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Warmer Christmas Eve draws hundreds of revelers to Canyon Road for ‘nice and pleasant’ walk.

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Xavier Grenet and his wife, Nathalie Bonnard-Grenet, welcomed their first guests to L’Olivier on Galisteo Street on Friday. TASTE, C-1

Chef ventures out with new French eatery

Snowstorms skip Pajarito ski area

New homes for the holidays

While snow piles up at ski spots around New Mexico, the Jemez Mountains resort remains dry and bare. LOCAL NEWS, B-1

ST. JOHN’S UNITED METHODIST CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE

Churchgoers chilly but warm in spirit after copper theft

Animal shelter project delivers joy for pets and their new owners.

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A ghost of Christmas past: Late gift frenzy Online options leave shoppers with less pressure to battle last-minute store crowds

By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican

David Dennison, a member of St. John’s United Methodist Church, checks on a heater the church has been using to warm its sanctuary.

A copper wire theft at the church early last week caused a boiler to break. Copper thefts are on the rise, and Public Service Company of New Mexico is working to curb the crime through radio ads and a partnership with Crime Stoppers. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

The streets and shops were full of lastminute Christmas shoppers Tuesday — but not too full.

Unlike the urban legends of harried procrastinators snatching up the last of the “it” toys of the season, many Santa Fe shoppers said they already had finished the bulk of their holiday shopping and were just enjoying being out amongst others. A number of those perusing the aisles were simply shopping for themselves.

One reason might be that braving brickand-mortar outlets isn’t the only option anymore. Now that many things can be purchased online, several said, their shopping just doesn’t take as long.

Debbie Anderson and her 13-year-old daughter, Bailey, who had come from Dallas for a family ski trip, said they were just looking for last-minute trinkets at the Santa Fe Place mall — as well as shopping for themselves and getting pedicures.

Debbie Anderson said she’d already done the bulk of her shopping online, which she prefers because she can compare prices and doesn’t have to “battle the crowds.”

PNM ads warn that rising metal prices are spurring more thieves to action

By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

t. John’s United Methodist Church, among the latest local victims of copper wire thieves, didn’t have a functioning heating system in its sanctuary Tuesday as the congregation prepared for Christmas Eve services. And temperatures were expected to drop well below freezing.

But with the help of a rented diesel-powered

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A large hose blows warm air from a dieselpowered heater into the sanctuary at John’s United Methodist Church on Tuesday as Heather Stumpff, left, and Holly Brunner prepare bells for the Christmas Eve service.

u St. John’s United Methodist Church member tells thieves in his My View that they can’t ruin Christmas.

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heater mounted on a trailer, members of the Santa Fe church said they had no intention of changing their worship plans on one of the most important dates on the Christian calendar.

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11th-hour rush puts health care site to toughest test yet Site sees record 2M visits Monday; traffic lighter on deadline day Tuesday

By Carla K. Johnson The Associated Press

CHICAGO — The government’s retooled health care website was put to its biggest test yet as record numbers of Americans rushed to beat Tuesday’s extended deadline for signing up for insurance.

After a disastrous, glitch-filled rollout in October, healthcare.gov, where people in 36 states can shop for coverage, received

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2 million visits Monday, its highest oneday total, the government said.

Traffic was not as heavy on Tuesday but still high, White House spokeswoman Tara McGuinness said. She had no immediate estimate of visitors or how many succeeded in obtaining insurance.

“The site is performing well under intense consumer traffic,” said Kurt DelBene, a former Microsoft executive appointed last week to take over management of the online marketplace. “With the highest volumes we have seen to date, response time is fast and the error rating is low.”

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Experts debate benefits of kids’ time on tablets With studies still in infancy, popularity of gadgets rises

By Bree Fowler The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Tablet computers are so easy to use that even a 3-year-old can master them. And that has some pediatricians and other health experts worried.

Since navigating a tablet generally doesn’t require the ability to type or read, children as young as toddlers can quickly learn how to stream movies, scroll through family photos or play simple games. That ease-of-use makes tablets —and smartphones— popular with busy parents who use them to pacify their kids

Please see TABLETS, Page A-4 Marc Cohen, 5, uses a ‘Sesame Street’ app on his tablet at home in New York. The devices are popular gifts this season.

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Stocks close on a high holiday note NEW YORK — Stocks rose in a holiday-shortened trading day Tuesday, helped by a report that showed American companies were investing in their businesses at the fastest pace since January.

Markets were open for just half a day ahead of the Christmas holiday, and trading volume was extremely light.

Materials and industrial stocks rose more than the rest of the market after the government reported that orders for long-lasting manufactured products rose 3.5 percent in November, more than economists expected.

Core capital goods, a category that tracks business investment, jumped 4.5 percent, the biggest gain since January.

Stocks have been rising steadily since last Wednesday, when the Federal Reserve surprised investors by announcing it was cutting back its bond-buying program.

ISLAMABAD — The treason trial of Pakistan’s former military strongman, Pervez Musharraf, got off to a cloak-and-dagger start Tuesday when police discovered explosives and other weapons.

Musharraf had been scheduled to make ignominious history as the first Pakistan’s former military dictator to be held accountable by a civilian court.

Instead, Musharraf stayed put at his luxury farmhouse residence in the suburbs of Islamabad, after security officials found a bag containing 11 pounds of explosives, 16 feet of detonation wire, two handguns and 16 rounds of ammunition on the road linking his home to an adjacent highway. After being examined by the bomb squad and declared harmless, the bag was casually picked up by a uniformed police officer and taken away.

Car bomb in Egypt kills 14, injures 100 CAIRO — A car bomb blew up outside a security headquarters in Egypt’s Nile Delta, killing at leas 14 people and fueling concerns that militant assaults may multiply beyond the restive Sinai Peninsula.

The attack, which Prime Minister Hazem El Beblawi called the “most heinous kind of terrorism,” left at least 100 people wounded in the city of Mansoura northeast of Cairo, the deadliest single strike on security forces outside Sinai since Islamist President Mohamed Mursi was ousted. At least 12 of the dead were security personnel, the Interior Ministry said.

Assaults on Egypt’s security forces have intensified since Mursi’s July 3 removal, centered for the most part in Sinai and surrounding provinces.

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Astronauts Rick Mastracchio, top, and Michael Hopkins work to repair an external cooling line on the International Space Station on Monday, 260 miles above Earth. The external cooling line — one of two — shut down Dec. 11. The six-man crew had to turn off all nonessential equipment, including experiments. AP PHOTO/NASA

Astronauts make a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk

By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. stronauts wrapped up urgent space station repairs during a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk Tuesday, braving a “mini blizzard” of noxious ammonia as they popped in a new pump.

It was the second spacewalk in four days for U.S. astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins, and only the second Christmas Eve spacewalk in NASA history.

NASA ordered up the spacewalks to revive a critical cooling loop at the International Space Station. All nonessential equipment had to be turned off when the line conked out Dec. 11, and many science experiments halted.

With Tuesday’s success, the cooling system should be restored and all equipment back up and running by this weekend, according to NASA. Mastracchio and Hopkins removed the faulty ammonia pump during Saturday’s outing. On Tuesday, they installed the fresh pump.

Standing on the end of the station’s main robotic arm, Hopkins clutched the 780-pound, refrigerator-size pump with both hands as he headed toward its installation spot, and then slid it in. An astronaut working inside, Japan’s Koichi Wakata, gingerly steered the arm and its precious load.

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“Mike Hopkins taking a special sleigh ride on this Christmas Eve,” Mission Control commentator Rob Navias said as the space station soared over the Pacific.

It was slow going because of a balky ammonia fluid line that sent frozen flakes of the extremely toxic substance straight at the men — “a mini blizzard,” as Mission Control called it. The spacewalkers reported being surrounded by big chunks of the stuff that bounced off equipment and, in all probability, their suits.

The ammonia needed to dissipate from their suits before the pair returned inside, to avoid further contamination.

“Wow,” Hopkins sighed after the fourth and final fluid line was hooked to the new pump. The electrical hookups went more smoothly, and six hours into the spacewalk, Hopkins finally called down, “Houston, you’ve got yourself a new pump module.”

Christmas references filled the radio waves, as the action unfolded 260 miles above the planet.

“It’s like Christmas morning opening up a little present here,” Mastracchio said as he checked his toolkit. Later, as he worked to remove the spare pump from its storage shelf, he commented: “Now it really feels like I’m unwrapping a present.”

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in a festive mood, despite the gravity of the situation. Tabletop Christmas trees, Santa dolls and red Santa caps decorated the desks.

NASA’s only previous Christmas Eve spacewalk occurred in 1999 during a Hubble Space Telescope repair mission.

But NASA’s most memorable Christmas Eve was back on Dec. 24, 1968. Apollo 8 astronauts read from Genesis, the first book of the Bible, as they orbited the moon on mankind’s first lunar flight.

A bad valve in the ammonia pump caused the latest breakdown.

Another team of spacewalking astronauts installed that pump just three years ago, and engineers are perplexed as to why it didn’t last longer. NASA hopes to salvage it in the years ahead.

The 2010 replacement required three spacewalks because of the difficulty in removing pressurized ammonia fluid lines. But this time, the astronauts managed to squeeze everything into two after NASA reduced the pressure and simplified the task.

Mission Control planned to wait until Tuesday evening before fully activating the new pump, but initial testing showed everything working well. The two-line cooling system uses ammonia to dispel heat generated by on-board equipment; only one loop was disabled by the breakdown.

CHICAGO — It almost sounds sadistic — making rape victims as young as 13 relive their harrowing assault over and over again. But a new study shows it works surprisingly well at eliminating their psychological distress.

The results are the first evidence that the same kind of “exposure” therapy that helps combat veterans haunted by flashbacks and nightmares also works for traumatized sexually abused teens with similar symptoms, the study authors and other experts said.

After exposure therapy, 83 percent no longer had a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder. They fared much better than girls who got only supportive counseling — 54 percent in that group no longer had PTSD after treatment.

Girls who got exposure therapy also had much better scores on measures of depression and daily functioning than girls who got conventional counseling.

It’s common to think that offering just comforting words and encouraging traumatized youngsters to forget their ordeals is protecting them, but that’s “not doing them any favors,” said University of Pennsylvania psychologist Edna Foa, the lead author.

She said that approach can be harmful because it lets symptoms fester.

Foa developed a two-part treatment known as prolonged exposure therapy and has studied its use in treating post-traumatic stress disorder. It involves having patients repeatedly tell their awful stories, and then visit safe places that remind them of the trauma, or take part in safe activities they’d avoided because of painful reminders.

“Many are actually relieved that somebody wants to hear their story,” Foa said.

The Veterans Affairs health system uses the treatment for vets with PTSD. Foa’s previous research has shown this approach works for adult rape victims, and it is used in some rape crisis centers. Her new study was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Sixty-one girls aged 13-18 were recruited at a rape crisis center in Philadelphia. They had been raped or sexually abused, sometimes repeatedly, often by a relative. All had been diagnosed with PTSD. The researchers provided four days of prolonged exposure training for counselors at the center and two days of supportive counseling training. Benefits of the prolonged exposure therapy lasted throughout a one-year follow-up.

A JAMA editorial said many therapists are reluctant to try the treatment with kids because of concerns that it might worsen symptoms, but the study should raise awareness of the benefits.

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U.N. to increase forces as South Sudan crisis rises and free and fair elections.”

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, reiterating his call for Kiir and opposition leaders to end the crisis, said: “Whatever the differences, nothing can

By Edith M. Lederer justify the violence that has and Jason Straziuso engulfed their young nation.”

The Associated Press “There is no military solution to this crisis,” Ban stressed.

NAIROBI, Kenya — U.N. “This is a political crisis which investigators discovered a requires a peaceful political mass grave in a rebel-held city solution.” in South Sudan, the United Violence began spreading Nations said Tuesday, as a possiacross South Sudan after a ble opening occurred for negofight among Kiir’s presidential tiations to avert civil war in the guards late Dec. 15, pitting Nuer world’s newest country where against Dinka. ethnic violence has erupted.

Some 20,000 people seeking In New York, the U.N. Security A woman displaced by violence in South Sudan carries a box safety have crowded round the Council voted unanimously to of food aid Monday from a food distribution center at a U.N. U.N. base in Juba, the capital, beef up its peacekeeping force compound in Juba. COURTESY GEORGE FOMINYEN, WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME where at least two other mass in South Sudan. It condemned graves are reported to have targeted violence against civilThe government minister of est ethnic group, while Machar been found, U.N. human rights ians and ethnic communities and is Nuer, the second-largest ethinformation, Michael Makuei chief Navi Pillay said. called for “an immediate cessanic group.

Lueth, said Bentiu is under the The U.N. humanitarian office tion of hostilities and the immeU.S. Secretary of State John control of rebels loyal to the said 45,000 people have taken diate opening of a dialogue.”

The government, meanwhile, country’s former vice president, Kerry spoke on the phone Tues- refuge in and around U.N. day with Machar, who said he Riek Machar, indicating they bases in the country, and 81,000 announced that its military told Kerry he is ready for talks were responsible for the killpeople have fled their homes as forces had taken back another with Kiir, likely to take place in ings. a result of the fighting. key city, Bor, from the rebels Ethiopia.

The dead in Bentiu reportThe Security Council voted who held it over the last week.

“I will form a high-level deledly were ethnic Dinka who to temporarily increase the The bodies were found in belonged to the Sudan People’s egation, to which I will give full number of U.N. military personthe town of Bentiu in oil-rich power to negotiate an accord,” Liberation Army, said Shamnel in South Sudan from 7,000 Unity state: one grave with 14 bodies and a site nearby with dasani, referring to government Machar told Radio France Inter- to 12,500, and the U.N.’s internationale. “We want Salva Kiir national police contingent from military forces.

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Officials say Kiir and Machar have agreed to meet but specifics, including the status of Machar’s imprisoned compatriots, are holding up talks.

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Postal Service wins 6% rate increase Magazine trade group mulls court challenge of temporary hike

By Angela Greiling Keane and Alan Levin Bloomberg News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service’s regulator approved price increases amounting to 6 percent on most mail, a step the service’s board called a “last resort” forced by Congress’ failure to pass cost-cutting legislation.

A first-class stamp will cost 49 cents, up from 46 cents, starting Jan. 26. Similar changes will apply to magazines, bills and advertising mail. The increases of 4.3 percent approved Monday are on

top of 1.7 percent, an amount equal to inflation, approved last month.

The Postal Regulatory Commission, in a 2-1 vote, rejected a Postal Service request to make the higher rates permanent, saying they will probably need to end in less than two years. The increase is designed to boost revenue by $1.8 billion a year to make up for losses during the economic downturn in 2008 and 2009, according to the order Monday.

“The Postal Service is disappointed in the Postal Regulatory Commission’s split decision to limit the duration of a modest exigent rate increase,” Roy Betts, a postal service spokesman, said in an email.

The Postal Service, which is supposed to fund its operations through postage sales,

can’t increase prices by more than the inflation rate without regulator blessing.

The commission disagreed with the postal service’s argument that it had lost $6.6 billion in revenue from the recession.

Some of the decline has been due to the growth of Internetbased communications as a substitute for mail, which the service isn’t allowed to make up through price increases, it found.

The Postal Service’s revenue from the increase beyond inflation will be limited to $2.8 billion, according to the commission.

“The commission’s decision closely follows the law we are charged by the president and Congress to uphold,” Chairman Ruth Goldway said in an emailed statement.

The Time publishing unit of

Time Warner Inc. and a trade group representing financial institutions including Bank of America were among large mailers opposing the increase request.

The New York-based Association of Magazine Media trade group, in an email, called the decision counterproductive and harmful to the postal service’s long-term prospects.

“It will drive more customers away from using the Postal Service and will have ripple effects through our economy — hurting consumers, forcing layoffs, and impacting businesses,” Mary Berner, president of the group, said in the email. “It doesn’t delay the inevitable but will hasten it.”

The group is considering a court challenge, Berner said.

The Postal Service, which lost $5 billion in the 2013 fis-

cal year ended Sept. 30, is trying to close its budget gap with cost cuts and revenue increases.

Postal management has few options to make large-scale cost cuts without changes the U.S. Congress must allow, the board said in September. Such measures in the U.S. House and Senate are stalled.

Postal unions last week said they oppose a legislative compromise proposed by Sen. Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat, that would allow the service to end Saturday mail delivery if volume continues to decrease.

The service’s board in September month asked the regulatory commission for permission to raise prices by more than the inflation rate, repeating a 2010 request the regulator rejected.

Tablets: Experts advise against too much screen time Continued from Page A-1 during car rides, restaurant outings or while they’re at home trying to get dinner on the table. And many feel a little less guilty about it if they think there’s educational value to the apps and games their children use.

The devices are expected to rank among the top holiday gifts for children this year. Gadget makers such as Samsung have introduced tablets specifically designed for kids, and many manufacturers of adult tablets now include parental controls. Those products are in addition to the slew of kiddie tablets produced by electronic toy makers such as LeapFrog, Vtech and Toys R Us. But some experts note there’s no evidence that screen time — whether from a TV or tablet — provides any educational or developmental benefits for babies and toddlers. Yet it takes away from activities that do promote brain development, such as non-electronic toys and adult interaction.

They also say that too much screen time has been linked to behavior problems and delayed social development in older children.

Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a pediatrician at Seattle Children’s Hospital, points out that iPads have only been on the market for a little over three years, which means tablet-related research is still in its infancy. Christakis says educational games and apps have some value if they engage a child and prompt them to interact with the device, but

cautioned that if all children do is watch videos on their tablets, then it’s just like watching TV, which has a limited ability to engage a child.

He also notes that parents need to be mindful of whether tablet time is replacing more important activities such as sleeping, reading or interacting with adults. He says that while the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than one to two hours of screen time a day for kids over the age of 2, he thinks one hour is plenty.

“The single most important thing for children is time with parents and caregivers,” he says. “Nothing is more important in terms of social development. If time with the tablet comes at the expense of that, that’s not good.”

Dr. Rahil Briggs, a pediatric psychologist at New York’s Montefiore Medical Center, says tablet usage needs to be limited for the youngest of children, because too much screen time can slow language development. And since there’s very little research out there so far, experts still don’t know exactly how much is too much, she says.

For older children, Briggs says too much tablet use can slow social development. She notes that the solitary nature of the activity means that kids aren’t using that time to learn how to make friends or pick up on social cues.

Some experts, however, believe tablets and smartphones possess unique educational benefits.

Jill Buban, dean of the School of Education at Post University in Waterbury

Frenzy: Gift cards, cash ease holiday shopping “I’m just trying to get everything I need, but I think I’m missing some“We’re just out spending time thing,” he said as he dropped off a together,” she said. “That’s the most pile of gifts at Dillard’s gift-wrapimportant thing for us.” ping station and sent a text message Kristi Gray — who was shopping seeking someone’s clothing size. at Target with her sons Jared SkillRodriguez said it’s “always a huge man, 24, and Brady Skillman, 19, and relief when you finish Christmas Jared’s 7-month old son — said she shopping,” but he added that he had intentionally waited until Tues- enjoys giving people gifts. day to start her shopping.

Ken and Jennifer Holmes — a “We kind of enjoy the crowds,” librarian and teacher from Los she said. “It helps us get into the Alamos — said they don’t normally spirit. It’s kind of fun watching buy into the consumer culture, but people freak out a little bit.” nevertheless found themselves at ”She likes the crowds,” retorted Target on Tuesday afternoon lookBrady Skillman, with a slight roll ing for a specific action figure for a of his eyes. But he did seem to be grandchild. enjoying holding his baby nephew.

Ken Holmes said he’s normally Gray said many people already “adverse” to shopping, but once he’s have what they need. When they out among the holiday shoppers, he see things throughout the year usually enjoys himself. that they want, they don’t wait for Others mentioned that with Christmas — they go ahead and buy money and time so tight, they no them — which she said makes it longer select gifts for every indi“hard to find something that will be vidual on their list, opting instead to special.” give gift cards or cash.

None of the Target shoppers who Frank Garcia, a 55-year-old city were asked about the recent masworker who was picking up a few sive theft of credit-card informalast-minute items at a CVS store on tion from the Target chain seemed Tuesday, said he was mostly just concerned about the issue. One said shopping for things for his sweetshe didn’t even know about it, and heart. another said he always pays with “She said she didn’t want me to cash, so it’s not an issue for him. spend money on her,” he said, “but I City workers and teachers were like being good to her because she’s among those doing some serious so good to me.” shopping Tuesday, saying they Garcia joked that his list was hadn’t had time until then. a short one because his children Cesar Rodriguez, who works in and grandchildren had arrived in the city’s Wastewater Division, said town earlier in the week and “they shopping on Christmas Eve was a already got to the M-O-N-E-Y.” “last resort,” but that he’d been so “I just gave them some cash overwhelmed at work before Tues- so they can get what they want,” day that he hadn’t been able to shop Garcia said. “And everybody said, earlier. “I always do it last-minute ‘Thanks, that’s really what we because I’m always working,” he needed.’ ” said. “I’m lucky that the city gave us Contact Phaedra Haywood four hours off” for Christmas Eve. at 986-3068 or phaywood@ Rodriguez was doing his shopsfnewmexican.com. ping at Dillard’s.

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Conn., says the more children absorb and understand technology before they start school, the more comfortable they’ll feel when they enter a classroom for the first time.

But she says even the best educational apps must be monitored by parents and must be limited. She recommends no more than 30 minutes of tablet usage at a time.

Susan Linn, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, says parents should be wary of any TV show or app that touts educational benefits for babies or toddlers, saying that scientists have yet to prove that there are any.

“Babies and young children are spending huge amounts of time with screen media when really what they need is hands-on creative play, active time and face-to-face time with the people that love them,” Linn said.

Linn’s group, known for its allegations against Baby Einstein videos that eventually led to consumer refunds, is urging the Federal Trade Commission to examine the marketing practices of certain apps and games geared toward babies.

“The best toys are the ones that just lie there until the child transforms them,” Linn said, pointing to blocks and stuffed animals as examples. “If all children do is push a button, that’s not the kind of play that promotes learning.”

Since its debut more than 40 years ago, Sesame Street has dealt with questions about the amount of screen time small children should have.

Scott Chambers, Sesame Workshop’s senior vice president for digital content, says the brand, which now includes 45 apps and 160 e-books, has gotten a huge boost from touchscreen devices.

