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Ex-Albuquerque cop accused in wife death testifies
A former Albuquerque police officer accused of killing his wife and making her death look like a suicide testified Wednesday about the couple's rocky history and steamy affairs, breaking down as he described ignoring nearly 200 calls from her the day before he says he found her body.
Levi Chavez, 32, took the stand as the defense began wrapping up a monthlong trial that has included testimony from four of Chavez's former mistresses, including a woman who Chavez says he stayed with the night his wife died, and a fellow officer who became engaged to Chavez two months after his wife's death.
Chavez is accused of shooting his wife with his department-issued gun in October 2007 at their Los Lunas home and then trying to make her death look like a suicide.
Asked directly if he killed his wife, Chavez said "absolutely not."
But he did acknowledge cheating on 26-year-old Tera Chavez throughout their marriage. Among the tales: a tryst with a woman he met while dropping his daughter off at school in his uniform.
"It was purely sex," Chavez said.
Under cross-examination, Chavez also admitted seeing someone else when he was just 16 and Tera was 15 and pregnant with their first child.
The affairs and the troubled marriage left his wife volatile, Chavez said, with her often demanding that he leave, and then begging him to come home.
He also testified that Tera Chavez threatened suicide "countless times," saying things like she couldn't live without him.
Chavez testified that his wife called him 176 times on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007, but he ignored the calls and turned off his cellphone before going to spend the night with fellow officer Deborah Romero. The next day, he said he became worried when the calls stopped and his mother told him his wife had called in sick.
Although Chavez testified that his wife had never attempted suicide and he never believed she would hurt herself, he broke down in tears during later testimony, saying he knew something was wrong the following evening when he discovered the calls had stopped and she failed to respond to his calls and texts. He described rushing to the couple's home to find her dead in the dark bedroom.
"I turned on the light and it was just like terror," he said. "I couldn't believe what I was seeing."
He said he blamed himself for his wife's death and felt it was "God saying, `This is all your fault.'"
Prosecutors have depicted Chavez as a philanderer whose marriage was crumbling. They said he killed his wife after she found out that he had staged the theft of his pickup valued at more than $20,000 to collect the insurance proceeds.
The defense said the death was a suicide by a woman unraveling over her failed marriage and relationships.
But prosecutor Bryan McKay questioned why Chavez would leave his loaded, department-issued gun "with a woman who was depressed and had talked for years about possibly hurting herself, and you had small children in the house."
"But I also knew we had an attempted break-in. A truck was stolen right out of our driveway when she was there," Chavez replied. " ... And yes, I had small children in the home, but this is exactly why" he said he left the gun at the house.
Much of the trial has focused on the couple's extra-marital relationships, including a love triangle at the hair salon where Tera Chavez worked. One mistress testified she continued to get her hair cut by Tera Chavez while she was sleeping with Levi Chavez. Other witnesses said Tera Chavez was having an affair with an Albuquerque police officer who was married to the maid of honor in their wedding. They had sex in the back of a hair salon where she worked, according to testimony.
The case has threatened to further tarnish the reputation of the beleaguered Albuquerque Police Department, which already is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department over a series of police shootings. The trial included allegations that officers at the scene removed and even flushed key evidence down the toilet.
Defense attorney David Serna, who has long represented clients in high-profile New Mexico homicide cases, was able to persuade the judge to bar statements Tera Chavez made about her husband and his "cop buddies" staging the theft of Levi Chavez's 2004 Ford F-250 truck as part of an insurance scam.
But Chavez and his lawyer suffered an apparent setback last week when a crime scene expert testifying in his defense failed to pull off a demonstration of how the officer's wife might have been able to kill herself with his gun. There was a bullet in the gun's chamber when it was found next to Tera Chavez's body and the magazine was no longer attached to the weapon. Prosecutors contend it would have been impossible for the woman to press the button to release the magazine after shooting herself in the mouth.
Levi Chavez said he only knew of one time that his wife shot his handgun.
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We provide a broad spectrum of diagnostic procedures through in-house testing and the use of external laboratories. We also work closely with local referral practices when special diagnostic procedures are required. The facility includes a well-stocked pharmacy, in-hospital surgery suites, in-house digital x-ray capabilities, diagnostic ultrasound exams, and a closely supervised hospitalization area. Our hospital is situated between Houston and Galveston with a population of approximately 50,000. We provide primary care, in-clinic daytime hospitalization, in-clinic diagnostic capabilities, and excellent client communication. Our team takes pride in knowing that we provide progressive pet care while creating client trust and improving pets' health. The ideal candidate for this position is a doctor who is passionate about their work, values and thrives in the special culture of our hospital, and effectively communicates and collaborates with our existing team to provide the highest standards of care to our patients.
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Ok, so don't freak out, but Andre 3000 and Big Boi have reunited Outkast to headline Coachella 2014 on April 11 and April 18.
Outkast at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. Photo by Tina Fineberg for The AP.
The hip-hop heavyweights have been taking a breather since 2006, but plan on making their triumphant return to music at the Indio, California music festival. Go big or go home, I guess.
Photo courtesy of coachella.com
In addition to our favorite ATLiens, Muse, CHVRCHES, Lorde, Beck, The Knife and Ohio native Kid Cudi amongst many others will round out the line-up.
Is twerking the new "shake it like a Polaroid picture"?


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Docking half a star only because I've had them for less than a year, which I don't think is long enough to call this a perfect boot. But so far — they're perfect.
Chose to not get the Gore-tex 520 as I do a lot of hiking in the summer when the added heat is the last thing I want. But, as I live in Seattle, why on earth would I ever get a non-GT boot? Because the leather is bomber, and all you need to do is treat it with Nikwax and you're good to go. I've snowshoed, postholed, hiked in the rain, mud, and streams. It's good, we're all good here.
If you know you want Gore-tex, then of course, get the Gore-tex. If you're not sure you need Gore-tex... then you likely don't with these boots, they rock.
Price Paid: $200
Soles peeled off after ten days walking.
- Comfortable
- Unreliable
I had just completed the first week of a two-week trip in the NZ backcountry and found that the soles of both boots were peeling off.
I had to abandon the trip. They had been properly cared for in the meantime.
I'd had them for only a few months and had walked a total of 10 days in them.
