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Giulia Foscari
Elena Longhin
Olukoyejo Olanrewaju Akinkugbe, Alexander Christian Foss Ball, Alix Marie Biehler, Ting Yi Chan, Sarah Ashley Devries, Gian Andrea Diana, Petro El Hage, Karim Fouad Hefny. Tsz Chun Lam, Kevin See-Yat Leung, Ioana Man, Thao Phuong Nguyen, Jocelyn Patricia Tang
"I wanted to do a specific kind of architecture and I saw that without further argument I would be unable to ever do that if I did not, with words, first create and describe the possibility of it, and then, more indirectly, create the need for it" [Rem Koolhaas on Delirious New York]
Intermediate 15 challenged students of 2nd and 3rd year to embrace a thesis-studio approach in which building a new critical understanding of pre-existing and uncontested urban environments – thus unveiling the potential to generate space for new projects and inform urban policies - is be seen as a form of design.
As site of investigation, in our first year, we chose Venice – a city that apparently defies the possibility of a redefinition or any fundamental discovery. Site of apparent stability and maximum disequilibrium, and ultimate catalyst of global phenomena, Venice is torn by almost irreconcilable contemporary contradictions: a ratio of daily tourists and local populations that calls for the rethinking of the notion of citizenship, a schizophrenic regime of absolute preservation and careless neglect, the erosive power of the ship industry in a highly delicate ecology of the lagoon, etc.
To avoid falling into any cliché and to direct the focus of the research onto unbeaten terrains, students were encouraged to look at the city through the lens of one man – widely remained unknowns as an act of delenda memoria for his association with fascism – who almost singlehandedly launched Venice into modernity between the two WW. Having promoted the industrial port of Marghera, founded the Film Festival and the Casino, presided the Biennale and the CIGA, the controversial capitalist visionary Giuseppe Volpi left as legacy the modern Venice we experience today.
Euphoric by the sudden appearance of Volpi's censored archives, inspired by conversations and specialized seminars by local experts, surprised by unique visits to abandoned modernist projects and major infrastructure building sites, and overwhelmed by the effort of reconciling the rawness of the Venetian site visited with the preconceived image of historic city, during the trip to Venice, each student developed a personal obsession and took ownership of a specific research subject.


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Sonia Rolland
Place of Birth: Kigali, Rwanda
Date of Birth: February 11, 1981
*French (father)
*Tutsi Rwandan (mother)
Sonia Rolland is a French actress. She was Miss France in the year 2000. She also competed in the Miss Universe competition. She was the first African-born winner of the Miss France pageant.
Sonia was born in Kigali, Rwanda, to a Tutsi Rwandan mother and a French father. Her family fled the country due to safety concerns with the Rwandan Genocide instigating, especially since her mother is Tutsi.
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The Science Behind Step One Foods.
Ever wonder why Step One Foods are so good for you?
First and foremost, these are foods. But they're not fortified like so many foods you'll find on the grocery shelf. These are real foods, made exclusively with food ingredients that have a health promoting effect.
Second, they are scientifically formulated to address cardiovascular disease and to measurably impact that condition – just like you'd expect from medications.
Step One Foods are multifaceted in their effects because chronic disease is multifaceted. For heart disease, it's not just about achieving a certain cholesterol number. It's also about reducing inflammation and improving blood vessel function, and actually impacting risk.
That's why you can't just add some fiber to something and call it a day. Because if you just add fiber to your diet, you're still leaving a lot of heart disease unaddressed.
Third, Step One Foods contain exceptionally high levels of essential nutrients that are all derived from whole real food ingredients. Because the data is clear that whole, real foods improve health – supplements and fortifications don't.
If you have or are trying to prevent heart disease, what's really impactful is high intakes of fiber, omega 3 fatty acids, plant sterols and antioxidants.
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- Regularly taking in 10 additional grams of whole food fiber gets you an amazing health benefit, a 24% reduction in death from heart disease.
- Omega 3 fatty acids improve vascular reactivity and help prevent blood from clotting, a really useful thing if you want to prevent heart attacks.
- 2 grams of plant sterols consumed in two separate servings per day can reduce LDL (bad) cholesterol by 15%.
- Antioxidants can help make any circulating cholesterol less toxic to the blood vessel lining. Pretty important if you want to avoid building up blockages.
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Apple's next-gen iPad to be called the iPad HD
Gotta give props where props are do. The Verge predicted back in July that Apple's next-gen iPad would be dubbed the iPad HD, and now it appears that they were right on the money.
Venture Beat reports:
Apple's next-generation iPad will be called the iPad HD, not the iPad 3, a reliable source tells VentureBeat. Additionally, we're hearing that Apple is now buying 7.1-inch screen components in preparation for a smaller iPad release later this year.
Though Steve Jobs previously said that tablets with 7-inch screens would be dead on arrival, Apple isn't shy about adjusting course midstream as the market dynamics change. That said, we've seen an increasing number of reports pointing to a smaller form factor iPad as of late. It's far too speculative to state either way if Apple is going to come to market with such a device as the company is known to test out prototypes that never see the light of day – i.e the tapered iPhone 5 design that was all the rage this past Summer – but with the success of the Kindle Fire, you better believe that Apple has no intention of leaving any tablet demographic untapped.
It's entirely possible that Apple will soon rollout a variety of different iPad models, much in the way that it expanded its iPod lineup to solidify its grasp on the MP3 player market.
Funny, the MP3 player market used to be the market. Now, it's nothing more than after thought.
In any event, Apple's plans in the tablet space seem to be shaping up, especially in light of reports that a cheaper 8GB iPad 2 model will also be released alongside the iPad 3.. errr, we mean the iPad HD. If Apple tosses a 7-inch iPad into the mix as well, competitors, and especially Android tablets, will seemingly have no chance at all.


