Santa Fe New Mexican, May 5, 2014

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On damage control in NBA

Ukraine crisis escalates with more violence

The league’s quick action helped rescue the Los Angeles Clippers’ brand. SPORTS, B-1

Outrage over the deaths of pro-Russian activists in riots in Odessa triggered new violence as a mob of protesters stormed police headquarters. PAge A-3

Ex-deputy’s raise riles insurance office staff

Study links bullying, weapons on campus In 2011, as many as 200,000 U.S. high-schoolers armed themselves at school in response to bullying behavior. PAge A-10

Three-pronged approach helps quench city’s thirst Minor water restrictions likely most city will see, despite drought

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ven in these hard times, when raises are out of the question for countless workers, an already well-paid state employee can still get a 10 percent pay increase. She can even land the higher salary for a job that was never posted, even though the position was changed from exempt status to classified. Classified jobs typically are opened to competition so the state can advertise for a pool of applicants and then hire the best one. Milan The woman Simonich who received the Ringside Seat good fortune of a raise and protection as a classified employee is Jolene Gonzales, 44, who works in the Office of the Superintendent of Insurance. This agency regulates the insurance industry in New Mexico. Gonzales has received a pay increase of more than $8,300, bringing her annual salary to $92,204. Not a bad day at the insurance office, or any office. For many of the other 77 employees in the insurance office, Gonzales’ raise was demoralizing. The office is operating with about 20 vacancies, so workloads are heavy. Rank-and-file employees regard Gonzales as a tyrannical supervisor, lacking skill, knowledge and tact. In the busy times of the Affordable Care Act’s implementation, Gonzales contested overtime and compensatory time for others, workers said. A climate of fear exists among these employees, but one went on the record about Gonzales’ treatment of others. “I have had to work very hard to make sure employees receive what they are due,” said Cathy Townes, who works in the managed health care bureau of the insurance office and

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Today Partly sunny and breezy. High 80, low 43.

From left, Longmire actors Bailey Chase and Cassidy Freeman are joined onstage by Best Documentary filmmakers Kristina Wagner and Joe Crump during the Santa Fe Film Festival’s awards ceremony Sunday. ROBERT NOTT/THE NEW MEXICAN

‘Longmire’ stars herald best work in film fest By Robert Nott The New Mexican

the city will start refilling it May 15, Puglisi said. The city will then begin draining the larger McClure Reservoir, sending some of the water to the Canyon Road Treatment Plant and some to Nichols. When the latter reservoir, which can store up to 220 million gallons, is about 20 percent full, the city will send water down the river again. “There will be a short period, a couple of days, where the river will be dry,” Puglisi said. “We will try to

The Santa Fe Film Festival’s awards ceremony on Sunday night featured celebrity emcees, moved faster than a two-reel comedy and was nearly devoid of actual winners showing up to claim their prizes. Actors Bailey Chase and Cassidy Freeman from the A&E television drama Longmire — which is set in Wyoming but shot in New Mexico — hosted the event at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, which drew about 80 enthusiastic attendees who applauded and cheered as every winning picture and filmmaker was named. But so few of those winners actually appeared onstage with the duo that Freeman quipped, “So many happy people, yet nobody here to take these awards.” Winning filmmakers received hand-crafted belts made by Nikki Zabicki and an app that displays filmmaking sites around Santa Fe. Freeman kept saying she was going to put all the unclaimed belts in her bag and take them home, but she didn’t. At least, it didn’t look like she did. The festival, which started Thursday and ran through Sunday, featured an array of independent offerings. A screening committee made up of filmmakers and festival staffers juried the movies and chose seven winning categories: Best New MexicoMade Film, Best New Mexico-Made Short, Best Documentary, Best Overall Film, Best Overall Short, Best Foreign Film and the Michael Pettit Editing Award. That the editors of the Pettit winner, My Forest, didn’t appear Sunday didn’t surprise Freeman: “I’ve heard that editors never leave the editing room. … They’re in

