Recall of Miniature Musical Bells Christmas Trees
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Miniature Musical Bells Christmas Trees
Units: About 3,700
Manufacturer: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store(r) of Lebanon, Tenn.
Hazard: The tree could overheat and melt, posing a fire hazard.
Incidents/Injuries: Two overheating incidents resulted in trees melting. No injuries or property damage have been reported.
Description: These battery-operated Miniature Musical Bells Christmas Trees have the item number 233010. The tree is about 18-inches high and 8-inches wide with three tiers of bells and a lighted star at the top. Each tree has “Made in China” embossed on the bottom. The trees use eight “AA” 1.5-volt batteries.
Manufactured in: China
Sold at: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store(r) locations nationwide from August 2005 through September 2005 for $19.99.
Remedy: Consumers should stop using these trees immediately and contact Cracker Barrel Old Country Store(r) for instructions on receiving a full refund.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, call Cracker Barrel Old Country Store at (888) 296-2721 between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit their Web site at www.crackerbarrel.com
To view this recall online, please visit our website at: cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml06/06013.html
Is Your Computer Slow Lately?
Here are a few questions for you:
*Is Your System not as fast as it used to be?
*Does your PC keep crashing?
*System not as stable as you would like?
*Receiving error messages and don’t know why?
Most of the above can be easily fixed without having to pay a technician. It may be time for a Computer Clean Up. The following instructions below will give you step by step instructions on how to ensure your PC continues to operate at its fullest potential. These instructions are relevant for machines running Windows XP and using Internet Explorer.
1. To begin, open up Internet Explorer, that’s the blue lower case letter “e”, generally shown in the lower left corner of your screen. Next click on the word Tools up at the top of your screen. Once open, click Internet Options. In the middle of that box you’ll see a section called Temporary Internet Files. Click the Delete Files button. Click the box Delete offline content too, then OK. Once that is done, click the Delete Cookies button within the Temporary Internet Files section. Click OK there too.
2. Next click the Settings button. Check for newer versions of stored pages should be clicked to Automatically if it isn’t already. Change the Amount of Disk Space to use to 8MB. Click OK twice.
3. Next go to the Start button in the very lower left corner of your screen. Click My Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Check Disk Clean up. Use offline content or anything else it asks. It will take a few moments while it is checking how much space it can clean up. When you get the new pop-up window, make sure there are checks in every box. Click OK
4. After running Disk Clean up, go to Ad-Aware, update and run the program. After running Ad-Aware, reboot your computer.
5. If your computer is still slow, your registry may have errors. You can scan your colmputer for free at the Registry Fix website.
You should perform the above maintenance about once a week. Then on an as-needed basis, run Disk Defrag, which you can find in Start, My Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defrag.
By following the above simple steps your computer should continue to run at optimum performance!
If I Should Die - From Ben King’s Verse
A man whose word is as good as his bond is a man the world admires. It is related of Fox that a tradesman whom he long had owed money found him one day counting gold and asked for payment.
Fox replied: “No; I owe this money to Sheridan. It is a debt of honor. If an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show.” The tradesman tore his note to pieces: “I change my debt into a debt of honor.” Fox thanked him and handed over the money, saying that Sheridan’s debt was not of so long standing and that Sheridan must wait. But most of us know men who are less scrupulous than Fox.
If I should die to-night
And you should come to my cold corpse and say,
Weeping and heartsick o’er my lifeless clay-
If I should die to-night,
And you should come in deepest grief and woe-
And say: “Here’s that ten dollars that I owe,”
I might arise in my large white cravat
And say, “What’s that?”
If I should die to-night
And you should come to my cold corpse and kneel,
Clasping my bier to show the grief you feel,
I say, if I should die to-night
And you should come to me, and there and then
Just even hint ’bout payin’ me that ten,
I might arise the while,
But I’d drop dead again.
By Ben King