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Author: Angela Morrison
Publisher: Razorbill
Release Date: March 4, 2010Received From: ATWT
THE TRANSFORMATION Beth has always been "The Beast"—that's what everyone at school calls her because of her awkward height, facial scars, and thick glasses. Beth's only friend is geeky, golden-haired Scott. That is, until she's selected to be her choir's soprano soloist, and receives the makeover that will change her life forever.
When Beth's choir travels to Switzerland, she meets Derek: pale, brooding, totally dreamy. Derek's untethered passion—for music, and for Beth—leaves her breathless. Because in Derek's eyes? She's not The Beast, she's The Beauty.
When Beth comes home, Scott, her best friend in the world, makes a confession that leaves her completely torn. Should she stand by sweet, steady Scott or follow the dangerous, intense new feelings she has for Derek?
The closer Beth gets to Derek, the further away he seems. Then Beth discovers that Derek's been hiding a dark secret from her …one that could shatter everything.
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Besides that I really wanted to read this book because I thought it was a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, which I absolutely love! Which it kind of was, but it was so much more! It was a story of tragedy, confidence, love, and finding yourself.
The characters were amazing, I fell in love with every single one of the main characters! I wanted Scott to be my best friend, and Derek to be my boyfriend. I think the feelings that Beth had at the beginning of the book are very common, especially for Teens. I really appreciated this story and I hope it will encourage all kinds of people!
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Fidalgo Trail Riders is a new, local chapter of the International Mountain Bike Association. We have the ability to tap into the resources of an international network of advocates. We have organized in order to partner with the City of Anacortes to create a Bicycle Skills Park on Fidalgo Island. Our goal is for a multi-generational park that offers progression for all levels of riders. We expect it to become a place where families ride together, riders progress, and the community gathers. At the same time, we want to work with the city and other user groups to preserve the great riding experiences we already have on Fidalgo Island.
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Rid A Pest Inc., an extermination company, was founded in 1972 in Wilson, NC by Clyde "Les" Smith. In 2013 his sons, Jamie Smith and Lee Smith took over as President and Vice President, respectively. Rid A Pest has been locally-owned and operated since our founding more than four decades ago, which means we understand the unique pest problems facing our clients in Eastern North Carolina and beyond.
As a third-generation company of entomologists, Rid A Pest has extensive knowledge of the insects that plague our residential and commercial pest control clients in Wilson, Greenville, Morehead City, New Bern, Raleigh, and all surrounding areas. Not only can we identify your pest problem — we also recognize how these pests work on every level, from breeding habits, to lifespan, to preferred habitats and everything in between.
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One of the more 'out there' symbolic foods for Rosh Hashanah has to be the head of a fish. Placed on the festive table (although rarely eaten!) it symbolises our desire to be "the head and not the tail" – leaders rather than followers, or maybe thoughtful and considered rather than blindly thrashing about.
In previous years, we've bought (kosher) Haribo clown fish and snipped the tails off with scissors. It's a fun treat for everyone, and the one time a year that Kipper gets to eat Haribo! I'm sure she will grow up associating jelly sweets with the High Holidays…
This year, I decided to up our game. Our fish heads are still a sweet treat, but it's a homemade one, and one that not only lends itself to teatime snacking, but would also make a fun Rosh Hashanah gift (to a friend with a suitable sense of humour!). Enter, the "head of a fish" shortbread cookie!
Made from the most basic 3 ingredient shortbread (OK, 4 if you count the vanilla) these cookies are crisp, flaky, buttery and delicious. The shape is simply a heart, turned sideways – neat, eh? I used a fluted round cutter and the wide end of a piping tip to impress patterns on the cookies before baking, then dusted with edible metallic lustre to highlight their scales after baking. A dab of chocolate for the eyes and the fishes were ready to go!
I'm sure Kipper and her friends are going to love these on Rosh Hashanah!
Makes 12-14 cookies.
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"Head of a Fish" shortbread cookies
- 100 g butter or margarine (scant 1/2 cup)
- 50 g light muscovado sugar (1/4 cup)
- 4-5 drops vanilla extract
- 150 g plain flour (1 cup)
- Melted chocolate and edible metallic lustre dust to decorate (optional)
- Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla.
- Add the flour and continue to beat well. The mixture will start to clump together into crumbs - at this stage, use your hands to press it into a ball of dough. Wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 170C. Line a baking sheet with greaseproof paper.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and unwrap it. Roll out the dough between two sheets of greaseproof paper to a thickness of 4mm. Use a 10cm heart shaped cutter to shape the cookies. Impress scale patterns using a fluted cutter or the wide end of a piping tip.
- Transfer the cookies to the prepared tray and bake at 170C for 10 minutes or until just starting to turn a pale golden colour. Remove from the oven and cool on wire racks.
- Once cool, add a dot of melted chocolate for an eye, and brush lightly with edible lustre dust to highlight the scaly patterns (optional).


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Step 1In the bowl of a blender, combine the pulque, orange juice, zest, onion, garlic, clove, salt and pepper. Place the chicken in a glass or ceramic bowl and rub the marinade all over the chicken. Cover the bowl and refrigerate the chicken for at least 2 hours to marinate.
Step 1Remove the chicken from the marinade (reserve the marinade) and pat the chicken dry using paper towels or a kitchen cloth.
Step 2In a heavy casserole, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Brown the chicken pieces on all sides, turning from time to time. Remove the browned chicken to a plate.
Step 3To the casserole, add the onion and garlic and cook until the onion is translucent, about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the tomatoes, chile (if using), oregano, bay leaf, salt and pepper. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until the spices are aromatic and the flavors are married, 3 to 5 minutes.
Step 4Stir in the pulque and bring the mixture to a simmer, scraping any flavoring from the bottom of the casserole. Reduce the heat to a gentle simmer, and add the chicken and the reserved marinade. Cook the chicken at a gentle simmer, partially covered, until the chicken is tender, 40 to 50 minutes (the white breast meat will cook a little faster than the dark thigh and leg meat; remove the white meat and hold in a warm place until the dark meat is completely cooked). Remove from heat and serve.


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Which gun is right for you?
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Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million for Opening Millions of Fake Accounts
Yesterday, federal regulators fined Wells Fargo $185 million after investigations revealed that employees had opened millions of fake accounts under customer names. The bank fired nearly 5,300 employees for their involvement with these accounts.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined the bank an historic $100 million, and claims Wells Fargo employees "secretly opened accounts and shifted funds from consumers' existing accounts into these new accounts without their knowledge or permission to do so, often racking up fees or other charges."
Wells Fargo employees were compensated for getting existing customers to sign up for new deposit accounts, credit cards, debit cards and online banking. To take advantage of these perks and meet sales targets, the CFPB said Wells Fargo employees illegally enrolled customers in additional services without the customer's knowledge or consent.
According to the CFPB, employees funded these accounts by transferring money from a consumer's existing account, which would sometimes result in the customer being fined insufficient fund fees. Customers would also be charged annual fees, late fees and associated finance or interest charges for credit card accounts that were opened without their knowledge.
The CFPB said Wells Fargo employees have been doing this for at least the past five years.
As restitution, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is requiring Wells Fargo to:
- Pay full refunds to customers
- Ensure proper sales practices in the future
- Pay a $100 million fine
This action is the largest penalty the CFPB has every imposed. CFPB Director Richard Cordray said, "Because of the severity of these violations, Wells Fargo is paying the largest penalty the CFPB has ever imposed. Today's action should serve notice to the entire industry that financial incentive programs, if not monitored carefully, carry serious risks that can have serious legal consequences."
Wells Fargo must also pay $35 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and another $50 million to the City and County of Los Angeles.


