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WASHINGTON — On the eve of a long-awaited Senate report on the use of torture by the United States government — a detailed account that will shed an unsparing light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s darkest practices after the September 2001 terrorist attacks — the Obama administration and its Republican critics clashed on Monday over the wisdom of making it public and the risk that it will set off a backlash overseas. While the U.S. has put diplomatic facilities and military bases on alert for heightened security risks, administration officials said they do not expect the report — or, rather, the declassified summary of it that will be released Tuesday — to ignite the kind of violence that killed four Americans at a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. Such violent reprisals,

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other state services in 2015 due to a healthy reserve, which is expected to be $617 million or 10 percent of the fund on June 30, according to the new estimates. The larger impact of oil’s swoon — prices have dropped some 30 percent since August — will be on new money for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2015. Those are dollars lawmakers and Gov. Susana Martinez would

ALBUQUERQUE — A New Mexico district attorney who has faced scrutiny for not prosecuting officers linked to Albuquerque police shootings said Monday she is being investigated as part of a bribery case. The disclosure by Bernalillo County District Attorney Kari Brandenburg creates even more uncertainty as the city tries to overhaul its police force. Brandenburg said she learned she was being investiKari gated by Albuquerque police after a reporter contacted her Brandenburg last week. Citing police documents, the Albuquerque Journal reported Brandenburg is suspected of reimbursing burglary victims to protect her son, 26-year-old Justin Koch, who has been implicated in the theft cases. The newspaper said Brandenburg contacted victims in two burglaries and a larceny case. In the documents, Detective David Nix said police had been investigating Brandenburg for the past year and believed there was probable cause for felony charges against her. At a hastily arranged news conference, Brandenburg said she never broke any laws but declined to comment directly when asked if she offered burglary victims any money. “That act would be illegal and I said I did not, absolutely, without any hesitation, doubt or question commit any criminal offense,” she said. “I did not do anything wrong.” Brandenburg also said she has not seen any of the police reports. Brandenburg said she’s never deviated from

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Drivers put gas in their tanks Monday at the Smith’s station on St. Michael’s Drive. Falling oil prices have effectively cut in half the expected new revenue that the state is forecasting as part of its budget for the coming fiscal year. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

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rashing oil prices have effectively cut in half the expected new revenue that the state of New Mexico is forecasting as part of its budget for the coming fiscal year. “Just as high oil prices boosted state revenues, the bulk of the reduction in this revenue forecast is a direct effect of their decline,” wrote Peter B. van Moorsel, chief

economist for the Legislative Finance Committee, in a presentation to lawmakers Monday. One way the state gains money from oil production is a direct royalty on each dollar of energy extracted from New Mexico fields. That decline to the general fund is two-fold. First, the current fiscal year will see $120 million less in revenue through June 30, 2015. That loss should have no impact on education and

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KABUL, Afghanistan — American and NATO troops closed their operational command in Afghanistan on Monday, lowering flags in a ceremony to mark the formal end of their combat mission in a country still mired in war 13 years after the U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban regime for harboring those responsible for 9/11.

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The closing of the command, which oversaw the day-to-day operations of coalition combat forces, is one of the final steps in a transition to a support and training role that begins Jan. 1. But with President Barack Obama’s recent move authorizing U.S. forces in Afghanistan to carry out military operations against Taliban and al-Qaida targets, America’s longest war will in fact continue for at least another two years. Obama’s decision to give American forces a more active role than previously envisioned suggests the U.S. is still concerned

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NEW DELHI — The Indian capital on Monday banned taxi-booking service Uber after a woman accused one of its drivers of raping her. Transport official Satish Mathur made the announcement as the 32-year-old suspect appeared in a New Delhi court. The court ordered Shiv Kumar Yadav held for three days for police questioning over allegations that he raped the finance company employee after being hired to ferry her home from a dinner engagement on Friday night. The court also ordered Yadav’s cellphone confiscated, according to Press Trust of India. The CEO of San Francisco-based Uber, Travis Kalanick, said the company would do “everything to bring the perpetrator to justice and to support the victim and her family in her recovery.”

GARDI SUGDUP, Panama — Heat-trapping pollution released into the atmosphere from rising exports of U.S. gasoline and diesel dwarfs the cuts made from fuel efficiency standards and other efforts to reduce global warming in the United States, according to a new Associated Press investigation. Under President Barack Obama, the U.S. has reduced more carbon pollution from energy than any other nation, about 475 million tons between 2008 and 2013, according to U.S. Energy Department data. Less than one-fifth of that amount came from burning less gasoline and diesel fuel. Yet the U.S. is sending more fuel than ever to other parts of the world, where efforts to address resulting pollution are just getting underway, if advancing at all. U.S. exports of gasoline and diesel released roughly 1 billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere elsewhere during the same period, according to AP’s analysis. There is no clear accounting of what America’s growth as a fossilfuel powerhouse is doing to the global-warming picture. U.S. projects that increase energy exports could be considered, such as huge terminals planned for the West Coast to send more coal abroad. Trade agreements could factor in the implications of energy trade on global warming.

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PARIS he well-heeled Marilyn Monroe reportedly once said if you give a girl the right shoes, she can conquer the world. The allure of high-heeled shoes is no secret among women, who have used them to entice men from the streets of Ancient Rome to the New York City sidewalks of Carrie Bradshaw. Heels have also been a controversial symbol in the battleground of sexual politics. Now a scientific study in France has measured their power. Scientists from the Universite de Bretagne-Sud conducted experiments that showed that men behave very differently toward high-heeled women. The results, published online in the journal Archives of Sexual Behaviour, may please the purveyors of Christian Louboutin or Jimmy Choo shoes — yet frustrate those who think stilettos encourage sexism. The study found if a woman drops a glove on the street while wearing heels, she’s almost 50 percent more likely to have a man fetch it for her than if she’s wearing flats. Another finding: A woman wearing heels is twice as likely to persuade men to stop and answer survey questions on the street. And a high-heeled woman in a

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Gueguen’s study had 19-year-old female volunteers wearing black shoes with heels that were 0.2 inches or 2 inches or 3½ inches high. Then they asked men between the ages of 25-50 for help in various circumstances. One situation involved a woman asking passers-by: “Excuse me, sir. We are currently conducting a survey on gender equality. Would you agree to answer our questionnaire?” Flat heels got a 46.7 percent answer rate, medium heels a 63 percent rate and the highest heels a whopping 83 percent success rate from the men. Nowadays, the most fashionable heels on the runways and in nightclubs are higher still — with spiked heels commonly measuring 4 inches and extreme heels, dangerously, above 5 inches. Medically, high heels can cause back pain and increase the risk of ankle injuries. Prolonged heel wearing can even permanently shorten calf tendons. And in social terms, women’s rights advocates have objected to high heels, saying they reinforce a misogynist stereotype: women as sex objects to be ogled by men. “If a woman … never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?” famed feminist and flats-wearer Germaine Greer, author of The Female Eunuch, once asked. Those who disagree note that high heels have other uses. “Heels don’t subordinate women — they empower them in romance,” said Kaufmann. “The important thing to remember in seduction is that it’s all a game.”

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bar waits half the time to get picked up by a man, compared to when her heel is nearer to the ground. “Women’s shoe heel size exerts a powerful effect on men’s behavior,” says the study’s author, Nicolas Gueguen, a behavioral science researcher. “Simply put, they make women more beautiful.” Raised shoes have an unglamorous beginning: worn first by Egyptian butchers, who donned platforms to avoid treading in bloody offal. But on women as “signifiers of femininity,” raised shoes initially appeared in Ancient Greece and Rome, according to Elizabeth Semmelhack of The Bata Shoe Museum. In Rome, where the sex trade was legal, high heels helped clients identify prostitutes in crowds. Although high heels were worn for centuries in the Ottoman Empire and in Persia for horseback riding, they only minced into the West in the 1500s, when they were associated with imperial power and popularized as erotic in the 19th and 20th centuries. Such was the allure that a person with status or wealth became referred to as “well-heeled.” This study shows this allure is very much alive. “Though it’s a relatively small cross-section, this study is very significant since the results are clear and consistent,” said Paris-based sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann, who was not involved in the study. “In a relation of seduction, men are very attracted by a woman in heels as she looks taller, more sexually confident, sure of herself, with a lengthened silhouette and sensual jutting buttocks.”

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Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 OPEN HOUSE AT GOVERNOR’S MANSION: From 1 to 3 p.m., the New Mexico Governor’s Mansion Foundation is hosting its annual Holiday Open House at the Governor’s Mansion, 1 Mansion Drive. The event is free and open to the public. Come enjoy the festive holiday decorations, cookies, hot cider, and holiday music. VETERANS: From 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Civil Justice Clinic, Building 41, 1501 San Pedro Drive SE, enrolled Veterans of the New Mexico VA Health Care System with legal questions on civil matters will have an opportunity to receive free consultation with licensed New Mexico attorneys and other legal professionals. For more information, call Lisa Anderson, Veterans Justice Outreach Specialist, at 908-0383. Anonymous 4: Cathedral Basilica of St. Frances of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place. Vocal quartet; medieval carols and motets, 7:30 p.m., check ticketssantafe.org or call 988-1234 for ticket availability. New Mexico School for the Arts Orchestra: Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat Center Chapel, 50 Mount Carmel Road. Winter concert, 7 p.m., $10, discounts available, nmschoolforthearts.org. Santa Fe University of Art and Design Acoustic Americana and Rock Ensemble: O’Shaughnessy Performance Space, Benildus Hall, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive. 7 p.m., no charge. Adam James Jones: Op. Cit. Books, Sanbusco Center, 500 Montezuma Ave., 428-0321. The author reads from The Vendetta of Felipe Espinosa, 6 p.m.

UVA won’t reinstate fraternity activities RICHMOND, Va. — The University of Virginia says it’s creating a group to explore its policies and campus culture after a Rolling Stone article on an alleged gang rape prompted an “intense, ongoing period of introspection.” School officials also said Monday that the university won’t lift its suspension of Greek activities at the request of national fraternity and sorority organizations. The university suspended Greek activities until Jan. 9 after Rolling Stone published an article describing an alleged rape at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house. The magazine has since backed away from many details. The Greek life groups had urged the school to lift the suspension. Officials say the newly created group supports the goal of providing an outstanding education while ensuring students’ safety and wellbeing.

Uruguay welcomes 6 Gitmo prisoners MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay’s defense minister says six Guantánamo Bay prisoners sent to his country to be resettled as refugees are doing well. Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro spoke Monday to local radio. He said that one of the men who had been on a long-term hunger strike has begun eating and will soon be released from the hospital to begin his new life. He also said that the men who arrived early Sunday will be fully welcomed into Uruguayan society. The six men were detained as suspected militants with ties to al-Qaeda in 2002 but were never charged. They had been cleared for release since 2009 but could not be sent home and the U.S. struggled to find countries willing to take them. The Associated Press

Lotteries From Meteorite to Trinitite: Meem Auditorium, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Laboratory of Anthropology, 710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill. A lecture/ performance by members of design studio Futurefarmers, with special guests Forging a Nail, 6 p.m., held in conjunction with the biennial exhibit of contemporary works SITElines 2014: Unsettled Landscapes, $10, discounts available, call SITE Santa Fe to register, 989-1199, sitesantafe.org. Olive Rush: Santa Fe’s First Lady of the Arts: School for Advanced Research boardroom, 660 Garcia Street. Bettina Raphael discusses the Santa Fe artist/ activist, 3 p.m., no charge, 954-7203. Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014

GRACE AND THE GRAIL: El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe,555 Camino de la Familia. Power of the Devine Feminine presents a staged reading of the play, 7 p.m., $5-$10 suggested donation at the door.

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A masked protester in Berkeley, Calif., holds up the U.S. flag Sunday, while standing by burning dumpsters during a demonstration against police killings in Missouri and New York. Angry crowds in Berkeley spent much of the weekend clashing with police. ALEXANDER TU/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Demonstrations, violence continue in Bay Area cities Berkeley mayor calls some protesters ‘cowards and thugs’ By Kristin J. Bender and Paul Elias The Associated Press

BERKELEY, Calif. — Protests in New York and Missouri have died down, but angry crowds in one California city famous for activism spent much of the weekend blocking traffic and clashing with police in this ultra-liberal bastion thousands of miles from the where Michael Brown and Eric Garner were killed. Although many activists in other parts of the country have gone home, protests in Berkeley and Oakland are still active, reflecting the area’s long history of protest dating back to the 1960s. The crowds that came out to protest in Berkeley numbered only a few hundred, but some are not college students or residents so much as full-time demonstrators who protest anything — war, prison conditions and economic inequality — and sometimes use demonstrations as a pretext for violence and vandalism, just as they did during the Occupy Wall Street movement. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said a tiny fraction of protesters are obscuring the wider message calling for reform of policing policies nationwide. “The people in the Bay Area are sensitive to worldwide issues,” Bates said. “Unfortunately, there is a small element that uses violence at times to make their point.” Merchants on Monday cleaned up broken glass and took stock of the previous night’s looting from downtown Berkeley stores. Bates called the violent elements of the demonstration “cowards and thugs who need to take off their masks.” It was not immediately known how many businesses were damaged, and no damage estimate was offered. Five people were arrested, police said. Stuart Geiger, 27, a UC Berkeley doctoral student, attended the protest and recorded video of peaceful demonstrators attempting to stop the looting of a Radio Shack. “There was a pretty vocal sentiment there about keep this a peaceful protest and stay on message,” Geiger said. Another peaceful protester was struck by a hammer and slightly injured when he tried to stop looting. In keeping with the city’s protest history, Berkeley leaders have put limits on their

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WASHINGTON — Scientists in a lab used a powerful laser to re-create what might have been the original spark of life on Earth. The researchers zapped clay and a chemical soup with the laser to simulate the energy of a speeding asteroid smashing into the planet. They ended up creating what can be considered crucial pieces of the building blocks of life. The findings do not prove that this is how life started on Earth about 4 billion years ago, and some scientists were unimpressed with the results. But the experiment does bolster the long-held theory. “These findings suggest that the emergence of terrestrial life is not the result of an accident but a direct consequence of the conditions on the primordial Earth and its surroundings,” the researchers concluded in the study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The laser-zapping produced all four chemical bases needed to make RNA, a

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simpler relative of DNA, the blueprint of life. From these bases, there are many stillmysterious steps that must happen for life to emerge. But this is a potential starting point in that process. Scientists have been able to make these RNA bases other ways, using chemical mixes and pressure, but this is the first experiment to test the theory that the energy from a space crash could trigger the crucial chemical reaction, said lead author Svatopluk Civis of the Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry in Prague. Civis said the scientists used a laser almost 500 feet long that for a fraction of a second zapped the chemical soup with an invisible beam. The power was so intense and concentrated that Civis said that for less than a billionth of a second, it was equivalent to the output of a couple of nuclear power plants. It produced what would be around a billion kilowatts of energy for that sliver of time over a fraction of an inch, generating heat of more than 7,600 degrees Fahrenheit, the researchers said. Some of the earliest life on Earth seemed to coincide with a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, when the solar system’s asteroid belt was bigger and stray space rocks hit our planet more often, said study co-author David Nesvorny, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research

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U.S. unveils federal law enforcement profiling curbs By Eric Tucker The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration issued guidelines Monday that restrict the ability of federal law enforcement agencies to profile on the basis of religion, national origin and other characteristics, protocols the Justice Department hopes could be a model for local departments as the nation tackles questions about the role race plays in policing. The policy, which replaces decadeold guidelines established under the Bush administration, also will require federal agencies to provide training and to collect data on complaints. Civil rights advocates said they welcomed the broader protections, but were disappointed that the guidance will exempt security screening in airports and border checkpoints and won’t be binding on local and state police agencies. “It’s so loosely drafted that its exceptions risk swallowing any rule and permit some of the worst law enforcement policies and practices that have victimized and alienated American Muslim and other minority communities,” Laura Murphy, director of the ACLU’s

Washington Legislative Office, said in a statement. “This guidance is not an adequate response to the crisis of racial profiling in America.” Though the policy — five years in the making — was not drafted in response to recent high-profile cases involving the deaths of black individuals at the hands of white police officers, it’s nonetheless being released amid an ongoing national conversation about police use of force, racial justice and the treatment of minorities by law enforcement. “Particularly in light of certain recent incidents we’ve seen at the local level — and the widespread concerns about trust in the criminal justice process which so many have raised throughout the nation — it’s imperative that we take every possible action to institute strong and sound policing practices,” said Attorney General Eric Holder, referring to the August shooting by a white police officer of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Mo., and the chokehold death weeks earlier of a man in New York City. Holder, who has made the release of the guidelines a priority before leaving the Justice Department next year, called the guidelines a “major and important step forward to ensure effective polic-

ing” by federal law enforcement. The policy extends a prohibition on routine racial profiling that the Justice Department announced in 2003 under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. Civil rights groups have long said those rules left open too many loopholes by allowing an exemption for national security and by failing to extend the ban to characteristics beyond race and ethnicity. The new guidelines would end the carve-out on national security investigations and widen the profiling curbs to prohibit the practice on the basis of religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. The rules cover federal agencies within the Justice Department, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. They also extend to local and state officers serving on task forces alongside federal agents. Some activities of the Department of Homeland Security are covered, such as civil immigration enforcement, though border and airport security screening are exempt along with interdictions at ports of entry. The policy was laid out in a memo that provides concrete examples of law enforcement actions that would and

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nomic development and tourism, public safety and expansion of the health care workforce. Clifford also added “continuing tax reform to promote economic development.” In answer to a question from Santa Fe Democrat Luciano “Lucky” Varela, Clifford said the administration will not push any more broad-based tax cuts, but “we need to continue targeted tax reform. That’s how we’ve built a competitive economy in New Mexico.” But the new estimates probably mean a fairly lean state budget year with money for the growth of existing programs but few new initiatives — and no raises for state employees or teachers, said Sen. John Arthur Smith, co-chairman of the committee. “Have you had conversations with agencies?” Smith asked Clifford. “They’d better start adjusting their budgets downwards.” The analysis presented Monday included input from the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at The University of New Mexico, which reported that “while the U.S. economy has entered the sixth year of recovery from the Great Recession, there is little evidence of a comparable recovery in New Mexico as the state economy continues to move sideways.” The state is not expected to reach prerecession employment levels until 2017, according to the bureau. But there is some positive news in the analysis that shows the state is on solid financial footing.

Overall general fund spending in the current year is estimated to exceed the 2009 peak by 1.9 percent. And consumer spending is coming back strong — as evidenced by a 5 percent jump in state gross-receipts tax revenue. Lawmakers hope lower gas prices might boost consumer spending further, and that would buffer some of the lost revenue from oil. “The consensus estimating group made upward adjustments in the gross receipts tax forecast, thanks in large part to a very strong first quarter of FY 15,” wrote van Moorsel. The personal income tax and severance tax revenues flowing to the state are also higher and expected to remain solid, according to the analysis. And state economists are not expecting a decline in oil prices to slow down production in the Permian Basin in southeast New Mexico, though the pace of growth will likely moderate as drillers look to the future for higher prices. State economists are basing the fiscal year 2016 revenue forecast on an average oil price of $66 per barrel, and they estimate gradual price recovery to $72 and $76 in the following years. But whether there will be another adjustment to revenue before the 2015 session begins Jan. 20 is anyone’s guess. The price of oil tumbled 3 percent Monday during the trading day, but then closed relatively unchanged at $63 a barrel.

Bribery: Protesters call for resignation Continued from Page A-1 acting ethically and morally while in office. She said her son is a drug addict who has had a number of run-ins with the law but she has never interfered with his cases. Court records show he faces shoplifting and larceny charges, but it was unclear if those allegations were involved in the bribery probe. Brandenburg said her son is currently in jail. “Tough love is my practice,” she said. “His only hope for recovery is hitting rock bottom and pulling himself out of this.” Albuquerque police spokesman Tanner Tixier said the department conducted a fair probe and submitted the results to the state Attorney General’s Office for a decision on possible charges. “We stand by the thoroughness of the investigation,” Tixier said. Phil Sisneros, a spokesman for the

communities said the new guidelines didn’t go far enough, in part because they don’t cover state and local law enforcement and would still permit circumstances in which religion and national origin can be taken into account. Muslim Advocates, a national organization, noted that federal law enforcement would still be permitted to “map communities based on race, ethnicity or religion” and use that information to recruit informants. “You can’t be against profiling in some contexts but for it in other contexts,” said Rajdeep Singh, policy director of the Sikh Coalition. Some also complained about the airport and border exemptions for the Department of Homeland Security, which agency officials attributed to “the unique nature of border and transportation security as compared to traditional law enforcement.” “This does not mean that officers and agents are free to profile,” the department said in a statement. “To the contrary, DHS’ existing policies make it categorically clear that profiling is prohibited,” while allowing for limited circumstances in which race, ethnicity and other characteristics could be considered.

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Revenue: Could be a fairly lean budget year use for state employee raises and expanded services to classrooms, the judiciary, criminal justice, tourism and economic development. In August, when oil was $92 a barrel, the state was forecasting $285 million in new money for the 2016 fiscal year starting July 1. On Monday, when the price was below $65, van Moorsel told lawmakers the new money will be half that amount — about $141 million, down significantly, but still an increase of 2.3 percent over current spending. New Mexico is now an oil-producing giant with $1.7 billion of the $6 billion general fund coming in some way from oil and gas production. The sector now employs 27,700 workers and has been one of the few growth areas in the state. For lawmakers and state economists, the reality is that a $1 drop in the price of a barrel of oil means a loss to the state general fund of about $7 million. “If there was a time to shoot the messenger, this is it,” State Sen. Carlos Cisneros, a Questa Democrat joked after the presentation. New Mexico uses a consensus revenue process to put together state budgets so both Gov. Martinez and lawmakers agree on the bottom-line number of how much money is available before the start of a new legislative session. The battles during the session then focus on how to allocate that money — and which priorities deserve additional dollars. Money used to offset tax breaks, for instance — be it for TV and film production or business recruitment — would come from the pot of new money. Tom Clifford, secretary for the Department of Finance and Administration and the top economist for Martinez, said in his prepared remarks that declining oil prices will reduce growth, but “revenues are adequate to continue important reforms.” The budget priorities for Martinez, he added, are education reforms, eco-

would not be permissible. The memo makes clear that agents may take race, ethnicity and other factors into account during investigations in limited circumstances, such as if they have information linking a person of a particular characteristic to a specific crime. That means, for instance, that if U.S. Park Police officers are told to be on the lookout for a fleeing bank robbery suspect of a particular race and gender, they’d be permitted to use those factors in deciding which drivers to pull over on a highway. Still, the policy’s practical impact remains to be seen, especially since local police officers are the ones primarily responsible for traffic stops, 911 calls and day-to-day interactions with the communities they patrol. Though not binding on local agencies, the Obama administration views the guidelines as a roadmap, with Holder encouraging local law enforcement officials to adopt the federal policy. The administration would welcome “any decision that’s made by local law enforcement to apply these policies at the state and local level as well,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Monday. Some advocacy groups for minority

Attorney General’s Office, declined to comment. A handful of protesters demonstrated Monday in downtown Albuquerque and called for Brandenburg to step down. For months, Brandenburg has faced criticism for failing to prosecute officers linked to any of the more than 40 Albuquerque police shootings since 2010. Brandenburg has said she was personally reviewing the March police shooting of homeless camper James Boyd. The 38-year-old Boyd was fatally shot in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains during an hourslong standoff with Albuquerque police. Video from an officer’s helmet camera showed police fired on Boyd, who had struggled with mental illness, as he appeared to be preparing to surrender. Days later, a demonstration over the shooting turned violent, leading police to use tear gas on protesters. The U.S. Justice Department then released a

harsh report faulting Albuquerque police over excessive force. The city and the Justice Department recently signed an agreement to overhaul the police agency. Brandenburg, a Democrat who was elected in 2000, said she would continue with her duties despite the pending bribery investigation. “I said it is business as usual,” Brandenburg said. However, she said her office might evaluate whether she should recuse herself if it finds probable cause to prosecute any officer in the Boyd case. David Correia, a police critic and American Studies professor at The University of New Mexico, said Brandenburg should remove herself from the Boyd case and others involving police shootings in case police are trying to manipulate her actions through the bribery investigation. “Kari Brandenburg has always sided with APD on justice,” Correia said. “So, I wouldn’t put it past APD that they did this to send a message.”

they said, tend to be fueled more by perceived attacks against Islam as a religion than by violence against individual Muslims. But some leading Republican lawmakers have warned against releasing the report, saying that domestic and foreign intelligence reports indicate that a detailed account of the brutal interrogation methods used by the CIA during the George W. Bush administration could incite unrest and violence, even resulting in the deaths of Americans. Former Vice President Dick Cheney added his voice to those of other Bush administration officials defending the CIA, declaring in an interview Monday that its harsh interrogations a decade ago were “absolutely, totally justified” and dismissing allegations that the agency withheld information from the White House or inflated the value of its methods. The White House acknowledged that the report could pose a “greater risk” to U.S. installations and personnel in countries like Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt, Libya and Iraq. But it said that the government had months to plan for the reverberations from its report — indeed, years — and that those risks should not delay the release of the report by the Senate Intelligence Committee. “When would be a good time to release this report?” the White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, asked. “It’s difficult to imagine one, particularly given the painful details that will be included.” But he added, “The president believes it is important for us to be as transparent as we possibly can about what exactly transpired, so we can just be clear to the American public and people around the world that something like this should not happen again.” The administration appeared to have qualms Friday when Secretary of State John Kerry telephoned the Democratic chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to warn her about unrest that might erupt because of the report. The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, repeated those warnings in a briefing Saturday with several members of the Intelligence Committee. But Clapper told the senators that he favored the release of the report, officials said. Kerry was not putting pressure on Feinstein to delay the report, administration officials said, but merely informing her about the latest assessment of the security risks, which at that time included a threat to a U.S. hostage then being held in southern Yemen. The hostage, Luke Somers, a photographer, was killed by his captors several hours later during a rescue attempt by U.S. commandos. In addition to tightening security at embassies, the Pentagon will bolster the protection of its forces in Afghanistan, officials said. Intelligence agencies will ramp up their monitoring of the communications of terrorist groups like al-Qaida and the Islamic State. Among the administration’s concerns is that terrorist groups will exploit the disclosures in the report for propaganda value. The Islamic State already clads its U.S. hostages in orange jumpsuits, like those worn by prisoners in CIA interrogations. Hostages held by the

Islamic State in Syria were subjected to waterboarding, one of the practices used by the CIA to extract information from suspected terrorists. Cheney, who was one of the Bush administration’s most outspoken champions of this tough approach, said on Monday he had not read the report, but from news reports about it had heard nothing to change his mind about the wisdom or effectiveness of the program. “What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation, and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it,” Cheney said in a telephone interview. “I think that’s all a bunch of hooey. The program was authorized. The agency did not want to proceed without authorization, and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program.” Cheney said he never believed the CIA was withholding information from him or the White House about the nature of the program, nor did he think the agency exaggerated the value of the intelligence gained from waterboarding and other techniques widely considered to be torture. “They deserve a lot of praise,” he said. “As far as I’m concerned, they ought to be decorated, not criticized.” Other Republicans said that releasing the report now would put Americans in grave peril. On Sunday, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on CNN, “I think this is a terrible idea.” “Foreign leaders have approached the government and said, ‘You do this, this will cause violence and deaths,’ ” he said. “Our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths.” Administration officials acknowledged that the briefings given to lawmakers included worst-case scenarios. They say that is a legacy of the attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, which erupted after the posting of a satirical video about the Prophet Muhammad. State Department officials were faulted for inadequate security and for not responding quickly enough when the assailants overran the complex. At embassies across the Middle East, diplomats waited uneasily for the release of the report. Because its content had not been widely shared with diplomats, many did not know whether it contained information that could inflame passions in their countries. The White House will also have to deal with diplomatic fallout from the report in countries that aided the United States in transporting prisoners or playing host to so-called black sites, where the interrogations occurred. One such country is Poland. While the names of these countries are redacted in the declassified report, their identity is scarcely a mystery. Poland, for example, has been cited by a court for its involvement in the program, which has been highly controversial among both opponents inside Poland and international human rights activists for more than a decade. “We have suspected that Polish authorities knew about the black sites and that the CIA had planned for them from the very beginning,” said Adam Bodnar, vice president of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. “Hopefully, it will allow this issue to be finally resolved and make sure those in Poland who are guilty are brought to justice.”

