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Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant capped a busy 2013 on the economic development front with a New Year's Eve announcement of a $200 million silicon metal plant near Corinth.
The Mississippi Silicon plant will employ 200 when completed in the town of Burnsville, 100 miles southeast of Memphis. The metal made there will be used in chemical, aluminum and automotive plants.
Mississippi Silicon is a company formed by Investor Clean Tech I LLC and Rima Holdings USA Inc.
Mississippi is providing financing through a state revolving fund for building construction and workforce training. The state is also using new market tax credits. Additional incentives are being provided by Tishomingo County government and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Just before the Mississippi Silicon announcement, Bryant's office tallied $1 billion in new investment in the state during 2013 and the creation of 6,265 new jobs.
That compares to $455.5 million in new investment in Mississippi in 2012 and the creation of 2,664 new jobs.
Announcements in 2013 included a $140-million Feuer Powertrain plant in Tunica that will create 300 new jobs; executives of the German-based company broke ground for the plant this past September.
In May, the Danish company Roxul Inc. broke ground on a $160-million plant near Byhalia in Marshall County's Chickasaw Trail Industrial Park at the Tennessee state line. The Mississippi plant is the first U.S. plant by the company that makes rockwool insulation.
Earlier in December, Aluma-Form Inc., which makes overhead electric utility products, began construction of a $6.7 million plant in a Walnut industrial park. The new plant for the company, which was founded in Memphis in 1961, will create 125 new jobs.
Other economic development prizes in the region for 2013 included Nissan breaking ground in Canton on a $50 million North American supplier park in July. And in April, Yokohama Tire Corp. announced it was building a $300 million commercial tire truck plant in West Point.
With the end of 2014, Tom Fox has become interim president and general manager of the Memphis Area Transit Authority.
Fox, who had been deputy general manager of the city's bus system, took the reins of the transit authority New Year's Day, when the retirement of MATA president and general manager William Hudson took effect.
Hudson had been head of the transit authority since 1993.
The city of Memphis is undertaking a national search for a new president and general manager.
The long-vacant French Quarter Inn on Madison Avenue near Overton Square has been sold for $1.9 million, according to property records.
California-based NCE Realty and Capital Group LLC closed Dec. 31 on the purchase of the 105-room inn at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and Cooper Street.
The shuttered hotel at 2144 Madison Ave. is adjacent to the revived Overton Square, where Loeb Properties Inc. has pumped around $20 million into a major redevelopment of the arts and entertainment district.
The hotel, which opened in 1984, was purchased by Donald W. Pemberton, Ron Kirkpatrick, Garnett Murphy, Rex Amonette and Carroll Brunthaver after it closed in 2008.
The ownership group, called FQI LLC, bought the property for $1 million in 2009.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal at $1.5 million.
The sale comes after a previous deal collapsed in October. Austin, Texas-based ASC Management had until Oct. 31 to close on the purchase of the property but did not complete the sale.
In 2012, a contract from two local partners to transform the 77,866-square-foot structure into a Comfort Suites fell through after it faced fierce opposition from neighbors who wanted a more upscale, boutique hotel.
The Plough Foundation is holding a community breakfast Jan. 8 to address mistreatment and abuse of the elderly.
The series follows an exclusive study the foundation commissioned that found a variety of social and economic data about the elderly in Shelby County. Plough Foundation executive director Mike Carpenter said the elderly are vulnerable, for example, to being victimized because of factors such as diminished physical capacity and mobility.
The event will be held at the Holiday Inn University of Memphis starting at 8 a.m.
As of Jan. 1, most government building projects in Tennessee no longer have to pay the prevailing wage.
WPLN-FM reports Tennessee's prevailing wage law was in place for nearly four decades before the General Assembly voted to repeal it last year. The idea behind the law was to make sure every electrician or plumber hired on a government-funded project got paid the going rate.
Sen. Jack Johnson, a Franklin Republican, sponsored the repeal. He said the law stifled competition and made building projects too expensive.
With the change, local governments can still choose to have contractors pay a wage that's roughly average, but they don't have to.
The prevailing wage still has to be paid on highway projects in order for the state to receive federal highway funds.
Shelby County Schools board member David Reaves has filed to run for the District 3 Shelby County Commission seat.
Reaves becomes the first candidate for the commission to file his petition. He will be running in the Republican primary for the seat held by Chris Thomas.
Thomas, who was hired as Lakeland city manager in December, has said he will serve the remainder of his term on the commission but will not seek re-election in 2014.
Those running for the commission are running in a new set of single-member districts that replace the existing structure of four multi-member districts and one single-member district.
Meanwhile, former Germantown alderman Mark Billingsley has a qualifying petition out for the Republican primary for commission District 4. Other prospective candidates in District 4 with petitions out are Republican Ron Fittes and Democrat Jacqueline Jackson.
And Cynthia Gentry, who had earlier pulled a petition for the Democratic primary for Juvenile Court clerk, has pulled a petition for the Democratic primary for Probate Court clerk.
Candidates in the nonjudicial county races have until noon Feb. 20 to file their qualifying petitions for the May 6 county primaries.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dipped 2,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, evidence that layoffs are low and hiring will likely remain steady.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the less volatile four-week average rose 8,500 to 357,250.
The average was driven up in recent weeks by spikes that reflected seasonal volatility around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. The government struggles to account for seasonal hiring by retailers and other businesses and for temporary layoffs of school employees during the holidays.
Applications are a proxy for layoffs. They appear to have stabilized near pre-recession levels and are at a level consistent with solid hiring.
The job market has picked up in recent months. Employers have added an average of 200,000 jobs a month from August through November. That's helped lower the unemployment rate to a five-year low of 7 percent.
Still, nearly 4.5 million people received some form of unemployment benefits in the week ending Dec. 14, the latest data available. That's 180,000 more than the previous week.
Of those recipients, about 1.3 million stand to lose their benefits this month, according to the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group. That's because Congress opted not to renew an emergency federal program, which provided up to 47 weeks of additional benefits. The program expired last week.
Average U.S. rates for fixed mortgages edged higher this week for the third straight week but remained low by historical standards.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average for the 30-year loan rose to 4.53 percent from 4.48 percent last week. The average for the 15-year loan increased to 3.55 percent from 3.52 percent.
Mortgage rates peaked in August at 4.6 percent amid expectations the Federal Reserve would reduce its $85 billion a month in bond purchases. The purchases push mortgage and other long-term rates lower. Last month the Fed deemed the economy strong enough for it to reduce the monthly purchases by $10 billion.
Mortgage rates are sharply higher than they were a year ago when the 30-year fixed rate was 3.35 percent and the 15-year was 2.65 percent. That's contributed to a decline in home sales over the past three months.
The Memphis Area Association of Realtors has named Carol Lott of Crye-Leike Realtors the 2013 Realtor of the Year, while Carmen Prince of Fast Track Realty has been named 2013 Realtor-Associate of the Year.