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If you've missed more than three payments, the lender can issue a Notice of Default. Once a lender issues a notice of default under California state law, you have the right to cure in a lump sum, so you can reinstate the loan by paying the arrears in a lump sum. A lot of people don't have the means to do that. The lender has to wait 90 days and they can then issue what's called a Notice of Trustee's Fail assigning a specific date that the property will be sold on. As long as you file the bankruptcy no later than the day before the foreclosure's sale, the Chapter 13 will stop the foreclosure's sale.
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The Process Of Foreclosure Is State Specific And California Is A Non Judicial Foreclosure State
What happens with foreclosure; is that when they start considering Chapter 13?
Foreclosure is state specific, it varies state to state. California is what we call a non-judicial foreclosure state, meaning that the lender does not have to sue you to foreclose on you. Instead of mortgages in California, we have what are called Fugitive Trust. And what that means is there is a trustee who is appointed by the lender that will conduct the foreclosure sale. So, in California, it's a two-step process. The first step is the issuance of the Notice of Default, which is a notice that you have defaulted on your mortgage and your lender intends to foreclose on you. That usually is issued if you are 90 days delinquent.
Foreclosure Prevention in a Chapter 13 is Achieved by Curing the Arrears on a Mortgage through the Reorganization Plan
Chapter 13 bankruptcy protects someone from foreclosure on their home if they uphold their end of the payment plan.
As far as foreclosure prevention in a Chapter 13, usually what will happen is you will file a plan with what's called the cleared and maintained provision, meaning you're going to maintain monthly payments on your mortgage and you're going to cure the arrears through the plan of re-organization. So, beginning the month after you file the bankruptcy, you will be resumed your pre-default regular monthly mortgage payments and then, you will make the bankruptcy plan payment which will go to clearing the arrears on the property and the theory is if you make it all the way through 3 to 5 years of your bankruptcy plan, then at that point, you obtain your discharge and your mortgage is current because you've been making the payments and the trustee's paid back the arrears.
The Pro Se Filers Usually Do Not Make It to the Issuance of a Discharge
Pro Se filers have to credit your account with whatever they receive while you were in bankruptcy, assuming you made up that far but they can then continue garnishing you, continue suing you and continue collecting the debt. So, it's very important to make it to discharge. And a lot of people don't make it that far. Especially, the Pro Se Filers.


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One of the most widely deployed security practices is "segmentation", or the process of separating end-points in different trust domains and controlling interactions between those domains through policy rules. Segmentation manages information flow between domains and therefore reduces the attack surface between them. In essence, it limits the "blast radius," or the portion of application that can be directly affected if an attacker manages to penetrate one of the trust domains.
Segmentation was initially based on IP subnets and VLANs. Operations assumed a static associations between services and servers (or IP addresses) and by placing servers in different VLANs, administrators could enforce isolation between services. Firewalls were often deployed to enforce policy rules between VLANs.
Virtualization broke some of the basic assumptions of these implementations since it removed the static association of IP addresses to services. A new a set of proprietary and standard solutions (see IEEE VEB and VEPA) were developed to automate the mapping process of VM end-points to VLANs; firewalls struggled to keep up.
The cloud has further challenged the static assumptions of VLANs while imposing larger scaling requirements. Spanning VLANs across multiple racks quickly became the bottleneck. Simultaneously, concepts like security groups that AWS introduced were easy for developers to understand and expanded the segmentation model to a more granular level, where any set of hosts irrespective of IP subnets could be grouped together in different trust domains.
As a response to the cloud, the networking industry reinvented itself once more and borrowed concepts from VPNs by moving isolation to tunnels and creating micro-segmentation. GRE, VXLAN, and Geneve were invented to create virtual VLAN-type structures that could span multiple racks within or or across data centers without the routing and management complexities of L2 technologies. SDN controllers, protocols (VTEP, OVSDB, VPC Peering, etc.), and software gateways became necessary as the requirements of segmentation solutions increased. The term "micro-segmentation" was coined to show an ever larger number of segments within a larger network.
If we take a step back we can quickly see that all of these segmentation solutions are based on the same concept. They start with a fundamental assumption that services (or end-points) are identified by their IP addresses and potentially port numbers. Then, they introduce one level of indirection by mapping sets of end-points to an identifier (VLAN, VXLAN ID, MPLS label, etc. ) and they make policy decisions based on the identifier. Finally, they use a control plane to disseminate state about these associations and corresponding policy rules. In virtualization and cloud worlds, mapping of end-points to identifiers is programmed through orchestration tools. Secondary control planes optimize state distribution information for each virtual network.
The adoption of containers, micro-services, and serverless architectures once more challenges the assumptions behind these solutions. Applications are disaggregated to smaller and often ephemeral components that are launched based on events. Segmentation needs to account for the dynamic nature of these applications; troubleshooting tunnels and control planes is becoming increasingly complex. The right tools are still evolving, and the quick convergence of a network is an ever larger problem.
A new set of solutions (still at their infancy) appear to be challenging network virtualization benefits by removing the need for network-level segmentation. These solutions assume a simple, flat network, where every process or workload is still uniquely identified through its IP address and port numbers. They attempt to solve the segmentation problem by distributing ACLs to every host. The concept is quite simple: If there are two domains of workloads (call them A and B), the policy problem can be solved by installing an ACL on every server that hosts workload A with a rule that allows communication between A and B. Assuming a control and management plane that allows identification of workloads and distribution of state, segmentation problems are pretty much "solved."
But, flattening the networks comes with its own penalties. Let us consider a simple scenario where workloads A and B are composed of 20 containers each and placed in 40 different hosts. A flat topology requires creating and maintaining 400 ACL rules. Each server that hosts a container of type A must have an ACL to allow connectivity to any of the containers of type B (20 per server). Now, if we are to consider a data center with 1000 workloads each with 20 containers, we quickly realize that there is the management nightmare of hundreds of thousands of ACLs.
There are two key issues at this juncture: First, there is a question of the convergence. Even if we are successful at distributing ACLs every time a workload is activated, when a new container is added to a target set, the control plane would need to update the ACL rules on all servers that host related containers. In application environments with ephemeral micro-services or event-based mechanisms (see AWS Lambda), where a process (container) is only instantiated to complete a specific task and terminates afterwards, the control plane will have to sustain an activation rate of several thousand ACLs per second. Second, on the performance front, introducing 1,000s of ACLs on every host has its own challenges since ACL lookup algorithms are essentially point location problems in a multi-dimensional space with significant per-packet complexity. Current Linux systems with ipsets give the illusion of simplicity with a space-time trade off, but still require several CPU cycles for every packet.
So, one has to ask the question: If network based segmentation (VLANs, network virtualization, etc.) create operational complexity and if flat networks with ACLs cannot scale, are there any alternatives?
We need to be pursing Trust-Centric Security; instead and for years, we have been pursuing networking solutions for a trust problem between domains instead of focusing on understanding the problem itself. The key "requirement" is to control information flow between the components (services) that form an application. Services need to be identified by their characteristics and not by their IP addresses that should only be used as location and routing identifiers. Policies need to control information exchange between services and not between IP addresses. We essentially need to solve an authentication and authorization problem and not a packet ACL problem. The mechanisms used to forward packets and organize the network for operational reasons do not need to be coupled with security policies; the two must evolve independently.