“It’s a balancing act, but all we can do is try to provide a good enriching media experience wherever parents and preschoolers may be,” Chambers says.

Adam Cohen, a stay-at-home father of two from New York, says apps have been a key part of his 5-year-old son Marc’s education since he was just a baby. “He had an iPad at close to 18 months, so he was definitely one of those babies swiping away in his stroller,” Cohen says. “Now it’s different, but back then, we were a little ostracized. Now he’s reading at close to a second-grade reading level, and I credit a lot of that to iPad apps.”

Marc now has his own iPad loaded with mostly educational content and his baby sister, Harper, who isn’t yet 1 year old, seems frustrated that she doesn’t have one, too, Cohen says.

Still, not every parent is keen on tablets and apps. Lance Somerfeld, another stay-at-home dad from New York, says he thinks he and his wife are stricter than most parents. They don’t own a tablet and didn’t allow their 5-year-old son, Jake, to watch TV until he was nearly 3. But Somerfeld says he does have an iPhone and lets Jake occasionally play with some of the apps.

“If I have an hour and a choice, I’d really rather spend it reading books with him,” Somerfeld says.

Health: No major glitches amid heavy Web traffic Continued from Page A-1 Error rates were lower than 1 in 200, and pages loaded quickly, in less than a half-second, officials said.

For a multitude of reasons, including technical difficulties with the site or trouble understanding the instructions, thousands of people sought telephone help and wound up waiting on hold on Christmas Eve at the government’s call center.

Ian Stewart of Salt Lake City said he and his wife, both students, had been trying for weeks to complete their application on the federal site, thwarted by computer error messages each time.

On Tuesday morning, while visiting relatives in Colorado for Christmas, they reached a call center counselor who succeeded in enrolling them. The “silver” plan they chose will cost them $241 a month after a cost-lowering tax credit.

“We’re relieved that we got it working, elated that we got insurance again and very frustrated that it took this long,” Stewart said.

More than 110,000 people had called the government’s help line by Tuesday afternoon, with wait times averaging 27 minutes, officials said. On Monday, the call center received more than 250,000 calls, a one-day record.

Monday was the sign-up deadline for people wanting coverage at the start of the new year. But the Obama administration pushed back the deadline a day to deal with heavy traffic from procrastinators.

“We see this intense traffic as a sign that people are eager for affordable health insurance,” said Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency in charge of the overhaul.

While there were no immediate reports of any major glitches, the White House said people who can show they missed the deadline because of problems with the website may still be able to get covered by Jan. 1 on a

case-by-case basis. Anyone else can still apply for coverage that would start Feb. 1.

The one-day grace period was just the latest in a string of delays and reversals, and critics of President Barack Obama’s signature program seized on it as more evidence that the overhaul is in trouble.

“The amazing, ever-expanding deadline? It’s clearly a sign of desperation by the administration to do everything they can to increase the number of people signing up,” said health economist Gail Wilensky, who ran Medicare for President George H.W. Bush.

The website went through extensive hardware and software upgrades to make it more reliable and increase its capacity.

When the number of simultaneous users reached 60,000 on Monday, site operators employed a queuing system that allows people to either wait or give an email address to be invited back later, the government said. More than 129,000 users gave their email.

On Tuesday, traffic wasn’t heavy enough to trigger the system, McGuinness said in the afternoon.

Many states operate their own online marketplaces for buying coverage, and some of them also extended their deadlines. The insurance industry, too, has pushed back deadlines for payment, with most health plans allowing customers to pay by Jan. 10 and still get coverage retroactive to Jan. 1.

“With deadlines that keep changing, insurers want to alleviate confusion,” said Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans.

“Health plans are going to do everything they can to help consumers with the enrollment process.”

Obama said late last week that more than 1 million Americans had enrolled for coverage since Oct. 1. The administration’s estimates call for 3.3 million to sign up by Dec. 31, and the target is 7 million by the end of March.

Copper: 200 feet of cable stolen Continued from Page A-1 “Nothing is stopping” the services from going on, church member David Dennison said.

The theft of copper wire has been a growing problem across the country because the value of the metal has increased in the past few years, said Susan Sponar, a spokeswoman for Public Service Company of New Mexico, the state’s largest electric utility. She said thieves have been targeting child day care centers, churches and other businesses. Thieves sell the stolen copper to recyclers, she added.

“It’s no small crime,” Sponar said. “They can put places out of business.”

Early last week, someone stole about 200 feet of copper cable from St. John’s United Methodist Church, on Old Pecos Trail at Cordova Road, causing a boiler to break.

Dennison said when church officials arrived on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 17, they found the power was out and that wiring had to be replaced to restore electrical service.

“I assume they’ve done this before, and they weren’t amateurs,” he said of the thieves.

“They were able to just do it real quick and got it out of there, and nobody got hurt.”

The stolen copper cable connected the main electrical panel to the electrical service box in the church’s parking lot. Electricians were able to replace the wiring, but because a 12-year-old boiler cracked during the sudden cooldown, the church still lacks a working heating system in its sanctuary, Dennison said.

On Sunday, the church’s regularly scheduled service was held using rented equipment that warmed the sanctuary through a pipe brought in through a side door, but the cold weather still bothers church members, Dennison said.

“Everybody was wearing coats and sweaters [indoors],” he said.

Nonetheless, attendance at the Sunday service wasn’t affected, and Dennison didn’t expect attendance at the Christmas Eve services to be affected, either. After Tuesday night, he said, church services will move to another part of the building until the congregation can replace the boiler, possibly not until spring.

“We’re still doing the same routine,” he said. “But we’re just working around the situation.”

PNM is running a statewide radio ad asking the public to report copper thieves, Sponar said. In November, PNM donated $20,000 to Crime Stoppers, a local nonprofit that helps solve crimes. Tipsters who provide information leading to the arrest and conviction of a thief can receive a reward of up to $500.

Sponar said copper theft is a “hugely expensive crime. The amount of money the thieves will get is nothing compared to the amount of money this church, or any other customer, will have to pay for the damage,” which she said can be thousands of dollars.

Stolen copper wire, however, will yield only up to about $100, she said.

The radio PNM ad also warns that the crimes can cause a life-threatening hazard because electrical wiring is left exposed, Sponar said.

Contact Uriel J. Garcia at 986-3062 or ugarcia@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter @ujohnnyg.

It’s no “ small crime.

They can put places out of business.”

Susan Sponar spokeswoman for PNM, on copper wire thefts

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WASHINGTON — After six months, fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden says his “mission’s already accomplished” after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies.

Snowden told The Washington Post he was satisfied because journalists have been able to tell the story of the government’s collection of bulk Internet and phone records, an activity that has grown dramatically in the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,” he said. “I already won.

“As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying Edward Snowden to do was validated,” Snowden told the Post. “Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”

NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines offered no comment on the interview Tuesday, nor did the State Department.

White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said via email Tuesday: “Mr. Snowden faces felony charges here in the United States and should be returned to the U.S. as soon as possible, where he will be afforded due process and all the protections of our criminal justice system.”

President Barack Obama hinted Friday that he would consider some changes to NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records to address

the public’s concern about privacy. His comments came in a week in which a federal judge declared the NSA’s collection program probably was unconstitutional. A presidential advisory panel has suggested 46 changes to NSA operations.

Snowden was interviewed in Moscow over two days by Post reporter Barton Gellman, who has received numerous leaks from Snowden.

In June, the Justice Department unsealed a criminal complaint charging Snowden, a former NSA contractor, with espionage and felony theft of gov-

ernment property. Russia granted him temporary asylum five months ago.

The effects of Snowden’s revelations have been evident in the courts, Congress, Silicon Valley and capitals around the world, where even U.S. allies have reacted angrily to reports of U.S. monitoring of their leaders’ cellphone calls. Brazil and members of the European Union are considering ways to better protect their data and U.S. technology companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are looking at ways to block the collection of data by the government.

Power outages challenge Christmas cheer The National Weather Service said more snow was expected The Associated Press to move into the Northern High Plains and Central Rockies on DETROIT — A massive ice Tuesday before rolling into the storm blacked out homes from Great Lakes and Midwest by the Plains to the far Northeast Christmas morning. of the U.S., dealing a big “bah In Maine, the number of cushumbug” to thousands of famitomers without power spiked lies whose Christmas Eve was to more than 100,000. Utilities shaping up to be very cold and in Vermont reported that about very dark.

6,800 homes still were without Utility crews worked around power. The nationwide death the clock Tuesday to restore sertoll from the storm reached Ice-covered trees and fields line Lapeer Road between Oxford vice to the more than half a milat least 12 on Tuesday, when a and Metamora, Mich., on Monday. ROBIN BUCKSON/DETROIT NEWS lion homes and businesses still 50-year-old man was overcome without power since the deadly by carbon monoxide fumes arctic blast slammed much of were starting to thaw out,” John it could be days before power from a generator. the country over the weekend. completely returns.

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Some hardy revelers prepared In the state capital, about Jackson-based Consumers to hunker down for the holiday, Energy, Michigan’s largest utility, 13,600 Lansing Board of Water despite the lack of electricity, said the storm was the worst for & Light customers still were while others packed up their waiting to have their electricity their customers during Christwrapped gifts and headed off to mas week in its 126-year history. restored, while in the Detroit stay with family or friends. area about 55,000 DTE Energy More than 300,000 homes and The Potbury family was customers had no electricity. businesses — nearly 17 percent among nearly a quarter-million And the prospects of better of its 1.8 million electric customMichigan residents without weather were not very good. ers — lost power during the power Tuesday. The family of storm, which hit the state late four, of Mount Morris Township $ 95 Saturday. About 174,000 still near Flint, lost electricity at 6 a.m.

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ANOTHER VIEW

Is there a Santa Claus?

Editor’s note: Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.

COMMENTARY: MEHDI AMINRAZAVI AND JAMES E. GOEHRING

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zael the angel of wrath shall bring men and women, the half of their bodies burning, and cast them into a place of darkness, even the hell of men; and a spirit of wrath shall chastise them with all manner of torment, and a worm that sleepeth not shall devour their entrails.” — M.R. James, The New Testament Apocrypha (1924).

The frightening figure of Ezael from the early Christian Apocalypse of Peter hardly comports with the angelic images that abound in our society, particularly at this time of year. Divine couriers with messages of warning or joy, heavenly hosts praising God on high and spiritual guardians keeping us safe offer the more common, not surprisingly more comfortable view of these beings. It is well to remember, however, that Ezael, who works within the divine economy, likewise belongs in the history of these spiritual entities in t he Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

In the earliest tradition in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament, the heavenly beings that exist with God appear as sons of God, gods, mighty ones, members of the divine council, and holy ones. They serve as ministers who carry out God’s will, and most commonly as his messengers or envoys, whose increases as the otherness of God becomes more pronounced over time. When God no longer appears to humans to impart his wishes as he did in the Garden of Eden story, the role of lesser spiritual beings increases to fill the void. It is this latter function as envoy that translates into Greek as aggelos or messenger, from which our word for angel comes.

Yet whence comes Ezael and the even more nefarious spiritual beings or angels that actively work against God? In the early Hebraic tradition, Satan himself appears among the sons of God as an accuser in God’s court (Job 1:6-11; Zech.

3:1) rather than the demonic figure of later tradition. And later as a demonic figure,

he retains his “angelic” status as a fallen angel. In fact the sharp dualistic split between good and evil spiritual beings emerges under the influence of Babylonian and Persian ideas encountered after the fall of Jerusalem in 587 BCE. In the aftermath of Israel’s exile speculation about the heavenly world increased, angelic names, such as Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel, multiplied and hierarchies of spiritual beings emerged.

It is in this period that an angelic dualism emerged, dividing between the angelic forces of light and those of darkness. The existence of the latter was confirmed by the reinterpretation of the descent of the sons of God to Earth in Genesis 6:1-4 as the fall of the angels. Post-biblical texts, such as the Books of Enoch, identify the mating between angels and women in this story as the source of corruption on earth, which led in turn to the intervention of the archangels. The battle lines were drawn and the ongoing struggle between the opposing angelic forces played itself out on the stage of human existence.

As Christianity in turn emerged from its Jewish roots into a Gentile (Greek) world, it encountered another language for spiritual beings; namely, that of daimon. The term, like that of angel of Jewish tradition, did not distinguish between a positive spiritual being and its malevolent counterpart. Both were daimons or angels. But as Christianity integrated its Jewish origins into its Gentile future, it split the difference between the terms, so that in general use angels became the good spiritual beings and daimons (demons) the bad or evil ones.

As to Islam, the last member of the Abrahamic religions, a hierarchical angelic order in additional to other celestial beings is developed as deputies of Allah.

Behold! the angels said: “O Mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Isa (Jesus), the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and

the Hereafter and he is of those nearest to Allah” (Quran, 3:45).

Angelology in Islam is an integral part of the Islamic credo; in fact the Islamic story of “Genesis” begins with angels (mala’ik in Arabic). Angels ask Allah why He wants to create man (Adam), a creature made from dust whereas angels are made up of light?

Allah responds: I know something you do not know. Angels remind God that “they do not disobey Allah’s commands that they receive” (Quran, 66:6) while man will corrupt the earth and disobey you. Allah reveals that he wants to give a special gift to man, presumed to be free will, that is so noble no one can bear the responsibility but man.

Many of the angels in Islam are the same as those in Judaism and Christianity. First, there are the four archangels: Gabrield (Jibra’il), the angel of revelation; Raphael (Israfil) who will blow the trumpet twice in the day of judgment for all the dead to rise and be judged; Michael (Mikha’il) the archangel of mercy, and finally Azrael, the angel of death responsible for parting the soul from the body. While it is not clear what form or shape these angels have, and depicting them is forbidden in Islam, the Quran refers to them as having “two, three or four wings” (Quran, 35:1).

It is noteworthy that the Islamic intellectual tradition made full use of angels and developed a sophisticated cosmology based on angels and their celestial functions. Such philosophers as Avicenna (10th CE) and Suhrawardi (12th CE) synthesized angelology, cosmology and astronomy creating longitudinal and latitudinal angelic orders.

Mehdi Aminrazavi and James E. Goehring are both professors in the Department of Classics, Philosophy and Religion at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. They wrote this for The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va.

MY VIEW: DAVID DENNISON

“Dear editor: I am 8 years old.

“Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.

“Papa says, ‘If you see it in The Sun it’s so.’

“Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O’Hanlon

115 West Ninety-Fifth Street” New York Sun

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irginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.

They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn?

Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there.

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Copper thieves: You can’t ruin Christmas spirit

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From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 25, 1988: Battle plans have been drawn for a full-scale “war on drugs” in New Mexico, says the head of state Department of Public Safety. Where, when and how that battle will be fought, however, will be up to the 1989 Legislature. Public Safety Director Robert Kemble says the war is planned on two fronts; tougher enforcement of laws prohibiting the use and sale of illegal drugs and more extensive education programs designed to prevent drug use.

ometime during the night of Dec. 16, or early Tuesday morning, you stole about 200 feet of copper cable that connected the main electrical panel of St. John’s United Methodist Church to the electrical service box in our parking lot.

Removal of that cable shut down all power to our church building, including the power needed to operate our 12-yearold boiler that heats our sanctuary. Electricians replaced the copper line and everything was back up within 18 hours of the theft, except for the sanctuary boiler. Due to the unscheduled

rapid cool down, the heat chamber in our boiler cracked.

Heroic efforts to repair it have failed, and our church sanctuary is now left in the cold not only for Christmas celebrations but also until well into next spring, even assuming that our insurance company will immediately pay for these damages.

However, we are Christians and our congregation has pulled together to meet this challenge like never before.

Tuesday morning, with no power, our food pantry still provided bags of groceries to 180 clients using sunlight instead of electrical light. We

still held both services on Sunday using a trailer-mounted diesel heater to pipe heat through a side door into our sanctuary and we will use the same system to hold Christmas Eve services as planned.

You see, belief in God does not depend on a fully operational building. It only depends on the will power of the people who believe in serving the Lord no matter what the circumstances. I paraphrase one of the comments that our pastor mentioned in his sermon the Sunday after the theft: “We are grateful that you were professionals who were good at your

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job. It would have been much more of a tragedy for us if we had found your lifeless body next to the electrical boxes or if our entire facility had burned down.”

I pray that you use the money from sale of the copper to provide food, shelter and happiness for your family this Christmas. I am sure that I speak for my entire congregation when I say we forgive you and we are sure that God forgives you.

David Dennison is a member of St. John’s United Methodist Church in Santa Fe.

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The following water statistics of December 22 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 1.286 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 4.520 City Wells: 0.028 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 5.834 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.065 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 63.9 percent of capacity; daily inflow 2.06 million gallons.

A partial list of the City of Santa Fe’s Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: • Irrigation water leaving the intended area is not permitted. Wasting water is not allowed.

• Using water to clean hard surfaces with a hose or power washer is prohibited.

• Hoses used in manual car washing MUST be equipped with a positive shut-off nozzle.

• Swimming pools and spas must be covered when not in use.

For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/waterconservation

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Record cold gripped the East and the Ohio Valley Christmas Day of 1983. Philadelphia reached a high temperature of 1 degree.

is the average annual snowfall Q: What at the South Pole?

A: Only 12 inches.

Today’s talk shows 3:00 p.m. KRQE Dr. Phil KWBQ The Bill Cunningham Show KLUZ El Gordo y la Flaca KASY Jerry Springer Makayla must choose between her married lover and her new boyfriend, and her lover’s wife weighs in.

FNC The Five MSNBC The Ed Show 4:00 p.m. KTEL Al Rojo Vivo con María Celeste KASY The Steve Wilkos Show Amanda’s abusive boyfriend denies being the father of her children.

FNC Special Report With Bret Baier 5:00 p.m. KASA Steve Harvey KCHF The 700 Club A woman in a wheelchair experiences a Christmas miracle.

KASY Maury FNC On the Record With

Greta Van Susteren 6:00 p.m. FNC The O’Reilly Factor 7:00 p.m. MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 8:00 p.m. FNC Hannity 9:00 p.m. FNC The O’Reilly Factor TBS Conan Actress Jane Lynch; actress Natasha Lyonne; comedian Mike Lawrence.

10:00 p.m.KASA The Arsenio Hall Show KTEL Al Rojo Vivo MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 10:30 p.m. TBS Conan Actress Jane Lynch; actress Natasha Lyonne; comedian Mike Lawrence.

10:34 p.m. KOB The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Kirstie Alley; Ernie Brown Jr.; Switchfoot performs.

10:35 p.m. KRQE Late Show With David Letterman Actor Will Ferrell; football player Jameis Winston;

Chris Cornell and Joy Williams perform.

11:00 p.m. KNME Charlie Rose KOAT Jimmy Kimmel Live FNC Hannity 11:30 p.m. KASA Dish Nation 11:37 p.m. KRQE The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Actor Mark Harmon; chef Wolfgang Puck.

12:00 a.m. E! Chelsea Lately Comic April Richardson; singer Sara Bareilles.

FNC On the Record With Greta Van Susteren 12:02 a.m. KOAT Nightline 12:06 a.m. KOB Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 1:00 a.m. KASY The Trisha Goddard Show FNC Red Eye 1:06 a.m. KOB Last Call With Carson Daly Playwright Roberto AguirreSacasa; Pierce the Veil performs.

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7 p.m. on FOX Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas This holiday special, based on the Ice Age films, finds the arctic herd busily decorating for the holidays. In his rush to help, Sid destroys Manny’s favorite decorations. Manny is so upset that he convinces Sid he is now on Santa’s naughty list. Joined by Crash, Eddie and Peaches, Sid takes off for the North Pole to plead his case to Santa. Meanwhile, Manny, Ellie and Diego race to find Peaches. Ray Romano and John Leguizamo lead the voice cast.

7 p.m. on NBC Kelly Clarkson’s Cautionary Christmas Music Tale Here’s another chance to see the Grammy winner and Season 1 American Idol victor’s musical special, loosely based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, in which she learns some lessons about the meaning of the holiday.

Guest stars include Blake Shelton, Reba McEntire and Trisha Yearwood.

7 p.m. on KWBQ Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special If you’ve ever had to work on a holiday and hated it, Po the panda feels your pain. In this special, he’s looking forward to celebrating Winter Feast with his family, but he finds out that as Dragon Warrior, he’s required to host a formal

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celebration at the Jade Palace. Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Angelina Jolie lend their voices to this animated offering.

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7:30 p.m. on CW Merry Madagascar In this holiday sequel, to Madagascar and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria (voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith) must deliver Santa’s presents to save Christmas when St. Nick gets amnesia following a crash landing on their island.(pictured) 8 p.m. on FOX Raising Hope Remember all the hype about the world allegedly ending on Dec. 21, 2012? In this encore of last year’s Christmas episode, Virginia (Martha Plimpton) is convinced the end is near, so she stocks up on supplies and forces the family to train for the apocalypse.

Jimmy (Lucas Neff) is determined to give Hope the best Christmas he can, and Maw Maw (Cloris Leachman) tries to knock a few more items off her bucket list before the world ends in “Last Christmas.”

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COMMENTARY

Top films of 2013

By Cary Darling Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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emember when everyone said going to the movies would go the way of rotary phones and black-and-white TVs? Well, tell that to all those who, by the time the ball drops on Jan. 1, will have shelled out nearly $11 billion to sit in a darkened room full of strangers.

Narrowing it down to my 10 favorite films has been tough — but that’s a good problem to have. u 12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen’s searing portrait of antebellum America looks at slavery through a slightly different lens than many of the popular productions — Roots, Amistad — that have dealt with “the peculiar institution” in the past. Based on a 19th-century memoir by Solomon Northup, its central figure is a free black man in New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. That story is given even more power by McQueen’s starkly beautiful and painterly approach to filmmaking and Chiwetel Ejiofor’s layered performance. Simply amazing. u The Attack Much like Northup, Amin Jaafari thought he had successfully navigated his way through prejudice and pain.

A successful and celebrated surgeon at a Tel Aviv hospital with a beautiful wife and cool condo, he is a secular Muslim largely out of touch with his Palestinian roots. Then his wife dies in a suicide bombing, but she was no victim — she was the one wearing the vest.

That’s when his life unravels.