The 2013 Affiliate of the Year award went to Sandy Moore of Baymark Title and Escrow Service. Jules Wade of Prudential Collins-Maury received the Outstanding Leadership Award.
The Community Service Award was garnered by Kathy Webb of Murphy, DeZonia and Webb. William Mitchell of Crye-Leike Realtors received the Lifetime Achievement Award. The MAAR Mentor Award went to Ray Bouder of Real Estate Mart of Tennessee.
Regina Hubbard, MAAR's 2013 president, gave Presidential Awards to Janey Outlan of Prudential Collins-Maury; Frances Anderson, Brenda Hampton and Carol Lott of Crye-Leike Realtors; and Marshall Gordon of J.D. Marks.
The Church Health Center is hosting an open house at its wellness facility, Church Health Center Wellness, on Jan. 11.
The event, at 1115 Union Ave., will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
It will include health screenings, yoga and stretching classes, healthy cooking demos, activities for children and facility tours.
Lisa Carson, director of Church Health Center Wellness, said the event will be a day of "fun, fitness and fellowship."
The City of New York filed a civil lawsuit on Monday accusing FedEx of illegally delivering tons of untaxed cigarettes to city residents from a distributor on an Indian reservation on Long Island.
The suit, filed at a federal court in Manhattan, accuses FedEx of knowingly violating the terms of a 2006 settlement with New York's attorney general in which the company agreed to stop all deliveries of mail-order cigarettes to state residents.
City lawyers said that even as that deal was being negotiated, FedEx continued to deliver cigarettes from select tobacco dealers, including the Shinnecock Smoke Shop, located on the Shinnecock reservation in eastern Long Island.
Between 2005 and 2012 the company shipped at least 55,000 cartons of cigarettes from the shop to consumers in New York City, according to the lawsuit. That total – an estimated 20 tons – doesn't include cartons shipped elsewhere in the state or the country.
FedEx had a public policy of not delivering cigarettes to homes anywhere in the U.S., but the city claims the shipper ignored that policy when it came to the Shinnecock shop. The suit said FedEx even signed a written agreement giving the smoke shop discounted rates because it was doing so much business.
The city is seeking $825,000 in lost tax revenue, plus nearly $2.5 million in penalties.
FedEx said in a statement that it supported the city's efforts to stop illegal cigarette shipments and had ceased doing business with the shop involved, but it said the city's claims are "overstated and not founded in law."
Walgreen Co. will fill prescriptions at no upfront cost to some patients who don't have all the information they need for coverage received through the health care overhaul.
The nation's largest drugstore chain said Monday that it will provide up to a 30-day supply of some branded and generic medicines to patients who can confirm their enrollment through the overhaul's public insurance marketplaces but have yet to receive a plan identification number, which is normally needed to process a claim.
The Deerfield, Ill., company's offer excludes complex and expensive medications like cancer drugs or treatments for rare diseases.
These patients won't have to pay anything at the pharmacy, but they may receive a bill later for the co-payment their plan requires them to make. The drugstore chain also will collect payment from the insurer once it verifies enrollment.
The overhaul aims to cover millions of uninsured people, with many insurance customers signing up either through state-based insurance exchanges or a federally operated website, www.healthcare.gov. Website crashes and other problems marred the debut of that website last fall.
Insurers also are worried about technical problems that involve the government passing along inaccurate information on enrollees. It remains to be seen whether more complications will crop up when people try to use their benefits in the new year.
U.S. home prices rose in October from the previous year at the fastest pace in almost eight years. But price gains slowed in most U.S. cities from September to October, suggesting the increases are leveling off.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 0.2 percent from September to October, down from a 0.7 percent increase from August to September.
Monthly price gains slowed in 18 of the 20 cities tracked by the index. And prices declined in nine cities, including Chicago, Denver, and Washington.
For the year, prices are still strong, reflecting big gains in earlier months. They have risen 13.6 percent over the past 12 months, the fastest since February 2006.
The Case-Shiller index covers roughly half of U.S. homes. It isn't adjusted for seasonal variations, so the change partly reflects slower buying in the fall. The index measures prices compared with those in January 2000 and creates a three-month moving average. The October figures are the latest available.
Memphis City Council member Lee Harris will be chairman of the council's budget committee for 2014.
Harris' selection is one of several made by incoming council chairman Jim Strickland, who in 2013 had been budget committee chairman as well as council vice chairman.
Harris was chairman of the council's audit committee last year, an assignment that now goes to council member Edmund Ford Jr.
Strickland also made council member Myron Lowery chairman of the Memphis Light, Gas and Water committee, which had been chaired by council member Janis Fullilove.
As committee chairwoman, Fullilove had focused on the utility's widening of its smart meter pilot program. Fullilove was opposed to the new meter technology, saying it was intrusive and unsafe. The council nevertheless approved expanding the use of the meters.
MLGW President Jerry Collins, who was also a frequent target of Fullilove's criticism during committee sessions, denied the meters are unsafe or that they can be used to spy on utility customers beyond providing more specific billing information to go with time-of-use utility rates.
Fullilove will become chairwoman of the council's public services and neighborhoods committee.
Council committees meet twice a month, on the same Tuesdays that the full council meets. The committee sessions begin at 8:30 a.m. and end just before the 3:30 p.m. voting session of the full council.
Committee recommendations on items going to the full council are not binding on how the council votes.
The council's first meeting of 2014 will be Jan. 7.
Memphis City Council member Janis Fullilove has pulled a qualifying petition to run for Shelby County Clerk in the 2014 county elections.
Fullilove pulled the petition to run in the May 6 Democratic primary.
Republican incumbent Wayne Mashburn has already filed his qualifying petition for re-election.
Candidates for the partisan county offices have until Feb. 20 to file the petitions for a place on the ballot.
The winners of the May primaries and independent candidates advance to the Aug. 7 county general election.
Fullilove was elected to her second term on the City Council in 2011.
Evelyn Pitarro also has a petition out to run in the Democratic primary for County Clerk.
In other developments, Eddie Jones has pulled a qualifying petition to run in the Democratic primary for County Commission District 11.
United Housing Inc. has received a $10,000 grant from the Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis.
The grant, which will be used to help cover the cost of United Housing's Homebuyer Education and Counseling program, was awarded as part of the Women's Foundation's annual Grants Showcase and Volunteer Recognition event.
United Housing helps both first-time and recurring homebuyers throughout West Tennessee purchase homes and provides free homebuyer and foreclosure prevention education. Clients who take part in the Homebuyer Education and Counseling program must complete the course and one-on-one counseling to gain access to lower mortgage interest rates and down-payment assistance.
The nonprofit organization says 61 percent of its clients are women, 58 percent are African-American, 15 percent are Latino and 32 percent are female-headed, single-parent households.
Close to half of Tennessee's tax preparers have not yet renewed their preparer tax identification numbers, and the current numbers expire on Tuesday.