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Godde – the Divine Feminine
Essays exploring the Divine Feminine within Godde:
The Meaning of "Godde"
Why "Godde"?
Why Godde?
The Divine Feminine
Taking the Next Step in Inclusive Language
The Divine Feminine Trinity
Gender and the Trinity
Female Images of God in the Bible
Feminine Images for God: What does the Bible Say?
Desperately Seeking Sophia
Feminist Christology
The Motherhood of Christ
I Dared to Call Her "Godde"
Women in the Bible
A Woman's Place is Where?
All About Eve and Me: Genesis 3:16 and Autobiographical Criticism
Dame Wisdom in Action: Proverbs 31:10-31
Cameo Essay: Mary Magdalene
A Woman in the Footnotes
Let a Woman Keep Silent in the Church?
Unveiling of Equality: 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
Just a Whore: The Annihilation of Babylon According to Revelation 17:16
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Chanel classic flap in black (large)
This blog is titled Poor Party Girl and my catchphrase is Entertaining and living fabulously on a Budget. One might think my goal is to always buy the cheapest versions of things and never making luxury purchases. But it's not. In fact, my whole aim is to be able to live the way you want: travel, entertain, eat and shop no matter your budget. It's about being savvy vs plain old cheap, it's about saving here and there so that when you want to make a more expensive purchase, you can.
This brings me to today's topic; making a luxury purchase. Let us begin with a definition of luxury. Luxury is defined by Investopedia as an item which is not necessary for living but is deemed as highly desirable. Luxury items are associated with a certain status as they often signify some measure of financial success. Additionally, some luxury items are subject to "luxury taxes" though it varies depending on where you live. Luxury items may be anything from private jets and recreational boats to designer handbags and shoes. For my purposes, I am referring more to smaller luxury items but certainly this can be applied to any luxury purchase.
Maybe it's a Chanel classic flap in black caviar leather or perhaps it's a pair of Valentino Rockstud heels… we all have those dream items. The ones that merely seeing a picture of them ignites a spark in our stomachs (no I do not mean heartburn, lol). We also have that moment when we see the price and get that sinking, dreadful feeling.
Depending on our age and stage in life we have varied budgets, indeed there are things I can easily purchase now that four years ago, would have been a fleeting wish. However, we are all on some kind of budget and luxury purchases are often the last thing we think to buy and we often cannot afford to stroll into a department store and pick up the latest designer handbag. Oftentimes those who do find themselves either with significant debt or no savings. I'm sorry but I'm not going into debt over a handbag. So then, how do you make a luxury purchase while remaining on a budget?
I have some tips that I have accrued over time and inspired by luxury YouTuber Chase Amiee (a favourite of mine).
1)What Do You Want?
Make a list of all the luxury items you want. All of them: shoes, bags, clothes, car, boat, plane, basketball team. All of it.
2)What Do You Really Want?
Go through your list with a fine-toothed comb deciphering what you actually want. Do you really want those designer shades? Yes? then leave it. Do you actually want a Rolls Royce? No? then cross it off. What you should have at the end is a far more concise list of items that are more attainable and that you actually want to attain.
It may seem like an oxymoron to suggest prioritising a list of luxury items but you must do this. For example, if my list contains ten items I'm sure there are four or five that I want more than the others. Place these at the top of your list. These are the ones you will focus on first. By doing this you will find you may be able to narrow down your list even further.
Research all the items remaining on your luxury list. Research the company, the reviews, the cost. Making a luxury purchase can be viewed as an investment and you don't make investments without doing some background checking.
5)Refine your list
After doing your research you may find your luxury item dream list is even shorter or has somewhat changed.
A few tips to use when refining your list:
If for example, you like to collect designer handbags as fashion pieces you may want to purchase something from a permanent collection rather than a limited edition. Even though many of us make luxury purchases planning to keep them forever, these are the types of items people often sell. You will generally get better resale on a classic item rather than a trendy one.
This is in the same vein as the previous tip. If you are spending two months' worth of your salary on a pair of shoes, you want these shoes to last long and still look current. This is why choosing a more fashionable vs trendy style is better.
"All the Glitters is not Gold". I swear, if I had a dollar for every time I saw that play out in real life, I would be able to buy all the items on my luxury wish list in one go. But I digress. Luxury items are often high quality, that's what makes them so luxurious. All of the finest materials are used by the most skilled craftspersons to make your deluxe item. Wrong. Believe it or not, some brands charge disproportionately high prices for their items. I don't get too upset when I get ripped off buying a drink at the gas station, but a luxury item is not the same as a $2 beverage. You want to make sure your purchase is what you are paying for especially if you plan to resell.
6)Make a Plan
Now that you have your list that you have tweaked and refined it's time to get your life in order. You need to find a method of going about making your purchase:
Set a Time Frame
You need to decide over what period of time you want to make this purchase. This is typical goal oriented behaviour, you set the goal and work towards it. An example is 1 year. You can decide that over the next 12 months you will save up enough for a bag.
Use milestones
This is another way of setting a timeframe. You may decide to reward yourself with a pair of designer boots you've been eyeing for months when you complete your Bachelor's degree.
Start Saving
Start a luxury savings account
That's right. Open a savings account dedicated just to your luxury purchase. Put a designated amount of money e.g $50 a month into your account and don't touch it until you have saved enough to make your purchase.
7)Making the Purchase
By the time you have saved enough for your dream item many weeks to months or maybe years would have passed. Reassess and determine if you still want to make this purchase. A lot may have changed. You may simply no longer want that item or there maybe something else you want more. You may decide to continue saing for a bigger purchase or even transfer the money saved to another cause e.g travel fund or mortgage payments.
8)Buy it and enjoy it
After much deliberation, planning, plotting, scheming and more deliberation you are ready. You have earned it and it will likely be another year or two before you can make a similar purchase. So do it and enjoy it. Walk into that store and let them serve you champagne and canapes. Have a glass of wine if you are purchasing online. Sleep with your item like it's a teddy bear if you want to. Make your purchase with no regrets because you have worked towards this.
Hopefully these tips will inspire you to start working towards your luxury purchase whatever it may be. Have an awesome day!
Valentino Rockstud heel in black