Directed by Ziad Doueiri (West Beirut) and based on a novel by Yasmina Khadra, The Attack — featuring a heartbreaking performance by Ali Suliman as Jaafari — puts the Israeli-Arab conflict into profoundly human terms. u Gravity Who said a 3-D movie has to be empty superhero excess?

Director Alfonso Cuarón’s beautifully shot and suspenseful story of an astronaut adrift in space is a dazzling technical marvel — the space-debris sequences are jaw-dropping — but it also has emotional and spiritual resonance.

Cuarón gets extra kudos for keeping the film to about 90 minutes, proving that movies don’t have to be long to be consequential. u Mud Matthew McConaughey is getting a lot of awards-season buzz for his role as an AIDS patient in Dallas Buyers Club.

And deservedly so. It’s probably going to earn him an Oscar nomination. But this smaller film from earlier in the year shouldn’t be forgotten. For one thing, it’s an overall better movie in which McConaughey delivers a pitch-perfect performance as a criminal on the lam in the wilds of Arkansas.

The only people who know where he is are two local boys, Ellis and Neckbone (played wonderfully by Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland), who stumble across his hideout.

Writer / director Jeff Nichols has said he wanted to fashion a multidimensional Southern story that’s part Mark Twain and part Sam Peckinpah. With Mud, he succeeded. u Before Midnight The third film in Richard Linklater’s romantic trilogy — Before Sunset and Before Sunrise are the predecessors — follows Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) on a Greek vacation where they find their relationship stuck in middle-age malaise.

Defiantly conversational and wonderfully witty, Before Midnight — full of long, lesiurely takesoffers the last chance for filmgoers to spend time

with Jesse and Celine. Before Midnight is a great way to say farewell. u Fruitvale Station Based on a real-life 2008 incident in Oakland, Calif. in which an unarmed 22-year-old black man, Oscar Grant, was shot and killed on a transit platform by a policeman, Fruitvale Station chronicles Grant’s last hours in gripping fashion. Michael B. Jordan, up until now best known for his role on the TV version of Friday Night Lights, turns in a powerhouse performance as Grant. And first-time features director Ryan Coogler manages to maintain tension and interest, even though the ending is well-known. “Fruitvale Station” was released during the Trayvon Martin controversy, giving the film an extra amount of cultural resonance. u The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese’s forcefully electric tour de force about shameless greed and warped ambition — based on the bestselling memoir by former Wall Street whiz-kid (and convicted felon) Jordan Belfort — may touch on issues the director has dealt with before but it still feels fresh and is often fiercely funny and relevant, especially as the economy is still woozy from the last financial crisis. Leonardo DiCaprio jumps into stockbroker Belfort’s skin with ease, turning in an athletic performance that ranks as one of his best. He’s blessed to work with a strong cast that also includes a hilarious Matthew McConaughey (in an appearance that’s way too brief) and a wild-eyed Jonah Hill (this may become his signature role). Yes, at three hours, it could use some trimming. But as a story about greed and excess, the running time seem quite appropriate. u Lore Lore is one of those movies that came and went without any fanfare, but it deserved much better. A Germanlanguage film from Australian director Cate Shortland (Somersault), Lore takes place amid the rubble of a collapsing Germany at the end of WWII. Hitler’s dead, the Allies have invaded, and five formerly middle-class children of the Fatherland find themselves on their own after their parents’ arrest. In other hands, this might have been a simple inspirational story of survival but Cortland — who co-wrote the script based on a novel by Rachel Seiffert — turns it into something that’s absolutely haunting. u The Way, Way Back This was a good year for coming-of-age films such as Mud, The Kings of Summer and The Spectacular Now. But The Way, Way Back, directed

by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash stands out for its blend of pathos and humor in a tale about a boy forced to spend a summer vacation with his single mom and the man she’s dating. It showcases a handful of exquisitely delivered performances — including Steve Carell, Allison Janey and Sam Rockwell. At the center of it all is Liam James (best known from the TV series Psych), who wonderfully captures the uncertain trip between boyhood and manhood. u The Hunt Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, known to American audiences for big-budget dross like Clash of the Titans, returns to his native land for this riveting film about a man stuck in a nightmare from which he can’t wake. He is a divorced dad and beloved kindergarten worker in a small Danish town who is blindsided after one of his young charges accuses him of molestation. Mikkelsen is magnificent as a man tumbling deeper into despair as everyone turns against him.

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Dallas QB Romo not ruled out of Sunday’s game vs. Philadelphia.

Santa’s pet project a joy Kitten, puppy get homes for holidays

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

Santa Claus started his holiday run a day early in Santa Fe, delivering a kitten and a puppy to two local households.

A costumed Dylan Moor, adoptions manager at the Santa Fe Animal Sheter & Humane Society, helped deliver the

Bichon Frise-mix named Charlie and the gray kitten Daria to families who had already paid for the critters and arranged for their arrival on Christmas Eve. Joined by volunteer elf Emily Lowman, Moore, dressed in full Santa regalia, first attended a party at the shelter that was held for Raphael, the dog found starving near Pojoaque in October that was nursed back to health.

Moore and Lowman then loaded the 3-month-old kitten and a 7-month-old puppy into

an older Dodge Sprinter with Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society’s name stenciled on the side in red letters.

Their first stop took them to the 2900 block of Alamosa Drive, where neighbors complimented the duo’s outfits.

When they walked up to the Byrd family home carrying the kitten, the family’s two 15- to 20-pound dogs barked furiously. Consuelo and Craig Byrd instructed their children,

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Decision in N.M. helps fuel battles Daria brings a smile to Lincoln Byrd’s face Tuesday. The 11-year-old Lincoln had just met the newest member of his family.

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Days after historic ruling, same-sex backers win decisions in Ohio, Utah

By Matt Pearce Los Angeles Times

Annual farolito walk draws hundreds to Canyon Road

Roark Barron plays his electric acoustic harp during the annual Canyon Road farolito walk on Tuesday. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Revelers find peace, joy in tradition

By Uriel Garcia The New Mexican

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s the sun was setting Tuesday evening, people started lighting up candle-lit paper bags for the Canyon Road farolito walk, a Christmas Eve event that started in the 1970s.

Church bells rang and people stood around bonfires known as luminarias to keep warm as temperatures hovered around 40 degrees.

Rachel Pollack, originally from Oklahoma, stood near a luminaria to keep warm while she joined others in singing Christmas carols. Pollack said she was hoping to find more people singing so she could join.

Pollack recently moved to Santa Fe, and this is the first year she joined the hundreds of people who strolled along Canyon Road.

Crowds were expected to grow into the night.

“I haven’t seen anything like this before,” she said. “I wish we could do more singing.”

Pollack’s friend, Tina Thomas, who lives in Placitas, said that compared to years’ past, the weather wasn’t as cold this year. Last year people walked along Canyon Road as it was snowing.

“So far it is warmer,” she said. “It’s nice and pleasant.”

Arup Das, who is visiting his daughter in Albuquerque, came from India and also said he hoped to find more people caroling. This is his first year participating in the event, and he added he has enjoyed the experience.

“I’m going to have to come back and check out the town in the daylight, too,” said Das, who is also visiting Santa Fe for the first time.

Unlike other years, the “flying farolitos,” which are launched from the Acequia Madre Elementary School,

were grounded this time around because of safety reasons, Fire Marshal Reynaldo Gonzales said.

Some vendors were selling tamales and posole while others accepted tips for complimentary hot chocolate and hot cider. Terry Dudding, owner of Scarlett’s Antique Shop & Gallery, was selling hot cocoa in order to gather funds for Heart and Soul Animal Sanctuary. Outside his shop was also a gingerbread house modeled after the Plaza, which was being auctioned to raise money, he said.

“It’s very receptive, a lot of people enjoy the hot cocoa as they do the Farolito Walk,” he said.

This is the fifth year Dudding has been gathering funds for the animal sanctuary, he said. And for the past four years, a gingerbread house has also been auctioned. The gingerbread house, which was expected

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Thousands of farolitos line the streets of Canyon Road as well as side streets during the annual Christmas Eve Walk on Tuesday night.

Same-sex marriage is picking up steam in the courts, with decisions in three states including New Mexico favoring marriage rights for gay couples.

A day after the New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday formally recognized same-sex marriage, which is now legal in 17 states and the District of Columbia, a federal judge struck down a gay marriage ban in Utah and on Monday refused to suspend his decision.

On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that gay marriages can continue in Utah, denying a request from the state to halt same-sex weddings that have been occurring at a rapid rate since last week.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ rejection of Utah’s request for an emergency stay marks yet another legal setback for the state.

The same federal judge who ruled that Utah’s same-sex marriage ban violates gay and lesbian couples’ rights previously denied the state’s request to halt the marriages.

And on Monday in Ohio, a federal judge ordered the state to recognize gay marriages on death certificates, but used broad language that could be cited to mount a broader challenge to the law barring such unions.

A campaign to overturn Colorado’s ban on same-sex marriage is on hold as backers wait to see the results of the developments in New Mexico and Utah.

Jeremy Mathis of Aurora and Lisa Starcher of Colorado Springs began collecting signatures earlier this year for an initiative that would overturn the 2006 constitutional amendment passed by about 54 percent of voters.

Mathis told the Aurora Sentinel they originally hoped to get the proposal on the 2014 ballot but later delayed that until 2016, since other groups have failed to help them collect the over 86,000 signatures required. Now Mathis says, as they’ve watched other states’ same-sex marriage debates being settled in the courts, they’ve stopped collecting signatures.

The scenarios must have sounded all too familiar to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In June, when the court issued a landmark decision ordering the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states where they were legal, Scalia warned of what could come next.

“How easy it is, indeed how inevitable, to reach the same conclusion with regard to state laws denying same-sex couples marital status,” Scalia wrote in a scathing dissent in United States vs. Windsor, which struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act but left state laws intact.

“No one should be fooled; it is just a matter of listening and waiting for the other shoe” to drop.

Now, for opponents of same-sex marriage, the other shoe is dropping.

“We’re on a roll!” said Jon David-

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Pajarito Mountain Ski Area operator laments lack of snow

By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican

Snow is piling up at ski areas in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, but Pajarito Mountain Ski Area in the Jemez Mountains only has its beginner hill open.

Pajarito opened its beginner hill Dec. 21, but the other 90 percent of the mountain remains closed.

In contrast, both Ski Santa Fe and Taos Ski Valley opened on Thanksgiving. Ski Santa Fe reports 96 percent of its slopes are open. Taos Ski Valley

reports 86 percent of runs are open.

The Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service indicates Ski Santa Fe has 30 inches of snow pack and Taos Ski Valley has 29 inches, but Pajarito Ski Area has only 11 inches.

Although both Ski Santa Fe and Taos Ski Valley have received new snow in the past week, Pajarito has had none.

And the weather service predicts no new snow for the coming week.

Pajarito installed snow-making equipment more than a decade ago.

But the ski area on the eastern slope

of Pajarito Peak depends on runoff for snow-making. It hasn’t been able to capture enough runoff to fill its pond and has had to rely on fall rains to supply snow to the beginner’s hill.

“The issue is there’s no water up here, so we have to rely on runoff,” Pajarito general manager Tom Long said Tuesday. “If you don’t have any snowfall, then you don’t have any runoff, so we’ve been kind of Catch 22’d for a little while here.”

Long said that Pajarito has about 120 employees when it’s fully open, but only about 20 are working there now.

Section editor: Howard Houghton, 986-3015, hhoughton@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Dennis Rudner, drudner@sfnewmexican.com

The Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains usually have about the same snowfall, but not this year.

Pajarito Mountain Ski Area began in the waning years of the wartime Manhattan Project and today is managed by the nonprofit Los Alamos Ski Club.

In past years, Pajarito did not seek to bring in visitors from outside of Los Alamos County. But this year, it ran ads on KOB-TV and participated in KOAT-TV’s “Learn to Ski” program.

“There’s been a lot of lore and mystique about Pajarito, but it is open to the public and we’re starting to adver-

tise a little bit,” Long said. “We encourage outsiders to come and visit. You won’t be irradiated or anything. You’ll be just fine.”

Pajarito, 379 Camp May Road, is located about five miles west of Los Alamos and has a base elevation of about 9,000 feet and a peak elevation of 10,440 feet with 40 trails on 300 skiable acres. It operates from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a week, but will be closed on Christmas Day. Contact Tom Sharpe at 986-3080 or tsharpe@sfnewmexican.com.

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anna receives disability, and Alfred is her caregiver. He was taking care of Hanna until a determination that he was being paid too much. Alfred stopped getting paid, and money was taken out of Hanna’s Social Security Insurance to refund the government what was considered the overpayment.

Alfred is still taking care of Hanna, but he’s being paid less.

Hanna is still receiving SSI, but the mix-up has caused her to fall behind on bills.

Because Alfred and Hanna were not receiving money, they can’t get back to where they need to be in order to pay gas, electricity, water bills and rent.

Hanna and Alfred are asking for $1,400 for rent, $530.48 for electricity, $361.29 for water and $400 for gas.

Hanna and Alfred are just a couple of the community members that The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund helps during the holiday season.

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uuu The Empty Stocking Fund is a project of The Santa Fe New Mexican. The Santa Fe Community Foundation, the First National Bank of Santa Fe, The Salvation Army and Presbyterian Medical Services donate services to jointly administer the Empty Stocking Fund.

Watch for daily stories featuring requests for assistance from local residents in The Santa Fe New Mexican. The names of the applicants have been changed to protect their

Empty stocking fund privacy. The information from the initial application will be verified if the applicant is selected for assistance.

To donate Make your tax-deductible donation online at www.santafenewmexican.com/empty_ stocking or mail a check to: The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund c/o The Santa Fe Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, NM 875041827 If you can provide a needed service such as roofing, car repairs or home repairs, contact Roberta at Presbyterian Medical Services, 983-8968.

If you can contribute food, clothing, toys, housewares or furniture in good condition, or other items or services, please contact The Salvation Army, 988-8054

Donations: u Darlene and Jason Anderson, $25 u Anonymous (11), $1,635 u Kathleen J. Bartlett, $50 u Andrew and Teresa Bartlett, $25 u John and Betty Baxter, $100 u Bodywire Physical Therapy, LLC., $200 u Juanita and Richard Cdebaca, $200 u Kay Condiss, $100 u Richard Cooper, in honor of Dorothy Cooper, $200 u Eric Enfield, in honor of Robert N. Enfield, $250 u Terrence M. Fehr, $150

u John and Frances Hanners, $100 u Madelon Heden, $100 u John and Donna Herbrand, in memory of Sylvia, $75 u Sheila Keefe, $30 u Kitchen Dimensions, Inc., $150 u Morley and Diana Lautens, $100 u Linda Donnels and Lawrence Logan, $100 u Susan and David Lovro, $100 u Lynn W. Miller, in memory of Larry and Jess Waterman, $100 u Patsie Milosevich, $100 u Aku Ed Oppenheimer, $100 u Beatrice C. Ortiz, in memory of Louis L. Chavez and Robert Gurule, $50 u Linda Palmer, in memory of Fay Robbins, $100 u Adair L. Waldenberg and Jon Peck, $100 u Douglas J. and Christine Preston, $500 u Susan Receconi, in memory of John and Johnny McCauley, parents, $100 u Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation, $4,014.05 u Edward and Nancy Rubovits, $100 u The Santa Maria de la Paz, 7:30 Choir, $100 u Elizabeth Gutierrez and Richard Schoegler, $750 u Chuck and Norma Scott, $250 u Richard Snider, $100 u Jim McCraigh and Shirly Stisser-McCraigh, $55 u Tom and Barbara Thomas, $100 u Paula Timmerman, $50 u Lisa Lashley and Ronald Van Amberg, in honor of Virginia Lashley, $100 u Suzanne Wallace, $300 Cumulative total: $149,937.61

Holiday closures Hours of operation at various offices and institutions will be affected by observance of the Christmas holiday on Wednesday, including: • City, county, state and federal government offices and courts will be closed Wednesday.

• Santa Fe Trails bus service

Bishops Lodge Road between noon and 5 p.m. Monday.

DWI arrest u County deputies arrested Daniel Garcia, 27, of Santa Fe on charges of drunken-driving and driving without a license after the deputies received a tip about an impaired driver in the 2300 block of Casa Rufina.

Garcia was later charged with bringing contraband into a place of imprisonment and possession of a controlled substance after jail officials discovered he had a black tar material and numerous pills.

Speed SUVs u The Santa Fe Police Department listed the following locations for mobile speedenforcement vehicles: SUV No. 1 at Cordova Road between Galisteo Street and Old Pecos Trail and; SUV No. 2 at Agua

will not operate.

• The North Central Regional Transit District “Blue Buses” will not be in service.

• Rail Runner Express passenger trains will not operate.

• Parking facilities and onstreet parking meters will be free on Wednesday.

• State museums will be closed.

• The city of Santa Fe’s trash and recycling collection service will follow the regular schedule.

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 New Mexico suicide prevention hotline: 866-4357166 Solace Crisis Treatment Center: 986-9111, 800-7217273 or TTY 471-1624 Youth Emergency Shelter/ Youth Shelters: 438-0502 Police and fire emergency: 911 Graffiti hotline: 955-CALL (2255)

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Former Roswell chief of police Solis dies The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — Al Solis, Roswell’s former police chief and the state’s former interim secretary of the Department of Corrections, died Monday, Roswell officials said. He was 65 and had been battling cancer.

Roswell City Manager Larry Fry said Solis died in Las Cruces. “He was certainly a man of integrity and had a long,

distinguished career in law enforcement,” Fry said.

His death comes just a few months after Solis announced in July he was stepping down for health reasons. He said at the time that his cancer was contained but not going away.

The longtime lawman came to Roswell as administrator to the Chaves County Detention Center.

He spent 21 years with the U.S. Marshals Service and

served briefly as interim secretary of the Department of Corrections under Gov. Susana Martinez.

In 2011 interview, Solis said he was happy to help Martinez reshape the corrections department and get it ready for incoming Corrections Secretary Gregg Marcantel. “But police work is what I enjoy doing,” he said. “I really enjoy working to make communities safer.”

JOSE B. ROMERO Jose B Romero, age 93, a long-time resident of Santa Fe died peacefully at his home on Thursday, December 19, 2013.

A visitation will be held on Thursday, December 26, 2013 from 6 to 7pm at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service where a rosary will be recited at 7pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi on Friday, December 27, 2013 at 11am. Burial will follow at Rosario Cemetery.

Fría Street and Harrison Road; SUV No. 3 on Galisteo Street at West Alicante Road.

• Santa Fe public libraries will be closed.

• The city’s recreation centers will be closed.

• Regular mail delivery will be suspended and post offices will be closed.

• Banks and financial institutions will be closed.

• The Buckman Road Recycling and Transfer Station and Caja del Rio Landfill will be closed.

agencies were granting benefits only to couples who were formally married. The judge struck down the state’s ban on gay marriage, and Republican Gov. Chris Christie withdrew his appeal of the ruling to the state’s Supreme Court.

David Cruz, professor of law at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law, said lower judges now seem more likely to expand upon the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage.

“Part of what we’re seeing is that, culturally, the judiciary — both federal and state judges — are more receptive to the logical, principle-based arguments that same-sex couples have been seeking for the right to marry since the very beginning of the 1970s,” Cruz said.

In doing so, judges have overridden legislators and voters who had approved the bans before national popular opinion began to tilt in favor of samesex marriage.

“It is patently wrong and unjust that the people of Utah should lose their right to define marriage because of the ruling of a single Obama appointee to the federal bench,” said Brian S. Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes same-sex marriage.

“It roils the body politic and does great damage to the people’s confidence in the judicial system itself as a lone federal judge attempts to usurp the sovereignty of the state,” Brown added in a statement.

Funeral services and memorials JOHNNY GRIEGO JUNE 14, 1989 ~ DECEMBER 25, 2012

Police notes The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: u Linda Garcia-Grisham, 68, 1810 Calle de San Sebastian, was arrested on charges of drunken driving at Old Santa Fe Trail and Sun Mountain at 9:38 p.m. Monday. u A television and speaker system were stolen from a home in the 600 block of Baca Street between 3 and 11 p.m. Monday. u An employee at Sam’s Club, 4201 Rodeo Road, said someone walked out of the store with a 23-inch touchscreen computer Dec. 18. u Sage Bird, 26, 529 Armijo St., was arrested on a contempt of court charge in Magistrate Court at 2 p.m. Monday.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the following report: u A 22-inch TV and eight silver bracelets were stolen from a home in the 1300 block of

son, legal director of Lambda Legal, an advocacy group that has been handling cases against same-sex marriage bans across the country. “Three workdays in a row, we’ve had victories,” and all of them cite the Supreme Court’s DOMA ruling.

In the most recent ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy S. Black ruled in Cincinnati that Ohio had to recognize a gay couple as spouses on one of the men’s death certificate.

Ohio bans same-sex marriage, so the pair had flown to Maryland while one of the men was terminally ill and wed on an airport tarmac.

Although Black’s decision applied only to death certificates for couples married out of state, his ruling blasted Ohio’s same-sex marriage ban and opened a wide door for other couples to challenge the law more broadly.

Alphonse Gerhardstein, a private civil rights attorney in Cincinnati who handled the case, said the DOMA ruling was central to his attack on Ohio’s ban.

“I just took that same argument and went to Ohio and said, ‘How can you now refuse to recognize marriages from other states if the federal government can’t do it?’ ” Gerhardstein said.

At least two federal judges, in their rulings on state bans, have cited Scalia’s warning that the Supreme Court’s ruling would ripple through the U.S. “Now it is just as Justice

Scalia predicted,” Black wrote in his Ohio ruling. “The lower courts are applying the Supreme Court’s decision, as they must, and the question is presented whether a state can do what the federal government cannot — i.e., discriminate against same-sex couples. … Under the Constitution of the United States, the answer is no.”

A similar decision Friday in Utah resulted in the state’s ban on same-sex marriage being thrown out.

Gay and lesbian couples flocked to wed as Utah officials scrambled to challenge U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby’s ruling, which quoted and embraced Scalia’s warning about the DOMA ruling’s applicability to state laws.

Utah’s last chance to temporarily stop the marriages would be the U.S. Supreme Court.

That’s what the Utah Attorney General’s Office is prepared to do, spokesman Ryan Bruckman said Tuesday. “We’re disappointed in the ruling, but we just have to take it to the next level,” Bruckman said.

