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School Safety Summit keeps parents up-to-date on SFPS emergency protocols. EDUCATION, A-8
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Eruption toll rises Finally reaching the ash-covered summit of a still-erupting volcano in central Japan, rescue workers made a grim discovery Sunday: 31 apparently dead people, some reportedly buried in knee-deep ash. PAGE A-3
Galisteo residents plan bicentennial celebration
President acknowledges U.S. erred in its assessment
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clean political campaign is rarer than the Mexican wolf, and the sleek lobo that serves as a symbol of our state is an endangered subspecies. But we’ve found an exception to all the mud baths, a campaign that’s free Milan of venom, Simonich deception Ringside Seat and cheap shots. It’s also one of the most important elections of this cycle. We’re talking about the race for a seat on the New Mexico Court of Appeals. Judge J. Miles Hanisee, the incumbent by appointment, is being challenged by attorney Kerry Kiernan. Hanisee, 46, had a broad-based legal career before a fellow Republican, Gov. Susana Martinez, appointed him to the Court of Appeals three years ago. He had worked as a prosecutor, a defense lawyer and a law clerk for two federal judges. In 2008, Hanisee was one of the attorneys who represented former Democratic state senator Manny Aragon in a corruption case. Aragon pleaded guilty to three felonies for attempting to defraud the state of nearly $4.4 million. He served about five years in federal prison before being released last year. Many celebrated statesmen, such as John Adams, America’s
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Volunteers hang a sign outside Galisteo’s La Sala de San José building Saturday, in preparation for the village’s upcoming bicentennial celebration. LUKE E. MONTAVON/THE NEW MEXICAN
Village to commemorate milestone with parade, food, music, dance, Mass By Dennis J. Carroll For The New Mexican
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s far as anyone can remember reading or hearing about, the village of Galisteo began as a fortress in the early 1800s to hold off the Comanches and other Indian raiders — a fortified plaza of sorts with a church at one end. It wasn’t until the 1850s, said resident Wayne King, a retired structural engineer from Wisconsin, that settlers began building adobe homes outside the fortifications of the plaza. “If a group of people came out here in 1814 to build a village, you can imagine how daunting that would have been,” King said. “Just using adobe would have taken them years to build a village, and all that time they
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would have been defenseless.” This Saturday and Sunday, the community of about 300 people on the lip of the sprawling Galisteo Basin in southern Santa Fe County will celebrate the village’s 200th anniversary as a recognized place on the map. To the best that anyone can determine, King said, it was in 1814 that a group of about 20 families petitioned the Spanish governor of New Mexico for a land grant staking out 22,000 acres as a geographically defined community. King said the petitioners claimed the land area they wanted had been in great part abandoned by the Tano and other Indians and that the property had enough water, timber and grazing land to support the 20 families.
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tion, high blood pressure, or diabetes; or persons who are at risk for heart disease or are taking medicine for depression or asthma.” They appear on the packaging for the companies’ e-cigarettes, which are part of a fast-growing industry that the tobacco companies are maneuvering to dominate. The warnings, which are entirely voluntary and are seen by some as attempts to reduce legal liability or burnish corporate reputations, generally exceed what amounts to modest cautions, silence or even positive health claims from smaller e-cigarette makers. One on a pack of nicotine cartridges for MarkTen e-cigarettes, for instance, the brand Altria is introducing nationwide, runs more than 100 words. People with heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes should not use the product, the label says. Neither should children. It goes on to say that nicotine can cause dizziness, nausea and stomach pains, and may worsen
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E-cigarette makers quick to label products By Matt Richtel The New York Times
Tobacco companies, long considered public health enemy No. 1, have suddenly positioned themselves as protectors of consumer well-being in the digital age. They are putting out among the strongest health warnings in the fledgling e-cigarette industry, going further even than the familiar ones on actual cigarettes, a leading cause of death. It has left the industry’s critics scratching their heads and deeply skeptical. One warning, from Altria, maker of Marlboros, reads in part: “Nicotine is addictive and habit forming, and is very toxic by inhalation, in contact with the skin, or if swallowed.” Another, from Reynolds American, maker of Camels, says the product is not intended for persons “who have an unstable heart condi-
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Obituaries Margaret A. Lucero, 86, Santa Fe, Sept. 24 Janey Myers Parrish, 94, Sept. 23
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What: Galisteo’s Bicentennial & Then Some Celebration When: Saturday, Oct. 4, and Sunday, Oct. 5 Where: Galisteo More information: Visit www.lasala degalisteo.org for event times and locations.
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Southwest Seminars lecture “Spanish Efforts to Reconquer New Mexico: Post-Revolt Puebloan Sites in Northern New Mexico,” by Joseph “Woody” Aguilar of San Ildefonso Pueblo, 6 p.m., Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, $12 at the door, southwestseminars.org, 466-2775.
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Government weighs equality on the Web FCC tackling thorny issue of net neutrality By Anne Flaherty The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama acknowledged in an interview broadcast Sunday that the United States had underestimated the rise of the Islamic State militant group, which has seized control of a broad swath of territory in the Middle East, and had placed too much trust in the Iraqi military, allowing the region to become “ground zero for jihadists around the world.” Reflecting on how a president who wanted to disentangle the United States from wars in the Middle East ended up redeploying to Iraq and last week expanding air operations into Syria, Obama pointed to assessments by the intelligence agencies that said they were surprised by the rapid advances made in both countries by the Islamic State, also known by the acronym ISIS. “Our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that, I think, they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” Obama said on 60 Minutes, the CBS News program, referring to James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence. Obama added that the agencies had overestimated the ability and will of the Iraqi army to fight such Sunni extremists. “That’s true. That’s absolutely true,” he said. In citing Clapper, Obama made no mention of any misjudgment he may have made himself. Critics have repeatedly pointed to his comment last winter characterizing groups like the Islamic State as a “JV team” compared with the original al-Qaida. But he rebutted critics who say his
WASHINGTON — Should the company that supplies your Internet access be allowed to cut deals with online services such as Netflix, Amazon or YouTube to move their content faster? The Federal Communications Commission is tackling that question this fall after the public submitted a record 3.7 million comments on the subject — more than double the number filed with the regulatory agency after Janet Jackson’s infamous wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl. The FCC’s chairman, former industry lobbyist and venture capitalist Tom Wheeler, says financial arrangements between broadband providers and content sites might be OK so long as the agreement
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is “commercially reasonable” and companies disclose publicly how they prioritize Internet traffic. But not everyone agrees, with Netflix and much of the public accusing the FCC of handing the Internet over to the highest bidders. “If Comcast and Time Warner — who already have a virtual monopoly on Internet service — have the ability to manage and manipulate Internet speeds and access to benefit their own bottom line, they will be able to filter content and alter the user experience,” said Barbara Ann Luttrell, 26, of Atlanta, in a recent submission to the FCC. The major cable and telecommunications companies that supply most of the nation’s broadband say blocking or discriminating against content would never be in their best interest commercially. But, some industry officials say, data hogs like Netflix might need to bear some of the cost of handling heavy traffic.
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