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MANAMA, Bahrain — Allied warplanes and Iraqi ground troops are increasingly isolating Islamic State militants in the captured city of Mosul, prompting Iraqi officials to push for a winter offensive to wrest control of the area months ahead of the previous schedule — and over U.S. warnings. The ground campaign to retake Iraq’s second-largest city from the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is still likely many weeks away, U.S. officials said. Its timing will depend on the pace of training for additional Iraqi ground troops to retake the city and for a holding force afterward, as well as sorting out a brewing dispute between officials in Baghdad and Washington over whether Iraq is ready to carry out such a complex urban battle. The United States and its coalition partners have carried out more than 660 airstrikes in Iraq, making it more difficult for the Islamic State to mass large numbers of forces or to travel in convoys. These attacks, including fresh air raids in the past few days, and Iraqi ground operations in the north and west have made it more difficult for the Islamic State to resupply and reinforce its fighters in Mosul, which the Islamic State seized in June when it swept in from Syria and made its headquarters in Iraq. But there is no indication that the militants have lost their fighting spirit, and there are still thousands of them. At least several hundred fighters are in and around Mosul, according to a U.S. intelligence official. Even if Iraqi forces successfully oust the Islamic State from their territory, the strategy would do nothing to deal with the militant group’s safe haven inside Syria. A successful campaign to counter the Islamic State in Iraq might actually exacerbate the situation across the border if militants from Mosul and elsewhere simply return to Syria, where the Obama administration’s plan to train and equip moderate rebels is lagging. Any military campaign to retake Mosul in early 2015 would also push closer a decision by President Barack Obama on whether scores of U.S. military advisers should leave the relative safety of the command posts in Iraq, where they work now, to join Iraqi and Kurdish forces on the front lines of a challenging urban fight. The United States currently does not plan to advise Iraqi forces below the level of a brigade, which in the Iraqi army usually has about 2,000 troops. It is also unclear under what circumstances the White House might allow U.S. advisers to accompany Iraqi units onto the battlefield or to call in airstrikes, as Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has indicated might be necessary. Relatively small numbers of U.S. Special Forces, or Green Berets, worked alongside allied Afghan militia units in 2001 to successfully rout the Taliban army, and al-Qaida leaders living there as Taliban guests, in the early months of that war. “I’m not predicting at this point that I would recommend that those forces in Mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by U.S. forces but we’re certainly considering it,” Dempsey told a House hearing last month. U.S. and Iraqi officials had previously confirmed that planning was underway for a broad military campaign to dislodge the Islamic State from Iraq to

begin in the spring. But these new indications of an offensive for Mosul early in the year show that pieces of the effort could be underway sooner than previously thought. Allied warplanes and armed drones have in the past two weeks have carried out more than 30 airstrikes near Mosul. The strikes have damaged or destroyed enemy bunkers, artillery, combat vehicles and even bulldozers erecting earthen fortifications around the city, and killed several top Islamic State leaders, officials said. “We have to beat ISIS in Mosul,” Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq’s finance minister and a former foreign minister, told a security conference here Friday. Retaking Mosul would likely involve bloody, block-by-block fighting, based on previous urban campaigns in Iraq, like Fallujah in 2004, U.S. officials say. Success in Mosul would depend largely on the ability of the new Shiite-led Iraqi government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to win the cooperation of the local police, many of whom are Sunnis, as well as Kurdish fighters and Sunni tribesmen. “I’ve spent a lot of time in Mosul. It is difficult terrain,” Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the head of the Pentagon’s Central Command, said in October. “So we want to make sure that when we take that on, that we have the adequate capability and we’ve set the conditions right to get things done.” Austin, a former top allied commander in Iraq, added, “Certainly it will be an important fight and a difficult fight.” USA Today last week reported some elements of a possible accelerated Iraqi offensive. On the heels of a string of military victories, including breaking the siege of an oil refinery in Beiji, and the liberation of Jurf al-Sahkar, southwest of Baghdad, and Jalawla and Sadiya, in Diyala province, some newly confident Iraqi officials have been pressing the Americans to back a major operation in Mosul sooner than they would like. Among the Iraqis advocating for an offensive soon in Mosul are some officials close to the prime minister, as well as highlevel officials in the Ministry of Defense. U.S. officials in Baghdad, however, have stressed that the Iraqi military lacks the necessary combat power and logistical capacity, noting that the initial Iraqi force the United States is now advising will consist of only nine Iraqi brigades and three similar Kurdish peshmerga units, or roughly 24,000 troops. The Iraqi spring offensive had called for at least doubling that force before mounting the assault. Moreover, U.S. officials say there are not enough local Sunni forces to hold the territory in Mosul once it is cleared by the security forces. Instead, the Americans are urging the Iraqis to push forward with a plan to raise National Guard units, which would be composed of local forces. But parliament has yet to take up a draft bill in the face of opposition from some Shiite leaders, and there is a growing sense that the effort is likely to be stalled for some time. As the Iraqi security forces, along with Kurdish peshmerga units and Shiite militias aligned with Iran, rack up victories, there are growing calls to allow these fighters to move on Sunnidominated areas such as Mosul and Tikrit. The Americans have opposed such a move because they worry it would deepen sectarian divisions and perhaps set off a Sunni-on-Shiite civil war.

about the Afghan government’s ability to fight. And agreements signed by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to allow U.S. and NATO troops to remain in the country are seen as a red line by the Taliban, further narrowing any hope of peace talks. Not only are the Taliban a resilient insurgency, a new generation of extremists inspired by Osama bin Laden threatens the entire region. American forces are now also involved in a burgeoning military campaign against Islamic State group militants in Syria and Iraq, where Obama had hoped to end combat operations three years ago. As NATO’s International Security Assistance Force’s Joint Command lowered its flag in the capital, the Taliban carried out yet another bloody attack, this time killing a police officer and four civilians at a police station in southern Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told The Associated Press that the group would continue to fight “until all foreign troops have left Afghanistan.” “The Americans want to extend their mission in Afghanistan, the motive being to keep the war going for as long as possible,” Mujahid said. “And for as long as they do, the Taliban will continue their fight against the foreign and [Afghan] government forces.” From Jan. 1, the coalition will maintain a force of 13,000 troops in Afghanistan, down from a peak of about 140,000 in 2011. As of Dec. 1, there were some 13,300 NATO troops in the country. Up to 10,800 U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan for the first three months of next year, 1,000 more than previously planned, said a NATO official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss troop deployments. By the end of 2015, however, American officials say the U.S. troop total will shrink to 5,500, and to near zero by the end of 2016. Obama’s recent decision broadened what had long been billed as an “advise and assist” mission set to begin next year, allowing American forces to launch operations against the militants as well as to provide combat and air support. Afghan officials have also said that Ghani is considering a resumption of night raids that could involve Americans. Nevertheless, U.S. Gen. John F. Campbell, commander of NATO and U.S. forces, said foreign troops will now focus on training and supporting Afghan soldiers and police, who have led the fight against

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the Taliban insurgents since mid-2013. “The Afghan security forces are capable,” Campbell said. “They have to make some changes in the leadership, which they’re doing, and they have to hold people accountable.” Ghani, who replaced President Hamid Karzai, is overhauling Afghanistan’s military and the security apparatus. He has begun replacing provincial governors in volatile areas and his office said military leaders will also be replaced. His National Security Council is working on a manual that will establish rules of engagement and battlefield practices for Afghan security forces. As Afghan troops have stepped up, they have been killed in record numbers. Afghan security casualties spiked 6.5 percent this year, with 4,634 killed in action. By comparison, some 3,500 foreign forces, including at least 2,210 American soldiers, have been killed since the war began in 2001. Afghan officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss their intelligence analysis, say they believe Taliban attacks will only increase in December and January as the militants react to Ghani’s embrace of a continued foreign military presence. They also blamed Pakistan’s intelligence agencies — which they have long accused of quietly supporting the militants — for the surge in violence, even though relations between the two countries have thawed in recent months since Ghani’s election. “I don’t think the war will

slow or stop during the winter, as attacks on cities are not contingent on the weather,” Afghan political analyst Wahid Muzhdah said. “I believe attacks in the cities will increase.” In recent weeks, the Taliban have hit foreign targets, including military, diplomatic and civilian installations. Four foreigners, including a British Embassy security guard and a South African charity worker and his two teenage children, have been killed in Kabul. Five attackers died in Monday’s attack on the police station, including one who blew himself up, said Samim Akhplwak, the spokesman for the Kandahar provincial governor. The attack also wounded seven people. In the restive eastern province of Nangahar, three headless bodies were found, according to the governor’s spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai. He said four people had been kidnapped “a couple of days ago.” One intact body was

found Sunday, but it was unclear if the bodies were those of the kidnapped. The war has spawned widespread lawlessness in much of the country, with deadly feuds often taking place under the guise of Taliban-related violence. Monday’s muted ceremony in Kabul was in stark contrast to the heady days following the 2001 invasion, when U.S. and allied forces routed the Taliban and sent bin Laden’s al-Qaida scrambling across the border into Pakistan. But in the fallow years after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with Washington’s attention focused on the Middle East, the Taliban took root again. Al-Qaida’s central command is meanwhile battered but intact following the 2011 killing of bin Laden, its affiliates carry out near daily attacks in several countries, and an even more radical breakaway faction — the Islamic State group — controls vast swaths of Syria and Iraq.

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State grants SFPS $3.8M for teacher incentives Money could help schools recruit and retain educators, improve morale, Skandera says By Robert Nott The New Mexican

The state Public Education Department is giving Santa Fe Public Schools $3.8 million to increase teacher salaries as part of a pay-for-performance pilot program for the 2014-15 school year. The grant is part of a one-time

allocation of $7.2 million that is being made available to districts to reward effective teachers and principals, either individually or as a group within a school, with stipends of at least $1,000. Eligibility requirements include adhering to state or district teacher-evaluation measurements. Teachers and schools must voluntarily apply for a share of the money. About 25 districts and individual charter schools applied for the funds, according to Secretary of Educationdesignate Hanna Skandera. Nine districts — including Pojoaque, Floyd, Hobbs, Gallup and Farmington — received grants, along with 12 charter

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schools, including Academy for Technology and the Classics and New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe. “This is a great opportunity to really champion our best teachers and school leaders,” Skandera said Monday. “Time and time again we talk about the importance of paying teachers well, and now we have an opportunity to recognize their excellence and learn how it works.” She said the incentive money could raise teacher morale and help recruit and retain teachers. Santa Fe Superintendent Joel Boyd, who created a Competitive Wage

Committee to find ways to increase staff salaries, said Monday, “I believe that all people who work in public education are primarily committed to the public good, but compensation matters.” Not everyone is happy with the news. Grace Mayer, president of the local teacher union National Education Association-Santa Fe, said the group does not support the plan because it relies too much on judging a teacher based on student test scores. In a letter she sent to Boyd last week, Mayer said the plan “is no longer incentive pay but instead bonus pay for several teachers for past [Standard

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Based Assessment] scores. This is not agreeable to us.” She said Monday that if the state really cared about increasing salaries it would divide the $3.8 million equally among all district employees, which would average out to about a 4 percent raise across the board. She said the district’s initial application for the funds, which the union supported, relied on some aspects of the teacher evaluation plan, including principals’ observations, student attendance and student growth in reading and math scores from short-term assessments. But it did not include

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District judge continues fight to stay on bench

Issue remains unresolved as hearing on process postponed to later in week

Raphaelson responds to AG’s Office request for her removal before year’s end

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Attorneys for the state and incumbent New Mexico State Land Commissioner Ray Powell negotiated through Monday evening in an unsuccessful effort to resolve issues on how a recount of votes in the closely contested election for land commissioner should be conducted. A state Supreme Court hearing that was scheduled for Monday afternoon to Ray Powell hear motions filed by Powell regarding the recount process was postponed until 9 a.m. Wednesday, while the two sides try to hammer out an agreement. Powell has challenged the method the state Canvassing Aubrey Dunn Board approved in late November for calibrating vote tabulating machines and reviewing ballots during the recount, among other issues. Meanwhile, the state Canvassing Board, which is made up of the governor, the secretary of state and the state Supreme Court chief justice, is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday, at the Office of the Governor on the fourth floor of the Capitol to discuss the recount. The final unofficial election results posted by the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office placed Powell, a Democrat and veterinarian, 704 votes behind his Republican challenger, rancher and banker, Aubrey Dunn. That margin between the two candidates equals about 0.14 percent of the 499,666 ballots cast in the race. State law requires an automatic recount when the difference is less than half a percent of the total ballots cast. The state Canvassing Board approved the automatic recount in late November. But when the order detailing how the recount would be conducted was issued, only Gov. Susana Martinez and Secretary of State Dianna Duran, both Republicans, signed it. State Supreme Court Justice Richard Bosson did not sign the order, saying he couldn’t after reading it and reviewing state law. Powell filed a petition in which he alleged that the recount procedure outlined in the Nov. 25 order doesn’t comply with the state constitution and election laws. The board’s recount order calls for 100 ballots from each tabulator, or voting machine, in each county to be used to test the machines’ accuracy. Powell contends state law requires that 2 percent of all the ballots cast in each county be used in testing each tabulator’s accuracy. “There is not any basis in statute or regulation for the 100 number,” according to Powell’s petition. In counties with small voting populations, 100 ballots for each machine would be well over the 2 percent requirement. But in counties with larger populations, such as Santa Fe and Bernalillo counties, the 100 ballots would be well below the 2 percent requirement.

Nev., that was paid for by the owners of the paving and construction company. Martinez was the first person charged in the case and pleaded guilty to demanding or receiving a bribe as part of a deal, according to documents that were all filed within a 12-minute period on Feb. 8, 2012. But because Martinez’s case was sealed, he was never publicly revealed as a figure in the scandal until Monday. Five other defendants in the case were indicted about two weeks after Martinez entered his guilty plea. The only remaining defendants, Advantage and Montoya, are now standing trial on allegations of defrauding the county of about $1 million between 2008 and 2010. Attorneys for the prosecution and the defense sketched the outlines of their views of the case during opening statements Monday.

State District Judge Sheri Raphaelson on Monday responded to the state Attorney General’s Office request that the state Supreme Court remove her from office by year’s end because she didn’t win enough retention votes in the Nov. 4 general election. The response filed on her behalf by Santa Fe attorney Doug Perrin says Raphaelson, who presides primarily over Rio Arriba County cases, is being unfairly targeted. Raphaelson insists that she won’t volunSheri tarily leave office until Raphaelson 2016, when she says her six-year term in office ends. She was appointed to fill a vacancy on the First Judicial District bench in 2009 and won an election in 2010. However, the Attorney General’s Office said in its petition for removal that because Raphaelson inherited a six-year term two years after it had begun, she was properly subjected to retention in the 2014 election. The petition also says she voluntarily participated in the election by filing a declaration of candidacy and can’t now complain about the result. The judge’s response states that she did so because, “If Judge Raphaelson had not filed the Declaration of Candidacy as she did, when she did, as she was instructed to do, she would have been considered to

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Advantage Asphalt and Seal Coating co-owner, Joe Anthony Montoya sits in District Court on Monday as his trial begins. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Ex-road supervisor pleads guilty to taking bribes Man, along with former boss, admits to taking trip paid for by owners of paving company By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican

he former Santa Fe County road supervisor pleaded guilty to taking a bribe from a local contractor, a prosecutor revealed for the first time Monday, as testimony began in the fraud case against Advantage Asphalt and Seal Coating and its co-owner Joe Anthony Montoya. Former road supervisor James Martinez — like his boss, former County Public Works Director James Lujan, who also has pleaded guilty in the case — admitted to taking a trip to Las Vegas,

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New website a cashless, online trading platform Bartering within Taos community is main tool of site By Elizabeth Cleary The Taos News

TAOS — Taos resident Jodie Slack launched a website in July that gives locals a new way to buy, sell and trade goods and services. Taos Trade Exchange allows users to post pictures of items they are looking to sell or exchange and set a price for them. Instead of cash, the site deals in digital “tokens,” and one token is equal to one dollar. When a user bids on an item, the system sends a message to the seller’s email that prompts a dialogue between the user and seller, and the two can negotiate a sale or a trade. If the two agree on a price, the buyer transfers tokens into the sellers account, who can then use those tokens to go shopping for other items on the site. “It’s kind of a unique system in that I don’t think anyone is doing it quite like this,” Slack said in an interview. She said that unlike sites like eBay, Taos Trade Exchange is a local community trading network, so users can meet each other to conduct transactions instead of having to package items and ship them. Also, eBay charges users 15 percent of every sale, and Taos Trade Exchange charges just 5 percent. Users can also advertise services on the exchange. For example, a user could post a listing advertising baby sitting services in exchange

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for a certain amount of tokens per hour. A parent who is low on cash but has items for sale on the exchange could, theoretically, sell his or her items and use the tokens earned to hire a baby sitter, without ever dealing with cash. If an item is worth more than $100, however, sellJodie Slack ers can ask for a combination of tokens and cash for that item. “We’ve been stuck in this cash system for so long,” Slack said. “I really felt like we needed an alternative.” But finding and maintaining active users for the site has been a challenge for Slack. So far, the site has only a handful of users who post listings on it, and in order for the site to serve its intended purpose, it must have an active community of users buying and selling goods and services. “We just have to get to a critical mass, where there’s enough people thinking about it and talking about it,” she said. Slack has used social media to promote the site, but says she needs help from someone of a younger generation to teach her how to get the most out of sites like Facebook and Twitter. The site has a list of rules and guidelines for buying and selling. Users can rate one other, and if a dispute arises that users cannot work out among themselves, she will act as a mediator and make a final decision on how to handle the disagreement. Slack said she’s wanted to create a site like

this for quite some time, but waited until she found a website developer who could create and maintain the site for her. So far, the Taos Trade Exchange team consists of just her and the website developer, but she may hire someone to help with social media and promotion for the site. Slack and her husband have lived in Taos for 12 years. In addition to managing Taos Trade Exchange, Slack works for a credit card services provider assisting local businesses to set up and maintain credit card systems, and as an advertising account executive for DMC Broadcasting. Slack says a robust “yard sale culture” exists in Taos, and she wants to tap into that market to offer people an online platform for buying and selling those goods. An online trade exchange is preferable to yard sales because it doesn’t require sellers to set up a sale and spend an entire day managing it. By using a trade exchange, sellers can put items up for sale, and buyers and sellers can negotiate a sale or trade at their convenience. If the site is successful, Slack hopes to set up trade exchanges for other communities. “This is a system that facilitates an online trading network,” she said. “… It’s kind of like an alternate economy.” New users can create an account for just $1 by visiting the site, taostradex.com and joining the mailing list. The site will send a confirmation email and once the user has confirmed his or her email address, the site will send a coupon code. Alternatively, new users can sign up by purchasing a 50-token “Basic Trader Account” for $50. This story first appeared in The Taos News, a sister publication of The Santa Fe New Mexican.

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Woman seeks help with month’s rent to avoid moving into car u New Mexico Workforce Connection, 301 W. De Vargas St. After a recent separation u Hopewell Center, from her husband, Amanda 1800 Espinacitas St. has been left to care for a child u Presbyterian Medical on her own and a rent payServices, 1409 Second St. ment that’s already past due. All applications must be With nothing left in the bank received by 5 p.m. Dec. 14 to after her separation, and little be considered by the Empty luck finding a job, Amanda is Stocking Fund Committee. worried that she may have to The committee will congive up her apartment and live sider every applicant who in her car. meets the eliShe is requestgibility criteria, ing $780 to pay without regard for this month’s to race, creed, rent and utilities. place or country Amanda is of origin, age, fund among the many disability, ethniccommunity ity, color, gender members asking for help from identity, marital status or The New Mexican’s Empty sexual orientation. Applicants Stocking Fund during the holi- must provide a Social Security day season. The New Mexican number, or their request will is not publishing applicants’ not be funded. real names to protect their The latest list of donaprivacy. tions: Abram and Ray Kaplan Founuuu dation, $10,000 The Empty Stocking Fund is Anonymous, $3,230 Bob and Connie Bright, $100 a project of The Santa Fe New Patricia and Richard Buffler, Mexican. The Santa Fe Com$50 munity Foundation, the First Marylou Butler, in honor of National Bank of Santa Fe, The Lynn Mosher, $50 Salvation Army and PresbyteDenise Chase, $30 rian Medical Services donate Kate and Robert Coward, services to jointly administer $200 the Empty Stocking Fund. David and Lori Delgado, $100 Watch for daily stories featurLowell and Rosalind Doherty, ing requests for assistance from $100 local residents in The Santa Fe Lorie Dwinell, in memory of New Mexican. The information Betty Dwinell Archer, $100 Emma Evangelos, $100 from the initial application will Stephen and Anne Farber, be verified if the applicant is $150 selected for assistance. Gertrude A. Gurule, $100 To donate: Make your tax M. Jane Gurule, $100 deductible donation online Harriett R. Harris, $100 at www.santafenewmexican. Blanche M. Harrison, $50 com/empty_stocking or mail Janelle, Juanita and LaNelle a check to The New Mexican’s Haught, in memory of our Empty Stocking Fund c/o The parents, Nila and Earl Haught, Santa Fe Community Founda- $100 tion, P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, Virginia C. Inman, $50 N.M., 87504-1827. Donors can Mary Lou and Ken Kurtz, request to remain anonymous. $100 Paula Lozar, $50 If you can provide a serAnita M. Marquez, in memvice such as roofing or home ory of Gilbert Juan Marquez, repairs, contact Roberta at Presbyterian Medical Services $50 Carol Martinez, in memory of at 983-8968. Phil Martinez, $100 If you can contribute food, George J. and Tiia Kari clothing, toys, housewares or McLaughlin, $200 furniture in good condition, or Judith M. Newton, $125 other items or services, please Mary Lou Oothoudt, $50 contact The Salvation Army at Pamela J. Quay, $50 988-8054. Peter and Lucille Quintana, Donate online in honor of a $200 Florence E. Romero, $50 friend or loved one, and you’ll Beatrice Romero and Lydia have the option of sending them a custom e-card from the Romero, $200 John D. Jones and Charles B. Empty Stocking Fund to let Rountree, $100 them know about your contriRoger and Roberta Roybal, in bution, courtesy of the Santa memory of Waldo Roybal, $100 Fe Community Foundation Karen Ushman and Peter and InSight Photo. Schanck, $100 To apply for assistance: Jo Speer, $100 You can complete your appliKaren Stoll, in memory of cation for assistance online Brooks Shera, $200 at www.santafenewmexican. Patricia Sullivan, $100 Tom and Barbara Thomas, com/empty_stocking. Appli$100 cants who do not have access Edward and Evelyn Velie, to a computer can complete an $200 application online at several Steve and Cath Washburn, public libraries and businesses $150 free of charge: Donna and Douglas Wateru Santa Fe Public Library, man, in honor of Lynn Miller, Main Branch, 145 Washington $100 Ave. Nancy and George Yankura, u La Farge Branch Library, $100 1730 Llano St. Margaret Zone, $150 u Southside Branch Library, Cumulative total: 6599 Jaguar Drive. $45,015.33 The New Mexican

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Police notes The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office took the following report: u Orlando Salazar, 43, of Española was arrested on charges of possessing a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, as well as concealing identity, after someone reported a suspicious person near the Pojoaque Pueblo Convenience Store, 112 Cities of Gold Road, on Sunday. The Santa Fe Police Department took the following reports: u A woman reported that her ex-boyfriend stole a safe box from her house in the 1600 block of Agua Fría Street between 6 p.m. Thursday and 6 p.m. Friday. The woman

told police the box contained Social Security cards and about $1,000. u A burglar stole jewelry and a computer tablet from a house in the 4500 block of Paseo del Sol between 8 a.m. Friday and 5 p.m. Saturday.

DWI arrest u Carlos E. Quintana, 43, of Santa Fe, was arrested Sunday on charges of DWI — his fourth DWI arrest according to the report — having an open container and an expired vehicle registration. Sheriff’s deputies received a report of a reckless driver going northbound on U.S. 84/285 in Pojoaque.

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In brief School for the Arts students offer concerts Students from the New Mexico School for the Arts, a Santa Fe-based state charter serving about 200 students in grades 9-12, are offering a trio of music concerts this week. u At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, they will perform an instrumental concert at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat Center, 50 Mount Carmel Road. u At 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, they will perform a choir concert at the retreat center. Tickets for both of those concerts are $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors.

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u On Sunday, Dec. 14, choir students will join the Santa Fe Symphony for a “Christmas Treasures” concert at 4 p.m. at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Ticket prices range from $22 to $76. Call 988-1234 for tickets.

Collected Works hosts Authors United founder Author Doug Preston, who organized a writers protest against retailing giant Amazon over marketing of trade books last summer, will be in Santa Fe on Friday to talk about the fight and what it means for bookstores and the publishing industry. The event is at 6 p.m. Friday at the independent bookstore Collected Works, 202 Galisteo St.

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Preston, an author who divides his time between Northern New Mexico and Maine, will also sign copies of Blue Labyrinth, his latest book with Lincoln Child. A half-dozen local authors were among more than 900 writers who signed a letter published last August in The New York Times by the group Authors United accusing Amazon of harming their livelihoods in a commercial dispute with trade book publisher Hachette. According to the authors, Amazon targeted Hachette’s authors in an effort to force the New York City-based publisher to agree to Amazon’s terms for marketing e-books. The dispute was ostensibly resolved last month when Hachette won the ability to set its own prices for e-books. The New Mexican

Funeral services and memorials PRISCILLA MCGILL CARR Priscilla McGill Carr died peacefully on December 3, 2014 at the age of 94 with her family at her bedside. Priscilla (Prissy to her friends) was born in Hoquiam, Washington on April 13, 1920 to Frazer and Rose McGill. She moved with her parents in 1934 to Santa Fe, the place she called home for the next 80 years. During her school years, she formed friendships that lasted throughout her life. That pool of friendships continuously grew, and her family and these friends were the focus of her life. In 1951 Priscilla and her husband Stanley moved with their family to Kansas City so Stanley could finish his education. In 1957 he received his dental degree and they happily returned home to Santa Fe. In addition to raising three children, Priscilla was a longstanding member of the First Presbyterian Church, where she served as a deacon and an elder. She was active in the early years of the Santa Fe Opera Guild, finding housing for visiting opera singers; the Santa Fe Garden Club, serving as its president; and as a member of PEO, Chapter F, for over 50 years. In 2012 Priscilla was honored as a Santa Fe Living Treasure. In 1966, Priscilla began a career in state government. Her work included serving on the staff of the Legislative Finance Committee and as the longtime secretary to the House Appropriations Committee. She also worked in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court and for the State Board of Finance. Priscilla joined Governor King’s staff during his first term, and she continued to work in the Office of the Governor through the administrations of Governor King and Governors Apodaca, Anaya and Carruthers. She earned respect for her quiet confidence in all of these positions. Priscilla is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Bill and Lesly Carr; daughter, Jean Eddy; daughter and son-in-law, Carol and James McGiffin, grandchildren Brian Baker and fiance Cary Haynes, Mark Baker and wife Shana, David Carr and wife Zahira, Robert Carr, Margaret Weeks and husband Mark, Michael McGiffin, Peter Carr and wife Jessica, John McGiffin, and her great grandchildren, Aila Rose and Lily Carr, Joshua and Noah Baker, Teagan Weeks, Olivia and soon, Charlotte Carr. She was preceded in death by her parents, Frazer and Rose McGill, her husband Stanley E. Carr, and daughter Jean’s husband, Newt Eddy. A memorial service will be held at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, December 12, 2014, with a reception following the service in the Coronado and DeVargas rooms at the Santa Fe Convention Center. Contributions may be made in Priscilla’s name to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 6100 Indian School NE, Suite 110, Albuquerque, NM 87110. IRVING WARHAFTIG January 24, 1924 ~ December 4, 2014 Irving Warhaftig was born in Newark NJ, the 2nd of 4 children of Ida Sklansky and Louis Warhaftig. He served in the Army Aircorp as a bomber pilot during WW2. Married to Claire Warhaftig (predeceased) for 59 years. Graduated Pratt University with degree in graphic design. He would continue to work as an artist throughout his life. Was in pharmaceutical advertising in NYC at Wesson & Warhaftig advertising. Then changed directions and graduated from The Core Energetics Institute and became a Core-energetics Therapist. Claire and Irving moved to Santa Fe NM in 1988. Irving continued his work as an artist in the mediums of collage and stained glass. Throughout his years in Santa Fe he developed many wonderful friendships and continued to work as a therapist until a stroke disabled him 2008. He married Victoria Moser 2009. And had the great joy of Victoria’s children and grandchildren to keep him company. During these later years he continued to work, drawing and writing books for the children in all of us. This listing of the outer activities of his life in no way captures the great joy, humor, passion and curiosity for life that he brought to all he did and to all he who knew him. He touched us all in our hearts and he will be missed. He is survived by his sister Dorothy Beck, daughter Caren W. Borowsky,son in law Ned Borowsky and granddaughter Sonya Borowsky and son Matt Warhaftig , daughter in law Ellen Flanzig,and grandchildren Lily and Lucas. Stepdaughter Lisa Woolery, and husband John Woolery and their children Tyler and Caitlyn, and step son Stiles Wilson. Memorial service will be at the Santa Fe National Cemetery 11:15 am December 9, 2014. In lieu of flowers, donations to Santa Fe Children’s Museum or The Salvation Army. Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 417 East Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-7032 Fax: (505) 820-0435 santafefuneraloption.com

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Rolanda Flossie RotunnoSosa, 48, of Santa Fe, NM passed away on Thursday, December 4, 2014. She died peacefully and was surrounded by her family. Rolanda was born in Saginaw, Michigan. She was preceded in death by her Mother, Rosina Corral, Brothers, Frank, John and Freddie Chavez. She is survived by her Father, Richard Patrick Rotunno (Nena Gonzales), Daughters, Chrystal (Andrea) Miera Macias, Margaret Quintana (Rudolfo), Guadalupe Duran (Chris) son, Valentino Macias, three grandchildren, Gabriella Quintana, Rudolfo Quintana Jr., Christopher Duran Jr., all the extended Rotunno family of Santa Fe, NM and Saginaw, MI., and the Chavez, Macias, Escarceda, and Montoya Families, many cousins, nieces and nephews. Rolanda was dearly loved by all. A Rosary will be held on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 12:15 p.m. follow by a Mass of Christian burial at 1:00 p.m. at the (little) San Isidro Church. Interment will follow at the Cementerio de la Agua Fria.

