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Maytag Refrigerator Recall

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Maytag Refrigerator Recall: Do to potential fire hazard!

Maytag announced a voluntary recall with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission of 1.8 million refrigerators due to an electrical problem that could create a fire hazard. The products were manufactured in the United States and sold in the both the United States and Canada between 2001 and 2004 with prices ranging from $350 to $1600 through department, appliance and homebuilder stores.

The recall includes certain models of Maytag, Jenn-Air, Amana, Admiral, Magic Chef, Performa by Maytag, and Crosley brand black, bisque, white, or stainless steel side by side and top freezer refrigerators. Refrigerators with freezers on the bottom are not part of this recall.

The recall involves a defect in an electrical relay bought from a supplier. Maytag said an electrical failure in a relay component that turns on the refrigerator’s compressor can overheat and pose a serious fire hazard.

Maytag said two incidents have been reported in Canada with no one hurt in either case. In the United States there have been 41 reports of trouble, include 16 incidents of property damage ranging from smoke damage to major kitchen damage.

These Refrigerator’s have model and serial numbers printed on a label located on the top middle or left upper side of the refrigerator liner. Owners should contact Maytag to determine if their refrigerator is included in the recall and to schedule a free in home repair. Owners should not return the refrigerator to the retailer where it was purchased.

For more information contact Maytag toll free at (866) 533-9817 anytime or visit Maytag’s web site at www.repair.maytag.com

Disney Dream Weddings

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Your wedding day should be the happiest day of your life. Why not get married in the happiest place on earth, The Magic Kingdom. With a Disney Dream Wedding, you can have a unique, romantic, fairy tale wedding and live happily ever after. It is a great chance to make your wedding day into a living fairy tale.

You can get married in front of Cinderella's castle. As part of your Disney Dream Wedding, the bride can arrive in Cinderella's glass coach. You can invite Mickey and Minnie to the reception to greet guests! You can also have a wedding at Disney that is not based around any specific character. For couples who like the idea of their wedding being a celebration of another culture, choose an Epcot wedding. A great idea for an evening wedding is to have your ceremony under the stars with a spectacular display of fireworks.

Planning a Disney Dream Wedding is a stress-free experience thanks to your very own fairy godmother. Your wedding specialist, will help you plan all aspects of your wedding including the ceremony, entertainment, cuisine, floral arrangements, audiovisual and themed accommodations.

On your wedding day, you will experience a ceremony that you will remember forever and a reception unlike no other. Your reception will be complete with elegant resort table settings, a head table, exquisite linens and beautiful place cards. You can choose from a wide variety of fantastic wedding cakes.

Most guests will want to plan to spend some extra time at Disney visiting the parks. Not only do your guests get to come and help you celebrate your marriage, but they can also plan a vacation around it. Disney offers special discounts on passes to wedding guests. There are also great discounts for honeymoon packages at all Disney Resorts.

Many couples today are opting for wedding cruises. For those couples that want to tie the knot with the added element of romance.

A popular wedding cruise is the Disney Cruise Line weddings. The ceremony can be held in any of the ships lounges or on board on one of the special sun decks. After the wedding ceremony, the reception provides the guests with an ample supply of wedding cake and champagne.

The Disney wedding cruise also provides another option that will allow you to get married at Castaway Cay, one of Disney's private Islands in the Bahamas. The reception would still be held back on the ship.

When choosing your wedding location, keep in mind the honeymoon aspect as well. You will enjoy all aspects of your wedding and honeymoon. Disney Dream Weddings and Cruses make it possible to have the wedding and honeymoon of your dreams.

Daylight Saving Time

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It’s Daylight Saving Time again.

Daylight Saving Time, DST for short, is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in the fall. On March 8, 2009 at 02:00 AM local time move your clock forward to 03:00 AM. This applies to The United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, Cuba, and France.

Contrary to popular belief Daylight Saving Time was not invented by Benjamin Franklin. Although he anonymously published a satire suggesting that People could economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. Actually an English architect and outdoorsman, William Willett proposed the idea of DST in 1907. This would allow him more time to play golf late in the day, during the summer months. Although Daylight saving(s) time is a common variant, William Willett's original proposal used the term daylight saving time.

During World War I Germany and its allies were the first to implement Daylight Saving Time to save fuel. Britain, the rest of Europe, Russia and the United States quickly followed. The United States adopted DST in 1918.

