I’ve got a 9 o’clock meeting: While Volkswagen figures out how to fix the fraudulent emission controls on nearly a half-million VWs and Audis in the U.S., it is offering owners of the cars a $500 gift card and a $500 voucher good at VW dealers.
One suggestion: Use the dealership voucher to hire a VW executive to come and push your Jetta from home to work so you don’t have to start the engine.
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Don’t worry; you get a head start: SeaWorld, attempting to meet customer demand, says that by 2017 it will end its orca shows, where the killer whales perform leaps and other tricks, and will instead display the captive orcas in a habitat where they act more like killer whales in the wild.
If this means the SeaWorld executives will be dressing up as salmon to be chased by the orcas, we’ll buy a ticket.
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Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: The Esquire channel premieres “Uncorked,” a reality series that follows six aspiring master sommeliers as they compete for top jobs in the food and wine industry.
Your first task, contestants: Pronounce sommelier.
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