| Trek Recalls Girls Bicycles
Importer: Trek Bicycle Corp., of Waterloo, Wis. Hazard: The bicycle's frame can break during use, causing the rider to lose control and suffer injuries. Incidents/Injuries: Trek has received 13 reports of frames breaking, including four minor injuries. Description: This recall involves Trek girls' bicycles model MT220 and model years 2005 (light metallic blue), 2006 (metallic silver and metallic purple or pink and pearl white), and 2007 (pink and white pearl or metallic purple). The model name is printed on the frame of the bicycle. Model year 2008 bicycles re not included in this recall. Sold at: Authorized Trek dealers nationwide from April 2004 through June 2007 for about $300. Manufactured in: China and Taiwan Remedy: Consumers should take the recalled bicycle away from children immediately and return it to a Trek dealer for a free replacement MT220 girl's bicycle or a $100 discount on a different size Trek bicycle.
Trek Recalls 49,000 Girls Bikes
The recalled product is the Trek MT220 girls bicycles model years 2005, 2006 and 2007. The model name is printed on the frame of the bicycle. Model year 2008 bicycles are not included in the recall. The bikes, manufactured in China and Taiwan, were sold for about $300 at authorized Trek dealers nationwide from April 2004 through June 2007, CBS station WFOR-TV in Miami reports. Consumers can return the bike to a Trek dealer for a free replacement MT220 girls bicycle or a $100 discount on a different size Trek bicycle. For more information, contact Trek at (800) 373-4594. For additional information, consumers can contact Trek at (800) 373-4594 between 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, and between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.ET Saturday, or visit the Trek BikesWeb site. (© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc.
University takes tough stand on student drinking
That program is on the record and has been provided to surrounding mayors, police chiefs, local state legislators, county Prosecutor Luis Valentin and to the Press. We seek ways to improve that program by interacting with and surveying best practices at other colleges. It must be, and is, an evolving and improving program. Despite best efforts, sometimes citizens, even student citizens, make mistakes. And sometimes they get caught. The newspapers are replete with stories of all kinds of people who have strayed beyond the boundaries of the law. When that happens at Monmouth, the citizen student "faces the music" within the municipal legal system. Unlike others, however, when a police report finds its way to the university, the citizen student faces a second round of judicial proceedings governed by the student code of conduct.
Gadgets for cars star at convention
Other companies are displaying steering wheels with imbedded LCD displays that give navigation information while allowing the driver to keep one eye on the road and license-plate cameras that display video on the rear-view mirror. To emphasize the automobile's new role as an electronics center, General Motors Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner is scheduled to give a keynote speech today. The role traditionally is reserved for the Samsungs, Microsofts and Sonys of the world. .
Manhattan Transfers
Growing Pains: Adapting After a Merger
This product will be 10 times bigger and more successful than it would be if we stayed alone," Mr. Heppelmann recalls thinking. To make it work, Mr. Heppelmann had to become a cheerleader. "I needed the executive team at the acquiring company to feel like they just acquired the hottest thing ever," he says. He also met with Parametric's biggest customers to sell them on his product. It worked. In the first six months it was owned by Parametric, Windchill recorded $11 million in revenue; last year, it generated about $340 million. Nearly all of Windchill's 20 employees have stuck with Parametric. And Mr. Heppelmann has gotten a shot at a bigger management role. He's now executive vice president and chief product officer for Parametric, which has annual revenue of about $1 billion.
Pressure mounts on Speaker amid complaints over his expenses
Martin, who became speaker of the Commons in 2000 after the retirement of the popular Betty Boothroyd, found himself under pressure after disclosures over the weekend. These included: · The resignation of his spokesman, the veteran Whitehall communications chief Mike Granatt, after he admitted that he had unwittingly misled the Mail on Sunday over £4,000 taxi expenses incurred by the speaker's wife, Mary. Granatt blamed unnamed officials, but not the speaker, for falsely informing him that the expenses were legitimate because Martin's wife had been accompanied by an official on shopping trips to buy food for receptions. It turned out that she had been accompanied by her housekeeper. · Claims in two Sunday newspapers that Martin claimed £17,166 last year towards the cost of his Glasgow constituency home, on which he no longer pays a mortgage.
Proposed parking rate changes
The Pensacola Downtown Improvement Board will vote today on the following proposed changes to off-street downtown parking rates. It will require a supermajority (at least four of the five board members) voting in favor to pass. If approved:
n The daily hourly rate at the city's Jefferson Street parking garage will remain at 50 cents, but the daily maximum rate would be reduced from $7.50 to $4. After-hours parking -- from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. -- which now is free, would rise to a $2 flat rate, except for Sundays, which would remain free. This would help fund hiring off-duty Pensacola police officers on bicycles to patrol the garage from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. Brighter lighting would also be installed.
n Now, only one-year parking contracts can be arranged at the Jefferson Street garage.
UPDATE: Britney Spears faces questions in custody battle
This should be some hardcore legal action that makes Law & Order look like your sister's bike. Pink and fruity but you'll still ride it to work. Anyway, I'm hoping to see Kevin Federline's attorneys ask Britney Spears the tough question: When will she show her vagina again? Not that I want to see it or anything. I just happen to have a tarp I'd like to throw over it then possibly hold in place with a staple gun. I guess you can say I'm trying to live up to this WWJD bracelet I stole from a stripper. UPDATE: Britney Spears is not attending the court hearing today citing a medical condition. Kevin's lawyers are pissed, according to TMZ. I, on the other hand, think it's cute they thought Britney would show up without being told there'd be a petting zoo. .
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