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Deep Water

Water so deep that I'd call it a river

Storm drain can't drain fast enough.

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Here is the recipe that I’ve been using:

1. 2 eggs or 1/2 cup egg substitute
2. 3/4 cup sugar
3. 1 1/4 cup cream
4. 1 teaspoon vanilla, or 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
5. 1 1/4 cup milk

Directions:

1. Pre-freeze storage containers as well as the spatula or spoons that you may use to transfer the ice cream from the machine into the storage containers.
2. In large bowl, with electric mixer (use whipping attachments), whip eggs for 1 minute
3. Add sugar to eggs, whip mixture for 1 minute
4. Add cream to mixture, whip for 1 1/2 minutes
5. Add vanilla
6. Add milk.  Whip until mixed, but do not over whip.
7. Add mixture to your ice cream machine until cream is frozen enough such that it does move very much.  This typically takes 15-25 minutes.
8. When the ice cream is done, transfer into cold storage containers.  Do not overly scrape the sides of the machine canister (you eat this immediately while freezing the rest)
9. Ice cream can be eaten anytime you want, but for best results, freeze at lease a couple of hours.

Machine recommendations:

Prefered Machine Type

I prefer the types of ice cream making machines pictured to the right.  These have a bowl/canister that is pre-frozen (not in the picture) that spins around in the machine while the dasher stays in place.  This makes it easy to watch the ice cream carefully and add additional ingredients as part of the process.  The amount of ice cream made by the recipe above works well with this size of ice cream maker.  The recipe may work with other maker types, but I’ve never tried it.

Variations:

• Cookies and cream: Attempt to cut 6 frozen oreos into 6 pieces each.  Add the pieces and all the crumblings to the ice cream mixture in the machine about 2 minutes before it is fully frozen.
• Mint cookies and cream: Instead of vanilla, add 1 teaspoon of peppermint extract and some green food coloring.  Add oreos the same way you would for cookies and cream.
• Orange cream: About the same time you add the milk, also add 1/3 cup orange concentrate.  (Buy the frozen stuff that you would use to make orange juice, but melt it down before adding to the cream mixture
• Heath Chip:Add 4-6 oz (1/2 to 3/4 of the bag) of heath baking chips about 3 minutes before the ice cream is done.

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• Mr. Jack – $25.98 – BoardGameRatings.com Best 2-Player Game for 2007, 2007 International Gamers Award Winner
• Carcassonne – $20.99 – German Game of the Year for 2001
  
• Jambo! – $16.99 – BoardGameRatings.com Best 2-Player Game for 2005, German Game of the Year finalist in 2005
• Metropolys – $31.50 -  BoardGameRatings.com Best Family Game for 2008, German Game of the Year finalist in 2008
• Thurn & Taxis – $22.99 – German Game of the Year for 2006
• Stone Age – $31.50 – BoardGameRatings.com Best Strategy Game for 2008, German Game of the Year finalist in 2008, 2008 International Gamers Award Winner
• Lost Cities: Board Game (not card game) – $27.50 – German Game of the Year for 2008
• Set – $12.00
• Ticket to Ride Switzerland (expansion) – $18.50

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Lion House Pie Dough.  – Very forgiving crust for great pie crusts.

Chicken Pot Pie – My favorite meal!

Ginger Cookies – Softer than ginger snaps

Flour Tortilla Surprise – Fast casarole dish that resembles lasagna.

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Feb 11, 2008: A female Wymount resident received a suspicious phone call in her home at 1:30 p.m. The male caller claimed to be from the psychology department and said he could try to help her relax. He got her to turn off the lights and lay down on her bed. The phone call ended when the girl’s cell phone battery died. BYU Police told her she should notify her phone company next time she receives a call so that they can trace it. (Source)

Nov. 7-9, 2007: Nine female students, living in Heritage Halls, reported receiving suspicious calls from a man who claimed that he was a BYU student doing an experiment for a psychology class. The police think this man is from California and is the same man who has been making these calls for the last four years. (Source)

Oct. 23, 2007: A 19-year-old female student, living in Taylor Hall in Helaman Halls, received a suspicious phone call from a man claiming to be a psychology student who asked her to participate in an experiment for his psychology class. She had read the police beat tip of the week in The Daily Universe on October 12, and hung up on him. (http://newnewsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/66075)