On Friday, the New Mexico Supreme Court did not cite the DOMA ruling so heavily. But it did follow a similar argument, ruling that denying same-sex couples the right to marry violated the state’s equal-protection laws.

In September, a New Jersey superior court said the DOMA ruling gave the state’s same-sex civil unions “new significance” now that federal

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NICHOLAS BAKER 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY MAY 29, 1983 ~ DECEMBER 25, 2012

TOM RIVERA ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY Tom walked the path that was meant and made his earthly mark by his contributions as a kind and giving individual, a scientist, his love of New Mexico History and culture, his artistic talents, his love of music and playing the guitar, community involvement and dedication to academic accomplishments and mentorship. The difference he made in the lives of others and the love and life he shared with his wife and children are paramount. Every tear shed have been tears of love and reminders of the dynamic difference Tom had in our lives. Abundant memories grace each day.

We wish to thank family and friends for the support throughout this year. We’ve grown through our journey of grief and learned many lessons. We are grateful for the special connections that Tom’s passing brought.

Tom’s birthday was December 16, our anniversary December 19 and he was called home December 28. We celebrate Tom’s life everyday but most especially wish to share that honor with friends and family on December 28. Andréa, Tomas and I invite you to share in a celebration of Tom’s life at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel, Mt Carmel Road at 11:00 am. You may email pictures or thoughts to riverawise@gmail.com.

SINCERELY, LA FAMILIA DE TOM RIVERA, PhD

Always loved never forgotten, Daughter Mariah, Sister Georgia, Mom & Dad

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$400M N.M. railroad project might open in 2014 The Associated Press

SANTA TERESA — A $400 million Union Pacific railroad facility near a young New Mexico border town could open next year, according to the company.

Union Pacific spokesman Aaron Hunt said Tuesday that construction near Santa Teresa is ahead of schedule and the facility could be operational in 2014.

It had been slated to open in 2015.

“The second phase of construction [which began in July 2012] will finish the yard to include all the mechanical, electrical, architectural, utilities, track and civil engineering portions of the project,” Hunt said in a statement.

More than 50 contractors are involved in the project and there is an average of 250 workers on site daily, Hunt said.

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region is still young and development there only started after the Santa Teresa Port of Entry opened in 1993.

The New Mexico Border Authority said last year that the port of entry processed more than 81,000 commercial trucks — 13 percent higher than any year on record.

The region’s growth has been a keystone to plans by Gov. Susana Martinez for New Mexico economic expansion.

Martinez and officials from Mexico announced in August the creation of a 70,000-acre, master-planned community around the Santa Teresa-San Jeronimo border crossing in an effort to expand the fast-growing border region even more.

Under the plan, the project would create new trade zones, joint health care programs and “quality residential living.” Officials said the goal was to create an industrial powerhouse

capable of transforming the area into a busy international trading zone.

But unlike other areas, officials hope to prevent unstructured development that has sparked uncontrollable congestion and industrial sprawl.

Last year, Martinez and state Economic Development Secretary Jon Barela attended a distribution center groundbreaking in Santa Teresa for Interceramic Inc., a large Mexican ceramic tile manufacturer.

Drug offenders in California get early present

Dylan Moore, adoptions manager at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society, and Emily Lowman, a volunteer, get Charlie ready to be delivered to his new home on Tuesday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Pet: Plenty of animals available to adopt Continued from Page B-1 Lincoln, 11, and Ethan, 9, to “go see what’s going on over there.”

Moore chanted “ho-ho” while he tried to hand Daria to her new owner, Lincoln. Daria had other plans, however, and latched her claws onto Moore’s lengthy white beard.

After a minute or two, Lowman extracted the cat and placed him in Lincoln’s welcoming arms. The 11-year-old said he had pined for a cat for the past four years.

“I didn’t know this would happen,” Lincoln said while cuddling with Daria who mewed slightly.

Craig Byrd said he found Daria at the shelter about a week ago and decided it would be a good time to get his son a cat.

The father said he hopes having a cat will

help teach Lincoln responsibility, and he also said that he chose a kitten so his son could watch it grow. Moore said Daria, who will probably get a new name from Lincoln, was part of a litter of four.

The other three were already adopted.

Moore and Lowman jumped back into the van and headed to the 100 block of Cedar Street to deliver Charlie to the Purvis family. Lois Purvis accepted the fluffy, white puppy on behalf of her son, Gabriel Purvis, 16, who was off skiing.

“You guys are the bomb,” she said to Moore and Lowman as they placed the wriggling pup in her arms.

She said her son had always wanted a dog, but she said she wasn’t sure if she would have the time to walk it or if a canine could get along with her two cats.

But she said that after meeting Charlie at the shelter she decided she could welcome a dog.

“I think he’ll be able to hold his own,” she said, adding that she planned to put a big red bow on Charlie before her son got home.

Shelter spokesman Ben Swan said the shelter still has plenty of animal’s awaiting adoption.

The shelter will be closed on Christmas Day but will reopen on Thursday. Swan said the shelter will waive the adoption fee for animals 7 months and older if potential adopters donate animal food, toys or other pet-related items.

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

In brief ‘Orange barrel report’ tells of road projects

Revelers sang Christmas carols as they enjoyed the annual Canyon Road farolito walk while trying to stay warm with hot drinks on Tuesday. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Walk: Hundreds ‘enjoy the atmosphere’ Continued from Page B-1 to fetch around $200, was designed by Julian and Ginger Romero, two local folk artists, Dudding said.

“Each year [the gingerbread] house has a different theme,” he said. “It was doghouse before, and it was a pueblo one year.”

Brad Sutor, a Wiford Gallery manager who was helping light up about the 500 farolitos set

up outside the art gallery, said business hours were extended for Tuesday evening’s event.

“It’s a time were we don’t expect to make a lot of money, so it’s not about the business end of things,” he said. “You get to switch gears and just enjoy the atmosphere.”

Contact Uriel J. Garcia at 986-3062 or ugarcia@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter @ujohnnyg.

The city issued an “orange barrel report” this week to advise drivers of projects at the following locations in downtown Santa Fe: u Palace Avenue and Sheridan Avenue, partial closure for telephone line utility work. u Palace Avenue and Johnson Street, partial closure for telephone line utility work. u St. Francis Drive at San Mateo and Cerrillos roads, northbound lane closures of St. Francis Drive for water main upgrade continuing until late December. u Marcy Street and Sheridan Avenue, phone line maintenance until late December. u Don Diego Avenue and Guadalupe Street, phone line maintenance until late December. u Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe Street, phone line maintenance until late December.

Roswell man charged with extreme cruelty ROSWELL — A Roswell man is being accused of extreme cruelty to animals after his puppy was injured so badly that it had to be put down.

Roswell police say 27-year-old Emerson Quam allegedly beat the dog during an argument with his girlfriend Sunday.

They say the puppy’s injuries were so severe that it had to be euthanized.

Christmas trees can be recycled for mulch Once you’re through enjoying your Christmas tree, you can recycle it

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— In the holiday spirit of forgiveness, California Gov. Jerry Brown announced pardons on Tuesday for 127 people.

Everyone getting his or her name cleared finished serving time more than a decade ago and has stayed out of trouble since, according to Brown’s office. The clemency messages also testified that the people in question had become upstanding citizens who “exhibited good moral character” and “lived an honest and upright life.”

“Pardons are not granted unless they are earned,” said a message from Brown’s office announcing the pardons.

Most of the individuals receiving full and unconditional pardons had been convicted of drug-related offenses. Of the 127, 93 had been convicted of possessing, transporting or selling marijuana and other controlled substances. A few had been penalized for cultivating marijuana.

Robberies, burglaries and thefts accounted for most of the rest. In one instance, a man drunkenly “stole his neighbor’s lawn mower and some frozen food items,” according to the pardon message. A California woman burglarized a home “and took food to feed her children,” another message states.

A few other unusual crimes being pardoned included a woman who shot her boyfriend with a pellet gun following a fight, a man who stole some items

through a local program that turns the discarded trees into mulch.

The city, county and Santa Fe Solid Waste Management Agency will accept Christmas trees for mulching from Dec. 30 until Jan. 24.

During that time, city and county residents can drop off unflocked and deornamented trees at the following locations: • Buckman Road Recycling and Transfer Station, 2600 Buckman Road.

• Eldorado, Jacona and Stanley county transfer stations. u Payne’s nurseries at 715 St. Michael’s Drive or 304 Camino Alire. u Franklin Miles Park, on Camino Carlos Rey at Siringo Road. u Frank S. Ortiz Park, 160 Camino de Las Crucitas.

A news release said the city plans to use the mulch in parks for landscaping and erosion control and to make mulch available free to the public in the Franklin Miles Parking lot.

Trees collected at county transfer stations will be taken to the Buckman Road Recycling and Transfer Station for chipping, the statement said.

Author to read Christmas stories Local author James McGrath Morris will read Christmas stories during a Christmas morning radio broadcast.

Collected Works Bookstore & Coffee House, which will be closed for the holiday, announced that it will sponsor the 10 a.m. broadcast on 101.5 KVSF-FM, The Voice of Santa Fe.

Officials eye vaccines for pneumonia illness State health officials are encouraging adults to get vaccinations against a pneumonia-related illness hitting New Mexico.

The New Mexico Department of

from the yard of a recently deceased friend, and a man who didn’t pull over for the California Highway Patrol after running a red light.

Because the pardoned people had already completed their sentences, and in many cases also secured a court-issued certificate of rehabilitation, the pardons are largely a symbolic matter.

There are some consequences. The California Department of Justice and the FBI are informed of the pardons so they can change their records, entitling pardon recipients to benefits like being allowed to work as parole officers or serve on juries and becoming eligible, in some cases, to possess firearms.

The number of people receiving pardons just before Christmas fell one short of the total number of pardons Brown handed down in 2012.

Brown pardoned 128 convicted criminals in 2012, 79 of them on Christmas Eve, a marked increase from the 21 pardons he issued in 2011.

Brown has proved to be more merciful than his immediate predecessors: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pardoned 16 people during his entire seven-year tenure, while Gov. Gray Davis did not grant a single pardon in nearly five years.

The gubernatorial pardons came several days after President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of eight federal inmates serving long terms for crack-cocaine related offenses, Obama’s latest effort to soften harsh drug-related penalties.

Health said this week that the vaccines for pneumococcal disease are now available at many doctors’ offices Officials say so far this year, around 300 in New Mexico have been diagnosed with severe pneumococcal disease and 47 have died from their infection.

Department of Health Cabinet Secretary Retta Ward says one out of three adults who are recommended to receive the vaccine have never been vaccinated against pneumococcal disease.

Duke City has new interim fire chief ALBUQUERQUE — An interim fire chief has been appointed for Albuquerque.

Mayor Richard Berry named Deputy Chief David Downey as the department’s interim chief.

Fire Chief James Breen is retiring at the end of this month.

Breen has been with department for more than 23 years and has been chief since December 2009.

Downey has been with the Albuquerque Fire Department for 20 years.

As deputy chief, he was in charge of all fire department operations, the emergency response division and all health and safety programs.

Bloomfield approves annexation proposal FARMINGTON — The Bloomfield City Council approved a proposal that will more than double the city’s size.

The Farmington Daily Times reports that council members agreed to file a petition with the state’s Boundary Commission to add 6,775 acres to the city’s current 5,185 acres.

Officials say the annexation is necessary in planning for future economic growth.

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Pollution fears have prompted Maricopa County, Ariz., officials to ban wood-burning fires for the holidays. Inspectors will drive around Phoenix neighborhoods looking for violators. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

No-burn decision puts damper on Phoenix holiday Pollution fears spark ban; repeat violators could face $250 fine The Associated Press

PHOENIX — Gathering around a fire is a mainstay in many Christmas celebrations, but concerns over pollution have prompted environmental regulators to bar people in Maricopa County from starting wood-burning fires on Tuesday and Wednesday.

A small team of inspectors will drive around neighborhoods to seek out violators and respond to complaints of wood burning.

First-time violators will receive a warning, while repeat offenders can face fines as much as $250 per violation.

Bob Huhn, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Air Quality Department, said environmental regulators understand that they are asking some people to crimp their traditions on both Christmas Eve and Christmas, but said the quality of air that’s breathed by people in the county is the overriding concern.

“We don’t like putting a damper on celebrations at this time of the year,” Huhn said.

“But we can’t ignore the impact it has on residents’ health.”

Wood burning is expected to cause significant increases in particulate matter on Wednesday, prompting regulators to issue a high pollution advisory for Christmas.

Such advisories usually are issued when particulate matter levels are expected to exceed federal health standards for air quality.

No-burn restrictions are ordered when stagnant air and winter inversions trap pollution close to the ground.

The restrictions include bans on burning wood in fireplaces, outdoor fire pits and chimineas.

Gas and electric heaters are allowed.

Sustained winds and rain could break up the pollution, but the National Weather Service says no such weather is in sight for metro Phoenix.

Over the next few days, the metropolitan area is expected to have high temperatures in the low 70s degrees and low temperatures in the mid-40s.

Given the daytime temperatures, environmental regulators hope it’s too warm for people to use fireplaces during the day, but believe some people might try to use them at night when the temperatures drop.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the government from forcing four Oklahoma religious schools to abide by the federal health care law’s mandate that their insurance coverage include access to the morningafter pill and similar contraceptives.

U.S. District Judge Stephen P. Friot handed down a preliminary injunction on Monday that exempts Southern Nazarene University, Oklahoma Baptist University, Mid-America University and Oklahoma Wesleyan University from offering the contraceptives while their lawsuit challenging the mandate is pending.

The ruling is the latest decision preventing the government from enforcing the law’s requirement that emergency birth control be covered by health insurance policies.

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FARMINGTON — Members of the Navajo Nation Council tabled a proposal that would let disputes over a northwestern New Mexico coal mine that’s being bought on behalf of the nation be settled in state courts rather than tribal courts.

The Farmington Daily Times reported that the decision to table the proposal Monday stemmed from discussion among council delegates during the meeting in Window Rock over whether it required a super majority for passage.

Delegates are planning to revisit the Navajo Mine proposal Friday.

Zurich American Insurance Company is asking the tribe to waive its sovereign immunity and settle any arbitration in New Mexico and Arizona

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The baby’s body was found Monday afternoon, said Lisa Doughty, a spokeswoman for Waste Management, the company that runs the facility. The employee was working at the start of a sorting line in a center that receives mixed materials from paper to plastics and metals, Doughty said. The newborn’s body was in a bin on an inclined conveyor belt, she said.

The center was shut down and police were called.

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Council Delegate LoRenzo Bates, sponsor of the bill, said the request was made by Zurich because the tribal company is a new enterprise and it doesn’t have assets or a proven track record.

“It does not change the intent of what we as Council voted on, to become a player in the energy field,” Bates said.

for orphans in Africa, India and Cuba, and Truett-McConnell College, a Georgia Baptist college.

In July, a temporary exemption from the mandate was granted to Oklahoma Citybased Hobby Lobby, a ruling the government has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Monday’s ruling came the same day the University of Notre Dame appealed a judge’s decision that denied the university an exemption pending its lawsuit. Notre Dame is challenging the law’s requirement that it provide students and employee with health plans that cover birth control, which the Catholic university argues violates its freedom to practice religion without government interference.

As in the previous rulings, the four religious schools maintain that providing insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar contraceptives violates the institutions’ religious beliefs.

Friot states that each of the schools “are Christ-centered institutions of higher learning” that believe “it would be sinful and immoral for them to participate in, pay for, facilitate, enable or otherwise support” access to the birth control methods.

The mandate has forced the schools to either provide the coverage they object to or violate the regulations and incur penalties of $100 per day for each affected employee, the decision states.

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Winston named AP player of the year FSU freshman grateful for opportunity to play football and baseball

By Kareem Copeland The Associated Press

Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant shoots over Chicago Bulls forwards Tony Snell and Carlos Boozer during the fourth quarter of a Dec. 19 game.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Winter of Winston continues for Florida State’s redshirt freshman quarterback.

Jameis Winston is The Associated Press national player of the year, adding to his cadre of postseason accolades. He’s this year’s Heisman

Trophy winner, the Walter Camp national player of the year, the Davey O’Brien quarterback of the year and the Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year.

Seminole football fans should send a thank you note to Florida State’s baseball program.

If not for coach Mike Martin Sr. and one of his assistants, Mike Martin Jr., Winston — a two-sport athlete — might not be preparing to lead the No.1-ranked Seminoles against No. 2 Auburn in the BCS championship game Jan. 6 with the opportunity to bring a third national title back to the

Florida State campus.

When Winston won the Heisman, he thanked the usual cast of family, coaches and teammates. Then there were the thanks to Jameis “Eleven” and “Meat.”

Winston Most of the country ignored the peculiar names, but Winston wouldn’t have attended Florida State without the warm relationship between football coach Jimbo Fisher and the Florida

State baseball coaching staff. “Eleven” — otherwise known as baseball coach Martin Sr., who has led the program for 34 years, and “Meat” — Martin Jr. Martin Jr. was on a recruiting trip to watch Winston during his junior year of high school when he called to let Fisher know. Fisher actually had tape of Winston on his desk at the time and decided to put it in. About 30 minutes later, Fisher called Martin Jr. back and said, “Don’t let him get away.”

Winston hit a game-winning home

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Christmas slate weak due to bad play, luck

Romo still a possibility

By Brian Mahoney The Associated Press

NEW YORK — If the NBA had a Christmas wish, it might be for a different holiday schedule.

The one that was drawn up seemed strong enough when it was released, a potentially dynamite fivegame treat from noon through night, packed with superstar scorers and championship contenders.

But like an old Christmas sweater, it doesn’t look nearly as good now that time has passed.

Bad luck and bad play have wrecked a number of teams the league picked to showcase. Derrick Rose, Kobe Bryant and Brook Lopez are all sitting out, as are Indiana and Portland, who share the NBA’s best record.

But hey, there’s two 9-18 teams and one that’s 10-16.

The Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers got the late afternoon marquee time slot, but it’s certainly no

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A year in golf: Tales of the Tour

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teve Stricker made it clear that money was not important.

His plan was to defend his title at Kapalua and walk away from the PGA Tour for the rest of the year. Over the holidays leading into 2013, he reached a compromise and cut his schedule roughly in half. He contacted his sponsors, and they supported him.

Stricker didn’t have great expectations starting his year of semi-retirement.

“If I could just make enough money to pay yearly expenses, I’m fine with that,” he said. “If we don’t have to touch anything I’ve put away … I don’t need to do what I’m doing just to make money. I’d rather be staying at home, doing things at home with the foundation and with my kids.”

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United States team player Steve Stricker hits from a bunker on the fourth hole during the single matches at the Presidents Cup on Oct. 6. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo flashes a thumbs-up as he walks off the field after the Cowboys defeated the Washington Redskins 24-23 in Sunday’s game. EVAN VUCCI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cowboys owner says QB might play in Sunday’s game against Philadelphia despite back injury The Cowboys (8-7) and Eagles (9-6) are playing Sunday night in Dallas’ third straight season finale against an NFC East rival with the division title and IRVING, Texas a playoff berth on the line. allas owner Jerry Jones says the Cowboys Romo was the starter in losses to the New York aren’t ruling Tony Romo out of a winnerGiants two years ago and Redskins last season. take-all game against Philadelphia because He injured his back in the fourth quarter of Sundoctors could clear him after treating his day’s 24-23 win at Washington. Kyle Orton, who back injury. hasn’t started a game since 2011, is the backup.

Jones said on his radio show Tuesday that his Jones said he had lengthy discussions with Romo quarterback has proven he can play with pain but and his doctors Monday about getting the 33-yearold ready to play. The owner wouldn’t discuss the won’t if doctors advise against it.

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details of Romo’s injury.

“If you know Tony, you can’t imagine what a competitor he is, and he doesn’t want to miss a snap,” Jones said. “He was very disappointed, particularly disappointed for his team, repeated over and over again, ‘Jerry, I can’t tell you how badly I feel relative to you and relative to my teammates.’”

Romo didn’t miss a game in 2011 after breaking his ribs in Week 2 against San Francisco. He was heavily padded and medicated the next week against Washington and did enough to get the Cowboys an 18-16 win.

“Tony will play with all the pain,” Jones said. “But his doctor has to clear him.”

If Romo isn’t cleared, Orton will make his first start since the 2011 season finale for Kansas City

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Army hires former Navy assistant Monken as coach Championship Subdivision ranks.

“I am honored and humbled by their trust in me to lead the West Point football program,” The Associated Press Monken said. “More WEST POINT, N.Y. — Intent on than anyone else, I Jeff Monken ending its long losing streak against want to thank the its archrival, Army hired former Navy men and women assistant Jeff Monken as its football who have served and continue to coach. serve our nation in the United States Monken spent the past four seasons Army. I am proud to be your head as the head coach at Georgia Southfootball coach.” ern after learning the triple-option Monken will be introduced at a offense under Paul Johnson during news conference Monday as Army’s stints with the Middies and Georgia 37th football coach. He replaces Rich Tech. He had a 38-16 record at GeorEllerson, who was fired last week gia Southern and helped guide the after his fifth straight loss to Navy. program’s transition to the Football “We want a successful head coach Bowl Subdivision from the Football who understands the challenges of

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working at a service academy, one who could help us win immediately, and one who understands the importance of West Point’s mission. We found that in Jeff,” athletic director Boo Corrigan said.

Corrigan added that there was “tremendous interest” in the position, but Monken “separated himself from the others. His passion, energy and strong experience in turning around a program immediately helped him rise to the top of our list.”

The 60-year-old Ellerson went 20-41 at Army and was unable to halt the Black Knights’ losing streak against their most important rival.

Navy has won 12 straight in the series, the longest run by either team.

Army seemed to be closing the gap when it lost in 2011 and ’12 by a total of nine points. But this year, on a

snowy Saturday in Philadelphia, Navy dominated again, winning 34-7 as Army finished with a 3-9 record.

Ellerson took over at West Point after eight seasons at Cal Poly and brought the triple option back to Army. The Black Knights went 7-6 in his second year, their first winning season since 1996, and that included Army’s first bowl victory since 1985.

Army went 8-28 in Ellerson’s final three seasons, but the triple option wasn’t the problem. Army’s offense averaged more than 300 yards rushing each of those seasons, but the rest of the team never developed. He had two years left on his contract.