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MELVIN MECKER Melvin Mecker, passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 29, 2014 in Santa Fe. A memorial service will be held on Friday, December 12, 2014 on 1:00 p.m. at El Castillo Retirement Center, 250 E Alameda, Santa Fe. The Burial will be at Santa Fe National Cemetery on Friday, December 12, 2014 at 3:00 p.m.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. 1-year Anniversary Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 5:30 pm St. John’s Catholic Church. When someone you love becomes a memory the memory becomes a treasure THE CASADOS FAMILY

ROBERT BRYAN RINER ROBERT BRYAN Riner Age 75, of Albuquerque, passed away at home on November 27, 2014, surrounded by family. He is survived by his wife, Judy (Albuquerque); son Dax and his fiancée, Adriana Martin (Albuquerque); daughter Marin and grandsons Van and Bergen Koentopf (Excelsior, MN); and brothers Gary (Arlington, TX), Tom (Mesquite, TX), and Frank (Chandler, OK) and their wives Carol, Jerlene, and Toni (respectively). In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial donations be made to Chimpanzee Sanctuary N o r t h w e s t (www.chimpsanctuarynw.org).

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Still growing Local farmers find innovative ways to keep markets stocked in colder months

A furnace that uses biomass from Taos Pueblo’s thinning projects as fuel heats two of the four greenhouses on a 3.2-acre farm at the pueblo. The biomass furnace pumps heated water through pipes above and under the greenhouses.

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t might be cold outside, but enterprising small-scale farmers are extending the growing season and keeping area farmers markets humming with foods that would ordinarily not be seen into December. Add to that the traditional, cold-season offerings of edibles and hand-crafted goods — frozen, woven and baked — and there may be no need to think about shopping anywhere else this year. For lovers of fresh food, there are three year-round farmers markets in Northern New Mexico that will be operating this winter, in Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Taos Pueblo. Paolo Speirn, the market director of the Santa Fe Farmers Market, said that “season extenders” come in various forms, from hoop-house structures, greenhouses and external heating. One grower is building a greenhouse that is partially below ground. “The earth itself is such a good temperature regulator that having a sunken greenhouse will create a stable environment yearround,” Speirn said. He estimated that of the 85 growers who bring fresh produce to the market, about 60 of them use some type of season extension. “Of those, about 15 growers are here almost the entire year and have full-on greenhouse operations, and are growing year-round,” he said. For their efforts, farmers markets are able to provide customers some hardy veggies for those cold days and nights. Speirn said the Santa Fe market will be offering standard fall fare like kale, Swiss and rainbow chard, broccoli and broccoli raab, lots of bok choy, multiple varieties of head lettuce and mixed greens, various kinds of sprouts as well as sprouted beans and grains. Farmers also will bring a large assortment of root vegetables, including beets, carrots, parsnips, turnips and rutabaga, radishes, and a “plethora of winter squash. There are about 13 different kinds,” he said. And, of course, there is usually a large variety of potatoes, Speirn said he is regularly asked about how to find the right potato for a particular dish. And well after the holidays, with their sophisticated greenhouses, Speirn said farmers will bring out kales, Asian salad mixes, chard and root vegetables. Extending the season also means that if growers have a surfeit of squash, they will store them for a few months and bring them out later. Those who wait will be rewarded, Speirn said. “The squash actually gets sweeter and sweeter the longer it cures, so if you buy the same kind of squash in November, it’ll be delicious; but if you buy it in February, as it

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working on the farm before she was named farm manager a month ago. “I started there as an intern through college,” she said. This fall, Duran said, the greenhouses will produce a lettuce mix, arugula, radishes, turnips and Swiss chard. Into the winter they will have spinach, more kale and, yes, tomatoes. The Red Willow Cooperative also contributes “value added” goods that are sold in the market. Those include baked goods, eggs, tamales and grass-fed beef. To support the farm, the pueblo offers internships to youths 14 to 18 years old, and the tribe also offers an entrepreneur incubator program to help 18- to 30-year-old tribal members learn the business.

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has been drying out, the moisture is getting lower and lower, and it will be sweeter and richer.”

Taos Pueblo’s market At Taos Pueblo’s Red Willow Farmers Market, the tribe has taken season extenders to a new level. On a 3.2-acre farm at the pueblo, the tribe has built 5,000 square feet of greenhouse space. Two of the four houses are heated by a furnace that uses biomass from the pueblo’s thinning projects as fuel. The biomass furnace pumps heated water through pipes above and under the greenhouses, and also supplies heat to the Red Willow Education Center and a building that houses the preservation program that maintains the pueblo’s traditional homesite, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. New farm manager Hillery Duran has been working to reach out to the Taos community as well as the pueblo about the market and visiting organizations within the pueblo. She said she had a lot of experience

were announced last week by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. Thirtysix states as well as individual counties and Indian tribes received revenues collected from oil, gas and mineral production on federal lands within their borders and from offshore areas. The payment to New Mexico for fiscal year 2014 was $579 million, up 21 percent from $478 million a year ago and the highest amount earned since 2008, when the lands brought in $614 million. The top state for disbursements for the cumulative share of revenues

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The Los Alamos Farmers’ Market is small, but you can’t beat the venue. The market is held at the venerable Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos. Market manager Cindy Talamantes said the market will have two more regular sessions this year, the holiday markets on two Thursdays, Dec. 11 and Dec. 18, and then will settle into the monthly market schedule the second Thursday every month at Fuller Lodge. “It’s just that we can help out farmers who still have goods that they want to sell, so we can support them in their offseason. If they have a hobby or craft, or some family member does, we let them sell them at the market,” she said. Farmers and craftsmen will bring baked goods, zucchini bread, raised pork, chicken, apple juice, chicos, powdered red chile, certified seeds, all sorts of pickled foods, and holiday foods, including gluten-free baked goods, and kettle corn. Talamantes said most of the attendees are from Los Alamos and nearby communities — Pojoaque, El Rancho, Española — and the region.

IF YOU GO u The Santa Fe Farmers Market is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays all year. u The Red Willow Farmers Market operates from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays year-round. u The winter Los Alamos Farmers’ Market is open on the second Thursday of the month from January to April.

was Wyoming ($1 billion), followed by New Mexico ($579 million), Utah ($171 million), Colorado ($169 million), California ($100 million), North Dakota ($68 million), Montana ($38 million), Louisiana ($24 million), Alaska ($20 million) and Texas ($12 million), according to the BLM. “Revenue generated from developing public energy resources that belong to all Americans helps fund critical investments in communities across the United States and creates American jobs, fosters land and water

he nonprofit sector in New Mexico has done well through the recession, logging not just an increase in employment levels but higher wage growth than private-sector jobs, according to a new analysis by the state Department of Workforce Solutions. In the first significant look at the nonprofit jobs sector in New Mexico, Rachel Moskowitz of the department’s Economic Research & Analysis Bureau looks at recent data for nonprofits that file a 501(c)(3). As of 2012, there were 2,142 nonprofit establishments that employed 48,901 workers, which was 8.1 percent of the state workforce. By far the largest component of the sector is health care, which employs three out of four nonprofit workers, or almost 74 percent of all nonprofit workers. Educational nonprofits provided the next highest employment level, Bruce 3,736 workers. Krasnow “From 2007 to 2012, employment in charitable organizations Business Matters increased by 7.2 percent or 3,305 jobs in New Mexico … while during the same time employment in private industries fell by 5.4 percent, or over 34,000 jobs,” Moskowitz writes. Moskowitz also reports that while wages in the private sector stagnated during the recession, pay increased for nonprofit workers. “The annual wage per employee in a charitable organization became higher and surpassed that in private industry,” she writes. In 2007, the average wage for a nonprofit employee was $33,937, $1,272 lower than a private worker. By 2009, nonprofit workers made on average $37,684, which was $663 higher than the private sector. It might seem like there are a lot of nonprofits in New Mexico, but data suggested the percent of nonprofit workforce in New Mexico was slightly below the national average of 10.3 percent. As of 2012, the state with the lowest percentage of nonprofit workers was Nevada at 2.7 percent, while Washington, D.C., was the highest at 26.6 percent. uuu

The Santa Fe-based GreenMoney Journal celebrates its 100th issue in December. Of special interest to Santa Fe readers might be pieces on ecotourism and the new food movement. Founder and publisher Cliff Feigenbaum said the December issue also includes many reader favorites. “We began publishing GreenMoney in 1992 with the intention of encouraging and helping people spend and invest with personal integrity. That mission continues today,” writes Feigenbaum. The publication has been moving increasingly to a digital format. The quarterly print publication has a subscription list of 10,000. “To meet the increasing demand for information on Impact Investing and Sustainable Business, GreenMoney is now a monthly eJournal that reaches well over 25,000 readers,” he tells readers in the December issue. Read the latest issue at www.greenmoneyjournal. com/december-2014/. uuu

Nearly 200 Santa Fe nonprofits and community leaders will be gathering Tuesday, Dec. 9, to learn how to use results-based research tools to more effectively plan and improve outcomes for children and families in Santa Fe. The workshop is a joint effort of three significant private and public funders in Santa Fe — The Santa Fe Community Foundation, Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center and the city of Santa Fe Youth and Family Services Division — and features Mark Friedman. Friedman is author of Trying Hard Is Not Good Enough, which presents a step-by-step method for states, cities and communities to turn around qualityof-life conditions (e.g. health, safety, clean environment and children ready for school) and for agencies to improve services for their customers. “People who work together need a common language to be successful,” Joohee Rand, director of strategic initiatives at The Santa Fe Community Foundation, said in a statement. “This is true whether it is a Cabinet-level leadership coming together to improve outcomes for the whole City or grass-roots organizations working on a focused issue. Having the common language and framework will help all of us work together more effectively and get from talk to action to outcomes more quickly.” The workshop is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. Contact Bruce Krasnow at brucek@sfnewmexican.com.

addition of wood floors and contemconservation efforts, improves critical infrastructure, and supports education,” porary décor. New features to the 67,000-square-foot store include the Jewell said in a statement. addition of a Starbucks kiosk as well as made-to-order salads and sushi and an Smith’s celebrates expanded meat and seafood selection. revamped Pacheco store The store also offers Murray’s Cheese, where customers can sample new and Smith’s Food & Drug will celebrate different cheeses before a purchase. the completed remodel of its grocery The store has 130 employees. Smith’s store at 2110 S. Pacheco St. in Santa Fe is a division of Kroger, one of the starting at 8 a.m. Wednesday. nation’s largest retail grocers. The $4 million remodel is a complete redesign of the store, with the The New Mexican

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e-Voices Our Web readers speak out: Mayor plans to pitch plan for bike safety to City Council, Dec. 7 This is a good first step. The green bicycle lanes may not physically increase cyclists’ protection immediately, but it has been shown in a recent study to increase riders’ perceived safety and that has led to an increase in overall ridership. The effect of an increase in cycling activity also leads to an increase in driver awareness simply because there are more cyclists on the road; thus, better protection in the long run.” D.G.

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Green bike lanes only work if there is room for bike “ lanes to begin with, regardless of color. In addition, green paint doesn’t magically make intrinsically bad design safe, especially if the cyclist is oblivious to traffic around him and the driver madly texting on his 5,000-pound, 40-mph smartphone. It takes all the E’s (including engineering, enforcement, education, etc.). One of the reasons Santa Fe has sharrows on some of its streets is because the road width is too narrow to add a bike lane of any color without taking space away from travel lanes, which in some cases is impossible. The sharrow means the lane is therefore shared.” K.S. How much money did the city spend on the “ ‘sharrows’ that were supposed to make drivers more aware of bicyclists and bike lanes? If they didn’t work, why to we think painting bike lanes green will get the job done?” P.K. If the road markings already there do not work, why do you think painting lanes green will help? In reality, there is no safe way to ride bikes here. The roads are too narrow, the [Los Angeles] attitude of driving has infected us — too many cars too big for narrow roads, too many people in a hurry, too many elitist attitudes of both the driver and the bike rider. What this town does not need is more signs; [there are] signs everywhere, and everyone ignores them.” K.H.

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After turnaround, school works to keep momentum, Dec. 6 It is great to see what happens when funds are fo“ cused on students, and an instructional leader builds a team environment. It is also great to see these English language learners benefit from the extra instruction where they spend more time actually functioning in the language of the tests. More time in English and less time in Spanish (for the most part) is going to bring positive results. Yes, the extra money helped the teachers because New Mexico pays its teachers poorly compared to most states, which is why so many are working two jobs to pay their bills.” J.A.

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Wow, teachers ‘built trust’ with students, and felt ‘part of a team.’ All for just $3.75 million dollars over three years? I don’t know what the precise expenditures were, but I say we throw a few more millions of dollars at the school right away. Because you know how those teams dissolve when the money runs out.” J.W. State reports slow progress on issuing back pay, Dec. 5 Holiday season will come and go with no sign of a check for me.” B.H. I am still waiting and beginning to wonder if it will even happen. Bet if I didn’t pay state taxes they would react a lot quicker than this.” P.W.

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Our View: Move forward on Zia station, Dec. 4 Comical. So now we are concerned with the traffic issues caused by the Rail Runner? I wonder where all of this concern was when they decided the Rail Runner would shut down traffic on the busiest intersection in the city? Anyone who travels on Cerrillos and St. Francis knows exactly what I am talking about. Sometimes, the traffic is so backed up at this intersection after the Rail Runner arrives or departs that people have to wait through three light cycles to finally get through the intersection.” J.B.

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PRC member Lyons proposes shifting to governor-appointed panel, Dec. 4 I wouldn’t appoint Pat Lyons to be the county dog “ catcher, as he’d probably sell the dogs on the side of the road and pocket the cash.” M.M. I love that Lyons wants the board appointed. It would be like the fox watching the hen house. No thanks! I am grateful that Valerie Espinoza is on the PRC and has the courage to speak up and speak out. Keep up the good work in protecting us citizens, Val.” A.M.M. Right. Let’s have the governor appoint Republican extractive royalty to govern openly on behalf of 19thcentury economic parameters. Cheaper than paying for the usual campaign (lies) advertising. Guess Republicans are losing confidence in the gullible. Though I don’t know why.” E.C.

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ew Mexicans are now knee deep in the Affordable Care Act’s second open enrollment period, which began Nov. 15 and closes Dec. 15. Many are finding what appears to be a pleasant surprise: Average premiums for the cheap “bronze” plans have increased by 3.9 percent, while premiums for the middle-ofthe-road “silver” plans are rising by 4.1 percent. The Affordable Care Act’s naysayers predicted “double digit” spikes or worse. Those naysayers should have read the law more carefully. In New Mexico, as elsewhere, average health care premiums are likely to modestly increase (and possibly decrease) both in 2015 and 2016. The real premium spikes won’t occur until January 2017 — conveniently after the next presidential election. The Medical Industry Leadership Institute, where I am director, recently released an analysis predicting how the ACA will affect prices over the next few years. Using data provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, we estimated that single and family plan premiums in New Mexico could increase by low single digits for 2015 — a prediction that has been largely borne out by the recently announced rates. As for 2016, we estimate that family and individual bronze plan premiums could change by 2 percent and minus-1 percent, respectively. Up until that point, the Affordable Care Act will look little different than the system it replaced — a few percentage point

increases every year. True, it has not led to the dramatic cost savings that its authors promised, but neither has it made health care essentially unaffordable. But 2017 will be the real test. The law contains two Stephen programs that will expire T. Parente at the end of that year: “Risk corridors” and “reinsurance.” Both programs conceal health insurance’s true costs — costs that truly have skyrocketed thanks to the ACA’s mandates and regulations. Risk corridors and re-insurance operate in similar fashions: They subsidize insurance companies with taxpayer money. Risk corridors give insurance companies money if their customers spend more on health care than the insurer estimated; reinsurance allows insurance companies to bill the federal government for particularly expensive patients. Both programs ultimately allow insurance companies to list artificially low premiums for their health care plans. The Affordable Care Act’s authors created these two programs for a specific reason: They would ease the transition from the pre- to the post-ACA health care system. In the post-ACA world, health care is more expensive — a fact borne out by 2014’s average 41 percent spike in base premiums. Re-insurance and risk corridors

have largely hidden these price increases from consumers for the past year; they will continue to do so until Jan. 1, 2017. Premiums will likely skyrocket come that date. The Medical Industry Leadership Institute’s study estimates that once the two subsidies expire, premiums for a cheap bronze plan in New Mexico could increase by a staggering 96 percent for individuals and by 46 percent for families. The federal government will thus have to act to prevent yet another round of anti-ACA blowback. Washington has two options: Extend the insurance company subsidies or increase federal subsidy rates to match the rising premiums. Neither option seems politically feasible. Either or both would potentially add tens, perhaps hundreds, of billions of dollars to annual federal deficit. And the Affordable Care Act was sold on the promise that it wouldn’t add, in the president’s words, “a single dime” to those deficits. Then again, that won’t actually be President Barack Obama’s problem — voters in New Mexico and across America will already have chosen his successor once this crisis becomes apparent. But no matter who addresses it and how, one thing is certain: The debate about the Affordable Care Act is nowhere close to ending. Stephen T. Parente is a professor of health finance, the associate dean of the Carlson School of Management and the director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota.

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n Associated Press story that ran recently (“Ozone limits may have high price for N.M.,” Nov. 29) featured the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association’s doomsday scenario for the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to provide us more health protection from ground-level ozone. The story prominently featured the EPA’s cost estimate for reducing ozone to 65 to 70 parts per billion, the number that medical experts and scientists recommend. But the story failed to mention how much money the proposal would save the public. The potential costs range from $3.9 billion for a standard of 70 ppb to $15 billion for 65 ppb, according to the EPA. But the savings range from a low-end estimate of $6.4 billion for 70 ppb to $38 billion for 65 ppb, also according to the EPA. Which means upgraded ozone standards will provide a net savings to the public of at least $2.5 billion and possibly as much as $23 billion. Although Wally Drangmeister of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association lamented that the standard is “beyond what virtually anybody thinks would be a reasonable path forward,” he apparently doesn’t think medical experts and scientists are virtually anybody. Medical experts and scientists testified that 75 parts per billion was not adequate to protect public health when the Bush administration last updated the standard in 2008.

Upgraded ozone standards will provide a net savings to the public of at least $2.5 billion and possibly as much as $23 billion. The revised EPA standards are based on extensive scientific evidence and recommen-

dations of doctors. They would prevent up to 960,000 asthma attacks among children, 1 mil-

lion missed school days and 180,000 missed work days. And they would save up to 4,300 lives. Plus they would save us billions of dollars. Seems pretty reasonable to me. Dr. Elizabeth Buchen does contract work for the New Mexico Department of Health. She is a lifelong public health advocate.

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Remember the Alamo! It stands for Manifest Destiny Dear Mexican: I’m a third-year univertheir mijo, even if mijo is a narco or just did sity student, a liberal studies and Spanish a stint in prison. Or maybe they realize that major. During a family carne asada, we a liberal studies degree is like the last corn were all talking when one of tortilla in the packet — basically my tías asked me what I was useless. doing with my life — she and Dear Mexican: I headed the rest of my aunts seemed over to San Antonio with some like they genuinely wanted to friends of mine to run the Rock know. But when I told them that ’n’ Roll Marathon recently. I sugI only needed one more year to gested that we put “Remember graduate, it seemed as if I said the Alamo” on our running something wrong. They stared shirts. One of my Mexican at me, said nothing and comGusttavo friends said that would be fine pletely ignored what I said. One Arellano with her since “we won.” I of my aunts did a small gesture ¡Ask a Mexican! always thought we lost at the to acknowledge what I said, Alamo. Please help me educate but other than that they continmy friend. ued their talk about the novella they saw the previous night. My family is A Confused Gringo in Houston extremely close and we really want the Dear Gabacho: Let’s educate your best for each other, so I was taken aback amiga, shall we? Amiga: There was a time when this happened. No one in our family where America viewed the Battle of the has ever attended a four-year university or Alamo as a pre-photography 9/11, a terobtained any kind of degree. Might this be rorist attack on Americans by a swarthy the reason they reacted they way they did? enemy that the United States had to subOr should I be worried that this is a bigger sequently crush. Those who died were issue? immortalized for generations to come for A Sanchez but not a Sancho their sacrifice, and their memory became a rallying cry whenever our soldiers had Dear Wab: Don’t bother with pleasing to call on resolve and courage in the heat tías — you’re never going to be as good as

of battle. And it was a great way for Hollywood to show how evil Mexicans were by filming hordes of brown-faced Filipinos descending on Davy Crockett as he desperately swung his rifle to death. Isn’t that crazy? Isn’t it loco that we lionized gabachos who wanted to secede from Mexico so that they could keep slaves and appropriate our cuisine? Isn’t it nuts that it took Chicano yaktivists to call out the Alamo what it was: the first volley in America’s Manifest Destiny campaign that would go on to take over half of Mexico and decimate the Plains Indians? And, amiga, tell your gabacho Houstonian friend it’s not just leftists who are playing the revisionism game: Even the Alamo tours nowadays desperately try to stress the multicultural roots of Texian independence, highlighting the few Tejanos who died at the scene or fought for Texas against Mexico. Too late: The memory of the Alamo always stood for white supremacy, and finding a few frijoles in the pot won’t change that one bit. Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican.net, be his fan on Facebook, follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellano or follow him on Instagram @gustavo_arellano!

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ity the Los Alamos National Laboratory: Thousands of Ph.Ds, technicians, bureaucrats and administrators galore; tons of money, lots of time and plenty of directives. It’s a place where expertise and overinflated egos abound, along with haughty attitudes of entitlement. All this supported by a cadre of highly paid spindoctors. And they still can’t explain what happened in their radioactive repository drums.

High gas prices They just don’t get it, gas stations on the south side of town — I mean the Old Las Vegas Highway and U.S. 285-Eldorado

corridor. One station on the Old Las Vegas Highway has always been 25 to 35 cents higher than in town. But now, with prices way down, I started to notice that a station closer to Eldorado is 27 cents higher than one right downtown at Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe Street. I am going to fill up in town.

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Fox-type humor The cartoon for the Sunday (Glenn McCoy cartoon, B-3, Nov. 30) editorial page clearly puts The New Mexican on the Fox News team. Am I supposed to be inflamed by a juvenile image of President Barack Obama urinating on the U.S. Constitution? Will I buy more newspapers, or a handgun or vote for Sarah Palin because of it? No. More likely I’ll switch to The Santa Fe Reporter for my humor and news.

I don’t like to celebrate our newfound disrespect for each other. I have no need for a newspaper that tries to rev up (with its view of humor) our racism and ignorance. Like it or not, Obama is a constitutional scholar. (I dare say George W. Bush could read his paint colors without help.) Your choice of cartoons was neither objective nor thoughtprovoking. It was a sad embarrassment for your newspaper.

A real mess Why such shock that the government typically wants to give the cleanup of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant problem to Los Alamos National Laboratory, which not only started this whole thing, but also has a solid reputation for failing to meet other cleanup goals? So what else is new? The ultimate “bro” system recommendation. You did a bad job? Great, do it again.

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It shouldn’t take gang rape for outrage

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PRC: Stop the nastiness

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Recently, a negative letter (“Paying for expansion,” Letters to the editor, Nov. 27) was printed about the conversion of rooms at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center to private, single-patient rooms. This is a very positive development, allowing for better patient care, privacy for patients and families, and more rest for an ill person. It is a good decision. Why would anyone object? Why must we always be negative? This is our community hospital, and we should support it whenever possible. There are issues such as hospital reimbursement, assurance of quality care, and acquisition and retention of physicians that are challenges for all hospitals. I hope our hospital will concentrate on these issues.

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he story about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity may have fallen apart Friday. But it doesn’t mean that everything at U-Va. is OK. It doesn’t mean that rape doesn’t happen. It doesn’t mean that Virginia and other universities treat rape, sexual assault, non-consensual sex or whatever they want to call it as serious crimes that deserve serious criminal investigations and serious punishments. What it means is that it took an alleged gang rape to get our attention. To make us care. Jackie, the young woman who was the subject of the sensational and questionable Rolling Stone magazine story, said she was brutally attacked by seven men at a fraternity party. But what if she’d said she was raped by a guy down the hall — a much more typical story among the 1 in 5 college women who have been sexually assaulted. How much outrage would that have generated? What is the magic number of attackers needed for campuses to stop letting rapists roam their campuses? University women go to emergency rooms, dazed, bleeding and injured by the hundreds. Semen samples from rape kits pile up in evidence rooms. But we don’t listen. We only gasp when the crime supposedly involves a gang of young men, a dark room, blood, a beer bottle and a sweet freshman who didn’t even want to get tipsy and wore a high-necked dress. We still don’t know what happened inside the Phi Kappa Psi house that night

in September 2012, though The Washington Post’s T. Rees Shapiro has done amazing reporting to find out as much of the truth as he can. The fraternity issued a statement Friday that there wasn’t a party there that night and that no assault took place in its house. On Friday afternoon, even Rolling Stone backed off its story, explaining, “we have come to the conclusion that our trust in [Jackie] was misplaced.” Guess what? We shouldn’t need this kind of drama to talk about rape and demand real change in the way universities handle it. The man arrested in the killing of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, Jesse Matthew Jr., twice withdrew from other Virginia universities after he was accused of sexual assault. Would Hannah still be alive if those universities — Liberty and Christopher Newport — had pursued criminal charges against him? The courts are full of real cases with forensic evidence and legal backbones that may not be as sensational as the story Jackie told but are just as deserving of protests and uproar. University of Virginia is already under federal investigation for its response to sexual violence allegations, one of 85 schools being scrutinized. The investigation predated the Rolling Stone story. But it was the gang rape that prompted the university’s president, Teresa Sullivan, to suspend all Greek activity until Jan. 9. She vowed that any systemic prob-

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lems in the way the university responds to sexual assault allegations “must be rooted out” — a promise she repeated Friday evening. “We will continue to take a hard look at our practices, policies and procedures … and in our care for those who are victims,” she said in a statement. That reckoning is long overdue. One young woman’s case has been languishing for nearly three years and is now the subject of a Title IX lawsuit. Identified in the suit only as Jane Doe, she said she had a beer with another U-Va. student she met at a debate club meeting one night in December 2011. She woke up the next morning in his room, naked and hurting. She had several medical examinations and was encouraged to go through university mediation with her case. In the lawsuit she filed through attorney Wendy Murphy, she said the 10-hour mediation hearing — where she was face-to-face with her alleged attacker — ended with officials telling her that her case was “compelling and believable.” What did they tell the young man? According to her account filed in court, the university officials told him “to evaluate your actions and your treatment of women in the future.” And that’s it. That’s the real scandal at University of Virginia. No gang-rape allegation necessary to be outraged. Petula Dvorak is a columnist for The Washington Post.

oodness, as if the Public Regulation Commission didn’t have enough to do, now the relationships among elected commissioners are starting to resemble an episode of Survival. The venom is so strong that one commissioner, Patrick Lyons, thinks recent reforms at the often beleaguered agency should be scuttled and the commission be appointed by the governor, rather than elected by the people. Recall, of course, that the PRC — charged with the important work of regulating utilities, motor carriers and telecommunications — has a history of trouble whether in allegations of corruption under the old Corporation Commission or shenanigans among commissioners in its successor, the PRC. Tired of controversy, voters passed three constitutional amendments in 2012. These required candidates to posses enhanced qualifications to run for the PRC and moved responsibilities for the insurance industry and for registering corporations elsewhere. Now, with infighting and nastiness a constant at PRC meetings (and more importantly, behind the scenes) the commission once again is faltering. However, the problem of personalities clashing and adults acting like children isn’t caused by electing commissioners. Even on an appointed board, the mix could be wrong. Fred Nathan, executive director of the think tank that pushed PRC reforms in 2012 is right in saying it will take several election cycles to improve the commission. We’re just a couple of years away from approval of the constitutional amendments. When Nathan’s group, Think New Mexico, introduced its reforms, we said at the time we would prefer an appointed commission — perhaps with screening panels and confirmation by the Senate, as well as staggered terms. (Our words in 2012: “Truth be told, we would prefer to see the PRC go to an appointed board — the issues before it are so complex that an appointment process along the lines of the judicial-selection system would be best. However, such a change is unlikely, and improving the qualifications of candidates is a step in the right direction.”) Now, with reform ink barely dry on the page, the changes need to be given a chance to work. Toward that end, it would be useful if commissioners would refrain from making personal remarks while in meetings — and behind each others’ backs. And while Lyons, a Republican, might be correct in saying the place is dysfunctional, it’s hard to imagine how he is helping the situation. Consider this comment Lyons made about Santa Fe-area Commissioner Valerie Espinoza: “She is the most vicious and vindictive person I’ve seen in my life.” Espinoza, speaking of Lyons, said: “He should come to work more often. His behavior is unacceptable.” In a public meeting last month, Espinoza also went after Albuquerque PRC Commissioner Karen Montoya, claiming she is too closely tied to Uber, the ride-sharing service, because her former campaign manager now lobbies for the company. Here’s an idea. Stop slamming other commissioners, whether in public or private. If, for example, someone never shows up to work, document the missed days and share that information with voters, the news media and others. Use facts, not opinion. If someone has a potential conflict of interest, show the links between the regulated industry and the regulator. Take the information to the attorney general or to PRC staff attorneys. Be prepared to back up accusations. Don’t use meetings as a cover for personal attacks. The PRC is not middle school. Citizens don’t need popular kids, gossip or cliques. Citizens need the commissioners to do their work, free of taint and politics. With two new commissioners starting work in 2015, perhaps this toxic personal soup will change. Who knows? Maybe the PRC, reformed but still rickety, can get back to doing its job without turning into a sideshow.

