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Youth ranch sued over boy’s death Blanca Ranch High Country Youth Program [located in Sierra County] … but instead he was beaten, handcuffed and shackled like a member of a southern prison road gang …

By Phaedra Haywood forced to eat horse dung and had jalapeno The New Mexican pepper juice poured into his eyes.”

Bruce Staeger died Sept. 13 after he was The owners of a Southern New Mexico “thrown from the bed of a speeding pickup youth ranch that has been plagued by contruck driving out of control by a ranch troversy in the past year are named as defen- employee notorious for his reckless drivdants in a civil suit filed Monday in District ing,” the complaint says. It characterizes the Court by the parents of a young man who teen’s death as “the end result of a pattern of died at the ranch in September. abuse and negligence” he allegedly suffered According to the complaint, the man, 18, at the hands of ranch owners and employers. was “supposed to be cared for, educated Please see RancH, Page A-6 and taught responsibility at the Tierra

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House OKs electric rate cut for big companies Move might attract jobs, but small businesses and families could pay more

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The House approved a bill Friday that lawmakers say will attract jobs to New Mexico by giving larger businesses a discounted electricity rate but lets utility companies recoup the money by charging more to families and small businesses.

House Bill 296 would help New Mexico attract manufacturing jobs, increase the tax base and put the state on par with 29 others that offer a reduced electricity rate to manufacturers and other businesses, according to the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Antonio

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A crowd participating in a flash mob for the annual One Billion Rising event performs Friday at the Capitol. The event aims to raise awareness about violence against women. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

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undreds of people gathered Friday outside the New Mexico state Capitol for One Billion Rising, a day of global activism to raise awareness about violence against women.

According to its website, One Billion Rising is a call to women who have survived abuse, as well as those who support them, to gather in their communities to educate the public. Participants are encouraged to do this “through art, dance, marches, ritual, song, spoken word, testimonies and whatever way feels right,” the website says.

Last year, people in 207 countries participated in One Billion Rising events around the world, according to the website. This year, the all-day Santa Fe event included a flash mob, poetry readings, a march from the Roundhouse, art shows and concerts.

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday gave banks a road map for conducting transactions with legal marijuana sellers so these new businesses can stash away savings, make payroll and pay taxes. It’s not clear banks will get on board.

Guidance issued by the Justice and Treasury departments is the latest step by the federal government toward

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enabling a legalized marijuana industry to operate in states that approve it. The intent is to make banks feel more comfortable working with marijuana businesses that are licensed and regulated.

Others have a keen interest, too, in a regulated financial pipeline for an industry that is just emerging from the underground. Marijuana businesses that can’t use banks may have too much cash they can’t safely put away, leaving them

ALBUQUERQUE — The recent death of a 9-year-old New Mexico boy, whose mother was accused of kicking him to death after being investigated on at least three prior occasions, has lawmakers and other politicians scrambling to cast blame and line up behind proposed solutions in a state that ranks among the worst for child abuse deaths.

A flurry of bills and memorials introduced this session tackle everything from staffing problems and overwhelming caseloads within the state’s embattled child welfare agency to tougher penalties for abusers, more responsibility for citizens to report abuse and more power for child services workers to take immediate custody of children who show signs of abuse.

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William, Harry help village hit by floods LONDON — Prince William and Prince Harry helped flood-hit British villagers protect their homes Friday, unloading sandbags alongside soldiers in a River Thames village.

The princes, who have both served in the armed forces, joined a work crew in Datchet, west of London, on what aides said was a private visit.

England, which has been lashed by wind and rain since December, had its wettest January since records began in 1766, and the rain has continued this month.

Washington document on view at Spy Museum WASHINGTON — An original letter written by George Washington that initiated a spy network during the Revolutionary War is going on display for a limited time at the International Spy Museum in Washington.

The museum says the letter was written on Feb. 4, 1777, while then-Gen. Washington was

By Rodrique Ngowi The Associated Press

NATICK, Mass. — They call it the holy grail of ready-to-eat meals for soldiers: a pizza that can stay on the shelf for as long as three years and still remain good to eat.

Soldiers have been asking for pizza since lightweight individual field rations — known as meals ready to eat, or MREs — replaced canned food in 1981 for soldiers in combat zones or areas where field kitchens cannot be set up.

Researchers at a U.S. military lab in Massachusetts are closing in on a recipe that doesn’t require any refrigeration or freezing.

“You can basically take the pizza, leave it on the counter, packaged, for three years and it’d still be edible,” said Michelle Richardson,

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The arctic siege gripping the Upper Midwest has turned most of the Great Lakes into vast frozen plains blanketed in white. At Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in northern Wisconsin, caves formed over centuries along the Lake Superior shoreline by crashing waves, freezing and thawing have been transformed into showplaces for dazzling natural ice sculptures. The caves usually are accessible only by water, but Superior’s rock-solid surface is letting people walk to them for the first time since 2009. About 35,000 have made the trek. BRIAN PETERSON/ MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

commander in chief of the Continental Army, to confidant Nathaniel Sackett, commissioning him to spy for his country as Washington’s “intelligence director.”

The museum acquired the fragile document in 2002 from Sackett’s family. The document will be on view from President’s Day weekend through March.

Georgia sheriff cancels Valentine’s Day ATLANTA — A sheriff in northeastern Georgia said he was canceling Valentine’s Day because of the bad weather, telling men they were off the hook for the romantic gifts their partners may be expecting. Sheriff Scott Berry in Oconee County took to Facebook to announce his decision after an ice storm slammed Georgia on Wednesday. Men, he wrote, “are exempt from having to run out and buy lottery scratchers and Hershey bars

a food scientist at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center.

Scientists at the Natick labs also are responsible for developing equipment and clothing that improves soldiers’ combat effectiveness and their survival, but the quest for good pizza has become known as the holy grail there.

Scientists’ efforts were long thwarted because moisture in tomato sauce, cheese and toppings migrated to the dough over time, resulting in soggy pizza that provided the perfect conditions for mold and diseasecausing bacteria to grow.

But on-and-off research over the past few years helped them figure out ways to prevent moisture from migrating. That includes using ingredients called humectants — sugar, salt and syrups can do the trick — that bind to water and keep it from getting to the dough.

But that alone would not help the pizza remain fresh for three years at 80 degrees, so

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Uganda law to put some gays in prison for life KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, officials said Friday.

Museveni announced his decision to governing party lawmakers, said government spokesman Ofwono Opondo.

Museveni’s decision was based on a report by “medical experts” presented at the retreat, saying that “homosexuality is not genetic but a social behavior,” said Opondo.

Evelyn Anite, a spokeswoman for the governing party, said the report, was prepared by more than a dozen scientists from Uganda’s Health Ministry.

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scientists tweaked the acidity of the sauce, cheese and dough to make it harder for oxygen and bacteria to thrive. They also added iron filings to the package to absorb any air remaining in the pouch.

How does it taste?

Most soldiers haven’t tried it because it’s still being developed, but Jill Bates, who runs the taste lab, said she was happy after tasting the latest prototype batch of pepperoni. She describes it as a pan pizza, with a crust that’s a little moist and not super-crispy.

“It pretty much tastes just like a typical pan pizza that you would make at home and take out of the oven or the toaster oven,” she said.

“The only thing missing from that experience would be it’s not hot when you eat it. It’s room temperature.”

Spaghetti is the most popular MRE option.

It has been on the menu since MREs were introduced, and it is the one thing that soldiers have never recommended be removed from MREs.

NEW YORK — The relentless snow and ice storms this winter have led to the highest number of flight cancellations in more than 25 years, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

U.S. airlines have canceled more than 75,000 domestic flights since Dec. 1, including more than 14,000 this week. That’s 5.5 percent of the 1.37 million flights scheduled during that period, according calculations based on information provided by flight tracking site FlightAware.

It’s the highest total number and highest percent of cancellations since at least the winter of 1987-88, when the Department of Transportation first started collecting cancellation data.

“This year is off to a brutal start for airlines and travelers,” says FlightAware CEO Daniel Baker. “Not only is each storm causing tens of thousands of cancellations, but there’s been a lot of them.”

And February still has two weeks left.

Mother Nature isn’t entirely to blame. A mix of cost-cutting measures and new government regulations has made airlines more likely to cancel flights and leave fliers scrambling to get to their destination.

There were days this week where more than 70 percent of flights were canceled in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Charlotte, N.C. Even typically warm — or at least warmer — weather cities were not immune. The world’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, was paralyzed Wednesday by ice and snow.

Making things worse for travelers this winter, airlines have been cutting unprofitable flights and packing more passengers into planes. Official statistics won’t be released for another two months but FlightAware’s figures have been historically in line with the government’s data.

“As an industry, you are prepared for bad weather but I’m not sure if you are ready for this many events back to back,” says Savanthi Syth, an airline analyst with Raymond James.

Airlines are quicker to cancel flights these days, sometimes a day in advance of a storm. The shift in strategy came in response to new government regulations, improvements to overall operations and because canceling quickly reduces expenses.

In May 2010, a new DOT rule took effect prohibiting airlines from keeping passengers on the tarmac for three hours or more. So, airlines now choose to cancel blocks of flights to avoid potential fines of up to $27,500 per passenger or $4.1 million for a typical plane holding 150 fliers.

Additionally, the government implemented a new rule at the start of January, increasing the amount of rest pilots need. “This is another behavior being forced upon them by government regulations,” says Andrew Davis, an airline analyst at T. Rowe Price.

Not all of the cancellations are tied to regulations.

Airlines have learned in recent years that while a large number of early cancellations might cause shortterm pain, it helps them better reset after the weather clears. Reservation systems now automatically rebook passengers on new flights — though not always the flight they want — and send a notification by email, phone or text message.

Keeping planes at airports outside of the storm’s path can protect equipment and thereby get flight schedules back to normal quickly after a storm passes and airports reopen. It also allows airlines to let gate agents, baggage handlers and flight crews stay home, too — keeping them fresh once they’re needed again.

There are also financial considerations. A plane circling above an airport hoping to land, or even one waiting on a taxiway, burns a lot of fuel. A decade ago, when jet fuel was $1.15 a gallon, that might not have been a major concern. Today, airlines are paying $3.03 a gallon and fuel has become their largest single cost, eclipsing salaries.

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Appeals court next step for gay marriage case WASHINGTON — With Virginia’s gay marriage ban overturned, the legal fight over same-sex unions in that state goes to a court that has shifted to the left since President Barack Obama’s election.

It’s no accident that the state has become a key testing ground for federal judges’ willingness to embrace same-sex marriage after last year’s strongly worded pro-gay rights ruling by the Supreme Court. Judges appointed by Democratic presidents have a 10-5 edge over Republicans on the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, formerly among the nation’s most conservative appeals courts.

U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen’s ruling Thursday, that same-sex couples in Virginia have the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals, represented the strongest advance in the South for advocates of gay marriage. She put her own ruling on hold while it is being appealed.

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Saturday, Feb. 15 GABE GALAMBOS: At 5:30 p.m., the author discusses The Nation by the River, his book on Crypto Jews in America at Inn on the Alameda, 303 E. Alameda St. GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT: At 9 a.m. at the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve, 27283 W. Frontage Road, a bird-identification walk led by Rocky Tucker.

LAUREN CAMP AND NATHAN BROWN: At 4 p.m.,the poets read from their respective books The Dailiness and Less Is More, More or Less at Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St. STRESS/ANGER MANAGEMENT: From 1 to 3 p.m. at Solutions Treatment Center, 1264 Rodeo Road, Jean Eva Thumm, owner of Beyond the Horizons consulting, will offer a free initial meeting for persons interested in anger and stress management. To register, all 466-4990.

NIGHTLIFE Saturday, Feb. 15 ANASAZI RESTAURANT & BAR: Guitarist Jesus Bas, 7-10 p.m., 113 Washington Ave. ¡CHISPA! AT EL MESÓN: Bert Dalton Trio, Dalton on piano, Milo Jaramillo on bass, and

Lotteries John Bartlet on drums, 7:30 p.m., 213 Washington Ave. BISHOP’S LODGE RANCH RESORT & SPA: Flamenco guitarist Joaquin Gallegos, 6 p.m., 1297 Bishops Lodge Road.

CAFÉ CAFÉ: ContemporaryLatin guitarist Ramón Bermudez, 6 p.m., 500 Sandoval St. CATHY FABER’S SWINGIN’ COUNTRY BAND: At 6 p.m., dance lesson, at 7 p.m., a Valentine’s dance party and potluck for two-step and swing dancers at Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Road.

COWGIRL BBQ: Roots and blues-infused Americana Lance Canales & The Flood, 2-5 p.m.; The Santa Fe Revue, country/R & B/bluegrass mash-up, 8:30 p.m., 319 S. Guadalupe St. DUEL BREWING: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers tribute band Petty Theft, 7-10 p.m., 1228 Parkway Drive.

EL FAROL: Rocker Sean Healen, 9 p.m., 808 Canyon Road.

HOTEL SANTA FE: Guitarist/ flutist Ronald Roybal, 7-9 p.m., 1501 Paseo de Peralta.

LA CASA SENA CANTINA: Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m., 125 E. Palace Ave. LA POSADA DE SANTA FE RESORT AND SPA: Jazz guitarist Pat Malone and vocalist Whitney Carroll Malone, 6-9 p.m., 330 E. Palace Ave.

MINE SHAFT TAVERN: Todd Tijerina Band, blues, funk, and rock, 8 p.m., 2846 N.M. 14.

PALACE RESTAURANT & SALOON: Bluesy-rock ’n’ roll band Fun Adixx, 10 p.m., 142 W. Palace Ave. PALACE RESTAURANT & SALOON: C.S. Rockshow, 9:30 p.m., 142 W. Palace Ave. SECOND STREET BREWERY: Pollo Frito, 6-9 p.m., 1814 Second St. SECOND STREET BREWERY AT THE RAILYARD: Neil Young-tribute band Drastic Andrew & The Cinnamon Girls, 7-10 p.m., 1607 Paseo de Peralta.

SWEETWATER HARVEST KITCHEN: Hawaiian slack-key guitarist John Serkin, 6 p.m., 1512 Pacheco St. Building B. TINY’S: Showcase karaoke with Nanci and Cyndi, 8:30 p.m., 1005 St. Francis Drive, Suite 117.

UPPER CRUST PIZZA: Singer/ songwriter Dana Smith, 6-9 p.m.,329 Old Santa Fe Trail.

VANESSIE: Pianists/vocalists Doug Montgomery , 6 p.m.; Bob Finnie, 8 p.m., 427 W. Water St.

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Corrections A listing for Renewable Energy Day at the Roundhouse that appeared in the Feb. 14, 2014, Pasatiempo calendar on Page 56 under Pasa Kids listed the venue as the Governor’s Gallery at the Capitol. The correct venue is the Capitol Rotunda. The information was entered incorrectly.

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U.N.: North Korea committed crimes against humanity rized to divulge the information before its formal release and who spoke on condition WASHINGTON — A U.N. of anonymity. A U.S. official, panel has found that crimes speaking anonymously for the against humanity have been same reason, confirmed the committed in North Korea and main conclusions. will call for an international The three-member commiscriminal investigation. sion, led by retired Australian A report, to be released judge Michael Kirby, was set Monday, is the most authorita- up by the U.N.’s top human tive account yet of rights viola- rights body in March in the tions by North Korean authori- most serious international ties, and it is bound to infuriate attempt yet to probe evidence the country’s unpredictable of systematic and grave rights leader. But justice remains violations in the reclusive, a distant prospect, not least authoritarian state, which as North Korea’s ally, China, is notorious for its political would be likely to block any prisons camps, repression and referral to the International famine that claimed hundreds Criminal Court. of thousands of lives in the The commission, which 1990s. conducted a yearlong invesThe report concludes that tigation, has found evidence the testimony and other inforof an array of crimes, includmation it received, “create ing “extermination,” crimes reasonable grounds … to merit against humanity against starv- a criminal investigation by a ing populations and a widecompetent national or internaspread campaign of abductions tional organ of justice.” of individuals in South Korea A spokesman for North and Japan.

Korea’s U.N. Mission in New Its report does not examine York who refused to give his in detail individual responsibil- name said: “We totally reject ity for crimes but recommends the unfounded findings of the steps toward accountability. It Commission of Inquiry regardcould also build international ing crimes against humanity. pressure on North Korea, We will never accept that.” whose dire rights record has David Hawk, a former U.N. drawn less censure at the human rights official and a U.N. than its nuclear and misleading researcher on North sile programs have. North Korean prison camps, said that Korea’s hereditary regime has legal scholars, human rights shrugged off years of continu- attorneys and nongovernment ous outside pressure, including groups have previously contough U.N. and U.S. sanctions cluded crimes against humandirected at its weapons proity have been committed but grams. that this would be the first An outline of the report’s time experts authorized by conclusions was provided to U.N. member states have made the Associated Press by an that determination. Hawk testiindividual familiar with its fied before the commission but contents who was not authohas not seen its report.

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Syrian peace talks reach impasse Rebel spokesman: Negotiations at dead end

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GENEVA — Peace talks aimed at forging a path out of Syria’s civil war have reached an impasse — with no guarantee of continuing — after five days of sparring over responsibility for mounting violence back home and President Bashar Assad’s future, government and opposition delegates said Friday.

Echoing the position of the rival camps, senior U.S. and Russian officials traded accusations over who was to blame for the stalemate, adding to the polarization of a war that has killed 130,000 people, displaced millions, destroyed a country and threatens to engulf the Middle East in religious conflict.

It was unclear Friday how long the weary sides were willing to continue with the talks, which have been on the verge of collapse since they were convened last month. Despite the rancor, both sides left the door open for more negotiations, including a possible final session Saturday before breaking up.

A senior U.S. official acknowledged that “talks for show make no sense” but told reporters there was still “enormous” energy for a political solution, adding that perhaps what was

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The official spoke only on condition of anonymity in keeping with rules established by the U.S. administration.

Both the U.S. and Russia have kept the talks going, knowing that it was the only option on the table — at least for now.

The rebellion against Assad’s rule has been sapped by deadly infighting among moderates, Islamic groups and al-Qaidainspired militants competing for control of territory, weapons and influence. Assad’s forces are solidifying gains, but the battle lines are largely stalemated — leading to a growing sense internationally that neither side is close to victory.

For the Americans, backing down from a threat to strike militarily following a chemical weapons attack in August has left the Obama administration with little choice but to pursue a diplomatic track to end the carnage.

The opposition, which holds little sway among the dozens of rebel groups on the ground, is under pressure to come away with a deal rather than risk Assad holding on to power in a grinding war of attrition.

“Unfortunately we have reached a dead end,” said opposition spokesman Louay Safi following separate meetings Friday

between U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi with opposition and government delegations. “I hope we can still find an opening in that wall,” he added, saying that for now government “belligerence” was making it impossible to forge ahead.

Safi said it was too early to say whether there would be a third round of talks.

Syria’s deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, also announced “with deep regret” that the talks were not going anywhere.

“We came to Geneva to implement Syria’s declared position to reach a political solution to the crisis. … Unfortunately the other side came with another agenda, an unrealistic agenda,” he said.

The charges underscored just how far out of reach a political solution for Syria’s ruinous civil war remains. It also demonstrates the clashing interests that go far beyond Syria’s

borders to the warring sides’ international sponsors — Russia and the United States —which both have their own interests in pushing the negotiations.

U.S. and U.N. officials have said merely getting the two sides in the same room was something of a victory. Some credit the talks, now in their second round in Geneva, with leading to an evacuation of hundreds of civilians from the embattled Syrian city of Homs.

Other than that they yielded little more than acrimony.

That’s largely because the Syrian delegates have a fundamentally different interpretation of what the talks are about.

The Western-backed Syrian National Coalition agreed to the Geneva talks only if the focus were on an end to the Assad dynasty through the establishment of a transitional governing body. The Damascus contingent zeroed in on fighting terrorism before anything else.

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Senate passes state minimum-wage amendment Measure likely to face harder fight in House

By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

New Mexico voters would decide in November whether to increase the state’s minimum wage under a measure passed Friday by the state Senate.

However, Senate Joint Resolution 13, sponsored by Sen. Richard Martinez, D-Española, will face a much harder time in the House of Representatives, where the political composition is much closer than it is in the Senate.

The amendment — which would raise the minimum wage to $8.30 an hour next year and provide for automatic annual increases based on the cost of living — passed the Senate on a near party-line vote of 24-17. Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, joined all Senate Republicans in voting against the measure, while all other Democrats voted for it.

Raising the minimum wage is one of the Democrats’ major priorities of the session. “The constitution protects business,” said Sen. Jacob Candelaria, D-Albuquerque. “It also should

protect workers.”

According to the state constitution, to get on the ballot, a proposed amendment must get a majority of elected members of both chambers. In the House, that would be 36 votes.

But because two House Democrats have been unable to attend the current session due to medical problems, Democrats only have 35 votes. House Republican Whip Nate Gentry said his caucus is steadfastly opposed to using the constitution to raise the wage.

“It will have a far more difficult time in the House,” Gentry said about the proposed amendment.

Rep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, admitted it won’t be easy to get the 36 votes. “But it’s worth a try,” he said. “It’s worth the fight.”

Last year, the Legislature passed a bill, also sponsored by Sen. Martinez, that would have increased the minimum wage to $8.50 for most workers in the state. That, however, was vetoed

by Gov. Susana Martinez.

Sen. Martinez has said that a main reason he introduced the proposed wage increase as a constitutional amendment was because he thought the governor would veto the measure again if it was in the form of a bill. Governors have no power to veto constitutional amendments.

Reports show mining group threw week’s priciest party

By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

The days are growing longer in the current session of the Legislature, so there are fewer available hours for receptions. Still, spending by various lobbyists on food, beverages and entertainment continues.

According to expense reports filed in the past week, there are still plenty of opportunities for socializing on the lobbyists’ dime.

State law mandates that while the Legislature is in session, lobbyists must report expenditures larger than $500 within 48 hours. Another law limits gifts from lobbyists to $250 per legislator.

The most expensive single event that showed up in the reports this week was the annual Legislative Reception & Dinner at the Santa Fe Hilton on Feb. 5, put on by the New Mexico Mining Association. According to the report, filed by lobbyist Michael Bowen, this event cost $15,751.

All legislators, as well as the governor and lieutenant governor, were invited.

Another reception was at the Pink Abode on Feb. 10, paid for by The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the labor union for professional stagehands and movie technicians.

This event cost the union $5,197.

A Jan. 28 reception at the Rio Chama Steakhouse was paid for by Conservation Voters New Mexico at a cost of $3,948.

Often, the meals for lawmakers don’t take place at hotels and restaurants. Cynthia Laubacher, a lobbyist for Express Scripts, spent $3,932 for lunch at the Capitol on Feb. 5 for all lawmakers and floor staff.

Edwards H. Reese, a Denver-based lobbyist for United Healthcare Services, spent $2,247 Feb. 7 on a breakfast at Rio Chama for the House and Senate Indian Affairs committees.

Marla Shoats, a lobbyist for the New Mexico Wine Growers and the New Mexico Brewers Guild, spent $2,375 for a reception at the Inn at Loretto.

Lobbyist Kent Cravens, who works for the New Mexico Oil & Gas Association, contributed $2,000 to the annual “100th Bill Party,” which took place Feb. 10 at the Eldorado Hotel. Bill Fulginiti of the New Mexico Municipal League also kicked in $500 for this party. Reportedly, there were other sponsors of this event, but Cravens and Fulginiti were the only lobbyists to file reports by Friday.

Vanessa Alarid spent $528 on a birthday party at Rio Chama. Some legislators attended. Alarid lobbies for 13 clients. The report doesn’t specify whether this expense was on behalf of any of those clients or if she spent her own money on the party.

After all these meals, legislators have to remember to take care of their teeth. Fortunately, Joseph Menapace, a lobbyist for the New Mexico Dental Association, on Feb. 6 spent $1,790 on a gift for legislators that he described in his report as “oral health.” Menapace couldn’t be reached for comment Friday to explain what the gift actually was. But new electric toothbrushes have been seen on legislators’ desks in recent days.

The New Mexican tracks lobbyist reports during legislative sessions. The final one will be published in about a week.

The Senate passed a measure Friday that would let voters decide on whether to raise the state’s minimum wage to $8.30 an hour. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Gentry noted that the governor had agreed to sign a bill that raised the minimum wage from $7.50 an hour to $7.80, but Democrats wouldn’t agree. “So the workers lost that $7.80” In the Senate debate, several Democrats used Santa Fe as

Legislative roundup Days remaining in session: 5 Indigent care funding: The Legislature’s latest attempt to sidestep threatened hospital closures would grant counties authority to raise taxes by 0.125 percent for up to three years to pay for care for indigent patients.

The Senate Finance Committee on Friday overhauled Senate Bill 268 before passing it to the Senate floor on a vote of 8-2 with a “do pass” recommendation. The committee raised the proposed county taxing authority in the bill from 0.083 percent, prompting sponsor Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, D-Santa Fe, to vote against her own bill.

Counties, hospitals and the New Mexico Human Services Department have been negotiating with bill sponsors throughout the legislative session. Together, they’re trying to find $45 million that could be leveraged for a 3-to-1 match in federal funds.

The state’s Sole Community Provider program, funded by counties, currently pays for indigent care but will be discontinued, forcing hospitals to seek another revenue stream.

“We have 29 hospitals that are on the bubble,” said committee Chairman Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, putting the dilemma in perspective. “Four to seven of them could be closed in the next six to eight months.”

A $9 million contribution from the state in the proposed budget, coupled with a 0.083 percent county tax, would have raised an estimated $36 million, $9 million less than the target. Rather than

an example of a place where increasing the minimum wage has been good for the economy.

Sen. Michael Padilla said restaurants in the city seem to be thriving so much that one might suspect there never was a recession here.

offering hospitals lower increases in Medicaid reimbursements next year, the bill was amended to let counties raise sufficient taxes to pay the full amount.

That was not the counties’ preference, and that’s why Rodriguez objected. Some members of the committee criticized the Human Services Department for failing to account for the shortfall in its budget request to avoid the latesession panic.

If the Senate passes the bill, it still must pass through the House.

Revenge porn: Spurned lovers trying to shame their former partners with photographic images would be committing a crime in New Mexico under proposed legislation.