Georgia Southern qualified for the NCAA playoffs in all three eligible seasons under Monken, advancing to the national semifinals each year while posting double-digit victory totals.

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Western Conference Central GP W L OL Pts GF GA Chicago 39 26 7 6 58 145107 St. Louis 36 24 7 5 53 128 85 Colorado 36 23 10 3 49 106 88 Minnesota 39 20 14 5 45 88 96 Dallas 36 18 12 6 42 106107 Winnipeg 39 16 18 5 37 103116 Nashville 37 16 17 4 36 85 109 Pacific GP W L OL Pts GF GA Anaheim 39 27 7 5 59 127 98 Los Angeles 38 25 9 4 54 106 76 San Jose 37 23 8 6 52 121 94 Vancouver 39 22 11 6 50 106 93 Phoenix 36 19 10 7 45 111110 Calgary 37 14 17 6 34 95 118 Edmonton 39 12 24 3 27 101135 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled.

Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 2, Toronto 1, SO Calgary 4, St. Louis 3, SO San Jose 5, Colorado 4, SO Buffalo 2, Phoenix 1, OT Anaheim 3, Washington 2 Columbus 4, Carolina 3 Ottawa 5, Pittsburgh 0 N.Y. Islanders 3, Detroit 0 Tampa Bay 6, Florida 1 Philadelphia 4, Minnesota 1 Chicago 5, New Jersey 2 Boston 6, Nashville 2 Edmonton 6, Winnipeg 2 Dallas 5, Los Angeles 2 Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled.

Thursday’s Games No games scheduled.

Late Monday Stars 5, Kings 2 Dallas 2 1 2—5 Los Angeles 2 0 0—2 First Period—1, Los Angeles, Williams 13 (Kopitar, Doughty), 2:28. 2, Dallas, Seguin 19 (Ja.Benn, Fortunus), 3:48.

3, Dallas, Ja.Benn 11, 6:10. 4, Los Angeles, Stoll 5 (Williams, Lewis), 16:48.

Penalties—Fiddler, Dal (hooking), 1:11; Stoll, LA (holding stick), 1:22.

Second Period—5, Dallas, Nichushkin 7 (Seguin, Ja.Benn), 5:07 (pp).

Penalties—Stoll, LA (interference), 3:41; Regehr, LA (high-sticking), 6:33; Greene, LA (holding), 15:23; Ja.Benn, Dal, major (fighting), 19:27; Regehr, LA, major (fighting), 19:27.

Third Period—6, Dallas, Eakin 8 (Garbutt), 15:12. 7, Dallas, Horcoff 4, 18:51 (en). Penalties—Goligoski, Dal (tripping), 11:28.

Shots on Goal—Dallas 4-14-5—23. Los Angeles 13-9-10—32.

Power-play opportunities—Dallas 1 of 4; Los Angeles 0 of 2.

Goalies—Dallas, Lehtonen 14-8-6 (32 shots-30 saves). Los Angeles, Jones 8-1-0 (23-19).

A—18,274 (18,118). T—2:23.

Referees—Mike Leggo, Brad Watson.

Linesmen—Shane Heyer, Vaughan Rody.

Sharks 5, Avalanche 4, SO Colorado 2 0 2 0—4 San Jose 1 2 1 0—5 San Jose won shootout 2-0 First Period—1, Colorado, MacKinnon 8 (O’Reilly, Johnson), 11:05 (pp).

2, San Jose, Demers 2 (Thornton, Burns), 13:59 (pp). 3, Colorado, Landeskog 10 (Stastny, Parenteau), 19:11. Penalties—McLeod, Col, major (fighting), 2:26; Brown, SJ, major (fighting), 2:26; McGinn, Col, major (fighting), 8:54; Stuart, SJ, major (fighting), 8:54; Wingels, SJ (tripping), 10:24; Benoit, Col (elbowing), 13:21; Couture, SJ (tripping), 14:57.

Second Period—4, San Jose, Burns 10 (Thornton, Irwin), 5:53. 5, San Jose, Irwin 2 (Boyle, Wingels), 13:02 (pp).

Penalties—MacKinnon, Col (highsticking), 12:28.

Third Period—6, Colorado, Johnson 6 (O’Reilly, Duchene), 18:09. 7, Colorado, Mitchell 5 (Talbot, Benoit), 18:21. 8, San Jose, Pavelski 15 (Thornton, Burns), 19:40. Penalties— Colorado bench, served by Parenteau (too many men), 7:10; Marleau, SJ (tripping), 16:05.

Overtime—None. Penalties—Johnson, Col (holding), 1:54.

Shootout—Colorado 0 (MacKinnon NG, Duchene NG), San Jose 2 (Pavelski NG, Couture G, Marleau G).

Shots on Goal—Colorado 15-5-112—33. San Jose 13-21-6-5—45.

Power-play opportunities—Colorado 1 of 3; San Jose 2 of 4.

Goalies—Colorado, Varlamov 16-8-3 (45 shots-41 saves). San Jose, Niemi 19-7-6 (33-29).

A—17,562 (17,562). T—2:45.

Referees—Gord Dwyer, Tom Kowal.

Linesmen—John Grandt, Jay Sharrers.

Leaders Through Dec. 23 Scoring GP Sidney Crosby, Pit 39 Patrick Kane, Chi 39 Ryan Getzlaf, Anh 36 N. Backstrom, Was 37 Alex Ovechkin, Was 35 Corey Perry, Anh 39 Evgeni Malkin, Pit 32 Joe Thornton, SJ 37 Chris Kunitz, Pit 39 John Tavares, NYI 38 Alex Steen, StL 35 Tyler Seguin, Dal 34 M. St. Louis, TB 37 Erik Karlsson, Ott 39 1 tied with 36 pts.

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A PTS 34 54 27 49 25 44 33 42 11 41 19 41 32 41 35 40 19 39 26 39 14 38 18 37 21 37 27 37

Calendar Dec. 19-27 — Holiday roster freeze.

Dec. 24-26 — Holiday break.

Dec. 26-Jan. 5 — IIHF World Junior Championship, Malmo, Sweden.

Jan. 1 — NHL Winter Classic: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Detroit Red Wings at Michigan Stadium.

Jan. 25 — NHL Stadium Series: Anaheim Ducks vs. Los Angeles Kings at Dodger Stadium.

Jan. 26 — NHL Stadium Series: New York Rangers vs. New Jersey Devils at Yankee Stadium.

Jan. 29 — NHL Stadium Series: New York Rangers vs. New York Islanders at Yankee Stadium.

Feb. 6-8 — Olympic break begins.

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11 4 0 .733 383 252 Arizona 10 5 0 .667 359 301 St. Louis 7 8 0 .467 339 337 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division WEEK SIXTEEN Monday’s Game San Francisco 34, Atlanta 24 Sunday’s Games St. Louis 23, Tampa Bay 13 Indianapolis 23, Kansas City 7 Denver 37, Houston 13 Buffalo 19, Miami 0 Carolina 17, New Orleans 13 Dallas 24, Washington 23 N.Y. Jets 24, Cleveland 13 Cincinnati 42, Minnesota 14 Tennessee 20, Jacksonville 16 Arizona 17, Seattle 10 N.Y. Giants 23, Detroit 20, OT San Diego 26, Oakland 13 Pittsburgh 38, Green Bay 31 New England 41, Baltimore 7 Philadelphia 54, Chicago 11 WEEK SEVENTEEN Sunday, Dec. 29 Houston at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

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Carolina at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Washington at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 11 a.m.

Denver at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Chicago, 2:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 2:25 p.m.

Buffalo at New England, 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

AFC Leaders Week 16 Quarterbacks Att Com Yds TD Int P. Manning, DEN 631 425 5211 51 10 P. Rivers, SND 511 356 4249 29 10 Rthlsbrgr, PIT 553 356 4082 27 12 Dalton, CIN 550 342 4015 31 16 Ale. Smith, KAN 509 308 3313 23 8 Brady, NWE 604 366 4221 24 10 Luck, IND 533 317 3540 22 9 Tannehill, MIA 548 335 3709 23 14 Fitzpatrick, TEN 326 202 2288 14 11 Keenum, HOU 253 137 1760 9 6 Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TD J. Charles, KAN 259 12874.97 46 12 R. Mathews, SND 261 1111 4.26 51 6 Moreno, DEN 235 10154.32 31 10 C. Johnson, TEN 252 950 3.77 30t 5 F. Jackson, BUF 193 836 4.33 59 8 Spiller, BUF 182 822 4.52 77 2 Ivory, NYJ 177 814 4.60 69 3 Be. Tate, HOU 181 771 4.26 60 4 L. Bell, PIT 224 770 3.44 43 7 Jones-Drew, JAX 221 764 3.46 48 5 Receivers No Yds Avg LG TD A. Johnson, HOU 103 1358 13.2 62t 5 Ant. Brown, PIT 101 1412 14.0 56 8 Edelman, NWE 96 991 10.3 44 6 A.. Green, CIN 94 136514.5 82t 10 Ke. Wright, TEN 89 102911.6 45 2 D. Thomas, DEN 86 131715.3 78t 12 Decker, DEN 83 126115.2 61 10 J. Gordon, CLE 80 156419.6 95t 9 Cameron, CLE 75 848 11.3 53 7 Hartline, MIA 74 978 13.2 50 4 Punters No Yds LG Avg M. King, OAK 79 3878 66 49.1 Fields, MIA 80 3906 74 48.8 Lechler, HOU 83 3960 65 47.7 D. Colquitt, KAN 82 3776 65 46.0 Koch, BAL 84 3853 69 45.9 McAfee, IND 71 3262 60 45.9 Ry. Allen, NWE 74 3386 65 45.8 Quigley, NYJ 67 3068 67 45.8 Anger, JAX 90 4108 61 45.6 Huber, CIN 66 2982 75 45.2 Punt Returners No Yds Avg LG TD Doss, BAL 23 359 15.6 82t 1 Ant. Brown, PIT 29 388 13.4 67t 1 Benjamin, CLE 22 257 11.7 79t 1 McCluster, KAN 57 654 11.5 89t 2 Edelman, NWE 33 367 11.1 43 0 Br. Tate, CIN 31 301 9.7 43 0 K. Martin, HOU 39 345 8.8 87t 1 Holliday, DEN 31 271 8.7 81t 1 Thigpen, MIA 31 237 7.6 34 0 McKelvin, BUF 32 180 5.6 21 0 Kickoff Returners No Yds Avg LG TD Q. Demps, KAN 30 892 29.7 95t 1 Jac. Jones, BAL 25 723 28.9 77t 1 Holliday, DEN 28 775 27.7 105t 1 Todman, JAX 24 662 27.6 59 0 K. Martin, HOU 33 864 26.2 50 0 Br. Tate, CIN 32 835 26.1 71 0 D. Reed, IND 24 590 24.6 39 0 Cribbs, NYJ 20 490 24.5 42 0 Ta. Jones, OAK 24 572 23.8 41 0 Thigpen, MIA 36 840 23.3 50 0 Scoring Touchdowns TD RushRec Ret Pts J. Charles, KAN 19 12 7 0 114 Moreno, DEN 12 10 2 0 72 De. Thomas, DEN 12 0 12 0 72 Ju. Thomas, DEN 12 0 12 0 72 Decker, DEN 10 0 10 0 60 A.. Green, CIN 10 0 10 0 60 Welker, DEN 10 0 10 0 60 Ant. Brown, PIT 9 0 8 1 54 Cotchery, PIT 9 0 9 0 54 J. Gordon, CLE 9 0 9 0 54 Kicking PAT FG LG Pts Gostkowski, NWE 42-42 34-37 54 144 M. Prater, DEN 71-71 23-24 64 140 Novak, SND 39-39 32-35 50 135 J. Tucker, BAL 26-26 35-38 61 131 Vinatieri, IND 31-31 32-37 52 127 D. Carpenter, BUF 30-30 31-34 55 123 Suisham, PIT 37-37 28-30 48 121 Folk, NYJ 25-25 31-33 54 118 Succop, KAN 49-49 21-26 51 112 Sturgis, MIA 32-32 26-34 54 110

NFC Leaders Week 16 Quarterbacks Att Com Yds TD Int Foles, PHL 291 186 2628 25 2 J. McCown, CHI 224 149 1829 13 1 A. Rodgers, GBY 251 168 2218 15 4 Brees, NOR 619 422 4781 35 12 R. Wilson, SEA 384 242 3185 25 9 Romo, DAL 535 342 3828 31 10 S. Bradford, STL 262 159 1687 14 4 Kaepernick, SNF 382 222 2887 19 8 C. Newton, CAR 446 277 3230 22 12 M. Ryan, ATL 611 411 4235 24 16 Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TD L. McCoy, PHL 287 14765.14 57t 9 A. Peterson, MIN 279 1266 4.54 78t 10 Forte, CHI 267 12294.60 55 7 A. Morris, WAS 260 12134.67 45t 7 M. Lynch, SEA 278 11604.17 43 11 Gore, SNF 263 11144.24 51 9 Lacy, GBY 263 11124.23 60 10 D. Murray, DAL 200 10735.37 43 9 Re. Bush, DET 209 974 4.66 39 4 Stacy, STL 235 958 4.08 40t 7 Receivers No Yds Avg LG TD Garcon, WAS 107 129012.1 53t 5 B. Marshall, CHI 94 1221 13.0 44 11 Jeffery, CHI 86 134115.6 80t 7 De. Bryant, DAL 85 113413.3 79 12 C. Johnson, DET 84 1492 17.8 87 12 J. Graham, NOR 81 114414.1 56t 15 D. Jackson, PHL 79 1304 16.5 61t 9 Gonzalez, ATL 79 803 10.2 25 8 Douglas, ATL 78 100912.9 80t 2 Boldin, SNF 76 103013.6 43 6 Punters No Yds LG Avg A. Lee, SNF 73 3546 62 48.6 Nortman, CAR 64 3052 72 47.7 Morstead, NOR 57 2698 61 47.3 Weatherford, NYG 83 3919 68 47.2 S. Martin, DET 65 3044 72 46.8 Bosher, ATL 63 2924 63 46.4 Hekker, STL 71 3272 64 46.1 Zastudil, ARI 75 3418 60 45.6 Chr. Jones, DAL 74 3356 62 45.4 Donn. Jones, PHL 77 3444 70 44.7 Punt Returners No Yds Avg LG TD Sherels, MIN 19 258 13.6 86t 1 Hyde, GBY 23 296 12.9 93t 1 Ginn Jr., CAR 23 283 12.3 41 0 G. Tate, SEA 49 587 12.0 71 0 Page, TAM 23 251 10.9 52 0 L. James, SNF 20 206 10.3 40 0 Ta. Austin, STL 33 280 8.5 98t 1 R. Randle, NYG 29 237 8.2 32 0 Sproles, NOR 28 194 6.9 28 0 Spurlock, DET 22 145 6.6 57 0 Kickoff ReturnersNoYds Avg LG TD C. Patterson, MIN 40 1342 33.6 109t 2 Dw. Harris, DAL 26 792 30.5 90 0 Hester, CHI 47 131528.0 80 0 Page, TAM 19 479 25.2 44 0 Hyde, GBY 21 513 24.4 70 0 Ginn Jr., CAR 24 564 23.5 38 0 J. Rodgers, ATL 25 575 23.0 34 0 Arenas, ARI 20 446 22.3 46 0 Paul, WAS 20 411 20.6 39 0 Scoring Touchdowns TD RushRec Ret Pts J. Graham, NOR 15 0 15 0 90 M. Lynch, SEA 13 11 2 0 78 De. Bryant, DAL 12 0 12 0 72 Ve. Davis, SNF 12 0 12 0 72 Cal. Johnson, DET 12 0 12 0 72 B. Marshall, CHI 11 0 11 0 70 A. Peterson, MIN 11 10 1 0 66 Fitzgerald, ARI 10 0 10 0 60 Lacy, GBY 10 10 0 0 60 L. McCoy, PHL 10 9 1 0 60 Kicking PAT FG LG Pts Hauschka, SEA 41-41 31-33 53 134 Crosby, GBY 39-39 31-35 57 132 P. Dawson, SNF 42-42 29-32 55 129 D. Bailey, DAL 46-46 25-27 53 121 Feely, ARI 35-35 28-32 52 119 Gould, CHI 41-42 26-29 58 119 Walsh, MIN 41-42 26-30 54 119 Gano, CAR 39-39 24-27 55 111 Zuerlein, STL 34-34 25-27 54 109 Henery, PHL 42-42 22-27 51 108

NCAA FBS Bowls Tuesday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Oregon State (6-6) vs. Boise State Thursday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Bowling Green (10-3) vs. Pittsburgh (6-6), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego Northern Illinois (12-1) vs. Utah State (8-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Annapolis, Md. Marshall (9-4) vs. Maryland (7-5), 12:30 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl At Houston Minnesota (8-4) vs. Syracuse (6-6), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco BYU (8-4) vs. Washington (8-4), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 28 Pinstripe Bowl At New York Notre Dame (8-4) vs. Rutgers (6-6), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Cincinnati (9-3) vs. North Carolina (6-6), 1:20 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Miami (9-3) vs. Louisville (11-1), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN) Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Kansas State (7-5) vs. Michigan (7-5), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Navy (8-4), 9:45 a.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech (7-5), 1:15 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Oregon (10-2) vs. Texas (8-4), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Arizona State (10-3) vs. Texas Tech (7-5), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 31 AdvoCare V100 Bowl At Shreveport, La. Arizona (7-5) vs. Boston College (7-5), 10:30 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Virginia Tech (8-4) vs. UCLA (9-3), 12 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Rice (9-3) vs. Mississippi State (6-6), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Texas A&M (8-4) vs. Duke (10-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN)

BASEBALL BASEBALL

NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic Toronto Boston Brooklyn New York Philadelphia Southeast Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington Orlando Central Indiana Detroit Chicago Cleveland Milwaukee

W 11 12 9 9 8 W 21 15 14 12 8 W 23 14 10 10 6

L 15 17 18 18 20 L 6 13 15 13 20 L 5 16 16 17 22

Pct .423 .414 .333 .333 .286 Pct .778 .536 .483 .480 .286 Pct .821 .467 .385 .370 .214

GB — ½ 2½ 2½ 4 GB — 6½ 8 8 13½ GB — 10 12 12½ 17

Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB San Antonio 22 6 .786 — Houston 18 11 .621 4½ Dallas 16 12 .571 6 New Orleans 12 14 .462 9 Memphis 12 15 .444 9½ Northwest W L Pct GB Portland 23 5 .821 — Oklahoma City 22 5 .815 ½ Denver 14 13 .519 8½ Minnesota 13 15 .464 10 Utah 8 23 .258 16½ GB Pacific W L Pct L.A. Clippers 20 9 .690 — Phoenix 17 10 .630 2 Golden State 16 13 .552 4 L.A. Lakers 13 15 .464 6½ Sacramento 8 19 .296 11 Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled.

Monday’s Games New York 103, Orlando 98 Detroit 115, Cleveland 92 Charlotte 111, Milwaukee 110, OT Miami 121, Atlanta 119, OT Indiana 103, Brooklyn 86 Dallas 111, Houston 104 Memphis 104, Utah 94 San Antonio 112, Toronto 99 Phoenix 117, L.A. Lakers 90 Golden State 89, Denver 81 New Orleans 113, Sacramento 100 Wednesday’s Games Chicago at Brooklyn, 10 a.m.

Oklahoma City at New York, 12:30 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Lakers, 3 p.m.

Houston at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Atlanta at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Late Monday Pelicans 113, Kings 100 NEW ORLEANS (113) Aminu 6-8 0-1 13, Anderson 3-9 0-0 8, Davis 6-15 9-10 21, Holiday 7-13 0-0 17, Gordon 6-13 3-4 17, Evans 7-14 11-12 25, Ajinca 3-4 0-0 6, Roberts 3-6 0-0 6, Morrow 0-1 0-0 0, Amundson 0-0 0-0 0, Miller 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-83 23-27 113.

SACRAMENTO (100) Gay 2-12 7-8 11, Thompson 0-4 0-2 0, Cousins 7-15 10-17 24, Thomas 8-15 2-3 21, McLemore 1-2 0-0 3, Williams 2-3 3-3 7, Thornton 5-13 7-7 19, Acy 2-3 2-2 6, Gray 0-1 0-0 0, Fredette 4-6 0-0 9. Totals 31-74 31-42 100.

New Orleans 28 24 25 36—113 Sacramento 27 25 25 23—100 3-Point Goals—New Orleans 8-17 (Holiday 3-4, Anderson 2-4, Gordon 2-4, Aminu 1-2, Evans 0-1, Roberts 0-2), Sacramento 7-17 (Thomas 3-6, Thornton 2-6, McLemore 1-2, Fredette 1-2, Gay 0-1). Fouled Out—Ajinca.

Rebounds—New Orleans 50 (Davis 11), Sacramento 50 (Cousins 14).

Assists—New Orleans 28 (Evans 12), Sacramento 15 (Thomas 5). Total Fouls—New Orleans 26, Sacramento 22. Technicals—Anderson. A—17,317 (17,317).