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $300
Welcome to Trailspace, John. Too bad about the boots ruining your trip. Were you able to get any service from Asolo?
2 years ago
Yes - they gave me a full credit. I've now had 4 pairs of vulcanised/glued boots fail on me so I've now bought some Hanwag double sewn boots from Germany. They are going well.
2 years ago
Good luck with the Hanwags! I hope you'll share a review of those someday too.
2 years ago
Hum, I still have mine for over 15 years now, wasn't the same sole. Soory for your trip ends.
2 years ago
Brilliant boots. Easy to break in. Superb soles. Quality leather. Best ankle support ever.
- Best all-round sole I've ever come across
- Brilliant ankle support without too much weight
- Easily broken in
- Superb quality leather
- Lacing system is just the best
- Very tough and long-lasting
- Excellent value
- Could do with a toe cap
- Leather needs more care than some folks willing to give
Got a pair of these in 2005 as I was preparing for a trip to Nepal and Tibet. I was wary of using my very heavy Mendel Super Cracks. The salesman in the outdoor shop in Killarney told me, "These boots don't need wearing in. Just put them on, walk around the shopping centre and come back to me. I'll bet you'll want them!" — a typical 'soft-sell' from a Kerryman!
But he was right! A month or so later I was off down the snowy Kailash valley at 4,000m. and hiking up the rocky trail to the monastery with these beauties on. They were excellent — easily worn in and super comfortable.
Good strong soles with superb shock absorption and brilliant ankle support. Toes do scuff a bit. Brilliant in mud, snow and over rocky ground. Perfect balance of stiffness and flexibility in all the right places. I have a very dodgy left ankle and these boots took perfect care of it over all sorts of terrain.
I find them the best boot at home in Ireland too, well able to handle bog, rock, mud and track as well as the cold and wet. You need to keep the leather treated and seams well waxed up. Even the acid water of the boggy mountains of Ireland couldn't kill them!
I still have them and will be wearing them this weekend on a 24Km hike! Brilliant boots!
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: Euro 250
Welcome to Trailspace, Paul! Thanks for sharing your boot review with us. I'd love to see some pics of your pair, if you're willing to share them in your review.
6 years ago
These are excellent general use boots, good solid construction, quality materials. The lacing system is excellent, with good locking abilities. With some TLC they should last for a number of years.
- Quality materials
- Great Vibram soles
- Excellent lacing system
- Comfortable about the ankles and heel
- Rigid to start, needs some wearing in
Fit of the boots is excellent. They are a little stiff to start with but soon wear in. The ankle support offered is very good, soles are — rigid ' for clambering over rock, roots and debris. With proper preparation these boots have excellent water proofing abilities while allowing for adequate temperature control.
These are the second pair of these boots I have brought, I like them so much. They have become my de facto Go- To brand and type.
I highly recommend them.
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $190
This boot is comfortable right out of the box and offers a "wide" option which is even more comfortable. The boot overall is very durable. It's definitely one of the better boots in this price range on the market.
- Comfort
- Durability
- Tread
- Waterproof
- None
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $190 on sale
I recently tested these on a two-day trip coupled with Smartwool hiker socks.
- Construction: Should last many years
- Waterproof: Kept water out very well. Never worried about a leak.
- Appearance: Classic look with new technology.
- Insole: Needs to be upgraded.
- Lack of toe cap
- Lack of traction on slick rock
As stated earlier, I tested these out on a two-day, 19-mile backpack trip at Greenleaf State Park in Eastern Oklahoma. I carried a 39 lb pack. The terrain was rocky. It was muddy in the morning but dried up well in the afternoon. There were some good steep ascents and descents. In short, I felt like they were tested well. I wore them for about two weeks daily to break them in for this trip.
They are slightly heavier than other comparable boots, but I think that has to do with the better built construction. They kept water out great at crossing streams.
I wish they had a toe cap. The only part that looks roughed up is the toe. They do clean up well though. They were comfortable until about mile 10. They could use a better insole. I plan on upgrading that very soon. I felt like I was hiking on a very stiff insole. I had to watch my step in the slick wet rock. They did not feel as stable as other boots I have had.
That was the Con list so now the Pro list. These boots make you feel that you can go anywhere. They feel indestructible. I was looking for a boot with a classic look and these are it. I like the all leather. They provided great ankle support. I never had to worry about that. The toe makes it feel that it rolls your foot forward for you making each step easier.
Overall, I enjoyed this boot. With an upgraded insole, this boot would be near perfect. Now... where is the next trail marker?
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $165
Good looking boot. Tough to break in.
- Great ankle support
- Good looking
- Hard to break in — very rigid
I have always liked Asolo boots. I got the 535 for backpacking and hunting. They are a great boot but very rigid and hard to break in. The outermost layer of leather treatment scuffs off easy too. After a couple trips the toes of the boots are pretty scuffed up.
These boots are very well made and I expect they will last several years. These boots breathe well and my feet stay comfortable in them. The traction on these boots is very aggressive and I never worry about slipping in them. They provide great ankle support!
Great boot!!
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $165
8 years ago
This was the week's top review? Really? With a typo in the first sentence and, later, errors in grammar and a misspelling? How bad were the others?
8 years ago
Thanks p_a_lloyd. I appreciate the congrats. And CatskillDeke...... I will certainly make sure I write my review as if I were writing a doctoral dissertation next time just so you can understand the review. I appreciate your feedback and the fact that you have nothing better to do than complain. Get a life brother.... You would think a person with your superior intelligence would figure out the winner is drawn at RANDOM, not necessarily how grammatically correct their review is.
8 years ago
Next to your eyes, you feet are the most important. Don't skip on weight here, pay the $ now or pay the price later.
- Indestructible
- Unbeatable support
- You will wear them for non-hiking activities
- Shoe laces need to be cords.
- So great I wear down the soles
I don't "buy" the Ultra-Light Hiking thing; I do however invest in and choose with consequences, keeping in mind the "suffer on the trail" vs. "suffer at the campsite". Before, I used to take off my boats and switch to my campsite sandals before river crossings, after watching my friend cross with his Asolo's, I never wore anything else (2 pairs over 20 years).
I can tell alot about people in the non-hiking world with the shoes they are wearing. The same goes when I see people hiking, they all have different personalities, styles, and packs I cant see into. With 1 look at their shoes, unless they are wearing levies, if they have Asolos on, I dont need to second guess everything else they are talking about.