A bill to make the growing problem of publishing “revenge porn” a crime in New Mexico advanced late Thursday. The House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee unanimously voted to give a “do pass” recommendation to House Bill 238, sponsored by Rep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, with amendments to clarify its intent.

“Ex-boyfriends are going online and posting nude pictures of their ex-girlfriends with the intent of harassing, demeaning, embarrassing them,” Egolf said. He did not cite any examples in New Mexico.

The bill’s original wording concerned some groups, including the New Mexico Press Association (The Santa Fe New Mexican is a member), that it would subject newspapers and photographers to prosecution if they used photos without subjects’ permission. Egolf said more amendments are planned to exempt organizations that meet the legal definition of a general circulation newspaper.

The amended bill would prohibit online or digital distribution — by phone, for instance — without per-

Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, agreed and pointed out that many of the arguments opponents were raising against the constitutional amendment — that the minimum-wage increase would hurt businesses, raise prices and cause layoffs —

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mission of nude photos intended to harass, humiliate or intimidate someone. Egolf told the panel the legislation’s intent is to prevent anyone from maliciously disseminating photos that were taken during private, intimate moments.

A first offense would constitute a misdemeanor. A second offense would be a felony under the bill.

The bill now awaits a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee.

Two still on deck: Sen. Linda Lopez promised Friday that two high-profile Cabinet nominees will receive confirmation hearings before this legislative session ends.

Hanna Skandera, secretarydesignate of public education, has been waiting for a Senate confirmation vote since taking office in January 2011. Ryan Flynn, secretary-designate of the Environment Department, has been running the agency since last April. Flynn formerly was general counsel of the Environment Department.

The Rules Committee, which Lopez chairs, must hold hearings on Cabinet nominees before the full Senate can vote on them.

Lopez, D-Albuquerque, is a candidate for governor in addition to being chairwoman of the Rules Committee. She would not commit to a specific date for the hearings.

The legislative session ends at noon Thursday.

had been used against Santa Fe’s “living wage” initiative.

Republicans didn’t buy it.

Rep. Bill Burt, R-Alamogordo said many restaurants in his town are struggling. “We are not Santa Fe, where tourists who have disposable incomes can afford the higher prices,” Burt said.

Santa Fe’s minimum wage will go up to $10.66 an hour March 1, while the minimum in the city of Albuquerque now stands at $8.60 an hour.

There is another piece of minimum-wage legislation, House Bill 213, sponsored by Rep. Luciano “Lucky” Varela, D-Santa Fe, that would increase the state minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and have annual increases based on the U.S. Consumer Price Index. However, that bill has yet to get a committee hearing.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 21 states plus Washington, D.C., have minimum wages that are above the federal minimum of $7.25.

New Mexico’s minimum wage hasn’t changed since 2009.

Contact Steve Terrell at sterrell@sfnewmexican.com.

Read his political blog at roundhouseroundup.com.

Lopez actually started Skandera’s hearing last year. The Rules Committee heard 10 hours of testimony and argument about Skandera across three days before Lopez recessed the hearing without a vote.

Jennings returns: Former state senator Tim Jennings sat with his old colleagues Friday as they confirmed him for a seat on the State Investment Council. The vote was 39-0.

Jennings, a Democrat from Roswell, served in the Senate from 1979 until his defeat in the 2012 election.

Senators also unanimously confirmed Harold Lavender of Albuquerque to another term on the State Investment Council. Lavender and Jennings both were appointed by the Legislative Council, a panel of state lawmakers.

Live from Santa Fe: Former Saturday Night Live cast member Ana Gasteyer visited the Roundhouse on Friday. Lt. Gov. John Sanchez posed for a photo with the comedic actress and posted it on Twitter.

Pearce returns: U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., returned to familiar country Friday when he was recognized on the floor of the New Mexico House of Representatives, where he served from 1997-2000.

Pearce reportedly distributed copies of his book, Just Fly the Plane, Stupid!, to current lawmakers.

Looking ahead: The House of Representatives will meet at noon Saturday. u The Senate will meet at 11 a.m.

Saturday.

Quote of the day: “If the minimum wage is raised nationally, then the Koch brothers will have to lay off 17 congressmen.” — Sen. Cisco McSorley, D-Albuquerque, during the Senate on a proposed constitutional amendment to raise the state minimum wage.

The New Mexican

University regent selection measure fails supported the amendment.

The sponGov. Susana Martinez’s power sor, Rep. Jeff to select university regents will Steinborn, D-Las remain intact.

Cruces, conceded Members of the House of Repredefeat. “I would sentatives on Friday rejected a prosay it’s done for posed constitutional amendment this year,” he said to weaken the governor’s authority Jeff of the proposal, Steinborn in choosing members of university House Joint Resogoverning boards. lution 7.

Though 32 House members Steinborn said he was disapvoted for the amendment and pointed that the question of how 27 opposed it, the proposal failed. regents should be chosen broke To make the general election baldown along party lines. lot, a constitutional amendment “They wanted to protect the requires a majority of those elected governor, and that’s unfortunate,” in each chamber of the Legislature. he said.

For the House of Representatives, Rep. Nate Gentry, the Republithat is 36 votes. can whip from Albuquerque, voted With only 35 Democratic House for Steinborn’s regent bill last year. members healthy enough to serve, But he was one of the Republicans the measure needed Republican who opposed it this time. support to advance. Instead, all “It was something I needed to 27 votes against the amendment look over. When I did, I thought it was a more parochial approach to were by Republicans, the governor’s political party. No Republican selecting regents,” Gentry said.

By Milan Simonich The New Mexican

Steinborn’s proposal would have created nominating committees to recommend candidates for boards of regents. The committees would have forwarded the governor a list of finalists, and she would have been obligated to select regents from that group, Steinborn said.

The nominating committees would have included residents of the city where a university is located, as well as students and faculty members.

Under existing law, the governor can choose anyone she wants for university governing boards, though the state Senate must confirm her choices.

Steinborn said governors of both political parties had used regent appointments as political plums, handing them to friends and political donors. He said states that have no qualifications for regents do not attract the best talent.

“We need the most dynamic people running our universities,”

Under current law, the governor can choose anyone she wants for university boards, though the state Senate must confirm her choices.

Steinborn said.

Rep. Alonzo Baldonado, R-Los Lunas, said he voted against the bill because it could restrict the talent pool for regent seats. Nominating committees could have a regional bent, rather than a statewide focus, he said.

Contact Milan Simonich at 9863080 or msimonich@sfnewmexican. com. Follow his Ringside Seat blog at santafenewmexican.com.

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Saturday, February 15, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

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Electric: Bill caps amount of discounted power utilities can offer Continued from Page A-1

salaries of $40,000 or higher. u Commits to staying in “Moe” Maestas, D-Albuquerthe state for at least a decade. que. “We just want to attract The company could only get businesses that we think are the reduced electricity rate for best for our economy, that hire seven years. in state and sell out of state,” u Uses at least 2 megawatts Maestas said. of electricity Some lawmakers, regulators u Has invested or will invest and advocates say the bill is at least $5 million in fixed assets unfair by making families and in New Mexico, including small-business customers pay machinery. more for electricity. u Plans to sell at least 50 per“We’re obviously not against cent of its product out of state. economic development, but u Agrees to pay back all of its the way the bill is structured discount to the utility if it does doesn’t protect other ratepaynot meet obligations. ers,” said Liliana Castillo, comPNM’s industrial electricAntonio ‘Moe’ Maestas, D-Albuquerque, speaks on the House munications manager for Confloor Friday in support of a bill that would let electric compa- ity rates already are fairly low, servation Voters New Mexico. nies use rate cuts to draw large customers to the state, while ranking fifth out of 20 regional “We think the intentions of the raising rates for other customers to pay for the difference. cities. “The issue isn’t the rates, bill are good. We’re not OK with Majority Leader Rick Miera, D-Albuquerque, is shown on the but rather the fact that we canthe execution.” right. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN not at this time offer an incenOnly Public Service Comtive as more than 44 utilities in pany of New Mexico, the largest could offer incentives the way reduced rate.

29 states can,” spokeswoman power utility in the state, and cable companies do — without A company would qualify for Valerie Smith said.

El Paso Electric would be able charging their other customers: the reduced electricity rate if it: HB 296 only had to win to offer the discounted rate to Hook new customers with a u Hires at least 20 people at approval in one House commitcommercial customers. The bill deep discount, and then charge allows the utilities to negotiate them more when the contract is private contracts with comparenewed. nies without limiting the size “Why is rate recovery necesof the rate discount. There’s sary?” he asked during the floor also no limit on how much residebate. “Shouldn’t the utility dential and small-businesses bear the risk, instead of passing customers will have to pay to it to other customers?” subsidize the discounted rate Public Regulation Commisfor larger businesses. sioner Valerie Espinoza, who The bill does cap the amount represents District 3, including of power the utilities can offer 3889 Academy Road, Santa Fe at a discounted rate to 5 percent Santa Fe, said she is completely www. AcademySS.com opposed to the bill because it of the total retail power sold.

• Masonry & Steel Construction limits the commission’s authorMaestas said the discounted • Well-Lit Grounds ity to protect customers in rate rate for large businesses would • Pin Access Only cases. The bill requires the PRC cost other ratepayers an esti• Limited Insulated Units to grant the discounted rate for mated 0.2 cents more for every • Remote DVR Surveillance a company without a public • Resident on Site 600 kilowatt-hours used, or hearing and within 30 days after • Member of the SSA, NAPW about $3.24 a month, based on • BBB Accredited a contract has been signed with estimates.

• Month to Month But bill opponents say at this a utility company.

• No Deposits “This is not a good bill for point, it is impossible to know • Accept Visa and Mastercard District 3 residential consumers exactly how much more PNM • Hablamos Español and small businesses who will and El Paso Electric customers be picking up the tab,” Espinoza will have to pay to subsidize a said. “Who in their right minds discounted rate for large busiwould be against economic nesses. development? Certainly not me, The bill passed on a 47-17 but not if it is at the expense of vote. Rep. Jim Trujillo, D-Santa others.”

Fe, voted for the bill, calling it Under the bill, a company “a wonderful tool” for attracting will apply for a certificate from businesses. the state Economic DevelopRep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Serving Santa Fe For Over 23 Years! ment Department to get the Fe, said it seemed like utilities

Declutter and Store it.

We’re obviously not against “ economic development, but the

way the bill is structured doesn’t protect other ratepayers. We think the intentions of the bill are good.

We’re not OK with the execution.”

Liliana Castillo communications manager for Conservation Voters New Mexico

tee before reaching the House floor. A similar Senate bill, SB 283, has been approved in two Senate committees and moves next to Senate Judiciary.

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2014 LEGISLATURE

Senator backs off plan to oppose gov. picks

By Milan Simonich The New Mexican

The state Senate majority leader on Friday publicly called a Cabinet secretary “disrespectful,” but backed off his plan to vote against confirming all of Gov. Susana Martinez’s department heads.

Sen. Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, said he had intended to oppose each of Martinez’s Cabinet appointees because of the conduct of Sidonie Squier, who heads the Michael Human SerSanchez vices Department.

Squier appeared before a legislative committee last summer, after she cut public funding to 15 mental health agencies that she was investigating on “credible allegations of fraud.” She walked out of the hearing as an objection to legislators questioning her fairness.

Sanchez said Squier’s actions were a slap at the legislative branch and its responsibility to examine the work of state agencies.

He criticized Squier on Friday during a hearing of the Senate Rules Committee, which was considering the confirmation of another Cabinet member, Tom Church of the Department of Transportation.

Squier’s spokesman later returned the criticism, saying, “Sen. Michael Sanchez has demonstrated all session that he is not above blatant political grandstanding. Secretary Squier has worked to expand Medicaid to up to 205,000 New Mexicans, implemented the largest IT project in state history successfully, and rooted out overbilling and identified potential fraud in the behavioral health system.”

Sanchez voted with every other senator to confirm Church. Sanchez said he changed his mind on blanket rejection of Cabinet members because Church had done a good job and was responsive to the public.

A resolution of “no confidence” in Squier is still on the Senate calendar, but Sanchez has not called it for a vote.

Contact Milan Simonich at 986-3080 or msimonich@ sfnewmexican.com.

Obama plans $1B climate change fund

By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Lenny Bernstein

tional drought.

Obama is expected to release his proThe Washington Post posed 2015 budget in early March.

The prospects for the climate fund FRESNO, Calif. — President Barack are uncertain in a Republican-conObama said Friday that he will propose trolled House. But Obama, who made a $1 billion fund in his fiscal 2015 budget preparation for climate change one of to help communities prepare for the the major themes of the climate action effects of climate change and to fund plan he released in June, will continue research and technology to protect to press for the need to adapt, accordagainst its impact. ing to the White House.

The president announced the “cliObama also announced a series of mate resilience fund” during a meeting near-term measures to help Western with farmers and ranchers in Fresno, farmers and ranchers recover from the Calif., who have been severely affected drought, which is now in its third year. by a drought in the state’s San Joaquin They include $100 million in liveValley. stock disaster assistance for CaliforAs of Tuesday, 91.6 percent of the state was experiencing severe or excep- nia feed producers, $60 million for

food banks to help California families affected by the water shortage and $15 million in conservation assistance for Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico, as well as California.

Cities across the country are formulating and, in some cases, enacting their own plans to protect against rising water, increased temperatures and more frequent severe weather.

New York City, for example, announced last year a $19.5 billion plan to protect its 520 miles of shoreline against rising sea waters, and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana released a $50 billion plan in 2012.

Obama would spend the $1 billion

to “better understand the projected impacts of climate change,” encourage local action to reduce future risk, and fund technology and infrastructure that will be more resilient to climate change, according to briefing documents released by the White House.

Paul Bledsoe, senior fellow on energy and society at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, said that Democrats and Republicans in Congress “don’t have to agree” on whether the combustion of fossil fuels is causing climate change.

“We just need to agree we have a problem that must be dealt with,” said Bledsoe, who was an Interior Department official under President Bill Clinton.

Pot: Move designed to hold legal sellers accountable Continued from Page A-1 vulnerable to criminals. And governments that allow marijuana sales want a channel to receive taxes.

But a leading financial services trade group immediately expressed misgivings and others, too, said the guidelines don’t go far enough in protecting banks.

“After a series of red lights, we expected this guidance to be a yellow one,” said Don Childears, president and CEO of the Colorado Bankers Association. “This isn’t close to that. At best, this amounts to ‘serve these customers at your own risk’ and it emphasizes all of the risks. This light is red.”

Washington and Colorado in 2012 became the first states to approve recreational use of marijuana. A group is hoping to make Alaska the third state in the nation to do so.

Currently, processing money from marijuana sales puts federally insured banks at risk of drug racketeering charges, so they’ve refused to open accounts for marijuana-related businesses.

Friday’s move was designed to let financial insti-

tutions serve such businesses while ensuring that they know their customers’ legitimacy and remain obligated to report possible criminal activity, said the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN. But in response, the American Bankers Association said “guidance or regulation doesn’t alter the underlying challenge for banks. As it stands, possession or distribution of marijuana violates federal law, and banks that provide support for those activities face the risk of prosecution and assorted sanctions.”

The group says banks will only be comfortable serving marijuana businesses if federal prohibitions on the drug are changed in law.

Denny Eliason, a lobbyist for the Washington Bankers Association, said it will take some time before banks decide whether to take advantage of the guidance. He called it a good first step, but said it sets forth a complicated process for the banks to follow — for example, by filing suspicious activity reports designated “marijuana limited” in the case of business that seem to be complying with the rules, and “mari-

juana priority” for those acting questionably.

“They’ll have to have a real awareness of the activities of their customers,” he said.

State banking regulators in Colorado and Washington appear to believe that mainly small and mediumsized banks will be interested in handling financial transactions with legal marijuana stores, not the big ones, a FinCEN official said, speaking only on condition of anonymity to talk about internal deliberations.

“This is a decision that each financial institution needs to make on its own,” the official said. “We feel quite comfortable that we have acted within the scope of our authority” and therefore don’t expect legal challenges to the new procedures.

FinCEN writes the rules that U.S. financial institutions must follow to help protect the system from money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

The office said it expects financial institutions to perform thorough customer due diligence on marijuana businesses and file reports that will be valuable to law enforcement.

Abuse: New Mexico sixth worst state for child deaths Continued from Page A-1 New Mexico’s already fragile safety net.

New Mexico’s glaringly high poverty rate and cultural shifts to encourage more collaboration among the state’s social workers, police departments and district attorneys are places to start, said Michael Petit, president of the nonprofit group Every Child Matters and a member of the new federal commission charged with recommending a national strategy for preventing deaths child abuse and neglect deaths.

“The least change that’s needed is a change in law,” Petit said. “Usually the body of law that governs any state’s system is adequate to protect children.

Then you get into the enforcement and implementation of the law, and the resources needed to fund all of that, and that’s where it starts to break down.”

Child welfare advocates say that’s what happened in the case of Omaree Varela, the 9-year-old who was found unresponsive in his family’s Albuquerque home Dec. 27.

Police were first called to a mobile phone store a year earlier after getting reports that the boy had been slapped.

Police officers and investigators with the state Children, Youth and Families Department conducted interviews and

made a home visit but couldn’t find any evidence of abuse.

About six months later, two officers went to the boy’s home in response to a 911 call in which a dispatcher overheard threatening, profane and abusive comments. The officers didn’t file a report.

The boy also had disclosed previous abuse to school officials about a year before his death. That report was investigated by CYFD, but officials there said they didn’t have any active cases involving the family at the time of the boy’s death.

In a separate case six weeks after Omaree’s death, a 19-year-old Albuquerque man was arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing and beating his girlfriend’s 4-month-old daughter.

Doctors told police they previously sent referrals to CYFD several times about the infant and her 2-year-old sister, but the agency has said none of those referrals related to physical or sexual abuse.

Democrats, including gubernatorial candidate and Attorney General Gary King, have made the latest rash of child abuse cases a campaign issue, criticizing Republican Gov. Susana Martinez over the state’s response and calling for the firing of her CYFD chief. Martinez — who prosecuted the Baby Brianna

case, one of the state’s most horrific cases of child abuse, during her tenure as a district attorney — has defended the child welfare agency.

One measure introduced in the House — dubbed “Omaree’s Bill” — would give CYFD authority to immediately take custody of a child who is found to have bruises, broken bones, burns, bites or other signs of abuse. A hearing would follow within 48 hours.

Albuquerque attorney Colin Hunter said the agency already has the ability to request a 48-hour hold through law enforcement or to seek custody through court proceedings. Hunter, who is suing the agency over alleged civil rights violations in a custody case, said many of the problems stem from incompetency within the agency.

“This is not just popping up,” he said of the problems. “It’s a very, very difficult job and it’s a very, very unpleasant job, too, for a lot of people. But it goes beyond them being overwhelmed.”

Jared Rounsville, head of CYFD’s Protective Services Division, argued that it’s a matter of having enough caseworkers and foster families to support the tens of thousands of children in the system.

If Omaree’s Bill was adopted, legislative analysts estimate the agency

would need five times the resources it has now, including an additional 4,000 full-time employees. The department has asked for 10 more employees in this year’s budget request.

The department gets anywhere between 32,000 and 34,000 reports a year. About half of those end up being screened for investigation. The numbers have been going up, officials say, because more people are watching for signs of abuse and calling authorities.

As for child abuse deaths, New Mexico rounds out the nation’s six worst states, with more than three per 100,000 children. Federal statistics show the state reported nearly 80 deaths between 2008 and 2012, but critics say the numbers for New Mexico and the rest of the nation are severely underestimated.

Each case is heartbreaking, Rounsville said.

“Our whole careers, our whole professional lives are dedicated to protecting children, so when something horrible happens to a child, we rally together and support each other, and we just try to learn everything that we can so that we can find ways to make sure we’re stretching ourselves, doing more and finding better ways of engaging the community,” he said.

Ranch: Sierra County officers investigated abuse allegations in 2012 that they were abused, beaten, shackled, and forced to exercise The ranch and its owners also as punishment and work withare named as defendants in a out pay at the ranch. Other parlawsuit filed in December by ents and youth have defended the parents of a 16-year-old boy the facility, however, saying who claims he was abused and husband-and-wife-owners exploited. That suit accuses the James Scott and Colette Chanstate Children, Youth and Fami- dler made good on promises to lies Department of failing to rehabilitate their troubled chiladdress allegations of abuse at dren, teaching them respect and the ranch dating back to 2006. helping them achieve academic The ranch — which is adversuccess. tised as a “new beginning for According to New Mexico troubled and at-risk youth” State Police spokesman Lt. — has been at the center of a Emmanuel Gutierrez, the Sierra swarm of accusations and conCounty Sheriff’s Office opened troversy since at least October, an investigation into abuse allewhen state police visited the gations at the ranch “sometime facility during an investigation in 2012” but “were unable to into the crash that killed Staecomplete the investigation,” so ger. it was transferred to state police When police learned that in May. nine boys they had hoped to Gutierrez said that investigainterview were not at the ranch, they issued an Amber Alert say- tion has been completed and forwarded to Sierra County Dising the boys were missing. The trict Attorney Clint Wellborn. boys later were located — the Wellborn said via email Friranch said they had been on a pre-scheduled outing — but the day that his office has received the case but “realized there incident brought abuse allegawere a lot interviews that still tions at the facility to light. needed to be done and records Since then, numerous media that had not been collected. So reports have detailed complaints by a number of children at this point I cannot comment

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because the case is still under investigation.”

No criminal charges have been filed against the ranch or its owners.

Attorney Pete Domenici Jr. is representing the ranch owners in a sealed action they’ve brought against CYFD, claiming the agency violated the their rights in its handling of abuse allegations.

Domenici Jr., son of longtime former Republican Sen. Pete Domenici, said his suit — pending in Sierra County — also accuses the state agency of violating the rights of parents by removing their children from the ranch and prohibiting them from allowing the children to return, based on unsubstantiated allegations of abuse.

Domenici Jr. said the program has served about 200 youth in the past decade, to great benefit.

It is still technically open for business, he said, but CYFD has essentially shut it down — it has only one participant — “by exaggerating claims of abuse.”

CYFD spokesman Henry Varela said Friday that Tierra Blanca Ranch is the subject of

an investigation at the agency and pending litigation, but said he could not offer any other details.

Varela said Bruce he could not Staeger reveal how many complaints the agency has received about the ranch or how many times the facility — located on 30,000 acres near Hillsboro — has been investigated, citing state laws that protect the privacy of children.

Varela said the state agency regulates other types of facilities that serve children — such as day care centers — and has the authority to license them and to publicly disclose complaints lodged against them. But, he said, the program at the Tierra Blanca Ranch is in a different category, partially because the parents of youth who pay to send their children there sign over guardianship to the ranch.

Varela said there are measures being considered in the

current legislative session that would address the relationship between CYFD and programs such as the one at Tierra Blanca.

Timothy White, an Albuquerque-based lawyer handling the Staeger cases, said Friday that the ranch program is “essentially a scam” whereby James Scott Chandler convinces parents to send their sons there to “get them straightened out,” and “what he’s really doing is getting paid $100 per day to have free ranch hands.”

“Before Bruce was killed, there were multiple allegations of abuse going on at the ranch that state police and Sierra County sheriffs are supposedly investigating, but there has been absolutely nothing done — and frankly, it’s outrageous,” White said. “If you or I were accused of a quarter of the things they’ve been accused of, we’d be sitting in jail right now. I don’t know why no one at the ranch is sitting in jail.”

Domenici Jr. said news accounts of the accusations being leveled at the ranch owners have “ignored the litany of parents who are pleased with

the program.”

Asked to address allegations of physical violence and shackling at the ranch — the complaint filed on behalf of Staeger says he was handcuffed and shackled and carried from a pole by his bound hands and feet “as one would carry a large, dead animal” — Domenici said no beatings take place at the ranch.

Domenici Jr. said parents who entrust their children to the facility do authorize some appropriate physical discipline.

“The parents know exactly what is going on there,” he said.

“And everything going on there is appropriate. … Beatings did not occur. There is some limited physical discipline, very carefully used.”

Domenici Jr. characterized the physical discipline as “mild spankings done by a scheduled and orderly process.”

James Scott Chandler did not respond to attempts to reach him for comment Friday.

Contact Phaedra Haywood at 986-3068 or phaywood@ sfnewmexican.com.

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LOCAL NEWS One teen found, one still missing Girl, 16, not harmed, back home; other girl, 15, last seen Monday

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

One of two teenage girls recently reported missing in the city was found Friday afternoon by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.

Lt. William Pacheco, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said 16-year-old April Vigil was found “uninjured and safe,” although he

April Vigil

Gulissa Venzor

declined to say where she was found. Vigil is a student at the Academy at Larragoite.

By Friday afternoon, Vigil was returned home safely.

The sheriff’s office reported

Thursday that Vigil was last seen Jan. 31 on Morris Place, near the LaFarge Branch Library, and originally was listed as a runaway, according to a news release.

Pacheco said deputies received several tips on Vigil’s whereabouts, but it’s unclear if they led to her discovery.

The second girl, Gulissa Venzor, 15, was last seen Monday at Santa Fe High School.

Celina Westervelt, a police department spokeswoman, said the girl might be with a boyfriend.

Venzor is described as 5-foot-5

and 117 pounds with brown, highlighted hair.

Venzor’s parents said the teen ran away from home Feb. 1, but she attended classes at Santa Fe High School through Monday.

Westervelt said the police department has received few tips on her whereabouts.

Police have asked that anyone with information about Venzor call the Regional Emergency Communications Center at 4283710.

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

Gorden Eden, left, shown with his wife, Mary, is introduced Friday as Albuquerque’s new police chief. RUSSELL CONTRERAS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Public safety head is new Albuquerque police chief Eden to guide department as it emerges from federal investigation after claims of excessive force

By Russell Contreras The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico Public Safety Secretary Gorden Eden was named Friday to lead the troubled Albuquerque Police Department as it works to emerge from a federal probe into allegations of excessive force and dozens of police shootings.

Mayor Richard Berry announced the selection of Eden as police chief after a national search that attracted 45 applicants and two other finalists from Dallas and Houston. Eden also is a former U.S. marshal for New Mexico.

