AmerTac Nightlights Recalled Over Fire Risk
American Tack & Hardware Co. Inc. (AmerTac) recalled its Forever-Glo Cylinder Nite Lites because they can overheat and cause a fire, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.AmerTac has gotten nine reports of the lights smoking, burning, melting or charring. No one has been hurt. The electrical circuit can short, risking fire, the CPSC said.
Four Easy Ways to Share Holiday Wishlists
If you're sick of trying to keep track of your holiday wishlist, or your kid's holiday wishlists, we have a list of ways that make it easy to create and share what you want with friends and family. With these online tools, holiday shopping will be done in a click.All you need to do is find the items you want, add them to the list you choose and then share them over email or Facebook and you're done. Many of the lists also help you (or the gift giver) find the cheapest place to buy the gift too.
Bing Shopping List: Bing just rolled out a new tool in the Bing Shopping section which allows you to add items to a list and then share that list with your Facebook friends. This tool can add any item from within Bing Shopping, and will show the friends you send it to the best price when they go to shopping. This feature just launched, if you don't see it try back after December 3 when it should be available to all.
Red Cross Cabinet Locks Recalled Because They Don't Work
The First Years American Red Cross brand cabinet locks, intended to keep small children from getting into cabinets containing hazards, are being recalled because they have a propensity for breaking, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.When the latches break, children can get into the cabinets that were supposed to be secured. Learning Curve Brands, which operates as The First Years, told the CPSC that it has received seven reports of the latches breaking. Complaints about product failures typically represent a small fraction of the actual number of incidents.
Christmas Scams Now Available on Craigslist
Trying to raise holiday funds by selling used electronics on Craigslist? You might be opening yourself to scam artists who want to Grinch your Christmas."While the rest of us are pulling the decorations out of the attic, scammers are blowing the dust off of their tried and true holiday scams," Better Business Bureau spokeswoman Paula Fleming said in a statement. "We can all help make these holiday scams a ghost of Christmas' past by not falling for them anymore."
Six Tips to Increase Your Odds of Becoming a Millionaire
Given that you stand a 1-in-175,711,536 chance of winning the Mega Millions lottery, you might try becoming a millionaire with a more practical strategy. Your odds aren't so bad as it is. One-in-106 Americans is a millionaire, according to a recent article in Investopedia. And 31% of the world's "high net worth individuals" with a million bucks in assets beyond their home live on this continent.So how do you increase your odds of joining the prosperous without waiting for your numbers to come up? Financial adviser Mitch Slater, a senior vice president - investments at UBS Financial Services in Westfield, N.J., offers six tips to reach seven-digit status. The advice isn't sexy -- but are you gonna care when you're counting your first million?
America, Land of the Free...lance
Benefits shmenefits. Whether 800,000 lose their unemployment checks now or later, it's time we admitted that we're in a Gig-conomy, and will be for at least a generation.I'll say it again -- mostly because I have another Gig-conomy link. By way of example, a part-time marketing job at action apparel company Grenade Gloves advertised as being perfect for a mom generated 52 responses in one day. "The candidates ranged from overqualified managers to people who could barely spell," says Grenade controller Floyd Sklaver. "It's heartbreaking."
CALM Bill Will, at Long Last, Stop Loud Commercials
Sudden loud noises are irritating because they stimulate our fight-or-flight instinct, so it's no wonder that the FCC fields thousands of complaints each year about commercials that are much louder than the television shows in which they appear. Now, at long last, it seems that our federal government is poised to pass a law to stop loud commercials.According to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) the House is about ready to vote on the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) bill. This bill will call upon the FCC to adopt new industry sound regulations in 2011 and enforce them beginning in 2012.
How Many Jobs Do We Need for the Recession to Go Away?
About 151,000 jobs were created in October, and 95,000 the month before. If you got one of them, good for you. And if you didn't, well, you're in good company. How many jobs will it take for the recession to go away? According to the Brookings Institution, a whole lot more than those two numbers. Try these stats on for size:If there were 208,000 jobs created a month (that's the average monthly rate for the best year of job creation this decade, according to Brookings), it would take 11.5 years to reach the pre-recession employment levels. If 321,000 jobs were created each month (the average monthly rate for the best year of job creation in the 1990s), it would still take almost five years.
These aren't even necessarily good jobs. These are any jobs -- flipping burgers, bagging groceries, greeting Walmart shoppers.
N.J. Used Car Dealer Will Refund Consumers Caught in 'Bait and Switch'
To settle a lawsuit alleging it used "bait and switch" tactics to sell used cars, a New Jersey dealership will refund consumers and pay the state up to a total of $144,000, according to the attorney general's office.Global Auto Inc, which also did business as Auto Collection Group, admitted no liability or wrongdoing in agreeing to the settlement. The state claimed in its lawsuit filed last year the dealership allegedly misrepresented car prices, required consumers to sign blank sales documents, and failed to disclose to the consumers any previous damage to cars, among other allegations.
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