According to the Internal Revenue Service, anyone who prepares or helps prepare all or substantially all of a federal tax return, claim for refund or other federal form for compensation must have a valid tax identification number. All enrolled agents also must have one. Tax professionals can visit www.irs.gov/ptin to obtain or renew their numbers.
Preparers must renew their identification numbers if they plan to prepare returns in 2014.
The IRS says that more than 5,900 of Tennessee's 12,000 tax preparers who have identification numbers have not yet renewed.
Gov. Bill Haslam has appointed Crockett County lawyer Brandon O. Gibson to the western section of the Tennessee Court of Appeals.
In a Thursday, Dec. 26, news release, Haslam says Gibson will replace Judge David R. Farmer when his term expires Aug. 31.
The 38-year-old Gibson has been in private practice at the Pentecost & Glenn law firm in Jackson since 2003.
Her practice there has focused on governmental entity defense, employment defense, commercial litigation, civil rights litigation and transactional services. Her work for the firm has included its satellite office in Crockett County.
Prior to her work at Pentecost & Glenn, Gibson was at the Waldrop & Hall law firm in Jackson from 2001 to 2003. She was previously at the Potter Minton firm in Tyler, Texas.
Target said Friday that debit-card PINs were among the financial information stolen from millions of customers who shopped at the retailer earlier this month.
The company said the stolen personal identification numbers, which customers type in to keypads to make secure transactions, were encrypted and that this strongly reduces risk to customers. In addition to the encrypted PINs, customer names, credit and debit card numbers, card expiration dates and the embedded code on the magnetic strip on back of the cards were stolen from about 40 million credit and debit cards used at Target between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15.
Security experts say it's the second-largest theft of card accounts in U.S. history, surpassed only by a scam that began in 2005 involving retailer TJX Cos.
Target said it doesn't have access to nor does it store the encryption key within its system, and the PIN information can only be decrypted when it is received by the retailer's external, independent payment processor.
"We remain confident that PIN numbers are safe and secure," spokeswoman Molly Snyder said in an emailed statement Friday. "The PIN information was fully encrypted at the keypad, remained encrypted within our system, and remained encrypted when it was removed from our systems." The company maintains that the "key" necessary to decrypt that data never existed within Target's system and could not have been taken during the hack.
However, Gartner security analyst Avivah Litan said Friday that the PINs for the affected cards are not safe and people "should change them at this point."
The Arkansas Department of Human Services says more than 93,000 people have filed applications for health insurance under Arkansas' private option plan to expand Medicaid.
The state said Thursday that of those 93,000 applications, more than 74,000 have been deemed eligible for the private option. This year, the Arkansas Legislature voted to use Medicaid money for private health insurance coverage for about 250,000 people. The agency says about 5,900 people have been assigned to the traditional Medicaid plan because of health needs. The coverage starts Jan. 1.
The program is separate from the federal health insurance program that operates through the HealthCare.gov website.
Rep. Brenda Gilmore has been elected a state director for a group advocating for women serving in state legislatures.
Gilmore, a Nashville Democrat, was elected to the position within Women in Government by her female colleagues in the state General Assembly.
State directors work to identify key issues, policies and priorities for the national group to focus on.
Gilmore said in a release Thursday that she is humbled to have been chosen, and that she wants to work to ensure more women are elected to public office in Tennessee.
A civil rights lawyer says the American Civil Liberties Union is very disappointed that a New York judge has found that a government program that collects millions of Americans' telephone records is legal.
Attorney Brett Max Kaufman said the ACLU will appeal Friday's ruling by federal Judge William Pauley in Manhattan. The judge concluded that the program was legal and a valuable part of the nation's efforts to combat the threat of terrorism. The judge said the phone collection program only works because it collects everything.
Kaufman said he hopes a federal appeals court in New York agrees with the reasoning of a Washington, D.C., federal judge who concluded earlier this month that the program likely violates the Constitution.
Memphis City Council member Wanda Halbert pulled a qualifying petition Monday, Dec. 30, to run for Shelby County Criminal Court clerk in 2014.
Halbert, who is serving her second term on the council after serving on the now-defunct Memphis City Schools board, would run in the May Democratic primary for the position, which is now held by Republican Kevin Key.
Halbert, along with other prospective contenders, has until Feb. 20 to file her petition.
Other likely contenders who already have petitions out for the Democratic primary for clerk are Vernon Johnson, who ran in the 2010 Democratic primary, and Michael McCusker, currently a Shelby County assistant district attorney.
Key, who won election to the clerk's office in 2010, has a possible opponent in the May GOP primary. Richard DeSaussure has pulled a petition.
Also pulling a qualifying petition Monday was Brandon Echols for the Democratic primary in County Commission District 7.
Nine vendors from Agricenter International's Farmers Market have donated 19,046 pounds of fresh produce and bread to help feed the needy in Memphis.
The vendors worked with the West Tennessee Gleaning Network. The vendors donated food between May 4 and Oct. 31 and topped last year's total of 12,255 pounds by almost 6,800 pounds.
Food from the farmers market that hasn't been sold is donated to a variety of groups. The gleaning network collected almost 35,000 pounds of food throughout Shelby County in 2013.
Wells Fargo says it has made a $591 million deal with Fannie Mae to settle obligations related to loans that went bad after the housing bubble burst.
The deal announced Monday covers loans made through 2008. Wells Fargo & Co. says it resolves nearly all repurchase liabilities it has with Fannie Mae, the federal mortgage buyer.
After adjusting for other repurchases, San Francisco-based Wells Fargo will pay out $541 million, which it says it had already set aside. Wells Fargo agreed in September to pay $869 million to Freddie Mac to settle similar claims.
Lenders including Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase have also agreed to settle mortgage claims with Fannie this year.
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. is calling off its sale to India's Apollo Tyres, unraveling a $2.2 billion deal announced just over six months ago.
Cooper said financing is no longer available and it continues to claim, as it has for months, that Apollo breached the terms of the agreement.
Apollo said after the announcement Monday, which it called disappointing, that it may pursue legal remedies.
Both companies agreed to the sale in June, but things deteriorated rapidly. Negotiations with the union representing Cooper employees became a sticking point.
Apollo sought a better price citing labor issues in China and weaker profit, which Cooper said was a stalling tactic. The Findlay, Ohio, company took its claim to a Delaware court, but a ruling last month found no breach of obligations on Apollo's part.
Cooper Chairman and CEO Roy Armes said during a brief, Monday morning webcast that Cooper never received a new offer from Apollo that came with committed financing and that presented "unreasonable risk" for his company.
Company executives vowed to pursue a reverse termination fee of $112.5 million and other possible damages. They do not believe the company owes Apollo a $50 million termination fee that was part of the initial agreement.
Cooper will return to court with Apollo to resolve some remaining issues, including whether Apollo made an appropriate effort to reach a deal with the union, said Chief Financial Officer Brad Hughes.
