Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 5, 2013

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Aspiring triathletes get taste of sport By Adele Oliveira

The New Mexican

Many Sunday-morning rituals begin with brunch and a leisurely perusal of the Sunday paper. But for 18 students in the six-week triathlon class held at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center, Sunday mornings entail a run, a bike ride and a swim in the pool. (The group got off easy this week — because it was the inaugural class, they skipped the bike ride, though they went over bike safety.) The class is held in part to prepare people for the sixth annual City of Santa Fe

Ted Freedman and Carol Davenport teach basic swimming techniques during their triathalon training class Sunday at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center. KATHARINE EGLI/FOR THE NEW MEXICAN

Teaching kids about complex systems is valuable

Triathlon, which will take place Sept. 21. The fee is $85. “This class is way bigger than usual,” said instructor Carol Davenport, who is teaching the class with Ted Freedman for the sixth year. “I was a first-timer once,” Davenport said of why she teaches the course. “It would have been nice having someone telling me what to do.” Most of the triathlon class participants are new to the sport, and the majority of them plan to compete in the city’s triathlon next month. This triathlon is a “sprint distance” race consisting of a 5-kilometer run,

20-kilometer bike ride and 400-meter swim. The sprint distance is the shortest type of triathlon. Other categories are the Olympic, half Ironman and Ironman. (Ironman triathlons are the most competitive and grueling in the world.) “Nobody is born an athlete,” Davenport said, addressing the group. “A lot of a triathlon is keeping your emotions under control. There’s a fear of the unknown, a fear of what’s going to happen to me.” “I haven’t been on a bike since I was

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Put to the test

Applicants with the right stuff sought to fill city police openings

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t is amazing that in a world progressing so rapidly in technology, the U.S. supply of computer scientists should be in such a state of crisis. The National Bureau of Labor and Statistics estimates that there will be 1.5 million computer science jobs in the U.S. by 2018. Of those, we will be able to fill less than 30 percent with U.S. graduates. We, as a nation, are not producing Maureen enough comPsailascientists Dombrowski puter to meet the curScience in a rent demands in Complex World our country’s job market, much less its future demands. And, unlike other areas of science and engineering, the number of computer science graduates is not increasing yearly to help us meet this demand. As our kids head back to school in a week or two, many will be ending a summer thoroughly or partially engaged in computers, smartphones and games. It’s ironic that while nearly every elementary, middle and high school student can use a computer to do things like explore the Internet,

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ABOUT THe SeRIeS 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 the complex systems that are most critical to human society — 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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Santa Fe Bandstand Santa Fe University of Art and Design Contemporary Ensemble, noon; country singer/songwriter Bill Hearne, 6 p.m.; Cathy Faber’s Swingin’ Country Band, 7:15 p.m.; on the Plaza, series continues through Aug. 23. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

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Jason Patty, a training officer with the Santa Fe Police Department, instructs prospective officers on the 1.5-mile fitness test Saturday at Ortiz Middle School. The group also ran a 300-meter sprint. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

By Chris Quintana

The New Mexican

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hile other businesses and government entities are cutting back, the Santa Fe Police Department has 14 open officer positions it needs to fill. The department, however, faces an uphill battle because nearly half its applicants can’t meet the department’s physical fitness requirements. Celina Westervelt, the department’s public information officer, said that of the 118 applicants in 2012, about 56 of them failed the fitness test.

“This isn’t an office job,” Westervelt said. “You never know what’s going to happen.” Westervelt said the majority of applicants fail the 1.5-mile run. The required time varies based on age, but men 20 to 29 — the department’s most popular demographic for applicants — have 13 minutes, 9 seconds to run 1.5 miles, and women in the same age group have 15:45 to complete the run. For comparison, the United States Army requires its new male recruits ages 22 to 26 to run 2 miles in 16:36 and requires its female recruits in the same age group to run 2 miles in 18:54. The Santa Fe Police Department also requires

men 20 to 29 to run 300 meters within 59 seconds, complete 29 pushups within a minute, perform 38 situps within a minute and stretch 16.5 inches in a sit-and-reach test. Women in the same age range have to run 300 meters in 71 seconds, complete 23 modified pushups (done on hands and knees instead of hands and feet) or 15 normal pushups, perform 32 situps and stretch 19.3 inches in a sitand-reach test. In addition to the physical test, potential recruits must pass a written and oral exam. Westervelt

Group protests, prays in Los Alamos to mark anniversary of bombings By Adele Oliveira

The New Mexican

Forty-two people gathered at Ashley Pond in Los Alamos on Sunday afternoon to commemorate this week’s 68th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and to protest continuing nuclear weapon development at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The peaceful protest was sponsored by Pax Christi Santa Fe, part of Pax Christi USA, a national organization that promotes peace. The protesters sat in silent prayer and meditation for half an hour and listened to speakers, including Nobel

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Peace Prize nominee and Santa Fe resident the Rev. John Dear. “The people of Los Alamos are good, but the work done [at the lab] is evil,” Dear said. “To me, this is like going to Dachau. … We can’t afford these weapons. Every religion calls on people to be peaceful, loving and nonviolent. We have to say no.” Dear added that he is also against nuclear energy, deeming it “too risky” after the disasters at the Chernobyl and Fukushima power plants. “We need nonviolent energy, jobs and cities where children can grow up to be nonviolent,” he said. “We can’t do that and continue to build nuclear weapons.”

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Part of Sunday’s protest involved donning a course cloth and sitting in ashes. “In the book of Jonah, Jonah goes to the city of Nineveh and asks the people to repent by putting on sackcloth. Everyone did it, including the king,” said Bud Ryan, a member of Pax Christi Santa Fe. “We do it to repent for our brothers and sisters in Japan.” Ryan said that wearing sackcloth to commemorate the atomic bombings was first introduced by Catholic peace activist Dorothy Day. Last summer, six people were arrested during demonstrations on Aug. 6 (the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima) on charges

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Printing in plastic More consumers, businesses turn to 3-D printers to meet their needs as costs go down. TeCH, A-6

Obituaries Jane Regelin, 70, Santa Fe, July 23 PAge A-8

Today Partly sunny. High 91, low 62. PAge A-10

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