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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Notable Quote: Empty Boats
3 comments:
- Kittie Howard said...
Love the boat analogy -- it's so true -- and remembering it can make the world a bit softer. Thanks.
- Saturday, October 24, 2009
- Delightful Perception said...
This is an interesting quote... It makes me think about how I shouldn't take my anger out on those I love just because they are right there when I'm going through something that's difficult...
- Saturday, October 24, 2009
- Jan4insight said...
Thanks for the comments - and I'm glad this quote is helpful to you both :) Yes, it is a wise approach to aspire to, and I confess I'm not fully there yet!
- Saturday, October 24, 2009


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My hands are the worse though. I am constantly washing them that they end up getting so dry that they crack and sometimes bleed.
At night I apply Neutrogena intense hand cream and although it works it still is not enough. I finally realized that I should start exfoliating my hands and applying hand lotion through out the day.
I came up with this diy exfoliating oil with 2 ingredients that I already had in the house.
Coconut oil and sugar.
I used Trader Joe's Organic Virgin Coconut oil. It has such a great scent on it's own that I decided not to add any essential oils to make it smell different. You could though. Lavender would be great.
First I scooped out 1/2 Cup of oil, added it to a mason jar and melted it a bit in the microwave.
Then I stirred in 1/4 Cup of basic white sugar.
I let it sit for a couple of hours. Then I put some in a little container to keep by the sink.
It smells great and it really works. You could make a bigger batch at one time. For example 1 Cup of coconut oil and 1/2 Cup of sugar.


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In preparation to the Oculus Rift DK2 showing up I needed to build a computer that was powerful enough to drive it. I also wanted to build a system that would be somewhat future proofed. As such I build the baddest system I could with the money I had budgeted.
- Motherboard – ASRock Z97 Extreme 6 – Toms Hardware recommended
- CPU – Intel I7 4790k – Toms Hardware recommended
- CPU Cooler – Corsair H50 Hydro series – Went mid level, I plan on upgrading to a CPU/GPU system in the future.
- Memory – 32 GB G.SKILL Ares (4x8GB) DDR3 2400Mhz. (Best speed for money. Didn't want memory to be a bottleneck)
- Boot Drive – Samsung SM951 M.2 SSD 256GB (Fasted SSD without going crazy expensive)
- Storage Drive – Western Digital 2TB Green 6GB/s SATA
- Case – Arctic Nine Hundred – Decent case with ports for water cooling and 2 front USB 3 connections
- Video Card – EVGA GeForce GTX 980 TI – This is where I spared no expenses and went for the best, within reason.
- Monitor – Acer 27″ 2K – Looking for a good monitor without going to far, I'll be using the Rift mostly (I hope)
Some lessons learned.
- The case fan had to be removed, the radiator installed and the fan put back on.
- UPDATE FLASH IMMEDIATELY!! The ASrock mother board will update the flash itself. A very nice option.
- Plug in a network cable
- Go into the UEFI (F2 on boot) and find the option under tools for Internet flash update
- Select go
- Wait 10 minutes.
- Done
- The M.2 SSD will NOT boot without a newer flash (2.30) installed. It will install, just not boot.
- To create a USB install for windows 8.1 Pro.
- The full install takes about 10 minutes. Seriously. That's it using the USB 3 ports.
- Go HERE and select "Create Media"
- Full link http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media
- You will need your Windows 8.1 Pro key to install. No surprise there.
- There is a weird bracket on the back of the central drive bay. This must be removed for the GTX 980 TI video card to fit.
Boot time after everything is installed and working? About 15 Seconds.