The past 100 years From the Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 9, 1964: Construction work on public housing is about a month behind schedule, but inspections of part of the project are scheduled for Dec. 15. City Manager Marion Sebastian said he had been advised by Frank Gomez, chairman of the Santa Fe Housing Authority, that inspections would begin at Site A and part of Site B.

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Trial: To continue until Dec. 23 Continued from Page A-6 Prosecutor Regina Ryanczak said it all began in 2008 when Advantage won a bid to build a trash transfer station in Stanley. That’s when Montoya and Lujan met, Ryanczak said, and began the “chit chat among men doing their work.” That led to discussion of other projects the company might be able to do for the county. Montoya told Lujan that his company had just been awarded an on-call contract for miscellaneous concrete work from the city of Santa Fe, the prosecutor said, and that Lujan could “piggyback” on that contract, which would keep him from putting other projects out to bid. “Lujan thought that was a great idea,” Ryanczak said. “And Montoya said ‘If you get me the jobs, we can both make some money.’ Lujan knew what he was saying,” she said. “You get me some work and I’ll you get you some money. The plan was made, the deal was sealed, and Lujan put the process in motion.” Less than two weeks later, Ryanczak said, Lujan had begun funneling work to Advantage that had not been put out to bid. Lujan was promptly rewarded, Ryanczak said, with a trip to Las Vegas for himself and his son, who was just turning 21. This included plane tickets, hotel rooms and $1,000 in cash for spending money, she said. Lujan continued sending work Montoya’s way, Ryanczak said, and also started directing county staff to “help” Advantage with projects by sending the county’s own employees, equipment and materials to job sites the paving company was working on. The prosecutor said Martinez was at a point in his career during which he didn’t feel he could question his boss, Lujan, but did at some point say that it was wrong to use county resources on jobs Advantage was billing the county to complete. Right around then, Ryanczak said, is when Martinez got his first trip to Las Vegas paid for by Advantage. Not only did the company use the county’s own equipment, workers and materials, the prosecutor said, it also didn’t complete jobs to specifications, cutting corners here and there in ways that saved it money. This included substituting different materials or methods, the prosecutor said, and not putting the correct quantities of certain materials, such as base course on roads it paved. But invoices, prosecutor said,

continued to read as if the work was being done to specifications by Advantage crews and with materials that the company had purchased. As this was going on, Ryznack said, Montoya and Lujan became increasingly chummy, and would regularly visit job sites together. “They were there,” she said. “They saw. They directed.” Road projects mentioned in court Monday included work on Avenida Vista Grande, Raven’s Ridge, Paseo del Angel and Rio en Medio. Finally, Ryanczak said, Martinez expressed his concerns about the way things were being handled to a fellow Public Works Department supervisor, who reported them to the county attorney’s office, which in turn called the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. Cpl. James Yeager, who became lead detective on the investigation, said his investigation prompted a call from someone at Rancho Viejo, a large subdivision south of Santa Fe where Advantage Asphalt had been doing work. Yeager said a manager at the subdivision told him he had concerns about some funnylooking invoices for soil testing that Advantage had been submitting. A search of the Montoyas’ properties revealed what appeared to be evidence that the invoices were being doctored in some way, Yeager said. By the end of his investigation, Ryznaik said, Yeager had evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Advantage from both Rancho Viejo and Santa Fe County. “Advantage Asphalt and Anthony Montoya engaged in a systematic pattern of bribery and fraud fueled by greed,” she concluded. “Unfortunately for Advantage Asphalt and Anthony Martinez, they left a paper trail, a very large one.” Sam Bregman, attorney for Montoya, and Monnica Garcia, attorney for Advantage, presented a different take on the situation. “Anthony Montoya never bribed anyone, never created a false invoice, never committed fraud, never conspired to commit fraud,” Bregman said. The piggyback contract was on the up-and-up, Bregman said, and Advantage did good work for the county. If anything, Bregman said, it was Santa Fe County’s own incompetence and mistakes in procurement that led to the confusion in the first place. The issues between Santa Fe County and the paving company — which he

characterized as disputes over a quarter-inch difference here or there — might be grounds for a civil suit, he said, but they certainly weren’t grounds for criminal charges. As for the accusations that the company falsified invoices presented to Rancho Viejo, Bregman said the subdivision’s developers — whom he contends still owe his client money and were already locked in civil litigation with the paving company — were taking advantage of an opportunity to accuse Advantage of wrongdoing. Bregman said the state had no proof that any of the invoices in question had been drafted, permitted, submitted or even seen by Montoya. He returned to this line of argument later during his cross examination of Yeager, repeatedly asking the officer what proof he had that tied Montoya to the creation of the invoices. Yeager repeatedly answered he had none. Garcia, the attorney for Advantage, repeated some of the same arguments in her opening statement, adding that the county had no written contract with Advantage that specified how the work was to be done, that the county knew its own resources were being used on some of the jobs and that each of the road projects was guaranteed by bond insurance that could have been tapped to fix any problems that arose, but never was. “The county is making a scapegoat out of a good company in an attempt to cover up its own negligence,” she said. Testimony is scheduled to continue Tuesday, when Lujan is expected to be called as a witness. The trial is scheduled to continue until as late as Dec. 23, but it could be shortened by the fact that about a dozen witnesses the state intended to call won’t be allowed to testify because District Judge Jim Hall ruled Monday that the state didn’t give the defense adequate notice that the witnesses would be called. Among the witness names submitted by the state in November — about a month after a September deadline — were Nicholas Montoya, Joe Anthony Montoya’s son and part owner of the company, and Denice Sanchez, a former county employee who was originally charged in the case but later had the charges against her dismissed. Contact Phaedra Haywood at 986-3068 or phaywood@ sfnewmexican.com.

Grants: State gives ATC $53K Continued from Page A-6 a large reliance on Standard Based Assessment scores, which are at least a year out of date. But Richard Bowman, chief information and strategy officer for the district, said the education department does require a “heavy emphasis” on student achievement data including Standard Based Assessment scores. Boyd said Monday, “As with any grant there are certain stipulations and PED has stipulated certain things for us to receive the money.” He said the district will negotiate with the union to hammer out details of how teachers can apply. Tracie Oliver, human resources executive director for the district, said last week that the average pay for Santa Fe teachers is around $45,000, not including benefits. Mayer said she

believes the average is closer to $42,000. National studies on merit pay report mixed results on its impact on teacher improvement or student performance. Teacher unions and other critics argue that it is just another step toward tying teacher ratings to Hanna student test scores and that it Skandera can lead to unhealthy competition between teachers. Susan Lumley, principal of Academy for Technology and the Classics, which received $53,000, said Monday, “There’s always flaws in all of it, but that’s not a reason to walk away from the potential to get teachers more money.” Skandera said the state will evaluate the plan at the end of the first year.

Judge: Will continue hearing cases Continued from Page A-6 have voluntarily given up her position at the end of the year.” Raphaelson says in an affidavit that she filed the declaration after she and other judges received a reminder from court administrator Stephen Pacheco that “we needed to file our retention paperwork.” She also said she earlier had received information about the retention process from the Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission, which ultimately recommended that voters not keep her on the bench. Judges who stand for retention must receive affirmative votes from at least 57 percent of voters in order to stay in office. Only 56 percent of those who cast ballots favored her retention. Raphaelson’s court filing on Monday argues that the results

of the retention vote should be nullified. “If for some reason the Secretary of State mistakenly placed Charles Manson or Oliver Wendell Holmes on the ballot for a retention election, would those persons be entitled to serve as a district judge if they reached the 57 percent vote plateau?” the response states, referring to the late-1960s criminal and the early 1900s U.S. Supreme Court justice. “If the Attorney General himself lost track of his term and declared for re-election after only having served two years instead of four, would he voluntarily waive the right to serve the additional two years to which he was elected?” When a reporter after the election asked Raphaelson if the issue of whether she needed to run for retention this year didn’t come up in her mind before the

election, the judge said, “Yes, a little bit, the idea of it. But I was hoping to prevail in the election and I wouldn’t have to consider it any further.” In the meantime, she continues to hear cases, primarily in Tierra Amarilla. That shouldn’t present any legal issues for parties who appear before her between now and Jan. 1. But the Attorney General’s Office said in its petition that any delay in removing Raphaelson from the bench as of Jan. 1, 2015 “will threaten the legality” of any action she takes between that date and the date when the Supreme Court acts on the writ. The state Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case on Dec. 15. Contact Uriel J. Garcia at 986-3062 or ugarcia@ sfnewmexican.com. Follow him on Twitter @ujohnnyg.

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City of Santa Fe REGULAR MEETING OF THE GOVERNING BODY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2014 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS AFTERNOON SESSION – 5:00 P.M. 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3. SALUTE TO THE NEW MEXICO FLAG 4. INVOCATION 5. ROLL CALL 6. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 7. APPROVAL OF CONSENT CALENDAR 8. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Joint City/County Meeting – October 20, 2014 Reg. City Council Meeting – November 12, 2014 9. PRESENTATIONS a) Awards - Mayor’s Cup for Scholastic Chess. (5 Minutes) b) Santa Fe Prep High School -- Boys Soccer Class 4A State Champions. (5 Minutes) c) Capital High School -- Boys Soccer Class 5A State Champions. (5 Minutes) d) Proclamation – Santa Fe School of Cooking Day -- December 13th, 2014. (5 Minutes) e) Muchas Gracias -- 40th Anniversary of the Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library. (5 Minutes) f) 311 Call Center Program History and Recommendations. (Sevastian Gurule) 10. CONSENT CALENDAR a) Request for Approval of Amendment No. 3 to the Professional Services Agreement – Youth Workers to Implement Storm Water Management Improvements and Santa Fe River and Watershed Improvements; YouthWorks, Inc. (Brian Drypolcher) b) Request for Approval of Amendment No. 1 to Professional Services Agreement – Design Services Related to Replacement of South Dehumidification Unit at Genoveva Chavez Community Center; The Response Group, Inc. (Jason Kluck) c) Request for Approval of Electric Line Extension Agreement – Southwest Activity Node (SWAN) Park Phase I; Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM). (Mary MacDonald) d) Request for Approval of Amendment No. 3 to Professional Services Agreement – On Call Engineering Design Services for Underpass Project; Louis Berger Group, Inc. (Leroy Pacheco) 1) Request for Approval of Budget Increase – Project Fund. e) Request for Approval of Agreement – Meter Reading Infrastructure System and Implementation Services (RFP #14/14/P); Badger Meter, Inc. (Diana Catanach) 1) Request for Approval of Budget Increase – Meter Reading Fund f) Request for Approval of Procurement Under Cooperative Agreement – 2,000 (96 Gallon) Residential Refuse Container Lids for Environmental Services Division; Toter, Inc. (Lawrence Garcia) g) Request for Approval of Budget Increase for FY 2014/15 Wildland Urban Interface Grant for Fire Department. (Jan Snyder) h) Request for Approval of Budget Increase for Wildland Urban Interface Grant from State of New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources. (Jan Snyder) i) Request for Approval of Procurement Under State Price Agreement for Support Vehicle - One Ton Truck for Fire Wildland Division; Don Chalmers Ford. (Jan Snyder) 1) Request for Approval of Budget Increase – Fire Fund. j) Request for Approval of Procurement Under Cooperative Price Agreement for Twenty (20) Mobile Radios and Accessories for Fire Department; Motorola Solutions. (Jan Snyder) k) Request for Approval of Procurement Under Cooperative Price Agreement for 2014 Fire Engine for Fire Department; Siddons-Martin Emergency Group. (Jan Snyder) l) Request to Publish Notice of Public Hearing for January 14, 2015: 1) BILL NO. 2014-36. An Ordinance Relating to the Plaza Pushcart Vendor Ordinance; Amending Subsection 23-5.5 SFCC1987 to Change the Number of Licenses Issued and the Term of Each License and Making Such Other Changes as Are Necessary to Clarify the Ordinance. (Councilor Lindell, Councilor Dominguez, Mayor Gonzales and Councilor Ives) (Sevastian Gurule) a) A Resolution Amending Resolution No. 2002-79 to Change the Annual License Fees for Plaza Pushcart Vendors. (Councilor Lindell, Councilor Dominguez, Mayor Gonzales and Councilor Ives) m) Request for Approval of Budget Adjustment for FY 2014/15 Wildland Fire Hazard Reduction and Adjust Revenues to Match Budgeted Expenditures. (Jan Snyder) n) Request for Approval of Budget Increase for Procurement of Ten (10) EMS Gurneys for Fire Department for Stryker EMS Equipment; Procurement Approved at Finance Committee Meeting of October 20, 2014 and City Council Meeting of October 29, 2014. (Jan Snyder) o) CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2014-____. A Resolution Relating to a Request for Approval of First Quarter Budget Adjustments for Fiscal Year 2014/2015. (Cal Probasco and Andy Hopkins) p) CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2014-____. (Councilor Dominguez and Councilor Bushee) A Resolution Adopting the 2014 Santa Fe City and County Advisory Council on Food Policy Food Plan Entitled Planning for Santa Fe’s Food Future: Querencia, a Story of Food, Farming And Friends. (Sue Perry) q) CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2014-____. (Councilor Ives and Councilor Trujillo) A Resolution Endorsing the Efforts of New Mexico Dental Foundation for the Mission of Mercy Program (“NM Mom”) to Provide No Cost Dental Care to the Residents of Santa Fe and Authorizing the Waiver of Fees for Use of the Santa Fe Community Convention Center for the NM Mom Event in April of 2016. (Randy Randall) r) CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2014-____. (Councilor Dominguez) A Resolution Authorizing and Approving Submission of a Completed Application for Financial Assistance and Project Approval to the New Mexico Finance Authority to Refund the New Mexico Finance Authority Convention Center Loan. (Helene Hausman) s) Request for Approval – City of Santa Fe Schedule for 2015 City Council and Council Committee Meetings. (Yolanda Y. Vigil) t) CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2014-____. (Councilor Bushee, Councilor Lindell, Councilor Maestas, Councilor Ives, Councilor Dominguez, Councilor Rivera, Councilor Trujillo and Councilor Dimas) Request for Approval of a Resolution Establishing City of Santa Fe Legislative Priorities, by Council District, for Consideration by the New Mexico State Legislature During the 52nd Legislature - State of New Mexico - First Session, 2015. (Brian Snyder) u) Request for Approval of Memorandum of Understanding – City Sewer Service for Santa Fe Brewing Company Property Under the Terms of the 2008 Settlement and SFCC 22-6.2; Santa Fe County. (Nick Schiavo and Claudia Borchert) v) Request for Approval of Amendment No. 1 to Professional Services Agreement – Additional RTU to Hydro Generator Station and Adding McClure Reservoir Project Onto City SCADA System; Automation Electric. (Alex Puglisi and Alex Gamino) 11. Appeal – Driveway Permit #14-10-04; Gabriel Browne for Southwestern College – 3952 San Felipe Road. (John Romero) 12. Request for Approval of Assignment of the Railyard Conservation Easement from The Trust for Public Land to The Santa Fe Conservation Trust Pursuant to Paragraph 12(b) of the Conservation Easement. (Blake Whitcomb) 13. Santa Fe University of Art and Design Weekend Shuttle Pilot Project – Final Report and Staff Recommendation. (Jon Bulthuis) 14. Report on Summer 2014 People to the Plaza. (Kate Noble) 15. CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2014-____. (Councilor Ives) A Resolution Supporting the “Interim Jobs Council” 2014 Legislative Agenda to be Considered by The New Mexico State Legislature During the 52nd Legislature - State of New Mexico - First Session, 2015. (Fabian Trujillo) 16. MATTERS FROM THE CITY MANAGER 17. MATTERS FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY Executive Session In Accordance with the New Mexico Open Meetings Act §§10-15-1(H)(7) and (8) NMSA 1978, Discussion Regarding Threatened or Pending Litigation in Which the City of Santa Fe is a Participant, Including, Without Limitation, In the Matter of the Application by the City of Santa Fe for Permit to Use a Supplemental Well, Administrative Hearing before the Office of the State Engineer, Cases HU 12-018 and 12-023 and Qwest Corporation v. City of Santa Fe, Case No. 14-2008 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth District; and Discussion of the Purchase, Acquisition or Disposal of Real Property or Water Rights by the City of Santa Fe. 18. Action Regarding Qwest Corporation v. City of Santa Fe, Case No. 14-2008 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth District. 19. MATTERS FROM THE CITY CLERK 20. COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE GOVERNING BODY EVENING SESSION – 7:00 P.M. A. CALL TO ORDER B. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE C. SALUTE TO THE NEW MEXICO FLAG D. INVOCATION E. ROLL CALL F. PETITIONS FROM THE FLOOR G. APPOINTMENTS • Transit Advisory Board H. PUBLIC HEARINGS: 1) Request from Adelita’s, Inc. for a Restaurant Liquor License (Beer and Wine On-Premise Consumption Only) to be Located at Adelita’s Express Mexican Restaurant, 6417 Airport Road, Suite 100. (Yolanda Y. Vigil) 2) Request from George Rivera, Jr. for a Transfer of Location of Dispenser License #0433, with Package Sales, from Alegria, 2797 Agua Fria Street, to Sprout Farmers Market, 199 Paseo de Peralta. (Yolanda Y. Vigil) 3) Request from Qiang Tu for the following: (Yolanda Y. Vigil) a) Pursuant to §60-6B-10 NMSA 1978, a Request for a Waiver of the 300 Foot Location Restriction to Allow the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages at the Wok Chinese Cuisine, 2860 Cerrillos Road #A2, Which is Within 300 Feet of the Santa Fe Christian Fellowship Church, 2860 Cerrillos Road, Suite C-3; b) If the Waiver of the 300 Foot Restriction is Granted, a Request from Qiang Tu for a Restaurant Liquor License (Beer and Wine with On Premise Consumption Only) to be Located at the Wok Chinese Cuisine, 2860 Cerrillos Road #A2. 4) Request from Restaurant 210, LLC for a Restaurant Liquor License (Beer and Wine with Patio Service for On Premise Consumption Only) to be Located at Tabla de Los Santos, 210 Don Gaspar Avenue. (Yolanda Y. Vigil) 5) Request from New Mexico Hard Cider, LLC for a Winegrowers Liquor License to be Located at New Mexico Hard Cider, 3134 Rufina Street, Unit D. (Yolanda Y. Vigil) 6) Request from New Mexico Hard Cider, LLC for a Wine Wholesaler Liquor License to be Located at New Mexico Hard Cider, 3134 Rufina Street, Unit D. (Yolanda Y. Vigil) 7) CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2014-32: ADOPTION OR ORDINANCE NO. 2014-____. (Councilor Dominguez and Councilor Bushee) An Ordinance Relating to Early Neighborhood Notification (ENN); Amending Subsection 14-3.1(F)(3) SFCC 1987 to Require that an ENN be Conducted for New Parks or Reconstruction or Expansion of Existing Parks; and Making Such Other Changes as Are Necessary to Carry Out the Intent of This Ordinance. (David Pfeifer) 8) CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2014-33: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2014-____: (Councilor Dominguez, Councilor Trujillo and Councilor Ives) An Ordinance Relating to Redistricting; Creating a New Section 6-18 SFCC 1987 to Establish an Independent Citizens’ Redistricting Commission; Amending the Santa Fe Election Code, Section 9-1 SFCC 1987 to Require that the Independent Citizens’ Redistricting Commission Shall Review and Revise the City of Santa Fe District Boundaries at Least Every Ten Years; and Making Such Other Changes as Are Necessary. (Zachary Shandler) a) CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2014-____. (Councilor Dominguez) A Resolution Directing Staff to Provide Outreach and Education to the Public Regarding the City of Santa Fe Independent Citizens’ Redistricting Commission (“Commission”) and Call on Interested Persons, Who Meet the Qualifications for Commission Membership, to Apply for a Position on the Commission. 9) CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2014-34: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2014-____. (Councilor Maestas) An Ordinance Amending the Business License Ordinance, Section 18-1 SFCC 1987 and the Business Registration Ordinance, Section 18-2 SFCC 1987 to Require Businesses that Apply for a Business License or Registration or Renew a Business License or Registration to Affirm that Such Businesses Are In Compliance With the Living Wage Ordinance, Section 28-1 SFCC 1987. (Zachary Shandler) a) CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2014-____. (Councilor Maestas) A Resolution Relating to the Living Wage Ordinance, §28-1 SFCC 1987; Directing Staff to Explore and Recommend to the Governing Body a Living Wage Program That Will Educate and Assist Santa Fe Businesses in Complying With the Living Wage Requirements and a Mechanism for City Staff to Perform Field Compliance Reviews of Businesses to Ensure Compliance With the Living Wage Ordinance. 10) CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2014-35: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2014-____. (Councilor Dimas) An Ordinance Repealing and Readopting Article IX of The Uniform Traffic Ordinance to Establish that Parking Violations Related to Parking Meters, City Parking Lots and City Parking Garages are Civil Parking Violations and Subject to Administrative Adjudication and Collection from an External Collection Agency; and Making Such Other Changes as Are Necessary to Meet the Purposes of this Ordinance. (Sevastian Gurule) I.

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Pursuant to the Governing Body Procedural Rules, in the event any agenda items have not been addressed, the meeting should be reconvened at 7:00 p.m., the following day and shall be adjourned not later than 12:00 a.m. Agenda items, not considered prior to 11:30 p.m., shall be considered when the meeting is reconvened or tabled for a subsequent meeting. NOTE: New Mexico law requires the following administrative procedures be followed when conducting “quasi-judicial” hearings. In a “quasi-judicial” hearing all witnesses must be sworn in, under oath, prior to testimony and will be subject to reasonable cross-examination. Witnesses have the right to have an attorney present at the hearing. Persons with disabilities in need of accommodations, contact the City Clerk’s office at 955-6520, five (5) days prior to meeting date.

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Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, right, dives in for a touchdown as UCLA linebacker Aaron Wallace, center, misses the tackle and running back Royce Freeman looks on during the first half of an Oct. 11 game in Pasadena, Calif. Mariota is a finalist for the Heisman Trophy.

NEW YORK — The Heisman Trophy finalists would make one heck of an offense. Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, Alabama receiver Amari Cooper and record-breaking Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon are set to make the trip to New York for the Heisman presentation after the finalists were announced on Monday. Mariota is considered the clear the front-runner to win the 80th Heisman on Saturday night in

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New York. He would become the first Oregon player to earn college football’s most famous player of the year trophy. Mariota and the second-seeded Ducks will face Florida State and last year’s Heisman winner Jameis Winston at the Rose Bowl in the College Football Playoff semifinals on Jan. 1.

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Britain’s Prince William, center, and Kate, second from left, Duchess of Cambridge, sit with former Houston Rockets player Dikembe Mutombo, fourth from left, as they watch the second half of Monday’s game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers in New York. FRANK FRANKLIN II/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Olympic-size shake-up IOC unanimously passes votes on bidding, sports and TV channel

LeBron, Cavs roll in front of royal audience By Brian Mahoney The Associated Press

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach delivers a speech Monday at the start of the 127th International Olympic Committee session in Monaco. The IOC has approved plans for a more flexible sports program, a move that could lead to the inclusion of baseball and softball at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The committee voted in favor of the revised system on the opening morning of a special two-day session to adopt President Thomas Bach’s 40-point ‘Olympic Agenda 2020’ reform package. LIONEL CIRONNEAU/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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MONACO homas Bach never thought it would be this easy. In rapid fashion and without a single vote against or even an abstention, the International Olympic Committee on Monday overwhelmingly approved its president’s 40-point reform package — the biggest shake-up of the organization in decades. “Even in my wildest dreams I would not have expected this,” Bach said after the delegates unanimously backed his plans for a more affordable

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bidding system, creation of an Olympic television channel and a more flexible sports program. “That it would go this way was a very, very positive surprise.” Bach moved decisively since his election in September 2013 to put his stamp on the presidency and rally support for his “Olympic Agenda 2020” reforms, marking the most sweeping changes since the Salt Lake City bid scandal in 1999. A vote scheduled to take place over 1½ days was wrapped up in just one day. The only thing that didn’t pass unanimously was a suggestion for a coffee break. “I hope in 20 years I can look back to this day with satisfaction and happiness and maybe a little

bit of relief,” Bach said. Among other measures approved was the rewording of the IOC’s non-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation — a move that followed the controversy over Russia’s law against gay “propaganda” ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The IOC abolished the cap of 28 sports for the Summer Games to move to an “events-based” system that would allow new competitions to come in, while keeping to about 10,500 athletes and 310 medal events. Host cities will also be allowed to propose the

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NEW YORK — LeBron James showed Prince William that it’s good to be the King. James and the Cleveland Cavaliers turned a close Cavaliers 110 game into a clinic Nets 88 after Prince William and his wife, Kate, grabbed courtside seats to watch them, beating the Brooklyn Nets 110-88 on Monday night. Cleveland outscored Brooklyn 49-27 after Britain’s royal couple arrived to cameras flashing, fans roaring and a tie game. “Yeah, they brought luck to us,” James said. And then James brought gifts to them. He gave the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge cupcakes from a bakery in his hometown of Akron, Ohio and a couple of Cavaliers jerseys: one for their son (Kate is expecting their second child) and another that read “Cambridge” on the back. “It was their first time watching a basketball game, so it was an honor that I would be that guy they decided they wanted to watch,” James said.

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Eddie Lacy, Packers hold off Falcons rally for win By Genaro C. Armas The Associated Press

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hen is a state record not That record still stands around actually a record? these parts, proudly recognized as a Depends on who’s writNew Mexico gold standard. ing it down. Considering no active coach is within 400 wins of that We’ll get into that in just total, it probably will stand a second, I promise. But for quite a while. first we have polish off the But when counting up flux capacitor and go back all those hash marks for its to 1940 when then-college official state records book, student Ralph Tasker took the New Mexico Activities a job as the boys basketball Association decided that a coach in Sulpher Springs, coach’s wins at a school out Ohio. He was there only of state can — and do — one season, enrolling in the Will Webber count towards the overall military the following year Commentary total here in New Mexico. in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Tasker’s replacement, Russ Gilmore, is fifth on The rest, as they say, is the state’s all-time wins list. history. He moved to New Mexico He had 700 when he left the Pecos after the war, becoming head coach post in the spring of 2013 but most of at Lovington in 1946, then bolted for those wins came when he was coachHobbs three years later. He finished ing in Texas. his career with 1,121 wins which was, at the time, more than anyone else in So is he really fifth all time? Not the history of high school basketball. everyone agrees.

The New Mexico High School Coaches Association, which represents the coaches whereas the NMAA is the governing body for high schools sports, sees it differently. The NMHSCA only counts wins while coaching in state, meaning Tasker’s total doesn’t include his time in Ohio, nor does Gilmore’s time in Texas. In short, the two entities that keep track of New Mexico’s record books don’t agree on the semantics of record keeping. And that’s fine. To each his own, I say. All of which leads us to an interesting debate taking place right now in Pecos. The school’s girls basketball coach is Ron Drake. Formerly the coach at Santa Fe High, Pojoaque Valley, St. Michael’s, Española Valley … and Immaculata in Somerville, N.J. In 27 years on the bench, he has won exactly 526 games. The state’s all-time girls leader is Miles Watters,

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who retired in 2008 with exactly 526 victories. All of his wins came at Clayton and Clovis. Drake’s total includes 141 wins in Jersey. As far as the NMAA is concerned, Drake’s total would be a record. He’ll go for No. 527 on Saturday against Mesa Vista. Problem is, the NMAA doesn’t recognize Drake’s career because he hasn’t completed the two-page application (available at nmact.org) and submitted it for verification and approval. Until he does, it’s just bragging rights in the Drake household and nothing more. If and when Drake does apply, the NMHSCA still isn’t willing to recognize it. What it will do is give him its Level IV Award if and when he reaches 400 here in the state. He has 385 wins since moving here. So when, exactly, is a state record really what it seems? Let the debate begin.