“He is the right man for the right time,” said Berry, who introduced Eden and his family at a news Richard Berry, conference. “I need a head Albuquerque mayor coach.”

Eden replaces former Chief Ray Schultz, who retired last year as calls mounted for reform of the department and after the U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation into allegations involving excessive force and three dozen shootings by police since 2010.

Critics have blamed the problems on a departmental culture that fosters brutality.

Ralph Arellanes, state director for the League of United Latin American Citizens, has been among those leading the call for reform. He said he will take a “wait and see” approach.

“We still need to review his record as secretary and will look forward to working with him,” Arellanes

He is “ the right

man for the right time. I need a head coach.”

Edwardo Beltran watches longtime Plaza balloon artist John Duke create a Valentine’s Day gift for his wife on Friday. Duke is among many regulars who busk on the Plaza. While the site is a hot spot for artists and entertainers, the city hasn’t found anyone to purchase its single license for a portrait artist to work on the Plaza during warmer months. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Portrait license goes unused Santa Fe Plaza artist permit has been available since end of 2012 The New Mexican

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anta Fe may have lots of artists, but City Hall hasn’t had any takers for a license to make portraits on the Plaza.

The last person to hold the license was Anna Vanderlaan, doing business as The Drawn Portrait, but she gave it up at the end of 2012, according to Jennifer Martinez of the city’s Office of Constituent Services, which oversees the program.

Martinez said the artist surrendered the license because she wasn’t able to meet a requirement to show up on the Plaza for at

least 15 days a month during good weather between March and October.

The license remains available, for $750 a year, for the rest of its five-year term, which means it would be valid from April of this year through December 2017.

The person who held the position the longest was Al Chapman, a former ad salesman for The New Mexican who did caricatures on the Plaza for 27 years before retiring in 1997.

The city defines a portrait artist as an one who “creates portraits, cartoons, caricatures or silhouettes in the Plaza Park while the sub-

ject poses or from a photograph.”

The city recently issued an invitation for applications from artists, who must be residents of Santa Fe County.

Application forms can be picked up at City Hall, 200 Lincoln Ave., or downloaded from the city website, www.santafenm.gov.

Martinez said there is a nonrefundable $50 application fee. Applications must be hand-delivered by a 5 p.m. March 14 deadline.

If multiple applications are received, Martinez said, she would hire a panel of jurors to determine who should get the license.

Chimayó homeowners win court fight State high court strikes down foreclosure attempt, says home loan violated N.M. law

By Uriel J. Garcia

The New Mexican

A Chimayó couple will be allowed to keep their home following a long court battle against a New York bank that had foreclosed on their mortgage after the couple couldn’t afford the payments, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Joseph and Mary Romero had argued in court that the original lender had used deceptive marketing to encourage them to borrow more than they had the ability to repay.

The Bank of New York, meanwhile, claimed it bought the mortgage from the original lender and later moved to foreclose after the Romeros failed to make payments.

But the court ruled that the

bank failed to prove the loan was properly transferred, and also decided the original loan did not comply with New Mexico law, which “prohibits home mortgage refinancing that does not provide a reasonable, tangible net benefit to the borrower.”

Daniel Yohalem, one of the attorneys representing the Romeros, hailed the court’s ruling. “It was wonderful decision by our court for homeowners in New Mexico and across the country,” he said.

The couple had taken out a new mortgage on their home with Equity One Inc. and had used the money to pay off their debts.

The $227,240 loan had an initial interest rate of 8.1 percent, which increased to 14 percent.

In addition to the money

the Romeros borrowed, the couple owed late charges, escrow advances and other fees.

At issue in the case was that the loan didn’t benefit the couple, and that the lender never verified whether they had enough income to make the larger monthly payment, $1,683, compared with $1,256 on the original note.

The Bank of New York, which said it had purchased the loan from Equity One, filed a complaint in the First Judicial District Court in 2008, claiming it had the right to foreclose on the property.

The bank was able to convince lower courts that it owned the mortgage, but the Supreme Court ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to show the loan was properly sold.

As the case made its way through the courts, the bank tried to evict the couple from the Chimayó house.

But the Romeros and the bank came to an agreement for a $300-a-month rent payment until the litigation was decided.

Yohalem argued that since the court ruled the bank does not own the couple’s mortgage, it should not have been charging them rent to remain in their home.

The bank also tried to argue that state consumer laws don’t supersede federal regulations, but the Supreme Court ruled that isn’t the case.

The New Mexico Home Loan Protection Act says lenders must ensure customers have enough income to repay loans.

The court said federal laws do allow certain state consumer laws, like the New Mexico act, to protect individuals.

Contact Uriel J. Garcia at 9863062 or ugarcia@sfnewmexican. com. Follow him on Twitter at @ ujohnnyg.

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Asphalt firm’s owners lose latest round in court Proposed ruling says Montoyas do not have right to appeal decision denying motion to dismiss charges

By Robert Nott The New Mexican

The state Court of Appeals issued a proposed ruling Wednesday suggesting the owners of a local asphalt company don’t have the right to appeal a District Court decision denying their motion for dismissal of fraud charges against them.

The court’s proposal is not a final decision.

The defendants — Advantage Asphalt and Seal Coating owners Joe Anthony Montoya and Marlene Montoya — have 20 days from the proposal’s file date to respond.

Advantage Asphalt has conducted millions of dollars in contract work for both the city and county of Santa Fe over the past decade. A grand jury indicted the Montoyas in February 2012 on hundreds of counts of fraud, racketeering and bribery for reported transgressions related to jobs the company did for the county. Those charges remain pending, and the couple has pleaded not guilty.

In August 2013, the Montoyas asked the District Court to drop the charges against them, arguing that when sheriff’s deputies seized about $110,000 of their money from their home during a search in 2010, it amounted to a pre-conviction punishment — or double jeopardy. That claim was dismissed by District Judge James Hall, and the Montoyas then appealed the ruling.

The appeals court proposal, written by Judge M. Monica Zamora, notes that the seized money is “not the evidence of any alleged crime” and that the case has not yet been heard in a criminal court.

“Nothing has occurred in this case to trigger jeopardy attaching,” Zamora wrote, urging the court to “dismiss Defendants’ appeal for lack of a final, appealable order.”

A call to Sam Bregman, an attorney for the Montoyas, was not returned on Friday.

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THE NEW MEXICAN Saturday, February 15, 2014

In brief

Ex-PRC commissioner Block pleads not guilty Former Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge that he had violated his probation by testing positive for cocaine and opiates.

District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer released him on electronic monitoring until a hearing can be held in the case, according to Block’s attorney, Tom Clark.

Block, 37, was arrested for a probation violation Feb. 6 and had been held without bond since, according to Santa Fe County jail records.

Block was sentenced to four and a half years of probation and electronic monitoring in March 2011, after being convicted of multiple charges, including fraudulent use of his state credit card, identity theft, embezzlement of public funds and violating campaign finance laws during his 2008 campaign.

He has acknowledged struggling

with addiction issues.

Clark said Friday he believes the judge allowed his client to be released from jail because Block suffers from chronic myeloid leukemia, which makes him especially susceptible to infection.

involved in several livestock kills.

Environmentalists are criticizing the removal order.

Plan calls for freeing 2 Mexican wolf pairs

Santa Fe County is in the process of adopting a new Economic Development Plan and is seeking public comments. The draft plan was presented to county commissioners Feb. 11.

The draft economic plan is available online at www.santafecountynm.gov under Hot Topics, along with a copy of the proposed appendix. Santa Fe County will be accepting public comment through Feb. 28.

To submit a comment, email dgriscom@santafecountynm.gov.

County seeks input on economic plan

ALBUQUERQUE — Wildlife managers are planning to release two pairs of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona, but efforts also are underway to capture a wolf in New Mexico.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Arizona Game and Fish Department outlined their release plan Friday, saying the pairs will boost the population’s genetic diversity.

After being captured in January, the two male wolves from the wild were paired with two captive females.

The pairs are being watched for breeding behavior and will be released in the spring prior to giving birth.

Federal officials also plan to remove one of the predators from southwestern New Mexico.

Officials say an uncollared wolf with the Fox Mountain pack has been

who had been in the Las Cruces area since the 1990s.

Police say Livasy originally was from Michigan, his family has been notified and information obtained from them supports the preliminary identification.

The body was discovered Jan. 27 in a drainage culvert underneath Interstate 25.

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LAS CRUCES — The Army’s White Sands Missile Range in Southern New Mexico is preparing to lose some of its personnel.

The Army announced last year that it will deactivate the 600-soldier 2nd Engineer Battalion now based at White Sands as part of a worldwide restructuring.

According to the Las Cruces SunNews, preparations to deactivate the battalion are now underway, starting with departure of the battalion’s 599th Sapper Company and its 95 soldiers.

The missile range’s commander, Maj. Gen. Gwen Bingham, says there are discussions about finding another unit to replace the engineering battalion at White Sands.

However, Bingham says those are in preliminary stages and that nothing has been decided.

TULSA, Okla. — The Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa is exhibiting a selection of works by artist Allan Houser to commemorate the centennial of his birth.

The exhibition, titled, Form and Line: Allan Houser’s Sculpture and Drawings, opened Thursday and continues until June 29.

Museum directors say a collection of his sculptures, sketchbooks and charcoal and pastel drawings on display LAS CRUCES — Authorities say a will honor the life of Houser, a Chiricapartially burned body found last month hua Apache artist. near the New Mexico State University One of Houser’s most significant campus has been tentatively identified works, The Sacred Rain Arrow, is as a homeless man. among his best-known pieces, and can NMSU police say the body appears be found in front of the museum. Its to be that of 55-year-old Richard Livasy, image has been reproduced on Okla-

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it would burden consumers and drive revenue off the reservation.

Shelly also vetoed a companion bill to eliminate the tribe’s 5 percent sales tax on nuts, fresh fruits and vegetables.

Tome said Shelly would like lawmakers to revise the legislation to address his concerns.

The Tribal Council can over-

Denisa Livingston of the Diné The Associated Press Community Advocacy Alliance said the group worked for two FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The years to get tribal lawmakers Navajo Nation president has to pass the legislation. She said vetoed a proposal to impose an American Indians are more additional tax on chips, cookies likely to suffer from diabetes and sweetened beverages on the and other chronic health probcountry’s largest reservation, lems than the average Ameribut the legislation could be res- can. Diné is the Navajo word for urrected later. “the people.”

President Ben Shelly supLivingston estimated that ports the idea of a junk food tax imposing an additional 2 peras a way to combat high rates cent tax on junk food sold on of diabetes and obesity among the Navajo reservation would tribal members and encourage result in at least $1 million a healthy lifestyles, his adviser, year in revenue that could go Deswood Tome, said Wednestoward wellness centers, comday. munity parks, walking trails and But Shelly said the legislation picnic grounds in tribal comisn’t clear on how the tax on munities. snacks high in fat, sugar and salt The tax would have expired would be enforced and reguat the end of 2018. lated, according to Tome.

“Every one of our Navajo “There are a lot of supporters families has someone who is out there for the tax, and again, suffering from chronic disease,” the president wants a plan that she said. “This is the initiative works,” Tome said. “He’s askwe wanted to take because we ing the [Tribal] Council to take see our families suffering.” back this initiative and redo it According to the federal so that the burden is not on the Indian Health Service, Amerigovernment to implement a law can Indian and Alaska Native that is going to create hardship, adults are twice as likely to be especially in the collection of diagnosed with diabetes as nontaxes.”

Hispanic whites.

The Diné Community AdvoNative children age 10 to 19 cacy Alliance and tribal laware nine times as likely to be makers had been positioning diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the Navajo Nation to become the agency said. the leader in Indian Country Opponents of the tax in when it comes to using the tax Navajo communities in Arizona, system to press tribal members New Mexico and Utah argued to make healthier choices.

School districts across the Now country have banned junk food Makes an from vending machines. Cities and states have used taxes and other financial incentives to encourage healthy choices, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, but not all the efforts have been met with overwhelming support.

The legislation in the Navajo Now servicing Nation Council did not have a all makes & models smooth ride either.

By Felicia Fonseca

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Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa exhibits Houser

Navajo Nation president blocks junk-food tax Shelly raises concerns about creating hardship on tribe to enforce, regulate plan

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Most of the exhibition works at Gilcrease have been loaned by Allan Houser Inc., the artist’s estate in Santa Fe.

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Livingston said she would pursue that option with lawmakers.

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LIFE&SCIENCE Which milk is on the menu?

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In a study of hundreds of milk samples, researcher Katie Hinde of Harvard University found that nursing rhesus macaque monkeys made different milk for daughters versus sons. Scientific insights to mother’s milk might someday help doctors provide better advice to nursing mothers, or suggest ways to improve infant formula. The studies raise questions for human babies, too, about how to choose the donor milk that’s used for hospitalized preemies, or whether to explore gender-specific infant formula. CALIFORNIA NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sure enough, cows that bore daughters produced about 1.6 percent more milk. Since cows lactate for 305 days, that adds up. More interesting, cows often lactate while pregnant — and those that bore a second daughter in a row produced almost 1,000 more pounds of milk over nearly two years than those that produced only sons, Hinde calculated.

Back to the monkeys — where Hinde found still more differences in the quality of the milk.

Milk produced for monkey daughters contains more calcium, she found. One explanation: Female monkeys’ skeletons mature faster than males’ do, suggesting they need a bigger infusion of this bone-strengthening mineral.

Human girls’ skeletons mature faster than boys, too, but there haven’t been similar studies of calcium in human breast milk, Hinde said.

Mother’s milk even affects babies’ behavior, she said. Higher levels of the natural stress hormone cortisol in milk can make infants more nervous and less confident.

But boys and girls appear sensitive to the hormone’s effects at different ages, her latest monkey research suggests.

One previous study of human babies has linked higher cortisol levels in breast milk to cranky daughters, not sons, but Hinde cautioned that testing cortisol reactions at only one point in time could have missed an effect on younger or older boys.

What about boy and girl twins? Hinde can’t answer; the monkeys she studies seldom have twins. Nor can she explain why the animals show these gender differences.

“It’s something highly personalized for that mother and that infant at that time point.

That’s an exquisite thing,” Hinde said, who wants to see similar study of human breast milk.

Because high-quality breast milk is particularly important to the most vulnerable infants, she wonders whether premature babies in intensive care might fare better with gender-matched donor milk. Then there’s the formula question.

“We think it’s important — and it’s not — to make different deodorants for men and women, and yet we kind of approach formula as though boys and girls have the same developmental priorities,” Hinde said.

Nuclear fusion project takes key step in lab test

By Malcolm Ritter

The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Scientists say they’ve taken a key step toward harnessing nuclear fusion as a way to generate power, an idea that has been pursued for decades.

They are still a long way from that goal. The amount of energy they got out of their experimental apparatus was minuscule compared to what they put into it.

Still, the new work reached some significant milestones along the path to a cleaner and cheaper source of electricity, the researchers and experts said.

Fusion is the merging of hydrogen atoms, the process that powers the sun. That’s different from nuclear fission, which is the breaking apart of atoms that’s at the heart of nuclear power plants.

Both processes release energy, but scientists have been pursuing fusion power for several advantages. The supply of hydrogen for fuel is virtually unlimited, available from seawater, for example, in contrast to the uranium used in nuclear power plants. Fusion power would avoid the need for long-term storage of radioactive waste. And unlike fossil fuels like coal, it would not produce greenhouse gases that cause global warming.

In the new work, reported online Wednesday by Nature, sci-

In tests, laser beams fired into a small gold cylinder that held two kinds of hydrogen kicked off a process that compressed the ball by an amount akin to squeezing a basketball down to the size of a pea, said Debbie Callahan, an author of a paper reported by the journal Nature. That created the extremely high pressure and temperatures needed to get the hydrogen atoms to fuse. LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

entists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco, report results from two experiments done at the lab’s National Ignition Facility In each trial, 192 laser beams briefly fired into a half-inch-long gold cylinder. The cylinder held a tiny ball that contained the fuel, which was a mix of two kinds of hydrogen, called deuterium and tritium. The energy from the lasers kicked off a process that compressed the ball by an amount akin to squeezing a basketball

down to the size of a pea, said Debbie Callahan, an author of the paper.

That created the extremely high pressure and temperatures needed to get the hydrogen atoms to fuse. It was all over in the blink of an eye, with the reaction confined to a space smaller than the width of a human hair.

Nuclear fusion would be worthwhile only if it produces more energy than it uses, and the results were far from that.

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Animal moms switch up recipe based on baby’s sex, research shows

WASHINGTON special blend of mother’s milk just for girls? New research shows animal moms are customizing their milk in surprising ways depending on whether they have a boy or a girl.

The studies raise questions for human babies, too — about how to choose the donor milk that’s used for hospitalized preemies, or whether we should explore gender-specific infant formula.

“There’s been this myth that mother’s milk is pretty standard,” said Harvard University evolutionary biologist Katie Hinde, whose research suggests that’s far from true — in monkeys and cows, at least.

Instead, “the biological recipes for sons and daughters may be different,” she told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Friday.

Pediatricians have long stressed that breast milk is best when it comes to baby’s first food.

Breast-fed infants are healthier, suffering fewer illnesses such as diarrhea, earaches or pneumonia during the first year of life and less likely to develop asthma or obesity later on.

But beyond general nutrition, there have been few studies of the content of human breast milk, and how it might vary from one birth to the next or even over the course of one baby’s growth. That research is difficult to conduct in people.

So Hinde studies the milk that rhesus monkey mothers make for their babies. The milk is richer in fat when monkeys have male babies, especially when it’s mom’s first birth, she found.

But they made a lot more milk when they had daughters, Hinde discovered. Do daughters nurse more, spurring production? Or does something signal mom prenatally to produce more?

To tell, Hinde paired with Kansas State University researchers to examine lactation records of nearly 1.5 million Holstein cows.

Unlike monkey babies, calves are separated from their mothers early on, meaning any difference should be prenatal.

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energy than it absorbed from the lasers, an experimental goal.

But the fuel took in only about 1 percent of all the energy produced by the lasers.

Another key finding was evidence that energy created by the fusion reaction was going back into the remaining fuel, a “bootstrapping” process that is key to boosting the energy output.

“Seeing that kick in is quite exciting, and it does show that there is promise” for increasing the energy output, said Omar Hurricane, lead author on the Nature paper. It’s not clear when researchers will be able to get more energy out of the reaction than the lasers pour into it, he said, but “we are working like mad … in that direction.”

The sign of bootstrapping is “really a wonderful result,” said fusion expert Robert McCrory of the University of Rochester, who was not involved in the research.

“There’s a lot more that needs to be done” to reach the point where the reaction produces more energy than the lasers deliver, but “this was absolutely necessary.”

Scientists elsewhere are working on a different approach to fusion power, one that uses magnetic fields to contain superheated hydrogen fuel. Several nations are cooperating to build a huge experimental device to explore that approach in France.

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t is unfortunate that the average person has a deep prejudice against the bat,” wrote Ernest Thompson Seton in his book Wild Animals at Home in 1913. “Without looking or thinking for himself, he accepts a lot of absurd tales about the winged one and passes them on and on, never caring for the injustice he does or the pleasure he loses.” Seton, the famous nature writer and storyteller who made his home later in his life in what is now Seton Village, south of Santa Fe, identified a seemingly universal bias that remains relevant 100 years later.

Kari Schoenberg, a researcher in the Environmental Protection Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, recently filed a report monitoring sensitive bat species.

There have been no definitive studies on bats at the lab since 1998. As a first step toward filling in the chronological gap on the subject, she compared historical Roger data on species variety with curSnodgrass rent information. “Bats are among Science Matters the least studied and most misunderstood of animals,” Schoenberg wrote.

More than 1,300 species of bats have been identified worldwide, about one-fifth of all mammal species.

Of the 47 varieties of bats in the United States, 28 are found in New Mexico and 15 of those in Los Alamos. Since the last study, bat populations have been sharply reduced by a disease known as white nose syndrome, an invasive fungus first detected in upstate New York in 2006 that since has spread west across the United States. A new status report, released last week by the Pennsylvania Game Commission, indicates the syndrome has been confirmed in bats as far west as Arkansas and Missouri, and it is suspected in one county in western Oklahoma.

The recent LANL bat study took place last summer using a sophisticated detector to record highfrequency sounds the creatures use to navigate and catch their prey. The bat calls, some inaudible to the human ear, were then read by a software program and used to identify individual species.

Altogether, 17,928 calls were recorded at two locations over nearly six months. The most interesting result, Schoenberg said, was that all the species that were supposed to be in the Los Alamos area were identified, including the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), which is relatively common in New Mexico but had yet to be confirmed at the lab.

“We were also trying to look at species that are labeled as sensitive or threatened species,” Schoenberg said, noting in her study that the big free-tailed bat (Nyctinomops macrotis), a species listed as sensitive by the state of New Mexico, was documented at the lab in 1995 but not seen in the present study.

“I think that bats do get a bad reputation, mostly from the way they look,” Schoenberg said. “They’ve always been a symbol of evil, but I think if people were better educated about them, they wouldn’t seem so terrible.”

Among the positive aspects of bats that Seton’s “average man” might have overlooked are their services that benefit the ecosystem, which are now much better documented. Bats eat a lot of insects, up to 50 percent of their body weight in a single night, according to a recent study, which helps reduce the growing burden of pesticides. In addition, bats distribute many kinds of plant seeds as they extract prey from flowers and fruits. The U.S. Forest Service has found more than 300 fruit species depend on bats for pollination, including bananas, guavas and mangoes.

Bat droppings are a valuable source of nitrogen-rich fertilizer in many parts of the world.

Bats are no more blind than skunks are drunk.

Many bats live in caves, of course, not because they are related to the underworld, but because they are nocturnal creatures and need a dark place to rest during the day. Using a highly refined, sonar-like biological system known as echolocation, bats have evolved a unique path-finding sensibility that measures how their chirps and clicks are reflected by even the most minuscule objects in their vicinity. Some bats have shown the ability to avoid wires a quarter of a millimeter thick.

“He is the climax of creation in many things, highly developed in brain, marvelously keen in senses, clad in exquisite fur and equipped, above all, with the crowning glory of flight,” Seton wrote. “I would give a good deal to have a bat colony where I could see it daily, and would go a long way to meet some new kind of bat.”

Contact Roger Snodgrass at roger.sno@gmail.com.

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received a letter of inquiry from a gentleman in Chicago who was writing a historical novel set in colonial New Mexico. At one point in his story, he intended to have the villain poison a flock of sheep. But he was at a loss as to what poisons were available in those days and how they would have been administered to a batch of sheep out on the range.

Could I Marc come up Simmons with any suggesTrail Dust tions?

I had no ready answer to his question, and the problem set me to wondering. Among the hundreds of Spanish documents I’ve read over the years, I couldn’t recall a single one that referred to the use of poison. Surely someone must have poisoned their mother-in-law or their neighbor’s dog and been hauled into court. But no record of any such case seems to remain.

Without any documentary evidence, the only thing left was to figure out the most plausible way a New Mexican of a couple of centuries ago might have done a bit of poisoning. Perhaps he would have used a toxic plant. So I began checking my books on New Mexico flora.

The first thing I looked up was loco weed, or frijolillo, as it is also known. This small, clump plant with fern-like leaves thrives throughout much of New Mexico. Livestock that eat it suffer nervous disorders and paralysis. It did not seem like a good candidate for some would-be poisoner, though.

Animals raised in loco country learn to avoid it. A villain might have a hard time trying to force it down the throats of several hundred sheep. Even a novelist writing about fictional events must present scenes that are believable.

Next I took a look at toloache, better known as jim-

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u Sergio Rodriguez-Rodriguez, 27, of Santa Fe was arrested at 7:55 p.m. Thursday in the 4600 block of Airport The Santa Fe Police DepartRoad on charges of trafficking ment is investigating the folcocaine, conspiracy and an open lowing reports: court warrant. He’s being held u Police arrested Dana Dayat the Santa Fe County jail on an Hamblin, 54, of Rio Rancho at immigration detainer. about 2:51 p.m. Thursday on u Adrian Rodriguez-Rodricharges of battery against a guez, 23, of Santa Fe was health care worker after she arrested on two open court warallegedly kicked a nurse at rants in the 2500 block of West Christus St. Vincent Regional Alameda Street at 9:30 p.m.

Medical Center, 455 St. Thursday. He’s being held at the Michael’s Drive. u Someone reported that three Santa Fe County jail on an immigration detainer. money orders were stolen from The Santa Fe County Sherthe San Miguel Court Apartments, 2029 Calle Lorca, between 7 a.m. iff’s Office is investigating the following report: Feb. 2 and 5 p.m. Feb. 3. u A 15-year-old detainee pushed u A 47-inch TV and a Wii U game console were stolen from a a female corrections officer at the Juvenile Detention Center. The home in the 2500 block of Calle de Rincon Bonito between 11 a.m. report will be sent to the Juvenile and 5:45 p.m. Wednesday.

Probation Office for review.

DWI arrest u A county deputy arrested Michael Valencia, 32, of Rio Rancho on Thursday on a drunkendriving charge after stopping the man for speeding on N.M. 599 near the East Frontage Road.

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Funeral services and memorials Poison hemlock can kill animals and even humans if enough is eaten. COURTESY PHOTO

son weed or datura, a member of the deadly nightshade family. Pueblo Indians used this plant with its white trumpet blossoms as a narcotic to induce sacred visions. But their medicine man handled it carefully, for too large a dose could put you away for keeps. But toloache didn’t look appropriate for the novelist, either. It is fairly rare, and a person might have to search all year to find enough kill a dozen sheep, much less an entire flock.

Then I remembered hemlock. As dangerous a plant as can be found, it grows plentifully throughout our Southwestern mountains. Years ago, a young man had eaten a small quantity of hemlock in the national forest above Santa Fe and had died within the hour.

The poison is concentrated in the roots.

When they are cut, a deadly yellow sap oozes out. Grazing sheep sometimes wander into a patch of hemlock. After ingesting a quantity, they froth at the mouth, have severe convulsions and show muscular twitching.

When ranchers today discover several dead sheep, they will look for hemlock in the immediate area.

I had come up with a likely poison. Thinking of a way to administer it was not difficult.

