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2.7 mn Jeeps to be recalled by Chrysler over concerns on fuel tanks

NEW YORK - Chrysler avoided a showdown with the US government by agreeing to recall 2.7 million Jeeps with fuel tanks that could rupture and cause fires in rear-end collisions. Chrysler said it recognised the matter had raised concerns for customers The US company said it had resolved its differences with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The recall affects ...
Microsoft offering hackers $1mln for finding bugs in Windows

Software giant Microsoft has decided to reward security researchers to report bugs and find novel methods for exploiting the security built into the latest version of Windows. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Microsoft has announced that it will pay up to one million dollars for finding bugs with Windows 8 and those who can demonstrate a way to block the new attack method can earn 50,000 ...
Microsoft alters key components of Xbox One sharing policies

Software giant Microsoft has reportedly altered some of its sharing policies for its latest gaming and entertainment console Xbox One after addressing to feedbacks from the 'Xbox community'. Microsoft has dropped the 24-hour Internet connection requirement for playing all disc-based games, and has made games using and sharing unlimited, CNN reports. According to the report, president of the ...
EPIC RANT “They Take a Press Release from the Federal Reserve and They Think It Was Written by God”

SHTFPlan.com June 20, 2013 If there's one thing that individual investors can take away from Ben Bernanke's latest Fed update, it's that all confidence in the financial and economic systems of this country has been lost. Within seconds of Ben Bernanke suggesting the Fed would taper monetary expansion and reduce their activity stock markets tumbled. This proves one thing, and ...
The Winning Approach To Customer Service Is Just Common Sense

make sense for every organization to provide best-in-the-world service. Instead, the winning approach is to gear service levels to your particular customers' expectations. Here's how this ...

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An Ideal Husband [DVD]

"An Ideal Husband" is an amusing comedy of manners that takes a sharp look at love, marriage, honesty and public scandal. The film, adapted from the play by Oscar Wilde and directed by Oliver Parker (who also adapted and directed Shakespeare's "Othello" in 1995), successfully alternates between a light, witty touch, and a darker, more somber exploration of public humiliation and the price of ... ...

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A forest fire blazed its way through my Colorado hometown recently. It tragically claimed more than 500 homes and two people. As fear, destruction and uncertainty took hold, something beautiful happened: A community came together on a social networking site. If we look closely at this social media phenomenon, we, as marketers, can learn how to inspire and be more relevant to our communities. On ...
Innovation Zombies and Other Hazards For Great Ideas

Ideas can be the easy part of innovation. If innovators define challenges rigorously, they face a reasonably straightforward task in creating exciting concepts. Walls can get covered with provocative stickies, and a handful of winning notions may be simple to spot. Time to high-five! Then the danger starts. Companies tend to kill great ideas in three ways. Seldom is the peril overt. Rather, the ...
James Gandolfini Dead At 51 Of Possible Heart Attack Would You Recognize One

Actor James Gandolfini dies at 51, leaving questions (photo: Wikipedia) Actor James Gandolfini, aka Tony Soprano, died suddenly yesterday in Rome where he was vacationing in connection with a scheduled appearance at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. The three-time Emmy winner, 51, was reportedly stricken in his hotel room where he was staying with his 13-year-old son, Michael. No ...
Usmanov Fed Tapering a Well-Balanced Decision

Despite market turmoil over the Federal Reserve's indication that it could start tapering its bond buying program, billionaire investor Alisher Usmanov told CNBC that it would play a "positive" role for markets. "The world is changing and the decisions taken by the Fed are crucial, but I think tapering is a well-balanced decision," Usmanov told CNBC at the Saint ...
Bernanke and China send world stocks lower

world stock markets were deeply in the red as investors took fright at plans by the Federal Reserve to begin reducing the pace of stimulus toward the end of this year. A weak reading ...

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Florida man stripped naked, beaten and robbed at gunpoint during first date

A man in Florida has reported to the police that he was beaten, robbed, stripped naked and abandoned on the side of a road during a first date in Bunnell.

Shaun Williams was spotted by the police on a state road in Bunnell, covered in blood, and was taken to a local hospital, the New York Daily News reported.

According to FlaglerLive, Williams met a woman in a Daytona Beach convenience store about two weeks ago.

After some conversation, they exchanged phone numbers and decided to meet for their first date on Friday.

The woman agreed to pick Williams up from the convenience store where they first met, the report said.

The woman, whose real name has not been released, showed up in a dark blue sedan along with two other men, one she called her brother, and the other her brother's friend.

She told him that she needed to drop them before going on their date.

The girl drove for several minutes before the brother told her to turn into a side street, as he wanted to meet someone.

When Williams came out to take a bathroom break, a hard metal object hit him and he fell on the ground.

The attackers then allegedly pointed a gun and demanded for money and clothes.

The men forced him to hand over his prepaid cell phone, his Florida driver's license, 200 dollars in cash and all of the clothes he picked out for his first date, FlaglerLive stated. ...