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $190
I bought this shoe to replace a heavier and hotter hiking boot. I find it to be very comfortable and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys hiking or simply walking outdoors.
- Quality
- Light weight
- Breathable
I purchased this pair of shoes to replace my Asolo GTX Fugitive hiking boots. I found these boots to be light weight for a full leather boot and breathable; so much so that I wear them in the summer as well.
I conditioned and waterproofed the boot and now I can submerge the shoe in water with only a little water leaking in at the seams at the bottom sides of the tongue. To me this is much better than having a Gor-Tex liner. This way my feet stay much cooler and dryer (due to sweat be able to evaporate).
I wear these shoes hiking winter or summer and if I will be out walking for long periods. I have carried a 40lb pack and my feet did not hurt after the hike. I also found the break-in period to be very short.
I have worn these shoes for over a year now with moderate use and they are holding up very well. I keep them cleaned and conditioned so they still look new.
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $215
Nice boot. Only problem is that there are only a few folks who can properly resole the TPS model. I am with ya on the non-GTX thing. Try a little Seam Grip on the area(stitching) where the boot is leaking. This may take care of that.
9 years ago
Thanks Rick. I'll try that.
9 years ago
Just picked them up for 50% off. Super comfortable look great probably overkill for my needs. I just want comfortable boots that are weather resistant to wear at work for outreach in the inner city. Oh well I will be the driest at the bus stop. Oh yeah match my black (also overkill) Arcteryx Alpha AR Proshell lol
Materials: leather
Use: casual
Break-in Period: who knows
Weight: heavy
Price Paid: 130 cad
I have a narrow foot and this boot fits incredibly well. My old boots (rest their soles) were hard to give up, but change was a good thing with these boots. Minimal break in time made for a several great hikes without foot worries of any kind. My weak ankles never felt unsupported for a week in the Frank Church.
Materials: leather
Use: extended pack trips with 40lb load
Break-in Period: 10 miles with pack
Price Paid: $180
I have long been a fan of Merrell boots since 1993 when I bought a pair in Sister's Oregon on a Monday and climbed South Sister on the following Tuesday. I had no blisters and no issues. I had the same experience with two more pairs until the last pair I bought three years ago for a Grand Canyon trip. About 400 miles on them and they are still not right. Eight days ago I had foot surgery and have been barely able to walk.
A Grand Canyon hike is coming up in October and I bought my son a pair of ASOLO's for the hike. He and I wear the same size and after only six days since surgery I tried his boots on and I could walk with out pain! I have eight quarter inch laser cut holes in my foot and these 535's are so comfortable I cannot feel any pain! I went out and bought a pair for myself and I will report back after I log fifty miles.
The reviews I have read said these boots get better after break in, I cannot imagine how that is possible?
Update: July 15, 2007
I first reviewed this pair of boots on June 23, 2007. Nearly four weeks of use and 85 miles they continue to impress. The lacing system is very effective and adjust well when tight spots turn up. No blisters and only one hot spot on the ball of my left foot that has been resolved by wearing two socks on that foot. I am currently hiking in Rockwood Reservation on the Greenrock trail that winds up and down steep Ozark hills. The boots grip extremely well on the rocky soil and protect well from any bruises.
Break-in Period: not completely broke yet
Weight: less than four pounds
Price Paid: $180
An amazing boot. Comfy and no blisters. Great in mud and wet conditions, and sturdy support for scrambling and trekking.
make sure they fit your feet. Although they may fit at first, I had issues with my baby toes. Like many boots made in Europe where feet are a bit more narrow, there wasn't enough room at the toe. They were sore every time I hiked more than four hours.
If they fit your feet, you'll absolutely love them. I wish I could keep mine.
Materials: Leather
Use: Full day trips & backpacking
Break-in Period: almost none (couple of hours)
Price Paid: $230 CAD
These boots were comfortable from the get-go. Three season boots that served me well on backpacks and alpine ascents. However, after 5.5 years and following an October blitz up Grays and Torreys the sole seriously separated from the upper leather. I won't hesitate buying a second pair.
Materials: leather
Use: backpacks/alpine ascents
Break-in Period: minimal
Weight: 3.5 lbs
Price Paid: $155
Comfy right out of the box, beefy vibram sole, I like 'em.
Materials: leather
Use: any hiking/backpacking
Break-in Period: short
Weight: 3.1 lbs
Price Paid: $170
I recently completed a month long NOLS course with these boots and can't say enough good things about them. I left having only barely broken them in having hiked 10 miles in them. Wearing them every day and averaging about 5 miles per hiking day, I never had a single blister with only minimal foot care (taping 2 hotspots for 3 days).
Many companions on the trip had trouble with boots falling apart, the two of us who had this boot were probably the most worry free students on the trip when it came to foot health. These boots also dry relatively quickly and are extremely reliable in standing water. Unless water goes over the top of these boots (even if they aren't tied) you're not getting wet. Paired with a good set of gators you're not going to get wet until you're wading through a river. I highly recommend these boots to anyone loking for serious backpacking boots.
Materials: Leather
Use: Primarily off trail 30-day backpacking trip
Break-in Period: 5 miles
Price Paid: $170
All TPS 535 versions
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Column: Obama in shape to avoid 2nd-term curse
- The curse of the second-term scandal exists for three reasons.
- Is the scandal-industrial complex gearing up to derail President Obama%27s second term%3F
- At its core%2C a scandal is an event that challenges the trust between a president and the public.
Since 1973, when Richard Nixon took his second oath of office, every re-elected president has faced the second-term curse, a debilitating scandal-driven crisis: Watergate and Nixon; Iran-Contra and Ronald Reagan; impeachment and Bill Clinton. Most recently, George W. Bush's White House was thrown off track by the Valerie Plame leak investigation, which called into question Bush's rationale for the Iraq War.
The curse of the second-term scandal exists for three reasons:
First, there is intense scrutiny from the news media looking for the next big scandal. The dogged reporting of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein drove the Watergate scandal, transformed how reporters cover the institution of the presidency and changed how the American people view their president. Add 24-hour cable news under Reagan, talk radio under George H.W. Bush, the World Wide Web under Clinton and social media under Bush, and scrutiny has only expanded.