Leaders Through Dec. 23 Scoring G FG FT PTS Durant, OKC 27 241 228 759 Anthony, NYK 27 251 167 709 Love, MIN 27 231 171 700 James, MIA 27 252 147 686 George, IND 28 228 140 670 Curry, GOL 26 215 104 621 Harden, HOU 23 168 168 549 Aldridge, POR 28 268 111 647 Cousins, SAC 26 214 158 586 Afflalo, ORL 27 206 118 592 Westbrook, OKC24 185 116 519 Lillard, POR 28 188 140 603 Nowitzki, DAL 27 212 116 580 Irving, CLE 27 211 112 580 DeRozan, TOR 26 197 123 546 Griffin, LAC 29 230 141 606 Ellis, DAL 28 209 136 576 Martin, MIN 26 168 136 525 Wall, WAS 25 177 106 490 Thompson, GOL29 208 61 565 FG Percentage FG FGA Jordan, LAC 111 172 Drummond, DET 179 288 Johnson, TOR 132 219 James, MIA 252 421 Howard, HOU 191 324 183 Hill, LAL 107 Lopez, Bro 129 229 Horford, ATL 227 403 Wade, MIA 157 290 Diaw, SAN 115 213 Rebounds G OFF DEF TOT Love, MIN 27 103 271 374 Howard, HOU 29 105 280 385 Jordan, LAC 29 121 259 380 Drummond, DET30 157 218 375 Vucevic, ORL 24 73 201 274 Aldridge, POR 28 69 240 309 Cousins, SAC 26 75 207 282 Bogut, GOL 28 78 219 297 Griffin, LAC 29 68 237 305 Lee, GOL 29 83 205 288 Assists G AST Paul, LAC 28 317 Curry, GOL 26 239 Wall, WAS 25 228 Jennings, DET 28 228 Holiday, NOR 26 211 Teague, ATL 28 225 Rubio, MIN 28 225 Lawson, DEN 25 194 Blake, LAL 21 162 Lowry, TOR 26 181

AVG 28.1 26.3 25.9 25.4 23.9 23.9 23.9 23.1 22.5 21.9 21.6 21.5 21.5 21.5 21.0 20.9 20.6 20.2 19.6 19.5 PCT .645 .622 .603 .599 .590 .585 .563 .563 .541 .540 AVG 13.9 13.3 13.1 12.5 11.4 11.0 10.8 10.6 10.5 9.9 AVG 11.3 9.2 9.1 8.1 8.1 8.0 8.0 7.8 7.7 7.0

NCAA Men’s Top 25 Schedule Monday’s Games No. 1 Arizona vs. Northern Arizona, 8 p.m.

No. 14 Iowa State vs. Akron at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled.

Wednesday’s Game No. 14 Iowa State vs. South Carolina or Boise State at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, 4:30 or 6:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games No games scheduled.

Women’s AP Top 25 Monday’s Games No games scheduled.

Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled.

Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled.

Thursday’s Games No games scheduled.

Friday’s Games No games scheduled.

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MLB Free Agent Signings

BASEBALL American League

New York — The 68 free agents who have signed, with name, position, former club if different, and contract.

The contract information was obtained by The Associated Press from player and management sources. For players with minor league contracts, letter agreements for major league contracts are in parentheses: American League BOSTON (3) — Signed A.J. Pierzynski, c, Texas, to an $8.25 million, one-year contract; signed Edward Mujica, rhp, St. Louis, to a $9.5 million, two-year contract; re-signed Mike Napoli, 1b, to a $32 million, two-year contract.

CHICAGO (1) — Re-signed Paul Konerko, 1b, to a $2.5 million, oneyear contract.

CLEVELAND (2) — Re-signed Jason Giambi, 1b, to a minor league contract; signed David Murphy, of, Texas, to a $12 million, two-year contract.

DETROIT (3) — Signed Joe Nathan, rhp, Texas, to a $10 million, two-year contract; signed Rajai Davis, of, Toronto, to a $10 million, two-year contract; signed Joba Chamberlain, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract.

HOUSTON (3) — Signed Scott Feldman, rhp, Baltimore, to a $10 million, three-year contract; signed Chad Qualls, rhp, Miami, to a $6 million, two-year contract; signed Matt Albers, rhp, Cleveland, to a $2.45 million, one-year contract.

KANSAS CITY (2) — Signed Jason Vargas, lhp, Los Angeles Angels, to a $32 million, four-year contract; signed Omar Infante, 2b, Detroit, to a $30.25 million, four-year contract.

LOS ANGELES (1) — Signed Joe Smith, rhp, Cleveland, to a $15.75 million, three-year contract.

MINNESOTA (3) — Signed Ricky Nolasco, rhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $49 million, four-year contract; signed Phil Hughes, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $24 million, three-year contract; signed Jason Kubel, of, Cleveland, to a minor league contract.

NEW YORK (6) — Re-signed Brendan Ryan, ss, to a $5 million, two-year contract; signed Brian McCann, c, Atlanta, to an $85 million, five-year contract; signed Kelly Johnson, inf-of, Tampa Bay, to a $3 million, one-year contract; re-signed Hiroki Kuroka, rhp, to a $16 million, one-year contract; signed Jacoby Ellsbury, of, Boston, to a $153 million, seven-year contract; signed Carlos Beltran, of, St. Louis, to a $45 million, three-year contract.

OAKLAND (2) — Signed Nick Punto, inf, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $3 million, one-year contract; signed Scott Kazmir, lhp, Cleveland, to a $22 million, two-year contract.

SEATTLE (4) — Signed Willie Bloomquist, 2b, Arizona, to a $5.8 million, one-year contract; signed Robinson Cano, 2b, New York Yankees, to a $240 million, 10-year contract; signed Corey Hart, of-1b, Milwaukee, to a $6 million, one-year contract; re-signed Franklin Gutierrez, of, to a $1 million, one-year contract.

TAMPA BAY (2) — Re-signed Jose Molina, c, to a $4.5 million, two-year contract; re-signed Juan Oviedo, rhp, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract.

TEXAS (3) — Re-signed Geovany Soto, c, to a $3.05 million, one-year contract; re-signed Jason Frasor, rhp, to a $1.75 million, one-year contract; re-signed Colby Lewis, rhp, to a minor league contract.

TORONTO (1) — Signed Dioner Navarro, c, Chicago Cubs, to an $8 million, two-year contract.

National League ARIZONA (1) — Re-signed Eric Chavez, 3b, to a $3.5 million, one-year contract.

ATLANTA (1) — Signed Gavin Floyd, rhp, Chicago White Sox, to a $4 million, one-year contract.

CHICAGO (1) — Signed Tsuyoshi Wada, lhp, Baltimore, to a minor league contract.

CINCINNATI (2) — Signed Brayan Pena, c, Detroit, to a $2,275,000, one-year contract; signed Skip Schumaker, 2b, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $5 million, two-year contract.

COLORADO (3) — Signed LaTroy Hawkins, rhp, New York Mets, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract; signed Justin Morneau, 1b, Pittsburgh, to a $12.5 million, two-year contract; signed Boone Logan, lhp, New York Yankees, to a $16.5 million, three-year contract.

LOS ANGELES (2) — Signed Dan Haren, rhp, Washington, to a $10 million, one-year contract; re-signed Brian Wilson, rhp, to a $10 million, one-year contract.

MIAMI (2) — Signed Jarrod Saltalamacchia, c, Boston, to a $21 million, three-year contract; signed Rafael Furcal, ss, St. Louis, to a $3 million, one-year contract.

NEW YORK (3) — Signed Chris Young, of, Oakland, to a $7.25 million, oneyear contract; signed Curtis Granderson, of, New York Yankees, to a $60 million, four-year contract; signed Bartolo Colon, rhp, Oakland, to a $20 million, two-year contract.

PHILADELPHIA (4) — Signed Marlon Byrd, of, Pittsburgh, to a $16 million, two-year contract; re-signed Carlos Ruiz, c, to a $26 million, three-year contract; signed Wil Nieves, c, Arizona, to a $1,125,000 one-year contract; signed Roberto Hernandez, rhp, Tampa Bay, to a $4.5 million, oneyear contract.

PITTSBURGH (2) — Signed Edinson Volquez, rhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Clint Barmes, ss, to a $2 million, one-year contract.

ST. LOUIS (2) — Signed Jhonny Peralta, ss, Detroit, to a $53 million, four-year contract; signed Mark Ellis, 2b, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $5.25 million, one-year contract.

SAN DIEGO (1) — Signed Josh Johnson, rhp, Toronto, to an $8 million, one-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO (4) — Signed Tim Hudson, rhp, Atlanta, to a $23 million, two-year contract; re-signed Javier Lopez, lhp, to a $13 million, three-year contract; re-signed Ryan Vogelsong, rhp, to a $5 million, one-year contract; signed Michael Morse, of, Baltimore, to a $6 million, one-year contract.

WASHINGTON (2) — Signed Nate McLouth, of, Baltimore, to a $10.75 million, two-year contract; signed Chris Snyder, c, Baltimore, to a minor league contract.

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Claimed RHP Liam Hendriks off waivers from the Chicago Cubs.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Assigned RHP Trey Haley outright to Columbus (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Assigned RHP Rhiner Cruz outright to Oklahoma City (PCL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Assigned RHP Chance Ruffin outright to Tacoma (PCL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Claimed OF Jerry Sands off waivers from Pittsburgh.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with INF Munenori Kawasaki on a minor league contract.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Jamey Wright and Chris Perez on one-year contracts and LHP J.P. Howell on a two-year contract.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Assigned RHP Michael Olmsted outright to Nashville (PCL).

NEW YORK METS — Claimed RHP Ryan Reid off waivers from Pittsburgh.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Brooklyn F Paul Pierce $15,000 for making excessive and unnecessary contact with Indiana G George Hill during Monday’s game.

FOOTBALL National Football League HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed CB Johnathan Joseph and RB Deji Karim on injured reserve. Signed FB Toben Opurum from Kansas City’s practice squad and RB Ray Graham.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed DT Montori Hughes on injured reserve.

Released LB Darin Drakeford from the practice squad. Signed LB Alan Baxter to the practice squad.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed WR Jerrell Jackson, RB Eric Kettani and LB/DE Ridge Wilson to the practice squad. Released WR Fred Williams.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Released WR Nathan Palmer from the practice squad. Signed WR Reggie Dunn to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed CB Robert Steeples to the practice squad.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Placed TE John Phillips on injured reserve.

Signed TE Jake Byrne from Kansas City’s practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed LB Nick Barnett on injured reserve.

Signed LB Adrian Robinson; LB Will Compton from the practice squad; and TE Gabe Miller to the practice squad.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Named Rob Keefe coach.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Assigned D Maxime Fortunus to Texas (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Reassigned G Jacob Markstrom and D Alex Petrovic to San Antonio (AHL). Activated G Tim Thomas from injured reserve.

WINNIPEG JETS — Agreed to terms with G Eric Comrie on a three-year, two-way, entry-level contract.

American Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMEN — Released F Paul Chiasson from his three-game tryout.

Signed F Corey Tamblyn.

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Cincinnati F Tony Turgeon two games and Utah LW Kris Hogg indefinitely and fined them undisclosed amounts.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Loaned M Clint Dempsey to Fulham (Premier League-England).

COLLEGE NCAA ARMY — Named Jeff Monken football coach.

NORTH DAKOTA — Named Kyle Schweigert football coach.

OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN — Named Teresa DeBoard assistant athletic director for student-athlete well-being.

THIS DATE ONON THIS DATE December 25 1956 — Corky Devlin of Fort Wayne goes 0-for-15 from the field against the Minneapolis Lakers to tie an NBA record.

1971 — Garo Yepremian’s 37-yard field goal at 7:40 of the second overtime gives the Miami Dolphins a 27-24 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of the AFC playoffs.

At 82:40, it’s the longest game in NFL history.

1984 — Bernard King of the New York Knicks scores 60 points in a 120-114 loss to the New Jersey Nets.

1995 — Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys scores his 25th touchdown of the season in a 37-13 win over Arizona, breaking the record for most TDs in a season. Smith passes John Riggins of Washington, who scored 24 in 1983.

1999 — Hawaii beats Oregon 23-17 in the Oahu Bowl to cap a remarkable turnaround for the Rainbow Warriors.

Hawaii improves from 0-12 in 1998 to 9-4 — the greatest single-season improvement in NCAA history.

2002 — Katie Hnida becomes the first woman to play in a Division I football game when she attempts an extra point following a New Mexico touchdown in the Las Vegas Bowl. Hnida, a walk-on junior, has her kick blocked in the 27-13 loss to UCLA. 2008 — The Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston to end the Celtics’ franchiserecord winning streak at 19 games.

Kobe Bryant scores 27 points and grabs nine rebounds to lead Los Angeles in the 92-83 win. Lakers coach Phil Jackson reaches 1,000 victories.

Jackson, the sixth coach to reach 1,000, has a career record of 1,000423 with Chicago and the Lakers.

2008 — New Orleans guard Chris Paul has his NBA-record steals streak end at 108 games in the Hornets’ 88-68 loss to Orlando.

2012 — The Los Angeles Clippers extend their franchise-record winning streak to 14 games with a 112-100 win over the Denver Nuggets. The Clippers claim the NBA’s best record at 22-6 in the finale of a Christmas Day doubleheader at Staples Center.

In the first game, Kobe Bryant scores 34 points in his NBA-record 15th Christmas Day game to lead the Lakers to a 100-94 win over the New York Knicks 100-94.

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Twice-fired Terry Stotts finds success observers were surprised by the move. Some pushed for interim head coach Kaleb Canales to get the job, but Stotts quickly won them over with a measured approach and player-friendly

By Jon Krawczynski offensive system.

The Associated Press “You’re at your best when you’re not worried about what It was the summer of 2007, someone’s saying about your and Terry Stotts had just been offensive game,” guard Wesfired for the second time in four ley Matthews said. “There are years. structures and guidelines, but The George Karl disciple he trusts us enough to make the wasn’t sure where his coachright plays out there.” ing career was headed, so he Lillard’s presence in crunch took a pilgrimage to Europe to time has brought a new swagger visit with some of the top inter- Portland Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts argues a call to the group. The additions of national coaches in the game. during the first quarter of a Nov. 15 game against the Boston Robin Lopez, Dorell Wright and He wanted to see things from Celtics. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO Thomas Robinson have added a fresh perspective and, in the depth and Aldridge is enjoyback of his mind, he wondered LaMarcus Aldridge to make Stotts was fired by the Bucks ing the best season of what has if he might need to make the the Blazers offense one of the with 18 games to play in 2007, been a standout, if overlooked, move overseas to continue most entertaining to watch in and that’s when he spent three career to this point. being a head coach. the league. They’ve topped 105 weeks visiting with Ettore Mes“He’s been instrumental,” “I’ve always been open to the points 13 games in a row, the sina and CSKA Moscow, Zeljko Aldridge said of Stotts. “He idea of coaching in Europe,” longest streak since Denver did Obradovic with Panathinaikos came in and he changed the Stotts recently told The Associ- it in 2008. in Greece and David Blatt in whole system. He’s instilled ated Press. “I enjoy the lifestyle “We’re playing the style of Istanbul. confidence in every player. of living in a foreign country. basketball that I envisioned as Stotts played in Europe and He has us buying into playing That was always in the back of far as moving, being unselfish, has always been intrigued by defense this year and playing my mind that might be a posversatility, shooting 3s,” Stotts the international style of play. unselfish, and a lot of teams sibility.” said. “That’s what we enviWhen Rick Carlisle brought don’t play as unselfish as we Six years later, Stotts has sioned.”

Stotts on as an assistant with are.” finally found a roster, and a General manager Neil Olshey Dallas in 2008, he brought some And now, after two false starts front office, in Portland that has has filled the cupboard with of those ideas to the table and to begin his head coaching blended perfectly with his wide- goodies for Stotts, and the coach helped the Mavericks win the career, Stotts has the feeling that open offensive philosophy. He’s enjoys a supportive owner in championship in 2011. he’s finally found a home. making the most of what may Paul Allen. Those two entities “He has a great overall feel for “It’s definitely been special,” have been his last chance to be weren’t necessarily there in his the game,” Carlisle said. “He’s Stotts said. “You just feel like an NBA head coach. first two head coaching jobs in the best offensive coach I’ve there’s no question it’s going in In his second season, the Trail Atlanta and Milwaukee. ever been around.” the right direction.”

Blazers have become one of the Stotts was fired after two seaStotts credits his time in DalCarlisle is one of the few who biggest surprises in the league. sons both times. las for helping crystalize his doesn’t seem surprised that it They are off to a 23-5 start, tied “I thought Terry Stotts, both approach to being a coach. happened this quickly. for the third-best start in franin Atlanta and in Milwaukee, did “We played a style in Dallas “Back in August of ‘12, there chise history. a great job,” ESPN analyst and that I really liked,” Stotts said. weren’t a lot of people clamorThey lead the league in former coach Jeff Van Gundy “That really had as much of an ing to get the Portland Trail 3-point shooting and are third said. “He just didn’t have winimpact on the coach that I am Blazers job,” Carlisle said. “In in attempts, and Stotts offers no ning NBA talent. Oftentimes, right now as compared to who I this league, you’re not just going apologies for the approach. He’s when you get your first jobs was in Milwaukee and Atlanta.” to inherit a great job. You’ve got meshed that around a devastat- in this league, you don’t have When Olshey hired Stotts to take a tough situation and ing pick-and-roll/pick-and-pop talented-enough teams that can before last season, several Port- make it a good situation and team of Damian Lillard and consistently win.” that’s exactly what he’s done.” land players and many league

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North Carolina coach fights leukemia “I haven’t had one test come back and knock me down, so the only thing I’ve got against me is my age,” she said with a laugh.

Hatchell, in her 28th season at UNC,

By Aaron Beard has more than 900 career victories, eight The Associated Press Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles, three Final Fours and the 1994 NCAA CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Sylvia Hatchell is championship. With longtime assistant fighting to get back to her North Carolina Andrew Calder leading UNC on the sidewomen’s basketball program as quickly as line, Hatchell has remained involved by possible. reviewing practice and game video, conferThe recently inducted Naismith Hall of ring with her staff and meeting with her Fame coach has been away from sideline players. duties since October while receiving treatThis is the first time she’s missed games ment for leukemia. She spent a month in since missing two in January 1989 due to the hospital for the first round of chemothe birth of her son, Van. therapy with more ahead as she holds out “Coach Hatchell still makes the decihope of getting back by conference tourna- sions,” said Ivory Latta, UNC’s career scorment time. ing leader and a first-year assistant coach.

“You don’t realize, especially after all this “She definitely still calls the shots. We still time, how much something means to you play the way she wants us to play.” until you don’t have it,” Hatchell said in an While she misses her team, Hatchell said interview with The Associated Press. she’s blessed because her illness was caught “It was like a tsunami hit me and all of a early. She works to stay positive as she sudden it’s taken away. But that’s my motiwould coach her players to do and leans on vation, to get back out there.” her faith.

Hatchell, 61, said she feels great and even “I’ve had moments,” she said. “The bigattended Saturday’s win against High Point, gest thing is in the mornings when I open the first time she watched her No. 10 Tar my eyes, sometimes I’ll close my eyes again Heels play in person this year. like, ‘Wake up, this is a bad dream.’ ” She returns to the hospital Friday for her The trouble started after a routine physinext five-day round of chemotherapy, the cal shortly before her Naismith induction second of at least three and maybe four in September. A test showed a low white “consolidation” sessions to complete her blood cell count, though Hatchell felt fine treatment. Her chances of returning this and stuck to her busy schedule full of year depending largely on how her immune recruiting visits and speaking engagements. system recovers each time.

She eventually developed a sore throat, Dr. Pete Voorhees, the oncologist overthough doctors weren’t able to find the seeing her treatment at UNC’s Lineberger cause of her low white count in subsequent tests.

Comprehensive Cancer Center, said last Hatchell soon started feeling fatigued and month physicians were “extremely pleased” contacted the Lineberger Center — she’s with her progress.

Hatchell ‘feels great,’ hopes to return to team this year

been a supporter and donor for years — to get the bone marrow test that found the answer.

Voorhees told her to report to the hospital the next day, staying for a week of heavy chemotherapy followed by three Sylvia weeks of recovery.

Hatchell She stayed with her exercise regimen to minimize the side effects, walking laps around her hospital wing or using strength bands and weights in her room. She wouldn’t get in bed other than to sleep. She refused to wear a hospital gown, opting to stay in team apparel down to slippers that look like athletic shoes.

When she started losing her hair, Hatchell had her head shaved — pausing long enough to see herself with a Mohawk — while some of the friends who took shifts staying overnights with her in the hospital took photos and videos in a makeshift party.

She’s wearing a wig as her hair grows back.

She tells people asking what they can do for her at Christmas to donate blood and platelets as well as to get tested for bone marrow matches for transplants — which she might need one day if her cancer returns.

For now, she’s filling her time by watching old TV shows and spending extra time with her golden retriever, Maddie.

And these days of waiting can’t go by fast enough.

“My doctors are very encouraging and very confident that they’re going to get me back out there,” Hatchell said. “It’s just going to take some time.”

Weak: Winning teams to meet in 4th game Continued from Page B-5 marquee attraction now that it won’t feature a LeBron JamesBryant duel.

“That’s probably not the matchup they wanted,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said.

The schedule is such a letdown that not until the fourth game will two winning teams meet, when Houston visits San Antonio. Rivers’ team travels to Golden State in the nightcap.

Before that, Chicago, Brooklyn and New York all get TV time, all chosen for the honor long before anyone could have known they would sometimes

look unwatchable.

“Those things are done way ahead of time. You just hope for the best matchups. Unfortunately, the Derrick Rose injury puts Chicago in a tough spot.

Brooklyn and New York have not played particularly well,” said Jeff Van Gundy, who will work the Heat-Lakers game on ABC. “But I still think people will watch. It’s Christmas Day, and people still care deeply about the Bulls and about the Knicks, even though they haven’t played particularly well of late.”

Christmas is something of a second opening day for the

NBA, often the first time a national audience begins paying attention as football nears its conclusion. The league decided to capitalize a few years back by increasing to a five-game schedule that begins at noon EST. The Christmas games have averaged more than 33 million U.S. viewers over the last three years, so Van Gundy is probably right about the fans still tuning in, even for a matchup that looks as ugly as those sleeved jerseys the players will be wearing.

“On the NFL, I’ve seen plenty of weak Thanksgiving games, but we still watch,” Rivers said.

“Now it’s becoming basketball on Christmas. That’s the good part, that the NBA has found that niche.”

After Chicago (10-16) and Brooklyn (9-18) meet in the opener, Oklahoma City visits New York, matching the NBA’s top two scorers in Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony — provided Anthony’s left ankle is OK after he sprained it Monday at Orlando. The Knicks are a Christmas tradition, making their league-high 49th appearance, and the league hopes they’ll provide a big audience despite their 9-18 record.

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PREP 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 Nothing scheduled

Thursday Boys Basketball — Stu Clark Tournament at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, quarterfinals: Albuquerque St. Pius X vs. Moriarty, 1 p.m.; Pueblo (Colo.) Central vs. Capital, 3 p.m.; West Las Vegas vs. Bernalillo, 6 p.m.; Las Vegas Robertson vs.

Albuquerque Atrisco Heritage Academy, 8 p.m.

Tri-Cities Classic in Pecos, quarterfinals: Monte del Sol vs.

