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Most liqueurs and cordial are very high in sugar and relatively low in alcohol content compared to regular spirits. Triple sec alone has 10.9 grams of sugar per 1 fl oz! By substituting agave syrup* for sugar and orange extract for triple sec, you can greatly reduce the GI and carb count of this classic cocktail. Your taste buds won't know you've cut out all that sugar, but your body will thank you for it (as much as it could thank you for adding alcohol to your system. . . ).
Enjoy this recipe responsibly. It's a potent elixir that you're sure to want more of!
* agave nectar consists primarily of fructose and glucose, and has a much lower glycemic load than table sugar (sucrose). Because it is much sweeter than sucrose, much less is needed. It should, in fact, be considered optional in this recipe altogether!
Step 1: Ingredients
I wanted to make the measurements for this as easy as possible. By using the cap from my cocktail shaker as a measure, I've provided a basic ratio of ingredients:
- 1 jigger of tequila
- 1/2 jigger of lime juice - bottled has slightly fewer carbs, and is handy when the limes at your shop don't look so hot, but otherwise, fresh limes are way tastier
- 1 jigger of water
- A splash of orange extract
- 1 Tablespoon agave nectar (optional)
- Ice
- Salt - optional
A true margarita is so easy to make :
1/3 tequila
1/3 Triple sec (or Cointreau if you're on the posh side … )
1/3 lime juice
plus salt around the outer rim of the glass.
Now there is a philosophy here : either you enjoy life and indulge in carbohydrates with the minor health inconveniences such as heart ailments and a shorter life.
Or you decide to live an long and miserable healthy life with no pleasure.
You can also please yourself both with carbohydrates and sweating them off the day after at the gym, therefore keeping your mind too busy when indulging both pleasures in life to think of what you risk when crossing the street, taking the plane or having the bad luck of having a bit going the wrong tube during your next meal.
So please enjoy a real Margarita the right way as it helps looking at the bright side of life !…
My basic is 1,2,3 margarita where:
1 part triple sec -cheaper tasts better
2 parts lime juice - the most important part, it always runs out first so measure!
3 parts tequila - not cheap and not expensive, I'm tending more towards sliver but usually go with reposado.
Mix and put on ice.
Like using agave to hold the salt on the rim.
Wish me luck !…
I've gotta try this recipe soon!


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Very clean & very close to International Drive!! I highly recommend!!
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This Orlando hotel is less than a 5-minute drive from the Universal Orlando Resort. Free local area transportation is provided to the Universal Orlando Resort, SeaWorld, and the Walt Disney World Resort.
Large windows and a flat-screen TV are provided in each room of the Crowne Plaza Hotel Orlando-Universal. Tea and coffee-making facilities and a work desk are also included.
Café del Sol at the Crowne Plaza Orlando serves breakfast daily. Elements Bar and Grille, in the lobby, serves a full menu for lunch and dinner.
A spacious outdoor pool with a hot tub, poolside tiki bar, and deck are open to all guests. A fitness center, game room, and tour desk are also available.
The Disney World Resort is less than 8 miles from the Orlando Crowne Plaza Hotel. The Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum is less than 1 mile away.
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WIFI was extremely slow.
Room not what it was advertised no floor to ceiling window no tub just not worth the money
Lovely room
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Clean Room, Big Rooms, Near to universal studios (5 min) by taxi (10$), A few restaurants near to hotel, very nice staff
Free transport to universal but twice a day only!!
none but expensive
The shuttle bus to Disney is rather expensive which costs the double price of normal taxi
Very clean & very close to International Drive!! I highly recommend!!
The hotel was beautiful w/ a great location. Very well appointed rooms.
The staff was rude and lacking good customer service skills.
The location was excellent for the activities related to the Citrus Bowl events. Primary reason for staying there, but very pleased with the hotel offerings.
There really wasn't anything that I didn't like about our stay at the hotel.
It was nice to return to a comfortable bed in a relatively quiet location after all the lines and people in Orlando.
The pool was facility was not big at all. Looked much larger and elaborate in pictures.
Everything perfect - specially friendly staff, comfort,, location, excellent and cheap breakfast buffet. Perfect.
love the hotel very nice clean wonderful staff.
price was kinda high one night 200.00 and u have too pay for parking think that's a lil too much.
The room that I booked with two queen beds was not available at check in. Had to take a room with one king. Was unhappy about the situation. Also 9$ to patk in their parking lit!! Ridiculous.