Second, because the federal government has grown, a president names thousands of political appointees, which means no matter how committed one might be to adhering to the highest ethical practices, it is impossible to account for every action by every appointee. Oliver North worked in obscurity before ending up at the center of the Iran-Contra scandal.
Third, the scandal-industrial complex thrives in a hyperpartisan era of politics defined by divided government. The party out of presidential power exploits its control of at least one body of Congress to use, and sometimes abuse, investigative powers. Consider the time and effort wasted during Clinton's presidency on scandals that meant nothing to most voters.
Is the scandal-industrial complex gearing up to derail President Obama's second term?
Maybe. Fortunately, Obama is well-positioned to avoid the second-term curse for one powerful reason — trust.
At its core, a scandal is an event that challenges the trust between a president and the public. A hallmark of the Obama presidency is the high degree of personal trust that the president has maintained with the American people. Therefore, if faced with a second-term scandal, the president and his team will be in a position to limit the damage through three actions:
Do no harm. In responding to a scandal, what has happened has happened; nothing can be done to reverse events; and one will be judged by whether one handles the situation going forward in a manner that re-builds trust through transparency, openness and accountability. In some respects, when Reagan said that "mistakes were made," he accomplished just this — although he took far too long to get to that point. An administration with a second term must recognize that it needs to do no additional harm, apologize, make clear what it will do to address the situation and move on.
Maintain discipline. When a scandal strikes, it is critical to avoid panic amid the fog of a crisis by having the discipline to execute a plan to make clear that the administration is worthy of the public's trust and that it will not be distracted from the public business. At the end of the day, the American people want a president who works for them — which is exactly why Clinton left office with an extraordinarily high approval rating.
Be credible. In a scandal, credibility is the coin of the realm. Every statement, every response and every action a president makes during a scandal must be accurate, or a president will lose his credibility with the public. Given that a president's political power is inherently tied to his public standing, all is lost once he loses credibility.
Today, there are two kinds of second-term presidents: Those who must confront a scandal-driven crisis, and those who have yet to be sworn in for their second term.
So far, President Obama is in good shape to avoid such a second-term curse.
Mark Fabiani and Chris Lehane worked in the Clinton White House and are co-authors of Masters of Disaster: The Ten Commandments of Damage Control.
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April 7, 2014 Commissioner Constable's Statement to Assembly Budget Committee
Commissioner Constable's Statement to Assembly Budget Committee
Testimony of Hon. Richard E. Constable, III
Commissioner, Department of Community Affairs
Hearing of the Assembly Budget Committee
April 7, 2014
State House Annex, Committee Room
Good morning Chairman Schaer, Vice Chairman Burzchelli, and members of the Assembly Budget Committee. I am happy to discuss the budgetary priorities of the Department of Community Affairs. I am joined today by my Deputy Commissioner Chuck Richman, my CFO Cindy McDowell, and my Assistant Commissioner in charge of housing programs, Ana Montero.
During the past year, the Department of Community Affairs has continued to serve its core mission of providing guidance and financial support to local governments, community development organizations, and the business community.
But as you know, the DCA also oversees the State's Sandy recovery programs funded by federal Community Development Block Grants (CDBG).
In the 11 months since we received the first CDBG allocation of $1.8 billion, we have gotten $1.3 billion in the pipeline or out the door. This money is helping individuals, businesses and communities recover from the worst natural disaster in our State's history.
We're also proud to report that in our housing programs, more than 70 percent of the money awarded thus far has benefitted low-to-moderate income families.
Further, our recovery resources are being distributed faster in response to Sandy than in any past major natural disaster. One example is our Homeowner Resettlement Program. This program provides incentives to homeowners to stay in their home counties and recover. These grants are used to pay local property taxes, mortgage and rent payments, and insurance premiums. Over $180 million in Resettlement Grants has been disbursed, and about 99% of the more than 18,000 eligible applicants have already received their grants.
By contrast, because of bureaucratic federal mandates, getting money out the door for construction-based recovery programs is far more challenging. Notwithstanding, we have seen significant progress in our construction-based RREM program. More than 5,000 RREM applicants have received preliminary approvals. 2,200 have signed grant awards, obligating over a quarter billion dollars. This includes $50 million in reimbursements for work these Sandy-impacted homeowners had previously completed. Just last month, almost 600 grant awards were signed, almost doubling the total signed in February.
Yet, we recognize that the process can still be frustrating and time-consuming. Much of this stems from federal rules we must follow:
- Federal rules limit us from reimbursing RREM applicants waiting to sign grant agreements.
These are examples of some of the common complaints we hear about the RREM process.
We've also heard the customer service complaints and we have taken steps to address them. Over the last few months, DCA has built out a Sandy Recovery Division to increase our administrative capacity and make us less reliant on contractor support. We have increased training in our 9 Housing Centers. We have revamped RREM in substantial ways, and allow homeowners more choice in the rebuilding process. Further, when an applicant chooses their own contractor, we allow half of the RREM grant award to be immediately disbursed so the homeowner can quickly pay for necessary expenses.
Unfortunately, there is no playbook for recovering from a storm like Sandy. This State has never done anything like this before. Indeed, while we are comparable to NY State in terms of dollars obligated in the RREM program, NY City's RREM equivalent has doled out less than $200,000 in grant awards. Clearly, this is difficult work, but we are working every day to make the process more efficient, within the bounds of the federal rules.
More than RREM and Resettlement, we also designed programs for low income renters. We project that our initial CDBG investment in rental programs will create or repair more than 7,000 affordable housing units.
Much media attention has been focused on one of these affordable rental programs, the Fund for Restoration of Multi-Family Housing (FRM).
These 36 projects, selected through an open and transparent application process, will rapidly increase the supply of affordable housing in the nine most impacted counties.
The New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) scores and ranks applications to the FRM program using the same system it has utilized for decades in financing affordable housing developments. The HMFA board selects projects during public meetings where every potential project is discussed and voted on. Projects must be "shovel-ready" so construction can begin quickly. Developers – not municipalities – need to proactively apply for these Sandy recover funds, and must have the support of a municipality to move forward.
More than this, we designed several rental programs where we repair smaller rental properties, provide housing for special needs populations, and create affordable housing in blighted neighborhoods in Sandy-impacted counties.