I suggested to the writer that he have his rascal grind up some hemlock roots and place the powder in the sheep’s salt boxes. In the old days, New Mexican shepherds gathered loose salt from various salt lakes and put it out in boxes on the open range so that the sheep could have free access to it.

These boxes were called canoas, because they resembled rough, dugout canoes.

After considerable research into the matter, it suddenly dawned on me that I’d almost missed the easiest way that an early-day poisoner could have done his dirty work.

Arsenic, which occurs as a byproduct of copper smelting, was available in colonial New Mexico. A bit of that terrible substance placed in a waterhole would have done the trick.

The entire subject, however, proved quite distasteful to me.

So in the end, while passing on the above information to the novelist, I suggested he might have the sheep merely stolen instead of poisoned.

Now in semi-retirement, author Marc Simmons wrote a weekly history column for more than 35 years. The New Mexican is publishing reprints from among the more than 1,800 columns he produced during his career.

Eden: Chief’s salary will be $158K Continued from Page A-7 said. “But we are not going to tolerate what we’ve seen at the department over the past several years.”

As head of Public Safety, Eden oversaw the state police, which also faced criticism in recent months for a string of shootings, including one by an officer who fired at a van full of children after a chaotic traffic stop near Taos.

State police also have come under fire for the November shooting death of 39-year-old Jeanette Anaya in Santa Fe after a high-speed chase.

Eden said state police weren’t the only agency to see a recent rash of shootings by officers. He said departments across the country were experiencing the same because of “a lack of respect for each other. It’s a lack of respect for human dignity.”

Asked what he’ll do as Albuquerque awaits an outcome from the Justice Department investigation, Eden said he’ll focus on recruiting and retaining police officers. He said he’ll also push for more leadership training for the department’s command staff.

“We don’t what the results of the DOJ results will be,” said Eden, who was a member of the Justice Department as a U.S. marshal. “But we don’t want to stay in a position of doing nothing.”

Eden vowed soon to meet with community members to discuss his vision for the department.

He is scheduled to be sworn in as chief Feb. 27.

He will paid a salary of $158,000, Berry said.

Eden has served as public safety secretary since 2011, when he was appointed by Gov. Susana Martinez. He also worked as the state’s Motor Vehicle Division director under former Gov. Gary Johnson and worked with the state police and as an official with the Department of Public Safety.

Martinez hailed Eden’s selection as Albuquerque police chief.

“Gorden has devoted his entire adult life to service in public safety and law enforcement,” she said. “His able and steady leadership has guided New Mexico’s law enforcement and public safety personnel, making New Mexico a safer place to live, work and raise a family.”

Arellanes said he hoped Eden wasn’t chosen because he’s a “known entity” among the state’s Republicans but the best person for the job. “This department needs new leadership at this time,” Arellanes said.

Jewel Hall, president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center Board and another police department critic, called Eden “an insider,” but said he should be given a chance to speak to community members about his plans. “If he comes and extends his hand and listens to everyone, I think it would be very useful,” she said.

Berry, a Republican, said party politics played no role in the selection of Eden.

Holiday closures Hours of operation at some offices and institutions will be affected by the observance of President’s Day on Monday, Feb. 17: u Federal government offices will be closed.

However, state, city and county government offices will be open. u Post offices will be closed, and regular mail

delivery will be suspended. u Santa Fe Public Schools will be closed. u Some financial institutions will be closed. u Santa Fe Community College will be open. u The Santa Fe Trails buses and Rail Runner Express passenger trains will run on a regular weekday schedule.

IN MEMORY OF A DEAR FRIEND AND CHAMPION OF GREAT MUSIC, WILLIAM ZECKENDORF

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival extends its most heartfelt condolences to the family of our dear friend and longtime Trustee, William Zeckendorf. Hand-in-hand with that of his wife Nancy, Bill’s service to the Festival and the entire Santa Fe community spanned decades, and has left an indelible mark on our city’s cultural environment.

We will miss his astute counsel, his big-picture thinking, and his gracious presence at Festival performances, and will continue to remember him with great fondness and deep appreciation.

Kenneth Marvel, President Marc Neikrug, Artistic Director Steven Ovitsky, Executive Director DOT WOOD Dorothy Lee (Haggard) Wood, 88, of Santa Fe, died peacefully on Monday, Feb. 10. Born June 24, 1925 in Topeka, Kansas, she moved with her family to Michigan, attending Wayne State University there. She was married to Earl (Pat) Wood from 1947 to 1981, and in 1948 they became the first wave of the family to migrate to Santa Fe. In Santa Fe, Dot completed her nursing degree and worked at the St. Vincent Hospital downtown, then for Dr. Bodelson until retirement.

She is survived by daughter Nancy Brinegar, grandchildren David, Sam and Hilary; great grandchildren Max, Melia, Damien and Simon; and by many other family members.

A private memorial is planned for the family. In lieu of flowers, donations to the PMS Hospice are appreciated.

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WILLIAM ZECKENDORF JR. 1929-2014 William Zeckendorf Jr., one of the nation’s foremost real estate developers in the 1970s and 80s, died February 12 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 84.

Invariably self-effacing, Zeckendorf insisted that his buildings merited the attention, not himself. Nevertheless, he was the motivating force and key player behind a broad range of outstanding real estate projects, primarily in New York City.

Among his most recognizable and celebrated are Worldwide Plaza, Zeckendorf Towers (named for his father), the Four Seasons Hotel, and the Ronald Reagan Office Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Other projects include the renovation and sale of five major New York hotels, among them the Delmonico and the Mayfair, and the construction of luxury high-rises such as The Park Belvedere, Central Park Place, The Belaire, and The Vanderbilt, which, along with the Columbia and others, brought the city more than 4,000 new condominiums and rental apartments.

Working on a smaller scale better suited to the Southwest, Zeckendorf also developed noteworthy projects for Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he later settled. Like his great-grandfather and namesake, who immigrated to Santa Fe from Germany in the 1860s to do business here, Zeckendorf was an impressive, revitalizing force.

Bill Zeckendorf was born to the trade. Early on his father, William "Big Bill" Zeckendorf Sr., was the real estate industry’s shining star, with skill, vision, and daring raising the firm of Webb & Knapp to unparalleled heights. Zeckendorf Jr., a graduate of the Lawrenceville School in Princeton, New Jersey, studied at the University of Arizona and served with commendation in the U.S Army in Korea before joining his father’s firm full time in 1950. At Webb & Knapp he was well schooled in the planning, financing, and development of large-scale properties, proving himself as canny, creative, and tenacious at brokering deals as his father.

Beginning in the mid-60s, the company underwent two restructurings—first as General Property Corporation, then as Zeckendorf Company—becoming New York City’s most active developers of luxury hotels, upscale condominium apartments, office towers, and mixed-use projects, in the process redefining the city’s face and skyline. Bill Zeckendorf Jr. was also president of the Federal Triangle Corporation, the firm responsible for developing the Ronald Reagan Office Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., the largest federal building to rise in the capital since the Pentagon.

At the height of the Zeckendorf Company’s expansion in the 1980s, Zeckendorf was joined by his two sons—William Lie and Arthur—from his first marriage to Guri Lie, daughter of Trygve Lie, the UN’s first Secretary-General. During the next decade, the company’s portfolio was the 12th largest in the country.

At the same time, Zeckendorf was busy with an entirely different portfolio, concentrated on Santa Fe and its surrounding hills.

In conjunction with his second wife, Nancy—a former prima ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and an ardent supporter of the arts—Zeckendorf became a significant presence in the area.

He developed the Eldorado Hotel, the award-winning Los Miradores condominium complex, the prestigious community of Sierra del Norte, and one of his most gratifying projects, the Lensic Performing Arts Center, transforming a quaint 1930s movie house into the cultural axis of Northern New Mexico.

While in New York, Zeckendorf was a trustee of Long Island University and served as its board chairman for 10 years. As his focus turned increasingly toward Santa Fe, he joined the boards of the Christus St. Vincent Hospital, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the College of Santa Fe, and the Lensic Performing Arts Center. From the outset, he was an energizing force behind the Lensic and the preeminent guide to closing the deal on the property and getting the project off the ground.

Zeckendorf’s passion throughout his adult life was fine wines, with an emphasis on the wines of Burgundy. For more than 50 years he was a member of the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, serving for nine of those years as New York City’s Grand Senechal. During his term as president of the Tastevin Foundation, he created a Laureate Program for American students earning a degree in wine-making from the University of California, Davis, that offered them a semester’s study at French wineries.

William Zeckendorf Jr. is survived by his wife, Nancy; his sister, Susan Zeckendorf Nicholson; his son William Lie and daughter-inlaw Laura; his son Arthur; and his two grandchildren, Arthur III and Jennifer Zeckendorf.

The family wishes to express their deepest thanks to those who helped care for Mr. Zeckendorf with such professionalism and unstinting kindness. They are Connie Ross, who has been with the family for 12 years, Sammi Hendrix, Eric Chambers, Robert Cather, Jason Wright, John Santos, and Egis Care and Support; doctors Tom Kravitz, Vivian Lee, Poseidon Varvitsiotis, and Michael Palestine; hospital nurse Tony Engelman; and the staff of Christus St. Vincent.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 West San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501.

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Government’s first job: To protect

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hat do our legislators, federal and state, think is their most basic responsibility?

Ask them, and most will start wobbling into a lengthy list.

As a student of sociology, I learned early in my education the primary purpose of government is, simply, to protect its citizens. Is not gun control, with strict regulations, part of that responsibility in this day and time? It certainly is!

Now, don’t think I am against gun ownership and proper use. I have been a hunter since I was about 12 years old. In my 20 years in the Marine Corps, I became a rifle and pistol team shooter and ran sniper training for the 1st Marine Division. I have never been a member of the National Rifle Association, as I have always felt that is a rather arrogant organization.

It is time to suck it up, legislators, and make gun control a priority. In the early days of motor vehicles, first there were no regulations, and certainly no requirement for a license to drive. We now have strict laws on licensing, vehicle registration and penalties for violations (some severe), all to protect citizens.

To our legislators: It is time to take it on, and do it right, to protect citizens, not give in to special-interest-group arrogance.

Frank Pearce

major, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.) Santa Fe

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A mayor for all “Strive to avoid fringe issues” is Bill Dimas’ agenda for issues outside of fixing potholes and confirming garbage pickup. How can Bill say he’s “ready to lead the city” when he refused to vote on a marriage equality resolution?

He claimed “it was a federal issue; we just didn’t have any business voting on that.”

This resolution and subsequent New Mexico Supreme Court action changed the legal and emotional security of countless families in this city.

Bill, your focus on city services is commendable.

But Santa Fe is an admired and respected equality-for-all

city that deserves a mayor who can see past the mechanics.

Penny Chlebicki

Santa Fe

Progressive picks Santa Fe is fortunate to have two exceptional, highly qualified, progressive and “green” candidates for mayor. Patti Bushee has an outstanding record of promoting legislation that addresses environmental and social issues. Javier Gonzales has advocated environmental and social measures in all the positions he has held.

Santa Fe must decide who will be most effective and can best represent our unique city and culture locally, regionally

and nationally.

Given his political skills, his ability to listen and learn — as shown in his “conversations” on the pressing issues facing our city — his ability to propose and eloquently articulate environmental, educational, health and human rights policies that would benefit our diverse community, and his endorsement by the Sierra Club, environmental leaders, former city councilors and other prominent political leaders, and his charisma, I believe that Javier would be the best choice to lead our city forward to a sustainable and prosperous future.

Paul Paryski

Santa Fe

Leaving Afghanistan: A tense retreat

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ake no mistake, our withdrawal leaders looked around and found a wastefrom Afghanistan this year is land in the wake of a British withdrawal a retreat. It is not an ignoble they had both wittingly and unwittingly or dishonorable one, because we fought prolonged. The Anglo-Afghan war that for legitimate reasons and the began in 1839 ended in disaster world supported us. But it is for the British. For a time, it a painful recognition that the was a scandal in Britain over war in Afghanistan cannot be the loss of life and the incomwon. It is not Vietnam revispetence of British civil and ited, although that war, too, military officials. But the British could not be won, despite the soon forgot, and their country immense power of the U.S. and prospered. The Afghans have years of painful negotiation. never forgotten, as it was they Nor is it another Iraq, a disaswho paid the price. Their counBill Stewart try lay in ruins. That history is trous misadventure that should Understanding never been undertaken. part of their national memory.

Your World It is, instead, a melancholy At the moment, Karzai is acknowledgment that our best refusing to sign a bilateral intentions came a cropper amid security agreement already the ancient historical animosities that agreed upon by the two countries. He have divided Afghanistan for centuries. now says he prefers to wait until after the Afghan presidential elections scheduled Moreover, the icy peaks of the Hindu for April, during which a new Afghan Khush play havoc with Americans and president will be chosen, giving him the Taliban alike, while the relentless desert freedom to sign or not to sign. As there sun over Kandahar spares no one, as Alexander the Great, the British Empire and the is considerable anti-American sentiment in the country, signing the agreement Soviets all discovered in their time.

The past decade has been our time, and now would almost certainly be politically we, too, have discovered that Afghanistan unpopular, and President Karzai would like to protect his post-presidential posiis one of history’s graveyards. Heroes are heroes, regardless of the uniform, and we tion by not signing, leaving the choice to his successor. bow our heads in respect for those brave Americans who lost their lives in AfghanThat is understandable in terms of istan. We will fly the flags and sound the Afghan politics, but it also outlines how trumpets, but no matter how we look Karzai has avoided making tough leadat it, for Americans and their allies, this ership decisions during his presidency, seemingly endless war is finally drawing often going head-to-head with President to its painful and unhappy close.

Barack Obama, despite the ongoing crisis in his country.

Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has not made it any easier for us, using President Karzai’s deliberate waffling his role as a technical ally of the U.S. often has left the U.S. in an untenable and NATO to play a shadow boxer role, position, even while his government has akin to those of his ancestors during the taken billions of dollars in U.S. aid. The first Anglo-Afghan war in 1839. At that U.S. maintains that a refusal to sign the time, competing Afghan leaders, Karzai’s security agreement before this April’s family among them, played one side off presidential elections renders U.S. plans against the other. It must be in the genes. for a withdrawal of its troops by the end In the end, the British lost, and they of this year difficult, if not impossible to withdrew. carry out. It also makes plans to retain But in a very deep and profound sense, some 10,000 American troops in AfghaniAfghanistan lost as well. Its would-be stan beyond 2014 highly problematical.

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Section editor: Inez Russell Gomez, 986-3053, igomez@sfnewmexican.com, Twitter @inezrussell

Moreover, the U.S. must coordinate troop withdrawals with NATO allies, who also maintain thousands of troops in Afghanistan. As a result, plans are being drawn up for a complete U.S. troop withdrawal by the end of this year, something many senior Afghan officials, including those in the military, do not want to see.

Relations between the two countries reached a new low this week when Afghanistan released 65 detainees from Bagram prison over the strong objections of the U.S. Washington claims the prisoners are dangerous insurgents responsible for killing American and allied soldiers.

These same insurgents might well return to the battlefield.

The prisoners were released after an Afghan review board determined there was not enough evidence to try them.

The U.S. disagrees, with the military claiming the release violates an agreement between the two countries giving the U.S. a veto over the release of prisoners they regard as dangerous. Afghanistan claims such a veto violates their sovereignty, a point made in angry comments made this week by President Karzai. Afghan officials maintain the Bagram prison, which was once run by the U.S., creates even more Taliban supporters because of the way prisoners have been treated.

The increased tensions between the U.S. and Afghanistan could mean that instead of an orderly American withdrawal, there might be a race for the exit by the end of this year. That would serve nobody’s purpose except those of the Taliban and its supporters. It also would produce cries in the U.S. Congress of an Obama sellout and a betrayal of the sacrifices made by the U.S. military. All this in an election year. On the other hand, the American people might just heave a huge sigh of relief.

Bill Stewart writes about current affairs from Santa Fe. He is a former correspondent for Time magazine and served as a U.S. Foreign Service officer.

25-year study of 90,000 women has found that mammograms do nothing to lower the death rate from breast cancer. That’s pretty strong evidence, to say the least. And it’s only the latest from many studies over the last several years indicating that mammography often doesn’t help prevent advanced cancer.

Yet women — and, even more crucially, their doctors — remain unwilling to give up annual mammograms. Five years ago, when a panel of experts convened by the U.S. government looked at the available evidence and concluded that women in their 40s should stop being screened for breast cancer, and that those ages 50 to 75 should be screened only every other year, 3 in 4 women said they simply disagreed. The secretary of Health and Human Services felt obliged to speak out against the experts’ recommendation.

What’s going on here? A fear of breast cancer, to begin with, which is understandable. But there’s also an abiding belief that the best way to fight cancer is to find any sign of it early and root it out — despite evidence demonstrating that’s not entirely true, and that overscreening can lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment. What’s needed is a strategy to align public perception with scientific consensus.

One easy way to do so is through language. It’s neither correct nor helpful to use the word cancer to describe the tiny lesions that mammograms are so good at detecting but that usually don’t turn into lethal cancer. Autopsy studies suggest that 4 in 10 women from ages 40 to 70 have these lesions without knowing it and die of something else.

Last summer, a National Cancer Institute working group endorsed the term idle. This has the benefit of being both scientifically precise (it stands for indolent lesions of epithelial origin) and conversationally apt (a growth can be described not as “cancerous” but as “idle”). The group also recommends setting up observational registries for such lesions to make it easier to study exactly how they progress, and it says doctors should raise the threshold for deciding which of these lesions need to be biopsied.

Those last two recommendations show that medical practice can also lag the scientific consensus. In fact, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology stubbornly maintains its recommendation that women get a mammogram every year once they turn 40.

The doctor-patient relationship is by definition personal, of course. But a woman has a right to expect her doctor to be aware of the latest research and apply it to her case. In the case of breast cancer, the evidence is clear: More tests do not reduce mortality, but fewer tests may reduce anxiety.

The past 100 years From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Feb. 15, 1914: New York — Mrs. Bridget Petxotto, a former teacher in New York public schools, will have plenty of time to rock the cradle now. The New York Supreme Court has handed down a decision to the effect that Mrs. Petxotto cannot be reinstated in the position she resigned more than a year ago because she was to give birth to a child. After the birth of the baby, the mother sought reinstatement in the schools; the board of education refused to grant her request and she appealed to the Supreme Court.

Feb. 15, 1989: A questionnaire assessing beliefs about alcohol can identify young adolescents at risk for later problem drinking, according to a study that one expert calls an exciting development in fighting alcohol abuse. When tested with 637 New York junior high school students, the 90-item questionnaire was an impressively strong predictor of problem drinking a year later.

The questionnaire measured how strongly students believed that alcohol could aid them in such ways as helping them relax, be sexier, think better, enjoy social gatherings more, or perform better socially or athletically. The research followed the theory that “the stronger they believe that alcohol has those positive effects, the more at risk they are for problem drinking.”

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St. Thomas The Apostle Anglican Church An Anglican Holy Communion service is celebrated every Sunday morning at 11 a.m. by St.Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church.

Services are held in the chapel located on the 3rd floor at Christus St.Vincent Regional Medical Center, 455 St. Michaels Drive, Santa Fe. Members of all faiths and traditions are welcome to attend. For information, contact Rev. Lanum, 505-603-0369.

BAPTIST

First Baptist Church of Santa Fe First Baptist Church of Santa Fe, 1605 Old Pecos Trail. Come join us this Sunday! 9:15 a.m. – Bible Study for all ages; 10:30 a.m.

– Worship Service (interpreted for deaf).Wednesday – 6:15 p.m. – Bible Study/Prayer Meeting led by Pastor Lee H erring; Adult Choir Rehearsal; 6:30 p.m. – “Ignite” for Youth. Childcare available for all services. For more information, please call the church office at 983-9141, 8:30 – 4:00, Monday - Friday, or visit our website www. fbcsantafe.com.

Rodeo Road Baptist Church Sunday February 16th Message – “How do you know if this Christian thing is working” continuing our message series - How to be a Christian in an Unchristian World - A Contemporary look at the Letter to the Church at Colossae at 10:45am 3405 Vereda Baja (One block south of Rodeo Road on Richards) Visit us on the web at www.rrbcsantafe.com Call (505) 473-9467 Like us on Facebook

BUDDHIST

Prajna Zendo Meditation, Koan nstudy, private interviews with two qualified Zen teachers. Retreats, classes, book study, dharma talks and more.

Prajna Zendo is committed to its members and all beginners and practitioners who walk through its doors. Based on thelineage of Hakuyu Taizen Maezumi Roshi. Upcoming three-day retreat: February 20 - 23. Sunday service, zazen and dharma talk starting 9:00am.Tuesday evening zazen at 7pm.Tuesday through Sunday morning zazen at 6am. Call 660-3045 for more information. 5 Camino Potrillo, Lamy, 15 minutes from Santa Fe just off of Hwy 285 Next door to Eldorado. www.prajnazendo.org

Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center Thubten Norbu Ling provides education and practice in Tibetan Buddhism following the tradition of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and in accord with the lineage teachings of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Classes are offered to all levels of western students seeking a path to personal clarity and wellbeing, and are generally held on Sunday morning and on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Practices and meditations are offered on Tuesday evenings, and on weekend mornings. Our resident teachers are Geshe Thubten Sherab and Don Handrick.

1807 Second Street, #35. For more information visit our website

CATHOLIC

The Church of Antioch at Santa Fe Mother Jenni Speaks on:“From the love of Law to the law of Love” Sunday at 8:45 a.m. in the Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail,Santa Fe, NM. Pastor, Most Rev. Daniel Dangaran, D. Min, Assoc. Pastor Rev. Mother Carol Calvert, Resident Priests Mother Jenni and Father Doug Walker invite you to come home to God, who has always loved you! (505) 983-9003 http://coasf.org We are a community of Faith in the Catholic Tradition (non-Roman) offering the Sacraments within a context of personal freedom, loving acceptance, service and mysticism.All are welcome.

CENTER FOR SPRITUAL LIVING

Santa Fe Center For Spiritual Living We are a spiritual community, living and growing through love, creativity and service.Active in Santa Fe for 55 years. Conveniently located 505 Camino de los Marquez, near Trader Joe’s.All are welcome. Sunday Services: Meditation at 9 am, Inspirational Music and Joyful Celebration at 10:00 am when Live Video Streaming starts at www.santafecsl.org. Special Music: Laurianne Fiorentino, singer-songwriter. Message:“Forgiveness: Path to Freedom” by our CSL Practitioner, Berkeley Brestal. Information on workshops, classes, concerts, rentals, past lectures videos at www.santafecsl.org - www.facebook.com/SantaFeCSL - 505-9835022.

Everyday Center For Spiritual Living Everyday CSL is a spiritual community committed to empowering people to live joy-filled lives. Our Sunday service celebrations speak to living our lives to the fullest with rockin’ upbeat music to open our hearts. Come join our community as we grow together into our best lives.Visit us at www.everydaycsl.org for a calendar of events. We are located at 2544 Camino Edward Ortiz Suite B (across from the UPS Distribution Center).

CHRISTIAN

The Light at Mission Viejo Sunday Service 10:30; Men’s Prayer Ministry: Monday- Thursday Morning Prayer 6 a.m.; Women’s Ministry: Monthly on 4th Saturday, 9- 11 a.m.; Missions: Palomas, Mexico, monthly, second weekend;Youth:Amped- 6 p.m. Fridays; Consumed- Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m.; Singles (30+) meet monthly, 1st & 3rd Tuesday at 6 p.m.; Mid-week Spanish Service, Wednesday at 6 p.m.; Homeless Ministry, monthly 3rd Saturday; Mid-Week Prayer: Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. Information: 505-982-2080. www.thelightatmissionviejo.org

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

First Church of Christ Scientist, Santa Fe Our church is designed to support the practice of Christian healing. Services consist of readings from the King James Bible and Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Sunday service/Sunday School/Child care at 10:00 a.m.”Soul” is the Bible Lesson for February 16. Wednesday meetings at 12:10 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Readings are on a timely topic followed by sharing healings attesting to the practical presence of God in our life. The noon meeting is informal. Bring your lunch and friends. Please join us! 323 East Cordova Road. www. christiansciencesantafe.org

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

First Christian Church of Santa Fe First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Santa Fe, 645 Webber Street, worships at 10:30 on Sunday mornings.We are an open and affirming congregation with communion open to all who wish to partake.Viento de Gracia (Disciples of Christ) meets in the same building with services in Spanish on Sundays 5 p.m. and Thursdays at 7 p.m. All are welcome. Located two blocks south of the state capital building.We support global hunger relief through Week of Compassion, Christian Ministry through the Disciples of Christ, and local hunger relief through Food for Santa Fe. We can be found on the web at www.santafedisciples.org

JEWISH

Congregation Beit Tikva Located at 2230 Old Pecos Trail, our synagogue follows Traditional Reform Judaism led by Rabbi Martin Levy and Cantor Michael Linder. Shabbat services are on Friday evenings at 7:30 pm.Torah Study on the Book of Exodus is on Saturday mornings at 9:15 am. On Tuesday, February 18th, at 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm, the 92nd Street Y Program on DVD will be Meeting of the Minds: On Compassion -- Karen Armstrong,Thomas Cahill, and Rabbi Jennifer Krause. Karen Armstrong is the author of “The Case for God” and “A History of God.” Thomas Cahill is the author of “The Gifts of the Jews.” Rabbi Krause is the author of “The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time.” The cost is $12 at the door. For more information on these programs and details of our trip,“2014 Israel Spring Adventure,” please call 505.820.2991 or visit our website http://beittikvasantafe.org

Temple Beth Shalom Temple Beth Shalom is a handicap accessible, welcoming Reform Jewish Congregation with a great religious school and preschool (www.preschool.sftbs.org). Friday services begin at 6:30pm. Saturday mornings, enjoy bagels, lox, and Torah study at 9:15. Stay for morning services at 10:30. Pray and study with Aaron Wolf at the Monday morning minyan, 8:00-9:00am in the Upper Sanctuary. Join us Sunday, February 23 for “Calling the Ancestors” with Judith Fein. This interfaith, interactive event will explore emotional genealogy.The day will feature a potluck, a talk by Judith, and more. See our website for details. 205 E. Barcelona Road, 982-1376, www.sftbs.org.