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Another big first half helped the Green Bay Packers withstand a furious rally by the desperate Atlanta Packers 43 Falcons. Falcons 37 Eddie Lacy ran for a touchdown and caught one of Aaron Rodgers’ three TD passes, and Green Bay built a 24-point lead before holding on for a 43-37 victory Monday night. The Packers (10-3) earned their fifth consecutive victory to stay a game up on Detroit in the NFC North. Atlanta dropped to 5-8, but remained in a first-place tie with New Orleans in the woeful NFC South. “Good victory tonight, our seventh victory at home this year. … 10 victories has always been kind of a benchmark,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “In the NFC, 11 wins will probably be more of a benchmark this year.” Julio Jones had a career-best 259 yards receiving for the Falcons before leaving with a hip injury. Jones

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National Conference East Philadelphia Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington South Atlanta New Orleans Carolina Tampa Bay North Green Bay Detroit Minnesota Chicago West Arizona Seattle San Francisco St. Louis

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Week 14 Monday’s Game Green Bay 43, Atlanta 37 Sunday’s Games N.Y. Giants 36, Tennessee 7 Carolina 41, New Orleans 10 Minnesota 30, N.Y. Jets 24, OT Pittsburgh 42, Cincinnati 21 St. Louis 24, Washington 0 Baltimore 28, Miami 13 Indianapolis 25, Cleveland 24 Detroit 34, Tampa Bay 17 Houston 27, Jacksonville 13 Denver 24, Buffalo 17 Arizona 17, Kansas City 14 Oakland 24, San Francisco 13 Seattle 24, Philadelphia 14 New England 23, San Diego 14 Thursday’s Game Dallas 41, Chicago 28

Week 15 Thursday, Dec. 11 Arizona at St. Louis, 6:25 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14 Oakland at Kansas City, 11 a.m. Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 11 a.m. Washington at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m. Miami at New England, 11 a.m. Houston at Indianapolis, 11 a.m. Jacksonville at Baltimore, 11 a.m. Green Bay at Buffalo, 11 a.m. Tampa Bay at Carolina, 11 a.m. Cincinnati at Cleveland, 11 a.m. Denver at San Diego, 2:05 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 2:05 p.m. San Francisco at Seattle, 2:25 p.m. Minnesota at Detroit, 2:25 p.m. Dallas at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15 New Orleans at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Monday Packers 43, Falcons 37 Atlanta 7 0 10 20—37 Green Bay 7 24 3 9—43 First Quarter GB—Starks 3 run (Crosby kick), 11:13. Atl—S.Jackson 4 run (Bryant kick), 7:00. Second Quarter GB—Lacy 1 run (Crosby kick), 14:55. GB—FG Crosby 38, 7:17. GB—Lacy 1 pass from A.Rodgers (Crosby kick), 4:20. GB—Nelson 10 pass from A.Rodgers (Crosby kick), :24. Third Quarter Atl—Weems 5 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 12:35. Atl—FG Bryant 50, 8:20. GB—FG Crosby 33, 3:57. Fourth Quarter Atl—Jones 22 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 12:33. GB—Nelson 60 pass from A.Rodgers (kick blocked), 10:38. Atl—White 1 pass from Ryan (run failed), 6:15. GB—FG Crosby 53, 4:33. Atl—Douglas 2 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 2:11. A—77,512. Atl GB First downs 26 28 Total Net Yards 465 502 Rushes-yards 24-91 30-179 Passing 374 323 Punt Returns 0-0 2-20 Kickoff Returns 8-192 6-88 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-32 Comp-Att-Int 24-39-1 24-36-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-1 1-4 Punts 2-48.5 1-31.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 3-11 5-40 Time of Possession 26:59 33:01 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Atlanta, S.Jackson 16-50, Ryan 2-23, Rodgers 3-20, Hester 1-0, Freeman 2-(minus 2). Green Bay, Starks 10-75, Lacy 13-73, A.Rodgers 5-28, Kuhn 1-4, Cobb 1-(minus 1). PASSING—Atlanta, Ryan 24-39-1-375. Green Bay, A.Rodgers 24-36-0-327. RECEIVING—Atlanta, Jones 11-259, White 3-42, S.Jackson 2-26, Douglas 2-11, Freeman 2-10, Rodgers 1-14, DiMarco 1-9, Weems 1-5, Toilolo 1-(minus 1). Green Bay, Nelson 8-146, Lacy 5-33, Cobb 4-58, Quarless 3-52, Starks 2-26, D.Adams 1-6, Kuhn 1-6. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Atlanta, Bryant 53 (BK).

College Football Playoff Rankings Final 1. Alabama 2. Oregon 3. Florida St. 4. Ohio St. 5. Baylor 6. TCU 7. Mississippi St. 8. Michigan St. 9. Mississippi 10. Arizona 11. Kansas St. 12. Georgia Tech 13. Georgia 14. UCLA 15. Arizona St. 16. Missouri 17. Clemson 18. Wisconsin 19. Auburn 20. Boise St. 21. Louisville 22. Utah 23. LSU 24. Southern Cal 25. Minnesota

Record 12-1 12-1 13-0 12-1 11-1 11-1 10-2 10-2 9-3 10-3 9-3 10-3 9-3 9-3 9-3 10-3 9-3 10-3 8-4 11-2 9-3 8-4 8-4 8-4 8-4

Saturday, Dec. 20 New Orleans Bowl Nevada (7-5) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette (8-4), 9 a.m. (ESPN) New Mexico Bowl - At Albuquerque UTEP (7-5) vs. Utah State (9-4), 12:20 p.m. (ESPN) Las Vegas Bowl Colorado State (10-2) vs. Utah (8-4), 1:30 p.m. (ABC) Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise Western Michigan (8-4) vs. Air Force (9-3), 3:45 p.m. (ESPN) Camelia Bowl - At Montgomery, Ala. Bowling Green (7-6) vs. South Alabama (6-6), 7:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 22 Miami Beach Bowl BYU (8-4) vs. Memphis (9-3), Noon (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 23 Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl Marshall (12-1) vs. Northern Illinois (11-2), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Poinsettia Bowl - At San Diego Navy (6-5) vs. San Diego State (7-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 24 Bahamas Bowl - At Nassau Western Kentucky (7-5) vs. Central Michigan (7-5), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Hawaii Bowl - At Honolulu Rice (7-5) vs. Fresno State (6-7), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 26 Heart of Dallas Bowl Illinois (6-6) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl - At Detroit Rutgers (7-5) vs. North Carolina (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl UCF (9-3) vs. N.C. State (7-5), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl - At Annapolis, Md. Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl - At El Paso, Texas Duke (9-3) vs. Arizona State (9-3), Noon (CBS) Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Miami (6-6) vs. South Carolina (6-6), 2 p.m. (ESPN2) Pinstripe Bowl - At Bronx, N.Y. Boston College (7-5) vs. Penn State (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl - At San Diego Nebraska (9-3) vs. Southern Cal (8-4), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 29 Liberty Bowl - At Memphis, Tenn. West Virginia (7-5) vs. Texas A&M (7-5),Noon (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl - At Orlando, Fla. Clemson (9-3) vs. Oklahoma (8-4), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl - At Houston Texas (6-6) vs. Arkansas (6-6), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 30 Music City Bowl - At Nashville, Tenn. Notre Dame (7-5) vs. LSU (8-4), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl - At Charlotte, N.C. Louisville (9-3) vs. Georgia (9-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Fosters Farm Bowl At Santa Clara, Calif. Stanford (7-5) vs. Maryland (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 31 Peach Bowl - At Atlanta Mississippi (9-3) vs. TCU (11-1), 10:30 a.m. (ESPN) Fiesta Bowl - At Glendale, Ariz. Boise State (11-2) vs. Arizona (10-3), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl - At Miami Mississippi State (10-2) vs. Georgia Tech (10-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl - At Tampa, Fla. Wisconsin (10-3) vs. Auburn (8-4), 10 a.m. (ESPN2) Cotton Bowl Classic At Arlington, Texas Michigan State (10-2) vs. Baylor (11-1), 10:30 a.m. (ESPN) Citrus Bowl - At Orlando, Fla. Minnesota (8-4) vs. Missouri (10-3), 11 a.m. (ABC) Rose Bowl - At Pasadena, Calif. Playoff semifinal: Oregon (12-1) vs. Florida State (13-0), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Sugar Bowl - At New Orleans Playoff semifinal: Alabama (12-1) vs. Ohio State (12-1), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 2 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Houston (7-5), 10 a.m. (ESPN) TaxSlayer Bowl Iowa (7-5) vs. Tennessee (6-6), 1:20 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl - At San Antonio UCLA (9-3) vs. Kansas State (9-3), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN) Cactus Bowl - At Tempe, Ariz. Oklahoma State (6-6) vs. Washington (8-5), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 3 Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Florida (6-5) vs. East Carolina (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN2) GoDaddy Bowl - At Mobile, Ala. Toledo (8-4) vs. Arkansas State (7-5), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 10 Medal of Honor Bowl American vs. National, 12:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12 College Football Championship At Arlington, Texas Sugar Bowl winner vs. Rose Bowl winner, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 17 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 2 p.m. (NFLN) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl National vs. American, 2 p.m. (ESPN2) Saturday, Jan. 24 Senior Bowl North vs. South, 2 p.m. (NFLN)

College Football Schedule Saturday, Dec. 13 East Army (4-7) vs. Navy (6-5) at Baltimore, 1 p.m. FCS Playoffs Quarterfinals Friday, Dec. 12 Chattanooga (10-3) at New Hampshire (11-1) vs. 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13 Coastal Carolina (12-1) vs. North Dakota State (12-1), 10 a.m. Sam Houston State (10-4) at Villanova (11-2), 11 a.m. Illinois State (11-1) at Eastern Washington (11-2), 2 p.m.

Raptors 112, Nuggets 107, OT

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

W 16 8 7 4 2 W 14 14 9 9 5 W 12 12 11 7 3

L 5 11 12 18 18 L 6 6 11 14 15 L 7 8 11 14 18

Pct .762 .421 .368 .182 .100 Pct .700 .700 .450 .391 .250 Pct .632 .600 .500 .333 .143

GB — 7 8 12½ 13½ GB — — 5 6½ 9 GB — ½ 2½ 6 10

Western Conference Southwest W L Pct GB Houston 16 4 .800 — Memphis 16 4 .800 — San Antonio 15 5 .750 1 Dallas 16 6 .727 1 New Orleans 9 10 .474 6½ Northwest W L Pct GB Portland 16 4 .800 — Denver 9 12 .429 7½ Oklahoma City 7 13 .350 9 Utah 5 16 .238 11½ Minnesota 4 16 .200 12 Pacific W L Pct GB Golden State 18 2 .900 — L.A. Clippers 14 5 .737 3½ Phoenix 12 9 .571 6½ Sacramento 11 10 .524 7½ L.A. Lakers 5 16 .238 13½ Monday’s Games Washington 133, Boston 132,2OT Atlanta 108, Indiana 92 Toronto 112, Denver 107, OT Cleveland 110, Brooklyn 88 Golden State 102, Minnesota 86 Sacramento 101, Utah 92 Phoenix at L.A. Clippers Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Portland at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. New York at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Dallas at Memphis, 6 p.m. Miami at Phoenix, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Utah, 7 p.m. Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Washington at Orlando, 5 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Indiana, 5 p.m. Boston at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. Brooklyn at Chicago, 6 p.m. New Orleans at Dallas, 6 p.m. Portland at Minnesota, 6 p.m. New York at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. Houston at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Miami at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

NBA Calendar Jan. 5 — 10-day contracts can be signed. Jan. 10 — Contracts guaranteed for rest of season. Feb. 13-15 — All-Star weekend, New York. Feb. 19 — Trade deadline (1 p.m.). April 15 — Last day of regular season. April 18 — Playoffs begin.

Monday Cavaliers 110, Nets 88 CLEVELAND (110) James 8-17 1-2 18, Love 7-14 3-6 19, Varejao 2-5 3-4 7, Irving 2-10 3-3 7, Marion 0-2 0-0 0, Thompson 6-7 2-4 14, Waiters 11-21 3-3 26, Dellavedova 1-4 0-0 2, Jones 4-5 0-0 12, Harris 1-2 0-0 3, Haywood 1-2 0-0 2, Amundson 0-0 0-0 0, Price 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 43-90 15-22 110. BROOKLYN (88) Anderson 3-7 0-0 6, Teletovic 5-12 0-2 11, Garnett 6-9 2-3 14, Williams 3-14 6-6 13, Bogdanovic 1-6 0-0 2, Jordan 6-8 0-0 12, Plumlee 4-8 1-4 9, Jack 1-4 1-2 4, Karasev 4-5 2-2 11, Jefferson 2-5 0-0 4, Brown 1-3 0-0 2, Gutierrez 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-81 12-19 88. Cleveland 22 28 35 25 —110 Brooklyn 25 24 18 21 —88 3-Point Goals—Cleveland 9-25 (Jones 4-5, Love 2-5, Harris 1-2, James 1-3, Waiters 1-6, Price 0-1, Dellavedova 0-1, Irving 0-1, Marion 0-1), Brooklyn 4-19 (Jack 1-1, Karasev 1-1, Williams 1-4, Teletovic 1-6, Jefferson 0-1, Anderson 0-3, Bogdanovic 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Cleveland 62 (Varejao, Love 14), Brooklyn 44 (Garnett 7). Assists—Cleveland 25 (James 7), Brooklyn 25 (Williams 11). Total Fouls—Cleveland 17, Brooklyn 18. Technicals—Williams. A—17,732.

Hawks 108, Pacers 92 ATLANTA (108) Carroll 4-8 1-2 12, Millsap 2-6 3-9 7, Horford 9-18 6-6 25, Teague 8-11 4-5 21, Korver 4-7 2-2 13, Antic 2-5 2-2 7, Mack 1-5 1-1 3, Schroder 3-4 0-0 6, Scott 3-5 0-0 6, Sefolosha 4-7 0-0 8, Bazemore 0-1 0-0 0, Muscala 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-77 19-27 108. INDIANA (92) Copeland 2-6 1-2 6, West 4-9 0-0 8, Hibbert 4-9 0-0 8, Stuckey 6-11 2-4 15, S.Hill 2-6 1-2 5, Allen 3-3 2-4 8, Miles 5-11 1-1 15, Rudez 2-6 0-0 5, Watson 2-7 1-2 7, Scola 6-12 0-1 12, Whittington 1-3 1-1 3, Sloan 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 37-84 9-17 92. Atlanta 28 32 25 23 —108 Indiana 18 25 21 28 —92 3-Point Goals—Atlanta 9-21 (Korver 3-6, Carroll 3-6, Horford 1-1, Teague 1-1, Antic 1-3, Scott 0-1, Mack 0-1, Millsap 0-2), Indiana 9-27 (Miles 4-7, Watson 2-6, Stuckey 1-1, Copeland 1-4, Rudez 1-4, Sloan 0-1, Whittington 0-1, Scola 0-1, S.Hill 0-2). Fouled Out— None. Rebounds—Atlanta 52 (Millsap, Horford 8), Indiana 48 (Scola 9). Assists—Atlanta 27 (Teague 7), Indiana 23 (S.Hill 6). Total Fouls—Atlanta 20, Indiana 22. Technicals—Indiana Coach Vogel. A—14,519.

Warriors 102, Timberwolves 86 GOLDEN STATE (102) Barnes 2-5 0-0 4, Green 3-10 4-4 10, Bogut 0-2 0-0 0, Curry 10-20 0-0 21, Thompson 7-15 4-4 21, Ezeli 3-4 1-2 7, Livingston 5-8 2-2 12, Iguodala 4-10 0-0 8, Speights 5-8 2-2 12, Barbosa 2-5 0-0 4, Rush 0-1 0-0 0, Holiday 1-2 0-0 3, Kuzmic 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 42-91 13-14 102. MINNESOTA (86) Wiggins 8-19 5-8 21, Young 5-11 2-3 13, Dieng 2-4 2-2 6, LaVine 4-16 1-2 9, Brewer 4-12 2-4 10, Muhammad 4-8 6-6 14, Bennett 2-8 0-0 4, Hummel 0-3 0-0 0, Budinger 2-4 0-0 5, Robinson III 1-3 1-2 3, Adrien 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 32-89 20-29 86. Golden State 25 23 31 23 —102 Minnesota 20 19 24 23 —86 3-Point Goals—Golden State 5-22 (Thompson 3-6, Holiday 1-1, Curry 1-7, Barnes 0-1, Barbosa 0-1, Iguodala 0-3, Green 0-3), Minnesota 2-11 (Budinger 1-1, Young 1-1, Hummel 0-1, Muhammad 0-1, Wiggins 0-1, LaVine 0-2, Robinson III 0-2, Brewer 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Golden State 54 (Green 10), Minnesota 62 (Dieng 11). Assists—Golden State 24 (Curry 7), Minnesota 22 (LaVine 8). Total Fouls—Golden State 18, Minnesota 10. A—10,296 (19,356).

DENVER (107) Chandler 7-21 0-0 18, Hickson 4-8 2-3 10, Mozgov 7-14 1-1 15, Lawson 8-19 4-6 22, Afflalo 9-14 3-3 25, Gee 1-4 1-2 3, Harris 0-2 0-0 0, Arthur 6-17 0-0 12, Green 1-3 0-0 2, Gallinari 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 43-104 11-15 107. TORONTO (112) Ross 7-15 1-2 16, A.Johnson 3-3 1-2 7, Valanciunas 8-11 2-3 18, Lowry 3-13 7-8 13, Vasquez 4-9 1-2 9, Williams 7-16 9-10 26, Patterson 7-11 0-0 19, Hansbrough 0-1 0-0 0, J.Johnson 2-2 0-2 4. Totals 41-81 21-29 112. Denver 30 22 29 21 5—107 Toronto 35 27 20 20 10—112 3-Point Goals—Denver 10-30 (Afflalo 4-7, Chandler 4-11, Lawson 2-8, Gallinari 0-1, Arthur 0-3), Toronto 9-33 (Patterson 5-7, Williams 3-10, Ross 1-8, Vasquez 0-3, Lowry 0-5). Fouled Out—Arthur. Rebounds—Denver 60 (Arthur 13), Toronto 53 (Valanciunas 12). Assists—Denver 21 (Lawson 12), Toronto 21 (Lowry 13). Total Fouls— Denver 28, Toronto 16. Technicals— Toronto defensive three second. A—19,800 (19,800).

NCAA Men’s Division I Monday’s Games East Brown 77, Providence 67 Bucknell 61, Albany (NY) 58 Caldwell 63, Binghamton 52 Harvard 70, Boston U. 56 Lafayette 82, Sacred Heart 81 South Campbell 63, Johnson & Wales (NC) 38 Chattanooga 104, Montreat 50 Florida 85, Yale 47 Hampton 62, Morgan St. 58 Md.-Eastern Shore 69, NC A&T 58 Miami 70, Savannah St. 39 Norfolk St. 88, Coppin St. 69 SC State 71, Bethune-Cookman 66 Midwest Butler 93, Kennesaw St. 51 Minnesota 92, North Dakota 56 Purdue 63, IPFW 43 Southwest SMU 80, UC Santa Barbara 73, OT UTEP 81, Incarnate Word 65 Far West Air Force 77, Nebraska-Omaha 61

Wizards 133, Celtics 132, 2OT

Men’s AP Top 25 Poll

BOSTON (132) Green 8-18 11-11 28, Sullinger 2-5 1-2 5, Zeller 4-7 2-2 10, Rondo 0-3 0-0 0, Bradley 3-9 0-0 7, Olynyk 6-12 6-6 19, Turner 8-13 0-0 18, Bass 8-16 3-4 19, Smart 7-14 5-5 23, Thornton 1-5 1-2 3. Totals 47-102 29-32 132. WASHINGTON (133) Pierce 9-12 6-6 28, Humphries 8-16 1-2 17, Gortat 6-12 9-9 21, Wall 10-17 5-8 26, Beal 5-12 3-4 14, Porter 0-2 0-0 0, Butler 3-7 0-0 7, Seraphin 5-5 1-1 11, Miller 2-4 3-4 7, Gooden 1-7 0-0 2, Temple 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 49-94 28-34 133. Boston 29 16 31 34 1111—132 Washington 30 28 34 18 1112—133 3-Point Goals—Boston 9-22 (Smart 4-8, Turner 2-2, Olynyk 1-3, Green 1-4, Bradley 1-4, Thornton 0-1), Washington 7-16 (Pierce 4-5, Beal 1-2, Butler 1-3, Wall 1-3, Miller 0-1, Gooden 0-2). Fouled Out—Olynyk. Rebounds— Boston 49 (Olynyk 11), Washington 60 (Gortat 12). Assists—Boston 27 (Turner 8), Washington 32 (Wall 17). Total Fouls—Boston 30, Washington 26. A—14,828 (20,308).

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and last week’s ranking: Pts Prv Rec 9-0 1. Kentucky (64) 1,600 1 8-0 2. Duke 1,518 4 1,486 3 3. Arizona 8-0 7-0 4. Louisville 1,319 5 1,316 2 5. Wisconsin 8-1 9-0 6. Virginia 1,285 7 8-0 7. Villanova 1,173 10 7-1 1,155 6 8. Texas 7-1 9. Gonzaga 1,145 9 10. Kansas 6-1 1,083 11 5-1 8 11. Wichita St. 929 6-1 12. Ohio St. 808 14 717 25 13. Utah 6-1 668 20 14. Iowa St. 5-1 593 23 15. Butler 7-1 557 22 16. Oklahoma 5-2 7-0 17. Washington 428 — 390 13 18. San Diego St. 6-2 19. Maryland 8-1 370 21 8-1 20. Miami 359 15 6-2 21. North Carolina 350 12 22. West Virginia 313 16 8-1 23. N. Iowa 8-0 232 — 24. St. John’s 211 — 6-1 25. Notre Dame 8-1 200 — Others receiving votes: Michigan St. 120, Illinois 91, Georgetown 62, Iowa 60, Seton Hall 57, Baylor 49, TCU 45, Colorado St. 28, Arkansas 22, California 19, Michigan 14, Creighton 7, VCU 6, LSU 5, Indiana 3, NC State 3, Old Dominion 2, Dayton 1, Yale 1.

Kings 101, Jazz 92 UTAH (92) Hayward 6-16 6-10 19, Favors 3-6 3-4 9, Kanter 5-11 2-2 13, Burke 4-13 4-4 13, Burks 5-11 6-9 16, Booker 2-6 2-4 6, Hood 0-3 0-0 0, Exum 1-3 0-0 2, Gobert 5-8 2-4 12, Ingles 1-2 0-0 2, J.Evans 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-79 25-37 92. SACRAMENTO (101) Gay 10-19 9-10 29, Thompson 3-8 4-6 10, R.Evans 2-4 2-4 6, Collison 6-12 4-4 16, McLemore 2-5 2-2 6, Stauskas 6-12 1-1 15, Landry 1-2 4-4 6, Williams 3-7 0-0 7, Hollins 0-0 0-0 0, Sessions 2-5 2-5 6. Totals 35-74 28-36 101. Utah 31 18 19 24—92 Sacramento 23 32 13 33—101 3-Point Goals—Utah 3-17 (Kanter 1-2, Burke 1-4, Hayward 1-7, Burks 0-1, Exum 0-1, Hood 0-2), Sacramento 3-8 (Stauskas 2-4, Williams 1-1, Gay 0-1, Collison 0-2). Fouled Out—Kanter. Rebounds—Utah 51 (Gobert 9), Sacramento 55 (R.Evans 13). Assists— Utah 20 (Hayward 7), Sacramento 18 (Collison 6). Total Fouls—Utah 26, Sacramento 24. Technicals— Kanter, Utah defensive three second. A—16,511 (17,317).

NBA Leaders Through Dec. 7 Scoring G Bryant, LAL 21 Davis, NOR 19 Harden, HOU 20 James, CLE 18 Cousins, SAC 15 Curry, GOL 19 Anthony, NYK 20 Griffin, LAC 19 Aldridge, POR 19 Irving, CLE 18 Butler, CHI 18 Bosh, MIA 20 Ellis, DAL 22 Thompson, GOL18 Gay, SAC 18 Lowry, TOR 20 Gasol, CHI 17 Lillard, POR 20 Jefferson, CHA 20 DeRozan, TOR 16

FG 181 188 143 152 126 150 174 171 165 135 126 152 183 133 133 139 138 130 170 102

FT 138 102 172 110 100 83 86 89 83 88 123 94 77 63 98 103 65 86 51 102

PTS 530 478 503 442 352 441 463 435 423 396 391 426 466 381 380 414 341 398 391 310

AVG 25.2 25.2 25.2 24.6 23.5 23.2 23.2 22.9 22.3 22.0 21.7 21.3 21.2 21.2 21.1 20.7 20.1 19.9 19.6 19.4

NCAA BASKETBALL Men’s Top 25 Monday’s Games No. 15 Butler 93, Kennesaw State 51 No. 20 Miami 70, Savannah State 39 Tuesday’s Games No. 3 Arizona vs. Utah Valley, 7 p.m. No. 4 Louisville vs. Indiana vs. Louisville at Madison Square Garden, 7:30 p.m. No. 7 Villanova vs. Illinois at Madison Square Garden, 5 p.m. No. 11 Wichita State vs. Seton Hall, 5 p.m. No. 14 Iowa State vs. UMKC, 5 p.m. No. 25 Notre Dame vs. Mount St. Mary’s, 5 p.m. Wednesday’s Games No. 1 Kentucky vs. Columbia, 5 p.m. No. 5 Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. No. 9 Gonzaga vs. Washington State at Spokane (Wash.) Arena, 9 p.m. No. 10 Kansas at Georgetown, 5 p.m. No. 12 Ohio State vs. High Point, 5 p.m. No. 13 Utah at BYU, 7 p.m. No. 18 San Diego State vs. Long Beach State, 8 p.m. No. 19 Maryland vs. N.C. Central, 5 p.m. No. 23 Northern Iowa at Denver, 7 p.m. No. 24 St. John’s vs. Fairleigh Dickinson, 6 p.m. Thursday: No games scheduled. Friday’s Game No. 14 Iowa State at Iowa, 6 p.m. Saturday’s Games No. 1 Kentucky vs. No. 21 North Carolina, 10 a.m. No. 3 Arizona vs. Michigan, 3:15 p.m. No. 5 Wisconsin vs. Nicholls State, 1 p.m. No. 8 Texas vs. Texas State, 6 p.m. No. 9 Gonzaga at UCLA, 8 p.m. No. 10 Kansas vs. No. 13 Utah at the Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo., 1:15 p.m. No. 11 Wichita State at Detroit, 10 a.m. No. 12 Ohio St. vs. Morehead St., 11 a.m. No. 16 Oklahoma at Tulsa, 12:30 p.m. No. 19 Maryland vs. South CarolinaUpstate, 9 a.m. No. 23 Northern Iowa at VCU, 5 p.m. No. 25 Notre Dame vs. Florida St., 6 p.m. Sunday’s Games No. 4 Louisville vs. UNC Wilmington, 4 p.m. No. 7 Villanova vs. Temple, Noon No. 14 Iowa State vs. Southern U., 4 p.m. No. 15 Butler at Tennessee, Noon No. 17 Washington vs. Eastern Washington, 6 p.m. No. 22 West Virginia vs. Marshall at Charleston (W.Va.) Civic Center, 2:30 p.m. No. 24 St. John’s vs. Fordham at Madison Square Garden, 12:30 p.m.

Women’s Top 25 Monday’s Game No. 3 Texas 80, Southern U. 42 Tuesday’s Game No. 4 Texas A&M at SMU, 6 p.m. Wednesday’s Games No. 5 Notre Dame at No. 25 DePaul, 7 p.m. No. 9 Baylor vs. Idaho, 6 p.m. No. 17 Rutgers at Temple, 4 p.m. No. 23 West Virginia vs. Duquesne, 5 p.m. Thursday’s Games No. 12 Nebraska at Creighton, 7:05 p.m. No. 22 Mississippi State vs. Louisiana Tech, 6 p.m. No. 24 Iowa vs. Iowa State, 6 p.m. Friday’s Games No. 8 Kentucky vs. Middle Tennessee, 7 p.m. No. 14 Maryland vs. American, 5 p.m. Saturday’s Games No. 4 Texas A&M vs. Houston, 12:30 p.m. No. 5 Notre Dame vs. Michigan, 11 a.m. No. 12 Nebraska vs. Cal State Bakersfield, 1 p.m. No. 18 California at Long Beach State, 5 p.m. No. 23 West Virginia vs. IPFW, 2 p.m. Sunday’s Games No. 1 South Carolina vs. Savannah State, 10 a.m. No. 3 Texas vs. Northwestern State, 1 p.m. No. 6 North Carolina vs. Appalachian State, Noon No. 7 Stanford vs. Santa Clara, 8 p.m. No. 8 Kentucky vs. Belmont, 4 p.m. No. 9 Baylor vs. Stephen F. Austin, 1 p.m. No. 11 Tennessee at No. 17 Rutgers, 1 p.m. No. 19 Michigan State at Loyola of Chicago, 1 p.m. No. 20 Syracuse vs. N.C. Central, 10 a.m. No. 22 Mississippi State at Southern Mississippi, 11 a.m.

Women’s Division I Monday’s Games East Army 61, St. Francis (NY) 55 Mass.-Lowell 80, Yale 72 Midwest Creighton 58, N. Iowa 56 Detroit 76, Madonna 47 Missouri 74, Saint Louis 55 South Alcorn St. 62, Louisiana-Monroe 53 FAR WEST Denver 107, Air Force 66

Women’s AP Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Rec Pts Prv 1. S. Carolina (23) 8-0 837 1 2. UConn (7) 6-1 805 3 3. Texas (4) 6-0 772 4 4. Texas A&M 9-0 740 5 5. Notre Dame 8-1 738 2 6. North Carolina 8-0 685 6 7. Stanford 5-2 613 8 8. Kentucky 8-1 585 13 9. Baylor 6-1 552 11 10. Louisville 8-1 534 7 11. Tennessee 6-2 465 14 12. Nebraska 7-1 425 12 13. Duke 5-3 408 9 14. Maryland 7-2 377 15 15. Oregon St. 7-0 358 17 16. Georgia 10-0 354 19 17. Rutgers 7-1 304 18 18. California 7-1 298 10 19. Michigan St. 5-2 238 16 20. Oklahoma St. 6-1 197 20 20. Syracuse 6-1 197 21 22. Mississippi St. 8-0 194 23 23. West Virginia 6-1 122 24 24. Iowa 7-2 72 22 25. DePaul 6-2 63 25 Others receiving votes: Green Bay 26, St. John’s 15, Northwestern 14, Arizona St. 13, Princeton 7, Washington St. 7, James Madison 6, Minnesota 6, W. Kentucky 5, Washington 5, South Florida 4, Florida St. 3, Oklahoma 3, Kansas 2, Arkansas 1.

