answer. Speaking for the first time after signing the bill that reopened the federal government, Obama was both conciliatory and challenging, offering outreach to some and a scolding to others. His calls for bipartisan cooperation were aimed at what he called the “responsible” Republicans who in the end yielded to the obvious — that their party could not allow itself to be blamed for the first U.S. debt default in history as well as the first federal shutdown in 17 years — and voted to reopen the government and extend its borrowing power. Obama focused his anger, or exasperation, on those hard-liners in the opposition party who were spurred on by the tea party wing of the GOP and whose tactics led the Republicans into a battle that they could not win and that significantly diminished the party in the eyes of many Americans. Scorekeepers have done a running tally of winners and losers from this latest spectacle. On Thursday, Obama declared that there were no winners, but he knows better. He won this round, and his opposition is in more disarray than ever. That the opposition is now badly split was obvious from the votes in the Senate and the House on Wednesday night: A majority of House Republicans opposed the bill that reopened the government. Republicans have their own battles to fight.

Today Sunshine. High 59, low 28. PAge C-6

Obituaries Stephen E. Case, 59, Santa Fe, Oct. 6 James (Jim) Stacy Edwards, 67, Santa Fe, Oct. 10 Mary L. Kimbrell, 82, Oct. 11 Andrew Edward Long, 88, Sept. 23 Donald E. Morsman, Santa Fe, Oct. 12 PAge C-2

Lotteries A-2

Opinions A-5

Police notes C-2

Editor: Ray Rivera, 986-3033, rrivera@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Carlos A. López, clopez@sfnewmexican.com

Gambling people can now start a winter betting pool. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s winter forecast for New Mexico predicts warmer-than-average temperatures and below-average precipitation — exactly the opposite of a forecast by the private company Accuweather. com, which last week predicted a wetter and cooler season for the region. The NOAA modeling is still preliminary, and the agency’s full winter forecast won’t be issued until November due to delays caused by the 16-day government shutdown.

Meanwhile, the Northern New Mexico mountains have already had two snowstorms, sparking some hopes for improved snowpack levels this season. One storm left 6 inches of snow at the Sipapu Ski & Summer Resort, which plans to open Nov. 16. The earliest snow on record for Santa Fe was Sept. 30, 1961, according to the National Weather Service. The average first day of measurable snowfall from 1941 to 2011 is Nov. 16. However, the NOAA’s early long-range winter forecast calls for higher temperatures and less precipitation than average, in particular for New Mexico and Texas. Above-median precipitation is predicted for

the Northern Rockies and the Western high plains. The average is calculated based on data from 1981-2010. Shaping the winter ahead is a cyclical phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean. Meteorologists refer to the cycle, popularly called El Niño and La Niña, as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO for short. This oscillation involves shifts in the surface water temperatures of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and air pressure in the western tropical Pacific. When the sea temperatures warm, the oscillation shifts into El Niño, which usually means more precipitation for the Southwestern

Please see nOAA, Page A-4

The NOAA’s early long-range winter forecast calls for higher temperatures and less precipitation than average, in particular for New Mexico and Texas. Sports B-1

Time Out B-5

Generation Next C-5

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