LUTHERAN

Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church Services 8 & 10 am every Sunday followed by coffee and conversation. Bible study 8:50. Monday 7pm “Meeting Jesus Again For the First Time” by Marcus Borg book discussion with Pastor Doug Kings. Men’s Lunch Bunch 11:30 am Fri. Feb. 21 Joe Kelley on “Jet Propulsion Lab Space Programs” Reservations: 989-5065.

God’s Work, Our Hands. OPEN TO ALL. Pastor Kate Schlechter 1701 Arroyo Chamiso 505-983-9461

Immanuel Lutheran Church (LCMS) 209 East Barcelona Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505 Sunday service (Feb. 16) schedule: Divine Service: 9:30AM Sunday School/Bible Study: 10:40AM The Epiphany Season celebrates the message that Jesus Christ is the Savior for all people. The Epiphany message emphasizes God’s inclusive desire that all people would know and confess Jesus Christ as Lord. Immanuel Church is just west of the Santa Fe Children’s Museum which is at the corner of Old Pecos Trail and East Barcelona Road. 983-7568 www. ilc-sfnm.org

METHODIST EPISCOPAL

Holy Family Episcopal Church 10A Bisbee Court, www.holyfamilysantafe.org A family oriented church with a special mission to ASD Spectrum Children.

Sundays: 10:30 Eucharist with Choir Practice starting at 9:45, Tuesdays: 10am Prayer Shawl Ministry (come to learn or come to create) Thursdays: 12:15pm Noonday Prayer or Eucharist A sensory break room is available during all services. Please contact us at (505) 424-0095 or email us at holyfamilysantafe@ gmail.com

Church of the Holy Faith Episcopal Celebrating 150 years of Episcopal Worship in Santa Fe, welcomes all people to an ever deepening relationship with The Lord Jesus Christ. Services each week: Sunday: Spoken Eucharist at.

7:30a.m.; Choral Eucharist at 8:30 and 11:00a.m.; Adult Forum at 9:50-10:30a.m.; Children’s Chapel at 8:30 a.m.Tuesday :Taize Contemplative Eucharist with Healing 6:00p.m. Wednesday and Thursday : Holy Eucharist at 12:10p.m: Monday- Friday 4:30p.m: Evening Prayer.Youth group meets at 12:30p.m. first and third Sundays. Children’s Adventures Christian Education on Tuesdays at 4:00-5:30 p.m. seasonally. Call for details: 505-982-4447. 311 East Palace Avenue, in Historic Santa Fe. www.Holyfaithchurchsf. org

St. Bede’s Episcopal Church St. Bede’s is a Christ-centered servant community rooted in Holy Scripture, tradition and reason as practiced by the Episcopal Church, located at 1601 S. St. Francis Drive. Holy Eucharist on Sunday February 16, 2014 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. (7:00 p.m. in Spanish) The Rev. Catherine Volland will preside and preach. The forum, at 9:15 a.m., will be an additional opportunity to visit with and learn more about Mother Catherine.Visit www.stbedesantafe.org or call 982-1133 for more information. St. Bede’s welcomes traditional and nontraditional families.The Episcopal Church welcomes you. La Iglesia Episcopal les da la bienvenida.

St. John’s United Methodist Sunday, February 16 : Find a warm and welcoming church home at St. John’s. We have two worship celebrations on Sunday morning at 8:30 and 11am in the Gathering Room. Pastor Greg Kennedy preaches at both services, continuing his Sermon on the Mount with “The Ethics of God’s World Part 1.” Sunday Classes for all ages at 9:45 - 10:45am. Children’s message and nursery at both services. Support St. John’s by buying tickets to the Benefit Boiler Concert on Feb 15 at 7pm.Tickets are $20 and available at the door: 203 W. Water Street, Casweck Gallery. St. John’s is on the web at www.sjumcsantafe.org, on Facebook, and by phone 982-5397.

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

Eckankar Eckankar, Religion of the Light and Sound of God, offers ways to grow spiritually through one’s own personal inner and outer experience. There will be a worship service on Sunday, February 16, 10:30 a.m. at the Santa Fe Women’s Club. The topic will be “Past Lives – Present Opportunities.” Worship services include a brief singing of the universal word HU to open the heart and an open discussion where we can learn from each other’s insights.

In addition to the monthly worship service, Eckankar holds community HU chants in Eldorado and Santa Fe. For information, see www.eckankar.org or call 800-876-6704.

The Celebration A Sunday Service Different! Now in our 22nd year as an eclectic spiritual community. Our Invocation:“We join together to celebrate the splendor of God’s love, cherishing all life, honoring all paths, rejoicing in the sacred dance of All That Is. Living in the power of all-embracing love, we affirm our community and acknowledge the divine nature of our humanity.” The speaker for Sunday, Feb. 16 is Jeff Hood,Taking Care of Ourselves.” Special music by Gary Paul Hermus. Sundays, 10:30am, NEA-NM bldg., 2007 Botulph Rd. www.thecelebration.org, Ph. 699-0023

Unity Are you looking for an inclusive spiritual (not religious) commUnity? Please join us this Sunday at 10:30am for music, meditation, and Rev. Brendalyn’s message,“Being the Hem of the Garment” will support you in being the beacon that just stands there and shines. On Wednesdays, we offer Silent Meditation, 6-7pm. Join us Thursday, February 20, for our Healing Service, 6:30-7:30pm. And for lovebirds, our beautiful sanctuary can be rented for weddings.All are welcome and honored. Call 505-9894433 unitysantafe.org Unity Santa Fe 1212 Unity Way (North side of 599 bypass at Camino de los Montoyas (2.4 miles from 84/285, 8.4 miles from Airport Road).

ORTHODOX

Holy Trinity Orthodox Church We invite you to experience the mystery and beauty of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church! Our Services include Great Vespers every Saturday at 5:30pm, Matins on Sunday at 8:15am, and the main Sunday service, the Divine Liturgy, at 9:30am. Following Liturgy we have a meal and all are invited. Weekly Classes: Our Thoughts Determine our Lives, Wednesdays at 11am, and an Inquirer’s Class each Saturday afternoon at 4pm. Currently, we are studying the meaning of Great Lent, which begins in March.

Classes are led by Fr. John Bethancourt. 231 E Cordova Road 983-5826 FrJohnB@aol.com www.holytrinitysantafe.org

PRESBYTERIAN

Christ Church Santa Fe (PCA) Our Presbyterian church is at Don Gaspar and Cordova Road.

Our focus is on the historical truths of Jesus Christ, His Love and Redemptive Grace... and our contemporary response. Sunday services are 9:00 and 10:45 am (childcare provided). Children and Youth Ministry activities also available. Call us at (505)982-8817 or visit our website at christchurchsantafe.org for more information.

First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) Re-Connecting with the love God has for us and we have for each other. MorningSong Service at 8:30 and Worship Service at 11:00 a.m. celebrated by the Rev.Andrew Black. Service of Holy Communion. Childcare available. Classes and fellowship for all ages between services. Morning Prayer Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m.TGIF Concerts every Friday at 5:30 p.m. More information at www.fpcsantafe.org or by calling 982-8544. Located downtown at 208 Grant Ave.

Westminster Presbyterian (PCUSA) A Multi-cultural Faith Community St. Francis Dr. at West Manhattan 11 AM on the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany, February 16th Continuing our series of sermons on the Sermon on the Mount, Mary Jo Lundy will be preaching from Matthew 5:21-37 and II Corinthians 5:17-20 Social Hour following Worship ALL ARE WELCOME! Thursday at 5:30 PM – Taizé Services PEACE, JOY & BLESSINGS UNTOLD for singles and married; seekers and doubters; slackers and workaholics; can’t sing, black and proud; no habla ingles; tourists; bleeding hearts… AND YOU! Contact us at 505-983-8939 (Tues-Fri, 9-1) or wpcsantafe@gmail.com

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIS

UU Congregation of Santa Fe 107 West Barcelona (corner with Galisteo). If you value freedom to follow your own path to spiritual truth and meaning in an inclusive, supportive community, Unitarian Universalism may be right for you. Programs each week for children, youth and adults.

We nurture hearts and minds, practice beloved community and work for justice. For up to date information go to http://www. uusantafe.org or (505) 982-9674.

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

The United Church of Santa Fe Not Where You Expect. 8:30 Contemplative Communion and 11:00 Worship Service, with Rev.Talitha Arnold, Rev. Brandon Johnson and Pianist Jacquelyn Helin, D.M.A. Early Choir at 8:30, Sanctuary and Children’s Choir, directed by Karen Marrolli, D.M.A. at 11:00. Children’s Ministry,Young Adventurers at 11:00.

Adult Forums (9:45):“Seeing God in the Seed: Parables in Mark’s Gospel” with Rev.Arnold ;“Caring for Creation” on United Church’s Advocacy for environmental issues for over 30 years.

Also at 9:45 Youth Confirmation and Children’s Games and Music. Childcare all morning. Next Saturday “Making Time for God” Retreat, 8:30-12:00 pm.All welcome! “Love God, love neighbor, and love creation.” 1804 Arroyo Chamiso (at St. Michael’s Drive). unitedchurchofsantafe.org. Facebook, too!

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

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outgunned Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan poses with the national flag after he placed first in the men’s free skate figure skating final following the flower ceremony Friday at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia.

Chan gets 2nd, Ten 3rd

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SOCHI, Russia — Sometimes an Olympic gold medalist is more survivor than anything else.

Yuzuru Hanyu knows the feeling.

Not only did Hanyu make it difficult on himself, he thought he lost all chance at the title Friday night with a mediocre free skate at the Sochi Olympics. Instead, thanks to the mistakes of Patrick Chan and others, Hanyu became Japan’s first gold medalist in Olympic men’s figure skating.

“Negative feelings were brewing inside of me,” Hanyu said. “It was difficult to keep with the performance with all that in my head.

“I thought the gold medal was not in my hands.”

It wound up there mainly because his nearly 4-point lead after the short program was enough to overcome his shortcomings in the long.

Also the first Asian man to win Olympic gold, Hanyu fell on his opening jump, a quad salchow, and crashed on his third, a triple flip.

That left plenty of room for Canada’s Chan to skate through to the top of the podium, but he made three errors in a watered-down program to finish second.

“I had that chance and it slipped out of my hands,” Chan said.

Canada has never won the event, either.

Kazakhstan’s Denis Ten, the world silver medalist, won bronze in Sochi in a final that was a two-man showdown between Hanyu, 19, and threetime world champion Chan, 23.

Few skaters performed close to their peak on a second consecutive night of competition. Most of them appeared fatigued, particularly at the end of their 4½-minute routines. It was one of the sloppiest men’s Olympic programs in memory.

“I visualized this evening as one great skate after another,” said Brian Orser, Hanyu’s coach. “It kind of didn’t happen. It was one of those things. Nobody got the momentum going.”

Chan skated directly after Hanyu with a chance to do what such renowned Canadian men as Donald Jackson, Kurt Browning, Elvis Stojko and Orser could not. But he wasn’t sharp either.

“We all had rough skates,” Chan said. “These competitions are about who makes the least mistakes. I had one too many mistakes.”

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St. Michael’s Bradley Vaughan jumps for a fly ball during the first quarter of Friday’s game in PerezShelley Gymnasium. For more photos, go to tinyurl.com/kze33zx. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

No. 1 Hope Christian overwhelms St. Michael’s

By Edmundo Carrillo The New Mexican

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he St. Michael’s boys basketball team made mistakes on Friday night, but that’s because the Horsemen ran into an unstoppable force.

Plagued by multiple turnovers, the Horsemen fell to Albuquerque Hope Christian 54-33 in a District 5AAA game in Perez-Shelley Gymnasium. It was nothing like the previous meeting last week in Albuquerque, in which St. Michael’s was within 29-27 at one point in the second half before losing 61-39. The Huskies made their statement.

“Obviously, they’re the better team,” St. Michael’s head coach Ron Geyer said. “You have to hand it to them. They’re not the No. 1 team in New Mexico for no reason, so we respect that.”

Hope (22-3 overall) is the No. 1 team in Class AAA, according to Maxpreps.com, but the Huskies came out slow and had a 12-6 lead over the Horsemen (19-5, 2-2) at the end of the first quarter. They began to pick apart St. Michael’s in the second, however.

The Huskies outscored the Horsemen 17-5 in that quarter and held a comfortable 29-11 lead heading into

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An investigation into the racially charged Miami Dolphins bullying scandal detailed widespread harassment in the team’s locker room that extended beyond the two players at the center of the probe.

The NFL-ordered report stated there was a “pattern of harassment” committed by at least three players and extended to two lineman and an assistant trainer, all targets of vicious taunts and racist insults.

Lawyer Ted Wells released the report Friday, saying guard John Jerry and center Mike Pouncey followed Richie Incognito’s lead in harassing Jonathan Martin, who left the team in October. They threatened to rape his sister, called him a long list of slurs and bullied him for not being “black enough.”

In a statement emailed by a league spokesman, the NFL did not make any mention of possible punishment stemming from the case. The league only confirmed it had received the report and said it appreciated the Dolphins’ cooperation with the investigation. Wells said he does not intend to comment further.

Martin is biracial, Incognito is white, and Jerry and Pouncey are black.

Martin’s agent Kenneth Zuckerman said his client feels “vindicated” by the report.

“He feels a great sense of relief,” Zuckerman told The Associated Press. “Jonathan Martin is a great man and he’s only shown me that he is very honest since the day I met him. He loves football and is eager to get back on the field, regardless of what team he plays for.”

Incognito’s attorney Mark Schamel released a statement calling Wells’ report “replete with errors” and said that Martin “was never bullied by Richie Incognito or any member of the Dolphins’ offensive line.”

Martin, who has two years left on his contract with the Dolphins, declined interview requests.

Incognito was suspended in November, but Pouncey and Jerry remained starters throughout the season.

The report mentioned another offensive lineman and an assistant trainer who also routinely came under attack from the trio. Neither

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The road’s getting rockier for the Lobos I t’s not the end of the another quality road win in world, but to a lot of a tough environment.

Lobo basketball fans, it With a golden opportusure did feel like it. nity to climb into a share of The moment Hugh first place in the Mountain Greenwood’s 18-foot West Conference with a win in Boise, UNM — now jumper bounced off the 18-5 overall and 9-2 in the rim and was batted away at the final buzzer in Will Webber league — finds itself in the same spot it was before visWednesday’s loss at Boise Commentary iting spud country. Down a State, a collective feeling of game to national power San getting punched in the gut percolated its way through Loboland. Diego State, UNM is alone in second place.

Understandable, given the fact that Sure sounds good.

UNM built a 12-point second half Then again, this is UNM men’s lead and was on the verge of getting

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socHi HiGHLiGHts Something to yodel about: It was a big medal day for the Swiss: Cross-country skiier Dario Cologna won his second gold of the Sochi Olympics. Then, Sandro Viletta won the men’s super-combined. Finally, Selina Gasparin took silver in the women’s biathlon.

The Silver Surfer: Skiing in the super-combined, Ivica Kostelic of Croatia again won silver. He became the first skier to win three straight silvers in a single Alpine skiing discipline — in 2006, 2010 and 2014.

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hoops we’re talking about. Fans hope for the best, expect the worst and usually dare their favorite team to rip their hearts out like they’ve done so many times. What they want is for expectations to be met, for the chestthumping of all those chatroom denizens to be justified.

For them, 9-2 is pretty good. Just not good enough.

This is where Craig Neal comes in.

The UNM head coach said after the Boise State loss that he wasn’t concerned with his veteran team coming unglued after a painful setback. Veterain teams generally respond well,

he said, and he thinks his team will do just that against Nevada on Saturday afternoon in The Pit. We’ll see.

The problem is that it’s not going to be easy. The Boise State game was probably the most winnable game in what is currently a 13-day, four-game span that rolls on with Saturday’s visit from fourth-place Nevada. It’s followed by a trip to third-place UNLV next week, then a Pit stop against fifth-ranked San Diego State.

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Putin in tHe House Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Olympic headquarters of the United States wearing a Team USA pin. Some American athletes said “Welcome!” to him in Russian, and he answered “Thanks!” in English, Russian news agencies reported.

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NCaa Men’s top 25

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NBa eastern Conference

atlantic Toronto Brooklyn New York Boston Philadelphia southeast Miami Atlanta Washington Charlotte Orlando Central Indiana Chicago Detroit Cleveland Milwaukee

W 28 24 20 19 15 W 37 25 25 23 16 W 40 27 22 20 9

l 24 27 32 35 39 l 14 26 27 30 38 l 12 25 30 33 43

Pct .538 .471 .385 .352 .278 Pct .725 .490 .481 .434 .296 Pct .769 .519 .423 .377 .173

Western Conference

GB — 31/2 8 10 14 GB — 12 121/2 15 221/2 GB — 13 18 201/2 31

southwest W l Pct GB San Antonio 38 15 .717 — Houston 36 17 .679 2 Dallas 32 22 .593 61/2 Memphis 29 23 .558 81/2 New Orleans 23 29 .442 141/2 Northwest W l Pct GB Oklahoma City 43 12 .782 — Portland 36 17 .679 6 Minnesota 25 28 .472 17 Denver 24 27 .471 17 Utah 19 33 .365 221/2 Pacific W l Pct GB L.A. Clippers 37 18 .673 — Phoenix 30 21 .588 5 Golden State 31 22 .585 5 L.A. Lakers 18 35 .340 18 Sacramento 18 35 .340 18 Friday’s Games Team Hill 142, Team Webber 136 thursday’s Games Chicago 92, Brooklyn 76 Oklahoma City 107, L.A. Lakers 103 saturday’s Games Skills Competitions. sunday’s Games East vs. West, 6 p.m.

thursday thunder 107, lakers 103

OklaHOMa CItY (107) Durant 14-33 12-12 43, Ibaka 4-9 2-2 10, Perkins 2-3 0-0 4, Jackson 7-15 2-2 16, Sefolosha 3-4 0-0 7, Fisher 4-9 2-2 12, Lamb 3-10 3-4 11, Adams 0-0 0-2 0, Collison 0-1 0-0 0, Roberson 2-4 0-0 4, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-88 21-24 107. l.a. lakeRs (103) Johnson 8-13 2-4 19, Williams 6-16 0-0 15, Kaman 7-13 5-7 19, Marshall 6-13 0-1 14, Blake 4-10 2-3 13, Kelly 2-6 2-5 7, Sacre 3-4 0-0 6, Hill 4-8 2-2 10.

Totals 40-83 13-22 103.

Oklahoma City 17 28 27 35—107 l.a. lakers 24 30 28 21—103 3-Point Goals—Oklahoma City 8-28 (Durant 3-13, Lamb 2-4, Fisher 2-7, Sefolosha 1-2, Jackson 0-2), L.A. Lakers 10-28 (Blake 3-8, Williams 3-8, Marshall 2-7, Johnson 1-2, Kelly 1-3).

Fouled Out—Lamb. Rebounds—Oklahoma City 49 (Durant 12), L.A. Lakers 55 (Kaman 10). Assists—Oklahoma City 23 (Durant 7), L.A. Lakers 29 (Marshall 17). Total Fouls—Oklahoma City 23, L.A. Lakers 18. A—18,997 (18,997).

NBa leaders

through Feb. 13 scoring G Durant, OKC 54 Anthony, NYK 49 James, MIA 50 Love, MIN 50 Curry, GOL 50 Griffin, LAC 55 Aldridge, POR 53 Harden, HOU 45 Cousins, SAC 46 DeRozan, TOR 50 George, IND 52 Nowitzki, DAL 52 Irving, CLE 50 Lillard, POR 53 Davis, NOR 44

FG 558 472 484 418 425 495 518 322 369 390 395 406 388 355 343

Ft 463 293 287 342 211 330 229 339 299 292 243 232 207 237 215

Pts 1699 1338 1324 1292 1232 1329 1267 1075 1037 1121 1156 1128 1073 1096 902

aVG 31.5 27.3 26.5 25.8 24.6 24.2 23.9 23.9 22.5 22.4 22.2 21.7 21.5 20.7 20.5

Friday’s Results Arizona St. 69, No. 2 Arizona 66, 2OT No. 13 Louisville 82, Temple 58 No. 23 SMU 77, Rutgers 65 thursday’s Results No. 9 Michigan State 85 Northwestern 70 No. 13 Louisville at Temple, ppd.

No. 18 Creighton 68 Butler 63 No. 21 Wisconsin 78 Minnesota 70 No. 23 SMU at Rutgers, ppd. saturday’s Games No. 1 Syracuse vs. N.C. State, 1 p.m.

No. 3 Florida at No. 14 Kentucky, 7 p.m.

No. 5 San Diego State vs. Air Force, 6:05 p.m.

No. 7 Kansas vs. TCU, 2 p.m.

No. 8 Duke vs. Maryland, 4 p.m.

No. 10 Cincinnati vs. Houston, 1 p.m.

No. 11 Iowa State vs. Texas Tech, 11:45 a.m.

No. 12 Saint Louis vs. VCU, 12 p.m.

No. 16 Iowa at Penn State, 11 a.m.

No. 17 Virginia at Clemson, 10 a.m.

No. 19 Texas vs. West Virginia, 6 p.m.

No. 20 Memphis vs. No. 24 UConn at the XL Center, Hartford, Conn., 10 a.m.

No. 22 Ohio State at Illinois, 6 p.m.

No. 25 Pittsburgh at North Carolina, 11 a.m.

Men’s Division I

Friday’s Games east Canisius 71, Niagara 65 Cornell 70, Dartmouth 67 Harvard 88, Columbia 84, 2OT Iona 89, Monmouth (NJ) 70 Louisville 82, Temple 58 Marist 65, Siena 64 Princeton 69, Brown 65 SMU 77, Rutgers 65 Yale 69, Penn 54 south Chattanooga 83, W. Carolina 73 Kennesaw St. 69, N. Kentucky 67 Mercer 79, Lipscomb 48 North Florida 79, Jacksonville 74 Midwest Oakland 83, Detroit 82, OT Far West Arizona St. 69, Arizona 66, 2OT

Women’s top 25

Friday’s Results No. 6 Stanford 61, No. 15 Arizona St. 35 No. 22 California vs. Arizona thursday’s Results No. 2 Notre Dame 82 Boston College 61 No. 9 Maryland 67 Miami 52 No. 10 N.C. State 69 Clemson 63 (OT) No. 11 Penn State 71 Indiana 63 No. 13 West Virginia 76 Oklahoma 75 No. 14 Texas A&M 78 Georgia 73 Auburn 68 No. 16 Vanderbilt 62 No. 17 North Carolina 86 Pittsburgh 50 No. 18 Kentucky 109 Mississippi 78 No. 20 Gonzaga 66 San Diego 48 No. 21 Nebraska 76 Michigan 68 saturday’s Games No. 20 Gonzaga at BYU, 2 p.m.

No. 24 St. John’s vs. Villanova, 10 a.m.

No. 25 Michigan State vs. Ohio State, 3:30 p.m.

Women’s Division I

Friday’s Games east Cornell 78, Dartmouth 59 Delaware 85, Coll. of Charleston 71 Drexel 60, Towson 43 Harvard 99, Columbia 64 Iona 60, Monmouth (NJ) 59 Marist 100, Quinnipiac 81 Penn 62, Yale 50 Princeton 81, Brown 70 Midwest Evansville 75, Illinois St. 62 Indiana St. 72, S. Illinois 35 N. Iowa 79, Missouri St. 60 Wichita St. 70, Drake 61 Far West Oregon St. 70, UCLA 54 Stanford 61, Arizona St. 35 Washington 87, Colorado 80 Washington St. 83, Utah 73

NATIONAL SCOREBOARD

HOCKEY HOCkeY

NHl eastern Conference

atlantic GP Boston 57 Tampa Bay 58 Montreal 59 Toronto 60 Detroit 58 Ottawa 59 Florida 58 Buffalo 57 Metro GP Pittsburgh 58 N.Y. Rangers 59 Philadelphia 59 Columbus 58 Washington 59 Carolina 57 New Jersey 59 N.Y. Islanders 60

W 37 33 32 32 26 26 22 15 W 40 32 30 29 27 26 24 22

l Ol Pts GF Ga 16 4 78 176 125 20 5 71 168 145 21 6 70 148 142 22 6 70 178 182 20 12 64 151 163 22 11 63 169 191 29 7 51 139 183 34 8 38 110 172 l Ol Pts GF Ga 15 3 83 186 138 24 3 67 155 146 23 6 66 162 167 24 5 63 170 161 23 9 63 171 175 22 9 61 144 158 22 13 61 135 146 30 8 52 164 200

Western Conference

Central GP W l Ol Pts GF Ga St. Louis 57 39 12 6 84 196 135 Chicago 60 35 11 14 84 207 163 Colorado 58 37 16 5 79 174 153 Minnesota 59 31 21 7 69 145 147 Dallas 58 27 21 10 64 164 164 Winnipeg 60 28 26 6 62 168 175 Nashville 59 25 24 10 60 146 180 Pacific GP W l Ol Pts GF Ga Anaheim 60 41 14 5 87 196 147 San Jose 59 37 16 6 80 175 142 Los Angeles 59 31 22 6 68 139 128 Phoenix 58 27 21 10 64 163 169 Vancouver 60 27 24 9 63 146 160 Calgary 58 22 29 7 51 137 179 Edmonton 60 20 33 7 47 153 199 thursday - Feb 24 No games scheduled.

aHl eastern Conference

atlantic GP W l OlslPts GF Ga Manchester 53 32 14 2 5 71 163 133 Providence 52 27 18 1 6 61 166 149 St. John’s 50 28 19 1 2 59 157 135 Worcester 47 23 20 3 1 50 119 136 Portland 48 18 21 2 7 45 134 165 east GP W l OlslPts GF Ga Binghamton 49 30 15 1 3 64 183 153 WB-Scranton 50 28 17 2 3 61 141 124 Hershey 49 27 16 3 3 60 153 134 Norfolk 49 26 15 1 7 60 130 123 Syracuse 48 18 22 3 5 44 122 150 Northeast GP W l OlslPts GF Ga Springfield 50 31 14 1 4 67 153 134 Albany 49 25 16 3 5 58 144 130 Adirondack 48 22 23 0 3 47 116 129 Bridgeport 49 20 24 1 4 45 128 156 Hartford 48 19 24 0 5 43 125 153

Western Conference

Midwest GP W l OlslPts GF Ga Gr. Rapids 50 30 15 2 3 65 164 125 Chicago 49 28 16 3 2 61 143 128 Milwaukee 48 22 15 6 5 55 126 132 Rockford 52 24 21 4 3 55 156 172 Iowa 47 21 17 5 4 51 119 132 North GP W l OlslPts GF Ga Toronto 48 28 16 2 2 60 139 127 Rochester 47 24 17 3 3 54 138 132 Hamilton 48 22 22 0 4 48 118 139 Lake Erie 48 20 24 0 4 44 122 150 Utica 48 18 23 3 4 43 117 148 west GP W l OlslPts GF Ga Abbotsford 50 31 15 3 1 66 156 136 Texas 50 29 15 2 4 64 184 144 Okla. City 50 22 22 1 5 50 150 170 San Antonio 49 20 21 3 5 48 136 152 Charlotte 47 22 23 1 1 46 141 152 Friday’s Games Portland 3, Adirondack 2, SO Hershey 3, Albany 2, SO San Antonio 2, Grand Rapids 1, SO Manchester 5, Worcester 1 Hartford 5, Springfield 2 Rochester 7, Utica 3 Binghamton 6, WB-Scranton 2 Providence 3, St. John’s 2 Norfolk 2, Syracuse 0 Abbotsford at Charlotte, ppd.