Escalante, 1 p.m.; McCurdy vs. Mora, 3 p.m.; Wagon Mound vs.

Santa Rosa, 5 p.m.; Tierra Encantada vs. Pecos, 7 p.m.

Poe Corn Invitational in Roswell: (at Roswell HS) Los Alamos vs.

Roswell, 7:30 p.m.; Piedra Vista vs. Grants, 6 p.m.; (at Goddard HS) Artesia vs. Farmington, 6 p.m.; Belen vs. Goddard, 7:30 p.m.

Clovis Milk Cow Classic at Clovis HS, first round: St. Michael’s vs.

Clovis, 7 p.m.

Girls Basketball — Lady Horsemen Christmas Tournament at St. Michael’s, first round: Pecos vs. Espanola Valley; Bernalillo vs.

Taos; Farmington vs. Pojoaque Valley; Capital vs. St. Michael’s

Friday Boys Basketball — Stu Clark Tournament at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, semifinals: West Las Vegas-Bernalillo winner vs. Central-Capital winner, 6 p.m.; Robertson-Atrisco winner vs. St. Pius-Moriarty winner, 8 p.m.; consolation bracket: West Las Vegas-Bernalillo loser vs. Central-Capital loser, 1 p.m.; Robertson-Atrisco loser vs. St. Pius-Moriarty loser, 3 p.m.

Tri-Cities Classic in Pecos, second round: Wagon Mound-Santa Rosa winner vs. McCurdy-Mora winner; Monte del Sol-Escalante winner vs. Tierra Encantada-Pecos winner; Wagon Mound-Santa Rosa loser vs. McCurdy-Mora loser; Monte del Sol-Escalante loser vs. Tierra Encantada-Pecos loser.

Los Alamos at Poe Corn Invitational in Roswell: pairings TBA Milk Cow Classic in Clovis, second round: St. Michael’s vs. Hereford (Texas), time TBA Girls Basketball — Lady Horsemen Christmas Tournament at St. Michael’s, second round: pairings TBA

Saturday Boys basketball — Stu Clark Tournament at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, final round: 7th place, 11 a.m.; 5th place, 1 p.m.; 3rd place, 6 p.m.; championship, 8 p.m.

Tri-Cities Classic in Pecos, final round: pairings TBA Los Alamos at Poe Corn Invitational in Roswell, final round: pairings TBA St. Michael’s at the Milk Cow Classic in Clovis, final round: pairings TBA Girls Basketball — Lady Horsemen Christmas Tournament at St. Michael’s, final round: pairings TBA

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Winston: 1st FSU player to win award Continued from Page B-5 run that day.

“Jimbo Fisher deserves the credit for giving the young man the opportunity to display his talents in another sport,” Martin Sr. said.

Fisher covets players that come from diverse backgrounds where football wasn’t their only sport. He actively looks for athletes who play numerous positions on the football field and play different sports.

“It makes you a different kind of competitor,” Fisher said.

“You learn to learn the different situations. Handle different pressures. Handle noise. Handle quiet. Different games are played in different ways and in different environments. …

You’re constantly competing and you don’t get in that rut of you only get it once a year. I think when you’re getting it two and three different times of year, the more you’re in competitive situations, the more you find out about yourself. …

“Every time you compete, you learn something about yourself. I think it’s very good for athletes to do. I wish more athletes were multi-sport guys than they are now.”

Just like the Heisman voting, Winston was a landslide winner in AP player of the year voting. He received 49 out of 56 votes cast by AP Top 25 college football poll voters.

Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan Lynch received three votes. Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron got two votes.

Boston College running back Andre Williams and Michigan State cornerback Darqueze Dennard each received one vote.

Winston is the first Florida State player to win the award, which has been handed out since 1998, and the first from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Florida State and Winston continued to excel despite a sexual assault investigation that became public last month. The State Attorney’s Office announced that it would not press charges before the ACC championship game.

Bo Jackson, the 1985 Heisman winner, was also a twosport star from Winston’s hometown of Bessemer, Ala. The 19-year-old Winston said after the Heisman ceremony that he wants to better than Jackson. The Texas Rangers drafted Winston in the 15th round of the 2012 MLB draft, but he elected to go to school.

Winston will compete for the closer job for the No. 5-ranked Seminoles when baseball begins.

He has a fastball that reaches 93-95 mph and throws a slider for strikes.

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Defenses try to adjust to safer tackling technique to keep up with record-setting passing attacks have discovered in the current NFL. Concussions are a serious probIn the seventh season of Dashon lem, but are torn knee ligaments really Goldson’s NFL career, the Tampa Bay an acceptable alternative? Hitting high Buccaneers have been trying to teach and going low can both prompt their an old safety a new trick: how to tackle own sets of penalties. effectively without breaking a rule or, “What will happen, like everything worse, damaging a body part. else in life, is everyone will adapt or Goldson recently served a one-game they won’t survive,” Schiano said. “So, suspension for a helmet-to-helmet that’s what we’re in the process of hit. He was fined a total of $130,000 doing.” earlier this year for two other illegal Thus, there’s an entire generation of head shots the league has been trying safeties, cornerbacks and linebackers to shut down for the sake of better pre- accustomed to using whatever method serving the health of the players. necessary to take down a fleet-footed “We’re trying to re-program his ball carrier, trying to retrain their strike zone so we don’t keep getting brains to focus on the midsection. those penalties,” Buccaneers coach “It’s all about teaching proper techGreg Schiano said earlier this month. nique,” Jets defensive coordinator Den“And I know he is trying very hard to nis Thurman said. “When guys tackle do it as well. He’s getting better at it, properly, they don’t get fined. If you’re which is encouraging.” looking to just get the blowup hit …

Goldson has long been known as a you’ll probably get that envelope from hard hitter. Now, fair or not, the perthe commissioner.” ception of his style has taken a darker One week after Goldson’s suspenturn: a player prone to making cheap sion, Tennessee safety Michael Grifshots. fin got a one-game ban as a fellow “I remember being on the good side repeat offender of the no-high-hitsof it, hearing commentators, analysts to-defenseless-players rule. That was talking about how perfect, how good, Griffin’s fourth violation in three seahow I do it the right way, and all of a sons. Griffin started low on the play sudden with the new rule I’m a dirty that got him suspended, but he wound player, a nasty player, targeted, and I’m up popping the opponent’s helmet off not playing the game how it’s supposed as the other player was in the process to be played,” Goldson said. “I think of falling. that’s ridiculous.”

“For a player, yeah, I think it’s hard His case is a snapshot of the conunbecause he came into the league when safeties played a different way drum defensive players already trying

By Dave Campbell The Associated Press

NFL

Ground game as big as aerial fireworks show said. “We’re creating that The Associated Press scenario where it’s hard to know which one you want to ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — do. Even though people say Denver Broncos 335-pound throwing is the new generadefensive tackle Terrance tion, running the football will Knighton sat at his locker and always be the hammer in the chuckled at the thought of his sense that it can eliminate first trip to the playoffs, his many defensive game plans. belly shaking like a shopping “That’s why it’s so pivotal mall Santa Claus. to be able to stop it for every It’s almost time for some team in the league,” Whitthrowback football, he said, worth added. “If you can stop for the jelly-belly linemen and the run you’re going to be a the tailbacks so often overgood defense, and if you can’t, looked in today’s pass-heavy you never will be a good NFL to dust off the cobwebs defense.” and take center stage again.

Denver couldn’t stop the “I think during the regular run earlier this month against season, it’s about who puts up San Diego, which leads the 40 points,” Knighton said. “But league in time of possession in the playoffs, you’ve got to (33:21). The Chargers upset take care of the ball, eat up the Denver 27-20 when Manning clock and play good defense.” spent most of his night on the The teams that reached sideline. the Super Bowl last season “The longer you keep the weren’t the ones with the ball and the less he has it, the best records but the two that better off you’re going to be,” led all playoff teams in carries Chargers coach Mike McCoy per game in the postseason. said after providing a blueprint That’s one reason the Bron- on how to thwart what might cos followed their free agent go down as the first 600-point acquisition of slot receiver team in league history.

Wes Welker by drafting 220“If a team can run the ball, pound running back Montee they’re going to control the Ball, the bruising Badger clock,” Knighton said. “That’s who could move the sticks what San Diego did. We were in the fourth quarter. That’s on the field way too long. something they were unable And the type of offense we to do with lightweight Ronnie have, our guys need a rhythm.

Hillman during their playoff So, that’s going to come down pratfall against the Ravens to us to get the ball back for last January.

Peyton.”

Not that Peyton Manning, The metric that best shows the first quarterback in the effectiveness running the footNFL’s 93-year history to throw ball or stopping the run is firstfor 50-plus touchdowns and down percentage. It’s akin to 5,000-plus yards in a season, on-base percentage in baseball. will suddenly just hand off Of the teams who have next month. But he knows a clinched a playoff berth or are good ground game is the foun- in the running heading into dation for a solid aerial show. the final weekend, Kansas “When you’re just throwCity, behind the AFC’s leading it over and over again, ing rusher, Jamaal Charles, teams start to bring more and has the best first-down more pressure and just tee percentage at 24.9, followed off on you,” Bengals offensive by New England at 23.0 and lineman Andrew Whitworth Denver at 22.7.

By Arnie Stapleton

Denver Broncos’ Knowshon Moreno, right, runs past Houston Texans’ Eddie Pleasant during the first quarter of Sunday’s game. PATRIC SCHNEIDER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jared Allen sacks Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger during the first half of a Sept. 29 game.

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and the game was different that way in the back end,” Titans coach Mike Munchak said. “Now, he’s had to learn, as all safeties have had to, to change his game and the way that he plays. He’s done that. But it’s a fine line.”

Defensive backs are asked to break up passes over the middle and make wide receivers think twice about exposing their bodies to catch them.

Playing in the secondary isn’t simply about being in position to prevent the offense from moving the ball through the air. They have to use aggressive tactics.

Then there’s the sport’s culture of contact, with jarring hits celebrated by cheering crowds and captured on video in various highlight packages.

Deprogramming that is probably

impossible.

The dilemma boils down to this: Wide receivers and running backs are usually too fast to be consistently taken down with a head-up, arms-wrappedaround-the-chest form tackle players are taught when they first put on the pads.

“It’s bang-bang, within milliseconds, trying to make a decision,” San Diego Chargers safety Eric Weddle said.

“You’re just going to go off instincts.”

Pick your poison. Players trying to stay in the league as long as they can will often choose the present over their future health.

“I’d rather get hit up high and be dizzy for a play than get hit low and be out for a whole season,” Goldson said.

New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament on a direct hit to the knee three weeks ago, was the latest star who went down from a low hit.

Evidence of an increase in lower-body injuries from the recent concussion crackdown is inconclusive. But in this fast-paced, physically punishing sport, there may not be a perfect solution.

“Guys are trying to adjust the best they can,” Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jared Allen said. “You try to figure out what you can do legally, but at the end of the day guys don’t think about it. You’re just trying to get the guy on the ground and deal with the consequences after.”

Romo: Orton hasn’t started since 2011 Continued from Page B-5 against Denver, the team that waived him earlier that year after making Tim Tebow the starter.

Orton signed a three-year, $10.5 million contract with the Cowboys that offseason — an investment that Jones says was for just the scenario facing Dallas now.

“The main thing is that it’s not like Kyle Orton just gets here this morning or gets here tomorrow morning,” Jones said. “Kyle Orton has been here and he knows this system frankly as well as Romo does. And has practiced it. He just doesn’t have the game time that he would have had as the starter, and he doesn’t get the reps.”

Jones said the Cowboys were bring-

If you know Tony, you can’t imagine “ what a competitor he is, and he doesn’t want to miss a snap. He was very disappointed. Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys owner ing in “multiple” quarterbacks for tryouts Tuesday, mostly looking for someone to ease the throwing load on Orton if Romo is either out or limited in practice.

Romo and Orton are the only quarterbacks on the roster after Alex Tanney was claimed off the practice squad by Cleveland last month.

“If you don’t realize that you’re going to be dealing with injury information, sudden change in plans, then you’re in the wrong area,” Jones said. “We’re in as good a shape under these circumstances as you could possibly be in. We have planned on this very event.”

Golf: Stricker finished year with over $4.4M Continued from Page B-5 No one else was around during this conversation, but Stricker still leaned in and lowered his voice as he stated what everyone already knew.

“You know, we’re pretty conservative with our money,” he said.

Stricker was runner-up that week at Kapalua and made $665,000. He didn’t play for six weeks, and then reached the quarterfinals of the Accenture Match Play Championship to earn $275,000. Two weeks later, he was runner-up at Doral and brought in $880,000.

That should pay the bills.

He finished the year with just over $4.4 million, the thirdhighest total of his career. His world ranking improved 10 spots to No. 8. And by the end of the year, he had several players contemplating a similar schedule.

Along the way, there were plenty of other moments that showed more about players than just their birdies and bogeys, and the checks they cash. uuu

Rory McIlroy generated a buzz no matter where he went at the start of the year. He had the hefty deal from Nike. He was No. 1 in the world. And he was struggling early with a missed cut in Abu Dhabi and a first-round departure in Match Play. Nothing caused a stir like Friday at the Honda Classic, when he abruptly shook hands with Ernie Els as they were making the turn and walked straight to the parking lot.

Information was a trickle. He was vague during a brisk walk to the car. Later, a statement from his management company said he had a sore wisdom tooth.

There was a golf tournament

still going on. Michael Thompson shot 65 on that Friday to move to the top of the leaderboard. It was early afternoon and no one seemed interested.

The announcement sounded more like a plea. “We have Michael Thompson in the interview room,” the official said.

One voice broke the awkward silence. “Is he a dentist?” a reported asked.

No. But he did win his first PGA Tour event that week. uuu

Angel Cabrera is a man of few words and loud actions.

A month after losing the Masters in a playoff, he was walking off the 18th green at TPC Sawgrass following a practice round. Fans thrust programs and flags for him to sign. There was bumping and pushing, and a marshal started to bark at everyone to back up.

Cabrera stepped back about 10 feet, and then instructed only the children to come under the ropes and join him.

He spent the next 15 minutes signing for them. uuu

It looked like the scene outside the mansion in “Young Frankenstein,” missing only the pitchforks and torches.

The Pure Silk LPGA Bahamas Classic was played on a 12-hole course at The Ocean Club because of flooding. The first round didn’t finish because of another storm system in the area. Players gathered in darkness outside the rules trailer to find out the plan for Friday. A computer error led players to believe that they would keep their same tee time for the second round. Chaos ensued, filled with heated arguments among players and rules officials.

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Texas preps for Ducks in Alamo Bowl

By Christian Corona The Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas must defend a prolific up-tempo offense when the Longhorns face No. 10 Oregon in the Alamo Bowl in coach Mack Brown’s farewell.

They have experience after playing Baylor in their last game.

The Ducks (10-2) average 46.8 points and 573 yards, which both rank in the top three in the country. Texas (8-4) held the Bears, the nation’s highest-scoring team, to three first-half points Dec. 7 in what was essentially a Big 12 title game. But Baylor scored 17 in the third quarter and went on to win 30-10.

Oregon’s Marcus Mariota has been one of the nation’s most efficient quarterbacks, completing 63.1 percent of his passes and throwing for 30 touchdowns and four interceptions while running for 582 yards

and nine more scores.

Baylor’s Bryce Petty is the only QB with fewer interceptions (2) among those with at least 30 touchdown passes. Facing a quarterback like Petty, who also has 11 touchdowns rushing, helped prepare Texas for Monday’s matchup with Mariota.

“It’s crazy that we’re about to play the same team, almost,” said junior defensive end Cedric Reed. “Those are two quarterbacks that have been in the Heisman running this year. They’re smart quarterbacks.

The offense runs through them.”

Texas’ best chance at slowing Oregon may be running the ball to keep the offense on the sideline, as Arizona and Stanford did in the Ducks’ only two losses.

Tyler Gaffney ran for 157 of the Cardinal’s 274 yards on 45 carries in a 26-20 win that ended Oregon’s perfect season Nov. 7.

Two weeks later, the Wildcats’ Ka’Deem Carey ran 48 times for 206 yards and four

touchdowns in a 42-16 trouncing. Oregon had the ball for fewer than a combined 42 minutes in those two defeats.

“You can see that teams that have had success against and beat Oregon are teams that have taken pride in a power running game,” senior guard Mason Walters said.

“Playing Oregon, if you don’t get pumped up and find a reason to go fight and have it be something that brings out the competitor in you, you can get embarrassed.”

For the third time this year, the Longhorns are double-digit underdogs. They pummeled Oklahoma 36-20, but fell to Baylor by 20 points.

“We’re going to be doubted,” junior defensive back Quandre Diggs said. “Some people are going to look at that in a negative way, but I’m going to look at that in a positive way. Y’all keep us as the underdog and we got out and win, then y’all are all shocked in the media. That’s up to y’all.”

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By Alison Ladman The Associated Press

Not up to putting on a formal dinner party for New Year’s Eve? Can’t blame you. And who cares? Most people would prefer the more casual atmosphere of lots of appetizer-sized nibbles, anyway.

To help you pull it all together, we assembled an easy menu that recasts some classic appetizers in fresh ways.

Start off with a roasted take on the traditional shrimp cocktail. Make it funky by serving the shrimp and roasted grape tomatoes in individual spoons. We also have a quick and easy pineapple chicken salad that’s served in lettuce wraps.

And for fun, we offer up “Elvis cups” — mini phyllo pastry cups filled with bacon, peanut butter and banana slices.

ROASTED SHRIMP COCKTAIL Total time 30 minutes, makes 8 servings 1 quart grape tomatoes, halved 2 teaspoons kosher salt 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar glaze 1 tablespoon horseradish 1 pound large raw shrimp, peeled and deveined Salt and ground black pepper Heat the oven to 400 degrees.

Preparation: Set the halved grape tomatoes in a colander and sprinkle with the salt. Toss together and let sit over a bowl or in the sink to drain for 20 minutes.

After the tomatoes have drained, spread them on a rimmed baking sheet and drizzle with the balsamic glaze. Roast for 15 minutes. Stir the horseradish and the shrimp into the tomatoes on the baking sheet, then return to the oven and roast for another 5 to 7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Can be served on individual spoons or in a wide, shallow bowl with toothpicks.

PINEAPPLE CHICKEN LETTUCE WRAPS Total time 10 minutes, makes 8 servings 2 cups shredded cooked chicken ⅔ cup pineapple salsa, strained 2 tablespoons chopped cherry peppers Soft lettuce leaves, such as Boston or bibb Preparation: In a medium bowl, gently mix together the chicken, salsa and cherry peppers. Arrange the lettuce leaves in a single layer on a serving platter. Spoon ⅓ cup of the chicken mixture into the center of each lettuce leaf, leaving enough room on each leaf for guests to grab the leaves and wrap around the filling.

ELVIS PHYLLO CUPS The mini phyllo cups can be found in the grocer’s freezer case near the other pastry and dessert items.

Total time 10 minutes Makes 15 cups ⅓ cup natural peanut butter 2 tablespoons powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 large banana, cut into 15 slices 1.9-ounce package phyllo cups (each package contains 15 cups) 3 slices crisp-cooked bacon, each cut into 5 chunks Preparation: In a small bowl, stir together the peanut butter, powdered sugar and vanilla. Place 1 slice of banana in the bottom of each phyllo cup. Top the banana slices with 2 teaspoons of the peanut butter mixture, then garnish each cup with a chunk of bacon.

Roasted shrimp cocktail, pineapple chicken lettuce wraps and Elvis phyllo cups. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lobster salad with avocado, tomato, apple, black truffle and sherry vinaigrette.

By Carlos Andres López Photos by Jane Phillips The New Mexican

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t came down to the wire, but for chef Xavier Grenet, Christmas arrived five days early this year. After a marathon race to open his first solo restaurant, L’Olivier, in less than three months, the French-born chef and his wife, Nathalie Bonnard-Grenet, welcomed their first guests at exactly 5 p.m. Dec. 20.

“We just wanted to get it open, and we did, and it turned out great,” Grenet said the morning after the restaurant’s grand opening. “We may have pushed it a little bit with time, but voilà, everything came together, and we’re here today.

It’s exciting, too, because it’s the holiday season.”

Before opening L’Olivier on the corner of Galisteo Street in the space that formerly housed Tomme, Grenet spent 13 years as executive chef for the French restaurant Ristra on Agua Fría Street.

With a career that spans more than 20 years, two continents and several food capitals in the U.S., Grenet decided this year that the time was ripe for him to venture out on his own and create a restaurant that fit his vision of contemporary Southwestern French cuisine.

“We wanted to create an atmosphere that reflects the cuisine of Xavier. So we envisioned something warm and elegant, but also something simple. For me, that’s what his cuisine is,” said Bonnard-Grenet, who manages the restaurant.

At L’Olivier, she said, “Xavier is now able to express himself and do the things that he always wanted.”

L’Olivier is inspired and named after the olive tree — an ancient Greek symbol for peace, wisdom and triumph — which Bonnard-Grenet said best captured their vision of an ideal restaurant.

“We were drawn to the olive tree and its fusion of wisdom and symbols of success and prosperity, and we wanted to put ourselves under that,” she said.

Grenet, a native of France who was raised in Noisy-Le-Grand, a suburb east of Paris, is a classically trained French chef who studied at L’école Française de Gastronomie Ferrandi in Paris and at L’école Hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland.

In 1993, Grenet moved to the U.S. to become the executive chef of Les Célébrités at the Hotel Nikko in New York City. When he arrived stateside, he brought with him many years of restaurant experience, having worked at some of Paris’ more storied eateries, including Laurent on the Champs-Elysées and the Michelin-starred Jamin, founded by famed restauranteur Joël Robuchon.

Grenet left New York in 1996 for San Francisco, where he traded his native cuisine to take a job as an executive chef for a Spanish fusion restaurant called Barcelona. Despite its success, the restaurant was short-lived, he said, and the owner made the decision to close Barcelona near the end of the decade.

“I was looking for a job,” Grenet said, “and I found an ad in the San Francisco Chronicle looking for a chef at a French restaurant in Santa Fe. I knew there was a Santa Fe in New Mexico and California, but the ad didn’t say which one. So

I sent a résumé by fax, and two minutes later, I got a phone call from Eric [LaMalle].”

