Michael: Here is my new recipe for Cheese Cake. Like a Creamy NY. You can top it with any fruit Sauce mix. - - - - - - - - - - - - Lous - Creamy Italian Cheese Cake Ingredients: 15 Oz. Container of Sargentos Ricotta Cheese (Velvety Smooth ) 8 Oz. Philadelphia Cream Cheese ( room temperature ) 6 X large eggs ( Separated ) 1 Cup of Vanilla Ice Cream, Softened. 1/2 cup of Milk 1/2 cup of Orange juice 1 teaspoon of Lemon Juice 1 teaspoon of Vanilla 4 tablespoons of Softened Butter 1 cup of Sugar + 3 tablespoons 1 heaping teaspoon of Orange Zest 4 tablespoons of AP flour 1 tablespoon of Cornstarch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Beat egg whites, with 3 Tablespoons of sugar, until stiff peaks. Put aside until the batter is mixed. Place all the other ingredients , ( except the flour and cornstarch ) In a bowl large enough to hold beaten egg whites. Beat until smooth ( about 3 minutes ) Add the flour. Beat another minute. Add the Cornstarch beat 1 minute. Fold in the Beaten Egg Whites Pour into a 9 1/2 inch Spring Form Pan lined with a Graham Cracker Crust. Wrap the bottom of the pan and up the sides about 1 inch, with Aluminum Foil Bake on an upper oven shelf of a 350 Degree oven for about 1 hour, Or until the top is a Golden Tan. Leave it in the oven until it cools down. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Graham Cracker Crust: Put 14 Crackers in a one Quart Zip lock bag and crumble with a rolling pin, Place in a bowl. Add 3 tablespoons of Sugar and 5 Tblspns of melted Butter. Mix and place in the Bottom of the Spring Form and up the sides about 1 ¼ Inches Bake at 350 for about 15 to 20 minutes until firm. Springform Pan tip: Flip the bottom over so the recess in facing down. You will be able to get the Cake out easier.

Cynic >This one has me confused though: "...my cell phone provider gouged me for 4 consecutive months of payments even though I was paying cash at their store." If you have auto-pay, why are you paying cash at the store? Something's missing or I'm not following something. I was paying my bill in cash at their store. I had already called the (cell phone provider) ahead of time and told them I would be doing this. Each month my bill would arrive, each month it kept reflecting an overpayment. I would call them and they said it would be corrected. This happened FOUR months in a row. I contacted the credit card company and told them to cancel the card. Same thing happened with them. They would say it would be canceled. The following month I would get a bill for the same incorrect amount. I finally spoke to someone at the CC co. who said until the cell phone provider notified them, I would continue to be responsible for the charges whether they were right or wrong. They never said ANYTHING about having to have a cancellation number. BOTH the cell phone provider and CC company neglected to inform me of this necessary requirement. I wonder why? Well the reason why, is because THEY were MAKING MONEY and didn't want it to stop. These companies do not make it easy. They don't fully inform you when you sign up, and they don't tell you what you really need to do in order to cancel this type of payment. I finally contacted a consumer newspaper reporter. She said she doesn't care for automatic payments for the same reason and gets many calls regarding this. She contacted the cell phone provider's publicity relations department. That worked. They must have called my CC company because everything was taken care of within the month and I didn't receive any more credit card bills. My cell phone bills are what they are supposed to be. I still pay in cash. I no longer have the credit card. They send me solicitations all the time. Thanks, but no thanks. Contacting the AG's office is a good idea. dadoes >dreamgarden probably thought if he/she paid cash, the autopay wouldn't trigger. That's not necessarily the case. I wonder what IS the case? Who at EITHER company, was supposed to tell me I needed a cancellation number in order to stop the autopay? Out of a total of seven calls, 4 to the cell phone provider and 3 to the CC company, not ONE person mentioned this. Don't they teach customer service reps this information? I no longer wanted auto-pay and told them this. I said I would be paying in cash from now on and to cancel auto-pay. I don't understand how I could have been any clearer. >I recall a couple cases where I work of customers having autopay set up through CheckFree. One fellow died, his wife had NO CLUE about any of their finances and the auto-pay kept coming, for MONTHS. She no longer wanted the service, but she didn't contact us or was even aware the service existed, so how are we to know that? "How are we to know that?". How did you find out that her husband died? How do you know the wife no longer wanted the service if she was never contacted? Was she on the account too? Doesn't your company have some policy regarding taking money from a deceased person's account? > The other case, the fellow changed his account services, but didn't change the monthly autopay amount. We contacted him, he still didn't change the amount. Built up a large credit that had to be refunded when he eventually closed the service. When the fellow called to change his account services, was he asked if the present autopay amount was ok? If he was changing his account services, this would seem to be a logical question to ask a customer. Was he notified by telephone or in writing? This is why I like to receive paper billing. Sometimes when a credit card company calls (and leaves a message), they don't always state the nature of their business. When I have called back, they try to sell me some service or item I'm not interested in. Now I don't return calls unless they leave a message telling me something is wrong, or needs to be corrected. I had them put this in my file. I don't want to be bothered with solicitations or irrelevant matters that aren't directly related to some kind of problem with my account. In my opinion the above examples are just more reason to pay as you go and not allow company's to have recurring access to your bank account.

I answered the phone because I had been left a detailed message about a possible DEA investigation that might involve me. Normally, I don't answer if I don't recognize the number, but I was a little concerned about this. The caller was very threatening and abusive from the beginning. I never ordered any medicine online, except through my prescription plan and medicine for my dog for which I had a prescription. He knew my name and address. Even though I was totally innocent, I felt a little scared, and had I been someone a little more naive, I, too, might have been tempted to pay a fine just to get them off my back. He got no information from me, although he pressed for a lot...where do you work, you know you're going to lose your job,etc. Heinous people. I reported into the DEA hotline.

We put AirTags on the kiddies when we went skiing. I now have them all stored at my house. Everytime I leave home, I get 3 notifications that I have left something behind. This is now my reminder to go disconnect them until I need them again! @bbstx are they Apple airtags? If so, you can tell them where home is so they know not to alert you when you leave. We keep ours in our luggage and we don't get alerted everytime we leave the house. We do get alerted everytime we leave our hotel room when on vacation which just makes us laugh each time.