Chicago 5, Rockford 4, SO Iowa 3, Milwaukee 1 Oklahoma City 2, Lake Erie 1 Wednesday’s Game AHL All-Stars 7, Farjestad BK (SWE) 2 thursday’s Games No games scheduled.

James, Durant arrive at All-Star as NBA’s 1A, 1B

By Brian Mahoney The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — With the first pick in the 2014 NBA All-Star fantasy draft …

“I’d go with LeBron,” Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan said.

“I’ll take KD,” said Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving.

That’s how close it is right now between LeBron James and Kevin Durant.

They are the very best of the NBA’s best, both so talented that even guys who play against them every night have trouble deciding which one they think is better.

“I think it’s almost a situation where you have 1A and 1B, because both give you so many different things out on the court,” Minnesota’s Kevin Love said.

“1A, 1B,” agreed Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs, who were knocked out of the playoffs by Durant two years ago and James last year.

“As journalists you’re always going to try to choose, but me as a basketball player and playing against them, they’re both great.”

James was the MVP of the game in 2008, the last time the NBA’s All-Star weekend came to New Orleans. These days, he’s the MVP of most seasons, winning four of the last five awards. But King James might be giving up the throne this time, with multiple players believing Durant will emerge with his first MVP award this season.

“I think it’s ultimately going to be KD and LeBron, and

from a lot of different ways.”

James has been considered the game’s best player for a while now, having moved past Kobe Bryant.

Durant was the sensational scorer — he’s on his way to a fourth scoring title in five years — but without the full LeBron Kevin array of skills that James posJames Durant sessed.

KD’s team is No. 1 in the West But even with his right now,” Portland’s Damian 26.5 points, 7.0 rebounds and Lillard said. “He’s getting 6.6 assists per game, James 40 every night and flirting isn’t the only guy filling up with a triple-double, so I think every stat category. Besides if they had to pick an MVP his 31.5 points per game, right now it would be KD.” Durant is also averaging 7.8 rebounds and 5.5 assists.

But MVP is decided by a media panel. Nobody voting Love said James is like “Old for that ever shares the floor Faithful,” because “you know with James or Durant. What what he’s going to give you,” about somebody like Carand added that “at this point, it’s going to be very tough to melo Anthony, who plays the pass him” as the best player in same position, is sandwiched the world. between them at No. 2 in the scoring race, and has teamed But he seems in the Durant with both on the U.S. Olympic category when it comes to the team?

MVP ballot.

“As far as Durant, he’s a hell “I have to say with what of a scorer, great scorer, gets Kevin Durant is doing at this better every year in all facets point, it’s pretty unbelievable,” of his game. Never seen some- he said. “Scoring the ball at body his height shoot the ball such a high clip, and then you the way he’s capable of shoot- look at the stat sheet and he’s ing the ball,” Anthony said. filling it up in other categories as well. His team is winning, “Then you look on the flip and LeBron is having a great side with LeBron, you have somebody who’s so powerful, year, but it just seems like what KD has done has been so athletic, can do so many pretty unbelievable.” things, can change a game in so many different ways James has two straight NBA throughout the course of a titles, beating Durant in the game. So going up against first one, and that might be those two guys, it’s a totally the tiebreaker over the ringdifferent mindset, game plan, less Durant. And it appears focus that you have to have now a tiebreaker may indeed because it’s coming at you be necessary.

Men’s Hockey

OLYMPICS OlYMPICs

MeDals taBle

(Through Friday, Feb. 14) (44 of 98 total events) Nation G s B Norway 4 3 6 United States 4 3 6 Netherlands 4 3 5 Russia 2 5 5 Canada 4 5 2 Germany 7 2 1 Switzerland 5 1 1 Sweden 0 5 2 Austria 1 4 0 Belarus 3 0 1 China 2 2 0 France 2 0 2 Japan 1 2 1 Slovenia 1 1 2 Italy 0 2 2 Czech Republic 0 2 1 Poland 2 0 0 Britain 1 0 1 South Korea 1 0 1 Australia 0 1 1 Latvia 0 0 2 Slovakia 1 0 0 Croatia 0 1 0 Finland 0 1 0 Kazakhstan 0 0 1 Ukraine 0 0 1

tot 13 13 12 12 11 10 7 7 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1

How U.s. Olympians Fared

alPINe skIING Men’s super Combined 6. Bode Miller, Easton, N.H., (12, 1:54.67; 7, 51.93) 2:46.60; 11. Jared Goldberg, Salt Lake City, (15, 1:54.90; 10, 52.39) 2:47.29; 12. Ted Ligety, Park City, Utah, (18, 1:55.17; 8, 52.22) 2:47.39; NR. Andrew Weibrecht, Lake Placid, N.Y., DNF. BIatHlON Women’s 15km Individual 31. Noah Hoffman, Aspen, Colo., 41:02.7; 38. Erik Bjornsen, Winthrop, Wash., 41:44.7; 47. Brian Gregg, Winthrop, Wash., 42:42.0; 52. Kris Freeman, Thornton, N.H., 42:54.8.

CROss-COUNtRY skIING Men’s 15km classic 31. Noah Hoffman, Aspen, Colo., 41:02.7.

38. Erik Bjornsen, Winthrop, Wash., 41:44.7; 47. Brian Gregg, Winthrop, Wash., 42:42.0; 52. Kris Freeman, Thornton, N.H., 42:54.8.

FIGURe skatING Men 9. Jason Brown, Highland Park, Ill. (6, 86.00; 11, 152.37), 238.37.

12. Jeremy Abbott, Aspen, Colo. (15, 72.58; 8, 160.12), 232.70.

FReestYle skIING Women’s aerials Qualification Jump 1: 1. Ashley Caldwell, Ashburn, Va., 101.25 (Q); 5. Emily Cook, Belmont, Mass., 80.01 (Q).

Jump 2: None.

Ranking: 1. Ashley Caldwell, Ashburn, Va., 101.25 (Q); 5. Emily Cook, Belmont, Mass., 80.01 (Q).

Finals Jump 1: 6. Emily Cook, Belmont, Mass., 82.21 (Q); 10. Ashley Caldwell, Ashburn, Va., 72.80.

Jump 2: 8. Emily Cook, Belmont, Mass., 64.50. skeletON Men through two Runs 3. John Daly, Smithtown, N.Y., 1:53.58.

4. Matt Antoine, Prairie du Chien, Wis., 1:53.84.

Women Final Ranking 2. Noelle Pikus-Pace, Orem, Utah, 3:53.86. — SILVER; 4. Katie Uhlaender, McDonald, Kan., 3:54.34. skI JUMPING Men’s k120 Individual Qualifying: 30. Nick Alexander, Lebanon, N.H. (120.0, 51.0, 46.5) 96.6 ;31. Nick Fairall, Andover, N.H. (120.0, 51.0, 47.5) 95.7; 36. Anders Johnson, Park City, Utah (112.0, 36.6, 49.5) 91.1.

Did not qualify: 43. Peter Frenette, Saranac Lake, N.Y. (111.0, 34.8, 49.5) 80.9.

Preliminary Round Group a W l OW Ol Pts GFGa United States1 0 0 0 3 7 1 Russia 1 0 0 0 3 5 2 Slovenia 0 1 0 0 0 2 5 Slovakia 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 Group B W l OW Ol Pts GFGa Finland 2 0 0 0 6 14 5 Canada 2 0 0 0 6 9 1 Norway 0 2 0 0 0 2 9 Austria 0 2 0 0 0 4 14 Group C W l OW Ol Pts GFGa Sweden 2 0 0 0 6 5 2 Switzerland 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 Czech Rep. 1 1 0 0 3 6 6 Latvia 0 2 0 0 0 2 5 Friday, Feb. 14 Czech Republic 4, Latvia 2 Sweden 1, Switzerland 0 Canada 6, Austria 0 Finland 6, Norway 1 saturday, Feb. 15 Slovakia vs. Slovenia, 1 a.m.

United States vs. Russia, 5:30 a.m.

Switzerland vs. Czech Republic, 10 a.m.

Sweden vs. Latvia, 10 a.m. sunday, Feb. 16 Austria vs. Norway, 1 a.m.

Russia vs. Slovakia, 5:30 a.m.

Slovenia vs. United States, 5:30 a.m.

Finland vs. Canada, 10 a.m.

Women’s Hockey

saturday, Feb. 15 Quarterfinals Finland vs. Sweden, 1 a.m.

Switzerland vs. Russia, 5:30 a.m. sunday, Feb. 16 Qualifications (5-8) Germany vs. Finland-Sweden loser, 1 a.m.

Japan vs. Switzerland-Russia loser, 10 a.m.

Monday, Feb. 17 semifinals United States vs. Finland-Sweden winner, 5:30 a.m.

Canada vs. Switzerland-Russia winner, 10 a.m.

Curling

Men Sweden 6, China 5 United States 8, Germany 5 Canada 10, Norway 4 Britain 8, Denmark 6 Russia 7, United States 6 China 7, Norway 5 Germany 8, Switzerland 7 Women China 11, South Korea 3 Britain 12, Japan 3 Denmark 9, United States 2 Russia 6, Switzerland 3

GOlF GOLF

PGa tOUR Northern trust Open

Friday’s Completion of First Round at Riviera Country Club los angeles Purse: $6.7 million Yardage: 7,349; Par 71 (35-36) Completed First Round Dustin Johnson 34-32—66 Robert Garrigus 34-33—67 Francesco Molinari 33-34—67 Scott Stallings 31-36—67 Charley Hoffman 35-32—67 Matt Jones 34-33—67 Brian Harman 32-35—67 Blake Adams 33-34—67 Jimmy Walker 33-34—67 Sang-Moon Bae 34-33—67 Charlie Beljan 35-32—67 J.B. Holmes 33-34—67 Jim Furyk 33-35—68 Cameron Tringale 36-32—68 Brendan Steele 33-35—68 Keegan Bradley 32-36—68 Rickie Fowler 34-34—68 William McGirt 33-36—69 Richard H. Lee 34-35—69 Kevin Stadler 33-36—69

TENNIS teNNIs

atP WORlD tOUR Copa Claro

Friday at Buenos aires lawn tennis Club Buenos aires, argentina Purse: $567,760 (Wt250) surface: Clay-Outdoor singles Quarterfinals Tommy Robredo (3), Spain, def. Robin Haase (6), Netherlands, 6-1, 2-0, retired.

Fabio Fognini (2), Italy, def. Pablo Andujar, Spain, 6-4, 6-3.

David Ferrer (1), Spain, def. Albert Ramos, Spain, 6-1, 6-2.

Nicolas Almagro (4), Spain, def. Jeremy Chardy (8), France, 7-6 (7), 6-3.

U.s. NatIONal INDOOR CHaMPIONsHIPs

Friday at the Racquet Club of Memphis Memphis, tenn.

Purse: $647,675 (Wt250) surface: Hard-Indoor singles Quarterfinals Kei Nishikori (1), Japan, def. Alex Bogomolov Jr., Russia, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Michael Russell, United States, def.

Lleyton Hewitt (3), Australia, 6-3, 7-6 (6).

Yen-hsun Lu (4), Taiwan, def. Alex Kuznetsov, United States, 6-1, 6-4.

atP WORlD tOUR aBN aMRO World tournament

Friday at ahoy’ stadium Rotterdam, Netherlands Purse: $2.05 million (Wt500) surface: Hard-Indoor singles Quarterfinals Tomas Berdych (3), Czech Republic, def. Jerzy Janowicz, Poland, 6-7 (9), 6-2, 6-4.

Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, def. Juan Martin del Potro (1), Argentina, 6-3, 6-4.

Marin Cilic, Croatia, def. Andy Murray (2), Britain, 6-3, 6-4.

Igor Sijsling, Netherlands, def. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1.

TRANSACTIONS tRaNsaCtIONs BaseBall

COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Atlanta C Orinn Sears 50 games for violating the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

american league

TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Tommy Hanson on a oneyear contract. Placed LHP Joseph Ortiz on the 60-day DL.

National league

ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHP Julio Teheran on a six-year contract.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Josh Roenicke on a minor league contract.

FOOtBall National Football league

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed TE Richard Gordon to a one-year contract.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Named Evan Marcus strength and conditioning coach and Jeff Hurd assistant strength and conditioning coach.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Announced the retirement of DE Dave Tollefson.

Canadian Football league

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Resigned S Dan West. Signed WR Antonio Robinson.

HOCkeY american Hockey league

AHL — Suspended Rochester D Matt MacKenzie one game for his actions during a Feb. 8 game.

BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Signed D Jake Newton to a professional tryout contract.

Martin: Dolphins’ front office, coach weren’t aware, report says Continued from Page B-1 was identified in the report.

The report chronicled Martin’s struggle to deal with a “pattern of harassment,” including emotional text exchanges with his parents and a description of him crying in the bathroom after one particularly painful attack.

Martin also told investigators that he “believed that trying to engage in a physical confrontation with these three — whom he viewed as a united group — would only make matters worse.”

The inquiry said Martin was taunted and ridiculed almost daily. After Martin left the team, Incognito boasted about “breaking Jmart” in a notebook the linemen used to tally fines and bonuses among themselves. When the investigation began, Incognito asked another player to destroy the book, saying, “They’re going to suspend me.”

The other harassed player was “subjected to homophobic name-calling and improper physical touching,” while the assistant trainer, who was born in Japan, was subjected to racial slurs.

“It was not difficult to conclude that the Assistant Trainer and Player A were harassed, but the questions raised in Martin’s case were more complex, nuanced and difficult,” the report says.

Although Wells concluded that Martin was abused by three teammates, the report said “they did not intend to drive Martin from the team or cause him lasting emotional injury.”

Evaluating Martin’s claims was difficult, “given his mental health issues, his possible heightened sensitivity to insults and his unusual, ‘bipolar’ friendship with Incognito,” the report said.

“Nonetheless, we ultimately concluded that Martin was indeed harassed by Incognito, who can fairly be described as the main instigator.”

The report comes about three months after the league hired Wells to investigate the case, which prompted a national debate about hazing and workplace bullying.

“To a great extent, Incognito dictated the culture,” the report said. “We doubt that matters would have gotten so out of hand had Incognito not set a tone on the offensive line that made extremely vulgar taunting a typical form of communication.”

Dolphins offensive line coach Jim Turner

Dolphins guard Richie Incognito, left, and tackle Jonathan Martin look over plays in August 2013 during a preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Miami Gardens, Fla. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

didn’t attempt to stop the behavior and even took part in some of the taunting of “Player A,” the report said. Several people interviewed told investigators that Turner gave Player A, a male sex doll as a gag gift around Christmas 2012.

Turner told investigators he did not remember the incident, but investigators said they did not believe him.

However, the report found no evidence that the Dolphins front office or head coach Joe Philbin were aware of the conduct Martin found abusive.

The 6-foot-5, 312-pound Martin abruptly left the team Oct. 28. He was briefly hospitalized, and then joined his family in California and underwent counseling for emotional issues. Incognito was barred from the season’s last eight games.

Incognito expressed regrets about the racist and profane language he used with Martin, but said it stemmed from a culture of locker-room “brotherhood,” not bullying.

Martin has said he tried to be friends with Incognito. The two players traded more than a thousand text messages in a year’s span, and the teasing and vulgar banter went both ways. Martin also participated in the teasing of Player A, although investigators say he was simply trying to fit in with the other linemen.

The report also mentioned Martin having suicidal thoughts.

sPORTs

Saturday, February 15, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

TOP 25 BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Sun Devils pull out win over Wildcats in 2OT The Associated Press

TEMPE, Ariz. — Jermaine Marshall scored eight of his 29 points in the second overtime and Jordan Bachynski blocked T.J. McConnell’s layup attempt with 6 seconds left, sending Arizona State to a 69-66 victory over No. 2 Arizona on Friday night.

With both teams struggling offensively most of the night, AriAriz. State 69 zona State (19-6, 7-5 Pac12) turned to Marshall 2 Arizona 66 when it counted. He went over 20 minutes without a field goal, but hit consecutive 3-pointers and scored on a drive with 14 seconds left to put the Sun Devils up 67-66.

McConnell then tried to drive the lane, but Bachynski swatted his shot away, leading to a breakaway dunk by Jahii Carson.

Arizona State’s fans rushed the court, had to be cleared because there was 0.8 seconds left, then poured out of the stands again after Nick Johnson missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

McConnell led Arizona (23-2, 10-2) with 17 points and five rebounds.

NO. 13 LOUIsVILLe 82, TeMPLe 58 In Philadelphia, Montrezl Harrell scored a

career-high 22 points, and Louisville built a 30-point first-half lead to rout Temple.

Russ Smith added 15 points to help the Cardinals (20-4, 9-2 American Athletic Conference) improve to 7-1 in their last eight games.

Wayne Blackshear finished with 13 points, Luke Hancock scored 11, and Harrell had 10 rebounds and four blocks in the game postponed a day because of a snowstorm.

Anthony Lee and Will Cummings led Temple (6-17, 1-10) with 14 points apiece.

The Owls shot 37.3 percent from the field to drop their fourth straight game and fall into a tie for last place in the conference with Central Florida.

NO. 23 sMU 77, RUTGeRs 65 In Piscataway, N.J., Nic Moore scored 16 of his 21 points in the second half, and SMU won as a ranked team for the first time in 29 years, beating Rutgers.

Nick Russell added 16 points to help the Mustangs (20-5, 9-3 American Athletic Conference) reach the 20-win plateau for the second time in 13 years.

Myles Mack had 17 points, and Kadeem Jack scored 15 for the Scarlet Knights (1015, 4-8).

Northern New Mexico

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Arizona State’s Jermaine Marshall, right, has his shot blocked by Arizona’s Gabe York, during the first half of Friday’s game in Tempe, Ariz.

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Outgunned: St. Mike’s left a wide margin Continued from Page B-1 the intermission thanks to a smothering defense.

“We just didn’t handle their pressure very well in the first half,” St. Michael’s point guard Bradley Vaughan said. “You have to come out and play 32 minutes, and we didn’t do that tonight.”

Hope’s defensive pressure caused St. Michael’s to get out of its rhythm as it committed 12 turnovers in the first half.

“We were trying to make the home-run play, and you can’t do that,” Vaughan said. “You have to play sound basketball and get a good shot on every possession. It’s just mental mistakes and bad decisions, and we have to correct that [Saturday] in practice.”

A lot of those first-half turnovers came from wild passes by the Horsemen, and that may have had something to do with Hope’s size. The shortest Hope player is 5-foot-11, whereas the shortest Horseman, Vaughan, stands at 5-7.

“We don’t see that kind of size a lot, and we can’t simulate it in practice,” Geyer said.

Speaking of practice, that was the first thing on the Horsemen’s mind after the game. The team currently holds the No. 2 ranking in the state, but coaches and players did not shy away from all the things they have to work on.

“Our basketball IQ has to improve and we have to make better choices with the ball and defensively,” Geyer said. “We certainly don’t like losing, but we have to continue to get better and work on the things that we didn’t do well tonight and throughout the season.”

The Horsemen started to make better decisions in the second half as they reduced their turnovers, but for all their efforts, they could not cut the Huskies’ lead down to single digits.

St. Michael’s was able to inch closer for a moment in the third quarter, but the margin grew to more than 20 points for most of the fourth quarter.

“We got [Hope’s lead] down to 12, but we just couldn’t make it happen,” Geyer said. “We tried to control the tempo, but then we’d get down and have to get out of our game plan just a little bit.”

The Huskies made it a collective effort on their side. Only Austen Drake scored in double figures with 11 points, but eight Hope players got in the scorebook, and its ability to spread the ball around is what makes Hope strong.

“I think that’s the strength of our team,” Hope head coach Jim Murphy said.

The Horsemen hit the road to play Albuquerque Sandia Preparatory on Feb. 19. St. Michael’s already beat the Sundevils, but with a district championship and state tournament seeding on the line, this next game has a lot of weight.

“That’s the biggest game of the season so far,” Geyer said.

But while Geyer and the rest of the Horsemen are focusing on the Sundevils and fixing their mistakes, the team has Hope in the back of their minds.

“We hope we see them later down the road,” Vaughan said. “They’re big, long and athletic and they play really well together, but we know we can beat them if we play the way we know how to play.”

GOLF 11 a.m. on TGC — PGA Tour, Northern Trust Open, third round, in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

1 p.m. on CBS — PGA Tour, Northern Trust Open, third round, in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

TGC — Champions Tour, ACE Group Classic, second round, in Naples, Fla. 3 p.m. on TGC — LPGA, Women’s Australian Open, third round, in Cheltenham, Australia (same-day tape) 3:30 a.m. on TGC — European PGA Tour, Africa Open, final round, in East London, South Africa MeN’s COLLeGe BaskeTBaLL 9 a.m. on ESPNU — Saint Joseph’s at La Salle 10 a.m. on ESPN — Memphis at UConn 10 a.m. on ESPN2 — Virginia at Clemson 11 a.m. on CBS — Pittsburgh at North Carolina 11 a.m. on ESPNU — Iowa at Penn St. Noon on ESPN — Teams TBA Noon on ESPN2 — Teams TBA 1 p.m. on ESPNU — Houston at Cincinnati 2 p.m. on ESPN — Teams TBA 2 p.m. on ESPN2 — Teams TBA 2 p.m. on FOX — Xavier at Marquette 3 p.m. on ESPNU — LSU at Arkansas 4 p.m. on ESPN — Maryland at Duke 4 p.m. on ESPN2 — Georgia St. at Troy 5 p.m. on ESPNU — Kansas St. at Baylor 6 p.m. on ESPN2 — BYU at Saint Mary’s (Cal) 7 p.m. on ESPN — Florida at Kentucky 7 p.m. on ESPNU — N. Iowa at Missouri St. 9 p.m. on ESPNU — San Francisco at Santa Clara MeN’s COLLeGe HOCkeY 6 p.m. on NBCSN — Wisconsin at Ohio St. NBa BaskeTBaLL 6:30 p.m. on TNT — Exhibition, Shooting Stars, Skills Challenge, Three-Point Contest, and Slam Dunk, in New Orleans WOMeN’s COLLeGe BaskeTBaLL 10 a.m. on FSN — Middle Tenn. at FAU WINTeR OLYMPICs In Sochi, Russia All events taped unless noted as live 1 p.m. on NBC — Women’s Short Track, 1500 Gold Medal Final; Women’s Cross-Country, 4x5km Relay Gold Medal Final; Men’s Skeleton, Gold Medal Final Runs 6 p.m. on NBC — Women’s Alpine Skiing, Super-G Gold Medal Final; Men’s Short Track, 1000 Gold Medal Final; Men’s Speedskating, 1500 Gold Medal Final; Men’s Ski Jumping, Individual K-125 Large Hill Gold Medal Final 10 p.m. on NBC — Women’s Curling, United States vs. Sweden 5 a.m. on NBCSN — Men’s Hockey, United States vs. Russia (LIVE) 8 a.m. on NBCSN — Men’s Skeleton, Gold Medal Final Runs (LIVE) 10 a.m. on NBCSN — Men’s Hockey, Switzerland vs. Czech Republic (LIVE) 4 p.m. on NBCSN — Game of the Day: Hockey 1 a.m. on NBCSN — Men’s Curling, United States vs. Canada 3 a.m. on NBCSN — Men’s Cross-Country, 4x10km Relay Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 5:30 a.m. on MSNBC — Women’s Hockey, Quarterfinal (LIVE) 3 a.m. on MSNBC — Women’s Curling, United States vs. Canada (LIVE) 3 p.m. on CNBC — Women’s Curling, United States vs. Sweden 10 a.m. on USA — Men’s Hockey, Sweden vs. Latvia (LIVE) 1 a.m. on USA — Men’s Hockey, Austria vs. Norway (LIVE)

Today on radio UNM MeN’s BaskeTBaLL 4:05 p.m. on KVSF-AM 1400/KKOB-AM 770 — Nevada at New Mexico

PREP SCORES

Boys basketball

St. Michael’s Isaiah Dominguez, right, fights for the rebound during the first quarter of Friday’s game in Perez-Shelley Gymnasium. For more photos, go to tinyurl.com/kze33zx. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Alamogordo 38, Oñate 23 Animas 55, Graceway Christian 34 Atrisco Heritage 97, Albuquerque High 96, 2OT Belen 57, Miyamura 54 Capital 49, Bernalillo 45 Carlsbad 56, Hobbs 48 Centennial 72, Chaparral 32 Cloudcroft 59, Mescalero Apache 58 Española Valley 50, Los Alamos 39 Farmington 60, Kirtland Central 55 Goddard 77, Artesia 52 Grants 81, Valencia 64 Highland 96, Rio Grande 64 Hope Christian 54, St.