HOCKEY NHL Eastern Conference GP Pittsburgh 27 Tampa Bay 28 Detroit 28 N.Y. Islndrs 27 Montreal 29 Washington 26 Toronto 26 Boston 28 Florida 26 N.Y. Rangers 26 Ottawa 27 New Jersey 28 Philadelphia 26 Columbus 26 Buffalo 27 Carolina 27

W 18 18 17 19 17 12 14 15 11 12 11 11 9 9 9 8

L OL Pts GFGA 6 3 39 88 64 7 3 39 98 72 6 5 39 88 70 8 0 38 86 74 10 2 36 74 76 10 4 28 74 71 9 3 31 89 79 12 1 31 72 72 8 7 29 58 68 10 4 28 77 76 11 5 27 70 74 13 4 26 66 80 13 4 22 68 82 15 2 20 61 88 16 2 20 47 85 16 3 19 59 76

Western Conference GP W L OL Pts GFGA Anaheim 29 18 6 5 41 85 79 St. Louis 28 18 8 2 38 80 65 Vancouver 28 18 8 2 38 87 78 Chicago 27 18 8 1 37 85 53 Nashville 26 17 7 2 36 70 54 Calgary 28 17 9 2 36 89 72 Los Angeles 27 14 8 5 33 72 59 Winnipeg 28 14 9 5 33 64 64 San Jose 29 14 11 4 32 81 79 Minnesota 25 14 10 1 29 71 61 Dallas 27 10 12 5 25 79 95 Colorado 27 9 12 6 24 72 89 Arizona 28 10 15 3 23 66 90 Edmonton 27 7 15 5 19 60 91 Note: Two points are awarded for a win; one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT New Jersey 2, Carolina 1 St. Louis 4, Florida 2 Sunday’s Games Anaheim 4, Winnipeg 3, OT Detroit 3, Carolina 1 Ottawa 4, Vancouver 3, OT Edmonton 2, San Jose 1 Tuesday’s Games Chicago at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Columbus, 5 p.m. Los Angeles at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. Calgary at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Vancouver at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Washington at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Winnipeg at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Nashville at Colorado, 7 p.m. Edmonton at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Detroit, 6 p.m. Edmonton at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

NHL Calendar Jan. 1 — Winter Classic: Chicago at Washington. Jan. 22-26 — All-Star break.

NHL Leaders Through Dec. 7 Scoring Tyler Seguin, Dal Sidney Crosby, Pit Jakub Voracek, Phi Steven Stamkos, TB Evgeni Malkin, Pit Vlad. Tarasenko, StL Claude Giroux, Phi Ryan Getzlaf, Anh Tyler Johnson, TB Mark Giordano, Cgy Rick Nash, NYR Phil Kessel, Tor 4 tied with 26 pts.

GP 27 26 26 28 26 27 26 28 28 28 25 26

G 21 9 9 16 14 17 8 8 8 7 17 13

A PTS 14 35 25 34 24 33 16 32 18 32 12 29 21 29 21 29 20 28 21 28 10 27 14 27

Monday Devils 2, Hurricanes 1 0 0—2 New Jersey 2 1 Carolina 0 0—1 First Period—None. Penalties—Zidlicky, NJ (tripping), 2:53; Harrison, Car (high-sticking), 16:13. Second Period—1, Carolina, Faulk 4 (Nestrasil, Hainsey), 7:11. 2, New Jersey, Jagr 5 (Gomez), 14:45. 3, New Jersey, Henrique 8 (Jagr, Gomez), 19:46 (pp). Penalties—Severson, NJ (roughing), 10:33; Greene, NJ (highsticking), 16:56; Carolina bench, served by Skinner (too many men), 17:52. Third Period—None. Penalties—Ruutu, NJ (boarding), 3:58. Shots on Goal—New Jersey 6-9-1—16. Carolina 12-11-17—40. Power-play opportunities—New Jersey 1 of 2; Carolina 0 of 4. Goalies—New Jersey, Schneider 11-12-3 (40 shots-39 saves). Carolina, Ward 8-10-1 (16-14). Referees—Dave Jackson, Graham Skilliter. Linesmen—Mark Shewchyk, Don Henderson. A—9,815 (18,680). T—2:24.

Rangers 4, Penguins 3, OT 0 0—3 Pittsburgh 1 2 0 1 N.Y. Rangers 2 1—4 First Period—1, Pittsburgh, Spaling 4 (Crosby, Downie), 12:35. Penalties—Sill, Pit, double minor (high-sticking), 17:19. Second Period—2, N.Y. Rangers, Miller 2 (St. Louis, D.Moore), 3:50. 3, N.Y. Rangers, Nash 18 (Zuccarello, Brassard), 8:40. Penalties—Hayes, NYR (freezing the puck), 10:51; Spaling, Pit (interference), 15:09; Crosby, Pit (interference), 18:05. Third Period—4, N.Y. Rangers, Hayes 4, 12:58. 5, Pittsburgh, Malkin 15 (Sutter, Comeau), 15:17. 6, Pittsburgh, Downie 4 (Spaling, Scuderi), 15:41. Penalties—None. Overtime—7, N.Y. Rangers, Klein 6 (McDonagh, D.Moore), 3:45. Penalties—None. Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 8-12-132—35. N.Y. Rangers 9-14-4-2—29. Power-play opportunities—Pittsburgh 0 of 1; N.Y. Rangers 0 of 4. Goalies—Pittsburgh, Fleury 15-4-2 (29 shots-25 saves). N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist 10-7-3 (35-32). Referees—Eric Furlatt, Jean Hebert. Linesmen—Scott Driscoll, Tony Sericolo. A—18,006 (18,006). T—2:33.

Blues 4, Panthers 2 Florida 0 1 1—2 St. Louis 2 0 2—4 First Period—1, St. Louis, Lapierre 2 (Porter, Reaves), 11:17. 2, St. Louis, Cole 3 (Lehtera, Tarasenko), 17:34. Penalties—Ekblad, Fla (boarding), 8:10; Jokinen, Fla (holding stick), 8:16; Reaves, StL (high-sticking), 12:52. Second Period—3, Florida, Bjugstad 12 (Fleischmann, Gudbranson), 15:21. Penalties—MacKenzie, Fla (hooking), 4:54; Bolland, Fla (tripping), 8:31; Berglund, StL (tripping), 17:39. Third Period—4, Florida, Ekblad 5 (Jokinen, Campbell), 14:54. 5, St. Louis, Porter 1 (Jackman), 18:06. 6, St. Louis, Stastny 6 (Schwartz), 19:28 (en). Penalties—Schwartz, StL (highsticking), 10:49. Shots on Goal—Florida 8-18-8—34. St. Louis 11-7-10—28. Power-play opportunities—Florida 0 of 3; St. Louis 0 of 4. Goalies—Florida, Luongo 9-6-6 (27 shots-24 saves). St. Louis, Mar. Brodeur 2-1-0 (34-32). Referees—Dan O’Halloran, Dean Morton. Linesmen—Lonnie Cameron, Brad Lazarowich. A—17,330. T—2:29.

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

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Santa Fe Prep rallies to beat Mesa Vista The New Mexican

Alexis Mundt had 18 points, while Joy Maran added nine points and seven assists as the Santa Fe Preparatory girls basketball team overcame a S.F. Prep 42 13-point deficit to beat visiting Mesa Vista, Mesa Vista 40 42-40, on Monday night at Prep Gymnasium. The Lady Trojans carried a 23-14 lead into halftime and extended it to double digits in the third quarter. They led by as many as nine in the fourth quarter, but the Blue Griffins’ pressure defense changed the tempo of the game, forced turnovers and created scoring opportunities at the other end. “It’s a function of our experience, I

think,” said Prep head coach Anika Amon. “We stayed composed and got baskets when we needed it.” Desiray Anderson added six points for the Blue Griffins, who improved to 5-1 with the win. Azzy Griego and Danielle Martinez had 12 points apiece to lead Mesa Vista. TIERRA ENCANTADA JV 52, ACADEMY FOR TECHNOLOGY AND THE CLASSICS 19 At the Santa Fe Boys Club, the Lady Alarcranes improved to 2-0 as Brianna Duran had 18 points and Yazmine Torres had 14. Tierra Encantada led 17-9 after the first half, then used a 10-2 run in the third quarter to end any suspense. They closed the game out with a 25-8 outburst in the fourth quarter. Felicity Sealy led ATC with eight points.

BOYS CAPITAL 51, POJOAQUE VALLEY 46 At Ben Lujan Memorial Gymnasium, the visiting Jaguars built a comfortable 13-point lead after three quarters and cruised to a nondistrict win on the road against the Elks. Capital led 28-22 at halftime and outscored Pojoaque 17-10 in the third quarter. Brian Garcia led the Jaguars with 13 points. Augie Larranaga finished with 12 and Eric Coca 10. Capital was coming off a second-place finish in its own tournament last weekend and will be one of eight teams playing in the Bobby Rodriguez Capital City Tournament, which starts Thursday at Santa Fe High. Pojoaque was led by Chris Martinez’s 10 points. He was the only Elk in double figures.

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Today on TV Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local. MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 5 p.m. on ESPN — Villanova vs. Illinois, in New York 5 p.m. on ESPN2 — Seton Hall at Wichita St. 5 p.m. on ESPNU — Mo.-Kansas City at Iowa St. 5 p.m. on FS1 — IUPUI at Xavier 7 p.m. on ESPN — Indiana vs. Louisville, in New York 7 p.m. on ESPN2 — Texas A&M at Baylor 7 p.m. on ESPNEWS — Alcorn St. at Iowa 7 p.m. on ESPNU — E. Michigan at Michigan 7 p.m. on FS1 — South Dakota at Creighton NHL 5:30 p.m. on NBCSN — Los Angeles at Buffalo SOCCER 12:30 p.m. on FSN — UEFA Champions League, Galatasaray vs. Arsenal, in Istanbul 12:30 p.m. on FS1 — UEFA Champions League, Basel at Liverpool

NBA

Warriors beat Wolves for 13th straight win The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — Stephen Curry overcame a rare off night from long range to post 21 points and seven assists and help Golden State to their Warriors 102 13th consecutive win with a 102-86 victory T’wolves 86 over Minnesota on Monday night. Curry missed six of his seven 3-point attempts, but the top-ranked Warriors’ defense forced the short-handed Timberwolves to shoot 36 percent and turn the ball over 19 times to improve to an NBAbest 18-2. Klay Thompson added 21 points and the Warriors left holding their breath after Andrew Bogut left with a knee injury early in the first quarter. The Warriors called it “right knee irritation” and deemed his return to the game questionable, but he watched the rest from the bench. Andrew Wiggins had 21 points and six rebounds for the Timberwolves, who are playing without three starters and have lost six in a row. Thaddeus Young added 13 points and seven rebounds for Minnesota. HAWKS 108, PACERS 92 In Indianapolis, Al Horford scored 25 points, and Jeff Teague added 21 as Atlanta beat Indiana. Kyle Korver added 13 points for Atlanta,

which has won eight of its last nine games and seven straight. The Hawks dominated early and never let up as they built a 28-18 first quarter lead. In building that lead Atlanta (14-6) shot 5 of 9 beyond the arc. The lead went to 21 when Teague made a layup and free throw after with 8:25 to play in the third quarter. C.J. Miles and Rodney Stuckey each scored 15 points to lead Indiana (7-14). Luis Scola came off the bench to score 12. The Pacers only lead, 8-7, came at 7:31 of the first quarter. RAPTORS 112, NUGGETS 107 (OT) In Toronto, Kyle Lowry had 13 points and 13 assists, Jonas Valanciunas added 18 points and 12 rebounds, and Toronto rallied to beat Denver in overtime. Lou Williams scored 26 and Amir Johnson had 18 for the Raptors, who trailed by five points with less than three minutes to play but got a game-tying 3-pointer from Patrick Patterson with 28 seconds left. Patterson finished 5 for 7 from 3-point range, while his teammates were a combined 4 for 26. Patterson had 19 points and Terrence Ross 16 for Toronto, which leads the Eastern Conference with a 16-5 record. WIZARDS 133, CELTICS 132 (2OT) In Washington, John Wall scored 26 points, including the last 10, and the Washington rallied to beat Boston in double overtime. Wall added a career-high 17 assists, Paul

Pierce scored a season-high 28 points and Marcin Gortat had 21 points and 12 rebounds for Washington, which outlasted the Celtics to salvage the finale of the home-and-home series after losing Sunday in Boston. Washington squandered a 23-point third-quarter lead before rallying in both overtimes. Jeff Green led Boston with 28 points, rookie Marcus Smart added a career-high 23 and Kelly Olynyk finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds. KINGS 101, JAZZ 92 In Sacramento, Calif., Rudy Gay scored 29 points, and the Kings overcame the absence of center DeMarcus Cousins to beat struggling Utah. Darren Collison added 16 points and six assists, and rookie Nik Stauskas scored a season-high 15 points to go with eight rebounds as Sacramento pulled away in the fourth quarter for a rare win without its leading man. Cousins sat out for the sixth straight game because of viral meningitis, which will sideline him at least the rest of the week. The Kings are 2-4 without Cousins this season and had lost 17 of their previous 18 games when he doesn’t play. Gordon Hayward had 19 points and seven assists, and Alec Burks returned from a left shoulder injury to score 16 points for the Jazz, who have lost nine in a row. Sacramento outshot Utah 47.3 to 40.5 percent.

Royal: Entrance distracted Kevin Love Continued from Page B-1 Kevin Love was shooting free throws when the royal couple emerged from a tunnel with 7:14 remaining in the third quarter. Perhaps distracted by the loud roar, Love missed the second badly, leaving the game tied at 61. “It was a little bit more of a distraction than people waving towels or waving whatever it is that they do,” Love said. “Yes, it was big distraction. I just tried to make the second shot and it ended up being about a foot short.” But James, putting on a show that few others could, threw some sharp passes to go with his nine points in the period and the Cavs cruised from there to their seventh straight victory. He finished with 18 points after joining Kyrie Irving and some Nets players in wearing “I Can’t Breathe” shirts during warmups.

That would’ve been the story most nights, but he had to share it with the royals’ arrival during their first visit to New York. They met earlier in the game with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, celebrating a partnership between the Royal Foundation and the league to raise awareness about the importance of international wildlife conservation. The buzz built as officials began gathering near the tunnel at halftime for the couple, and it may have amped up James, who had a quiet first half but took his game to another level in front of William and Kate, a day after saying it was an “honor” to have them watch him play. James’ biggest statement before then came during the pregame layup line. He and Irving, along with Kevin Garnett, Deron Williams and two other Nets, wore warmup shirts in support of the family

of Eric Garner, who died July 17 after a police officer placed him in a chokehold when he was being arrested for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. A recording of Garner’s arrest showed him gasping, “I can’t breathe” during the fatal encounter, and thousands have protested a grand jury decision not to indict the officer since the announcement on Wednesday. “D-Will brought it to the guys that wanted to wear it and support the cause, and the ones that wanted to wear it wore it. I think it is important,” Garnett said. Williams had 13 points and 11 assists but shot 3 for 14 for the Nets, who played without injured starters Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson. Love had 19 points and 14 rebounds. TIP-INS Cavaliers: Irving had just seven points on 2-of-10 shooting. … Reserve guard Matthew

Dellavedova returned after missing more than a month with a sprained ligament in his left knee. Dellavedova, playing in just his fourth game of the season, shot an airball on his first attempt. Nets: Lopez has a strained lower back. Lionel Hollins said he didn’t know much beyond an MRI on Sunday showed it was “not broken.” Johnson was sidelined by a stomach virus. … The Nets had won five straight at home against Cleveland. MAJOR MEETING Entertainers Jay-Z and Beyoncé were led across court after the third and fourth quarter to meet with William and Kate. Jay-Z formerly was a partowner of the Nets and has kept his courtside seats near their bench since selling his stake. JAMES ON JERSEYS James, on why he wore the “I Can’t Breathe” shirt: “It was a message to the family. That I’m sorry for their loss, sorry to his wife. That’s what it’s about.”

Olympic: Baseball, softball may return Continued from Page B-1 inclusion of one or more additional events for their games. The new rules clear the way for Tokyo organizers to request that baseball and softball be included in the 2020 Games. Both sports, dropped after the 2008 Beijing Games, are highly popular in Japan. “Today, there is excitement circulating around the baseball and softball world and there is great hope that our athletes will now have a real opportunity … to play for their country, aiming to win an Olympic gold medal,” said Riccardo Fraccari, president of the World Baseball Softball Confederation. Other sports like squash and karate are also hopeful of joining the Tokyo program. In addition, new disciplines and events within existing sports could also be considered. Some events may need to be dropped to make room for new ones. “This is a major breakthrough,” senior Canadian member Dick Pound said. “We were at a dead-end situation with 28

sports. This provides the flexibility we need.” The new bidding process, meanwhile, is aimed at making the system cheaper and more flexible to attract future candidates — including the option of holding events outside the host city or country. The votes came at a time when many countries have been scared off by the costs of hosting the Olympics, including the reported $51 billion associated with the Sochi Games. Several cities withdrew from the bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics, leaving only Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the running. The new system makes the process more of an “invitation” and allows prospective candidates to discuss their plans in advance with the IOC to tailor games to their own needs. In the most radical change, the reforms open the door to possible joint bids by cities, neighboring countries or regions. Bach said joint bids or events held in different countries would be allowed only “in exceptional cases.”

The IOC backed the launch of a digital TV channel — possibly as early as next year — to promote Olympic sports between the games and engage with young viewers. The channel will feature material from the IOC’s archives, transmit some international sports competitions and offer a promotional platform for bid cities. The IOC said the channel — to be run by the Madrid-based Olympic Broadcasting Services — will cost $600 million to operate over the first seven years, with the goal of breaking even in the first decade. The new Principle 6 clause says the Olympics should be free of discrimination “of any kind, such as race, color, sex, sexual orientation, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.” Former Olympic diving gold medalist Greg Louganis said the new wording removes all doubt about the interpretation of the clause. “Today’s move will make it clear about open hearts and open minds in the spirit of the Olympic Games,” he said.

PREP SCHEDULE This week’s high school varsity sports schedule. For additions or changes, contact us at sports@sfnewmexican.com:

Today Boys basketball — Santa Fe Waldorf vs. Desert Academy, 6:30 p.m. Monte del Sol at Cuba, 6:30 p.m. Monte del Sol (JV) at N.M. School for Deaf, 6:30 p.m. Coronado at Tohatchi, 6:30 p.m. West Las Vegas at Santa Fe Preparatory, 7 p.m. East Mountain at Santa Fe Indian School, 7 p.m. Taos at Monte Vista (Colo.), 7 p.m. Estancia at Pecos, 7 p.m. NACA at McCurdy, 7 p.m. Girls basketball — Monte del Sol at N.M. School for Deaf, 5 p.m. Santa Fe Waldorf at Desert Academy, 5 p.m. Taos JV at Questa, 6:30 p.m. Albuquerque Sandia at Santa Fe High, 7 p.m. Abq. Hope Christian at Los Alamos, 7 p.m. West Las Vegas at Socorro, 7 p.m.

Wednesday Boys basketball — Santa Fe Waldorf vs. Academy for Tech. and the Classics, 6:30 p.m. Girls basketball — Santa Fe Waldorf vs. Academy for Tech. and the Classics, 5 p.m. Swimming & diving — Santa Fe High hosts Santa Fe Invitational, 3 p.m. (Santa Fe High, St. Michael’s, Capital)

Thursday Boys basketball — Pojoaque Valley at Artesia Tournament, pairings TBA Los Alamos, Robertson at Abq. Sandia Prep Tournament, pairings TBA Española Valley hosts Española Valley Classic, pairings TBA Santa Fe Indian School at Laguna-Acoma Tournament, pairings TBA Questa at Raton’s Cowbell Tournament, pairings TBA Desert Academy at McCurdy, 6:30 p.m. Dulce at Taos, 7 p.m. Bobby Rodriguez Capital City Tournament (at S.F. High, first round): Lovington vs. Gadsden, 9:30 a.m. Deming vs. Hobbs, 12:30 p.m. Santa Fe Preparatory vs. Capital, 3:30 p.m. Santa Fe High vs. St. Michael’s, 7 p.m. Girls basketball — Los Alamos, Española Valley at Abq. Academy Tournament, pairings TBA Santa Fe Indian School at Alice King Invite (Moriarty), pairings TBA Monte del Sol at Laguna-Acoma Tournament, pairings TBA Taos at Artesia Tournament, pairings TBA Questa at Raton’s Cowbell Tournament, pairings TBA Desert Academy at McCurdy, 5 p.m. Mora at Santa Rosa, 5 p.m. Cuba at Coronado, 5 p.m. Escalante at Santa Fe Preparatory, 6 p.m. Bobby Rodriguez Capital City Tournament (at S.F. High, first round): Pojoaque Valley vs. Capital, 8 a.m. West Las Vegas vs. Lovington, 11 a.m. St. Michael’s vs. Belen, 2 p.m. Las Vegas Robertson vs. Santa Fe High, 5:30 p.m.

Friday Boys basketball — Pojoaque Valley at Artesia Tournament, pairings TBA Los Alamos, Robertson at Abq. Sandia Prep Tournament, pairings TBA Española Valley hosts Española Valley Classic, pairings TBA Santa Fe Indian School at Laguna-Acoma Tournament, pairings TBA Questa at Raton’s Cowbell Tournament, pairings TBA NMSD hosts Roadrunner Classic, pairings TBA Grants at Taos, 7 p.m. Bobby Rodriguez Capital City Tournament (at S.F. High, semifinals): Capital-S.F. Prep winner vs. Deming-Hobbs winner, 3:30 p.m. Santa Fe High-St. Michael’s winner vs. Lovington-Gadsden winner, 7 p.m. (consolation round) Capital-S.F. Prep loser vs. Deming-Hobbs loser, 9:30 a.m. Santa Fe High-St. Michael’s loser vs. Lovington-Gadsden loser, 12:30 p.m. Girls basketball — Los Alamos, Española Valley at Abq. Academy Tournament, pairings TBA Santa Fe Indian School at Alice King Invite (Moriarty), pairings TBA Monte del Sol at Laguna-Acoma Tournament, pairings TBA NMSD hosts Roadrunner Classic, pairings TBA Taos at Artesia Tournament, pairings TBA Questa at Raton’s Cowbell Tournament, pairings TBA Peñasco at Coronado, 6:30 p.m. Bobby Rodriguez Capital City Tournament (at S.F. High, semifinals): St. Michael’s-Belen winner vs. West Las Vegas-Lovington winner, 2 p.m. Santa Fe High-Robertson winner vs. Pojoaque-Capital winner, 5:30 p.m. (consolation round) St. Michael’s-Belen loser vs. West Las Vegas-Lovington loser, 8 a.m. Santa Fe High-Robertson loser vs. Pojoaque-Capital loser, 11 a.m.

Saturday Boys basketball — Pojoaque Valley at Artesia Tournament, pairings TBA Los Alamos, Robertson at Abq. Sandia Prep Tournament, pairings TBA Española Valley hosts Española Valley Classic, pairings TBA Santa Fe Indian School at Laguna-Acoma Tournament, pairings TBA Questa at Raton’s Cowbell Tournament, pairings TBA NMSD hosts Roadrunner Classic, pairings TBA Desert Academy at Coronado, 3 p.m. Mora at Dulce, 3 p.m. Jemez Valley at Peñasco, 4 p.m. Tierra Encantada vs. Santa Fe Waldorf, 6:30 p.m. Mesa Vista at Pecos, 6:30 p.m. Antonito (Colo.) at Escalante, 6:30 p.m. Taos JV at McCurdy, 7 p.m. Bobby Rodriguez Capital City Tournament (at S.F. High, final round): 7th place, 9:30 a.m.; 5th place, 12:30 p.m.; 3rd place, 3:30 p.m.; Championship, 7 p.m. Girls basketball — Los Alamos, Española Valley at Abq. Academy Tournament, pairings TBA Santa Fe Indian School at Alice King Invite (Moriarty), pairings TBA Monte del Sol at Laguna-Acoma Tournament, pairings TBA NMSD hosts Roadrunner Classic, pairings TBA Taos at Artesia Tournament, pairings TBA Questa at Raton’s Cowbell Tournament, pairings TBA Jemez Valley at Peñasco, 2:30 p.m. Tierra Encantada vs. Santa Fe Waldorf, 5 p.m. Antonito (Colo.) at Escalante, 5 p.m. Mesa Vista at Pecos, 5:30 p.m. Bobby Rodriguez Capital City Tournament (at S.F. High, final round): 7th place, 8 a.m.; 5th place, 11 a.m.; 3rd place, 2 p.m.; Championship, 5:30 p.m. Wrestling — Capital hosts Jaguar Invitational (Santa Fe High, Pecos, Las Vegas Robertson, West Las Vegas, Capital, Los Alamos), 9 a.m. Taso at Bloomfield Tournament, 9 a.m. Swimming & diving — Taos at Carlsbad Invite, 9 a.m.

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NFL

All 10 Hall candidates fall short

Seattle again leans on defense for wins

By Howie Rumberg The Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — The doors to baseball’s Hall of Fame remained shut to this year’s Golden Era committee candidates. Nine players and one executive whose primary contributions were from 1947-72 all failed to receive the 75 percent of the vote needed for election. “The results today are a reminder that election to the Hall of Fame is incredibly difficult and the highest honor an individual can receive in baseball,” Hall of Fame chairman Jane Forbes Clark said after the voting was announced Monday at the annual winter meetings. Dick Allen and Tony Oliva came closest, each receiving 11 of 16 votes, one shy of the 75 percent needed for election. Jim Kaat appeared on 10 ballots, Maury Wills nine and Minnie Minoso eight. Ken Boyer, Gil Hodges, Billy Pierce and Luis Tiant each received three or fewer votes, as did the late Cincinnati Reds general manager Bob Howsam. Each voter was allowed to choose up to four candidates in a secret ballot, meaning there were 64 possible votes in all. Voters who deliberated at Sunday’s confidential committee meeting included Hall of Famers Jim Bunning, Rod Carew, Pat Gillick, Ferguson Jenkins, Al Kaline, Joe Morgan, Ozzie Smith and Don Sutton; baseball executives Jim Frey, David Glass, Roland Hemond and Bob Watson; and media members Steve Hirdt, Dick Kaegel, Phil Pepe and Tracy Ringolsby. “It was a very, very difficult decision for each and every member of the committee in this process,” said Gillick, an executive in the Hall. “I think there were very, very healthy conversations on each candidate — the pros and and cons — and most of the conversation yesterday was on the very, very positive of these candidates. It’s just unfortunate that one or two didn’t get in. I am disappointed, but again it points out how very, very difficult it is to earn a plaque in Cooperstown.” The Golden Era committee met for the second time since the Veterans’ Commit-

By Tim Booth The Associated Press

Minnesota Twins rookie right fielder Tony Oliva, left, and Yankees slugging center fielder Mickey Mantle shake hands for the benefit of photographers on May 19, 1964, with prior to a Twins-Yankees baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

tee was reformatted in 2010 panels to consider three distinct eras. In 2011, Chicago Cubs great Ron Santo was elected by the Golden Era panel. Managers Joe Torre, Bobby Cox and Tony La Russa were unanimously elected last year by the Expansion Era committee. The pre-Pre-Integration Era committee, which considers candidates whose primary contributions were through 1946, gathers at next year’s winter meetings in Nashville, Tenn. The Expansion Era committee (1973 and later) votes again at the 2016 winter meetings in Washington, D.C. The Hall is constantly evaluating its procedures. Last summer it cut a player’s eligibility from 15 years to 10 on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot, just the second change in voting rules since 1985. The BBWAA failed to elect a player in 2013. Don’t expect a knee-jerk reaction to no one being elected by a Veterans’ committee for the first time since 2007.