As you know, our department also has a direct role in assisting Sandy-affected local governments.
Our Division of Local Government Services has provided tens of millions of dollars in Sandy recovery funds for Essential Services grants to counties, municipalities, and school districts in tandem with FEMA's Community Disaster Loans. The Essential Services grants maintain the police, fire, emergency and government services on which our communities depend and help Sandy-impacted communities avoid raising taxes.
We are supplying code enforcement staff to assist Sandy-impacted towns with inspections. As an example, we have about 30 inspectors working in more than a dozen towns in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
Importantly, we have built extensive integrity and oversight measures into our programs, and federal oversight is both continuous and exhaustive.
Finally, on March 25, we submitted our second plan to HUD for the allocation of $1.46 billion in CDBG funds. More than 50% of the funds, $775 million in total, are dedicated to homeowner and renter programs.
Now, I would be remiss in not addressing the issue of property taxes.
By any measure, this administration's property tax reforms, which took effect in calendar year 2011, have helped stem the tide of skyrocketing property tax bills. Over the last three years, the total property tax levy increased at historically low rates.
In 2011, the total New Jersey property tax levy on all payers increased by 2.5 percent. In 2012, we did even better with a statewide increase of just 1.6 percent. And in 2013, there was a statewide increase of 1.7 percent.
We accomplished this because, together, we enacted a historic bipartisan property tax cap, and real reforms to combat spending – like binding arbitration reforms, and reforms to pensions and health benefits. Obviously, true success would be an annual decrease or at least property taxes remaining stagnant. In many places this actually has occurred. For example, last year, the total property tax levy decreased in approximately 80 municipalities, and in another 80, the increase was less than 1 percent.
Finally, as you know, the provision of our binding arbitration law that gives weight to the 2 percent cap expired on April 1. Local government officials I speak with state the obvious: that the law has helped keep property tax increases in check and has made managing a municipal budget workable within the confines of a property tax cap. Without it mayors will lose an important tool that keeps employee costs reasonable. I implore you to extend this provision of the law or make it permanent. The results of not acting will be exactly as local officials, newspapers and others have predicted -- either increases in property taxes up to the maximum permitted, or more fire fighter and police officer layoffs.
Thank you for the opportunity to come before you today. I am happy to answer your questions.
Lisa Ryan
Sean Conner
(609) 292-6055


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LightPath Technologies Provides Quarterly Update on Infrared Initiatives
LightPath Receives Orders to Provide Qualification Prototypes from Three OEMs for Thermal Imaging Systems
Raytheon Vision Systems Development Project Remains on ScheduleORLANDO, FL - (PRNewswire – October 31, 2012) - LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) ("LightPath", the "Company" or "we"), a global manufacturer, distributor and integrator of patented optical components and high-level assemblies, today provided an update to shareholders on its progress with its infrared lens initiatives.
LightPath continues to develop its thermal imaging business and is currently in the later stages of upgrading manufacturing capabilities at its Orlando factory to support the anticipated growth in its thermal infrared product lines. Sales and technical teams have been in contact with many large OEMs who purchase infrared optics in this space and LightPath has received initial orders from three such OEMs for prototypes of optical assemblies for their respective thermal imaging systems. LightPath's optics provide significant material cost advantages for its customers through the use of chalcogenide glass compared to the materials that are currently in use today for such systems. LightPath continues to see significant growth opportunities for this business and expects significant orders from these and other customers in the second half of fiscal 2013.
In addition, the infrared development program with Raytheon Vision Systems continues to progress and work is now shifting from producing initial prototypes to developing the necessary production-scale cost reductions to meet the program's cost and performance goals. With a substantial portion of the investment phase now completed, core manufacturing techniques and resources are now in place with significant improvements having been made in the protective coatings for the lenses. As the cost reductions are developed from this work, they are being implemented into LightPath's proprietary process.
Jim Gaynor, President and Chief Executive Officer of LightPath, commented, "We are excited by the growing acceptance of the infrared products we offer as we continue to successfully penetrate this $150 million addressable market serving a diverse customer base. In particular, we see our infrared business being driven by demand for our quantum cascade laser lenses, with interest from customers in various subsectors, such as infrared countermeasures, gas analysis and spectroscopy."
About LightPath Technologies
LightPath manufactures optical products including precision molded aspheric optics, GRADIUM® glass products, proprietary collimator assemblies, laser components utilizing proprietary automation technology, higher-level assemblies and packing solutions. The Company's products are used in various markets, including industrial, medical, defense, test and measurement and telecommunications. LightPath has a strong patent portfolio that has been granted or licensed to it in these fields. For more information visit www.lightpath.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release includes statements that constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our ability to expand our presence in certain markets, future sales growth, continuing reductions in cash usage and implementation of new distribution channels. This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, factors detailed by LightPath Technologies, Inc. in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, we do not have any intentio n or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


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No batting practice. No videos, No coaching. No nothing.
White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen went old-school before Wednesday's matinee against the awfulRoyals.
Guillen also wanted to make fun of Kansas City's starting pitcher.
"Have you seen Bruce Chen pitch?'' Guillen said, laughing, and adding he might grab a bat himself.
Apparently, the Sox's revolutionary plan to snap this pathetic offensive slump was to mock the opposing pitcher while telling his batters to see ball, hit ball, see what happens, and what happened was one run on a bases-loaded walk in a miserable 4-1 loss.
If "you cannot teach those guys,'' as Guillen said, and if "you cannot talk to those guys,'' as Guillen also suggested, then why is Greg Walker there?
More importantly, why are some of those players still there? Guillen has benched everybody who has stunk it up. The Sox offense is still stinking it up.
So, change the roster.
What is Sox general manager Ken Williams waiting for?
Especially Ken Williams. The GM who would be voted most likely to spontaneously combust has turned into a dud. Trade somebody already, would you?
At this point, it doesn't matter who. Just trade somebody. Somebody has to leave that clubhouse to let the rest of them know that others might follow. It seems that bad. It seems to require something that drastic, especially with the vexing Twins coming in for four games of what figures to be retch-inducing play. I mean, we're talking about a dogbreath offense that ranks among the most undisciplined in baseball and seemingly the runaway leader when it comes to failing with runners in scoring position.