Michael’s 33 Los Lunas 70, Gallup 68 Magdalena 81, Menaul 35 Mayfield 58, Las Cruces 54 NMMI 48, Loving 39 Piedra Vista 46, Aztec 34 Robertson 72, Raton 45 Roswell 79, Clovis 62 Sandia Prep 58, Santa Fe Indian 46 Santa Teresa 59, Deming 45 Shiprock 77, Thoreau 63 St. Pius 61, Del Norte 42 Tatum 50, Jal 33 Texico 56, Clayton 54 Tohatchi 68, Navajo Prep 65 Tularosa 65, Lordsburg 47 Valley 71, West Mesa 55 Volcano Vista 64, Rio Rancho 52

Girls basketball Cibola 69, Cleveland 29 Clovis 64, Roswell 40 Eunice 45, Dexter 33 Goddard 49, Artesia 45 Hagerman 40, Capitan 32 Hatch Valley 57, Cobre 38 Hobbs 44, Carlsbad 34 Laguna-Acoma 62, East Mountain 14 Navajo Prep 58, Tohatchi 46 Oñate 47, Alamogordo 31 Santa Rosa 53, Tucumcari 40 St. Pius 59, Del Norte 40 Texico 45, Clayton 37 Tularosa 65, Lordsburg 26 Volcano Vista 60, Rio Rancho 38

PREP SCHEDULE

Lobos: UNM can’t afford more losses Continued from Page B-1 four games, but they can most certainly be lost. With another setback at any point in the next week, the MWC becomes San Diego State’s world with everyone else just living in it.

Smart money has the Lobos dropping at least one of the next three games — maybe more. They’ve got a decent track record in Vegas at the MWC Tournament, but not so much against the Rebels in the regular season. They’ve also lost five of their last eight to SDSU in The Pit. They will be solid favorites against Nevada, but likely slight

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underdogs against both UNLV and San Diego State. Winning two of those three games doesn’t seem so bad now, but it will probably take a 3-0 mark to realistically keep the MWC regular season championship dream alive heading into the home stretch.

Anything less than an unblemished run probably means the discussion becomes the quest to secure the No. 2 seed in the MWC Tournament rather than fending off SDSU for first.

It will make that punch to the gut feel more like a slap on the knee.

Brace yourselves, Lobo fans.

Chavez’s streak not enough for NMHU in loss to Eastern N.M. Matthew Chavez is hot.

The New Mexico Highlands University baseball team was not.

East N.M. 7 Chavez on Friday extended his seasonopening hitting streak to four games NMHU 0 against Eastern New Mexico, but the Cowboys didn’t get much else out of the offense as the Greyhounds won 7-0 at Greyhound Field.

A fourth-inning single kept Chavez’s steak alive, but Highlands managed just five hits overall.

ENMU (4-1) held a 2-0 lead, then tacked on a run in the fifth and two in the sixth to extend the lead to 5-0.

That was more than enough for Greyhounds pitcher Ben Monticello, who allowed three hits and four walks over six innings to improve to 2-0.

Eric McRae took the loss for NMHU (2-2) as he went seven innings, allowing five runs on six hits and four walks.

The two teams play a doubleheader Saturday starting at 1 p.m.

The New Mexican

Today Boys basketball — Santa Fe Indian School at Shiprock, 1 p.m.

Monte del Sol at Pecos, 5 p.m.

McCurdy at Escalante, 5 p.m.

Cimarron at Questa, 5:30 p.m.

Santa Fe Preparatory at Mora, 5:30 p.m.

Walatowa at Santa Fe Waldorf (Christian Life), 6:30 p.m.

Girls basketball — Mesa Vista at Dulce, 1 p.m.

Santa Fe Preparatory at Mora, 2 p.m.

Monte del Sol at Pecos, 3:30 p.m.

Cimarron at Questa, 4 p.m.

Santa Fe Waldorf at Walatowa, 5 p.m.

Bernalillo at Capital, 7 p.m.

Los Alamos at Española Valley, 7 p.m.

West Las Vegas at Taos, 7 p.m.

Raton at Las Vegas Robertson, 7 p.m..

Swimming and diving — Santa Fe High, St. Michael’s, Santa Fe Preparatory, Desert Academy, Los Alamos, Taos at District 1 meet (Genoveva Chavez Community Center), 9 a.m.

Wrestling — Capital, Santa Fe High, Los Alamos, Española Valley at District 2AAAA meet at Bernalillo, 9 a.m.

St. Michael’s at District 1/5A-AAA, 10 a.m.

Taos, Las Vegas Robertson, West Las Vegas, Tierra Encantada, Pecos at District 2A-AAA meet at Tucumcari, 4 p.m.

NeW MeXICaN sPORTs

Office hours 2:30 to 10 p.m.

James Barron, 986-3045 Will Webber, 986-3060 Edmundo Carrillo, 986-3060 FAX, 986-3067 Email, sports@sfnewmexican.com

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2014 WINTER OLYMPICS

THE NEW MEXICAN Saturday, February 15, 2014

Yarnold wins skeleton gold Pikus-Pace of U.S. gets silver medal

By Tim Reynolds

The Associated Press

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Britain’s Lizzy Yarnold won the season’s first race on a technicality.

The season’s last race, there was no argument.

Yarnold won the Olympic women’s skeleton gold medal Friday night, a victory that puts the 25-year-old unquestionably atop her sport, probably for years to come. Her four-run time was 0.97 seconds faster than silver medalist Noelle Pikus-Pace of Eagle Mountain, Utah, who entered retirement by exorcising the memory of letting a medal slip away in Vancouver four years ago.

“It won’t sink in for a few more days, but I’m over the moon,” Yarnold said, as a full moon illuminated part of the Russian night sky. “I’m so proud. I put in all the work for five years and it all worked out.”

Yarnold, who also won the World Cup overall title this season, claimed Britain’s first gold at the Sochi Games. Her time was 3 minutes, 52.89 seconds, and the final trip down the track was a mere formality, given that she already had a 0.78-second edge over PikusPace and only needed to avoid a giant mistake.

It didn’t happen. The fourth run was like all the others — flawless.

She grabbed a British flag, hopped near the finish line, embraced teammate Shelley Rudman and seemed to just never stop smiling.

“Lizzy’s been a beautiful bubble of confidence in every one of her races,” said Amy Williams, the 2010 skeleton gold medalist from Britain. “I’m so proud of her that we kept the medal in Great Britain and wrote ourselves into the history books.”

Pikus-Pace insisted that this time, she’ll retire happy. Simply

MEN’S HOCKEY

No chance Russia will look past the USA this time

By Jim Litke

The Associated Press

Elizabeth Yarnold of Great Britain celebrates her gold medal win during the women’s skeleton competition Friday in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. MICHAEL SOHN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

being in the Olympic race was victory enough; Pikus-Pace revealed afterward that she was dealing with concussionlike symptoms for several days before the race and minimized her training time on the advice of doctors.

“I felt fine and safe sliding but my vision has been going in and out of being able to focus, which slows my reaction time,” Pikus-Pace said. “It has been an extremely difficult week but my family, coaches, and prayers of many allowed me to come out and compete the best I can given the situation.”

Elena Nikitina of Russia won the bronze, another 0.44 seconds off the pace and just 0.04 seconds ahead of Katie Uhlaender of Breckenridge, Colo., who took fourth for her top Olympic finish.

And afterward, Uhlaender wasn’t lamenting coming so close. Instead, she picked up Pikus-Pace’s daughter Lacee, gave her an embrace and sang her teammate’s praises.

“I couldn’t be more proud of her,” Uhlaender said. “This is a great last race for us both.

Noelle finished fourth last time

and now she’s on the podium and I couldn’t be happier for her.”

The Lizzy-vs.-Noelle rivalry was back and forth all season, starting with the World Cup opener in Calgary, where PikusPace crossed the line first and was originally announced as the winner. But Yarnold was awarded the victory after race officials said the American used too much tape on the handle of her sled.

That decision played a huge role in deciding the World Cup title. From there, Pikus-Pace set her sights on closing out her sliding career with an Olympic medal — which is really the only thing that lured her from retirement two years ago, especially since a trip to the podium in Vancouver was lost when she made a mistake in Curve 2 of her final run at the 2010 Olympics.

“This is a dream come true for myself and my family,” Pikus-Pace said. “Absolutely unbelievable. I stood up there at the start knowing this was my race and I knew I was just going to go for it.”

When she crossed the line

Friday night, knowing hardware was hers, she flashed a megawatt smile. Retirement, she said, would be about spending time with her family.

She couldn’t wait to get started, hopping over the track wall to join her husband and children for hugs and kisses — her first, ever, as an Olympic medalist.

Then she waved to fans.

Waving goodbye, essentially.

Yarnold, she’s basically just saying hello.

She announced herself as the next big thing in skeleton two winters ago, winning two of her first four World Cup races. A year ago, she vaulted to No. 4 in the World Cup rankings, and inconsistency kept her from rising even higher.

This season, she figured it all out. World Cup champion.

Olympic champion. And her top rival is retiring.

Yarnold covered her face, almost in disbelief, on the flower podium afterward.

Pikus-Pace wept softly through her smile and was the last to leave the stand, seeming almost unsure where to go next.

Then she figured it out. She’s going home.

SOCHI, Russia — As horror movies go, Dmitry Chernyshenko makes no claims to be a connoisseur or critic. Yet he had no problem editing the list of films that haunted his childhood down to three.

“Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th,” the head of the Sochi 2014 organizing committee said Friday.

And the third?

He smirked.

“Miracle on Ice,” Chernyshenko said.

The film depicting the upset win by a team made up mostly of U.S. college hockey players over the Soviet Union’s dynastic “Big Red Machine” at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics is actually titled Miracle. But everyone old enough to remember the game — Chernyshenko was 11 at the time — knows exactly what he was talking about.

“We all grew up in the culture that hockey is a religion in our country,” Chernyshenko said, “and we were educated by this very dramatic story of the competition between our two great countries.”

That rivalry is renewed Saturday inside the Bolshoy Ice Dome in Sochi, though this time it’s only a preliminary round game instead of a semifinal. What’s also different is the diminished tension surrounding this encounter. The 1980 game was played against the backdrop of a still-simmering Cold War, portrayed as a surrogate battle of good vs. evil. Which side was which depended largely on where you viewed it from.

The young men on both sides who play one another Saturday tend to see it only

through the prism of hockey.

“We don’t refer to them as the big, bad Russians, because we know a lot of them and play with a lot of them [in the National Hockey League],” said U.S. captain Zach Parise.

“There just isn’t the political rivalry that there was back then. But it’s still special when you see the U.S.-Russia matchup.

“It’s still hockey rivals. It’s still sports rivals. But I guess,” he added, “you don’t have that political stuff going on in the background, too.”

A few of the old guys who played in the 1980 game have done their part to ratchet up the stakes.

Hall of Fame goaltender Vladislav Tretiak, now president of the Russian Hockey Federation, was pulled after two periods in what turned out to be a 4-3 win that paved the Americans path to the gold medal in 1980. He said earlier this week, “It was a good lesson that the Americans taught us.

“You have to respect your competitors, and only after the game can you tell what you think about them. We did not have respect for the competitors at that time, but we don’t have that during this Olympics.”

Mike Eruzione, who scored the game-winning goal in 1980, bristled after opening the paper and reading Tretiak’s remarks.

“I was a little disappointed, frankly. That game meant a chance to win the gold medal.

So tell me how a team of professionals — and remember, the Soviets were 27- and 28-year-old career Army guys, whose ‘job’ was playing hockey — doesn’t respect an opponent.

SPEEDSKATING

U.S. changing suits after dismal start

By Paul Newberry

The Associated Press

SOCHI, Russia — They were touted as the fastest speedskating suits in the world.

Now the U.S. is dumping the high-tech attire after a dismal start to the Olympics.

Kevin Haley, vice president of innovation for suit developer Under Armour, said Friday the Americans had received permission to go back to the suits they used while posting impressive results on the fall World Cup circuit and at the U.S. Olympic trials in December.

The change begins Saturday with the men’s 1,500 meters, when Shani Davis hopes to make up for a disappointing performance in his first race at Sochi. Under Armour was busy altering the logo on the old suits, so it conforms with International Olympic Committee regulations.

“We want to put the athletes in the best possible position when they’re stepping on the ice to be 100 percent confident in their ability to capture a spot on the podium,” Haley said by phone from Baltimore.

The change was a stunning reversal after the Americans arrived in Sochi proclaiming they had a suit that would give them a technological edge over rival countries such as the Netherlands.

Instead, the Dutch have dominated through the first six races, winning 12 of a possible 18 medals, including four golds.

The Americans have yet to finish higher than seventh; Davis and female stars Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe have all been major disappointments.

While Haley expressed confidence in

Maria Lamb of the U.S. skates in a black suit after changing her official U.S. Speedskating team suit during a training session Friday at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia.

MATT DUNHAM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

the new suit, saying all the data proved it should produce faster times, he said the company agreed to the change because a few athletes felt it was actually a drag on their times.

“If they have one less thing to be distracted by,” Haley said, “that should give them a little bit of an advantage.”

The new skinsuits, developed with help from aerospace and defense giant Lockheed Martin and unveiled just before the Sochi Olympics, had definitely become a major distraction.

Even though several coaches and athletes defended the technology, it was clear that U.S. Speedskating needed to change things up to make sure this didn’t become a total bust of a Winter Games.

“Morale is down right now,” said Joey Mantia, another of the U.S. skaters in the 1,500.

The new suit, known as “Mach 39,” has become a convenient explanation for the American woes, since they were unveiled so late in the game, without giving the skaters a chance to wear them in competition.

Even before the Olympics began, the designer of the Dutch suits expressed skepticism about the American claims.

Bert van der Tuuk said he even tested some of the elements used in the U.S. suit — rivets, seams, bumps and a diagonal zipper to cut down on drag — and found they provided no significant edge.

Others backed the new suits. Haley said the majority of the team wanted to stick with it, but the change was made to make sure everyone was comfortable. ISU rules require the entire team to wear the same suit.

“There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is the most scientific suit in the whole world,” said U.S. skater Patrick Meek. “These guys make F-16 fighter jets.

If they can invade Afghanistan and Iraq, they can build a speedskating suit.”

The Dutch athletes began testing their own new suits during the World Cup season and were allowed to use them at the country’s highly competitive Olympic trials.

U.S. coach Kip Carpenter said there are plenty of plausible reasons for the U.S. woes beyond the suits.

“The human factor is by far the largest piece out there,” said Carpenter, a former skater and Olympic medalist. “There’s not an athlete out there who is slowing down a second per lap because of the suit they’re in. What is it: a parachute on their back?”

Gold: Night featured rough performances Continued from Page B-1 finished, kneeling, he laid two hands on the ice for a long time, thinking he had blown it.

“I was so nervous and I was so tired,” he said. “But I was surprised [to win]. I was not happy with my program.”

Orser told him not to fret, that the competition wasn’t over.

And when Chan came up short, the gold was headed to Japan.

Asked if he thought he would win,

Hanyu shook his head.

“No, I was so sad,” he said.

And he seemed stunned when he saw Chan’s scores and realized they weren’t enough.

Hanyu skated around the rink draped in a Japanese flag after the flower ceremony.

Around the Iceberg rink were about two dozen banners supporting him and the Japanese team.

Ten, coached by Frank Carroll, who helped Evan Lysacek win the 2010 gold

medal, surged from ninth to third with a busy free skate that include three spot-on combination jumps. He won Kazakhstan’s first Olympic figure skating medal.

“This medal is my gift to my country,” said Ten, 20. “I hope this is not the highest achievement of my life.”

American Jason Brown, 19, of Highland Park, Ill., fell from sixth to ninth, earning no points for a triple loop at the end of his program because of a previous false takeoff on an axel that was counted as a jump.

Soviet goalie Vladislav Tretiak allows a goal by the U.S. team in the first period of a medal-round hockey game at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. Tretiak, the three-time Olympic gold medalist, gave up two goals in the first period of the ‘Miracle on Ice’ at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics and then was benched in what is widely regarded as the greatest upset in Olympic history.

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Lebanese rally behind skier who posed nude had somehow harmed the country’s BEIRUT — Old footage of reputation.

Jacky Chamoun posing nude It was only that surfaced on the Internet after that as she prepared for the Sochi decree that Olympics caused quite a stir many people in Lebanon, and exposed Jacky in Lebanon some deeper issues.

Chamoun realized they It sparked a government had athletes investigation, which in turn triggered a deluge of criticism competing at the Winter Games. in the mainstream and social Supporters took to social media against the political leadership over its priorities. media immediately to criticize politicians for targeting Gabriel Chamoun said he was encouraged by the backthe young athlete while seeming his Alpine skier daughter ingly ignoring corruption, has received from people nepotism, bombings and a across Lebanon’s diverse sec- litany of other problems. tarian and religious spectrum Within an hour, Chamoun’s in the last week.

Facebook page had 12,000 “As a father, when I saw the fans. Lebanese people from as video, I was very upset,” he far away as Los Angeles and said Friday. But, “The reaction Sao Paolo posted semi-naked of people was phenomenal. pictures of themselves, covIt’s the first time I see Lebaered strategically with signs nese people so united.” featuring messages like “StripHe said the political fuss over the footage was symbolic ping For Jackie” and “I am not naked,” on Twitter. “of everything that is going Back home, the governwrong in this country.” ment officials demanding the The video of Chamoun posing topless in the snow for investigation into Chamoun’s photos appeared to have a photographer prompted a Lebanese government official backtracked, saying they’ve to order an investigation. The acted to protect Chamoun’s inference was that Chamoun well-being.

By Barbara Surk

The Associated Press

Saturday, February 15, 2014 THE NEW MEXICAN

The weather

For current, detailed weather conditions in downtown Santa Fe, visit our online weather stations at www.santafenewmexican.com/weather/

7-day forecast for Santa Fe Today

Tonight

Mostly sunny

Partly cloudy

67

35

Sunday

Monday

Times of clouds and sun

Tuesday

Mostly sunny and mild

64/33

Wednesday

Plenty of sunshine; breezy, mild

58/30

Humidity (Noon) Humidity (Midnight) Humidity (Noon)

59/30

Humidity (Noon)

Humidity (Noon)

Partly sunny

Thursday

Mostly sunny

59/28

Humidity (Noon)

Friday

Times of clouds and sun

57/28

55/18

Humidity (Noon)

Humidity (Noon)

18%

30%

17%

19%

18%

18%

23%

25%

wind: W 7-14 mph

wind: N 4-8 mph

wind: W 8-16 mph

wind: SW 6-12 mph

wind: W 10-20 mph

wind: WNW 8-16 mph

wind: WSW 8-16 mph

wind: WSW 7-14 mph

Almanac

Santa Fe Airport through 6 p.m. Friday Santa Fe Airport Temperatures High/low ......................................... 65°/36° Normal high/low ............................ 49°/23° Record high ............................... 65° in 2014 Record low ................................. -7° in 1895 Santa Fe Airport Precipitation 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date .................. 0.09”/0.09” Normal month/year to date ..... 0.24”/0.85” Santa Fe Farmers Market 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date .................. 0.07”/0.07”

New Mexico weather 64

The following water statistics of February 12 are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 1.314 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 4.320 City Wells: 1.600 Buckman Wells: 0.000 Total water produced by water system: 7.234 Amount delivered to Las Campanas: Golf course: 0.000, domestic: 0.047 Santa Fe Canyon reservoir storage: 63.5 percent of capacity; daily inflow 0.90 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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Farmington 64/33

40

Santa Fe 67/35 Pecos 64/38

25

Albuquerque 73/43

87

56

412

Clayton 74/33

AccuWeather Flu Index

25

Las Vegas 70/40

25

Today.........................................1, Low Sunday ......................................2, Low Monday.....................................1, Low Tuesday.....................................2, Low Wednesday...............................2, Low Thursday...................................2, Low The AccuWeather Flu Index™ combines the effects of weather with a number of other known factors to provide a scale showing the overall probability of flu transmission and severity of symptoms. The AccuWeather Flu Index™ is based on a scale of 0-10.

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Clovis 79/41

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Friday’s rating ..................................... Good Today’s forecast ................................. Good 0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very Unhealthy, 301500, Hazardous Source: EPA

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Taos 61/27

84

Española 72/42 Los Alamos 64/39 Gallup 68/26

Raton 69/28

64

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60

25

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Roswell 86/41

Ruidoso 71/53

25

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Truth or Consequences 79/48 70

Las Cruces 80/48

70

70

380

380

Hobbs 82/46

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Air quality index

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Area rainfall

Albuquerque 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date .................. 0.18”/0.18” Las Vegas 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date .................. 0.04”/0.08” Los Alamos 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date .................. 0.02”/0.02” Chama 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date .................. 0.74”/1.11” Taos 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. ............ 0.00” Month/year to date .................. 0.09”/0.10”

Carlsbad 87/50

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Newsmakers Rapper Lil’ Kim pregnant with 1st child

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NEW YORK — Lil’ Kim is pregnant with her first child. The rapper’s publicist C.J. Carter confirmed the news Thursday, a day after pictures of Kim’s baby bump began to circulate via social media following her appearance at New York Fashion Week.

The 37-year-old is about five months along and due in May.

Drake says he’s finished with magazine interviews

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NEW YORK — Drake says he won’t do interviews with magazines following a recent story in Rolling Stone magazine. The rapper was supposed to be on the cover of the magazine’s new issue, but was replaced with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Drake tweeted Thursday that he’s “done doing interviews with magazines.” Other tweets were deleted, including one about his discomfort with Hoffman gracing the cover of Rolling Stone. “I’m disgusted with that. RIP to Phillip Seymour Hoffman. All respect due.

But the press is evil,” he tweeted.

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2 p.m. on NBC XXII Winter Olympics Hardware aplenty is handed out in a number of sports today in Sochi, Russia, starting with women’s short track, in which American Alyson Dudek hopes to be in the top three in the 1500m event. In cross-country skiing, women from Norway, Sweden and Finland figure to vie for podium space in the 4x5 relay, while in men’s skeleton, Martins and Tomass Dukurs of Latvia are the co-favorites.

6 p.m. LIFE Movie: The Good Mistress A woman seeking a fresh start after a bout with alcoholism moves to a new town, where her highschool friend has offered her a new job. Shortly after arriving, she has a one-night stand with a stranger who turns out to be her friend’s husband.

As if that weren’t bad enough, he’s a prominent local politician with ties to a murder investigation. Annie Heise, Kendra Anderson and Antonio Cupo star in this new suspense tale.

6 p.m. on TCM Movie: All Quiet on the Western Front An excellent adaptation of an exceptional novel by Erich Maria Remarque, this 1930 film tells

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the story of a young German soldier facing death in the World War I. Lew Ayres, Raymond Griffith, Louis Wolheim, John Wray and Beryl Mercer star.

7 p.m. on ABC Movie: Dreamgirls It took a long time for the stage hit to reach the screen, but writerdirector Bill Condon’s adaptation was worth the wait.

Beyonce Knowles has her best film role yet as the central vocalist in a 1960s girl group, and Jamie Foxx does sterling work as their manager.

Eddie Murphy plays a soul-music superstar and Jennifer Hudson, the American Idol former competitor, earned an Oscar for the film.

8 p.m. on CBS 48 Hours Presents: The Whole Gritty City New Orleans has some of the United States’ meanest streets. This special two-hour presentation profiles three student marching bands and their directors, who have made it their mission not just to prepare their charges for Mardi Gras parades, pictured above, but to keep them strong against the lure of the streets.

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Absolute power adds suspense to ‘House of Cards’ The New York Times

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he most joyless show on television may well be House of Cards.

Colors are so washed-out that the closest thing to brightness in all that gray, taupe and black is an orange Post-it note. There is no laughter, not even the forced bonhomie that real politicians trade in cloakrooms and on cable news talk shows. This Netflix series is more cynical than The Americans on FX and more pessimistic about human nature than The Walking Dead on AMC. Yet it’s hard not to feel giddy delight at the first sight of those emblematic clouds rolling across the landscape of the nation’s capital and plunging the city into a Stygian gloom.

All of Season 2 of House of Cards became available on Friday, Valentine’s Day. It was a bitter chocolate bonbon for people who love to hate Washington.

It’s not clear exactly why this bleak series is so exhilarating and binge-worthy. It could be that just as victims of tragedy find it hard to accept that their suffering is random and purposeless, voters find it intolerable that so many of the petty, shortsighted moves by elected officials have no greater meaning than smalltime expediency.

After so many years of Washington gridlock, there is a fascination with leaders who could actually get things done, like Lyndon B. Johnson, who is the subject of a new Broadway play, All the Way, starring Bryan Cranston. By positing a Johnsonesque power broker and master schemer who wields cabalistic influence behind the scenes, House of Cards assigns order and purpose to what, in real life, is too often just an endless, baffling tic-tac-toe stalemate.

Or maybe it’s just a cleverly made Washington thriller.

After much maneuvering and malfeasance, Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey), a Democratic congressman from South Carolina, is about to be sworn in as vice president. He remains just as intent on consolidating his gains and squashing his enemies, especially the few who suspect a conspiracy. He is racing against time and karma: It is Underwood’s precarious limbo between power and self-destruction that lends House of Cards much of its suspense.

He is one heartbeat away

from the presidency, but also just one step ahead of the truth.

Season 2 is as immersed in the battlegrounds of governing as The West Wing was: entitlements, Chinese cyberespionage, anthrax scares, parliamentary procedure, government shutdowns. But that Aaron Sorkin series on NBC ennobled politics. House of Cards, which was adapted from a 1990 British series of the same title, eviscerates it.

And while the second season picks up where Season 1 left off (the tagline is “The race for power continues”), this continuation is possibly even darker and more compelling than the first.

Underwood still turns from the action to address the audience in the style of Shakespeare’s Richard III, but his cynical asides are not as clever as his underhanded actions.

The conceit worked better in the British original, which was more arch and satirical and closer in spirit to Kind Hearts and Coronets.

The American version takes itself more seriously: Its tone is a double bass, not a flute.

Underwood’s cool, inscrutable wife, Claire (Robin Wright), is still ruthlessly pursuing her own agenda as well as her husband’s. She remains an enigma even as she reveals more and more disturbing secrets from her past. (Her perfectly organized closet is on the verge of self-parody — 50 shades of slate.)