Good location and good value for money
Far from bus pick up point for IAAPA bus shuttle. I have to walk very far to reach the Universal blvd curv area. Not a good idea and uncomfortable having to walk far with your luggage on hand.
An excellent choice for the money. Comfortable rooms and daily transfers to theme parks. Wet and wild within walking distance.
Breakfast buffet did disappoint slightly. The staff were great and attentive, but the food never really matched up. Certainly good enough to fuel up for an energetic morning at the parks, but hard waffles and dry scrambled eggs were a little sad. The air conditioning did sound a little bit like an aircraft taking off.
Great location, huge facility and very knowledgeable staff. Helped us with our issues right away and were very apologetic
the bathroom had not been cleaned. At all. Called and they had housekeeping there within 5 minutes, very apologetic and nice
The Staff was friendly and I did enjoy the breakfast buffet. I enjoyed the pool and the place seemed clean.
The hotel was not as leisurely as I would have liked, it seemed dated, older and having only one person at the tiki bar made getting your drinks / food slow. I wanted more drinks but the service was so slow I got up and went someplace else. Also did not care for the nosey ness of the air conditioner in the room. The other thing I did not care for was that I ordered 2 Queen beds specifically as there were 2 of us and we only got one in a JR suite and I had to sleep on the sofa bed. The place was booked, so changing was not really an option. They also called this a resort type of hotel, but it surly is not. Not sure what the resort part was?
Clean and nice hotel
We asked for more blankets and they never came.
Room was wonderful Staff very friendly and helpful Hotel is beautiful
Could use more menu items available for dinner.
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The Bulldogs will face a challenging test in Washington who has a stellar back court in Isiah Thomas & Justin Dentmon. Dentmon is a senior laden point guard that should be able to handle the pressing style that Miss. St. will throw at them. The key for Miss. St will be forcing Washington to stay on the outside and not allow any baskets close to the hoop. With Varnado roaming down low he needs to be a disruptive force and not allow Brockmon an opportunity for second chance points.
This is a tough game to call as I can see this going either way but I'm going to go with the Bulldogs as I think they are playing their best basketball of the year so far and Varnado will step up and be the difference.
- They succumbed to the Bulldogs in the SEC final and have been an enigma all year. Picked as a Top 5 team in most preseason polls they have failed to live up to the hype that surrounded them. The Vols have looked like an elite team some games and fallen by the wayside the next. Still they are an intriguing team in this tournament because they do have the talent to make a deep run.
Pearl brings the Volunteers into the first round as a #9 seed and underdog to the #8 Oklahoma State Cowboys. Travis Ford has done an equitable job in his first year as coach. They have notable wins over Oklahoma and Texas and are known to play a scrappy style defense that gives opponents fits. This is where I see the problem for Tennessee. They are not very good defensively and haven't been disciplined when having to play in the half court. Oklahoma St. most certainly will slow them down on route to a victory. Although if Tennessee ever gets motivated I think they win this game but they haven't shown it all year and I don't think they will now.
- Winners of the SEC regular season, they were snubbed by the Tournament committee and given an #8 seed and a first round matchup against an admirable Butler team. I sense the Tigers are fired up and want to make a statement. This will motivate them past Butler, however they will see defeat in the second round against North Carolina.
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For acquisition personnel who are working on a contract of any significant dollar value, the fear of a protest is almost palpable. Although protests occur on only a small number of contracts overall, when it comes to contracts worth more than $100 million, a protest is either highly likely or a foregone conclusion.
There are many reasons for this, including the weak economic condition of the federal market, which plays into business decisions by contractors. However, poor communication by federal procurement officials both before and after a contract award seems to be a common denominator, and it often leads contractors to protest as a way of fixing wrongs that in reality never existed.
I addressed this issue on LinkedIn and GovLoop, and the responses were not surprising. The federal procurement officials who responded attributed the problem to risk avoidance as a result of weak leadership support and the conviction that no good deed goes unpunished. For industry, it was a matter of transparency on the part of the government and a lack of confidence in the contract award process.
Nonetheless, the conversation elicited some common ideas for best practices that should be followed in hopes of preventing protests from the outset.
1. Federal procurement leaders should provide more support for contract specialists. Many people agree that the fear of protests leads some contracting officers to be less than forthcoming with information lest that information be used against them. In addition, their performance reviews reflect the number of protests filed. They also feel a lack of guidance from the legal department and management. Those policies need to be revised.