And Wednesday, it went from bad to cockamamie when Adam Dunn, the poster child for Worst Free Agent Signing Ever, drew two walks against a left-hander, while Paul Konerko -- the "Paul-Star,'' don't you know -- grounded into a double play and struck out looking with the bases loaded.
Point is, taking anybody out of that lineup couldn't possibly make it worse. Adding anybody from any team, except maybe the Cubs, has a good chance of making it better.
But the GM is as lifeless as the lineup. Hey, look, what could you get for Carlos Quentin? Yeah, I know, he's good. Then he ought to bring something good in return.
Or bring up Dayan Viciedo and cut somebody. How about Omar Vizquel? The Sox already have paid half his $1.75 million salary, Guillen could maintain his bromance with Juan Pierre, and you'd have Brent Lillibridge and Mark Teahen to move around the infield while putting Pierre in center flanked by Quentin and Viciedo. No, it's not perfect, and yes, the outfield defense might be scary, but come on, it's not working with Alex Rios.
Interestingly Wednesday, Sox TV broadcaster Hawk Harrelson answered the many texters who wondered about Viciedo's minor-league stats (.315-15-59 entering Wednesday). Hawk's texter-friendly service came in the ninth inning of a dreadful offensive performance.
Was it just a coincidence?
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A message?
A dadgummit plea for somebody who might threaten to put it on the boaaaaaaaaarrrrrrdddddd?
Because look: If you can't take a series at home from the worst team in the American League, then how can you take the division? I'll hang up and listen for my walk-off balk.


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Category: Aging
Cicero's On Old Age: A Sampling
This post is dedicated to my grandpa, Julio Enrique Bohorquez, who embodies youthful vigor and a sense of intellectual adventure in old age.
Cicero's On Old Age is ancient wisdom at its best. In it he answers the charges of younger men against old age, such as lack of physical activity and the loss of mental acuity and bodily pleasures, such as taste and sex. To each of these charges Cicero responds by arguing that much of the discomfort and failings of old age are due more to the bad habits of earlier years and personal character faults than to old age itself. Old age, he says, has much to offer to those seeking the improvement of their mind and the refining of their spirit. As the French essayist Montaigne said of the work, Cicero makes you look forward to old age.
Written about 40 years before the birth of Christ, this work also shows human wisdom's limits as well as its glimmers of eternal wisdom. For example, Cicero's affirms the immortality of the soul but is unable to imagine much else beyond death. As the last quote below shows, however, he seems to have understood that this life is a temporary stay on the way to our true home, much like the Christian concept of pilgrims on the way to our true and final home.
I encourage everyone, young and old, to treat themselves to this classic work. It's only about 30 pages. But if you won't get to it for a while because you have so much to read as it is, here's a (completely free!) sampling:
"A person who lacks the means, within himself, to live a good and happy life will find any period of his existence wearisome."
"[In old age] there is great satisfaction in the knowledge of a life well spent and the memory of many things well done."
"The evils for which ignorant people blame old age are really their own faults and deficiencies."
"Great deeds are not done by strength or speed or physique: they are the products of thought, and character, and judgement. And far from diminishing, such qualities actually increase with age."
"At the very least we must concede age the capacity to teach and train young men and fit them for jobs of every kind; and no function could possibly be more honorable than that."
"When its campaigns of sex, ambition, rivalry, quarreling, and all the other passions are ended, the human spirit returns to live within itself – and is well off. There is supreme satisfaction to be derived from an old age which has knowledge and learning to feed upon."
"Old age must have its foundations well laid in early life."
"Old people are also complained about as morose, and petulant, and ill-tempered, and hard to please…but these are faults of character, not of age…For the fact is that not every personality, any more than every wine, grows sour with age."
"The particular harvest of old age, I repeat, is its abundant recollection of blessings acquired in earlier years."
"Since death is an imminent possibility from hour to hour, you must not let the prospect frighten you, or you will be in a state of perpetual anxiety."
"What nature gives us is a place to dwell in temporarily, not one to make our own. When I leave life, therefore, I shall feel as if I am leaving a hostel rather than a home."
Cicero: Teaching in Old Age
In On Old Age, under the section titled "Consolations for Lost Strength," Cicero extolls the act of teaching, saying that the wise, aged person can teach those younger than he – and in this find great satisfaction and happiness. This is an excellent message, which encourages one to, rather than turn into the self and pity his state, turn outward and benefit others through imparting wisdom and knowledge from a lifetime of experience:
"At the very least we must concede age the capacity to teach and train young men and fit them for jobs of every kind; and no function could possibly be more honorable than that…However infirm with age a man has become, if he is imparting to others a liberal education he cannot fail to be accounted happy" (224).
Cicero's On Old Age: A Work for People of All Ages
On reading Cicero's On Old Age, the great French essayist Montaigne said, "He gives one an appetite for growing old." And he really does, for it's a delightful, wise, and surprisingly optimistic work. I first read this in a Georgetown class taught by the legendary and beloved Father Schall, whom I credit for introducing me to the "great books," and I'm thrilled to share it with you now. Though this work deals with old age, it's profitable for all people, young or old, who desire to acquire wisdom and live life well.
Written in 44 B.C., Cicero, a respected Roman statesman and master orator, answers charges against old age, beginning with: "old age takes us away from active work":
He begins, "surely there are also occupations fitted for old men's minds and brains even when their bodies are infirm" (219).
"So people who declare that there are no activities for old age are speaking beside the point. It is like saying that the pilot has nothing to do with sailing a ship because he leaves others to climb the masts and run along the gangways and work the pumps, while he himself sits quietly in the stern holding the rudder. He may not be doing what the younger men are doing, but his contribution is much more significant and valuable than theirs. Great deeds are not done by strength or speed or physique; they are the products of thought, and character, and judgment. And far from diminishing, such qualities actually increase with age" (220).


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Inside 'The Atlantic': How One Magazine Got Profitable by Going 'Digital First'
With consecutive quarterly growth in both print and digital advertising sales, The Atlantic has emerged as a vanguard in an industry harassed by declining ad revenues and falling circulations. And the credit, its executives say, belongs to the "digital first" strategy it embraced four years ago.