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The first UN Conference on Trade and Development, which met in Geneva in the spring of 1964, recommended the establishment of a permanent UN body to deal with trade in relation to development. The General Assembly, noting that international trade was an important instrument for economic development and that there was a widespread desire among developing countries for a comprehensive trade organization, decided to establish UNCTAD as one of its permanent organs in December 1964.
The main purpose of UNCTAD is to promote international trade, particularly that of developing countries, with a view to accelerating economic development. UNCTAD is one of the principal instruments of the General Assembly for deliberation and negotiation in respect to international trade and international economic cooperation. It formulates principles and policies on international trade, initiates action for the adoption of multilateral trade agreements, and acts as a center for harmonizing trade and development policies of governments and regional economic groups. The 1992 conference reaffirmed UNCTAD's functions to be policy analysis, intergovernmental deliberation, consensus building, negotiation of international agreements, monitoring, implementation, follow-up, and technical cooperation.
UNCTAD has 191 member states and has granted observer status to a number of organizations. There have been 10 sessions of UNCTAD at approximately four-year intervals: Geneva (1964); New Delhi (1968); Santiago (1972); Nairobi (1976); Manila (1979); Belgrade (1983); Geneva (1987); Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (1992); Midrand, South Africa (1996); and Bangkok, Thailand (2000).
At the ninth session of UNCTAD, in May 1996, UNCTAD's new mandate sought to deal with:
The outcome of the ninth session was a comprehensive agreement by the member governments of UNCTAD on the treatment of development and a concrete program of work, to be implemented by UNCTAD before the next general session in 2000.
In his closing statement of UNCTAD-X, Secretary-General Rubens Ricupero concluded that to date global integration had affected only a dozen developing countries. He called for "real reciprocity," a new international order that would remove massive barriers to trade in agriculture, textiles and clothing; give developing countries recognition for their efforts in promoting economic solidarity—to "strengthen the move towards positive economic integration"; and transform existing international economic institutions so that they can "bridge the interests of both developed and developing countries."
Early in 2002, two years after the adoption of the Bangkok Declaration and Plan of Action, the Trade and Development Board carried out a detailed mid-term review of UNCTAD-X. At the mid-term review, Dr. Surakiart Sathirathai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, stated that at UNCTAD-X the "risks and challenges of globalization" were deliberated on, affirming that globalization presends opportunities as well as risks and challenges. "Rapid economic globalization, as a result of technological advancement and liberalization of international trade, finance and investment, has led to an expansion of global economic growth and development. The imbalances of the globalization process, however, also produced severe adverse effects on the development process of many less developed countries, which are unable to adjust themselves to the fast pace of globalization," he said.
The continuing work of the organization is carried out between sessions by the Trade and Development Board (TDB), UNCTAD's executive body, established by the General Assembly. The TDB implements conference decisions and initiates studies and reports on trade and related development problems. The TDB reports annually to the General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council. It also serves as the preparatory body for sessions of the conference.
The Trade and Development Board has several standing committees that review trends and make recommendations in specific areas, including the Commission on Trade in Goods, Services, and Commodities; the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues; and the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development.
The UNCTAD secretariat is located at Geneva. It provides service to the conference, the TDB, and its subsidiary bodies. The Secretary-General of UNCTAD is appointed by the Secretary-General of the UN and confirmed by the General Assembly.
In May 1993 the UN General Assembly assigned the UNCTAD secretariat responsibility for servicing two subsidiary bodies of the Economic and Social Council: the Commission on Transnational Corporations and the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (see the section on "Economic and Social Development").
The UNCTAD secretariat also provided technical assistance to developing countries in connection with the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations which took place under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). It continues to provide such services for Doha Round of trade negotiations in connection with the World Trade Organization, the successor body to GATT.
Export promotion and marketing are the responsibility of the International Trade Center in Geneva, which is operated jointly by UNCTAD and GATT. The center focuses attention on export market opportunities and helps developing countries to train personnel in marketing and export-promotion techniques and to set up the institutions and programs necessary to build up modern export-promotion services.
In 1980, the Agreement Establishing the Common Fund for Commodities was adopted by the UN Negotiating Conference on a Common Fund. International agreements also have been concluded for nine commodities—cocoa, coffee, tin, olive oil, sugar, natural rubber, wheat, jute and jute products, and tropical timbers. The fund came into operation in September 1989.
At its 1976 session in Nairobi, UNCTAD adopted an Integrated Program for Commodities aimed at setting prices for the primary commodities of developing countries that would take into account world inflation, monetary changes, and the cost of manufactured imports. As part of the program, the Nairobi session agreed that steps would be taken to negotiate a common fund for the financing of buffer stocks that would be held or sold as conditions required, thus helping to end the wide fluctuation in commodity prices that has plagued developing countries dependent on these products as exports.
The eighth session of UNCTAD in 1992 recognized the need to formulate an effective international commodity policy for the 1990s. Commodity markets remained extremely depressed and most of the commodity agreements achieved by UNCTAD in the 1980s had lapsed. In 1993 UNCTAD began to develop a micro-computer-based commodity analysis and information system (MICAS), which provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on all aspects of commodity use, production, trade, and consumption. The system assists developing countries in managing their economies and competing more effectively in world markets.
UNCTAD adopted the General System of Preferences (GSP) in 1968, giving preferential tariff treatment in developed countries to manufactured goods exported by developing countries. By 1999, operating programs gave preferential treatment to more than US$ 70 billion worth of exports a year from more than 100 developing countries. However, the conference recognized that the more advanced developing countries benefited most from the system, and in 1992 efforts were undertaken to include more agricultural products and some "sensitive" industrial products.
UNCTAD initiated the development of the 1978 UN Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (called the Hamburg Rules). By July 1993, the Hamburg Rules had received 21 ratifications and entered into force on 1 November 1993.
The Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences (1974) provides for the national shipping lines of developing countries to participate on an equal basis with the shipping lines of developed countries. This convention became effective in 1983. In 1991 the conference reviewed this convention and adopted guidelines towards its more effective implementation. Technical and structural changes in liner shipping since 1974 were taken into account. By December 1995 there were 78 contracting parties to the convention.
The UN Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods (1980) establishes a single liability organizational structure for the international carriage of given consignments of goods entailing use of more than one mode of transport. By July 1993 it had received seven ratifications (entry into force requires 30 contracting parties). As of 2000, the convention was not yet in force.
The UN Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships (1986) introduces new standards of responsibility and accountability for the world shipping industry and defines the elements of the genuine link that should exist between a ship and the state whose flag it flies. By July 1993 nine ratifications had been received (entry into force requires 40 contracting parties accounting for 25% of the world's tonnage). As of 2000, the convention was not yet in force.
UNCTAD also provides technical cooperation and specialized training projects financed in part by UNDP. Training courses cover multimodal transport, improving port performance, and the use of the Advance Cargo Information System (ACIS) to enable shipping lines and railway companies to track the movement of cargo.
The Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices (1980) establishes international means for the control of restrictive business practices, including those of transnational corporations, adversely affecting international trade, in particular the trade and economic development of developing countries.
Negotiations were begun in 1978 on an International Code of Conduct on the Transfer of Technology. The provisions of the proposed code fall into two broad groups: those concerning the regulation of the transfer of technology transactions and of the conduct of parties to them, and those relating to steps to be taken by governments to meet their commitments to the code. In 1991 consultations were held on setting up an intergovernmental group of experts to prepare ground for the resumption of negotiations on the code of conduct.
As a result of these consultations, the Trade and Development Board acknowledged that it was impossible at that time to obtain consensus on the outstanding issues for a draft code of conduct. In 1993 the Trade and Development Board established an Ad Hoc Working Group on Interrelationship between Investment and Technology Transfer to examine and encourage new initiatives on investment and technology policies that would facilitate technology transfer. This group adopted a work program aimed at examining issues of investment flows, transfer of technology and competitiveness, technological capacity-building in developing countries, and transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies. In light of the ongoing work of this group, the Secretary-General of UNCTAD recommended to the General Assembly in 1993 that further consultations on the code of conduct take place after the completion of the activities of the Ad Hoc Working Group.
UNCTAD also elaborated the Modes Clauses on Marine Hull and Cargo Insurance, which assists the insurance markets in developing countries to produce their own insurance policy clauses and conditions. UNCTAD also has prepared minimum standards for shipping agents that serve as guidelines for national authorities and professional associations establishing standards.
In the area of money and finance, UNCTAD devotes particular attention to the debt problems of developing countries and has negotiated measures of debt relief for the poorer among those countries, as well as a set of agreed guidelines for dealing with future debt problems. At its 1987 session in Geneva, UNCTAD recommended a number of policy approaches and measures to deal with debt problems, resources for development, and related monetary issues; commodities; international trade; and the problems of the least developed countries—all aimed at revitalizing development, growth, and international trade in a more predictable and supportive environment through multilateral cooperation.
UNCTAD and the World Bank developed a joint program to extend technical cooperation to developing countries in the field of debt management. UNCTAD is responsible for the software component of the project. The assistance is based on the development and distribution of the Debt Management and Financial Analysis System (DMFAS), software designed to enable debtor countries to analyze data, make projections, and plan strategies for debt repayment. UNCTAD trains operators to use the software. It also provides training for senior officials in raising their awareness of institutional reforms that might be necessary for effective debt management.
In 2002 49 countries were classified as least developed countries (LDCs). UNCTAD has taken a lead role in mobilizing support for LDCs by organizing two UN conferences on LDCs. The first, held in Paris in 1980, adopted the Substantial New Program of Action (SNPA), which defined measures to be taken by LDCs to promote their own development. The second, also held in Paris, in 1990, reviewed the implementation of the SNPA and strengthened the program.
UNCTAD has given political impetus to the setting of official development assistance at 0.7% of the GNP of donor countries. It also has recommended improvement of International Monetary Fund's compensatory financing facility for export earnings shortfalls of developing countries and the creation of special drawing rights for LDCs.
The eighth session of UNCTAD in 1992 requested that detailed analyses be made of the socioeconomic situations and domestic policies of the LDCs, their resource needs, and external factors affecting their economies. The ninth session of UNCTAD in 1996 adopted the Midrand Declaration, which called for greater partnership between developed, developing, and the least developed countries.
From 14–20 May 2001, the UN held the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries—LDC III. The eradication of poverty was the main agenda on the program. In 2002, UNCTAD released a report on poverty in LDCs, "Escaping the Poverty Trap," which was the first international comparative analysis of poverty in the LDCs. It is based on a new set of poverty estimates, which enable empirically based analysis of the relationship between poverty, development and globalization.
The 1992 conference identified four priority areas to be analyzed.
The 1992 conference also discussed trade efficiency and the use of electronic data interchange to reduce the cost of transactions. In July 1995, UNCTAD organized a World Symposium on Trade Efficiency in Columbus, Ohio. The symposium was subtitled "New Technologies for Efficient Global Trade; UNCTAD's Tradepoint Network." The symposium united trade ministers, chief executives, and senior officials in focusing on new technologies in the fields of banking, insurance, transport, telecommunications, and information for trade. The promotion of international standards for electronic commerce was a key component of the symposium. The symposium also launched a worldwide process of alleviating technical and procedural barriers that prevent poorer countries from fully participating in world trade. UNCTAD is developing a Trade Point Network of 100 operational trading points to facilitate this process. At the end of 1999, 114 countries were participating in UNCTAD's Trade Point Program.
In November 2002, UNCTAD handed over its Trade Point Program to the program's beneficiaries, represented by the World Trade Point Federation (WTPF). The WTPF was established in November 2000, with its objectives being to open international markets to new participants and to make them more competitive by giving them access to the most advanced e-commerce technologies and information networks. The WTPF aims to develop the Trade Point network in close cooperation with member states while adhering to its developmental goals and assistance to weaker players in international trade.