“I think we need to take the results of not only this year but the past elections under this format and go back and have time to look at it and see if it still addresses the purpose of the Veterans’ committee as it’s laid out by era — by how the ballot’s composed of players, managers, umpires and see if it’s still viable,” Clark said. “The board never takes for granted that our procedures are perfect going forward,” she added. “We are always looking, we are always trying to make it better and we are always trying, most importantly, to uphold the standard of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.” The BBWAA will announce its vote Jan. 6. Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz are the top newcomers. Craig Biggio, who fell two votes short of the 75 percent needed in the 2014 balloting, tops holdovers that include Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Mike Piazza, Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Top bowl games not in ‘New Year’s Six’ By Steve Megargee The Associated Press

With nearly 40 bowl games looming, it can be difficult finding those postseason gems. The Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl semifinals in the College Football Playoff are nobrainers. And the other matchups in the “New Year’s Six” — which includes the Peach, Orange, Cotton and Fiesta — also should garner lots of attention. But the entire postseason schedule features 39 bowls, including the playoff championship game. To help sort through the clutter, here’s a look at some of the more intriguing matchups that aren’t part of the “New Year’s Six.” HOLIDAY BOWL NO 24 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (8-4) VS. NO. 25 NEBRASKA (9-3) Date: Dec. 27 Location: San Diego Notes: This marks only the fifth meeting between these storied programs. USC owns a 3-0-1 edge in the series. The question for Nebraska is how it will respond to interim coach Barney Cotton, who will handle the bowl game assignment following the firing of Bo Pelini. TEXAS BOWL ARKANSAS (6-6) VS. TEXAS (6-6) Date: Dec. 29

Location: Houston Notes: The revival of an old Southwest Conference rivalry makes this much more interesting than a typical matchup between .500 teams. Texas leads the series 56-21 and won the last meeting 52-10 in 2008. The only other time they met in a bowl game, Arkansas won 27-6 in the 2000 Cotton Bowl. Even though neither team has a winning record, both showed signs of progress late in the season. Arkansas posted late-season shutouts of LSU and Ole Miss. Texas has won three of its last four games. MUSIC CITY BOWL NO. 22 LSU (8-4) VS. NOTRE DAME (7-5) Date: Dec. 30 Location: Nashville, Tenn. Notes: This game between these bigname schools has grown even more intriguing because of Notre Dame’s quarterback uncertainty. Irish coach Brian Kelly has said he’s opening up the quarterback competition and giving Malik Zaire an opportunity to win the job. Everett Golson has started every game for the Irish this year but struggled with turnovers during Notre Dame’s late-season slump. BELK BOWL NO. 13 GEORGIA (9-3) VS. NO. 20 LOUISVILLE (9-3) Date: Dec. 30 Location: Charlotte, N.C. Notes: Louisville defensive coordinator Todd Grantham’s connection to both

schools gives this matchup an unusual twist. Grantham was Georgia’s defensive coordinator from 2010-13 before heading to Louisville. Louisville’s Gerod Holliman has 14 interceptions to match the NCAA single-season record set by Washington’s Al Worley in 1968. OUTBACK BOWL NO. 19 AUBURN (8-4) VS. NO. 17 WISCONSIN (10-3) Date: Jan. 1 Location: Tampa, Fla. Notes: Although the Outback takes place on New Year’s Day, it’s not part of the “New Year’s Six.” Wisconsin ranks fourth nationally in rushing with 314 yards per game. Auburn is 12th with 258.5 yards rushing per game. Wisconsin averages 6.9 yards per carry, while Auburn has gained 5.5 yards per rush. Wisconsin will be looking to redeem itself after its 59-0 loss to Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game. ALAMO BOWL NO. 11 KANSAS STATE (9-3) VS. NO. 14 UCLA (9-3) Date: Jan. 2 Location: San Antonio, Texas Notes: Kansas State has one of the nation’s top receivers in Tyler Lockett, who has caught 93 passes for 1,351 yards and nine touchdowns this season. UCLA boasts quarterback Brett Hundley, who has set school records for career touchdown passes and total offense this season.

Heisman: Mariota is nation’s top passer Continued from Page B-1 Cooper helped Alabama earn the top seed in the playoff. The Crimson Tide plays Ohio State at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Winston becomes the seventh player since 2003 to take a shot at a Heisman repeat and come up short. Ohio State’s Archie Griffin is the only player to win two Heismans. Finalists are determined by percentage of votes received from 929 media members and former winners. Mariota didn’t even break the top 10 in the Heisman voting last season, but entered 2014 as one of the preseason favorites. He delivered a spectacular season in his third year as the Ducks’ starter. He is the nation’s top-rated passer (186.3) and has thrown for 3,783 yards and 38 touchdowns

with just two interceptions. He also has run for 669 yards and 14 touchdowns for the Pac-12 champions. He is Oregon’s third finalist, joining quarterback Joey Harrington (2001) and running back LaMichael James (2010). Gordon leads the nation with 2,336 yards rushing and 179.7 yards per game. Gordon broke the single-game FBS rushing record with 408 yards against Nebraska, a record that only stood for a week. He needs another huge game in the Outback Bowl against Auburn to break Barry Sanders’ single-season record of 2,628, set in his Heisman winning season of 1988 with Oklahoma State. He is the fourth Wisconsin running back to be a finalist. The Badgers have had two Heisman winners: Alan Ameche (1954) and Ron Dayne (1999).

Cooper set a Southeastern Conference record with 115 catches for 1,656 yards and 14 touchdowns for the topranked Crimson Tide. Cooper is the fourth Alabama finalist since Mark Ingram became the Tide’s first winner in 2009. “This will be my first trip to New York City, and I can’t put into words how much it means to me and my family,” Cooper said in a statement. “I am privileged to have the opportunity to represent our team at the Heisman ceremony. None of this would be possible without my coaches and teammates.” Heisman voters submit a ballot with their top three selections. Mariota, Gordon and Cooper emerged as such strong candidates late in the season that the rest of the field drifted away. The last time voters picked only three Heisman finalists

was 2012, when Johnny Manziel won in a landslide vote against Kansas State’s Collin Klein and Notre Dame’s Manti Te’o. Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott made a strong push in October, but tailed off in November as the Bulldogs lost twice. Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett was making a lateseason surge before he was injured in the regular-season finale against Michigan and had to miss the Big Ten championship game. TCU’s Trevone Boykin, another dual-threat quarterback, had numbers that rivaled Mariota’s in some areas: 3,714 yards and 30 touchdowns in 12 games. Indiana’s Tevin Coleman also surpassed 2,000 yards rushing and his average per carry was just a tick below Gordon’s (7.54 to 7.56).

RENTON, Wash. — The run of stout defense started with slowing down Arizona, followed by the handcuffing of San Francisco on Thanksgiving night. But the best defensive performance of Pete Carroll’s tenure came Sunday when Seattle ground Philadelphia’s high-speed act to a halt that kept the Seahawks in the thick of the NFC West race. Shutting down Philadelphia and holding the Eagles to 139 total yards was the cap to a three-week run of defense by Seattle the NFL has not seen since 2011. It’s returned Seattle to the top of the NFL in total defense and has the Seahawks statically almost equal with last season’s Super Bowl winning unit. The Seahawks are giving up 274.5 yards per game this season. They allowed 273.6 per game last season. “The fact Bobby [Wagner] has returned has been significant and also I think Kam [Chancellor] really rounding into full health is helping us too. He’s feeling great and playing like crazy,” Carroll said on Monday. “I think the camaraderie of those guys being back in there and feeling right has been resounding, you can really feel it.” Seattle has allowed 507 total yards in the past three games. According to STATS, Inc., it’s the fourthfewest yards allowed over a three-game span by any NFL team since 2006. The Seahawks held Arizona to 204 total yards, the 49ers to 164 and the Eagles to 139. What makes Seattle’s accomplishment more impressive is the quality of competition faced compared to the three teams that posted better total numbers. The New York Giants gave up 422 yards over three games in 2009, but did it against teams with a winning percentage of .111. The 2011 Houston Texans allowed 494 yards to opponents with a .421 winning percentage and the 2009 New York Jets gave up 497 yards against opponents with a .273. Seattle? They beat the Cardinals when they were 9-1, knocked off the 49ers at 7-4

and handled the 9-3 Eagles. The combined winning percentage of the three: .758. The Seahawks have a chance this week hosting San Francisco to be the first team since the 2011 Texans to have three straight games holding opponents to under 200 total yards. “We’ve tackled really well, really well for some time now. In the last couple years that has been a real sign of our performance and stuff, but it has been really consistent and noticeable,” Carroll said. “I think that’s all part of the intensity and the pursuit thing — it really pays off. You don’t notice a guy miss one when the other guys hits.” While the return of Wagner and Chancellor has been crucial, the Seahawks are also playing their top players more snaps. Seattle cut down on its defensive rotations beginning with the Arizona win. Defensive end Michael Bennett played 98 percent of the defensive snaps against Arizona, 81 percent against San Francisco and 93 percent against the Eagles. Bruce Irvin played every snap against both Arizona and San Francisco before playing 30 of 46 against the Eagles. Cliff Avril and secondyear defensive tackle Jordan Hill have both seen their snap counts increase, while Super Bowl MVP Malcolm Smith hasn’t seen the field on defense in the past three games. Seattle has found the rotations that work and are not about to tinker with the roll the Seahawks are on. “Even when people said we were playing bad, we were still ranked as the third-best defense and we stopped some of the best offenses,” Bennett said. “We are getting guys back and hitting our stride. We are playing good football and we are winning and that’s all that matters.” NOTES u C Max Unger (ankle/knee) and TE Cooper Helfet (ankle) are both going to try and practice this week, Carroll said. Helfet has missed two games while Unger has been out the past three. Carroll said Helfet is ahead of Unger in his recovery. u CB Tharold Simon suffered a dislocated finger against the Eagles, but Carroll said he’s fine.

Packers: Falcons stage 2nd-half rally Continued from Page B-1 had a 22-yard touchdown catch in a 20-point fourth quarter that helped Atlanta cut into Green Bay’s big lead. Matt Ryan’s 2-yard touchdown pass to Harry Douglas with 2:15 left got Atlanta within six. But the Packers recovered the ensuing onside kick. Lacy left in the fourth quarter with bruised hip. Backup running back James Starks effectively ended Atlanta’s upset hopes with a 41-yard run to the Falcons 6 with 1:37 left. Atlanta came frustratingly close to a rare victory in Titletown. Green Bay held on for its seventh home win, but the porous pass defense may have given potential playoff foes some hope that Lambeau Field may not be that impenetrable after all. “Defensively, a tale of two halves. You have to give Atlanta’s offense a lot of credit,” McCarthy said. “We have plenty to clean up.” The Falcons did damage even with Jones hobbling on the sideline, appearing to favor his left side. Ryan threw for 375 yards and four scores, including a 1-yard touchdown catch by Roddy White with 6:20 left that trimmed Green Bay’s lead to 40-30. Mason Crosby kicked a 53-yard field goal with 4:37 left, helping the Packers withstand Atlanta’s final punch. Rodgers finished 24 of

36 for 327 yards. Lacy had 73 yards on 13 carries, and 33 yards on five catches. The tough running back wiggled from side to side to celebrate his 1-yard touchdown reception with 4:20 left in second quarter. The score was set up by safety Morgan Burnett’s interception of Ryan. The Packers defense nearly got a second pick later in the quarter after tackle Letroy Guion tipped a Ryan pass while being double-teamed. The 315-pound Guion jumped back to try to get the ball off the rebound, but couldn’t control it before it hit the ground. The Falcons then punted two plays later, and the Packers were on their way to a 31-7 halftime lead. Rodgers sidestepped his way out of a late blitz by Falcons defensive end Kroy Biermann, and then found Jordy Nelson in the back of the end zone for a 10-yard touchdown pass with 24 seconds left. Green Bay had outscored foes 167-44 before halftime coming into the night. The Falcons got off to a fast start in the third, with Ryan finding Jones for a 79-yard catch-and-run to the Packers 3. Ryan later hit Eric Weems over the middle on fourth down for a 5-yard touchdown pass. It was a sign of things to come in the second half before Green Bay was able to hang on at the end.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

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The following water statistics of December 5 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons). Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 0.000 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 4.747 City Wells: 1.162 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 5.909 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.084 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 10.6 percent of capacity; daily inflow 1.94 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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Weather history

Weather trivia™

A snowstorm hit New York City’s northern and western suburbs on Dec. 9, 1786. Morristown, N.J., received 21 inches, and New Haven, Conn., had 17 inches.

Q: Where is the coldest place on Earth? The South Pole. The annual mean A: temperature is minus 72 F.

Newsmakers Pugsley from ‘The Addams Family’ dies

Ken Weatherwax

NEW YORK — Ken Weatherwax, who played the child character Pugsley on The Addams Family television series in the 1960s, has died. He was 59. Weatherwax died of a heart attack at his Box Canyon, Calif., home over the weekend. Weatherwax stayed in show business after he grew up, although on the other side of the camera. Weatherwax worked as a grip on the sets of several Hollywood productions.

Hefner would never tolerate abusive behavior Hugh Hefner

Bill Cosby

LOS ANGELES — Hugh Hefner says he “would never tolerate” the kind of abusive behavior Bill Cosby is being accused of. The Playboy magazine mogul said in a statement Saturday that he considers Cosby a good friend and “the mere thought of these allegations is truly saddening.” One of the accusers, Judy Huth, filed a lawsuit last week claiming the comedian forced her into a sex act at the Playboy mansion when she was 15 years old. Hefner, who lives at the mansion, said: “I would never tolerate this kind of behavior.” The Associated Press

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6 p.m. on FAM Pretty Little Liars In the new holiday-themed episode called “How the ‘A’ Stole Christmas,” Alison (Sasha Pieterse) hosts an extravagant holiday ice ball, a welcome distraction that allows the girls a chance to work on clearing Spencer’s (Troian Bellisario) name as Christmas approaches in Rosewood. Elsewhere, a ghostly presence shows Ali a glimpse of the past, present and future.. 7 p.m. on CBS Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer It’s a very big year for “the most famous reindeer of all,” since this long-beloved “Animagic” special marks its 50th anniversary. The well-known tale, narrated by Burl Ives (as “Sam the Snowman”), offers a thoughtful lesson about discrimination. Young Rudolph is teased because his nose is different. His taunters sing a different tune, though, when Rudolph uses his nose to keep Christmas from being canceled. 8 p.m. on FOX New Girl Not much is fun about being stuck at an airport, as Jess (Zooey

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Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, greets children and parents Monday outside the Northside Center in New York. Kate and Prince William are on a three-day visit to the U.S., their first official visit since a 2011 trip to California.

Deschanel, pictured) and the gang find while trying to leave Los Angeles for various holiday destinations in the new episode “LAXmas.” A storm grounds their flights — but they always have the option of returning to their own shared home for Christmas, which they well may end up doing. Billy Eichner and Barry Bostwick (Spin City) guest star. 8 p.m. on ABC Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Expect cliffhangers — which will last a while, since “Marvel’s Agent Carter” will be taking this show’s place for a couple of months — from the new episode that doubles as the winter finale, “What They Become.” The S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra teams collide, with big changes sure to result. Skye (Chloe Bennet) is rattled by the new information she learns about her past. Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen and Elizabeth Henstridge also star.

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NEW YORK ritain’s Prince William sat down with President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday and unveiled an effort to curtail illegal wildlife trading while his wife, Kate, made an impression of a down-to-earth duchess on preschoolers and prominent British expats in New York. In the first full — very full — day of the popular royal couple’s first visit to either place, William went to the White House and spoke at a World Bank conference. Kate wrapped Christmas gifts and helped children decorate picture frames while touring a child development center with New York City’s first lady, then talked technology, theater and more with a British-success-story guest list at a lunch at the consul general’s home. On their first official U.S. trip since 2011, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a packed agenda devoted partly to spotlighting conservation and youth development issues. “Our collective goal must be to reduce the wildlife trade by making it harder, denying traffickers access to transportation, putting up barriers to their illegal activities and holding people accountable for their actions,” William said at a World Bank anti-corruption conference. William, who’s president of United for Wildlife, an umbrella group of conservation organizations, announced that it will convene a new task force to develop recommendations within a year on how the transportation industry can help cut off wildlife trafficking routes. Meanwhile, the duchess and New York City’s first lady Chirlane McCray met with families, took a turn giftwrapping and heard about the work of the Northside Center for Child Development, which was founded by psychologists whose research on the effects of racial discrimination was cited in the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision to strike down public school segregation. “Very nice to meet you,” Kate told a classroom of 3- and 4-year-olds, who were embellishing picture frames with stickers. After encouraging a boy named Sammy in his work, the duchess, who is expecting the couple’s second

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child this spring, turned to a girl named April. “Where should I put this one?” the duchess asked, pressing a sticker into the frame. Kate and the first lady later wrapped a few children’s Christmas presents in the center’s gymnasium. Later, Kate chatted with lunch guests including actor Matthew Rhys, TV and theater producer Colin Callender, Parsons The New School of Design fashion dean Simon Collins and tech news site Mashable founder Pete Cashmore. She asked how Callender’s recent New York staging of Macbeth had been received and told Cashmore his “must be such an exciting industry to be a part of.” The royals’ schedule for their three-day trip includes a visit to the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum, a reception highlighting conservation efforts with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton, a visit to showcase arts education at a youth organization, a Cleveland Cavaliers-Brooklyn Nets game and a black-tie, upto-$10,000-per-seat scholarship fundraiser for their alma mater, the University of St. Andrews. Kate, dressed in a black coat by the British fashion brand Goat, was greeted with cheers from a crowd of several dozen spectators as she arrived at the child care center. Aaron Victor and his wife, Crystal Pizarro, had waited almost an hour on a freezing, gray day with their 3-year-old daughter, London, to catch a glimpse of the duchess. “I’m glad she got to see her,” Pizarro said. The royals are visiting a city where thousands of people have protested over the past week to decry a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner, and activists planned to demonstrate at the basketball arena while the royals took in the game. “If the royal family is here, we want to let them know what has happened in our city” and publicize demands that include the officer’s firing and the appointment of a special prosecutor, said Carmen Perez, a co-founder of Justice League NYC. Cavaliers star LeBron James said was possible he might wear a shirt saying “I can’t breathe,” a rallying cry that has developed around Garner’s last words. James did wear the shirt before Monday’s game. He added that playing with William and Kate in the audience would be “a huge honor.”

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Clean, ready to move-in. Approximately 840 sq.ft. $850 plus utilities, $700 deposit. Forced heat, wood fireplace, washer dryer, saltillo tile. Private parking, yard. No smoking or pets. 505-231-0010

3000 SQ.FT. ULTIMATE SERENITY & VIEWS 5 bedrooms, 4 baths. Old Las Vegas Highway. $1900. NM Properties & Homes, 505-989-8860 3 BEDROOM, 2.5 BATH. 1840 sqft. Fenced backyard, borders Golf Course. AC, Washer Dryer, 2 Car Garage. 6434 Paseo Del Sol. $1400 plus utilities. Marty 505-469-2573 3 BEDROOM, 2 bathroom, Modular home. 15 miles from town on Highway 14. $800 monthly, $500 deposit. 505-471-4290

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THE LIBERTARIAN Party of Santa Fe County will be holding its biannual convention on Saturday, December 13, 2014, 11:30 am, at the Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, 87505.The convention will begin with informal introductions at 11:30am, followed by a buy-your-own lunch at 12:00 pm, and party business at 12:30 pm.

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EASTSIDE NEW CASITAS 3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS. 1200 sq.ft. East Alameda, pueblo style. Vigas, kiva fireplace. Refrigerator, washer, dryer. Radiant heating. Walking distance to Plaza. No pets, nonsmoking. $1700 monthly. 505-9823907 RANCHO VIEJO 4 BEDROOM, 2 BATH, 2 car garage, 2,353 sq.ft. $1700 monthly plus utilities and $1700 deposit. 505-473-7938

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ROOMMATE WANTED Private rooms, shared bath & kitchen, washer, dryer. $425 and $475. Clean, safe, quiet. No Pets. Month-toMonth. Deposit. 2 miles North of Plaza. 505-470-5877

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New Vistas is hiring for Early Childhood Development Positions. Bilingual candidates highly preferred. Please refer to w w w . n e w v is t a s . o r g for details. EOE

The Santa Fe Institute seeks someone to coordinate the visitor invitation process; work closely with other departments to ensure a quality visitor program; coordinate researcher and visitor space allocation, housing procurement for guests, research visitors, and visiting students. Requires two years of experience as an administrative assistant, senior hospitality manager, contract negotiation, or equivalent. Selfstarter works under minimal supervision, independently sets priorities and organizes work, and proactively seeks information. Requires excellent communication, organizational, and computer skills. For a list of the full job requirements and instructions on how to apply, see our web site WWW.SANTAFE.EDU/ABOUT/JOBS/ No phone calls please. Application deadline is December 19, 2014. Position available January 2015. EOE.

The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, a division of New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico, is seeking a full time manager skilled in project development for its Publications Program. Applicant must have an undergraduate degree in the earth sciences (Bachelor’s required, Masters preferred), experience in writing as well as knowledge of the publishing world, both print and electronic. Position requires supervisory and project development experience, strong writing and editorial skills, and the ability to interpret complex scientific issues for the general public. Must have a demonstrated ability to write and produce both technical and general scientific literature. The bureau is a research and service division of New Mexico Tech and has served as the state’s geological survey since 1927. Position is based on campus in the bureau’s new building open March 2015. Starting salary: $50,960 range, as negotiated. Applicants must apply to New Mexico Tech, Human Resources 801 Leroy Place, Brown Hall Box 056, Socorro, New Mexico 87801.

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MEDICAL DENTAL EIGHT NORTHERN INDIAN PUEBLOS COUNCIL, INC. LICENSED MASTER LEVEL THERAPISTS ALBUQUERQUE and ESPANOLA OPENINGS LICENSED MASTER LEVEL T H E R A P IS T S : Immediate openings. Serving Northern New Mexico, several locations available, Albuquerque & Espanola. Experience in individual, group, adult, family & couples therapy Experience working with addictions a plus. Master level, licensed in the State of New Mexico. Must have current and in good standing an LMSW, LISW, LPCC, LMHC or Ph.D. Positions close when filled, unless otherwise noted. Send resume to: RCata@enipc.org or 505-747-1599 (fax) 505-747-1593 (office) or PO Box 969, Ohkay Owingeh, NM, 87566. ENIPC, Inc. is a Drug Free Workplace. Excellent Salary Generous Benefits Package. *Drug testing and criminal background check completed prior to employment* FULL-TIME MEDICAL OFFICE ASSISTANT. Full-time office assistant needed for busy private practice. Medical experience preferred. Benefits after 90 days, pay DOE. Fax Resume: 505-983-7643

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We are currently looking for a Fulltime MDS Coordinator. Hours will flexible according to census. R e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s : Would be to complete MDS according to State and Federal Regulations. Q u a lific a tio n s : Licensed Nurse, experience in completing MDS. If interested please come by 635 Harkle Rd Santa Fe, NM 87505

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The Santa Fe New Mexican is seeking a dynamic media sales executive to represent its award winning publications and state of the art digital platforms to existing and future advertising clients. This position manages relationships with clients to grow and develop their business needs. Maintains a thorough understanding of each customer’s business goals, products and services. In addition, is aware of client’s industry and provides appropriate advertising solutions. Will be expected to maintain comprehensive understanding of competitive media and understand how the utilization of other media sources fit with customer’s strategic business objectives. Actively seeks out new business to meet or exceed sales goals. Qualifications Requires a college degree or equivalent sales experience. Must have a minimum of two years plus consultative sales experience. Must have demonstrated ability to prospect qualified leads. Ability to sell a wide range of products. Must have knowledge of sales process, the ability to establish product value and close a sale in a timely manner. Understands strengths and weaknesses of competitive media. Must have demonstrated team sales experience. Must have strong negotiation and problemsolving skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills and be proficient in Microsoft Office applications. Must be driven, proactive and have a strong desire to achieve results and be successful. Must have proof of valid driver’s license, auto insurance and have reliable transportation. Base salary, team bonus and commission plan are offered with an excellent benefits package. Apply with cover letter and resume to: Wayne Barnard, Classified Advertising Manager The Santa Fe New Mexican, 202 East Marcy St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 or e-mail wbarnard@sfnewmexican.com No phone calls, please.

ANTIQUES 20TH CENTURY DESIGN , MID-CENTURY. BUY AND SELL. 131 West San Francisco Street. Jewelry, decorative and fine art, furniture. *** GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS! *** Friday & Saturday, 12 to 5, or call for appointment. 505-9882013 or 847-567-3991. SILVER CROSS ANTIQUE BABY stroller. Carnival Folding Push Chair, 1961. Royal Family uses same brand. Never used. $200. 505-660-6900.

APPLIANCES WORKING GAS range, $75. Working gas dryer, $50. 2 white LG appliance pedestals, $100 each (cost $250 each new.) 505-920-1868.

ART ALYCE FRANK "Hayfields in Arroyo Hondo" 244/300. $3125. Call a.m. only. 505-753-7839.

ART BOOKS Plus: Large Selection, with dust covers. GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS! Only $3- $12. Other reasonable books. First editions. 505-474-9020 DECEMBER 6TH 1-5pm. 4001 Office Court Drive, Suite 500 Buyers entree fee $5. A variety of work featuring different artists will be featured Come support your local artists!

VINTAGE BLACK Velvet Painting, circa 1950’s. Unicorns & Hearts. GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT! Framed & Signed. Only $35. 505-474-9020

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Open Machine Attendant Position for The Santa Fe New Mexican CHILDREN’S SERVICES MANAGER Responsible for overall operations of programs serving young children (0-5 years) and their families in Santa Fe County. See PMS website for specific position requirements. Excellent benefits. Apply on-line at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Toll-free hotline 1-866-661-5491 EOE/ M/ F/ D/ V/ AA Follow us on Facebook.

PMS Community Home Health Care and The Hospice Center RN Full and part-time positions. See website for details. Most positions benefits eligible. Apply on-line at pmsnm.org Click on Jobs@PMS. Tollfree hotline 1-866-661-5491. EOE/ M/ F/ D/ V/ AA. Follow us on Facebook.

No Prior Machine Experience Required. Job duties include loading materials into machines. Must be able to communicate well with coworkers, stand for prolonged periods and able to lift 20 pounds, up to 70 pounds. This is an entry level position with opportunities for advancement. Shift times will vary based on company need. Submit application or email resume to: Brenda Shaffer Bshaffer@sfnewmexican.com 1 New Mexican Plaza (off I-25 frontage road) Or access an online job application at http://sfnm.co/1eUKCcD. No Phone Calls please. Successful completion of a drug test will be required prior to employment offer. EOE

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VINTAGE BLACK Velvet Painting, circa 1950’s. Unicorns & Hearts. GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT! Framed & Signed. Only $35. 505-474-9020

ROCKING CHAIR. Dark thick wood and two large cushions (tan). Excellent condition, good quality. $60. 9869765

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THOMASVILLE DINING TABLE and 8 Chairs. 44" by 68" oval table with two 20 inch leaves. Excellent Condition. $2,900. Call 505-670-3538

THOUSANDS OF PICTURE FRAMES (EMMANUELS) . New Shipment arrived. 20-50% off Everything! 1807 CERRILLOS ROAD, SANTA FE, 505-438-0640.

BUILDING MATERIALS PLUMBING FITTINGS PVC. 4" - 1". Take all for $350. 505-862-3690

CLOTHING 1977 HESSTON NFR RODEO BUCKLE with Tony Lama matching belt, size 34 waist, $95. More COLLECTIBLE BUCKLES from 1976-1984. 505-4666205

LEATHER COAT. Black. Quality brand. Ladies, Large. Supple leather, great shape. Price reduced. Only $20. 505-474-9020. MAN’S 2XL black leather jacket, MCA by Marc, 36 inches long, gently used, very good condition. $80. 505-9894845 MAN’S XL Black Leather Jacket, Members Only, 28 inches long, gently used, very good condition. $60. 505989-4845

COLLECTIBLES 1981 CAST IRON COCA-COLA WAGON with 2 up horses, with cases of bottles & umbrella. $65. 505-466-6205

1984 HESSTON RODEO JR. BUCKLE & BELT, size 26" waist. $95 for set. REDMAN BELT BUCKLE, solid brass, $30. 505-466-6205 2 BOONES FARM BUCKLES: Strawberry Hill, $25; Apple Wine, $20. 505-4666205

(4) WORCHESTER PEWTER Currier & Ives plates. Dated 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977. 8.75 diameter. Very heavy pewter. $150 all. 505-466-3802

JEWELRY FOSSIL SUNDIAL watch. Leather band $70. 505-474-9020.

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SILVER CROSS ANTIQUE BABY stroller. Carnival Folding Push Chair, 1961. Royal Family uses same brand. Never used. $200. 505-660-6900.

7’ SPORTCRAFT POOL TABLE. Cues, balls, additional table tennis top. Very good condition. $150. 505-4739336

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KARHU CROSS -COUNTRY SKIS, WAXLESS. 198cm. $25. Cross Country boots, size 10.5 mens, $25. 505-9826438 WEIDER WEIGHTBENCH, brand new, pro 255L. Adjustable. Fully assembled. Four roll leg lockdown. 54" x 18.25". $65 firm. 505-474-9020

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Art Books Plus: Large Selection, with dust covers. GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS! Only $3- $12. Other reasonable books. First editions. 505-474-9020

21" SINGLE-STAGE SNOWBLOWER clearing width 10" intake height. 123cc POWERMORE OHV 4-cycle engine. E-Z Chute rotation. Used once. $200. Contact 505-220-0355.

ATTENTION! WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE SALE! VINYL AND STEEL SIDING, skirting for mobile homes (cheap), miscellaneous tools, new double pane vinyl windows, 12.5’ metal brake, metal coil stock. 2 30’ metal walk boards with ladder jacks. 2 shell campers for 8’ pickup bed. 1 tool cap with ladder rack for 8’ pickup bed. 2 desks with chairs and file cabinets. All in Arroyo Seco. Call 505-690-1133 for appointment.

TOOLS! GREAT CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Must see. 20 pieces, all new, in packages. Tools and miscellaneous. $30. 310-4179.

CIGAR BLOWOUT: REFORMED SMOKER sells 10-year collection. Trunk humidor (value over $300), 2 desk humidors, 3 travel humidors, cigar cases, lighters, cutters etc. Plus 4 boxes premium cigars and 35 loose. $250 firm, no partial sales. Dick, 505428-0560.