The Atlantic, a monthly magazine on politics, foreign affairs, economics and culture, made $1.8 million in 2010, its first profitable year in decades. In October, digital ad revenues topped print for the first time, up 86% year-over-year, but not at the sacrifice of print. In fact, The Atlantic sold more print ads in October than it had in any other month since David Bradley acquired the title in 1999. Traffic to its three web properties — TheAtlantic.com, TheAtlanticWire.com and TheAtlanticCities.com — recently surpassed 11 million uniques per month, up a staggering 2500% since The Atlantic brought down its paywall in early 2008.
Five years ago, no one could have foreseen that The Atlantic, a 154-year-old publication founded by a collective of New England intellectuals, would have become a leader in the so-called digital age. Even in 2008, digital only made up 9% of total ad revenues, says publisher Jay Lauf.
A Tough Decade
The Atlantic is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Richard A. Bloom.
David Bradley, a seasoned entrepreneur who had acquired The National Journal in 1997, purchased The Atlantic from Mort Zuckerman for $10 million in 1999. In its first year, losses totaled $4.5 million. By the time Bradley relocated The Atlantic's headquarters from Boston to Washington, D.C., in 2005, he had lost some $30 million on the venture altogether, with losses soaring as high as $8 million in 2002 alone.
"Atlantic had so serially failed that it was overwhelmingly likely the next thing we would do was fail, and the next thing we would do was fail," Bradley recalled in a New York Times interview last year.
Bradley says a succession of strategic hires in the last half of the decade turned things around for the magazine, however. Among them: James Bennet, the New York Times correspondent who became editor of the magazine in 2006, and Justin Smith, who became president of Atlantic Consumer Media in 2007 after leaving his post as president and publisher of The Week.
Bradley's hiring antics are famous. In 2007, he lured national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg away from the New Yorker by sending ponies to his house, charming his children.
"He's incredibly persistent and makes you feel like you're God's gift to journalism," Goldberg said of the incident. "The charm is incredibly disarming."
We were no longer going to be 'The Atlantic, which happens to do digital.' We were going to be a digital media company that also published The Atlantic magazine."
Bennet was pulled in through a series of long conversations; Smith, through dinner and a three-page, single-spaced letter Bradley emailed the next day. It helped that Smith had recently gotten into a "significant disagreement" with The Week's owner over the need to invest more in digital.
"He said that he really needed someone to come someone help him with The Atlantic, which had been losing money for years," Smith recounts of his discussions with Bradley. "I was just getting out of print media; I didn't want to do more print media. But he said that, once we'd turned The Atlantic around ... we'd use it as a platform to build a global digital media company. That proposition really drew me."
Smith arrived at The Atlantic's offices in mid-2007. He worked doggedly his first few months, announcing in October that The Atlantic was going to adopt a digital-first strategy. "We decided to prioritize digital over everything else. We were no longer going to be 'The Atlantic, which happens to do digital.' We were going to be a digital media company that also published The Atlantic magazine."
That must have been a frightening prospect for a number of people, I suggested in a conversation with Smith at The Atlantic's offices last month.
"It's easier to be 'digital first' when your legacy business is not strong, when you have nothing to defend," Smith explained. "At the time, all we had to defend was red ink."
Breaching the Divide
The Atlantic's three digital properties attract a monthly audience of 11 million.
The first step in The Atlantic's newly minted strategy was to dismantle the paywall on TheAtlantic.com, which the company did in January 2008.
Smith says that no one expected the paywall to be disabled permanently, although the The Atlantic's content, including every article that appears in print, is still available freely on its website four years later. Rather, it was an experiment to see how big its audience could be. Even though the magazine continued to enjoy a prestigious reputation, its readership was small: At the time Smith joined, it had a circulation of about 450,000, and another 500,000 visited TheAtlantic.com on a monthly basis, he recalls.
At the same time, The Atlantic continued to build out a network of "big voices" for the web: recognizable personalities who would offer up analysis and opinion on the headlines of the previous day. Some, like Goldberg and James Fallows (a correspondent for Atlantic since 1979), bore more traditional print backgrounds. Others, including political writer Andrew Sullivan, who came to account for more than a quarter of TheAtlantic.com's traffic by the time he left The Atlantic for The Daily Beast in February 2011, had been blogging for nearly a decade.
In some ways, The Atlantic was primed for web journalism. The magazine had been established in the mid-nineteenth century by a group that included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, prominent American intellectuals then in the prime of their careers. In its founding statement, The Atlantic (then called The Atlantic Monthly) pledged to be "the organ of no party or clique, but will honestly endeavor to be the exponent of what its conductors believe to be the American idea," concerned with "Freedom, National Progress, and Honor, whether public or private."
The Atlantic Monthly quickly gained a following for its discussions on abolition, education and other issues of national reform, as well as for its fiction and poetry. Although the interests of today's Atlantic are further flung, both topically and geographically, its adherence to its original mission — that of being what co-founder Francis H. Underwood described as an "outspoken organ of opinion," representing multiple sides of a debate — remains strong.
It's The Atlantic's tradition as a "platform for voices" that makes it a natural fit for the web, says Bennet, who became editor-in-chief of the magazine at the age of 39. "We've never had a coherent ideology or a consistent sound the way a lot of publications do," he says. "To some people's minds that's been a weakness in print. But strong individual voices get heard on the web."
One of the challenges for any magazine brand in the fast-paced environment of the web is, of course, maintaining the polish and accuracy their print reputations are built upon. Bob Cohn, who left his post as executive editor of Wired to head up The Atlantic's digital operations in January 2009, remembers that he used to read every Wired story and photo caption five times before it went to print. "I learned early on that I couldn't even read every story we posted on TheAtlantic.com," he says. "You have to surrender to the chaos."
Still, The Atlantic would rather be late to a story than cover a story poorly. "The Atlantic's brand stands for quality and intelligence, and our first obligation, even in the barely controlled chaos of the web environment, is to maintain that reputation," says Cohn. "Being fast and being webby are essential, but quality is the most important."
The Atlantic Wire
The Atlantic Wire was established as an opinion news aggregator in September 2009.
Cohn's ethos was put to the test in September 2009, when The Atlantic launched The Atlantic Wire, an online aggregator for opinion news. A small team of full-time staffers were tasked to synthesize and analyze the takes from the U.S.'s leading commentators in rapid, pithy blog posts that liberally quote (and link to) their sources.