Oct. 17, 2007: A female student living in Wyview Park received a phone call from a suspicious man. The suspect claimed to be a psychology student conducting a project, and attempted to put her in a hypnotic trance. She gave him a false name when he asked for her name. When she finally told him she had had enough, he immediately hung up. (http://newnewsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/65969)

October 12, 2007 Tip of the week: Over the last three years, several students, mostly female students, have been receiving calls from a suspicious male individual. He calls at night, asks what they are doing, how they are dressed and if they will participate in an experiment, a study for his psychology class. He asks them to lie down on the floor then asks a series of questions and tells them to relax. An investigator from the police department has talked to a professor on campus, who is an expert in hypnotism. He says it is not possible to hypnotize someone over the phone. Some students have fallen asleep, woken up and weren’t sure what happened but whether they were really hypnotized or not is questionable. (Source)

July 4, 2007: A man was reported making a suspicious phone call to a female in Helaman Halls in which he claimed he was doing a psychology project and then proceeded to hypnotize the female student on the other end of the line. The roommate of the female came home to find her asleep on the floor. The female is reported of reacting strangely when certain words are spoken. Incidents of a similar nature have occurred about two dozen times in the past. There are no suspects, but the incident is still under investigation. (http://newnewsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/64793)

Feb 9, 2006: A female student living in Hinckley Hall, in Helaman Halls, received a phone call from an unidentified male claiming to be conducting a survey for a psychology class Feb. 9. The caller asked the student if she was relaxed and if she was doing homework. The student hung up after the caller asked her to lie down on her bed to get more comfortable. The police suspect the call is connected to numerous similar calls made over the last two years. (Source)

May 19, 2004:Two females living at WyView reported separate accounts of attempted hypnotism on the telephone from a male suspect May 19 at 9 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m., respectively. The victims reported a male-voiced caller representing himself as a psychology major conducting a survey. The victim of the second incident said she became suspicious when the caller said he was going to hypnotize her. Both victims hung-up the phone on the caller.

Never once did he call anyone in Deseret Towers, according to these limited reports.

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To see a platypus in your dream, suggests your tendency to wallow and dwell on your emotions. It may also suggest that your repressed thoughts and unconscious material are slowly coming to the surface and making their presence known. Alternatively, it is indicative of shyness and reservation, especially in social situations.

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Man accused in beating death appears in court

At my first read, I thought it was talking about a man that beat death. I was hoping the article could tell me how to do the same: beat death and live forever. If this man had allegedly beat death, what is he doing in court?

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I really want a bank that just keeps my money safe and accessible. I don’t want you calling me many times selling some soft of subscription package to your many programs. I signed up for the national do-not-call list, which means that I really don’t like being bothered my various offers made by calling me. Just because I bank with you, doesn’t mean that I really want to be bothered by you.

Tonight you called me, hiding the caller identification of the source call. Thats just plain sneaky, and something I wouldn’t expect from a bank that I would like to trust.

If you call me, I will refuse any offer you present. Please stop calling me. I told that last caller not to call me again. If I receive any more phone calls from you that do not directly concern my financial accounts, I will strongly consider moving my funds to a different institution.

July 17, 2008 update:
BOB, in comment 10180, was very nice to describe to me Wells Fargo’s privacy policy. According to his suggestion, I went to their website and found my privacy settings already set to the following:

My Wells Fargo Privacy Settings

So my question now is the following? Were my privacy settings always prohibiting contact? Or were they changed by the Wells Fargo representative who called me last with whom I requested that they no longer call me?

The good news is that I haven’t been called in quite a while. Also, now I know that any calls I may receive in the future are in contradiction to my privacy settings and against Wells Fargo’s privacy policy.

Does anyone know where I can find similar privacy settings on the Discover Card website?

Update July 24 Today I received another phone call which introduced itself as being associated with Wells Fargo. When I asked the guy if he was aware that I had specified in my Wells Fargo privacy settings that I wish not to be contacted, he asked me what privacy settings I was talking about, and then he suggested that my system was incorrect.

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