DENON TURNTABLE QUARTZ DP-33F with Audio Technica cartridge. $150. 505-310-1829

USED CARPENTRY TOOLS FOR SALE. Some vintage. Solana area- Come see on Sunday 7:30- 10am. Call for address. 505-983-0511

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DVD’S, NEW never opened. Best of Carol Burnett (22). Asking $125. New $199. Downtown Abbey Seasons 1-3, $50. 505-989-8024. TV, Box style, flat screen, SONY 24" $30. 505-986-9765. If no answer, leave message.

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solid wood ookshelf. doule-stacked, painted white, 4’ high x 4’ wide. $30. 50% OFF!! ALL EXERCISE Equipment. DONATIONS AND Purchases Support Santa Fe Habitat! OPEN MONDAY thru Saturday - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

costruction ceiling medallion. good condition. 28" diamater. pretty filligree design. $25. 231-9133

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CREATE YOUR OWN CEREMONY for Holy Days and New Year’s Evolutions. A bundle of surprise and delight from Santa Fe artisans and authors. www.MitrasEyes.com 505-986-1106

FIREWOOD PINON and cedar 16" long $220 cord. 10" 20" stovecut, $240 cord. Well seasoned. Free delivery with minimum 2 cords. 505259-3368, 505-832-4604 FIREWOOD PINON and cedar 16" long $220 cord. 10" 20" stovecut, $240 cord. Well seasoned. Free delivery with minimum 2 cords. 505259-3368, 505-832-4604 SEASONED FIREWOOD: P ONDEROSA, $100 PER LOAD. J u niper, $120 per load. CALL: 508444-0087. Delivery FREE TO ALBUQUERQUE & SANTA FE !

FOOD FRUIT ***HOLIDAY*** foods for sale. Meat empanaditas, pumpkin rolls and biscochitos. Homemade & Delicious! Taking orders now for the holidays. 505-471-0163.

FURNITURE MULTI-PURPOSE CABINET, white, 70" x 48" x 20". Excellent condition. On wheels. $100. 986-1780.

NATIVITY SCENES FOR SALE. Unique, handcrafted Nativity Scenes with figurines www.bklaswoodcrafts.com 505-369-6551. $175 - $195 (complete set)

FEED EQUIPMENT SERVICES FOR SALE ALFALFA, San Acacia. 2strand heavy bales. $12 per bale. Available in Santa Fe, Mondays only, corner of Cerrillos and Airport. 505220-4441. Leave message.

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HORSE TRAILER FOR SALE 4-horse slant load gooseneck (or fifth wheel) Exiss Event Trailer with living package. Drop down windows, 4-horse tack room, steel reinforced aluminum floors with mats and padded sides. $14,000. Used very little. Call 505-466-1525. Money Supports PAWS Spay & Neuter Program

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BEAUTIFUL CHOCOLATE B R O W N L A B R A D O O D L E S . 9 weeks old. 2 boys 1 girl. Sweet, non-shedding. $1300. 575-613-2309

WESTON MANDOLINE VEGETABLE SLICER. Stainless. NEW! Never used. $38. 505-466-6205

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 1922 KNABE Baby Grand has been restored inside and out. Original ivory keys. Excellent condition. $12,000. Negotiable. 505-690-5930.

HOURGLASS 4 string dulcimer with traditional scroll head design. Plus extra strings, tuner. Original hard case. Like new. $325. 505-629-6825.

Shihtzu Imperial puppies (above). Registered. Includes 1st shots. $450 male; $500 females. Chihuahua T-cup long hair puppies (below). 1st shots, ready now. $400 males; $450 female. 505-901-2094 or 505-753-0000.

NEARLY NEW pool table. Includes ping pong table and hockey table inserts. Can also be used for a dining table. Includes all accessories for all games. $1200 is a great deal for this item. Please call 660-8311 with any questions.

PIANO STEINWAY, Medium Grand, Model M Ebony. Excellent condition. $21,000. 505-881-2711

PHOTO EQUIPMENT QUEEN HEADBOARD- solid wood off white cottage, holes for frame attachment. 5 months new. $350 obo. 505-699-8028

SONY DSC-HX200V 18.2Mp Digital Camera, w/60x Optical/Digital Zoom, HD movies. Perfect condition 2012 Model w/instructions, 2GB chip, batteries. $250. 505-467-8820.

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Santa Fe Animal Shelter’s largest Adoption Event: *Professional holiday photos, with or without pets; free digital image to all adopters. *Free digital photo with any Shelter donation. *Prints available for purchase, along with mugs, ceramic tiles, and other products with images available for order.

Airport Road and 599 505-660-3039 www.collectorcarssantafe.com

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Premier Motorcars of Santa Fe 4480 Cerrillos Rd Santa Fe, NM 87507

’67-’68 MUSTANG HUBCAPS & WINDSHIELDS. All in good shape. Make Offer. Lalo, 505-316-1133.

$25 Adoption Fee on all Animals including Puppies & Kittens.

Santa Fe Animal Shelter PET ADOPTION EVENTS Meet Adoptable Animals

THESE SNOW tires will fit a Toyota Venza. They are in great condition and provide excellent traction on snow and ice. $200 OBO. Call Janie 505-412-0288.

SEE TONY at Small Dog Rescue adoption event. Saturday, November 22nd, Teca Tu in Sanbusco, Noon 3:00 PM. 505-438-3749.

2011 CADILLAC SRX AWD 44K, Luxury Collection pkg, auto and loaded, just..$26,981 Call 505-216-3800.

AUTOS WANTED $$WANTED JUNK CAR$ & TRUCK$$ Wrecked or Not Running, with or without title or keys. We will haul away for Free! 505-699-4424

WE WILL BUY YOUR USED CAR REGARDLESS IF YOU BUY A CAR FROM US! COME SEE US TODAY! 505-216-3800

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AAA T-CUP POODLES 575-910-1818 txt4more pics. Papers, shots, health guarantee, POTTY PAD trained and GROOMED. Non-shedding, Hypoallergenic. $600 SALE! cingard1@hotmail.com GREAT PAYMENT PLAN. We take CREDIT/DEBIT cards. PAYPAL. USDA licensed, FREE delivery. Financing available

FIREWOOD FOR sale. 1 full cord $200. 1/2 cord $125. Delivery Included! 505470-2789, 505-470-3859, 505-753-0303.

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TOTAL GYM 1800 Club Exerciser, hardly used, original box with instructions and all accessories. Folds up compactly. $300. 505-467-8820

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MISC. MEN’S LANDSEND snowboots. size 13. waterproofed and insulated. New. leather uppers. $50. 231-9133.

big box quality wrapping paper. several rolls unopened. $20 OBO

PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT Fifty year-old classic. Meticulously maintained; continuously garaged, excellent running condition. No rust. Good suspension, new carburetor. Red/white interior, new carpeting. Great in town cruising, and weekend excursions. This half-century old classic German coupe is fun to drive, easy to park, and maintain. Comes with tools, Ghia books and maintenance records. 505-690-2901.

Saturday, December 6 Spirit Clothing

COOKING DISCO, Discadas for Sale. 17" to 32" diameter. Hundreds available. Starting at $60. Sold at Aldona’s Restaurant, 3875 Cerrillos Road. 505469-3355.

stained glass celing light. crafstman style. barely used. very beautiful. paid $120. asking $40. 231-9133

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SONY DSC-HX1, 9.1MP Digital Camera w/20x Optical Zoom, Image Stabilization, HD Movies. Perfect condition, instructions, accessories, battery, 2GB Chip. $150 505-467-8820

NATIVE AMERICAN Collector Plates. Certificates of authenticity included. 50 pieces $40 each. 814-969-3943

2011 (EARLY) MACBOOK PRO 13-INCH LAPTOP in excellent condition with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, OSX 10.10.1, brand new 1TB hard drive and 16GB Ram $800. Call 505470-4371 after 6 pm.

PETS SUPPLIES

Holiday Adoptions & Photos with Santa PAWS!

SPORTS EQUIPMENT

93,000 COLOMBION Pesos for sale at 2,000 = $46.50. 505-310-1829

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YORKIES! Full-Blooded & Yorkiepoos, Morkies, Shorkies. Reg, shots and guaranteed. POTTYPAD trained. $500-1800 CreditCards, PAYPAL PAYMENT plan 575-910-1818 txt4pics cingard1@hotmail.com

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4 SNOW Tires Blizzak P245/55 R19. Will fit a Toyota Venza. Great condition and provide excellent traction on snow and ice. $200 obo. Call Janie 505-412-0288.

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2008 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN 4X4, HARD LOADED, HARD TO FIND, HARD TO BEAT PRICE, T1871, $ 21988 CALL 505-473-1234.

Adult Pet adoption fee only $25 through December. Visit sfhumanesociety.org

ACROSS 1 Palm reader, e.g. 5 Implied with a nod, say 10 Music-playing Apple 14 Berry rich in antioxidants 15 Solo 16 Taboo 17 Six-time French Open champ Bjorn 18 “I speak for the trees” Seuss character 19 TV series with many choreographed numbers 20 Star system closest to the solar system 23 Snuggles 24 Wallops 27 Long in the tooth 28 Software development phase 30 Good, in the Galápagos 33 Melody 34 Prefix with morph 35 Attorneys’ org. 36 Week-long yearend celebration 39 River to the Rhine 40 Words of denial 42 “Deal __ Deal” 43 Stick around 45 Bit of electromagnetic radiation 47 __ au vin 48 Stonewall 49 Appraise 53 Atlanta-based carrier 56 Use a Taser on 58 “Steppenwolf” author 59 Official proclamation 60 Show of affection 61 Steaming mad 62 Raison d’__ 63 Pay to play 64 Lacking face value, as stock 65 Comical Martha

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DOWN 1 Crimson Tide coach Nick 2 School, to Yvette 3 Old West brothers 4 “Amen, brother!” 5 Sprinkled with baby powder 6 Medicinal plants 7 Iowa crop 8 “For those listening __ home ...” 9 Oil, informally 10 Unappreciative sort 11 Precinct wheels 12 United 13 Deer girl 21 “No problem here” 22 Actress Thurman 25 Relatively cool heavenly body 26 Building level 28 Ski slope beginner 29 Automaker Ferrari 30 Foreheadcovering hair

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31 WWII sea threat 32 “Try and catch me!” 33 “Gone With the Wind” estate 37 Became harder to deal with 38 Coral ring 41 Ginormous 44 Ground water source 46 Feel poorly

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2001 FORD Taurus, runs strong, new tires. Maintenance records for past 2+ years, good commuter car. $2,500, OBO. Peter, 505-929-7969.

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Another One Owner, Local, Garaged, Non-Smoker Extra Remote Keys, Books And manuals, Service Records, Most Options, 51MPG City, 49 MPG Highway, Pristine, Soooo GAS STATION UNFRIENDLY, $16,950 WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE!

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1981 FORD 2 TON F-700 Diesel. V-8. 5speed, with 2-speed axel. 6 new tires. Runs well. $4000 OBO. 505-474-5978, 505-577-0764

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The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is accepting proposals for Professional Legal Services The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (Department) requests proposals (RFP# 15 516 2101 00004) from qualified lawyers and law firms to provide professional legal services for but not limited to; Water law; Environmental law; Construction Law; Real Estate Law; Real Property Acquisitions, Disposals (specialize in public real property interests both state, federal), Mineral Estate, Easements, Leases; Land use law, eminent domain and inverse condemnation; Inspection of Public Records Act; and Appellate work, including administrative and civil law for the Department. This request for proposals will result in a multiple source award through which contracts may be awarded to one or more lawyers and or law firms in all of the practice areas listed in the Scope of Work. Each lawyer or law firm’s proposal shall include evidence of its experience and expertise in the relevant/proposed practice areas. Submission of the proposal must be sent to the Department of Game and Fish no later than 3:00 PM December 22, 2014. To obtain a copy of this Request for Proposal please p visit http://wildlife.state.n p m.us/ or contact Joseph Miano at (505) 476-8086 or j joseph.miano@state. p @ nm.us. Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on October 27-31 and November 3-7, 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, December 1-5, 8-12, 15-19, 22-26, 2014 LEGAL # 97687 The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is accepting proposals for Engineering Services The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (Department) requests proposals (RFP# 15 516 1201 00005) from qualified engineers and engineering firms to provide professional engineering services for but not limited to; Professional Design Services, P r o j e c t Administration/ Management and Oversight, and Construction Inspection for the Department. This request for proposals may result in a multiple source award through which contracts may be awarded to one or more engineers or engineering firms in all of the practice areas listed in the Scope of Work. Each engineer or en-

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LEGALS g gineering firm’s proposal shall include evidence of its experience and expertise in the relevant/proposed practice area or areas. Submission of the proposal must be sent to the Department of Game and Fish no later than 3:00 PM January 15, 2015. To obtain a copy of this Request for Proposal please visit http://wildlife.state.n m.us/ or contact Joseph Miano at (505) 476-8086 or joseph.miano@state. nm.us. Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on November 4-7, 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, December 1-5, 8-12 and the 15,, 2014.

LEGAL # 97779 Invitation for Bids. The Vista Primera Homeowners’ Association, Inc., is accepting SEALED BIDS from qualified BIDDERS for a SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM REPAIR PROJECT at the Vista Primera Subdivision, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Subdivision is located just east and south of the Airport Road and NM 599 intersection. The project consists of the rehabilitation of the subdivision’s sanitary sewer system. This system is comprised of approximately 18,000 lineal feet of 8" PVC sewer line and 118 manholes that traverse the subdivision on 23 streets. BIDS shall be on an item by item basis with unit prices. Segregated bids or lump sum bids will not be accepted except on specific items as indicated on the BID SCHEDULE. SEALED BIDS must be postmarked and/or received no later than until Friday, December 26, 2014 and shall be mailed to Vista Primera Homeowners’ Association at PO Box 1749, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504. Bid shall be sent to the attention of Amy Fairchild, Community Manager. BIDS received after this date will not be accepted. BIDS shall be good and may not be withdrawn for a period of 90 calendar days after the BID closing date. This is a privately funded project. The Board of Directors of the Vista Primera Homeowners’ Association reserves the right to waive any and all informalities, to negotiate terms of the contract, to reject any or all BIDS at their discretion for any reason whatsoever, to disregard all nonconforming or conditional bids, and to contract in a manner deemed in the best interest of the project. To obtain a BID PACKET and BID SCHEDULE, please contact Amy Fairchild, Community Manager at (505) 930.1562. Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 2014

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1997, IN PLAT BOOK 179, PAGE 050, AS NO. Members of the pub- DOCUMENT lic are invited to pro- 637,162. vide comment on hearings for the issu- Unless you serve a ance of or transfers pleading or motion in of liquor licenses as response to the comoutlined below. All plaint in said cause hearings will be con- on or before 30 days ducted at the NM Al- after the last publicacohol and Gaming Di- tion date, judgment vision Offices on the by default will be endate specified in the tered against you. Toney Anaya Building, 2550 Cerrillos Respectfully SubmitRoad, 2nd Floor, San- ted, ta Fe, New Mexico. WEINSTEIN, PINSON & The Hearing Officer RILEY, P.S. for this Application is Brenda Mares who By: _/s/Elizabeth can be contacted at Mason the address above or Elizabeth Mason 20 First Plaza NW, e m a i l brenda.mares2@stat Suite 303 Albuquerque, NM e.nm.us 87102 Application #A- (206) 438-1031 935409 for Restaurant elizabethm@ License on December w-legal.com 17, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. El Attorney for Plaintiff Agave Mexican Restaurant, LLC dba El Published in The SanAgave Mexican Res- ta Fe New Mexican on taurant located at 31 December 9, 16 and Burro Alley, Santa Fe, 23, 2014 New Mexico. LEGAL # 97810 Published in The SanSTATE GAME ta Fe New Mexican on COMMISSION December 9, 2014 MEETING AND RULE MAKING LEGAL # 97809 NOTICE STATE OF NEW MEXIOn Thursday, JanuCO COUNTY OF SANTA FE ary 15, 2015 , beginFIRST JUDICIAL DIS- ning at 9:00 a.m., at the Santa Fe ComTRICT munity College JeCase No. D-101-CV- mez Rooms , located at 6401 Richards 2011-01092 Avenue, Santa Fe, MGC MORTGAGE, NM 87508 , the State Game Commission INC., will meet in public Plaintiff, session to hear and consider action as v. appropriate on the MICHAEL P. CASTILLO, following: Election of JUAN HERNANDEZ, Chair and Vice Chair STEVAN J. SCHOEN, of State Game ComNEW MEXICO EM- mission, Final ProPLOYMENT SECURITY posed Amendments DEPARTMENT, NEW to the Commission’s MEXICO DEPART- Open Meeting ProceMENT OF TAXATION dures, Future MeetAND REVENUE, INTER- ing Schedule and LoNAL REVENUE SERV- cation, Revocations, ICE, FORD MOTOR Rancho de Chavez Preserve CREDIT COMPANY, Shooting LLC, THE UNKNOWN Application, Request SPOUSE OF MICHAEL from Vermejo Ranch P. CASTILLO, FT to Import and PosMORTGAGE COMPA- sess Black Footed Procedures NIES D/B/A CARLI I. Ferrets, Decommission BROWN MORTGAGE to AND KERRY KIRKPA- McGaffey Lake, Proposals for Updating TRICK, the Hunter Education Defendants. Program, New and Upcoming Public OutNOTICE OF SUIT reach Efforts, PresenSTATE OF New Mexico tation of Fiscal Year to the above-named 2014 Statement and Defendants Juan Audit Report (tentaHernandez and Kerry tive), Review of Oryx Management RelatKirkpatrick. ing to the Security Badged Hunts, Closed GREETINGS: Session, You are hereby noti- Executive Morphy Lake fied that the above- and Easenamed Plaintiff has Commission filed a civil action ment. against you in the above-entitled Court Obtain a copy of the and cause, the gener- agenda from the Ofal object thereof be- fice of the Director, ing to foreclose a New Mexico Departmortgage on proper- ment of Game and ty located at 48 Pinon Fish, P.O. Box 25112, Rd., Edgewood, NM Santa Fe, New Mexico 87015, Santa Fe Coun- 87504, or from the Dety, New Mexico, said partment’s website. property being more This agenda is subparticularly descri- ject to change up to 72 hours prior to the bed as: LOT 66B, EDGEWOOD meeting. Please conESTATES SUBDIVI- tact the Director’s OfSION, AS SHOWN ON fice at (505) 476-8000, PLAT ENTITLED "LAND or the Department’s at DIVISION OF LOT 66, website EDGEWOOD ESTATES www.wildlife.state.n m.us for updated inBEING THE SE 1/4, SE 1/4, SW 1/4, NE 1/4 OF formation. SECTION 27, T10N, R7E…", FILED IN THE If you are an individuOFFICE OF THE COUN- al with a disability TY CLERK, SANTA FE who is in need of a amplifier, COUNTY, NEW MEXI- reader, CO, ON NOVEMBER 25, qualified sign language interpreter, or LEGAL # 97797

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LEGALS g g p any other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing or meeting, please contact the Department at (505) 476-8000 at least one week prior to the meeting or as soon as possible. Public documents, including the agenda and minutes, can be provided in various accessible formats. Please contact the Department at 505-476-8000 if a summary or other type of accessible format is needed. Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 9, 2014 LEGAL # 97814 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS BID NO. ’15/12/B Bids will be received by the City of Santa Fe and will be delivered to City of Santa Fe, Purchasing Office, 2651 Siringo Road, Bldg. "H", Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 until 2:00 P.M. local prevailing time, December 22, 2014. Any bid received after this deadline will not be considered. This bid is for the purpose of procuring:

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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Joann M. Herrera, DECEASED. No. 2014-0152 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within two (2) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, located at the following address: 102 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Dated: 11-26, 2014. Cathy Herrera Personal Representative 315 E. Solano Espanola, NM 87532 505-927-6907 Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 9 and 16, 2014.

MICROFILMING SERVICES The bidder’s attention is directed to the fact that all applicable Federal Laws, State Laws, Municipal Ordinances, and the rules and regulations of all authorities having jurisdiction over said item shall apply to the bid throughout, and they will be deemed to be included in the bid document the same as though herein written out in full.

Legal #97827 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE CITY OF SANTA FE ex rel. SANTA FE POLICE DEPARTMENT, Petitioner, vs.

The City of Santa Fe is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or national origin. The successful bidder will be required to conform to the Equal Opportunity Employment regulations.

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Bids may be held for sixty (60) days subject to action by the city. The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids in part or in whole. Bid packets are available by contacting: Shirley Rodriguez, City of Santa Fe, Purchasing Office, 2651 Siringo Road, Bldg. "H" Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505, (505) 955-5711.

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ATTEST: Robert Rodarte, Purchasing Officer

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ONE (1) 2003 BLUE CADILLAC DEVILLE V . I . N . 1G6KF57933U279159 NEW MEXICO LICENSE NO. NONE, Respondent, and RALPH D. ORTIZ, Claimant.

TO RALPH D. ORTIZ: The above-captioned action has been filed to seek forfeiture of the above-described motor vehicle. If no response is filed, default judgment may be entered in favor of the Petitioner. The name, address and telephone number of Petitioner’s attorney are:

R. Alfred Walker Assistant City Published in The San- Attorney ta Fe New Mexican on City of Santa Fe 200 Lincoln Avenue December 9, 2014 P.O. Box 909 Santa Fe, New Mexico LEGAL #97826 87504-0909 Telephone: (505) 9554B-302 6967 Facsimile: (505) 955STATE OF NEW 6748 MEXICO E m a i l : IN THE PROBATE awalker@ci.santaCOURT fe.nm.us SANTA FE COUNTY Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on December 9, 16 and Continued... 23, 2014.

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

Horoscope ACROSS 1 Stops 6 Stoned 10 Genre for N.W.A. or T.I. 13 Honolulu hello 14 Everglades bird 16 “Yes, there ___ God!” 17 Gave in 18 Critic’s positive review of drummer Keith of the Who? 20 Had down pat 21 Its national animal is the vicuña 22 Small matter? 23 Powerful industrialist 25 Please, quaintly 27 Whine tearfully 29 Thick-skinned one 30 Tribal symbol 31 With 40-Across, critic’s positive review of a Fox medical drama? 32 Male turkey 35 Nonhuman sign language learner 36 Posted an opinion, maybe 38 “___ had it up to here!”

39 “Agreed” 40 See 31-Across 41 Chair designer Charles 43 Mythical man-goat 44 First family of the 1840s 45 Galaxy competitors 48 They’re hard to run in 49 Incessantly 50 “___ be surprised” 52 Homer Simpson’s favorite beer 55 Critic’s negative review of a 1988 Hanks film? 57 Word before range or cord 58 “___ with caution” 59 Everglades bird 60 Place for a courtordered monitor 61 ___ Taco (fast-food chain) 62 Decisive time 63 Car introduced by Elon Musk DOWN 1 Unrespected writer 2 Mathematician Turing

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014: This year you easily could fall into a slump and feel negative. Try not to let your emotions take you to this point. ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH A partner will respond only to an authentic overture. This person might not have the desire to get into anything more than direct communication. Tonight: Express an innate playfulness. 3 Critic’s negative review of singer Courtney? 4 Stand-up routine? 5 Down 6 Macho dudes 7 Dr. Frankenstein’s helper 8 Many “Family Feud” celebrations 9 Mama bird 10 Digital camera brand 11 Help desk sign 12 Old-hat 15 Asset for an umpire or editor 19 ___ the Orange (Syracuse mascot)

21 Typical “Meet the Press” guest, for short 24 Band that sang the “Friends” theme song “I’ll Be There for You,” with “the” 26 React to yeast 27 Certain court order 28 “Uh-uh” 29 “___ that” (“Understood”) 31 Eastern Catholic ruling body 32 Critic’s negative review of a newsmagazine? 33 More than 34 Predicament

37 Minstrel’s instrument 42 “Finished!” 43 Mamas’ boys 44 Sen. Cruz 45 About to bloom 46 Asset in a beauty pageant 47 “Science of Logic” philosopher 48 Iditarod dog 51 Plant also known as ladies’ fingers 53 When many network shows debut 54 Pet pest 56 “___ be my pleasure!” 57 Winery fixture

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Chess quiz BLACK WINS A PAWN Hint: A pin on the gfile is key. Solution: 1. ... Qh6ch! 2. Kg1 Qxf4!

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: GEOGRAPHY (e.g., Island settled by mutineers of the HMS Bounty. Answer: Pitcairn.)

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FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. In which city is the Wailing Wall? Answer________ 2. In which country is Mecca? Answer________ 3. In which present-day country was the ancient city of Carthage? Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 4. In which city can you view Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”? Answer________ 5. Which French town is renowned for its brandy? Answer________ 6. Three islands of this island group are Guernsey, Jersey and Sark. Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. Which country is named for South America’s liberator? Answer________ 8. Through which three countries of South America does the equator pass? Answer________ 9. In which state is Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond? Answer________ ANSWERS: ANSWERS: 1. Jerusalem. 2. Saudi Arabia. 3. Tunisia. 4. Milan, Italy. 5. Cognac. 6. The Channel Islands. 7. Bolivia (Simon Bolivar). 8. Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. 9. Massachusetts.

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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) 2014 Ken Fisher

Today in history Today is Tuesday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2014. There are 22 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On Dec. 9, 1854, Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, was published in England.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You’ll communicate what you want in a meaningful way. However, don’t be surprised if others have a strong reaction. Tonight: Speak up. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Watch others’ reactions in a conversation involving money and day-to-day matters. You might feel the need for a more stringent budget. Tonight: Pace yourself. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH You will be able to deal with someone’s seriousness, even if you feel uncomfortable with the conversation. Tonight: Ever playful. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You might feel as though you are carrying more than your share of burdens. You soon will notice that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Tonight: Nap, then decide. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Aim for what you want. You are more likely to succeed than you might think. A long talk could end up being depressing. Tonight: Take some much-needed personal time.

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Father questions his son too much Dear Annie: My husband, “Ricardo,” is a naturally curious man. He usually asks questions in a charming manner, showing genuine interest in family and friends. We have a teenage son. Ricardo often asks him probing questions about his girlfriend, which upsets our son. I totally get that Ricardo is interested and concerned for our son, so often I try to smooth the waves and attempt to let Ricardo know that he is being too pushy. I try to say this in a lighthearted way during the conversation in order to defuse the tension. This infuriates Ricardo. He says I am undermining his parental authority. Annie, our son is a fine, outstanding young man. He does well in school, has great friends and participates in meaningful activities. It’s not as if he is up to something just because he doesn’t want to talk about his girlfriend. He just wants some privacy. I only intervene in these conversations when I see the tension rising and my son getting frustrated or angry. Ricardo has told me that I should mind my own business and tell him in private what I think and not do it in front of our son. Is he right? It makes me feel that I’m not being supportive of our son. Should I just walk away from their conversation and keep my feelings to myself? Right now, I have an upset son and a furious husband. — Stuck in the Middle Dear Stuck: You both need a new approach. Grilling a teenager about his social life will backfire every time, and Ricardo should know better. And when you intervene, even with good reason, Ricardo thinks it makes him the bad guy in front of your son. Have a private conversation with your husband and tell him that peppering the boy with questions will simply make him clam up and become resentful. It’s easier to get information when you aren’t trying so hard. (Perhaps he remembers his own teenage years.) The two of you should instead agree upon a silent signal when his questions get out of hand. In return, promise to share what you learn.

Dear Annie: Do you know why I’m not interested in sex with my husband? It gives me no satisfaction. My husband’s idea of sex is 30 seconds of satisfying himself. He is boring, boring, boring. My husband is a controlling person, so if I initiate sex, he isn’t interested. It always has to be his idea. I’ve read everything I could about having a good sex life and tried for years to please him. But he thinks sexual pleasure is only for him and the rest is a tool to punish me. I’ve told him how I feel, but he is never wrong and can’t handle criticism. He refuses counseling. Sometimes, I wonder whether he is gay. I had an affair, and the sex was wonderful, but I broke it off. Now I’m considering divorce in the hope that I can find a man who believes that sex ought to be fun and enjoyable for both partners. Boring sex might be a reason some women lose interest. That’s my two cents. — Tired of It All Dear Tired: Dissatisfaction can be a reason to avoid sex, but your real problem is a husband who doesn’t care that you are unhappy. His disinterest in your concerns goes beyond the bedroom. Whether or not you divorce, please get counseling on your own so you can better navigate the rocks ahead. Dear Annie: “Dumfounded Niece” was upset that she hadn’t received any acknowledgment of the flowers she sent to her aunt’s funeral. My mother sent flowers to the funeral of her brother in another state. When Mom asked my aunt whether the flowers looked nice, she was told they never arrived. Our local florist discovered that the flowers had never been sent from the florist in the other state. — Arlene in North Dakota Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Sheinwold’s bridge

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Others seem to expect a lot from you, as they note how proficient you are at what you do. You understand the importance of timing as well. Tonight: Suddenly, you have no problems! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Be imaginative with your choices. You might feel constrained by a situation that seems to be weighing on you. Tonight: Happiest at home. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You could be more in control of a situation than you realize. Detach and observe what goes on around you. Tonight: Let your mind wander. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You might hear some fascinating news that could make you wonder which way to go. Your inner voice will be working overtime and perhaps make you a bit jumpy. Tonight: A loved one makes quite the appeal.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You might find yourself very busy trying to complete errands. Whether you’re doing chores or shopping for the holidays, you could be overwhelmed. Tonight: Be near music. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH Allow greater creativity to flow from you. Take the high road, and attempt to see what is going on with a difficult person in your life. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. Jacqueline Bigar

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. © 2014 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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