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Thinking of adding a pocket to your Fringe and Friends Knitalong sweater?
Karen Templer's got you covered with a little tutorial!
Thinking that your next sweater should involve some cables but you always screw up the crosses?
Karen Templer has a fix for that!
If the Fringe Association blog starts to fill up with genius solutions for tackling that stack of dirty dishes you want to avoid, and how to balance your desire for all the cool Craigslist finds with the space available in your one-bedroom apartment, I'm going to start worrying.


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St Bonaventure's staff and volunteers provide professional leadership, direction and coordination for the pastoral and spiritual development of the youth (3 years old through 12th grade) for the parish Faith Formation programs. They minister to the Christian, spiritual and sacramental needs of the families within the parish community. They promote and involve participation of youth, and their families, in organized programs, events, fundraisers and social gatherings. The staff and volunteers foster the youth participation in all aspects of parish life.
St Bonaventure offers on-site faith formation programs for children using prescribed, age-appropriate curricula using a classroom model throughout the school year for children and youth to help parents fulfill their role as the primary catechists of their children. Religious education programs are forged in a partnership with parents.
Fees for Religious Education programs are based on the costs of providing the program. Textbooks, resources, service opportunities, speakers and supplies are provided to each child to help children experience their Catholic faith in a tangible way.
Sacramental preparation for First Sacraments (Reconciliation and Eucharist) and Confirmation is offered independently from other parish faith formation programs. Fees help cover costs associated specifically to prepare for each sacrament which may include workbooks, supplies, retreats, Archdiocesan fees and other activities.
Children and teens who are preparing for sacraments should be enrolled in either a parish faith formation program or Catholic day school to better understand the communal nature of our Catholic Church. All sacraments are celebrated within the context of the Christian community – and the class - either through parish or school programs, represent the Christian community's prayer and blessing throughout the preparation period. In the classroom, sacramental candidates can experience the mutual support and mentorship of their peers, reflecting the strength and blessings of the entire parish.