Apollo Tyres Ltd. said Monday that it had made "exhaustive efforts to find a sensible way forward over the last several months." Cooper shares soared to nearly $35 in June after it announced the buyout, but they have fallen steadily since then.
A partnership between a small production brewery in Memphis and a micro coffee roastery hints at new developments for each venture in 2014.
Memphis Made Brewing Co., which launched in mid-October and is based in Cooper-Young, has teamed up with Reverb Coffee Co. to produce Reverberation, a Belgian-style coffee stout.
Memphis Made co-founder Drew Barton said the brewery, which scored quick success with its inaugural limited-edition beers, had been considering the possibility of creating some kind of coffee stout. A desire to work with a local coffee-maker, and the happenstance of getting an email from Reverb's owner, led to the tie-up.
"This is definitely something we want to do more of," said Barton, who added that Memphis Made going forward will release new beers roughly each quarter.
At the same time, it will continue to put out specialty brews like Reverberation. Rather than have a year-round flagship beer, Memphis Made will produce mostly seasonal beers, according to a recent blog post from the company. The first two beers the company rolled out were South Cooper Saison and Parkways Pale Ale. Their names were a nod to the company's Memphis roots – one referring to the historic parkways that once made up the city's boundaries and the other to the brewery's headquarters at 768 S. Cooper St.
Barton and Memphis Made's co-founder, Andy Ashby, also are among the organizers of the Cooper-Young Regional Beerfest. Reverb owner Jeremy Harris has been keeping an eye out since launching Reverb in early 2013 for ways to make more people aware of his coffee – and to get it into more hands.
Without a physical storefront for Reverb, Harris set out to get his java onto the shelves of local businesses.
"There's a cafe opening up in the University of Memphis area that'll be using my coffee," Harris said. "I'm still throwing around the idea of opening a cafe of my own, a small coffee shop, and what that might look like. My biggest thing right now is trying to make more partnerships and develop wholesale contracts. That would allow me to open a coffee shop a lot more stress-free."
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Facebook buys virtual reality firm Oculus for $2bn
The virtual reality headset attracted the attention of video game developers
Facebook has agreed to buy Oculus for $2 billion, betting that its virtual reality technology may be a new way for people to communicate, learn or be entertained.
"This is a long-term bet on the future of computing," said Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday on a call with analysts. "I believe Oculus can be one of the platforms of the future."
Irvine, California-based Oculus VR Inc. makes the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that's received a lot of attention from video game developers, though it has yet to be released for consumers. The headsets cover a user's eyes and create an immersive world that reacts to turning one's head or moving back and forth.
Beyond games, Zuckerberg said virtual reality headsets might someday be used to enjoy a courtside seat at a basketball game, study in a classroom, consult with a doctor face-to-face or shop in a virtual store. The technology also has social applications, he said.
"Imagine sharing not just moments with friends online but entire experiences and adventures," he said.
It is Facebook's second big acquisition in as many months. Last month the social network announced that it would pay $19 billion for deal messaging startup WhatsApp, a deal that hasn't closed.
"I don't think you should expect us to make multiple mult-ibillion-dollar acquisitions within a couple months frequently," Zuckerberg said.
But he called Oculus a "unique" company with a major lead on rivals in technology, engineering talent and developer interest. Sony Corp. unveiled its own prototype virtual reality headset at a game-developers conference in San Francisco last week.
Zuckerberg said virtual reality technology is a computing platform unto itself, comparing it to personal computers, which revolutionized the world in the 1970s and 1980s, and mobile phones.
Facebook Inc. said Tuesday that the deal includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares worth about $1.6 billion. Oculus employees are also eligible for an additional $300 million if the company achieves certain targets.
Facebook Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman said Oculus was valued based on the expected returns from the video game industry alone, with a higher return expected if it can expand into communications, entertainment or other fields.
Zuckerberg said Facebook intends to let Oculus continue with its roadmap of development but help out with recruiting, marketing, infrastructure and opening doors to new partnerships. He said he intends not to make a profit on hardware but instead make the product affordable and ubiquitous so Facebook can look at generating revenue from services, software, advertising, virtual goods or other areas.
Facebook says Oculus has received more than 75,000 pre-orders for second-generation development kits for the headset at $350 apiece. The kits are to ship in July.
Sales of Oculus' development kits alone are 10 times bigger than all other headsets in the history of virtual reality, said Antonio Rodriguez, general partner of venture capital fund Matrix Partners, an early investor that put $18.5 million in Oculus starting last year.
He said he decided to invest within minutes of trying on a pair of the goggles. Games he's seen being developed for the system include one where the player jumps off the side of a building and tries to avoid hitting things on the way down, and another where the player picks up and moves around blocks in constructing their own world.
Rodriguez said virtual reality could be used to enhance virtual tours of homes for potential buyers and for getting a flavor for distant locations before planning a vacation, say to Cancun.
"Short of the sunburn and the smell of the sweet Caribbean Sea, you're getting the whole experience," he said. "They're going to change the world."
Shares of Menlo Park, California-based Facebook fell 53 cents to $64.36 in after-hours trading after closing up 79 cents at $64.89.
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Kathleen Parker: Hobby Lobby case puts strange bedfellows on same side
When it comes to tackling complicated legal issues, one would be hard-pressed to conjure a less likely partnership than Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and Baylor University President Ken Starr.
Well, OK, there was the David Boies and Ted Olson confederacy fighting for gay marriage rights after they took opposite sides during the 2000 Bush-Gore election dispute. Still, witnessing Dershowitz and Starr discuss and largely agree on religious liberty issues raised by the popularly known Hobby Lobby case was pleasantly jarring.
The two convened at the Willard Hotel on Monday, the day before Hobby Lobby oral arguments were presented to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a delightful back-and-forth punctuated by yarns and anecdotes, the two legal luminaries affirmed at least two points of agreement: (1) separation of church and state is good for religion; (2) corporations are people and people are corporations (echo Mitt Romney?) and, therefore, Hobby Lobby should be permitted an exemption from the contraceptive mandate imposed by the Affordable Care Act.
To back and fill a bit: Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., a family-owned arts and crafts chain of 500 stores and 13,000 employees, is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government. Hobby Lobby President Steve Green, who told a dinner crowd Monday night that he has distributed Bibles to a billion people worldwide through his personal ministry, claims that he shouldn't be forced to participate in what he views as life-terminating contraception, including IUDs and the so-called morning-after pill.
The core of the argument is that Green's business is protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1993. The RFRA basically requires that the government prove "compelling interest" when someone's religious rights are "substantially burdened" by what the state wishes to do. Although individuals and religious groups are clearly covered by the RFRA, it isn't clear whether the RFRA's protections also extend to companies.
Dershowitz and Starr kicked off an afternoon of discussions as part of a symposium co-sponsored by Baylor University and Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Starr, who pointed out that 84 amicus briefs have been filed in the case, described the lawsuit as a "conflict of vision" — big government versus a family that has devoted itself to Christian mission work. While Starr's stewardship of a Baptist university made his views unsurprising, Dershowitz's were pleasantly jarring.