Adding an hour of sunlight at the end of the day is primarily a "lifestyle benefit," but it's mainly the promise of energy savings that got this bill passed in 2005. The theory behind the fuel savings is that most people sleep through sunrise and businesses are closed, also most people are up at sunset and businesses are open. So if you can move the daylight to the evening, you have the potential to save a lot of energy. Similarly, while bad guys are usually asleep in the early morning, dusk brings about prime time for crime. The extra light late in the day decreases the crime rate. Later light also reduces car crashes, which tend to increase after dark.

Clock shifts are usually scheduled near a weekend midnight to lessen disruption to weekday schedules. The US altered the dates for DST in 2007, often referred to as the “Y2k7” problem. Starting in 2007, most of the United States and Canada observe DST from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, almost two-thirds of the year. Previously, from 1987 through 2006, the start and end dates were the first Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October.

A common practice while adjusting your clocks is to change the batteries in your home smoke detectors.

Process at Home

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There is an online business opportunity to process rebate checks from a company called "Process at Home." The program says that you can make lots of money processing rebates from the comfort of your own home.

As more and more workers find themselves unemployed, people will do just about anything to find work. Often desperate times call for desperate measures. But you need to think before you act.

There are many dead giveaways that companies use when they don’t want you to know what they are selling. They include evasive language, bragging about how much money you are going to make, and an emphasis on buying quickly without thinking first.

The way the Process at Home program works is that you sign up to be an affiliate for companies selling digital products online. An affiliate marketer is someone who promotes a product and if they refer a sale they get a commission, usually between 15-50% of the total price.

In this case you are instructed to advertise, market and sale these products but at the same time offering a rebate on the product themselves. Then if you get a sale you process the rebate simply by giving a portion of your commission back to the customer.

This method might work if you are an experienced internet marketer and have sold products online. However this is not a rebate processing job, it is only a marketing strategy.

This is not an outright scam but it is misleading to the point where some people have started calling it a scam. They know what they are doing is misleading and untruthful, but they continue to sell it, says the Better Business Bureau. The BBB has received hundreds of complaints about "Process at Home" and graded the company an "F".

They are really designed to take money in and not give it back. Employers pay you, not the other way around. If an employer is asking for money from you, it's probably a scam.

American Idol Wild Card Winners

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The American Idol Wild Card round was tonight. Half the eight candidates in the Wild Card round had a chance to advance. The American Idol Wild Card results are in, and four winners are: Megan Corkrey, Anoop Desai, Matt Giraud, and Jasmine Murray. It's going to be a Top 13, instead of a Top 12.

The four will join those who were already selected due to viewer votes: Alexis Grace, Allison Iraheta, Adam Lambert, Danny Gokey, Jorge Nunez, Kris Allen, Lil Rounds, Michael Sarver and Scott MacIntyre.

Megan Corkrey, won over the judges with a version of KT Tunstall's "Black Horse & Cherry Tree." Paula said half heartedly "I enjoyed watching you", Kara gave her a huge plug to go through, while Simon and Randy liked her despite her vocal weaknesses.

Jasmine Murray, succeeded by singing Christina Aguilera's "Reflection." The judges said she was better than last time, Paula said she was "determined," and Simon finally saying she was in the running.

With just one slot left, Matt Giraud and Anoop Desai, were both called up; and after Matt was told he was advancing, Anoop was called back and informed they were increasing the finalists' field to 13, making room for him.

Matt Giraud, sang the Smokey Robinson song (attributed on the show to the Jackson 5) "Who's Loving You". All the judges thought he was a thousand times better though Simon did not like his Justin Timberlake look.

Anoop Desai repeated an earlier performance, of Bobby Brown's "My Perogative,". The audience loved him and Simon said he's not much of a singer but people like him, The Judges weigh personality as well as singing ability and said his winning charm would get him through. At its conclusion he recognized his University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, which was marking the one year anniversary of the shooting death of student body president Eve Carson.

Fox announced next week on March 11th Kanye West and Kelly Clarkson will perform at the live results show. West will sing "Heartless" and Clarkson will perform "My Life Would Suck Without Out".

The American Idol winner receives a million dollar record deal with a major label, and is managed by American Idol-related management. Other finalists have also been signed by the show's management company and received record deals with its major label partner.

You can read about the history of American Idol at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idol