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The benefit of video content might not be immediately apparent to everyone; but as soon as you consider that YouTube is the second largest search engine behind Google then the benefits become more obvious.
Video content is especially useful for businesses which have something to teach or who can develop instructional content. 'How to do XYZ' videos are a good example. Instructional videos seem to rank best followed by videos with funny content.
If given the choice between digesting several pages of web content or watching a two or three minute video most people will usually opt for the video. It tends to provide a more engaging platform for communication and prospects may appreciate seeing a more personable and human side of your business. Good video content tends to communicate much more information to prospects, both overt and subtle.
You can also optimise your actual YouTube page. It is usually a good idea to include your keyword in the title of your video, as well as the word 'video'. People will often include the word 'video' in their search term when they are searching for content of interest.
It is also a good idea to include your keyword in the video description as this gives the search engine an indication of the content of the video so that it can be classified correctly.
A link back to your company website or social networking page inserted at the beginning of your description is recommended so that viewers can see it. Descriptions are cut after a few lines so having your link at the beginning ensures that viewers will see it.
If your video is relatively short, a transcription will help the search engine classify the content and help to rank the video accordingly. You can also tag a YouTube video in the same way you can tag other content and is a useful addition for improving your SEO performance. Don't forget backlinks either.
Another important consideration when looking to optimise the SEO performance of a video is the 'keyword intent'. Videos optimised for transactional keywords such as 'buy', 'cheap', 'free' or 'sale' perform poorly in universal search.
Informational key words seem to perform much better in universal search; keywords which are comparative ('this versus that'), instructional ('learn to …', 'how to do…') or educational ('what is XYZ'? or 'the history of UVW') seem to be better.
Navigational keywords and phrases, or those that contain web addresses, brand names or brand descriptions only seem to do well for those which are most popular and recognised.
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How To Make the Perfect Peppermint Margarita
- Frozen Concoctions
- 11/06/15
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It's that time of the year again: Holiday season. From November through January everyone is in the spirit and into creative cocktails. This year, try your hand at a festive (and delicious) frozen peppermint margarita.
Make Your Own Peppermint Margarita
Peppermint is a seasonal favorite for everything from lattes to candy canes. Enjoy this unique and bold taste your own way with a peppermint-flavored margarita by mixing this trendy taste with a classic cocktail. Here's what you need to get started:
- 6 ounces silver tequila
- 3 ounces citrus liqueur
- 4.5 ounces lime juice
- 1.5 ounces lemon juice
- 2 splashes grenadine
- 3 ounces peppermint schnapps
- Candy Canes
- Whipped cream
- Ice
- Your Margaritaville® Frozen Concoction Maker®.
Once your margarita machine is ready to go, begin by loading the ice reservoir to the fill line. Next pour tequila, liqueur, lime juice, lemon juice, schnapps and grenadine into your blender jar. Place the blender jar in the correct area and slip the switch to shave ice and blend. Watch as your drink is concocted.
Pour this frozen drink into margarita glasses and top with whipped cream. Garnish with crushed candy cane chunks on top of the whipped cream and place a candy cane on the side of the glass. The only thing cooler than this cocktail is the way you'll feel drinking it. Enjoy with friends!
Other Fun Peppermint Cocktails You Can Blend
The peppermint margarita is far from the only mint drink you can make at home. If you love the peppermint margarita, why not try one of these delicious drinks in your frozen concoction maker too?
- Peppermint Coffee Milkshake - Start by making your standard coffee liqueur and Irish creme frozen cocktail with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream. Then just add peppermint schnapps in the place of vodka.
- Minty Eggnog - What's more seasonal than an eggnog cocktail? Pepper eggnog, that's what. Start by mixing a frozen eggnog cocktail with brandy, nutmeg and cinnamon. Add a splash of peppermint liqueur or schnapps along with crushed candy cane for good measure.
- Frozen Fruit and Mint - Peppermint doesn't just go with chocolately, creamy flavors. Try mixing peppermint schnapps with some vodka, citrus juice, tropical juice and melon liqueur for a fun, tropical frozen concoction.
Your fellow Parrotheads at Margaritaville® Cargo remind you to enjoy your frozen concoctions responsibly and obey all drinking laws.


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Crohn's Disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation or ulceration of the gastrointestinal tract and can sometimes run in families. While the cause is unknown, many professionals believe that the body's immune system may overreact to normal intestinal bacteria or that disease-causing bacteria and viruses may play a role in triggering the condition.
The recent study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, shows the effect of one particular gene − a Crohn's Disease candidate gene named TLR 5 − on both Jews and non-Jews with the disease.
It is estimated that American Jews are three times more likely to develop Crohn's Disease than the population as a whole. Approximately 80 percent of the six million Jews in the United States are Ashkenazi Jews, an ethnic group whose ancestors are from eastern and central Europe,
As Jerome I. Rotter, M.D., first author of the study, director of research and co-director of the Medical Genetics Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center explained, the innate immune system senses micro-organisms and pathogens using a family of proteins known as the Toll-Like Receptors (TLRs). This recognition activates both the innate and adaptive immune system, with each TLR recognizing a specific pattern of microbial components.
The aim of the study was to investigate three TLR5 gene variants and their relationship to Cr
Contact: Sandy Van
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center


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I have a mobile app that requires paid subscription ($23.49 / year). It has free 7 day trial. The app lets parents control what kids can watch on YouTube by 'approving' channels.
I have about 200 paying clients but it looks like people are looking for a free solution, here's an one-star review of my app:
> Very misleading. It says free but it's only free for 7 days. Wish they would put that in the description.
I've put 'this is a paid app!' in description but I wonder if I can turn it into freemium somehow.
My challenge is figuring out what should be free and what should require a payment.
My best thinking is to keep free 7-day trial with full functionality but after trial expires the app switches to free mode. In free mode preset educational channels only are available. If a parent wants to restore channels they added before they have to buy 1-year subscription.
My concern is that parents would still say 'It's not free!' when I ask them to start a trial after they install the app. On the other hand if start from the free mode without trial they will never get a chance to experience the main promise of the app: controlling what their children can watch.
Very interesting concept - I could see how parents would certainly gravitate towards a feature like this. So, freemium apps, models, features are quite common of course and people have grown accustomed to most applications or platforms at least offering a trial period (as you do.) But, if you were my client my first question I'd ask you is: do you need to even offer a free option? Typically a freemium model is offered as a means to maximize your "front of the funnel" conversion and use tools inside the platform to get people to continue utilizing the application (and thus expand into the paid services section.) You have 200 paying customers, why use freemiums at all? you know people will purchase and use your service. Why not consider say discounting or trial period pricing? from a product development standpoint it will be much easier on your engineering team to manage one product version, not to mention that you potentially diminish your service perspective by at any point offering it for free. Unless a direct competitor is out there and they are beating you because of the freemium model they offer I would strongly consider avoiding it altogether. your product, from what you described, sounds simply enough to understand as a concept (it is not a digital cure to cancer you are explaining): plus parents know the value of curating and protecting their children from salacious/inappropiate content, so why try to get them familiar with the idea? As long as it does what you say it does and they are able to fairly easily use it I say go full price, or at the very least avoid free features and just do a discounted trial period. People often underestimate how shocking moving users from free to paid can be and how it actually can be a liability (e.g. Netflix has never offered a freemium model - Hulu has though.) That being said, it is possible that a freemium model makes sense for your app, under the right circumstances and context. but before diving in I'd advise going through a quick exercise to make sure it is the right move. If it is, there are some pretty common themes and feature trends you can follow to reduce friction (many of which require specific demographic and psychographic information about your target users etc.) Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat further directly and talk through your options/evaluation.
This is always the dilemma with freemium business model. To decide what to give free and what to charge. I like your idea about preset education channels only available. Also you can give top 5 for free and charge for adding extra. You also charge for saving or grouping functionalities. What you have right now is trial period but in freemium you have give something free. So preset is good idea. You can also give control 1 user for free and to control more users you have to pay this is of course if your app supports that feature.
There are two ways to do this: You can allow customers to control 2 channels for free and then if you want to more control, the customer pays. Another way is to start with 7 days free fully functioning but have an alert that tells them that you only get to keep 2 channels after the 7 day period is over. I'd be happy to speak with you in more detail on this.