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McClure Reservoir was at about 48 percent capacity on April 26. The reservoir will be drained later this month when work to rebuild the water intake structure begins. The city will send some of the water to the Canyon Road Treatment Plant and some to Nichols Reservoir. BRUCE KRASNOW/THE NEW MEXICAN

By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

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he drought is slowly deepening in New Mexico, but city of Santa Fe customers don’t have to fear stiffer water restrictions through the summer growing season, municipal water officials say. On Thursday, the city began non-emergency water use restrictions, which prohibit residents from watering outdoor landscaping more than three times a week or between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. City water officials say the restrictions aren’t likely to get tougher than that unless there is some major event. The city’s tri-source approach to water is helping shield residents from the rest of the state’s dry times. This is the fourth consecutive year of drought statewide. City water comes from reservoirs in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed, wells and the Buckman Direct Diversion on the Rio Grande that is shared with the county. The city’s water utility division balances the three sources, resting the wells whenever possible so the water table supplying

them can recover. The city relies most heavily on water supplies from the river diversion and the reservoirs. Concerted efforts by city residents to conserve water have helped, and city officials want to see that continue. “By reducing demand, it is almost like we found a new source of water,” said Alex Puglisi, the city’s interim source of supply manager. “We would not want to see people drop off of conservation at all.”

Municipal reservoirs The Santa Fe river has had spectacularly regular flows in the last couple of weeks due in large part to the city’s project revamping intake structures at the municipal reservoirs. Since last fall, when the city began repairs on an intake structure in one of its two reservoirs, it has kept water only in the other one. Both reservoirs, which are east of the city, are more than halfa-century old, and officials believe new intake structures will improve water management. Work on the Nichols Reservoir intake structure is finished, and

PeR cAPITA wATeR uSe IN SANTA Fe IN 2013 Single family residential: 52.4 gallons Multi-family (apartment buildings/nursing homes): about 10 gallons Industrial, commercial and institutional: 22 gallons Other metered (fire and irrigation): 5.5 gallons Non-revenue water: 11.7 gallons (line breaks, flushing for lines) Total water use per person per day: 101.7 gallons

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Obituaries Julianna Mikhailovna Ossorgin, 83, May 1 PAge A-10

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Perla Batalla Singer/songwriter, 7:30 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, $15-$35, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

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Young blood may hold key to reversing aging Results of separate studies show promise, but questions abound By Meeri Kim

Special To The Washington Post

The fountain of youth may not be filled with water, but with blood. A trio of new studies has discovered that the blood of young mice appears to reverse some of the effects of aging when put into the circulatory systems of elderly mice. After combining the blood circulations of two mice by conjoining

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them — one old, the other young — researchers found dramatic improvements in the older mouse’s muscle and brain. After four weeks, stem cells in both those areas got a boost of activity and were better able to produce new neurons and muscle tissue. They later discovered that injections of a special protein found abundantly in young blood — or even transfusions of whole young blood — gives the same advantages as sharing a blood supply. Old mice who were injected with the protein or who received a blood transfusion navigated mazes faster and ran longer on treadmills. They easily outperformed their control

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peers, who were given only saline. But for the young mice, getting old blood was a definite setback. When conjoined to an older mouse, the creation of new cells in the young mouse slowed down. Old blood effectively seemed to cause premature aging. Two of the studies, both published online Sunday in the journal Science, came out of collaborations at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute that shared specimens of mice — one focused on muscle changes, and the other specialized in the brain. The third, published Sunday in Nature Medicine, came from a group of researchers from Stanford University

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and the University of California at San Francisco. “The Stanford group has been working in this area for a while, but we weren’t involved in their study,” said Science study author and biologist Amy Wagers of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. “All of the studies are very consistent — the data are complementary and support one another.” Although initial results seem promising, questions still abound. Will it work on humans? What is the proper dosing? Do you need a constant supply of young blood to maintain the effects? Are there long-term consequences?

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