At the time, LaMalle, the longtime restauranteur who operated Ristra for 17 years, was searching for a seasoned chef to run the kitchen at the French restaurant in downtown Santa Fe. When LaMalle called Grenet, Grenet said the two had an immediate connection. Both were born in France and raised in the same Paris suburb, and both, more significantly, had a passion for French cuisine.

“He was French, and I was French, and we talked for about an hour on the phone,” Grenet said. “He called me back later that night, and we finally talked about Santa Fe. To my surprise, he told me it was in New Mexico.”

Grenet said he was first taken aback after learning the restaurant’s true location, but after giving it some thought, he warmed up to the idea of relocating to New Mexico’s capital city. “I knew the city, because I visited with my parents when I was 16, and I said, ‘OK. It’s not a bad city.’ ” In 2000, shortly after securing the job at Ristra, Grenet made the move to Santa Fe, where he has lived ever since. During his time at LaMalle’s signature restaurant, Grenet experienced both highs and lows.

Grenet quickly garnered critical acclaim for his food at Ristra, and was invited to take part in the James Beard Foundation dinner in New York in 2002. Five years later, he met his wife at the restaurant, and the two have been inseparable ever since.

In April, however, things changed. LaMalle, 50, was found dead in his Tesuque home. The New Mexican reported that there was no evidence of foul play in LaMalle’s death. Immediately after, Grenet took charge of Ristra and even sought to buy it.

“Basically, we tried to negotiate to buy Ristra, but it didn’t work,” Grenet said. “And the moment it didn’t work, we decided we had everything in place to do a restaurant. So we started looking around, and we found this place.”

In November, Grenet left Ristra to focus all his efforts into L’Olivier.

Like Ristra, the menu at L’Olivier is built on a foundation of classic French techniques and Southwestern influences. But that’s where the similarities end, Grenet said.

“The techniques I use are the same, because it’s French, but the menu is different,” he said. “Here, I don’t want to be restricted. If I want to use saffron, I will use it. If I want to do tuna tartar, I will do it.”

With free reign over the menu, Grenet said he now has the opportunity to explore other cuisines and enhance his traditional French food with contemporary flavors. It also allows him to

Section editor: Carlos A. López, 986-3099, clopez@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Carlos A. López, clopez@sfnewmexican.com

Xavier Grenet worked for years as executive chef at Ristra before starting his own restaurant downtown.

change the menu as often as he wants.

“I have a seasonal menu now, and I really want to change with the seasons,” he said. “I want people to come back and see that the menu has changed, so they don’t get bored with the food.”

Based on feedback from diners on opening night, Bonnard-Grenet said the current menu is bound to generate repeat customers.

Grenet said the sautéed striped sea bass, served with a seafood fumet, and the coq au vin, finished with potatoes, mushrooms and pearl onions, were among the popular dishes with the first diners. And many finished their meals with the ile flottante, a pool of crème anglaise topped with airy meringues and caramel sauce, and the Triple Decker, a layered dessert made with three chocolate mousses — both which were made by Bonnard-Grenet’s 20-year-old daughter, Gabrielle Fretel, who is the restaurant’s pastry chef.

The current menu also features other French classics like duck confit, steak and frites, and braised beef short ribs, as well as fusion dishes like poblano chiles stuffed with rabbit confit, eggplant cannelloni filled with ahi tuna and elk tenderloin seasoned with achiote.

Bonnard-Grenet said she also is pushing her husband to create more vegetarian dishes, especially during the summer months. “Xavier is very open and willing,” she said. “For him, it’s really about bringing love to the table. To me, that’s very touching.”

Contact Carlos Andres López at clopez@ sfnewmexican.com.

IF YOU GO What: L’Olivier When: Lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday; dinner from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday though Thursday and from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday; closed Sunday Where: 229 Galisteo St. More information: loliviersantafe.com or call 989-1919

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No. D-101-CV-201303131 IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR A CHANGE OF NAME OF ANTHONY PHILIPPE MONTOYA

Notice is hereby given that on September 4, and October 23, 2013, Mr. Sammy T. Montoya, 102 Entrada La Cienega, Santa Fe, NM 87507, filed Application No. RG-90336 et al., with the OFFICE OF THE STATE ENGINEER for Permit to Add a Groundwater Point of Diversion.

The applicant seeks to add to a well that was drilled under an emergency authorization on September 4, 2012. Well RG-90336 (POD 2), drilled as a Supplemental Well, is located at a point where X=1,677,125 feet and Y=1,660,441 feet, NMCS, NAD 83 Central Zone. The applicant seeks to continue to use the old original well, RG90336 (POD 1) located at a point where X=1,677,199 feet and Y=1,660,468 feet NMCS, NAD 83 Central Zone. both wells will be metered for a total combined diversion of 3.00 acre-feet of water per annum used for domestic, livestock, and irrigation purposes, on 1.02 acres described as within Section 6, township 15 North, Range 8 East, NMSP. Well RG-90336 (POD 1) is identified as Well 13, on Tract 23.7 of Map Sheet 11, Volume 1 of the 1976 Santa Fe Hydrographic Survey and the new well RG-90336 (POD 2) is 260 feet deep and located 65

p feet from the original well. both wells and the place of use are located directly south of La Cienega Creek on land owned by the applicant, located at 102 Entrada Lane, La Cienega in Santa Fe County. Any person, firm or corporation or other entity having standing to file objections or protests shall do so in writing (legible, signed, and include the writer’s complete name and mailing address). The objection to the approval of the application must be based on: (1) Impairment; if impairment you must specifically identify your water rights; and/or (2) Public welfare/conservation of water; if public welfare or conservation of water within the state of New Mexico, you must show you will be substantially affected. The written protest must be filed, in triplicate, with the Office of the State Engineer, Water Rights Division, P.O. Box 25102, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 875045102 within ten (10) days after the date of last publication of this Notice.

Facsimiles (faxes) will be accepted as a valid protest as long as the hard copy is sent within 24-hours of the facsimile. Mailing postmark will be used to validate the 24-hour period. Protest can be faxed to

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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sections 40-8-1 through 40-8-3, NMSA 1978, the Petitioner, Camille Muller, will apply to the Honorable Francis J. Mathew, District Judge of the First Judicial District Court at the Judge Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., Santa Fe, New Mexico at 10:00 a.m. on the 24th day of January, 2014, for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME of her minor son from Anthony Philippe Montoya to Anthony Philippe Muller.

Coppler Law Firm, P.C. Counsel for Petitioner 645 Don Gaspar Avenue Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 505-988-5656 Legal#96195 Published in the Santa Fe New Mexican on: December 25, 2013 January 1, 2014

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LEGALS STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Case No. 2013-01324

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CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v.

THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, OR LEGATEES OF JUAN M. RODRIGUEZ, DECEASED, OLYMPIA RODRIGUEZ, IF LIVING, IF DECEASED, THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, OR LEGATEES OF OLYMPIA RODRIGUEZ, DECEASED, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BY AND THROUGH THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, THE UNKNOWN SURVIVING SPOUSE OF JUAN M. RODRIGUEZ, IF ANY, DAVID P. RODRIGUEZ, SHANNON GWYN, JONAH OLIVAMA GARCIA, ARTHUR L. T. RODRIGUEZ, JUDY K. TORRES, JOANN DURAN, YVONNE ULANWICZ, SALLY R. DELOYA, ELIZABETH LEEWAY, LEONARD M. RODRIGUEZ, DARLENE T. LOPEZ AND JUNE B. RODRIGUEZ, Defendants

LEGALS Defendants Olympia Rodriguez, if living, if deceased, The Unknown Heirs, Devisees, or Legatees of Olympia Rodriguez, deceased, The Unknown Heirs, Devisees, or Legatees of Juan M. Rodriguez, deceased, and The Unknown Surviving Spouse of Juan M. Rodriguez, 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 74 El Sitio Road, Espanola, NM 87532, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, said property being more particularly described as: Tract "A", as shown on plat entitled "Lot Line Adjustment for Juan M. Rodriguez Lying within a portion of P.C. 6234, Tr. 1, and P.C. 6239, Tr. 1 within Sections 5 and 8, T20N, R9E, N.M.P.M. within the Community of La Puebla...," filed in the office of the County Clerk, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, on February 24, 1993, in Plat Book 244, Page 022, as Document No. 805,051.

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p plaint 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 NM13-00702_FC01 Legal#96135 Published in the Santa Fe New Mexican December 11, 18, 25, 2013 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Case No. 2013-02220

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DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR GSR MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007AR1, Plaintiff, v.

BARRY BLACK, VILLA Unless you serve a DE LA PAZ ASSOCIANOTICE OF SUIT pleading or motion in TION, INC. AND THE STATE OF New Mexico SPOUSE to the above-named response to the com- UNKNOWN

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p OF BARRY BLACK, IF tion date, judgment ANY, by default will be entered against you.

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THE NEW MEXICAN Wednesday, December 25, 2013

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Vegas casinos draw tourists with exhibits for holidays

By Hannah Dreier The Associated Press

Tivoli Gardens’ main entrance off Vesterbrogade (the Western Gate), lit for the holidays. PHOTOS BY WAYNE LEE/FOR THE NEW MEXICAN

By Wayne Lee For The New Mexican

hile visiting friends in southern Sweden in late November, I decided on a whim to take a day trip to Denmark. By the time I rode the train from Lund south through Malmo and west over the 5-mile-long Øresund Bridge into Copenhagen, though, it was well past noon. I walked a block from Central Station to the Wonderful Copenhagen Visitor Centre and explained to the tall, blonde woman behind the desk that I had only a few hours and wanted to see some sights.

She looked at me with something akin to scorn and huffed, “You can’t see Copenhagen in one afternoon!” She then suggested I walk across the street to Tivoli Gardens. “You could easily spend an entire day there.”

So I did. And she was right — my three hours exploring the historic theme park weren’t nearly enough to see and do everything I wanted to. But it was enough to enjoy a magical tour of the 15 acres of gardens, rides, shops, restaurants, exhibits and other delights.

I had long heard of Tivoli — how founder Georg Carstensen designed and built Tivoli & Vauxhall in 1843 as a pleasure garden and amusement park, how he had won King Christian VIII’s approval on the promise that, “When the people are amusing themselves, they do not think about politics” — and I had always wanted to see it for myself.

I was not disappointed. From the moment I paid my 95 krone (about $17) and walked under the arched, main entrance off Vesterbrogade (the Western Gate), I felt a bit like Alice in Wonderland. I was hardly alone. The 4 million visitors a year make Tivoli the second-most popular seasonal theme park in the world. On this chilly, overcast day, though, the crowds were surprisingly sparse — especially considering it recently had been decorated and lit to the hilt for the Yule season.

The vendors were out in force. As I wandered down the main path — which follows the same, meandering pattern as the moat that once encircled medieval Copenhagen — I was surrounded by shops and carts peddling everything from reindeer hides to jewelry, woolens to trinkets, crystal to teddy bears.

And food. Lots of food, from some 30 eateries. Huts and stands serving coffee, pastries, caramel apples, sausages, sandwiches, pizza — along with the fancier restaurants. I opted for hot cocoa to warm my innards and — of course — a scrumptious Danish pastry, Weinerbrød.

I wandered some more, admiring some of the park’s architectural marvels — especially

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The Music Carousel is one of five rides erected just for the holidays.

the Moorish-style Nimb Palace Hotel, with its minarets, towers and peacock fountain, and the Chinese Tower with its flamboyant, peaked roofs. Tivoli stages more than 300 concerts a year, but there was nothing playing at the famed Pantomime Theater, the Concert Hall or the Glass Hall Theater while I was there (although a huge poster outside the latter touted a satiric, adult film called Smartacus).

Then there are the rides — 27, to be exact, ranging from darling, vintage, kiddie rides to thrill rides such as the 206-foot-tall Golden Tower and the newly installed Aquila tower, which subjects its riders to 4-G forces. Older rides include the Roller Coaster, built in 1914 to replace the original, which was one of the two rides (along with a Ferris Wheel) created for the park’s debut 170 years ago. The current Ferris Wheel, erected in 1943, is a replica of its predecessor.

With all these amusements and distractions, it’s easy to overlook the gardens them-

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selves. True, there weren’t anywhere near the 30,000 flowers (representing 365 species) that spread their colors and scents around the grounds every spring, but even during the dark months the 840 trees and thousands of cold-blooming plants are enough to keep the park’s 11 gardeners busy.

As afternoon segued into dusk — around 3 o’clock on this abbreviated autumn day — the holiday light show began. Strands of Chinese lanterns reflected off the lake (a remnant of the original moat); floodlights illuminated sculptures, rooflines and trees; and white light bulbs outlined the 18th-century frigate St. George III, the classic Carousel (tallest in the world), and the aforementioned Nimb Hotel. But, alas, it was time for me to catch my train back to Lund. Reluctantly, I walked back under that arched gate and said hej hej to Tivoli Gardens — vowing to spend more time there (and in wonderful Copenhagen) next time I was in town.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Las Vegas has mostly shelved its attempt to rebrand itself as a family-friendly wonderland. But there’s one exception: the dreaded holiday season, when visitor numbers crater and room vacancies soar.

In an attempt to lure tourists, Las Vegas casinos are staging increasingly elaborate holiday events.

Bellagio has again transformed its conservatory into a faux winter wonderland featuring a 42-foottall Christmas tree, a life-sized candy house, a walkthrough snow globe and topiary polar bears, all a few paces from the gambling floor.

The casino’s famous dancing water fountains are leaping to Christmas classics, and tourists are taking photos with a 250-pound chocolate Grinch.

The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace is showing its Christmas cheer with “Elf Aquarists,” divers in elfstyle wet suits who feed the aquarium’s tropical fish during daily shows.

Perhaps the most elaborate of all the exhibits is “Winter in Venice” at the Venetian, which the casino advertises as a public gift in banners strung outside its ersatz Italian facade.

December is traditionally the slowest month in Las Vegas. Last year, tourist volume fell from a high of 3.53 million visitors in March to a low of 3 million visitors in December, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. November and January didn’t look much better.

Keith Salwoski, spokesman for the Venetian and Palazzo hotel-casinos, said the winter extravaganza, now in its third year, has helped convince families to seriously consider a holiday vacation to Sin City.

“Every photo that is shared during the holidays, for instance, helps to change the perception of the destination for the Christmas traveler. Suddenly, spending Christmas in Vegas is on the radar of travelers,” he said.

Beautifully costumed actors stroll around the casino halls, greeting children and posing for silly photos with adults. Outside, a 65-foot Christmas tree made of lights shines like a beacon, tempting pedestrians to come inside.

Helen and Bob Harrison spent a recent afternoon gazing at a cluster of white birds and poinsettias arranged in front of an indoor waterfall near a bank of slot machines at the Venetian. The Wichita, Kan., couple was celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary, and had decided to spend the week visiting all of the Strip’s Christmas exhibits.

“I used to work in a flower shop, and I just love this.

The design that goes into it — we don’t have anything like that in our city,” Helen Harrison said. “It’s nice to not have to go to Europe to see all this stuff; it saves on travel.”

The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, a few blocks over, has doubled the size of its rooftop skating rink this year.

Chief marketing officer Lisa Marchese said the casino is going for a “ski lodge perched over the Las Vegas Strip” aesthetic. Skaters can huddle around fire pits and buy s’mores kits for $14 (It’s still the Strip, after all).

The rink at the Cosmopolitan is just one of several designed to entice desert visitors to casino properties.

Caesars Palace, the Venetian and the Gold Spike are among those offering skaters an opportunity to lace up their boots for ice, real or artificial.

While most Las Vegas spectacles are designed to dazzle and erase the memory of home — with all its constraining social mores — the Christmas installations aim to remind tourists of their childhood.

“It’s nostalgic,” Marchese said. “I don’t care where you grew up, I think everyone romanticizes the notion of skating in the winter.”

Brothers Sebastian, center, and Joaquin visit this month with the Red Queen during the third-annual ‘Winter in Venice’ event at the Venetian hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip. HANNAH DREIER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Airlines call for stronger laws on unruly fliers A drunken man gets tackled by a group of off-duty cops in November while trying to storm the cockpit on a flight from Warsaw to Toronto.

An inebriated passenger on a January flight from Iceland to New York tries to grope and choke fellow travelers until crew and passengers bind him with duct tape. Such incidents are no longer flukes but rather a trend that has prompted airlines to call for new laws to deal with unruly passengers and other mayhem on international flights.

The number of incidents of unruly passengers has jumped from fewer than 500 in 2007 to more than 6,000 in 2011, according to the International Air Transport Association, the trade group for world airlines, which has been keeping track of the incidents.

In 1963, representatives from 185 countries met in Tokyo to adopt a set of laws that focused on onboard crimes related to hijacking. But the laws are outdated and do not address the kind of bedlam that some passengers provoke, delaying flights and fraying nerves, said Perry Flint, a spokesman for IATA. “Lots of changes have taken place over the past 50 years,” he said. “The old rules no longer do a good job of addressing this problem.”

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Horoscope

Crossword

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, Dec. 25, 2013: This year you often will be dealing with an assertive authority figure. Your career and community involvement become high priorities. Libra does not have the same drive as you to get to the bottom of a problem.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You might feel as if you must go overboard with others; however, you might throw people off, as they won’t know how to deal with the new you. Tonight: Let someone dote on you for a change.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Try to maintain a steady pace. An unexpected guest could present a quandary.

You might not be sure which way to go.

Tonight: Get some extra R and R. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Be more forthright with a loved one in the morning. You could be much more in tune with this person’s energy than he or she is. Tonight: Love the moment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You will be where you are happiest — at home, enjoying the moment. You might wonder about a situation involving a close friend or loved one. Tonight: Happy at home.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Your words mean a lot to loved ones. In fact, they might even be more significant than your gifts. An unexpected call from someone at a distance could surprise you.

Tonight: Let the fun begin.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Somehow, you will find a way to spend money at the last minute. Stop. Just enjoy the people around you at the moment.

Tonight: Indulge in the good vibes.

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: CHRISTMAS?

4. Christmas: E

ing with the given letter. Alter-

Answer________

nate answers may be possible.

5. Christmas: F

(e.g., Christmas: R. Answer: Rose,

Answer________

request, racket.)

6. Christmas: P Answer________

FRESHMAN LEVEL

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You might feel as if you can take on anyone, but all you need to do is enjoy your day and the people around you. Tonight: Choose your company well.

PNC: Christmas Price Index Dear Readers: Merry Christmas.

Here’s the annual PNC Christmas Price Index for those keeping track: The Twelve Days of Christmas On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree (cost: $199.99, an actual decrease of 2.4 percent from last year).

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, two turtle doves ($125, the same price as 2012) and a partridge in a pear tree (another $199.99).

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me, three French hens ($165, the same as last year), two turtle doves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($199.99).

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, four calling birds ($599.96, which increased by a whopping 15.4 percent), three French hens ($165), two turtle doves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($199.99).

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, five gold rings ($750, the same price as last year for those who think the price of gold keeps going up), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($165), two turtle doves ($125), and a partridge in a pear tree ($199.99).

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, six geesea-laying ($210, again, the same as last year), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($165), two turtle doves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($199.99), On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me, seven swans-a-swimming ($7,000), six geese-a-laying ($210), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($165), two turtle doves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($199.99).

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, eight maids-a-milking ($58),, seven

PH.D. LEVEL

1. Christmas: B

7. Christmas: G

Answer________

Answer________

2. Christmas: C

8. Christmas: H

Answer________

Answer________

3. Christmas: D

9. Christmas: I

Answer________

Answer________

ANSWERS:

1. Bells, begonia, berry, box, bush. 2. Cake, cactus, card, carol, club, chimes. 3. Day, disease, doodles. 4. Eve, evergreen, elf. 5. Fern, flower, factor. 6. Pudding, present, package. 7. Green, goodies, goose. 8. Holly, handshake. 9. Island, issue, icing.

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

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.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HH You know when to back off and when to move forward. A friend or loved one could surprise you with an insight about someone you have been missing. Tonight: Vanish while you can.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You understand what is going on in your immediate circle. A male friend or family member could become inordinately pushy or difficult. Tonight: Invite a friend over.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH The excitement of the moment could dissolve the best of plans. Assume your natural role in bringing people and events together. Tonight: Kick up your feet.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Your mind could be everywhere but where it needs to be. You might be missing someone or wishing you had made other plans. Tonight: Be grateful for those around you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You might want to spend the day with a loved one and do nothing else. You often go overboard when trying to do the right thing, but sometimes it is more important to take care of yourself. Tonight: Enjoy a call from a special person.

Jacqueline Bigar

Chess quiz

BLACK TO PLAY Hint: Force checkmate.

Solution: 1. … Qh2ch! 2. Kg5 h6 mate!

Today in history Today is Wednesday, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2013. There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day. Today’s highlight in history: On Dec. 25, 1818, “Silent Night (Stille Nacht),” written

by Franz Gruber and Father Joseph Mohr, was publicly performed for the first time during the Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.

Hocus Focus

swans-a-swimming ($7,000), six geese-a-laying ($210), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($165), two turtle doves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($199.99).

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, nine ladies dancing ($7,552.84) eight maids-a-milking ($58), seven swansa-swimming ($7,000), six geese-alaying ($210), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($165), two turtle doves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($199.99).

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 10 lordsa-leaping ($5,243.37,), nine ladies dancing ($7,552.84), eight maidsa-milking ($58), seven swans-aswimming ($7,000), six geese-alaying ($210), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($165), two turtle doves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($199.99).

On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 11 pipers piping ($2,635.20,) 10 lords-a-leaping ($5,243.37), nine ladies dancing ($7,552.84), eight maids-a-milking ($58), seven swans-a-swimming ($7,000), six geese-a-laying ($210), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($165), two turtle doves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($199.99).

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 12 drummers drumming ($2,854.50,) 11 pipers piping ($2,635.20), 10 lords-aleaping ($5,243.37), nine ladies dancing ($7,552.84), eight maids-a-milking ($58), seven swans-a-swimming ($7,000), six geese-a-laying ($210), five gold rings ($750), four calling birds ($599.96), three French hens ($165), two turtle doves ($125) and a partridge in a pear tree ($199.99).

The total cost of these gifts would be $114,651.18, plus shipping. Have a happy holiday.

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GRADUATE LEVEL

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