Proclaiming his love both for religion and the separation of church and state, he called the government's brief "silly and trivial." And though he thinks birth control is good for society — and he approves of the ACA — neither of those considerations matter.
It's the principle.
Contrary to protestations from certain entities that subvert all issues for political gain, the case is not about birth control or women's rights or even universal health care. It is, in Dershowitz's summation, about "whether or not the statutes in the penumbra of the Constitution require a religious exemption."
As a final note of clarification, the Green family did not pick this battle. The federal government did when it imposed what could be considered a secular belief system on people who happen to be business owners with strong religious convictions about abortion and abortifacients.
In a brief sidebar: Don't you find it curious that the biological fact of life at conception is characterized as an article of faith (religious), while denial of that life vis-a-vis its involuntary termination is viewed as ultimately sacred? One of life's little mysteries.
Whatever one's views on these matters, they are of no consequence. The fact that I personally favor birth control doesn't alter the logic of what I've just written. It merely suits me to believe as I do in order to get through life as I find most convenient. It doesn't make me right, except under secular law, which a great many people find less compelling than the higher laws of nature — or of God. Your choice.
In any case, the first principle of religious freedom should be treated as paramount, as often and at every stage possible, agreed both Starr and Dershowitz. And both hope that the Supreme Court will find a way to accommodate Hobby Lobby.
The court's ruling is expected sometime in June. In the meantime, one wishes only to bottle the gracious, erudite and humorous civility of Dershowitz and Starr and infuse the water supply of the nation's capital. Perhaps a dash or two of their significant brain power might also filter through.
— Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker's email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A final note--in 2010 the U.S. Mint started producing a new series of "America the Beautiful" quarters, with each showing a scene from a notable National Park or other federal site in each of the 50 states. Any peaks shown on this series of coins, such as Mount Hood in Oregon, Mount Olympus in Washington, and El Capitan in California, are not on this list--Click here to see the separate list for that series.
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When the candidate filing period for the April municipal election ended last December, only two people filed for the two seats opening up this year on the Kewanee City Council.
Incumbent Mike Yaklich is running, and former Councilwoman Kellie Wallace-McKenna will run for the seat now held by Bob Kuntz, who earlier announced he wouldn't seek re-election.
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You all know I'm always out on the look-out for impressive sports superlatives. I found one in a Slate column about the Cards:
"The most improbable World Champions of all time." That's what Larry Borowsky of the Viva El Birdos blog wrote. And he's not wrong.
Am I premature to declare one of my "It's Over!" moments about the 2006 World Series? I don't think so.
The Cards are up 3-1 with a game left to play in
David Eckstein earned the inside track to World Series MVP status with his wild, 4-hit performance last night, including the game-winning RBI. (But I refuse to reduce myself to lazy symbolism that the – ugh – "scrappy" Eckstein is a symbol of this Cards team. Isn't he a lock to win that "Whitest White Player in White Baseball" Award from yesterday?)
Back to "most improbable": Heading into the 2006 playoffs, there wasn't a less impressive team in baseball. Cripes, one month ago, the Cards were on the verge of the worst collapse in baseball history -- MISSING the playoffs, let alone winning them.
As Borowsky points out (as did Will Leitch in his New York Times op-ed piece during the NLCS), these playoffs – more than any other – illustrate the role of chance, momentum and the fleetingly hot hand in baseball – things that a 162-game season is supposed to flatten out.
That's why I've come around on these Cards, as they sit poised to win the World Series. I have disliked them throughout the regular season and playoffs. I was rooting for the Tigers (and even predicted a
But I was wrong. And those critics are wrong, ignorantly superficial at best and unjustifiably provincial at worst. (I should know because I was one of them.)
The Cards ARE delightfully, fascinatingly "improbable."
And this series has become an affirmation that baseball's postseason has been great throughout this decade – no more so than right now – precisely because of the way it continually produces improbability.
If part of baseball's charm is that 162 games creates "statistical significance" to draw huge data-rich conclusions about what we think is reality, the playoffs – and this Cards World Series run in particular – shows the value of "statistical insignificance."-- D.S.


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Last night I had the pleasure of having my friend Julia over to show me some of her delicious recipes. Julia is an amazing Italian cook. She can make leather taste good if she had to cook it! Her secret is simple, she cooks with only quality ingredients, like Pecorino Romano, good extra virgin olive oil and fresh herbs are all subtle differences that make food go from good to great. She always has on hand, a can of her own homemade filetto di pomodoro sauce she makes from scratch in the summer when tomatoes are at their peak and jars them to use throughout the year. She said she always has a jar in the fridge to incorporate into her weekly recipes. When not using fresh tomatoes, she uses Tuttoroso imported canned tomatoes. Here is her simple pomodoro sauce recipe from canned tomatoes. Make a large batch so you can keep it on hand for recipes throughout the week.
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- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 large onion finely chopped
- 1 cup carrots, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup fat free chicken stock
- fresh basil
- Saute garlic in oil, add onions and carrots and saute on medium-low for about 2-3 minutes, until soft. Add tomatoes and chicken broth and simmer 45 minutes on low.
- Add fresh basil last 10 minutes (herbs will become bitter if cooked more than 20 minutes). Julia always adds herbs into the sauce near the end.
- Taste for acidity, if sauce is a bit tangy (acidic) then add 1 tbsp of sugar. For a calorie free way to cut the acidity in the sauce add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.
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Abe Lincoln has a reputation for pushing and shoving his way to the finish line, but pair him with Teddy Roosevelt for a night, and the Great Emancipator becomes a pussycat. Whether it's a relay race or a shared bike ride, Lincoln has never one when teamed with Teddy. Coincidence? Hardly.
The team kicked off the second half of its home season Tuesday with a thrilling 10-inning victory over the New York Mets, and while the presidents livened things up by trotting out the tandem bikes, the result was more of the same. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson cruised to victory, and Teddy picked up loss #485.
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Miley Cyrus, Justin Timberlake own the MTV VMAs
NEW YORK — It may not be a good thing for her, but Miley Cyrus had the most memorable moment at the MTV Video Music Awards.
The provocative pop singer was the hot topic at Sunday night's show: Cyrus eclipsed Lady Gaga's opening performance of her new single, Katy Perry's closing rendition of her latest hit and Kanye West's artsy set. The 20-year-old even grabbed more attention than Justin Timberlake's performance with his 'N Sync band mates.
Cyrus twerked and gyrated, stripped and swayed. She sang, too.
She had a helper at the VMAs: Robin Thicke. After performing her edgy hit, "We Can't Stop," she stripped off her outfit to reveal a nude bikini. She sang the first verse of Thicke's "Blurred Lines," then grinded on the R&B singer and made suggestive moves with a foam hand. The wild child also slapped a girl's butt onstage.