Scott Havens, VP of digital strategy and operations at The Atlantic Media Company, contends that The Wire is better described as a "contextualizer and synthesizer" rather than an aggregator. "We're reading an original narrative through the piece, pulling different angles, contextualizing fragments. It's aggregation 2.0 in some ways," he says, and we agree: The Wire is smart, and as valuable for its commentary as for its curation.
Under the leadership of former Gawker editor-in-chief Gabriel Snyder, who moved The Wire's headquarters to New York when he came on board in early 2011, the site now does a fair amount of mainstream news aggregation and original reporting, as well.
The Wire has done two things for The Atlantic: It has further established its editorial team as curators, helping readers cut through the mass of content put out on the web and in print each day; and it has placed The Atlantic in the news game for the first time.
"The web is a news medium, and you can't compete ambitiously on the web if you're not in the news flow," contends Smith. "[Before The Wire], TheAtlantic.com's strategy had been to do next-day analysis. Now we are set up to do that analysis instantly."
At present, The Atlantic Wire is in operation from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET, with an additional writer up for the morning shift (from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. ET), and another on the weekends. During primetime hours, Snyder edits every single piece that goes up on The Wire — and if he's in a meeting, nothing gets published. Soon, Snyder says, The Wire will be a 24/7 operation, with a second editor to keep things flowing during the day.
As The Atlantic becomes broader and faster, it's also going deeper. In February, TheAtlantic.com launched a redesign that divided its content into topic-specific channels: politics, business, culture, international, science & technology, national and food. (Culture and food have since been replaced by entertainment and health.) The Atlantic continues to staff up each of those channels, most recently bringing on Megan Garber of Nieman Lab to the tech channel, and Newsweek's David Graham to politics. TheAtlanticCities.com, a site designed to explore urban issues around the U.S. and abroad, was launched in September.
Community is another area under development. In May of this year, The Atlantic Wire opened up its editing room to the public for a month, inviting readers to pitch stories and give feedback on existing articles, as well as observe the pitching and editing process between full-time staff. It's something Snyder says he hopes to make a permanent aspect of the site, once he can identify a better technical solution to support it. (For the duration of the experiment, the editing room was moved to a public comments thread.)
In another community experiment that month, TheAtlantic.com launched 1book140, a monthly online reading and discussion club that spans the publication's presences on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, as well its website. 1book140 remains in operation.
Halo Effect
The Atlantic runs three websites and publishes 10 print issues per year.
Of course, none of this expansion would have been possible without strong sales and marketing teams to finance it. The Atlantic's business operations have undergone a digital makeover of their own over the past few years. When former Wired publisher Jay Lauf joined The Atlantic as publisher in March 2008, he made what was then considered a radical move: He told his sales team that they no longer had to meet separate targets for print and digital ad sales, a practice Lauf says many publications had put in place to protect their print revenues.
That's not to say that digital advertising has been easy money. Digital has proved tough terrain for many traditional advertisers, who have been forced to compete against highly targeted search and display networks, such as Google's. Lauf says his team has focused on putting together premium advertising experiences that span print, digital, events and (increasingly) mobile. Over the summer for instance, The Atlantic worked with Mercedes-Benz to develop a series of video interviews with speakers and attendees at its annual Aspen Ideas Festival.
"Advertisers see the value of being able to surround their target audiences in different platforms," Lauf says.
One of the most interesting aspects of The Atlantic's digital success is the unexpected effect it has had on print. Although Smith acknowledges that tablets and ereaders are cannibalizing print newsstand sales, both magazine circulation and print ad revenues are up, "largely due to the brand impact that our digital strategy has had," he says. "The dramatic growth in digital audience has in turn driven demand for the magazine, because so many more millions are now aware of it."
Looking Ahead
James Russell Lowell was The Atlantic's first editor. Photo courtesy of Richard A. Bloom.
Although The Atlantic is enjoying its success, the magazine isn't about to rest on its laurels.
In addition to hiring more channel writers and pushing The Atlantic Wire into a 24/7 news cycle, the magazine is also planning to experiment with new paid models for its longform content. Smith says that its longer stories can sometimes cost upwards of six figures to produce, and although it could potentially be supported by digital advertising alone, he believes there's an additional monetization opportunity for a premium, leanback reading experience for that kind of content.
"I think you'll see us experimenting with metered models on the tablet and desktop for longer content," says Smith. "It's not a huge newsflash though; we might experiment with a meter for a couple of months and take it back down, and try something else. It's all in the spirit of constant experimentation."
Looking ahead, Smith also said the magazine is looking to international markets, particularly big growth markets in Asia, as expansion opportunities. Original web video, as well as reader-generated content, offer further room for growth.
I asked Smith where he thought The Atlantic would be in five years.
"I think absolutely we will still be in print," he said. "And I wouldn't be surprised if our print rate base stayed stable and our online audience doubled. And I don't see why, given all the opportunities in digital and mobile and video and events, we wouldn't be able to double the size of the business again."
Given what we've seen, that seems perfectly feasible to us.


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Martha Stewart Rosemary Butter Cookies Recipe
Swapped at the 2011 Cookie Swap by ad sales director / Cereal Eats columnist Leandra Palermo.
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 egg white, beaten
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh rosemary
- 3/4 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1/2 cup fine sanding sugar
Put butter and granulated sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; mix on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Mix in whole egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour, rosemary, and salt, and mix until combined.
Halve dough; shape each half into a log. Place each log on a 12-by-16-inch sheet of parchment. Roll in parchment to 1 1/2 inches in diameter, pressing a ruler along edge of parchment at each turn to narrow log. Transfer to paper-towel tubes to hold shape, and freeze until firm, about 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Brush each log with egg white; roll in sanding sugar. Cut into 1/4-inch-thick rounds. Space 1 inch apart on baking sheets lined with parchment. Bake until edges are golden, 18 to 20 minutes. Let cool on sheets on wire racks. Store in airtight containers at room temperature up to 3 days.
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"Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sacred structures in which eternal questions are answered."
- President Gordon B. Hinckley
Throughout History, the Lord has commanded His people to build temples. Temples are literally houses of the Lord. They are holy places of worship where individuals make sacred promises with God.


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