There are some welcome newcomers, especially a congresswoman, Jacqueline Sharp (Molly Parker), who is an ambitious former soldier who becomes an Underwood protégée and, like everyone else in his poisoned orbit, soon discovers that Underwood expects his people to cast aside principle and pursue his grand plan.

There are few starry-eyed depictions of government anymore; cynicism is the currency of choice. And there are many variations on the theme.

The Americans, the show about Soviet moles in the Reagan era, is more complex and inventive than House of Cards, and it begins a second season on Feb. 26. The next day, Scandal, Shonda Rhimes’ frothy, over-the-top West Wing telenovela, returns to ABC with new episodes, and it is a campy, escapist romp.

House of Cards is Scandal for naysayers and misanthropes, and that’s actually quite cheering.

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Kevin Spacey, left, and Robin Wright arrive at a special screening for Season 2 of House of Cards, on Thursday in Los Angeles. CHRIS PIZZELLO/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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STORAGE SPACE 10x30 Move-in-Special, $180 monthly.

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YOUR HEALTH MATTERS. We use natural products. 20 Years Experience, Residential & Offices. Reliable.

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All phases of landscapes. "I DO IT ALL!" 505-995-0318 or 505-3 1 0 0 0 4 5 . Santa Fe, Los Alamos, White Rock.

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MAYBERRY PARK. 2356 FOX ROAD, UNIT 700. 1800 sq.ft. Warehouse with front office. Off Silar Road by Home Depot. $1150 monthly. 505-982-1255.

EXPERIENCED COPY EDITOR

WAREHOUSE WORK SPACE AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY 2000 sq.ft. Workshop, art studio, light manuafacturing. Siler Road area. $1470 monthly, $1000 deposit. 505670-1733.

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Seeking Office Administrative Assistant. Must possess strong skills and experience in authorizations, billing, Medicaid, Medicare, Private insurances, scheduling, computer and good friendly customer services, bilingual a plus. Salary negotiable based on experience.

Send resume to cmazon@cybermesa.com

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Opportunities for quality careers at Los Alamos Medical Center

Director of Medical Surgery, ICU Director of HIM RN Case Manager, Clinical Documentation Specialist Clinic RN, Oncology Clinic Full-time, Part-time, PRN RN positions in ER/ICU/OB Full-time Inpatient Coder, HIM Full-time, Part-time Lab Assistants Full-time Staff Accountant PRN Speech Therapist To apply please go to losalamosmedicalcenter.com

Mark’s Casa Chevrolet,

an Albuquerque automotive dealership, is currently seeking to hire a Certified Chevrolet Technician to join our Service Department. Mark’s Casa Chevrolet is looking for a technician with Chevrolet automotive service experience. To apply for this position, please email a resume at mbaldwin@casanet.com today or call Mark Baldwin at 505262-8600 for more details. EOE

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The Santa Fe New Mexican is seeking a multitalented editor with excellent news judgment to help anchor the presentation desk at night, including working on the front page and special projects. Our editors do it all: Write accurate, punchy headlines; spot holes in stories while editing for AP style; design clean, eye-catching pages and graphics; and keep our revamped website up-to-date and looking sharp. We’re seeking candidates proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite with at least one year of experience in editing and design, although recent college graduates with excellent clips will be considered.

At night, you’ll work in a collaborative environment with an award-winning group of writers, editors and photographers.

We offer a competitive salary, health, dental, vision and 401k benefits, and a free gym membership.

MERRY FOSS, Latin American ETHNOGRAPHIC & ANTIQUE DEALER moving. Selling her COLLECTION, Household FURNITURE & EVERYTHING! By appt 505-7957222.

ALFALFA BALES & ALFAFLA ORCHARD GRASS BALES. $9.50 each bale. 100 or more, $9.00 each. Barn stored in Ribera, NM. Call 505-473-5300.

SCHAFFER GRAND UPRIGHT PIANO, Approximately 100 years old, Ivory Keys, Solid Oak, Good Condition.

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SANTA FE AREA RANCH RESIDENCE CARETAKER

SHORT FUR all black young cat. Osage and Agua Fria area, No collar.

505-989-9646

LOST 2/9/14 LOST set of keys on Notre Dame lanyard. Garcia Street, Canyon Rd. or West Alameda vicinity. Please call 505-690-4521!

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Lending Officer New Mexico Finance Authority The New Mexico Finance Authority (Santa Fe, NM) is seeking qualified applicants for a Lending Officer that will report to the Chief Lending Officer. This position shall assist the Chief Lending Officer in performing various credit and financial analyses to determine financing feasibility, optimal loan structures and other public finance underwriting assignments. The Lending Officer shall prepare debt service schedules, analyze underlying credit risks, perform marketing and outreach, and make credit recommendations based upon an applicant’s financial health and current market conditions.

Preferred Skills/ Experience : The successful candidate will possess experience in fund accounting, investment banking, finance, budget management or a similar field; excellent technical report writing, verbal and written communication skills; a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, finance or a related field and at least 3 years of relevant experience.

The Finance Authority is a dynamic public service organization that provides a superior workplace environment for high-performing professionals who have an interest in financing vital public infrastructure and improving the lives of New Mexicans.

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Chief Administrative Officer, 207 Shelby St., Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 or via e-mail to dcdeba ca@ nm fa.net. Closing date: February 17, 2014. No calls, please.

EDUCATION COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS of NM (CISNM) is seeking FullTime SITE COORDINATORS for two Kindergarten through 8th grade schools in the Santa Fe Public Schools.

CISNM Site Coordinators work to redress student dropout in public schools utilizing the nationally recognized Communities In Schools integrated student services framework. Working in partnership with a school principal, the Site Coordinator is responsible for the overall planning, integration and implementation of student and family supports and services designed to increase student attendance, improve behavior and academic performance, and provide basic needs supports. Bilingual Spanish-English required.

Experience working with children and or youth in an educational setting, strong interpersonal and organization skills are essential. Education requirements: Bachelor’s degree and demonstrated relevant equivalent experience in education, social work or related field. Please submit cover letter, resume, and three references by email to: johnsona@ cisnew m exico.org

by February 24, 2014. No Phone Calls, please.

ACCOUNTING PART-TIME DATA ENTRY FOR QUICKBOOKS. Basic office skills and good PR skills a must. Fax resume to 505-438-4775

ADMINISTRATIVE ATTENTION PARALEGALS: If you are a top-notch litigation paralegal with solid experience, a great job with good benefits awaits. Send résumé, cover letter and references to Comeau, Maldegen, Templeman & Indall, P.O. Box 669, Santa Fe, NM 87504 or to Paula Cook at pcook@cmtisantafe.com

School Receptionist Full-Time New Mexico School for the Arts is a great place to work, where faculty and staff encourage NMSA’s creative students to realize their full academic and arts potential. All positions require a willingness to work in a creative and collaborative atmosphere.

Please access: www.nmschoolforthearts.org/ about/careers-at-nmsa/ For detailed information on job posting.

NEW VISTAS Early Intervention Specialist. Bilingual candidates highly preferred.

Please refer to www.newvistas.org for details. EOE

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MANAGEMENT Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern New Mexico Program Supervisor 32 hour, week. Requirements: Bachelor’s in human services or related field; minimum 3 years social work experience and 3 years supervisory experience. Bi-lingual (Spanish) preferred. Please email resume to patricia.edge@bbbsnnm.org by 2-18-14.

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986-3000 MEDICAL DENTAL DENTAL ASSISTANT, Full time. Competitive salary & excellent benefit package. Experience required. Fax resume to 505-884-0479 DENTAL ASSISTANT OR STERILIZATION TECH wanted for busy practice.

Full time, Monday - Thursday. Experience preferred. Salary DOE. Email resume to: admin@childs2thdr.com

HEAD DENTAL ASSISTANT Rare Opportunity!!!

Progressive Taos Dental Office has immemdiate opening for Full-time certified head dental assistant, 575-7794532.

Seeking full-time caretaker to manage and maintain residence (not ranch operations) on Santa Fe area large ranch for absentee West Coast owners.

Compensation package (a function of prior experience) including health insurance, and superior separate on-ranch home. Send resumes and cover page via email to: ResidenceCaretaker@gmail.com

PART TIME PECOS HOUSING Authority hiring Maintence worker for 33 Units. High degree of skill in one or more trades desired.

505-757-6380, pha@cybermesa.com

RETAIL RESALE STORE POSITION

Santa Fe Animal Shelter’s resale store seeks a creative full-time Assistant Manager with experience, computer skills. Some heavy lifting.

Resumés: sward@sfhumanesociety.org

MAGNIFICENT STONE Cliff Fragua sculpture, 30"high, rare 2003, $4950 firm, must sell santa fe 505-471-4316 Lowered from 6000 last chance offer ,retail 10,500

BUILDING MATERIALS PLYWOOD. CABINET GRADE. 4’x8’ sheets.

Never used.

Different thicknesses. 505-983-8448

FIREWOOD-FUEL SEASONED FIREWOOD. Ponderosa $80.00 per load. Pinion or Cedar $120.00 per load. Tel# 508-4440087 Delivery free.

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D a l l a s is a year old spayed German Shepherd cross. She enjoys long walks, chasing balls and play time at the dog park with calm, large dogs. She would love to be part of an active family who will take her for long hikes or perhaps a daily jog. To learn even more about Dallas, call her good friend and sponsor, Katya, at 505-501-0790.

DOG IGLOO for medium to large size dogs. Good condition. $75. Please call 505-699-0150.

FURNITURE

LAMCC seeks LPN / RN

3 DAYS a week Santa Fe, Los Alamos office. Non-smoker nonsmoking household, no weekends.

ENGLISH BULLDOG MALE Puppies, AKC Registered. First shots. Take home 2/23/14. $1,800 each. 575-7609961, 575-762-7174, 575-356-6102 for pictures and information.

Email resume: jperkins@cybermesa.com or call Julie at: 505-662-4351 PCM IS hiring a dependable RN-Case Manager for in-home care in the Santa Fe, NM area. $32 per hour.

Apply at: www.procasemanagement.com or call 866-902-7187 Ext. 350. EOE.

RN Opportunities Available!

JOIN CORIZON! CORIZON, a provider of health services for the New Mexico Department of Corrections, has excellent opportunities for experienced RNs at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe. Candidates must have 1 year experience – preferably in ER or Med-Surg.

Corizon offers competitive rates and comprehensive benefits with the opportunity to learn a growing specialty!

For further info: Tisha Romero, Administrator 505-827-8535 Tisha.romero@corizonhealth.c om or Quick Apply at www.corizonhealth.com EOE/AAP/DTR

MISCELLANEOUS JOBS WE NEED A CARPET RESTORATION P E R S O N . Or person who wants to learn how to repair hand made rugs, carpets. 505-310-0660

THE ORIGINAL TRADING POST

2 Positions Available; Sales Person and Merchandiser working for Friendly Professional.

Selling clothing, southwestern jewelry, Art and gifts Apply at 201 W. San Francisco St.

SALES MARKETING NM’S 2ND largest insurer seeks entrepreneurial candidates with a strong desire to be successful and respected business owners in their community. Award winning training from the University of Farmers. Subsidy packages available for building your agency. For more information, please contact 954-1612.

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BEAUTIFUL COUCH WITH LOVELY ACCENTS. FROM A SMOKE AND PET FREE HOME. $300. PLEASE CALL, 505-238-5711 TO SCHEDULE A VIEWING. SOUTHWEST OAK TABLE with beveled glass top. 4 regular chairs, 2 armchair, matching oak hutch. $1600 both, $900 each. 505-603-8767 WROUGHT IRON beveled glass top table with 6 newly upholstered chairs, $225. Hover-round excellent condition, $485. 505-577-4006

FALL IN L O V E ! Don’t miss your chance to meet Abby! This terrier cuddle bug will be at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter Mobile Adoptions Events: Friday, 4-7, Look What the Cat Dragged In 2, 541 W. Cordova Road, Saturday, 11-4, PetSmart, Sunday, noon-4, PetSmart. sfhumanesociety.org

RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT ONLINE AUCTION, 100+ Hobart 60 Quart Mixers. Restaurants Nationwide, See website for locations near you. Must be Sold to Highest Bidder! Bid online thru 2/17, go to www.SoldTiger.com

SPORTS EQUIPMENT PRETTY IN P I N K , New Women’s Adams golf clubs in PING bag. $500 obo. 505-929-3812

SHITZU Puppies for sale! 9 weeks old. please call 505-934-1357 for details!

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2007 CHRYSLER 300-Series 4 door Sedan RWD. Gorgeous car! $10,000. Schedule a test drive today, 505-629-1357.

2001 CHEVROLET TAHOE 4 door 4WD LT. Lots of features! $6,000.

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TINY POMERANIAN PUPPIES, rare, exotic, registered, first shots $500$800. Tiny Designer PomChi Puppies, first shots, $350. Valentine Ready!!

505-901-2094, 505-753-0000.

2003 BMW X5 AWD. Automatic. Greyblue. No repairs or servicing needed.

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VALENTINE’S DAY AKC REGISTERED BOXER PUPPIES. 6 females, 1 male.

First shots, tails cut, dew claws removed. $750.00 Marissa or Robert 505-473-9733

2002 NISSAN Xterra SE SC. 4 wheel drive, supercharged, and lifted! $4,995. Schedule a test drive today!

2001 CHRYSLER PT C R U I S E R 4 door Wagon. WOW! Amazing deal! $3,000. Schedule a test drive today, 505-629-1357.

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2007 TOYOTA FJ CRUZIER 4x4.

Cruz in this one. Speaks for itself! $19,288. Call 505-473-1234.

2011 HONDA CR-V EX-L - another 1owner Lexus trade-in, AWD, leather, moonroof, clean CarFax, don’t miss this one! $20,

2001 DODGE RAM 4x4 pickup. One owner, cream of the crop. Yours for under $10,000. Call 505-4731234.

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2012 TOYTOA TACOMA 4x4. Only 7k miles. Save thousands! Only $19,899. Call 505-473-1234.

2008 Hummer H2 SUT - REALLY! ONLY 38k miles, totally loaded w/ leather, NAV and chrome brush guard, clean CarFax, this one’s HOT $46,731

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2010 HONDA CIVIC HYBRID. Recent trade-in, low miles, over 42 mpg, leather, clean CarFax, truly immaculate $15,741. Call 505-2163800.

2008 BMW 535-XI, WAGON AWD

1997 DODGE RAM 1500 4WD Club Cab 6.5 Ft Box. $6,000. Schedule a test drive today, 505-629-1357.

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Local Owner,Carfax,Garaged,NonSmoker X Keys, Manuals, Automatic, Every Service Record, Navigation, Heated Steering Wheel,Moonroof,Every Available Option, Pristine, Soooo Rare $20,450 WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE!

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HONDA INSIGHT 2010 HYBRID. 44 mpg hwy mileage. One owner, well maintained. New tires under warranty.

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2007 PONTIAC G6 2 door Convertible GT. Immaculate condition, inside and out. 90,444 miles. $9,999.

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3 DARLENE Court YARD SALE; (Rancho Viejo) Saturday, February 15, 8:00 (no early birds please), Dishes, Decorative, Household, Desk, Chiminea.

2011 AUDI A3 TDI - DIESEL, 40+ mpg, well equipped, clean CarFax, excellently maintained, beautiful condition $21,851

2011 FORD F150 4X4 STEALS THE SPOTLIGHT, $21,995. Call 505-4731234.

2009 HONDA CR-V AUTOMATIC

CONTRACTOR TOOL LIQUIDATION SALE. Cabinet shop equipment, power tools, hand tools. Richards Avenue, across from Home Depot. 8am 4pm, Thursday -Saturday.

2004 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER-SUV 4X4

Another One Owner, Local, Carfax, 85,126 Miles, Garaged, Non-Smoker, X-Keys, Manuals, Every Service Record, 7 Passenger, Leather, New Tires, Loaded, Pristine, Soooo Family Oriented. $12,250.

WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE!

LA CASA FINA CONSIGNMENT- NEWLY EXPANDED, 7000 sq.ft.! New arrivals: French, primitive, New Mexican Antiques, and more! 821 W SAN MATEO. 505-983-0042

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Local Owner, Carfax, 76,569 Miles, Garaged, Non-Smoker, manuals, XKeys, Service Records, All Wheel Drive, Moonroof, Pristine, Soooo Perfect $15,950.

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2004 SAAB-9.3 SEDAN MANUAL FWD

Another One Owner, Local, Carfax, 75,843 Miles, Garaged, Non-Smoker, X-Keys, Manuals, Every Service Record, Loaded, Sooo Affordable. $6,950.

WE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR YOUR VEHICLE!

2005.5 AUDI A4 3.2 QUATTRO. 63k miles. One owner. Always garaged.

No accidents. Leather seats, navigation, cold-weather package, sports package, Bose stereo, Xenon headlights. $13,250. 505-577-5342

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2004 AUDI 5 door Wagon 2.7T Quattro AWD Auto. Luxurious and functional. $7,000. Schedule a test drive today, 505-629-1357.

HONDA ACCORD 1995EX. Runs Great.

Power Everything. 6 cylinder. Needs some body work. 190,000. $1,550 OBO 505-920-8186

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2004 GMC YUKON DENALI 4 door AWD. Beautiful SUV. $10,000.

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2005 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN 1500 4WD LT. Power everything, third row seating. $8,000 Schedule a test drive today, 505-629-1357.

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2012 TOYOTA 4Runner SR5. 18,489 miles. This is an outstanding and very reliable vehicle. $32,800. Schedule a test drive today!

2010 BMW 335Xi - Another Lexus trade! Low miles, AWD, completely loaded with Navigation, still under warranty! clean CarFax $27,932 Call 505-216-3800.

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2012 Infiniti M37x AWD - Just traded! Gorgeous and loaded, good miles, navigation & technology packages, local one owner, clean CarFax $34,281. Call 505-216-3800.

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2004 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE LIMIT E D 4WD. Great car for snow days! $8,000. Schedule a test drive today, 505-629-1357.

2012 CHEVROLET IMPALA LT. A great car at a great price! 32,689 miles. $13,999. Schedule a test drive today.

2009 NISSAN 370Z NISMO - Just 25k miles, rare performace package, collector condition, clean CarFax, don’t pass on this one! $28,471.

505-216-3800.

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White, automatic, 31,ooo miles, fully loaded. $20,000, OBO. 505-577-3473.

"Runs Great!"

2012 KIA OPTIMA SX. Sleek and dynamic. 21,225 miles. Certified pre-owned. $24,900. Call 505-9821957 to schedule a test drive today!

2012 Toyota Tundra Double Cab 4x4, rare TRD Rock Warrior, good miles, 1 owner, clean CarFax, HOT! $30,981. Call 505-216-3800.

2010 BMW 535Xi AWD. Recent trade-in, factory CERTIFIED with warranty & maintenance until 3/2016, fully loaded, clean CarFax $24,432. Call 505-216-3800.

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2001 FORD SUPER DUTY F-250 2WD Crew Cab 6-3/4 Ft Box XLT. $5,000.

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2005 CHEVROLET EQUINOX AWD LT. Great family car! 145,300 miles. $6,999. Schedule a test drive today.

2012 TOYOTA RAV4, 4WD, V6, 29k miles, sunroof, warranty snow tires with extra wheels, nice! $20,500. 505-699-8339

2008 Land Rover LR3

Top of the line HSE V8. Excellent black exterior, luxurious wood and tan leather, 7 passenger seating, 96k miles, service history, Carfax, Free Warranty. $18,995. Call 877-232-2815.

2012 MAZDA 6 Auto i Sport. Good gas mileage. Good looking vehicle. 31,249 miles. $14,599. . Schedule a test drive today.

2013 SUBARU OUTBACK 2.5i Premium.

31,475 miles, one owner, AWD, tons of extras. $21,900. Schedule a test drive today!

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2011 TOYOTA AVALON LIMITED. Another 1 owner Lexus trade, only 20k miles, loaded, navigation, clean CarFax, pristine condition $25,881. Call 505-216-3800.

2004 HONDA CR-V AUTOMATIC. 79,810 miles, manuals, extra key, service records, AWD, moonroof, new tires, DVD player. $10,500.

505-231-4437.

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2002 MERCEDES-BENZ S500V

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TIME OUT Horoscope

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014: This year you are able to verbalize some of your more creative ideas. Others will see ways to practically apply some of those ideas. A friend or partner could become both a muse and an adviser. Virgo can be very nurturing.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Someone finally might express his or her idea in a way that is clear and direct.

You likely will respond with a sense of relief. Tonight: Make it an early night.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Someone you look up to will let you know exactly what he or she is thinking.

Tonight: Love the moment with favorite friends.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You might opt to stay close to home.

Whether you are deep into a book or something else, you will feel quite content. Tonight: Dinner for two.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You will be far more verbal than you typically are. You also will be so precise that you could rule out a suggestion. Tonight: Join friends at a favorite haunt.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Take a stronger stance in dealing with your finances. You might get some important feedback from a loved one. Tonight: All smiles.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Finally you’ll get to call the shots and make the plans. For the most part, everyone will be pleased. Tonight: Hang with your friends.

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., In which country is Maracaibo?

Answer: Venezuela.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. What is both the northernmost and westernmost state of Mexico?

Answer________ 2. Which state borders the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan?

Answer________ 3. Which peninsula effectively serves as a land bridge between two continents?

Answer________ 4. This island country’s largest group is the Sinhalese.

Answer________ 5. Provide the full name of Canada’s easternmost province.

Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 6. Name a South American country that does not border a Spanish-speaking country.

Answer________ 7. The U.S. has 50 states. Mexico has ____ states.

Answer________

8. Name the smallest country on the Iberian Peninsula.

Answer________ 9. People who live in Italy are Italians. People who live in Gibraltar are ____.

Answer________ 10. Its official name is the Republic of China. What do we call it?

Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 11. What is the claim to fame of Ballast Key? Answer________ 12. Which island country was previously known as the Malagasy Republic?

Answer________ 13. What is England’s largest island?

Answer________ 14. Name Colombia’s main port on the Pacific Ocean.

Answer________ 15. It is the only NATO member without a standing army.

Answer________

ANSWERS:

1. Baja California. 2. North Dakota. 3. Sinai Peninsula. 4. Sri Lanka. 5. Newfoundland and Labrador. 6. Suriname and/or French Guiana. 7. Thirty-one. 8. Andorra. 9. Gibraltarians. 10. Taiwan. 11. Southernmost point of the 48 contiguous states. 12. Madagascar.

13. Isle of Wight. 14. Buenaventura. 15. Iceland.

SCORING: 24 to 30 points — congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points — honors graduate; 13 to 17 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2013 Ken Fisher

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The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. © 2013 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HH You could be withdrawn. You’ll want a situation to move in the direction you desire. Deal with a family member directly.

Tonight: Opt for quieter plans.

Woman needs to leave relationship

Dear Annie: I have been with my fiance for 14 years, and we have had our fair share of problems. Three months ago, I left, taking our kids with me. But I came back when he asked me to. I figured I owed it to the children to try to work things out.

But nothing has changed.

I don’t have a job outside the home.

However, I do have credit card debt.

He used to help pay it off, but now he refuses to pay any of my bills. He won’t give me any money except to buy groceries. Our car used to be in both of our names, but now it is only in his name. I’m not allowed to go anywhere without asking for permission or to talk to any of my family and friends unless he says it’s OK. We also live with his parents, and every time I don’t do the dishes, they complain. I do all the other housework, but it isn’t enough. What do I do? He thinks everything is just fine.

— At My Wits’ End Dear Wits: Get out. This is an abusive relationship. Your fiance has removed all sources of income and support from you so that you are completely dependent on him.

Please contact the Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) at 1-800-799-7233. You need help now.

Dear Annie: My son and his first wife had a destination wedding in a foreign country. My husband and I hosted an engagement party in our hometown, and a friend of mine threw the bride a shower. My son and daughter-in-law divorced, and he is now engaged and planning a second wedding. My brother-in-law made a comment that he and his wife do not send gifts for second weddings. My son is torn about how to handle the invitations. While it is his second marriage, it is the bride’s first. He doesn’t believe she should be penalized because his first wife ended their marriage.

Sheinwold’s bridge

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Your ability to move a personal matter along will emerge. Reach out for news from a loved one. Tonight: Where the action is.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You might want to come to an understanding with an older friend or relative.

Tonight: Bring others together for a celebration.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You might experience an urge to explore a different setting. You would get bored if you were not always having new experiences. Tonight: Opt for a different type of cuisine.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You finally will level off and relax; however, someone in your immediate circle could pop in and perhaps share some shocking news. Tonight: Just don’t overdo it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Defer to others. Understand that you are likely to partake in something that you normally would not choose to do. You might enjoy yourself. Tonight: Togetherness is the theme.

Jacqueline Bigar

Chess quiz

BLACK HAS A CRUSHER Hint: Block out Whites queen.

Solution: 1. … Bd4ch! If 2. cxd4, 2. … Qb1 mate.

Today in history Today is Saturday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2014. There are 319 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Feb. 15, 1764, the site of present-day St. Louis was established by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau.

Hocus Focus

What is the etiquette regarding this matter? We certainly don’t want anyone to feel that my son and his fiancee are wanting heaps of gifts and money, especially when these family members and friends “showered” him with gifts the first time around.

— Vexed Mother of the Groom Dear Vexed: First-time brides are entitled to wedding and shower gifts, regardless of the groom’s prior marital history. Of course, shower invitations can be weighted toward her family and friends, but also may include close family members and friends on the groom’s side. Guests who feel overburdened with shower gifts do not have to attend. And while wedding gifts are always appropriate, those who sent gifts for your son’s first wedding may wish to give a more modest gift the second time around. The intention is to invite people to share the celebration.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Frustrated Son,” whose mother was insisting that he be confirmed in the Catholic Church. As the director of religious education in a Catholic parish, I deal with this issue frequently.

The choice to be confirmed is the son’s.

A good first step is for the son to talk to his parish priest, who might very well agree that he is not ready to receive the sacrament of confirmation. If that is the case, he absolutely should not be confirmed at this time.

He cannot be forced, because any sacrament given against someone’s will is not valid. Both my children said early on in their confirmation training that they did not want to be confirmed. We compromised that they would go to the classes, do the volunteer work and go on the retreat. If, after completing the twoyear training, they still felt that they did not want to be confirmed, it was their choice. — Boston

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