It was an eye-popping performance, much like the party she's having in her music video for "We Can't Stop," one of the most popular on YouTube.
Within hours, the Buzzfeed site was posting the "15 Weirdest and Craziest Moments" from Cyrus' performance, which was aired live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
"Amazing. I thought it was awesome," fellow former child star Selena Gomez said backstage of Cyrus' performance. "I love Robin Thicke, too, so I like that they collab'd."
Artist to watch winner Austin Mahone also seemed to enjoy the performance: "I thought it was pretty creative. I thought it was pretty cool."
Brooke Shields, who played Cyrus' mom in a few episodes of "Hannah Montana" on the Disney Channel, took note of that on the "Today" show Monday: "I was Hannah Montana's mom! Where did I go wrong?"
On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-host Mika Brzezinski said the performance was "disgusting and embarrassing," and that people involved should be ashamed.
Twitter said early Monday that Cyrus was mentioned 4.5 million times on the social network site, ahead of Timberlake's 2.9 million mentions. Cyrus and Thicke's performance led in tweets per minute peaks with 306,100.
Though they were attention grabbers and nominated for four moonmen each, Thicke and Cyrus walked away empty-handed Sunday night.
Timberlake earned three awards, including video of the year and best male video for "Mirrors." Days ahead of the VMAs, his rumored reunion with 'N Sync dominated headlines, and he and his former band mates delivered at the awards show.
As Timberlake performed a medley of his solo hits, JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick emerged from the bottom of the stage in suits to sing some lines from their hits "Girlfriend" and "Bye, Bye, Bye." Gomez, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and possibly the entire venue were giddy as the boy band danced like they did a decade ago. Even rappers Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J admitted on the red carpet they were excited to see 'N Sync hit the stage.
"Half of the moonmen I've ever won, I won with those four guys right there," Timberlake said of his band mates when he accepted the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award. "So above all else, I'm going to share this — we can keep it my house — but I'm going to share this award with them."
Cyrus wasn't the only pop singer with edge at the VMAs: Swift also turned heads. The 23-year-old, who won best female video, appeared to utter an expletive to Gomez when Swift's rumored ex, One Direction member Harry Styles, was onstage. The boy band also earned boos when it won best song of the summer for "Best Song Ever," beating out Gomez, Thicke, Cyrus, Daft Punk and Calvin Harris.
Rapper A$AP Rocky also provided an awkward moment Sunday when standing next to NBA player Jason Collins, who were both announcing Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' performance. Collins, who is the first active player in the NBA to say he was gay, spoke about coming out as A$AP Rocky looked uncomfortable.
"The next artist is a good friend of mine and he stands up for everything he believes in as far as everybody being equal, color, homosexuality," the rapper said as he pointed to Collins in another awkward moment.
But that was followed with a touching performance of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' same-sex anthem "Same Love." It featured the song's original vocalist, Mary Lambert, as well as Jennifer Hudson. The video won best video with a social message, while their hit "Can't Hold Us" won best hip-hop video and best cinematography.
"I never dreamt I would be on a stage accepting an award, any of the awards, in particular for that song," Macklemore said of "Same Love" backstage. "It's much bigger than the music. It's equality, so that was the most special for me tonight, but all of them were incredible."
Bruno Mars, who won best male video and choreography for "Treasure," twirled with his two moonmen backstage, while Gomez admitted she thought Thicke's "Blurred Lines" should have won best pop video instead of her seductive "Come & Get It."
Lady Gaga kicked off the awards show in a less dramatic fashion compared with her past performances. She did change her clothes — and hair — various times onstage while dancing and singing her new hit, "Applause." She finished in a thong, revealing her toned body.
Katy Perry closed the VMAs under the Brooklyn bridge in a boxing ring, singing her smash hit "Roar."
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In the news
Ford Motor Co. announced this morning that CEO Alan Mulally, 68, will retire July 1. His replacement will be current Ford COO Mark Fields. Mulally has led Ford since 2006, and he led the company through the Great Recession without taking a government bailout.
Happening today
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in Washington today, and her and President Barack Obama will focus on the crisis in Ukraine.
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The Washington Nationals' racing presidents made yet another appearance at the White House yesterday, joining president Barack Obama and his family for an Independence Day barbecue honoring military heroes and their families.
The appearance was part of a renewed effort by the Nats' organization to embrace the military this year.
The First Lady also appeared at Nationals Park Tuesday night in support of her Joining Forces initiative, which focuses on mobilizing all sectors of society to support military families.
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2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4WD 4dr Limited, available for sale in Little Ferry , New Jersey | Milan Motors. Little Ferry , New Jersey
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Used 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4WD 4dr Limited|75,636 Miles|Four Wheel Drive
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- 4-Wheel Disc Brakes
- 8-Speed A/T
- Adjustable Steering Wheel
- Security System
- Aluminum Wheels
- AM/FM Stereo
- Transmission w/Dual Shift Mode
- Automatic Headlights
- Auxiliary Audio Input
- Back-Up Camera
- Brake Assist
- Child Safety Locks
- Climate Control
- Temporary Spare Tire
- Cruise Control
- Daytime Running Lights
- Driver Air Bag
- Driver Illuminated Vanity Mirror
- Driver Adjustable Lumbar
- Driver Vanity Mirror
- Multi-Zone A/C
- Auto-Dimming Rearview Mirror
- Stability Control
- Flex Fuel Capability
- Fog Lamps
- Four Wheel Drive
- Floor Mats
- Heated Front Seat(s)
- Heated Mirrors
- Heated Rear Seat(s)
- Heated Steering Wheel
- Integrated Turn Signal Mirrors
- Intermittent Wipers
- Keyless Entry
- Keyless Start
- Knee Air Bag
- Leather Steering Wheel
- Mirror Memory
- MP3 Player
- Pass-Through Rear Seat
- Passenger Air Bag
- Passenger Air Bag On/Off Switch
- Passenger Air Bag Sensor