2. Program offices need to improve their processes and procedures, especially when it comes to requirements definitions and evaluation criteria. Too often the requirements and evaluation criteria are overly complex or are written with one company's experience or capabilities in mind — or both. When a solicitation is wired in that way, the government misses out on possible innovation and cost reductions.
3. The source selection processes, presumably documented in the source selection plan, should be made publicly available. Many contractors see the government's intent for the solicitation only in the instructions to offerors and in the evaluation criteria. Source selection is a process-driven initiative, and transparency is vital to communication and building trust in the contract award decision. That information needs to be made public so contracting officers can walk offerors through the process and let them know why they were not selected for the contract.
4. The value, processes and procedures for debriefing sessions are ripe for review because that is where many protest decisions are made. Many protesting contractors do not see any value in those sessions and certainly do not agree with less-than-transparent decisions. A full accounting of contractor weaknesses, areas for improvement, costs and other factors will lead to confidence in the contract award decision.
Although protests can never be fully avoided, improving transparency and communication could go a long way toward ensuring that protests are not upheld or don't get filed in the first place. Ultimately, contracting officers need to understand that they are business advisers to their internal and external customers — and that includes industry.
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Gee Vern, hate acquisition personnel much? They must have roadblocked a procurement in a way that follows the rules but you were too lazy or busy to comply. Many in legal only open the FAR to provide 'expertise". Not a lot of help there. CO's have to be careful as to what they say so the contractors won't try to use their perception of the information given, in a protest.
1. More support. The key problem with source selection is that government acquisition personnel at both the working and management levels do not understand fundamental source selection concepts, rules, and processes. They work in a cut-and-past culture and do not think things through. There is no shortage of guidance from legal. In many agencies, legal determines what can and cannot be done and is a roadblock to simplification. In their defense, they know how little the COs and contract specialists know. 2. Improve processes. Absolutely. Most requirements personnel receive little if any education and training in requirements analysis and source selection planning. That's because too few government personnel know enough to teach them. COs as a class certainly don't know. The government should know more about these things than anyone else, but it doesn't. 3. Information about source selection. There is probably more information available about how the government conducts source selections than about any other government process. Companies always think there is something mysterious going on when in fact there is not. When they lose they suspect skullduggery. More likely they submitted a crummy proposal or the government personnel simply screwed up the process. But it wouldn't matter how much more information were put out -- some companies would still be suspicious. Let's face it -- some companies are run by knuckleheads. Any CO who cannot deliver a good explanation for why a company did not win is incompetent. Whether a company will accept a good explanation is another matter. Some losers will always want to blame someone other than themselves. 4. Debriefings. Debriefings ought to be full disclosure within the limits of trade secret protection. Show them the evaluator write ups. But even if they are disclosed and are sound, many COs would make a hash out of explaining the outcome. And even if the CO didn't, many companies would reject a sound explanation for the simple reason that they did not win.
Most of the time my company only considers a protest if we feel the competition was wired. It may not have been, but if the program office and (especially) the contracting organizations refuse to meet with us, and are not forthcoming about information, we tend to feel the procurement WAS wired. We do respect that a well-performing incumbent has an edge in a procurement; we are only asking for a fair chance to present our capabilities. If the proposal is the first and only time we are allowed to present ourselves, we know our chances of winning are extremely low. Contrators make a huge investment of resources to pursue a bid; protests come when we believe the playing field is not level or that we've been treated merely as "stalking horses" to get the incumbent to reduce their price.
I am not a contracting officer but I have worked in the broad definition areas of Federal procurement, acquisition, and logistics for 12 years. Just some point by point commentary on the article: 1. I couldn't agree more. We need a round table style discussion with complete disclosure of our needs. 2. I disagree...what we really need is just the opposite: the ability to buy what we already know works from companies that already know how to do it instead of propping up this convoluted system to give the appearance of fairness. It wastes everyone's time, effort, and money. This ability would need safeguards to avoid abuse...but it should be an option if there is a compelling interest. 3. I disagree here also...this would just give losing bidders more points to protest over. I would agree with this option if we were given the ability described in #2 above. 4. I agree somewhat, but sometimes the choice is between better and best...so you could theortically tell a vendor they had no "weaknesses" per se...just that someone else was stronger. But then you would have the risk of sharing another companies proprietary information or look like you were playing favorites unfairly...leading to protest.


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