- Passenger Illuminated Visor Mirror
- Passenger Adjustable Lumbar
- Passenger Vanity Mirror
- Power Door Locks
- Power Mirror(s)
- Power Driver Seat
- Power Liftgate
- Power Passenger Seat
- Power Steering
- Power Windows
- Privacy Glass
- Rear Bench Seat
- Rear Defrost
- Rear Head Air Bag
- Rear Parking Aid
- Rear Spoiler
- Remote Engine Start
- Remote Trunk Release
- Satellite Radio
- Seat Memory
- Front Side Air Bag
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- Tire Pressure Monitor
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- Trip Computer
- Universal Garage Door Opener
- V6 Cylinder Engine
- Variable Speed Intermittent Wipers
- Engine Immobilizer
- Bluetooth Connection
- Woodgrain Interior Trim
- 1270# Maximum Payload
- 180 Amp Alternator
- 24.6 Gal. Fuel Tank
- 3.45 Rear Axle Ratio
- 4-Wheel Disc Brakes w/4-Wheel ABS, Front Vented Discs, Brake Assist and Hill Hold Control
- 700CCA Maintenance-Free Battery w/Run Down Protection
- Automatic Full-Time Four-Wheel Drive
- Electro-Hydraulic Power Assist Steering
- Engine Oil Cooler
- Engine: 3.6L V6 24V VVT
- Front And Rear Anti-Roll Bars
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- GVWR: 6,500 lbs
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- Short And Long Arm Front Suspension
- Single Stainless Steel Exhaust w/Chrome Tailpipe Finisher
- Towing w/Trailer Sway Control
- Transmission w/Driver Selectable Mode and Sequential Shift Control w/Steering Wheel Controls
- Transmission: 8-Speed Automatic (845RE)
- Body-Colored Front Bumper w/Black Rub Strip/Fascia Accent and Chrome Bumper Insert
- Body-Colored Grille w/Chrome Accents
- Body-Colored Rear Step Bumper w/Black Rub Strip/Fascia Accent and Chrome Bumper Insert
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- Chrome Power w/Tilt Down Heated Side Mirrors w/Driver Auto Dimming, Manual Folding and Turn Signal Indicator
- Chrome Side Windows Trim and Black Front Windshield Trim
- Clearcoat Paint
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- Deep Tinted Glass
- Flip-Up Rear Window w/Fixed Interval Wiper, Heated Wiper Park and Defroster
- Front Fog Lamps
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- Galvanized Steel/Aluminum Panels
- Laminated Glass
- LED Brakelights
- Lip Spoiler
- Perimeter/Approach Lights
- Power Liftgate Rear Cargo Access
- Rocker Panel Extensions and Black Wheel Well Trim
- Roof Rack Rails Only
- Speed Sensitive Variable Intermittent Wipers
- Steel Spare Wheel
- Tailgate/Rear Door Lock Included w/Power Door Locks
- Tires: P265/60R18 BSW AS On/Off Road LR
- Wheels: 18" x 8.0" Aluminum Polished
- 2 Seatback Storage Pockets
- 3 12V DC Power Outlets
- 3 12V DC Power Outlets and 1 AC Power Outlet
- 5 Person Seating Capacity
- 60-40 Folding Split-Bench Front Facing Heated Manual Reclining Fold Forward Seatback Leather Rear Seat
- 8-Way Power Driver Seat -inc: Power Recline, Height Adjustment, Fore/Aft Movement, Cushion Tilt and Power 4-Way Lumbar Support
- 8-Way Power Passenger Seat -inc: Power Recline, Height Adjustment, Fore/Aft Movement, Cushion Tilt and Power 4-Way Lumbar Support
- Air Filtration
- Cargo Area Concealed Storage
- Cargo Features -inc: Cargo Tray/Organizer
- Cargo Space Lights
- Carpet Floor Trim
- Compass
- Cruise Control w/Steering Wheel Controls
- Day-Night Rearview Mirror
- Delayed Accessory Power
- Digital/Analog Display
- Driver And Passenger Heated-Cushion, Driver And Passenger Heated-Seatback
- Driver And Passenger Visor Vanity Mirrors w/Driver And Passenger Illumination
- Dual Zone Front Automatic Air Conditioning w/Front Infrared
- Fade-To-Off Interior Lighting
- FOB Controls -inc: Trunk/Hatch/Tailgate, Windows and Remote Engine Start
- Front And Rear Map Lights
- Front Center Armrest w/Storage and Rear Center Armrest
- Front Cupholder
- Front Seats w/Power 4-Way Driver Lumbar
- Full Carpet Floor Covering -inc: Carpet Front And Rear Floor Mats
- Full Cloth Headliner
- Full Floor Console w/Covered Storage, Mini Overhead Console w/Storage, 3 12V DC Power Outlets and 1 AC Power Outlet
- Garage Door Transmitter
- Gauges -inc: Speedometer, Odometer, Oil Pressure, Engine Coolant Temp, Tachometer, Oil Temperature, Transmission Fluid Temp, Engine Hour Meter, Trip Odometer and Trip Computer
- Heated Leather/Metal-Look Steering Wheel
- HVAC -inc: Console Ducts
- Illuminated Locking Glove Box
- Instrument Panel Covered Bin, Driver / Passenger And Rear Door Bins
- Interior Trim -inc: Simulated Wood/Metal-Look Instrument Panel Insert, Simulated Wood Door Panel Insert, Metal-Look Console Insert, Chrome And Metal-Look Interior Accents
- Leather/Metal-Look Gear Shift Knob
- Leatherette Door Trim Insert
- Manual Anti-Whiplash Adjustable Front Head Restraints and Fixed Rear Head Restraints
- Manual Tilt/Telescoping Steering Column
- Memory Settings -inc: Driver Seat, Door Mirrors and Audio
- Outside Temp Gauge
- Perimeter Alarm
- Power 1st Row Windows w/Driver And Passenger 1-Touch Up/Down
- Power Door Locks w/Autolock Feature
- Power Fuel Flap Locking Type
- Power Rear Windows and Fixed 3rd Row Windows
- Proximity Key For Doors And Push Button Start
- Rear Cupholder
- Rear View Auto Dim Mirror w/Microphone
- Remote Keyless Entry w/Integrated Key Transmitter, Illuminated Entry and Panic Button
- Remote Releases -Inc: Power Fuel and Keyfob Rear Window
- Sentry Key Engine Immobilizer
- Systems Monitor
- Tracker System
- Trip Computer
- Valet Function
- ABS And Driveline Traction Control
- Airbag Occupancy Sensor
- Curtain 1st And 2nd Row Airbags
- Driver Knee Airbag
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Front Airbags
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Seat-Mounted Side Airbags
- Electronic Stability Control (ESC) And Roll Stability Control (RSC)
- Outboard Front Lap And Shoulder Safety Belts -inc: Rear Center 3 Point, Height Adjusters and Pretensioners
- Rear Camera
- Rear Child Safety Locks
- Rear Parking Sensors
- Side Impact Beams
- Tire Specific Low Tire Pressure Warning
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This past Wednesday evening, Avi Ashman's Israeli Wine Lovers Club held a tasting with the theme "How Sweet it ISrael". We tasted and discussed 6 selections.
Jay Buchsbaum, Director of Wine Education at the Royal Wine Corporation, started the evening by talking about wines in general, methods of manufacture and sweet wines specifically. He then took questions from the audience
The tasting started with Carmel Moscato di Carmel 2009, a very nice fruity light wine. It's sweet with hints of peach and citrus. It is meant to be consumed within the first 2 years of production as it doesn't age well.
Next we had a Carmel Vineyards Selected EmeralRiesling and Chenin Blanc 2009. Drier than the first, most of us agreed that it would have more fair to this bottle had we tasted it before the Moscato. Even so it exhibited some interesting qualities. I would not have classed it among dessert wines, however.
We then tasted a Gamla White Riesling 2007 from the Golan Heights Winery. It tasted better than the previous one, exhibited some floral notes and tropical fruits. It can be enjoyed as an aperitif, would likely do very well in conjunction with spicy food.
Then we turned our attention to Zion Dolev Muscat Hamburg 2009. Made from Musct Hamburg grapes grown in Galilee, it was was pleasantly sweet and silky. A very nice dessert wine, a perfect complement to any pastry.
Carmel Sha'al Gewurztaminer 2006, very flavorful it evoked some exotic fruits bringing to mind the Chinese litchee among others. Produced from gewurtztraminer grape grown in the Sha'al Vineyards, this wine has a lively flower aroma. Sweet with just the right touch of tartness. This wine will taste better as it's allowed to age.
The last selection was a very unusual wine, Zion Dolev Cabernet Sauvignon Semi-Sweet 2009. Cabernet Sauvignon, is the prime grape used for dry wines. None of us expected the subtle sweetness of this bottle. A superb wine that would go well with more than just a sweet dessert.
As usual Eran Elhalal, the group' resident chef, prepared a great selection of cheeses, grapes, and walnuts. This time he also added some very nice desserts to help us pair the wines. Not only were they delicious but they made the wines taste better!


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When Saturday's game between the Nationals and the St. Louis Cardinals was picked up by FOX Sports as the game of the week, the Nats' mascot team was faced with a golden opportunity: an entire extra minute of commercial time to fill during the middle of the 4th inning.
The result? Presidents race bonus time, "Gangnam Style."
Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln started Saturday's race wearing their day game jerseys and running from left field to the traditional music of "Let's Go!" by Richie Valens, but Teddy Roosevelt entered from the center field gate wearing his hawaiian shirt and sunglasses, carrying an oversized boom box.
The music stopped, Teddy pushed a button, and the Korean dance pop hit "Gangnam Style" began pumping through the stadium speakers.
Abe and the founding fathers ripped off their jerseys to reveal hawaiian shirts, and to the cheers of 34,000 fans, the four Rushmore presidents broke into the "horse riding dance" made popular by Korean pop star PSY.
When the music stopped, Lincoln dashed towards the finish line to steal an easy victory.
Video courtesy of YouTube member lfahome.
Here's another angle from YouTube member shmaggie23, where you can better hear the crowd reaction:
And on the chance you haven't seen the original phenomenon that has turned into an Internet meme, here it is:


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WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department's handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to The Associated Press before issuing subpoenas for the news service's telephone records.
In exchanges that often turned testy, Holder defended the inquiry while pointing out that he had removed himself from any decision on subpoenas. The attorney general explained that he had been interviewed about what he knew of national security developments that prompted the probe.
The investigation follows congressional demands into whether Obama administration officials leaked secret information to the media last year to enhance the president's national security credentials in an election year.
"It's an ongoing matter and an ongoing matter in which I know nothing," Holder told the House Judiciary Committee.
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the AP, seizing the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to the AP and its journalists in April and May 2012.
Holder defended the move to collect AP phone records in an effort to hunt down the sources of information for a May 7, 2012, AP story that disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bombing plot around the anniversary of the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
The attorney general called the story the result of "a very serious leak, a very grave leak." Earlier this week in a statement, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt called the gathering of phone records a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
Under questioning, Holder said he recused himself from the investigation though he couldn't provide the panel with the exact date nor did he do so formally in writing. He said he was unable to answer questions on the subpoenas and why the Justice Department failed to negotiate with the AP prior to the subpoenas, a standard practice.
"The telephone records would not disappear if the AP had been notified," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. "How could it ever be the case?"
The frustration extended to Republicans and Democrats.
"There doesn't appear to be any acceptance of responsibility for things that have gone wrong," Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told Holder. He suggested that administration officials travel to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and take a photo of the famous sign, "The buck stops here."
It was the Justice Department's No. 2 official, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, who made the decision to seek news media phone records, Holder said.
Last year, Holder appointed two U.S. attorneys to lead a Justice inquiry into who leaked information about U.S. involvement in cyber-attacks on Iran and an al-Qaida plot to place an explosive device aboard a U.S.-bound flight.
Holder had resisted calls for a special counsel, telling lawmakers that the two attorneys, Ron Machen and Rod Rosenstein, are experienced, independent and thorough. Holder was grilled on several scandals rocking the administration, including the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service and any missteps in sharing intelligence information prior to the bombings in Boston.
Holder said the FBI's criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service could include potential civil rights violations, false statements and potential violations of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in some partisan political activities.
In one of the sharpest exchanges, Holder defended Thomas Perez's tenure as head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and said he would make a great secretary of the Labor Department.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., was critical of Perez and repeatedly pressed Holder, who at one point refused to stop talking and accused Issa of repeatedly mischaracterizing the work of the Justice Department.
"That is inappropriate and is too consistent with the way in which you conduct yourself as a member of Congress. It's unacceptable and it's shameful," Holder told Issa.
The congressman ignored the comments and continued to question Holder.
Responding to news of the gathering of AP records, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., planned to revive a 2009 media shield bill that protects journalists and their employers from having to reveal information, including the identity of sources who had been promised confidentiality.
The bill does contain some exceptions in instances of national security.
"This kind of law would balance national security needs against the public's right to the free flow of information," Schumer said in a statement. "At minimum, our bill would have ensured a fairer, more deliberate process in this case."
The White House threw its support behind the push Wednesday morning, with Ed Pagano, President Barack Obama's liaison to the Senate, placing a call to Schumer's office to ask him to revive the bill – a step the senator had planned to take. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama "believes strongly we need to provide the protection to the media that this legislation would do."
Obama's support for the bill signaled an effort by the White House to show action in the face of heated criticism from lawmakers from both parties and news organizations about his commitment to protecting civil liberties and freedom of the press.
White House officials have said they are unable to comment publicly on the incident at the heart of the controversy because the Justice Department's leak probe essentially amounts to a criminal investigation of administration officials.
It's not clear whether such a law would have prevented the government from gathering the AP phone records as it would depend on the provisions in the bill and how they were written.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence committee, said Wednesday that the leak was "within the most serious leaks because it definitely endangered some lives."
Feinstein said it was her understanding that the information gathering did not focus on the "content of phone calls," but rather "to see who reporters have spoken to, that somebody did provide this information with respect to this bomb."
On Wednesday, the leaders of the news organization whose members cover Congress told Cole that "your agency has not provided adequate reason for this disconcerting action."
"We are concerned the incursions by the Justice Department in this case jeopardize the relationship between reporters and anonymous sources, decreasing the likelihood that people will come forward with vital information of public importance," the representatives of the Congressional press galleries said in a letter.
"The press must be secure in its ability to conduct its business," the letter stated. "This critical work of reporters is protected by the First Amendment. Please explain how this unparalleled use of your investigative power is constitutionally consistent."